Lessons in the Ladder Days

Candace Long: I'm Candace Long with Lessons in the Ladder Days, offering biblical commentary to make sense of the times that we're living in. Today's episode is called A Seer's Review of 2024 Dreams. If you've listened to this program for any length of time, you know that dreams play a big part in my spiritual life. I'm not going to share my dream journey here. You'll find that in the episode on 2023 dreams at candacelong.com/podcast.

Every January, I review the previous year's dreams to get an overall look at what the Lord showed me that year. Most every episode you hear in Lessons in the Ladder Days is a result of insight from my Torah studies every week and what I've been shown in dreams. Let me say here that if you have had a significant dream and want to know what God may be saying, this episode is not a how-to guide.

But I do have an important resource that does teach how to break out a dream, and you'll find that in my online store. It's called When God Speaks to You in a Dream. I'll put a link to it in the notes to this episode. Now, because I have been a seer for twenty-three years, the review I'm sharing today may be different from most. You see, when looking at or listening to a dream, you as an interpreter have to know what kind of lifestyle that dreamer is living.

I identify as a Levitical scribe. For years and years, I have lived a consecrated life away from crowds, in quiet, apart from social media, keeping my ears open for what the Lord is saying and communicating that to others the best I can, whether it's through a podcast or a monograph, a coaching session, or a teaching. If you are not walking closely with the Lord, there could be open doors to outside voices from unclean spirits, which would hinder a good biblical interpretation of your dream.

As I approached this year's dream review, I examined what I had been busy doing last year and looked for confirmations whether or not God was affirming my work or whether he was correcting me in something that needed attention. As a teacher, I am very aware of the privilege I am given to teach what's on God's heart. I don't take that for granted, and I pray every day that he delivers me from any spirit of error.

Since the beginning of 2024, I have taught almost exclusively on three major revelations. The first was Uncovering the Ancient Snare, a seven-part series which revealed the final warning that God gave his children before they entered the land. This is a picture, a tafnit, warning us that a snare is going to hit when we are standing at the edge of the kingdom.

The Ancient Snare series is difficult to absorb because it is so diabolical, but the ultimate goal of the snare, which has taken place, by the way, was threefold. Number one, to turn our world into the days of Noah, which Jesus said would come. Number two, to anger God so much if we fell into this snare that he would have to turn against us. And number three, to try to disqualify us from entering the kingdom.

Sadly, research shows that millions of God-fearing Christians and Jews fell into this snare, so what I've been doing all year is warning Christians about it and teaching how to get untangled and healed so we can help others. The second teaching emphasis last year was the revelation that 2020 marked the beginning of the final week of the church age, ending with the Rapture of the church less than two years away.

This series follows an outline that Jesus gave us, which shows step-by-step what we will go through year-by-year leading up to the Rapture. My latest three-part teaching is called Prepare for the Rapture, and judging from the big response in downloads and streams, people are hungry to hear that the Lord is saying, wake up, I'm coming for you soon.

As I was reviewing last year's dreams, I looked for three things. Number one, to find confirmation and encouragement that I had heard the Lord correctly in what I had been teaching. Number two, to see if I was wrong in my analysis that requires correcting. And number three, to identify additional warnings he wanted me to see and share with you.

Overall, in 2024, I had eighty-one dreams. Thirty percent of them I classified as words of knowledge, which is one of the spiritual gifts mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12, whereby God gives supernatural wisdom or knowledge about a specific situation. Twenty-six percent were warning dreams, and nineteen percent had to do with my calling and changes that I need to make in 2025.

Let me share a few key dreams with you. Dream number one was on January 3rd, the first dream in my 2024 folder. Here's what I wrote in my journal: "This was a long, strange dream where a group of people whose faith I do not recognize is coming to the forefront and their leader is becoming known. The dream was dark, the action taking place in the shadows. My sense was their path had been prearranged and timed perfectly. It was like they were moving on foot in a caravan, maneuvering in the shadows where only the inner circle knew what was going on."

Typically, if someone dreams in black or white or dark, it is not a good sign. So I had to examine what I had been doing the night before. This was not a good dream, so you always want to check and make sure you haven't done something that would open a door to unclean spirits. I wrote down that I had been working on my dream review for 2023, which meant that I had been in the Lord's presence going over what I was shown the year before.

I next began writing down impressions while watching these shadowy figures move as one behind the scenes. I sensed that this was some sort of marriage ceremony taking place between a bride and groom, but again, I noted there was no biblical imagery that I recognized. And I titled the dream Strange Religion Getting Into Position. At the time, quite frankly, the dream didn't mean anything to me, so I let it go.

