Monday, August 11, 2025

A delayed reaction to Isaiah

I was able to salvage very little of this dream from the evanescence of memory upon waking, but I know that I was reading a text and simultaneously seeing its contents as a movie-like vision. It consisted of three sections. In the first section, Isaiah the Prophet delivered a message in the court of a king. In the third section, the king and his attendants reacted to the message. I can't remember anything about the second section except that it seemed out of place -- like why would this happen between Isaiah's message and the king's reaction? I thought this might mean it was an interpolation in the text, or that the text had been put together out of order.

I remember that Isaiah looked considerably younger than the white-bearded stereotype of an Old Testament prophet. I think the sides of the king's throne were decorated with relief sculptures of winged bulls or something similar.

I can't remember anything about what the message was or how the king reacted, but the Isaiah text that would have been on my mind when I went to bed was Isaiah 59:14, or rather the misquoted version from G's wife's dream, as reported in his post "Pick It Up": "Truth lieth in the streets." G had connected this with Napoleon's famous line, "I found the crown of France lying in the gutter and picked it up," so that might tie in with the king angle.

The concept of a "delayed reaction" to a prophetic message is also a link to G, since he has published several posts with titles like "D&C When Everyone Else is Done," in which he offers "delayed" commentary on sections of scripture several months after those sections have been covered in the standardized CJCLDS Sunday school curriculum.

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A delayed reaction to Isaiah

I was able to salvage very little of this dream from the evanescence of memory upon waking, but I know that I was reading a text and simulta...