Our protagonist has yet another prophetic dream, this time a “forthtelling” (revealing present but hidden truths) rather than a “foretelling” (revealing future events) dream, as she did last time (to use two theological terms). In this third dream sequence, God symbolically reminds her of the nature of the true path of all Christians: that they must follow in Christ’s own troubled and weary footsteps on His way to Calvary, and that all must “take up the cross and follow” Him. The dream conjures up a physical manifestation of that admonition by Jesus to His hearers in Matthew 16:24.
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Tags: attack, Christ's cross, count the cost, demon, dream, evil, Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:24, modern opera, prophetic, sacrifice, sad, take up your cross, visions
Sitting straight up in her bed in the dim moonlight, the young woman seems truly overwhelmed by the new combination of her current grief over her brother and the ghastly nature of the images in her recent dreams. She slowly looks downward in sadness, then eventually upward as if to God. Without a word, she somehow finds a small amount of peace — enough to try and go back to sleep and just hope for the best.
After she resumes her sleep, however, the terror returns, but along with a new and much more pointed set of prophetic visions. Suddenly, in the middle of all the action of the people and demons in her dream, everything freezes in time, outside of which we now see the original angel — the one from the very first scene in the opera, the one with the Book. He is again somberly reading the Book. The elements in the scene the young woman dreams are still a bit surreal and proverbial in nature, but one thing she now knows for certain: Her friends are in great danger!
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Tags: angel, Book, chase, damnation, demon, evil, modern opera, nightmare, prophetic, sad, salvation, terror
Our protagonist is plagued with strange, dark and disjointed dreams, which are acted out for us in the vicinity of her bedroom, before she suddenly awakens with a gasp of terror!
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Tags: danger, demon, evil, friends, horror, modern opera, nightmare, prophetic, sad, sleep, tragedy, visions, warning
