A dream showing the Lord wants us to balance our reliance on logos and reason with spiritual revelation and grace.

In the dream I was in school and got called to attend the Wisdom of God class for those in the prophetic ministry. It was the first day of classes and I didn’t know where to go, so I looked at my class schedule and saw that it was in classroom number eight. Classes had just begun but since it was the first day, I knew it was OK to be a little late, so I wasn’t worried.

I quickly found room seven, and then looked to the right and found rooms six and five, and knew that was going in the wrong direction.

I turned to the left and followed the wall and had to walk a long way around the building to find room eight (which was not nearly as close to seven as five and six were). I bumped into a guy I vaguely knew who was maybe Russian and had bad body odor. I realized we were both going to the same class and made a deal to sit together, which made us both feel more comfortable.

When I found room eight we walked in and I immediately noticed something odd. There was only one table on the right of the classroom and it was empty. On the left side there were several tables and all the pupils were sitting there on the left! The very first seat was empty but since I was with my new friend with the body odor I realized I couldn’t sit there and had to go more towards the left. We passed several tables that were full and only found seats at the very edge of the classroom, very far from the professor and blackboard. I saw someone else I recognized and realized I didn’t really need to sit with this new friend with the body odor because there were a lot of people no one knew.

Then looking at where I was sitting I said to myself, ‘This is the Wisdom of God class! Sitting all the way over here in the corner does not seem very wise!’ So I said to the professor, “How about this? What if we move the tables so they are centered in rows right down the middle of the classroom?” I saw a picture of four concentric rows of tables centered down the middle. The first row was the smallest, maybe holding two people, the second was the longest, the third and fourth were gradually shorter than the second row.

The professor looked at me, smiled and said approvingly, “Yes, very good.”

A New School

Later I was in a different classroom with all the professors of this new school who were all lined up in the front. It was a new school and these teachers weren’t yet sure if it was going to work out. There were maybe eight teachers, some men and some women, and they seemed so very ordinary and humble. I felt a surge of sincere appreciation in my heart for what they were doing — a real respect, not the kind you give secular bosses who control you in some way, which is always a little fake, but sincere appreciation and respect because they were the real teachers of God, raised up by God himself in this end time, who were teaching this new generation of believers who God really is, in ways that no one has ever taught about God before.

I stood up and told them how I felt, and realized that they were not unsure of themselves so much as truly humble and so were not teaching for their own fame, but really for the Glory of God.

Possible Meaning

I know that dreams and visions of classrooms and schools symbolize God’s training to us. The smelly man I think may have to do with man’s ways (which frankly are a bit stinky) and the deal I made with him was mostly based on fear and uncertainty, which later hindered me from sitting in the first empty seat near the middle of the room.

And seven is the number symbolic of completion, whereas five and six are symbolic of man’s ways and earthly ways. The number eight is the number of renewal, a new thing or a new start. The class was in classroom number eight, and there were eight professors in the new school. So that part seems fairly obvious.

But the tables on the left and right didn’t make a lot of sense until the next day when I was reading a free book by Mark Virkler, called Wading Deeper in the River of God. In it he says Morton Kelsey demonstrated that 51% of New Testament scriptures have to do with Objective issues that we experience and understand with the LEFT hemisphere of the brain that processes rational and logical thinking. Mark Virkler points out that quite clearly most of our understanding of the Bible and Lord himself is limited to merely using our rational and logical faculties. This includes rules, the Law, public behavior, external morals, and only a literal interpretation of the textual, written word — the logos.

The other half of the New Testament, 49%, deals with Subjective topics, which list he says includes spirit, angles, demons, miracles, signs, wonders, dreams, prophecy, grace, gifts, heaven, hell, such things that have to do with our hearts and spirits, and rhema, or personal revelation. Such things are impossible to objectively verify and often must be personally experienced for us to understand them (and so are subjective). It is these things that we understand or process through the RIGHT hemisphere of our minds, which deals with creative, artistic or spontaneous thinking. Virkler has much to say on these topics and his book mentioned above is very insightful and enlightening reading.

So I think this prophetic dream is saying that we need to achieve a better balance of Logos and Rhema — because they are two sides of the same thing. That is, to balance morality and spirituality, text and revelation, left brain and right brain — currently most of the time we only use logical, human-based rationalizing, that is: “head knowledge” of the left hemisphere.

We need to balance this by developing more reliance on personal experience, relying on the indwelling Holy Spirit to teach us, the Mind of CHRIST to guide us, and to walk more in the Spirit of Grace.

Edward Johnson, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

August, 2007