<TITLE>18. Par -</TITLE>L-23-4 Last Saturday morning, one week from yesterday, along about three o'clock in the morning, I'd gotten up and got a drink of water, and put the cover over Joseph in his room, and then I'd come back and was just laid down and went to sleep. And when I went to sleep... I'm getting these little dreams and things off, so you'll see the background of what I'm fixing to say. I--I covered up Joseph, and I went back, and laid down, and went to sleep; and I dreamed a dream: and I dreamed that I saw a man that was supposed to be my father, though he was a great big man; and I saw a woman that was supposed to be my mother; only she didn't look like my mother. And this man was very mean to his wife. And he had a three cornered stick, where he'd claved this wood and made a--you know when you chop a wood across a log it makes a three cornered stick. And every time this woman would start to stand up, he'd just grab her by the neck, and hit her on the head, and knock her out. And then she'd lay there, and snub and cry, and then she'd start coming back up again. He'd walk around proud, with his chest stuck out, great big fellow, and when she'd raise up again, he would take her by the neck, take this three cornered stick, and crack her on the head with it, drop her down. Walk back, and stick out his chest like he'd done something big.

L-23-5 And I was standing off watching it. And I thought, "I can't tackle that man. He's too big. And then he's supposed to be my papa. But he ain't my papa." And I said, "He ain't got no business treating that woman like that." And I got kinda a little bit upset with him. So then, all at once I got up enough courage, and I went over to him, and gabbed him by the collar, and turned him around. And I said, "You have no right to strike her." And when I said that, muscles growed; I looked like a giant. And the man looked at those muscles, and then he got scared of me. And I said, "You strike her again, you're going to deal with me." And he kinda hesitated to strike her again. And then I woke up.
And I laid there a little while. I thought, "What is that? Strange I'd dream about that woman." And just in a moment, here He come. I got the interpretation.

L-24-2 The woman represents the church of the world today, all the world. I was born right in this mess, and here I am. She's supposed to be kind of a--a mother of--if she was a mother of harlot, but yet I was born right into it. And the--her husband is the denominations that rule her. The three cornered stick that she had is that triune baptism in false names, that every time she starts to rise up, the congregation, to accept it, he whacks her down with it. And 'course, him being so big, I turned around, was a little afraid of him, and then I dashed into him anyhow, and the muscles was faith muscles. That made me think, "If God's with me, can give me muscles, let me stand up for her." Quit striking her.

L-24-3 Must've been ten o'clock in the day when my wife was trying to get into the room. And it happened. I went into a vision that morning, and I somehow... Now, remember it was not a dream.
There's a difference between dreams and visions. Dreams is when you go to sleep; visions when you don't go to sleep. We're born that way. An ordinary human being, when he dreams, it's in his subconscious. And his subconscious is way away from him. His senses is active, as long as he's in his first conscious. In this conscious, you--you're normal; you see, taste, feel, smell, hear. But when you are in your subconscious, asleep, you don't neither see, taste, feel, smell, or hear. But there's something when you dream that you return back to this conscious. There is a memory that you remember something that you dreamed about years ago.
An ordinary human being is that way. But when God predestinates something, this subconscious is not way away from here to the seer, but both consciouses right together. And the seer in a vision doesn't go to sleep, he's still in his senses, and sees it.


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