A Dream Revisited, Part 2
One of our Give Him 15 listeners reminded me of a significant dream given to our friend, Gina Gholston in 2022. It is very relevant for now. I mentioned the dream yesterday and will do so again today. In the dream, demons were destroying the roots of a huge tree on a hill. The tree represented America. The demonic actions were exposed and the tree was saved. Here is the fascinating and important dream again:
“I dreamed I was with several prayer leaders, including Dutch Sheets. We were walking through a field with tall grass and noticed a hill ahead of us. This caught our attention because it was the only hill around us. The rest of the land was a level, grassy field.
“On top of a hill was a huge, very old, beautiful tree. We were so captivated by this tree that we decided to climb the hill to get closer. The tree was the only thing on the hill, and the canopy was so large that the shade from it covered the entire hill. The ground around the tree was level, and the grass was tall and thick, much like the field we had just left.
“We were in awe of this beautiful tree, amazed at the size of the trunk and the massive expanse of its canopy. As we all walked around it, looking up into the branches of the tree, someone tripped over what appeared to be a root protruding out of the ground. Then, all of a sudden, these ‘roots’ appeared everywhere. Where there had once been tall, thick grass, there was none. Now, only the roots that had not been there when we first came to the tree, were lying everywhere on top of the ground.
“We were all very puzzled by this, so I walked over and looked more closely at one of the ‘roots.’ I could see that it was moving! This had not been obvious until I looked more closely. I motioned for my assistant, Darlene, to join me and whispered to her, ‘Watch this!’ And we both could clearly see this ‘root’ was moving.
“I walked over to Dutch and said, ‘Dutch, these are not roots; these are the backbones of demons. They’re alive, and they are eating the root system of this beautiful tree.’ The demons didn’t realize we could see them, but with their backbones exposed, we could see their movements.
“By this time, others had joined us, and I asked, still whispering, ‘What do we do about this?’
“Dutch responded, ‘I know what to do about it!’
“He then walked away for a moment, and came back carrying a perfectly carved wooden staff.
“Someone asked, ‘What is that?’
“I said, ‘This is a staff that has been carved from an old tamarisk tree. Tamarisks are evergreens.’
“Dutch nodded his head ‘Yes’; then handed the staff to me, and I walked over to one of the demon’s backbones. I struck it with the tamarisk staff, and when I did, the demon vanished. I could actually hear the sound, ‘poof,’ and it was gone. I began walking from ‘root’ to ‘root’, striking them with the tamarisk staff. Then, somehow, all of the other people with me had staffs, also carved from tamarisk evergreens. They, too, were using their staffs to destroy the demons. Together, we destroyed every demon and saved the tree.”
End of dream.
INTERPRETATION
I pointed out in yesterday’s post that the tree represents America. Demonic plans and strategies were being “uncovered” and destroyed. This is most certainly what is occurring in America today. It is safe to say that there has never been a season in America’s history where as much corruption in government has been uncovered. The past four years have been one continuous exposing of evil and corruption. And now the shocking revelations have hit warp speed. Americans will ultimately be shown that their corrupt government has wasted trillions of their hard-earned dollars for illegitimate causes.
In the dream, the power to stop the demonic destruction came from staffs made of tamarisk wood. The tamarisk tree was significant in the life of Abraham. “Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God” (Genesis 21:33; NASB). Tamarisks are evergreens and for millennia evergreens have symbolized covenant. I write about this in my book, An Appeal To Heaven.(1)
The tamarisk evergreen tree Abraham planted symbolized his covenant with Yahweh. Many believe, myself included, that the evergreen tree placed on the Appeal To Heaven flag also represented covenant. And in a dream I was given in 2007, evergreen trees certainly represented covenant – and became a weapon. With special boxing gloves, one of which had the word “Evergreen” imprinted on it, I knocked out five giants. And in Gina’s dream, demons trying to destroy America were defeated with staffs made of tamarisk evergreens. The dream was clearly telling us that America’s covenant alliance with God is a “weapon” we must use to save her (the tree).