However, I noted that ten months later, in mid-October, I added this to the dream's notes: "I just looked again at this dream and we are weeks away from the election. There have been three assassination attempts on Trump's life. If he wins and anything were to happen to him, J.D. Vance would become our president. God forbid, if that were the case, this dream would make sense because Vance is married to a practicing Hindu."

Marriage has brought the Hindu God to the forefront, opening the door to its influence into the leadership of our country. A further warning to those of us whose God is the God of Israel. Besides Vance, there are three other Hindus aligned with this administration: Kash Patel, Harmeet Dhillon as assistant attorney general, and Kush Desai, deputy press secretary.

God blessed this nation because we honored him as the Lord, and we became a place of refuge for Israel who fled Nazi Germany. Now, however, we have taken the Lord God out of our government and brought in others who worship another god. And this is exactly what I saw, a shift of power maneuvering in the shadows, getting into position as prearranged.

As more Hindus rise to power, this principality strengthens, opening a floodgate for that belief system to take hold in the United States. This is what happened to Israel when it allowed Hellenism to have power over those whose God was the Lord. The country was taken over, and God's people lost the right to steward their land as he intended.

Dream number two was titled Danger of Levites in my Home. This was both a warning dream and a confirmation. Now, the title itself is strange because Levites typically live so close to the Lord that they would not pose a danger to your home. On the contrary, their presence would bless it. But in the dream, a ministry colleague and her group were invited into my home, and unbeknownst to me, the next morning the wedding ring I had left on the kitchen counter was missing.

I knew someone from her group had taken it because they were the only ones there besides me. I still didn't get the meaning of the dream, so I considered what had been going on before having the dream. And then it hit me. I had gotten a letter asking for donations for an event that this ministry was raising money for. I had supported them many times, but last year I felt a check in my spirit.

I knew she had taken the vaccine, as most likely others in her group had done as well. I had also just written the episode Post-Pandemic Implications for Ministers, and because of what I knew concerning the vaccine's contents, I felt that supporting them would compromise the integrity of what I had been teaching. I struggled over what to do. One part of me said, you can't control what other people do, you know they love the Lord.

The other voice said, you have just gone public teaching about the dangers of the vaccine and now you're thinking about financially supporting a ministry initiative whereby every one of them could be ministering before the Lord in a defiled state? Now, I have learned that whenever I am not at peace about something, I stop right there and I wait for clarity. I had asked the Lord for confirmation about not sending a donation.

The dream now proved to be both a confirmation as well as a warning. Now, you may disagree with this, but the lesson that came through loud and clear to me was this: do not allow those who have taken the vaccine to come into your space, for it opens the door to a danger that something precious and irreplaceable could be taken from you without your knowledge.

Now, this may seem a harsh response because to most believers, taking the vaccine was a personal one-time decision. It's over, done, get on with your life already. However, the Torah teaches that if we ingest foreign material into our bodies dedicated to another god, whether it is food grown in a country which worships another god or a blood gene from Satan himself, in either case, our bodies become polluted and defiled.

The Levitical admonition is to stay away from anyone who is biblically unclean. I believe this warning may refer to the concept of shedding, which frankly I do not have time to research in depth, but I have noticed that since the pandemic, I have not felt comfortable being in close proximity to those who have had the vaccine. Now, keep in mind, I identify as a Levite, and I protect the sanctity of my space so that I can live out my calling.

This is very similar to the days of Noah in that there came a time when God told Noah very clearly to separate himself and his family from those they used to associate with. I took heed to what I heard in this dream and did not donate to the group and have stayed away from many that I used to associate with. This dream also relates to something that happened historically at the end of Day 4.

As you may know, one of my key teachings is the Seven-Day Plan of God, which refers to the teaching in Genesis 1 that God gave mankind six days on this earth. After that comes Day 7, which is the Day of the Lord and lasts a thousand years. Now, the sages divide these six days or six thousand years into three separate eras lasting two thousand years each.

First came the Era of the Patriarchs, the two-thousand-year period from Adam to Abraham. Next came the Era of the Torah from Abraham to Jesus, whose crucifixion kicked off what the Talmud refers to as the Era of Messiah, which we are living in now, commonly called the church age. Now, what I want to point out is that what happened at the very end of the first two eras seems to be repeating itself now in our era, whereby God is separating those who follow his ways from those who are defiled.

Let me show you. At the end of the Era of the Patriarchs, we had two purging periods whereby one people group was separated from another. First came the Flood, where eight people were suddenly removed from the seven hundred thousand who died. Next came the Tower of Babel incident, followed by what's called the Dispersion, when God destroyed two-thirds of all mankind who went to war against him and spared the one-third who remained to colonize and repopulate the earth.

At the end of the Era of the Torah, there was another sifting among the people of God. The majority of Jews in Jesus' day were lured away by Hellenism and lived like Gentiles. The group that rejected Hellenism and remained true to the Lord were called the Maccabees. These families of godly priests were obsessed with cleansing the temple from the pollutions of Rome being brought into God's sanctuary.

