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Interpreting Dreams
Job 33:15 He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds... EVERYBODY DREAMS! Some may not remember their dreams or think that they don’t dream, but in reality, everybody dreams. Often, our dreams are answers to questions or prayers, and many times they are not for us, but for someone else. Dreams can be literal or they can be symbolic. How do we know to tell the difference? What is the purpose of dreams? What is the meaning of various symbols and colors in our dreams? How do we interpret and understand our dreams? These questions and so many more are addressed in this book as Prophet Ed Traut gives understanding and teaches and explains dreams and dream interpretation. This book will help you, in your journey to utilize and understand the communication that God has through dreams!
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 13, 2019
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October 19, 2021
Disappointing
I have heard Ed Traut speak several times and consider him to be an anointed minister with gifts of prophecy, knowledge and wisdom. I was interested in this book because I have been having a number of dreams in which I fully believe God was speaking to me and wanted to better understand what He was saying. While I appreciate much of what the author has to say in this book, I also found many errors—especially in the dream dictionary at the back.
I really like that Ed Traut shows how people in the Bible received messages from God through dreams. Dreams can come from our own subconscious as a way of working through a problem, or they can be a way the Spirit communicates with us.
Traut encourages people to pay attention to them and write down all they can recall from a dream to help interpret them. Each detail has the potential of being a symbol with significant meaning. He also counsels people to use a concordance to search for verses in the Bible that mention a particular thing to help you understand what each symbol could represent.
My biggest objection in the body of the book is that the author insists that dreams can only be either literal or symbolic, because if they were both, it would be too hard to discover which was which. First of all, that limits God and puts too much emphasis on man’s ability to understand. The Bible shows us God is the actual interpreter, not us (Exodus 41:15-16 & Daniel 2:26-30), so why would it matter if a dream contained both literal and symbolic elements? Secondly, it ignores the fact that the dreams of Pharaoh’s servants in Genesis 40 contained both literal elements (Pharaoh and the number 3) and figurative (the grapes and baskets of bread, which symbolized days).
In the dream dictionary, I found many of his references either didn’t contain the imagery to which the author referred or they were not the right chapters or verses. There are many modern things not referenced at all in the Bible that he tried to attach to various references. And there were some things that he said were either negative or positive, which could be both.
While in many ways this book can be a fair resource for dream interpretation, I would advise readers to take it with a grain of salt and check everything the author says. I personally plan to see if I can find a more biblically accurate dream dictionary. And when in doubt, rely on the concordance and Bible, as guided and illuminated by the Holy Spirit alone. After all, He’s the Source of the dream and it’s accurate interpretation in the first place!
I have heard Ed Traut speak several times and consider him to be an anointed minister with gifts of prophecy, knowledge and wisdom. I was interested in this book because I have been having a number of dreams in which I fully believe God was speaking to me and wanted to better understand what He was saying. While I appreciate much of what the author has to say in this book, I also found many errors—especially in the dream dictionary at the back.
I really like that Ed Traut shows how people in the Bible received messages from God through dreams. Dreams can come from our own subconscious as a way of working through a problem, or they can be a way the Spirit communicates with us.
Traut encourages people to pay attention to them and write down all they can recall from a dream to help interpret them. Each detail has the potential of being a symbol with significant meaning. He also counsels people to use a concordance to search for verses in the Bible that mention a particular thing to help you understand what each symbol could represent.
My biggest objection in the body of the book is that the author insists that dreams can only be either literal or symbolic, because if they were both, it would be too hard to discover which was which. First of all, that limits God and puts too much emphasis on man’s ability to understand. The Bible shows us God is the actual interpreter, not us (Exodus 41:15-16 & Daniel 2:26-30), so why would it matter if a dream contained both literal and symbolic elements? Secondly, it ignores the fact that the dreams of Pharaoh’s servants in Genesis 40 contained both literal elements (Pharaoh and the number 3) and figurative (the grapes and baskets of bread, which symbolized days).
In the dream dictionary, I found many of his references either didn’t contain the imagery to which the author referred or they were not the right chapters or verses. There are many modern things not referenced at all in the Bible that he tried to attach to various references. And there were some things that he said were either negative or positive, which could be both.
While in many ways this book can be a fair resource for dream interpretation, I would advise readers to take it with a grain of salt and check everything the author says. I personally plan to see if I can find a more biblically accurate dream dictionary. And when in doubt, rely on the concordance and Bible, as guided and illuminated by the Holy Spirit alone. After all, He’s the Source of the dream and it’s accurate interpretation in the first place!
February 12, 2024
Such a good book, a useful tool to grow in one's understanding of dream interpretation.
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