This was a dream I had awhile ago. I felt it was time to share it...
I was at a beach resort-like place. There was a long coastline with hotels and buildings that all had a beach front. A storm was coming which was common knowledge to everyone there. People were warned to get inside and take shelter because this devastating storm promised a result of total destruction.
Even with that information, there was a deeply rooted peace with an understanding that if we took shelter, we WOULD be okay.
I then found myself inside a hotel that was made completely out of glass. Other people took shelter as well and even though there was a lot of movement going on inside, there was zero fear or panic in anyone.
A few stories up, I stood at the glass wall that was facing the beach and I could see it stretching for miles. The storm had hit-flood waters were rising, waves crashing, wind, rain, hail, it was complete chaos to see. However there were thousands of people still on the beach trying to vacation. Thousands of people being swept away out into the water. Thousands being covered and thrown around by the waves. But no one appeared to even know it was happening to them. I saw people still trying to lay out their beach towels (even though they were standing in water) I saw a lady in her beach hat sitting in her chair floating away but still trying to bask in the sun that was no longer there. It wasn’t that no one cared-it was as if no one could see or feel what was even happening.
Then I noticed there were a handful of lifeguard type people scattered throughout the beach. They had urgency in their actions and concern on their faces as they continued to try to help and save these people. I watched one lifeguard in particular attempt to save the same person over and over again.. Each time, that person would walk right back out to get swept away again. Almost in an elastic way, the lifeguard would rescue them, drag them to safety then snapping slowly, the invisible elastic pull would draw the person back out to the water and the cycle continued.
There were three very clear groups formed:
1. The beach goers: I felt a sense of indifference in the vacationers. They did not see a need to be saved. They did not want to be saved.
“But we are not like those who turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones, whose souls will be saved.” Hebrews 10:39
2. The lifeguards: I felt a sense of exhaustion in the lifeguards. There was concern, fear and stress as they were trying to save those who didn’t want to be saved.
“If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.” Matthew 10:13-14
3. Those who took shelter: While inside, I looked down at the bottom of the hotel and on the outside the water was beginning to rise and we could see everything happening very clearly because of the glass walls but again....NO ONE inside felt or expressed any fear, chaos, nerves or panic. There was only an immense amount of peace and comfort.
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:1-2
Further confirmation came from Exodus 9: 18-26
“Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now. Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die. Those officials of Pharaoh WHO FEARED THE WORD OF THE LORD hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. But those who IGNORED THE WORD OF THE LORD left their slaves and livestock in the field. Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘stretch out our hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt-on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.‘ When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the LORD rained hail on the land of Egypt; hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields-both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.”
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