This document provides an overview of visions in the Bible. It discusses several key visions: 1) Moses' vision of the burning bush in Exodus 3, where God calls him to deliver Israel from Egypt. 2) Joshua's vision of "the commander of the army of the Lord" in Joshua 5, where he is commanded to remove his sandals as he stands on holy ground. 3) Isaiah's vision of God on his throne surrounded by seraphim in Isaiah 6, where his sins are purged with burning coal so he can respond to God's call to prophesy. The document examines the significance and interpretation of these biblical visions and encourages activating one's own visionary gifts through meditation

1. VISIONS IN THE BIBLE

2. LEARNING TO
PROPHESY
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3. DREAMS AND VISION
INTERPRETATIONS SEMINAR
Summer Semester
June - July

4. VISIONS IN THE
BIBLE
Session #7
Julio 13, 2016

5. • We are moving now to review a couple of
visions from the bible, and then share our own
ones and pray for a release of the revelatory
gifting through visions.

6. VISION
• an experience in which a personage,
thing, or event appears vividly or credibly
to the mind, although not actually present, ofte
n under the divine or other agency
• :a heavenly messenger appearing
in a vision.

7. VISION
• The produced thoughts of a sanctified mind.
• At difference of dreams that happen when sleeping, visions
occur in an awaken state.
• A vision to be considered given by God, has to be in
complete alignment with the Word of God.
• A vision, for more vivid, important and real appearing cannot
override the Word of God.
• The Bible is our final authority in matters of faith.

8. FOR NIT
• A vision will completely agree with what God has already
revealed.
• If you consider to have received a vision from God,
• Review your vision and see if completely lines up with the
word of God.
• In prayer ask God for the right interpretation.
• If God has giving you the vision, He will give you as well the
interpretation, prayerfully ask God for it.
• Also prayerfully ask God what you should do with the given
vision.

9. • A vision can come spontaneously.
• You can create a vision by meditating on a subject.
• You can stop the vision at any time.
• “The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of
prophets.” 1 Corinthians 14:32
• “18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that
keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18
•

11. EXODUS 3:1-10

12. EXODUS 3:1-3 (NKJV)
MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH
• 3 Now Moses was tending the flock of
Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian.
And he led the flock to the back of the
desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of
God. 2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared
to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a
bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush
was burning with fire, but the bush was not
consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now
turn aside and see this great sight, why the
bush does not burn.”

13. WHY THE BUSH DOES
NOT BURN.

14. EXODUS 3:4 (NKJV)
• 4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside
to look, God called to him from the midst of
the bush and said,
• “Moses, Moses!”
• And he said, “Here I am.”

15. EXODUS 3:5-6 (NKJV)
• 5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place.
Take your sandals off your feet, for the
place where you stand is holy
ground.” 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God
of your father—the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And
Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look
upon God.

16. TAKE YOUR SANDALS
OFF YOUR FEET,

17. EXODUS 3:7-8 (NKJV)
• 7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the
oppression of My people who are in Egypt,
and have heard their cry because of their
taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I
have come down to deliver them out of the
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
from that land to a good and large land, to
a land flowing with milk and honey, to the
place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and
the Amorites and the Perizzites and the
Hivites and the Jebusites.

18. EXODUS 3:9-10 (NKJV)
• 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the
children of Israel has come to Me, and I have
also seen the oppression with which the
Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now,
therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh
that you may bring My people, the children
of Israel, out of Egypt.”

19. EXODUS 3:11 (NKJV)
• 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I
should go to Pharaoh, and that I should
bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
• Compare “Here I am” v4
• With “Who am I” v11

20. POINTS TO CONSIDER
• God reveals His holiness.
• Who is the Angel of the Lord.
• The call of attention, the burning bush.
• The desire to investigate.
• The call by name.
• The positioning reply.
• The warning, the order to remove the sandals.
• Holiness of the ground.
• God’s introduction of Himself.
• Moses reaction
• God’s explanation, the call to Moses.
• Moses resistance.

22. THE COMMANDER
OF THE ARMY OF THE LORD

23. JOSHUA 5:13 (NKJV)
• 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by
Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked,
and behold, a Man stood opposite him with
His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua
went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for
us or for our adversaries?”

24. JOSHUA 5:14 (NKJV)
• 14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the
army of the LORD I have now come.”
• And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and
worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my
Lord say to His servant?”

25. AND JOSHUA
FELL ON HIS FACE

26. JOSHUA 5:15 (NKJV)
• 15 Then the Commander of the LORD’s army
said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your
foot, for the place where you stand is holy.”
And Joshua did so.

27. DISCUSSION POINTS.
• Theophany, Christophany or Angelophany
• Preparation for battle.
• The man with the sword.
• The question of Joshua.
• The reply and identification of the visitor.
• Declaration of the holiness.
• Joshua’s reaction, worship.
• Second question.
• The command.
• The surrender.

