Day Dreaming: Part II

This is part II of this study.
Genesis 28:10-15

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the LORD, and he said: "I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

New Century Version (same passage)

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. When he came to a place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. He found a stone and laid his head on it to go to sleep. Jacob dreamed that there was a ladder resting on the earth and reaching up into heaven, and he saw angels of God going up and coming down the ladder. Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, "I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping. Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."

The dream used here is châlam (pronounced: khaw-lam') which means to (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream or to cause to dream and to be in good liking or recover. God causes me to dream. I believe, and I am not sure if it is by upbringing or otherwise, that both God and Satan have access to dreams and visions. If I have a dream at night and wake up in the morning, is it from God or something/someone else? It's tough to say at first... I guess it depends on the dream. If it is good and worthy to call of God in advancing of God's Kingdom, then it is from God. If it is of worldly concern, then probably not. That is a sure fire way to tell.

I am gong to be changing speeds, I guess you could say... I am taking part in reading the Bible in 90 Days... starting Sunday. It really is reading the Bible in 88 days, but they give two days grace.

Tomorrow: Genesis 31.