I was taking a nap on the couch and was just dreaming. I’ll give you the short version, I had a dream that I was working at this clinic and it was kinda run down, we were working for this female psychologist and there were 2 other coworkers and it was all normal, all in color and it felt very real there . It started to go dark when I asked them both how long they had been working there and they started to think they couldn’t remember how long they had been working for her. We were watching this 80’s model tv but then the first girl was like,, I think 6 years? And the other coworker answered, oh yeah me too hmmm like 6 years and then I started to think about how long I had been there and the number 6 came to my head and I realized it made 666

Then I looked at the tv and everything got black and white, the girls did and everything around me. There was a long feather that was in the tv that came floating out of the tv to life, black and white feather and the second it exited the tv it burst into flames.

i realized I was having a nightmare but I couldn’t wake up, I could feel my physical body in the real world and I felt the back of my neck tense up a lot even though I was still asleep I could still feel chills in the back of my physical body. Everything got eerie FAST it all got very weird I started seeing lines flashing on the screen like I was in a scary movie.

So started screaming at the tv to release me in the name of Jesus saying I rebuke you disgusting creatures in the name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. Then I hear a super loud screeching sound very very high pitch like a kettle like it hated what I was saying! Like whatever was attacking me was in pain. Next thing I know I wake up, eyes wide open like an owl and I’m back to reality on my couch.

As Christians we aren’t immune to attacks from the enemy, he loves to come at believers to scare us and make us doubt. As long as we have Jesus and we trust in him we will be taken care of and have nothing to fear. Don’t be afraid of the darkness when the light lives within us.

This day is a reminder, that our final hope and security is not in this world (despite this being easy for me to say living in Europe, while in many parts of the world people brutally suffer like e.g. in often overlooked Sudan), but in Jesus and what out of infinite love he has done for us on the cross and what he will do, when he returns, e.g. bringing justice and saving everyone who believes in him, doing away with everything bad including death, recreation of this world and healing like "wiping away every tear".

Not least to testify about this great hope and because God has not given up on his creation, which has fallen, we are called to do good works here and now, which God has prepared for us, like loving everyone even our enemies and speaking up for and working towards truth and justice, which also includes Israels, Ukraines and Taiwans right to exist and live in peace and everyone everywhere being seen as infinitely valued and worthy of care and treated accordingly.

Edit: Regarding Christianity and politics I find e.g. helpful what Tim Keller said in his keynote address at the 2018 National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast in Westminster Hall, London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkcouxJE6o4