Dream: Are We Ready?

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Last night I dreamt that I was preparing food in a community kitchen with a group of 8 to 14 people. We were sitting around chatting as we waited for the last of the food to cook. We were almost finished all the preparations we knew to make. Bags were packed, food was ready, necessities and supplies were stored up.

Suddenly I saw a plume/pillar of dark black smoke - so dark it surprised me - rising from the middle of the city. It would rise up, and then disipate a little, then rise again, then disipate again, then rise again, stronger.

Then a 'portal' opened up in the sky above it. Here, I note that it was a fairly clear, blue sky; it was daylight, in warm weather (neither scortching nor cool). The portal was round and shimmering. The area around it was a shimmering as well, sometimes oval, sometimes heart shaped. Some other people in the city noticed, and like me, looked on in wonder and 'what the heck???'

Suddenly, either the world was drawn into it, and taken back in time to the point just as the planes slammed into the Trade Center buildings in 2001; OR, the planes themselves flew out and crashed. This image appeared in the dream like a flash, or a still photograph of the planes up close and headed downward. Then we were on our bikes, racing through the city. We were more prepared than most people, but still not enough.

Interpretation:

The smoke is from the sacrifices to other gods. GOD is getting angry, and we - as a city, nation, and world - are about to be tried and judged.

I recieved this in my reading today:

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.
~~ Proverbs 11:4

Even us (either my personal group of people, or the wider Christian community, or both), who are aware, prepared, and waiting, will wish we had done more when we had had the time. We are not as ready as we think we are, and we will be caught off guard. It was implied that we had done the best we could according the the knowledge and understanding that we had. However, it was also clear that we ought to have known more, considering what resources were available to us. It wasn't held against us, but we also weren't excused. Things were not in place or missing because of our lack of understanding. This lack seemed to be with regard to an unpreparedness in action, rather than supplies; we didn't know what to do, where to go, or how to help to the extent that we ought to have, had we known more.

The final point is that war is coming. What kind of war, or by whom, I don't know; it may be spiritual, figurative, or literal. I would assume there would also be some amount of destruction; mild to severe, I don't know.
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