A Dream’s Warning

More than forty years ago I had a vivid dream of spiritual significance.  Its details have remained in my memory ever since that night.  Although I only on occasion recall it, I lay it out in this posting.  I do so in the hope that it will speak to the reader as it has for me, and now seems very appropriate given the dark and depraved times in which we live.

The year in which the dream occurred was 1982.  At the time I was a student in Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy, and had come to faith in Christ about nine months earlier.

The dream is described.  I was in an old house that was in disrepair.  While looking at its dusty floors and dingy walls an angel approached me.  He had a mission for me.  The communication between us was terse, but kind.  He handed me a three-chambered, antique revolver.  I was instructed to fire the first round into the wall as proof of its capability as a weapon.  The round blew a sizable hole in the wall.  The angel then gave me added instructions.  With the second round I was to destroy the locking mechanism of a door.  I was then to enter the room and kill the evil man that dwelt in the room.  I climbed the stairs to the room and shot open the door.  I had no idea of the room’s dimensions. The only light came from a small, dirty window.  It illumined only the first few feet of the room in which I stood.  From the darkness emerged a man of 50 to 60 years of age.  He was pale, and rotund, and moved slowly while stooped over slightly at the waist.  His head was large and his hair was white and thin.  I believe he knew why I was there.  I pointed the revolver at him, but he began to speak to me.  In disobedience I did not fire the third round, but engaged in conversation with him.  I lowered the revolver.  He sat me down at a nearby table and we began to play a “board game” of some type.  I failed my mission.  I was now ensnared and would soon perish.  The dream, thankfully, ended prior to my demise.

Its significance of the dream is clear.  Obviously the dream was about — and still is about — the consequences of disobedience and compromise with evil.  Throughout my life I have entered into very minor thematic parallels with this dream, there have been successes and failures — resistance and collaboration have often walked hand-in-hand in my past.  But, ultimately, the importance of the dream is a challenge which I will face in the future — some day I will be confronted by a great evil.  I know that I will not have to kill, yet I am to overcome the confrontation and challenge of my life in some manner.

There are many dark rooms inhabited by many dark, evil men and women.  They all pose the same threat and danger to us.  The dark rooms and their dark inhabitants have always been with us.  The rooms have been inhabited by tyrants across the ages.  The dark inhabitants today are not just political figures, but can be from corporations and other institutions.  Whatever the source, however embodied, they are threats to  our freedoms and souls.  However embodied, they are growing in number and in strength.

In my opinion, the greatest threat to freedom, integrity, and faith comes from the impending implementation of both a Central Bank Digit Currency (CBDC) and a national, if not global, digital ID.  For nearly twenty years we have been entangled in the digital web by our “relationship” with our cell phones.  The convenience and ease of use of debit cards have paved the way and readied us for a CBDC.

What is to be done?  What will I do, and what will you do in the face of such a demanding power?  God has the power to “deliver from the snare of the fowler”, and to be our “shield and buckler” (e.g., Psalm 91 / 90: 3, 4).  Yet, at the same time, we must ready ourselves in ways that are fit and proper for each person and family.  A “one-size-fits-all” plan does not exist.  Ultimately, it is all too possible that many will be Confessors for the faith.

It is not my desire to be doom and gloom.  We are not to be fearful, but we are to be aware.  Readiness can be done in many ways.  Friends and those who are aware of these threats and form small “parallel societies” (see my postings: The Parallel Society II: The Proposals of Vaclav Benda and The Parallel Society) for mutual support and assistance.  But, ultimately, the greatest preparation is spiritual:  we must walk faithfully with our Lord Jesus Christ to his glory!

In Christ,

Fr Irenaeus