Man Extinct, church bell, 3:30p, haunting!

[rocketsquirrel]

Dreamed this last night 10/9/07. Dreamed I moved into a nice apartment. It was a very spacious apartment and most of that space was for all the big windows. It was a sunny day so my abode was filled with light. All the walls were white, the carpet was white. It was simple and clean, just like the neighborhood. The neighborhood had mid-size white ideal American dream homes with perfect manicured lush green lawns. Teens and kids were jump roping in the streets; a great activity for kids and it was a beautiful day.

Something was not quite right. I looked out my window at a run down old school that had been abandoned for a long time. It looked like the bell in the bell tower could fall down at any second given the condition of the wooden supports, then the bell started to ring, all by itself! This was the kind of bell a person had to be in the bell tower pulling the rope in order to ring, and it was ringing by itself. I heard peals of loud, deep thunder as it rang, but there was no sign of a storm.
It stopped, and it started up again at exactly 3:30pm. How strange! Whoever heard of a bell not marking just the start of every new hour but every half hour of the new hour? Anyway, I felt sorry for the building, a place that served the community so well shouldn't be allowed to rot away.


Mom gave me some info on the school. It was actually an old church, an old Presbytarian chruch. When she said that, the church changed, the paint freshened, the rotting process of the wood reversed, and it was as it used to be. A white sign on the front of church read in blue letters that kind of looked like Greek read:
OVERCOME MAN. A longer similar sign along the side of the building read, MANKIND MUST BECOME EXTINCT.

I was invited by the some of the church decons to come and help fix up the church. My job was to clean up the basement. As I was cleaning the basement, many old women would come and bow to the basement windows. They would set a lighted white candle in front of them and mourn silently for the past.

Meanwhile, I found strange things in storage down in the basement. I found mashed potatoes, still fresh. I found an old wedding photograph that looked like it was taken around the first World War. I was careful with that, because I wanted to find the elderly woman who's photo this belonged to, and give it to her. The old women started to get up and leave at that point. There was also an enormous old chifforobe. It was made of very dark wood. It gave me kind of an eerie feeling. Do I even want to know what's in that old thing? Suddenly, the basement that had moments before crammed with miscellanous junk (some of it not junk) became clean and largely empty. How did I so fantastically complete my task so quickly?

Some much of this dream has haunting images...there was such sad feeling with the wedding photo of the bride and her husband on the staircase - what happened that they left it behind? Bells seem to open doors in the spirit world in my dreams, sometimes bringing death, sometimes good things, but always opening doors to let in some great power. The sad little school building...the wood of the church was cut to fit so no one could rip it off and take it home to use in their own home...these things might be important...and something made me afraid to look into the chifforobe.

[rocketsquirrel]

The apartment I moved into represents a change in myself. My mind is open to 'light', to GOD's voice. This is symbolized by all the windows letting in light. The white walls and carpet, nice neighborhood and innocent kids playing an innocent game, represent pure thoughts, and a life that is peaceful, and stable.

The abandoned school/church represents a time when education was more personal, and therefore better. There was just education, but the whole community and school instilled a sense of social responsibility, high moral standards, and wisdom. This system has been abandoned for a long time, as a consequence, education is corrupt, it serves the political agenda, not the community. Nobody dares take responsibility for anything, from the street to the White House, it's always somebody's else's fault. Morality and values are self-centered now. I feel sorry that core community values...responsibility, morality, and family, have been allowed to rot away. The church restored when I began to believe it was possible to restore these values.

The bell in the school rang at the 3rd hour and again at 3:30pm, accompanied by thunder. The feeling I got in the dream is that this represented the hour of Christ's death on the cross, which scripture gives at 3 in the afternoon, and that Christ was in the tomb 3 days prior to the ressurection. The thunder felt like it represented the moment when the curtain was spilt in half at the moment of Christ's death ( Luke 23:44 and 45).

Also 'times, times, and a half a time', or 3 1/2 years (3:30 is 3 and 1/2 hrs) appears the same numerically as 42 months or 3 and 1/2 years the world will worship the beast ( Rev chapter 13) and the two witness of GOD are dead in the street for 3 and 1/2 days before they stand up on their feet and are called up to Heaven (Rev 11). When I reviewed these sections of scripture after the dream, it seems more that the beast is not a person but a group of nations acting as one to make war againist all the righteous of the earth, and the two witness, real people or figurative, represent the Old and New Testaments, testifying to the reality of GOD existance.

The bell is also a summons, summoning all belivers to get their spiritual state from a state of neglect to a state of purity, ready to serve the LORD.

The sign, "OVER COME MAN" written to look Greek is a reference to the New Testament, since it was written in Greek. The message represents that all believers must learn to overcome the temptations of this world. The other sign, MAN MUST BE BECOME EXTINCT, also references the New Testament, where in the end, mankind is nearly wiped out, and the earth and sea give up their dead to stand before GOD to be judged. These are two facts believers must face.

The basement crammed with stuff represents everything believers have been holding onto that is completely worthless and must be thrown away. The old women represent mature believers who, don't do any work, just solemnly observe certain holy days and are busy bodies the rest of the time. This is pointless, there is work to be done! The wedding photo is of a woman, a bride, who lost her first love! All the believers are the bride of Christ, but the Bride has lost her first love! She must return to her first love and repent! ( See Rev chapter 2). I had the sense that I had not lost my first love for Christ but it was my job to help make the Christian community useful again. The chiffarobe represent dirty secrets those in the body of Christ have hidden, and I'm afraid to know what they are.

[rocketsquirrel]

I've been thinking how come the basement seemed to clean itself so quickly? When I saw all the junk, I thought it would be impossible to clean it to leave it looking nice, and even getting 1/3rd of the way through would be very time consumming task. But as I proceeded, it got much easier, and the basement cleaned itself. All the junk vanished instantly except for the photo and the chiffarobe. It is because the burden of Christ is light, and it was Him doing the really hard work, all I did was help a little....and GOD blessed the effort so it became effortless.