In this dream, I was preparing to get married. As preparation, I was instructed to go to a bridal shop to try on wedding dresses. I was told that I must choose a dress quickly because time was short! This made me think that I should send out wedding invitations right away so that everyone would know when the wedding would be taking place. When I asked about this, I was told that there was no time left to send out invitations. I was assured that those who were prepared would be at the wedding.
When I arrived at the bridal shop, a sales clerk selected five different wedding dresses and put them into a change room for me to try on. The shop was crowded with people. Every time I came out of the change room with one of the dresses on, the crowd of people would tell me whether they liked it or not. Each dress was quite different from the others. There was a bright yellow dress, a multicolored two-piece business suit, a white cocktail-length tight fitting dress, a black velvet, low-backed, floor-length gown and a pure white, floor-length, flowing gown with a white veil.
The crowd liked all of the dresses except for the pure white, long flowing gown with the white veil. The black gown was their favorite.
My favorite was the pure white, floor-length gown with the white veil. I felt that it was the best and only appropriate gown to wear for my wedding. I didn’t like the other dresses at all. However, the crowd insisted that the black gown was best. They wanted me to wear it and they also thought that I should wear the white veil with the black gown.
I chose to wear the long white gown with the white veil.
Interpretation:
Being instructed to choose a dress for my wedding quickly and there being no time to send out invitations represents an urgent call for Christians to get prepared to become the Bride of Christ. There is not much time left until the end of the age and the marriage of the Lamb.
The different dresses represent different states of heart of those who call themselves Christians. The state of our heart in relationship with Jesus Christ determines how we are clothed. In brief, what each dress represents is listed below:
- The bright yellow, floor-length dress represents a self-centered heart; seeking self-recognition and self-fulfillment from Jesus instead of dying to self so Jesus can live through them.
- The multicolored two-piece suit represents a business-like heart; spending more time working for Jesus than getting to know and love Him.
- The white cocktail-length, and tight fitting, dress represents a divided heart; claiming to love Jesus, but more attracted to the world than to Him.
- The black velvet, floor-length, low-backed, tight dress represents a darkened heart; in love with the world instead of Jesus.
- The white floor length, flowing gown with white veil depicts a pure heart; totally in love with Jesus and committed to love, honor and obey Him above all else.
The white veil is a symbol of Christ and the church. As we totally commit ourselves in love with Jesus, He will remove the veil that has separated us from God and we will be joined to Him in oneness.
The crowd trying to convince me to wear the black dress with the white veil represents the deception that you can be in love with the world and still belong to Jesus.
Scripture verses:
Matthew 6:19-24 says, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth or rust destroys and where thieves to not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Matthew 22:1-14 – The Parable of the marriage feast
Matthew 25:1-13 – The Parable of the ten virgins
James 4:4 says, “You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”
1 John 2:15-17 says, “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him….”
Revelation 19:7-8 says, “Let us rejoice and exult and give Him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His Bride has made herself ready; it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure….”
Revelation 22:14 says, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.”
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