29. VISION OF ISAIAH
6:1-8

30. ISAIAH 6:1-8 (NKJV)
• Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet
• 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the
Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up,
and the train of His robe filled the temple.

31. ISAIAH 6:2-3 (NKJV)
• 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six
wings: with two he covered his face, with
two he covered his feet, and with two he
flew.

32. ISAIAH 6:3-4 (NKJV)
• 3 And one cried to another and said:
• “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
• 4 And the posts of the door were shaken by
the voice of him who cried out, and the
house was filled with smoke.

33. ISAIAH 6:5 (NKJV)
• 5 So I said:
• “Woe is me, for I am undone!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King,
The LORD of hosts.”

34. YOUR INIQUITY IS TAKEN
AWAY,
AND YOUR SIN PURGED.”

35. ISAIAH 6:6-7 (NKJV)
• 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me,
having in his hand a live coal which he had
taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he
touched my mouth with it, and said:
• “Behold, this has touched your lips;
Your iniquity is taken away,
And your sin purged.”

36. ISAIAH 6:8 (NKJV)
• 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:
• “Whom shall I send,
And who will go for Us?”
• Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

38. DISCUSSION POINTS
• Theophany
• The majesty of the Lord displayed.
• Seraphim, What they do, Why it have 6 wings.
• Declaring the Holiness of God.
• Isaiah declares his sinful condition.
• God cleanses his sins.
• After his sins are purged God speaks.
• He is looking for a man who can follow His instructions.
• Isaiah declares: HERE AM I, SEND ME.

39. • Compare these two answers
• Moses answer:
• Here I am.
• Isaiah answer:
• Here Am I.

41. • Jeremiah 1:9 _10 (NKJV)
• 9 Then the LORD put forth His hand and
touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me:
• “Behold, I have put My words in your
mouth.
10 See, I have this day set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”

42. JEREMIAH 1:11-12 (NKJV)
• 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to
me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”
• And I said, “I see a branch of an almond
tree.”
• 12 Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen
well, for I am ready to perform My word.”

44. THE ALMOND TREE
• Even that is still winter almond trees blossom all over Israel
every winter. They are the first tree to blossom and yet the
last to bear fruit.
• The Hebrew word for almond, shaked, is also translated “to
watch”
• In here God is saying I’m watching and you have not
repented.
• I have been patient with you but now.
• I’m going to fulfil my word.
• Calamity soon would fall on Israel.

45. GOD WATCH
ALL THE TIME
• Jeremiah 31:28 (NKJV)
• 28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have
watched over them to pluck up, to break
down, to throw down, to destroy, and to
afflict, so I will watch over them to build and
to plant, says the LORD.

46. JEREMIAH 1:12-14 (NKJV)
• 13 And the word of the LORD came to me the
second time, saying, “What do you see?”
• And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is
facing away from the north.”
• 14 Then the LORD said to me:
• “Out of the north calamity shall break forth
On all the inhabitants of the land.

47. I SEE A BOILING POT

48. • The boiling pot represents the people from the north, the
Chaldeans and the Assyrians who will come to ravage the
land of Israel.
• The content of the pot represents the judgement of God
spread all over the land

49. DISCUSSION POINTS
• The purging and the commissioning.
• The vision of the branch of an almond tree.
• The significance of the vision.
• The boiling pot vision.
• The meaning of the vision.
• What will happen.
• Encouragement for Jeremiah
• For I am with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver you.”

50. • Compare the cleansing or purging on sins between these
two prophets.
• “Behold, this has touched your lips;
Your iniquity is taken away,
And your sin purged.”
• 9 Then the LORD put forth His hand and
touched my mouth,

51. ACTIVATION #7
• Can you see the well in Samaria where Jesus met the
Samaritan woman?
• We call upon the Holy Spirit for His divine inspiration.
• We close our eyes, we quiet ourselves and let the anointing
and inspiration from God do the rest.
• See yourself at the well with Him.
• When the vision closes, write down what have you see.
• Ask for the interpretation.
• What you think God is telling you to do?

52. • In biblical times a well was a
very important place.
• The well was not only a
place where to get the vital
element.
• It was a business place for
the shepherds.
• A social point for the
women of the place.
• And a place for divine
encounters for many:
• Hagar met God
• Jacob met Rachel
• Moses met Zipporah
• The Samaritan met Jesus

53. • Why I’m coming at this time?
• Because of your fears and insecurity. But today I’m here to
be with you.
• He sat me with Him at the edge of the well facing away from
it, He put His right arm around my shoulders and draw me
closer to Him.
• I felt the warm of His body and some chills ran down my
spine. He said from now on I will go with you always, you can
count on me.
• I smiled, said thank you, jumped to the ground, took a
pebble and turned around facing the well.
• Our faces were reflected in the water.
• Simultaneously we smiled.
• I dropped the stone in the well, ripples were formed and we
laughed.

54. • Now is your turn:
• Share one of your visions