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Visions

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: V By: George A. Morrish

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By means of visions God often vouchsafed to make known His will. When Samuel was a child, before the word of Jehovah was revealed to him, for a time “there was no open vision” (1 Sam. 3:1, 15¹And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision. (1 Samuel 3:1)
¹⁵And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision. (1 Samuel 3:15)). With the prophets they were frequently employed: more than twenty times we read of them in Daniel. In the future when the Spirit will be poured out, Israel’s sons and daughters will prophesy; the old men will dream dreams, and the young men will see visions (Joel 2:28²⁸And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: (Joel 2:28); Acts 2:17¹⁷And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: (Acts 2:17)). The book of Revelation is a series of visions (Rev. 1:2²Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. (Revelation 1:2)).

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