dispensation there is a strong presumption against their use as means of for telling the future. Even in the Old Testament the greater number of predictive dreams were given to those outside the Jewish covenant. If given to God’s servants, they were given to them, as a rule, in the period of their earliest and most imperfect knowledge of Him.1 In the New Testament, often as we read of ecstasies and visions, dreams are never mentioned as a vehicle of revelation, and they rarely occur in the lives