I had a dream last night that my wife and I were out of town going on a date (no kids). It seemed like a Saturday or Sunday and we were in a town somewhere in Texas I guess. At one point in the dream, we arrive somehow in a rural part of town with a lot of trees. My wife and I are walking up a hill scattered with trees and in the distance is an old house. A man comes out of this house making accusations at me. I believe the accusations were directed towards an alleged altercation or comments I said about on of his peers. I responded to him with a surprise, “What are you talking about? That’s no true.” It was something to that effect. Then this man starts throwing rocks at me. Reminds me of a type of penalty in the Old Covenant. Well, instinctively, I started throwing rocks back at him. This did not last very long. He stopped and said he was going to get so-in-so to come after me. I’m thinking to myself, “What is this guy’s problem?”
My wife and I retreat after this man’s threat. We go back into the city and loose this other man now who was chasing us. He had a gun. I think it was a rifle. The man was a large man about 6’5″ and weighed around 300 lbs. We run to a store and see this man around the corner. We run again and loose him. We some how find a family who becomes our refuge. They feed us some food and I wake up from the dream and get my son ready for school.
Here is my interpretation of the dream.
My wife and I are spiritual sojourners on earth, Ex. 2:22. Our citizenship is in the Kingdom of heaven, Phil. 3:20. The old house on the hill is the Old Covenant, Ex. 40:18 (reference to the O.T. tabernacle). The house in the dream was no longer part of the mainstream culture, but secluded away seemingly deserted. This typifies the rules and regulations of the Old Covenant (keep in mind love fulfills All of the Mosaic Law). The accusatory man coming out of the house is the schoolmaster or law, Gal. 3:24-25. My instinctive response of throwing rocks and defending myself was the power of the law attempting to manifest the old nature out of me. The power of sin is the law, 1 Cor. 15:56. I will always lose when fighting with the law. It will always win apart from Christ. I was trying to argue or combat with this man with the power of the law or Old Covenant in my hand, Rom. 16:17.
I see the large man with the rifle as the judgment or penalty of the law which under the Old Covenant can be death. The law kills, Rom. 7:11. My thought, “What is this guy’s problem?” reflects the impartial judgment of the law. It judges all apart from Christ, Rom. 3:23.
The law cannot kill or judge a dead man. I am dead in Christ.
In Christ, I serve in a new way of the Spirit in newness of life by revelation of Christ. This large man was also in relentless pursuit. The schoolmaster never stops or looses energy. It is like the terminator. It only loses to One person, John 19:30, Col. 2:12-15. This victorious Person lives in me, 1 John 4:4.
The episode of throwing rocks at each other also reminds me of Gal. 5:17. Once entangled in the yoke of bondage, or under the law, there is only One way out and that is the Way, John 14:6. He is peace. Peace from the guilt and punishment of the law in my conscience, Heb. 10:2.
The house of refuge is many things. It is the Church of Eph. 4, 5 and other Pauline epistles. It is the revelation of His Body or Him.
Galatians 5:1-2 “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”
John 8:7-11. Jesus was the only one who could have condemned the woman caught in adultery, but He didn’t. He didn’t condone it either. He said, “Go and sin no more.” i don’t know if the woman still continued in adultery or not, but I wonder if her motive in her heart changed because of receiving the power of forgiveness from Christ. The Lord put His grace, mercy and love on the woman against which there is no law, Gal. 5:22-23. The law is powerless against grace, mercy and love. His love keeps no record of wrongs. There is therefore now no condemnation in Christ. His love fulfills all the law.