MORE ABOUT THE TAMARISK TREE
The tamarisk evergreen tree, chosen by Abraham to represent his covenant with God, has several unique features that are symbolic of our covenant connection to God. They are wonderful shade trees and live hundreds of years. However, tamarisks are also slow-growing. They grow only an inch per year, taking 400 years to reach their full height. “Because the tree is so slow growing, no one would plant a tamarisk for him or herself; he or she would never personally benefit from it. When planting this slow-growing, long-living, covenantal tree, Abraham was thinking of his descendants. Future generations! He was making a powerful declaration that would endure for generations, ‘I am in covenant with Everlasting God, and you will sit under the shade of my everlasting covenant with Him.’”(2) Amazing!
The magnificent tree representing America in the dream was also producing great shade. America’s Founders planted an incredible “shade tree” for future generations, saying through their actions - just as Abraham did to the generations following him - “You will sit under the shade of our covenant with God.” Our forefathers formed a nation under God, a land in covenant with Him, one that could endure. America has been incredibly blessed because of her partnership with Yahweh. Millions of people here and around the world have enjoyed the “shade” of these covenant blessings. We must save the shade tree called America for our children, grandchildren, and yes, for the world.
Our war for America is truly spiritual, not just ideological. America was called to be “a shining light, a city on a hill.” She was called to take the gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth. This is what we are warring for.
As America returns to her covenant roots, she will prosper once again. We, the praying church, must facilitate this by understanding and releasing the power of our covenant with God, symbolized by the tamarisk tree staffs. One of the ways we can release this power is by decreeing covenantal declarations and writings of our Founders. Let’s do so today, striking the enemy with the “tamarisk” staff.
Pray and decree with me:
We decree that:
America was raised up by God to be a city on a hill, a beacon of light to all nations.
America was called to preach the gospel of the Kingdom to all nations of the earth, and to serve all nations.
America is “one nation, under God.” We have put our trust in Him and no other. We have no king but Jesus.
The phrases “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” an appeal to the “Supreme Judge of the world,” “the Creator,” and “divine Providence” are all in our Declaration of Independence. We decree that this legal document gives us authority still today. We declare into the atmosphere of America that our faith is still in this God!
Leviticus 25:10 is on the Liberty Bell: “Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof.” This verse, referencing Christ as the world’s
Redeemer, was announced at our birth through the ringing of the bell, proclaiming both our faith in Christ and our destiny. We declare its message over America again today: Christ is our Redeemer! Proclaiming His message is our purpose!
Yahweh is our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King (Isaiah 33:22), and that our three branches of government were formed according to heaven’s pattern and under His rule! Our government will return to this!
God had a plan for our restoration before we even rebelled against Him! The Lord’s redeeming power is greater than satan’s deceiving lies, and His truth will prevail!
AMERICA SHALL BE SAVED!!!
You can find out more about Gina at GinaGholstonMinistries.org.
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“Always maintaining green leaves or needles, depending on the tree, evergreen trees have symbolized eternity as far back as Abraham. This symbolism was sometimes expanded to include an everlasting or lifelong commitment to a covenant. At the time of our nation’s founding, evergreens carried this significance to the Iroquois Native American nation. At a significant time in their history, a great leader united five native tribes (with a later addition of a sixth), establishing a confederacy among them. According to the Iroquois Constitution, the covenant began with the planting of the ‘Tree of Peace.’ Their peace treaty and everlasting covenant were then sealed by the symbolic act of burying weapons underneath a great evergreen tree. Some historians believe this covenantal ceremony is where we get the phrase, ‘bury the hatchet.’” Taken from my book An Appeal to Heaven, (Dallas, TX: Dutch Sheets Ministries, Inc., 2015), p. 47.
Ibid. p. 51.
I learn so much from GH15. Thank you so much for the consistency and faithfulness since 2020. May the Lord continue to bless this Ministry and save America and through America the world!
PS: the word “staff” cannot be pluralized. It is understand as pleural or singular depending on the context.
As America is saved, she draws the interest of the world and the God that planted her.