Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Arith Hayomim:
Job 33:15-16: “In a dream, in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in the slumbering upon the bed. Then he openeth the ears of men and sealeth their instructions.”
Dream when you’re feeling blue,
Dream, that’s the thing to do,
Just watch you smoke rings rise in the air,
You will find your share of memories there,
So dream when the day is through,
Dream and they might come true,
Things never are as bad as they seem,
So dream, dream dream.
-Johnny Mercer-
You look at these verses in Job in various translations and you get many different renderings. Check your commentaries and they all seem to agree that the idea of sealed instructions means that the instructions you receive in dreams are meant for you personally.
Looking at this in the Hebrew, I wonder if the King James Version really does have this right. That God will open the ears. The word open is “galah” in the Hebrew which means to lay bare, reveal, be intimate with, or have intercourse. The Masoretes pointed this up as a simple Qal verbal form, but just a little change in the vowel pointings would put this into a Piel form and thus it would mean to have intercourse. My point in this is that dreams that come from God may be more than just prophetic.
Many rabbis see this verb “open” as a Piel (meaning intimacy) and thus would conclude that dreams are a way of God sharing His intimate secrets with us. The sages taught that during sleep, your soul is active and not influenced by the physical body. It is during this time that God can become intimate with your soul. However, in such intimacy, you will see what God sees. God sees the past, present and the future. A by product of this intimate time with God is that we get to see what He sees and that would include in the future. The sages go on to teach that if we really saw exactly as God sees we would not be able to endure it, especially in seeing the future. Therefore, he wraps our dreams up in symbols so that we will not be too startled by what we see. In many cases He will not allow us to remember a dream as the intimacy with God would be too shocking for us to endure.
Hence this verse would be render as it seems in the KJV, that God will give us dreams and open or have an intimate moment with us and then bury it in symbolism or just cause us to forget it completely. The following verse even gives a reason why we are caused to forget, because we could become proud. It may also be a dream of the future and we might not be ready to accept what is in store for us. How many times do we pass through the fires and are grateful that God did not reveal to us earlier what was to happen?
Ok, maybe I have really left the reservation here, but take a look at that word “dream” in Hebrew. It is “Chalam” spelled Chet, Lamed, Final Mem. The word itself means the yolk of an egg. The yolk is where life is formed. It also means to restore to health. The Hebrew word itself is telling us that we find our life in our dreams and it is our dreams that can restore us to health. All that is possible if it is indeed an intimate time with God.
But check out the esoteric meaning of the word. The Chet shows a bonding and binding with God, the Lamed shows us instruction from heaven and the Final Mem represents the hidden mysteries of God. It is in our dreams that we bind ourselves to God as He reveals His hidden mysteries to us.
But not all dreams create that warm fuzzy feeling. There are such things as nightmares. Sometimes dreams are nothing more than our subconscious, sometimes is an intimate time with God and if God can enter our dreams so can the enemy.
Just a thought, when you go to sleep, what do you fill your soul with? Do you reflect all the day’s problems, do you read some novel about vampires or watch a movie about zombies? If your body sleeps what did you fill your soul with that continues to remain awake? Try commanding your soul to praise God before you sleep, read His
Word, meditate on His Word, sing a praise lullaby to your soul as your fall asleep. Then dream, dream, dream.
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