Visions Versus Dreams and Why History Validates Neither

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Jul 13, 2021 at 14:15

Nebuchadnezzar, it is written, had a dream; or was it a vision? By interpretation, it was described by a Jewish expat name Daniel (God is judge) as a forecast of world events extending far into the future, to a time it may be argued is potentially consistent and contemporary with the times we are facing now.
Whether one desires to be compelled to believe this or not, it is nevertheless that pattern of history we are taught by the Tanakh to be the pattern of history the nation of Israel is destined to follow.
We can expect this is not the history Reader Banerjee thinks he is being led to follow.
And yet, what he cannot see it that in spite of Islamic teachings, it is the history the Iranian Islamic Regime is destined to follow in its dealing with Israel; the circumstances of how that is to play out will forthcoming, quite shortly. History cannot be used to validate whether one's dreams will come true; it is the other way around; history only records what is true and not what one hopes will come true.

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