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“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men” (Job 33:14-16).
God has different ways of speaking to men and women, and He knows how to get our attention when He wants to tell us something. Now that we have the complete Bible, God uses His Word most of the time to speak to those of us who live in countries where the Bible is easily available. However, there are countries in the world today where it is very difficult to get a Bible, and where someone who gets a Bible may get into trouble for doing so. In such places the Lord is still speaking to people with dreams and visions.
We all have dreams, and many of them are silly. Usually they are not worth remembering. But the Lord knows how to appear to people in dreams in such a way that they realize that God Himself is speaking to them. When Job was living in this world (probably about the time of Abraham, or shortly after him), the Bible had not been written yet. God still spoke to men in dreams and visions, and He can do so today. Tomorrow we will look at other ways that the Lord can speak to us.
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