THE AMPUTEES

Recently I had a dream that was vivid and very alarming. It was like a horror scene of every unthinkable and grotesque thing you can imagine. I was in a place (not sure what to call it) but it is a place where we go after death. After the death of our body, our soul lives on in a world beyond the physical world. Paul, an apostle, wrote, “For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Whatever that might mean…who knows? Absent here…present there.

What I saw was thousands and thousands of people who were amputees. Almost every person had an arm missing, a hand, a foot and some with an eye or two missing. All were limping, struggling, helping one another along with crutches, and braces. Some had no lips, fingers, nose, arms or legs. Not like leprosy but like amputations. There was a person like a guide showing me this scene and I asked what it was. The guide said they were all those that Jesus mentioned in the Gospels when he said, “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.” In another text he adds “the foot” as well as the hand and eye. As quickly as I saw and heard this I could see this crowd crossing through a small shallow stream and as soon as they were across their bodies were all made completely whole again. The guide said, “These are the ones who took holiness seriously.”

I was wide-awake…end of dream.
(Matthew 5:29-30, Matthew 18:8-9, Mark 9:43-47)

One commentator on these verses wrote, “Pluck it out” … It cannot be supposed that Christ intended this to be taken literally. His design was to teach that the dearest objects, if they cause us to sin, are to be abandoned; that by all sacrifices and self-denials we must overcome the evil propensities of our nature, and resist our wanton imaginations.”
“And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.” Jesus