Resurrecting The Covenant

8/19/21

I was given another dream by God ripe with the symbolism of covenants.  In my prayer time before bed, I received a scripture address: “For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you.  You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new.” (Leviticus 26:9-10). This verse was helpful in understanding the dream I received thereafter.  I call the dream: “Resurrecting the Covenant”. 

I was in the kitchen of my house, Taunya (my former boss and symbolic of my 2007 Covenant) visited with her dog, Tetley (who passed away years earlier).  In the dream, I had just resurrected Bahia (my beloved female dog who died in 2002) by blowing into her nostrils.  I saw the casket she was buried in but then, miraculously she was alive again.  She was playing with Tetley.  I was in awe that they were both alive again.

Taunya walked briskly outdoors onto the patio where my pool is situated.  She did not say a word to me.  I followed.  We looked at a huge garden in the place where the pool was supposed to be located.  An enormous bounty of vegetables was growing.  In addition, I saw a large white rabbit with massive eyes in the garden. I kept thinking how miraculous it was that I resurrected Bahia from the dead.  I awoke to a song by Natalie Grant titled “Your Great Name”, verse two: 

As I contemplated the dream in prayer, my bible fell open to a page explaining covenants (hint number one)!  At this point, it would be good to clarify the symbolism of the dream.  The front patio is where my pool is located in reality and the location symbolically indicates near future or present tense.  If it were in the back of my house, it would represent behind, in other words, the past.

Garden is a field of labor and found where the pool (indicative of a spiritual place) is supposed to be represents a spiritual effort.  Vegetables are the fruit of one’s labor.  Interesting, I built my pool a few months after I wrote the 2007 covenant. 

A rabbit (white is suggestive of righteous or pure) exemplifies fast increase or multiplication and eyes are related to desire.  The rabbit’s eyes were very big; meaning a large desire for a speedy fulfillment to the covenant.  Most likely, God’s eyes looking upon our agreement to bring it to pass.  As I mentioned before He is always watching over His word to perform it.

To continue with the interpretation of the dream, in my mind resurrection is a miracle, a second chance, rebirth and new life.  A pet (Bahia) is something precious, I have resurrected something precious?  What are more precious to me than the promises of God?  I believe the Lord was showing me that by rerecording the 2007 covenant on this website was like resurrecting the promises He and I made to one another years prior.  The empty casket to mean I unburied the promises, resurrected them (dug them up) and brought them back to life.  The fulfillment of those promises as implied by the abundant garden is near or at hand.  I might add, ready to be harvested. 

But why did the Lord use Bahia as a symbol besides being a precious pet?  It dawned on me that Bahia represents a miracle in my life, as she was miraculously returned to us after being stolen in 1991.  I recount the story of Bahia’s miraculous return on pages 21-22 of My Sister’s Walk with God.  Hence, by using her in my dream meant that the miraculous is possible.  But not just possible, probable and on its way, soon to be revealed.

Also, the verse I was given prior to the dream helped me understand the meaning.  Here it is again: “For I will look on you (the rabbit’s eyes) favorably and make you fruitful (the garden), multiply you (the rabbit) and confirm My covenant (represented by Taunya) with you.  You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new (this could be characterized by my pool being replaced by the garden).” (Leviticus 26:9-10). 

The old harvest is the unfulfilled promise for my former church (symbolized by my pool or former place of spiritual activity) as documented in My Sister’s Walk with God, Chapter Nine.  And the new harvest I see as the great revival that is on its way, in addition to the promise of my physical healing.