So what's happening now seems to be the same thing. The majority of Jews live like Gentiles and Israel is one hundred percent vaccinated. As to Christians, a large percentage of ministers took the vaccine, many even received money from the government and used their churches to administer the vaccine to their people. They polluted themselves, and modern-day Maccabees are now separating ourselves from them.

As we read in Ecclesiastes 1:9, "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done." Interestingly, in 2024, two other dreams dealt with this same issue, instructing me to expose the vaccine danger and send my findings to two high-level ministry leaders, both of whom had taken the vaccine. In one of those dreams, I saw one of these leaders arguing with the Lord for taking my side in this issue.

That dream was a very personal confirmation that the Father had my back and would protect me from those who might accuse me of teaching falsely. I identify as a modern-day Maccabee exposing today's pollutions that are defiling God's people. Dream number three was a vision I saw during a nap after uploading the episode I've Heard the Spirit of Elijah.

It concerns the last thing that Moses said to his people before leaving this earth as a witness against them. In Deuteronomy 32:29 we read, "They are a nation void of counsel. Oh, that they were wise, that they would consider their latter end." What Moses said was that in the latter days, Israel would be unable to discern the times correctly. I woke up from the nap and I drew the image I saw.

It was a cross-section of a piece of land. Below the surface, about ten feet deep, was a dog. The dog was sitting on its haunches with its mouth pointed upward toward a tiny opening above ground, waiting for a single drop of water to trickle down. The land above was parched and barren. And next to the water drops, I saw Hebrew letters that were barely visible, arranged in two columns like the Ten Commandments.

The dog knew instinctively to position himself and remain there. His life depended on whatever drop of water might fall. Here are the five takeaways I took from this dream. Number one: at the end of days, no one will be able to roam free anymore. Life will move underground because it is simply not safe. Number two: by God's grace, the ground will provide pockets of life-giving water, but the water will be scarce and come only in drops.

Number three: a dog is often viewed in Scripture as a figure of insignificance, and yet the dog was seen as waiting patiently for even a single drop. I believe this relates to believers who will be equally as desperate for the water of the Word. They will be viewed as insignificant to the world, but the Father records in his book of remembrance those who seek after him in this way.

Number four: this is no ordinary water. It is the Torah and is the only thing that will sustain us in this season. Only those who are underground away from others will be poised to receive it. And number five: the dog was postured to receive. He was looking up, mouth open and desperate, realizing there is no one but God.

Now, before closing, I want to share something I learned during Torah study a few weeks ago. I have to say first of all that the amount of revelation that I've been receiving on the Sabbath is overwhelming. I am seeing things I've never seen before. It is both exciting and exhausting, for I feel such a burden to write and produce more podcasts while I am able.

To be honest, my close friends try to get me to take a break because they see I'm working day and night, not sleeping well, up in the middle of the night to write and record. But the Lord Jesus said in Mark 4, "Take heed to what you hear." Now, I thought this meant a little bit of revelation here and there, not a torrential outpouring of revelatory water.

The other day while reading in Exodus about our forefathers' introduction to living in the wilderness, a revelation hit me like a ton of bricks. The Lord instructed his people to collect twice as much manna on the sixth day. Why? Because he would provide nothing on day seven. I believe this applies to now. We are living during day six, right?

So the admonition is to gather more bread that comes from heaven because very soon nothing will come. I realized that God is providing this revelatory flow now to sustain us during times of spiritual drought. We will survive because we gathered all that he provided in day six. I felt a burst of excitement realizing that I have taken the time to memorialize the things he has taught me in the Torah on this sixth day.

I have four three-ring binders filled with one hundred and fifteen scripts that will sustain me every day during the season of drought on day seven. This dream was not only affirmation for me personally, but it is a word of wisdom for you to collect and gather up those things that he has been teaching you. The Lord is saying a severe spiritual drought is coming.

I've noticed that some of my listeners download every one of my podcasts. Why? I don't know exactly, but I'd like to think perhaps they are storing these teachings on the Torah in case our communication grid goes down and we have no internet access. I encourage you to store up solid teaching from teachers you respect for the time when the spiritual cupboard is bare.

Write down those things the Father is speaking to you about. A journal is a great way to feed your spirit in dark times. I invite you to check out my online store and consider downloading the monographs that I've written to prepare you for this coming drought. This is the time to gather your manna.

You'll find this episode, A Seer's Review of 2024 Dreams, Part 1, at candacelong.com/podcast. When you click on the title, you'll find links to the resources that I've mentioned. I want to thank you for being with me. Join me next time for Part 2. I'm Candace Long and you've been listening to Lessons in the Ladder Days. God bless.