In the dream I was in a country where a Muslim group were starting at a grassroots level, they began to consolidate and coordinate power. They were then going around searching for Christians... They started visiting houses from door to door searching them out, treating them as sub-human. They pulled them from their homes with evil intent (the dream didn't say what exactly) In their mind having 'the right' to interrogate them. They did this by power of fear, intimidation (not of just the individual group but the larger movement/group in general) they ratted out these individuals or families from their homes. They were mostly individuals though because they were each in hiding after being scattered of sorts.
At one stage I was in one of these neighbourhoods having the sense that this was happening from door to door around me and I knew that I would be next. I knew they were coming soon and the night before they did come I slept peacefully, sleeping in the peace of God.
The next day they came for me.. I remember being at the doorway of the house I was bunkering in and before being taken away I looked at my sister and told her that I loved her - my voice broke with sorrow as I did so as I had no idea what they were going to do with me next or if I would ever see her again. I doubted I would.
The dream changed after this 'rounding up', this establishment of 'their voice' (about what was acceptable and what wasn't in this neighbourhood or part of the country). The dream was in Australia now. The leaders of this evil group began to expound upon what they deemed as right and acceptable and what would not be tolerated. Even though this group was vastly outnumbered by the citizens around them the majority all said in loud unison, 'sorry' at this evil group. I was enraged! and it seemed like I was the only one. Who were these people installing on us their beliefs and doing it so with a fearful and bloody hand, no questions asked?? There should have been an uprising, people being incensed that their rights, freedoms and very choices were being taken away from them.
I have felt (although in no way comparing it to the real life situation) that I have a detached sense of what is going on right now in other parts of the world, some idea of what thousands are going through right now. Where Christians such as myself are literally being hunted down and rounded up and slaughtered, for no other reason than being Christian. Much like the Jews of WWII, who were rounded up and slaughtered in similar fashion for no other reason than being Jewish.
It wasn't a pleasant feeling knowing that there is an evil out there in your immediate vicinity, growing momentum, one that is totally intolerant and unyielding in its goals. One that is seeking you out as an individual, heard you then parade you as some sort of sub-par criminal for no other reason than identifying yourself to be associated with or following Christ.
Instead of Nazism it was now being a Muslim brand of evil. Different brand, same evil spirit behind it. My heart goes out to the thousands slaughtered, dispelled or on the run in the middle east right now because of the undeniably evil Islamic group ISIS. And if I was living there, I WOULD be one of these people. The only reason I'm not being herded up, killed or beheaded RIGHT NOW is one of location. That is a very sobering thought for all if us. That could very well be us but due to the fact we were born here it is not.
We have to pray for these people in the Middle East, not only the Christians but all the minority groups that are being persecuted and killed. Even if our prayer is to simply weep for the dead we don't even know and to ask God to begin to turn back this tide of evil that is now sweeping parts of the world and now actually horrifically seeping into our own.
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.
John 15:18-20
In fact, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution
2 Timothy 3:12
Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.
Luke 6:22
