[Dream 6/24/26]
As I was getting dressed in my bathroom, a clip of my dream I had the night before came back to me. It was when I was tying my pants tie-string that I remembered a short-haired dog, possibly a Pit Bull, had suddenly turned against me and started viscously attacking me, pulling on my pants tie-string.
This reminds me of Psalms 22:16, a prophecy of King David regarding the Messiah Yahshua, where it says, "Dogs are all around me, a pack of villains [enemies] closes in on me like a lion at my hands and feet." [This symbolizes Yahshua’s hands and feet being pierced.]
Verses 19-20 describes a pleading to YHWH to rescue him from the "power of the dog."
Tehillim (Psalms) 22:19-20 TS2009
[19] But You, O יהוה, do not be far off; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
[20] Deliver My life from the sword, My only life from the power of the dog.
“My only life.” The Hebrew text reads, “Deliver my soul from the sword, my only one from the power of the dog.” Scholars correctly assert that “my only one” refers to the only life that David (and prophetically Yahshua) had, so most English versions have “life” instead of “one” for clarity. However, the text makes a strong point. People only have one life, and if it is gone, the person comes to an end and is gone. That is why YHWH must rescue people from the power of the grave.
Yahshua asked, “For what does it profit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” (Mark 8:36). Indeed, if a person dies, they have nothing at all.
Matt. 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls in front of pigs, otherwise they will trample them under their feet, turn around, and tear you to pieces.
"Dogs…pigs.” Here in Matthew 7:6, “dogs” and “pigs” represent, by the figure of speech, those things that are most unclean and vile to the Jew. Although in some contexts, “dogs” represent Gentiles, that is not the case here, for even Yahshua gave pearls of wisdom to Gentiles (the Samaritan woman in John 4.)
The reference is to those who are unclean and ungodly in their thoughts and lifestyle. Those who reject the pearls of love and blessings that are given to them will not only reject what was said to them, but often use what was said to them against the one who spoke to them. The verse is a lesson in that we have to use wisdom in what we say to whom.
Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of YHWH is the beginning of knowledge, but fools show contempt for wisdom and sound teaching.”
Not everyone will receive the Truth. Not everyone will choose Life. But YHWH hears the prayers of His righteous ones. He rescues them from the deep muddy waters.
Tehillim (Psalms) 69:14 TS2009
[14] Rescue me out of the mire, And let me not sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me, And out of the deep waters.
You righteous ones! Cry out to YHWH! May YHWH be a shield around His people, their glory, and may He lift up their heads. The victory belongs to YHWH!
Be blessed,
Amein.
