dream

so..  i had a dream the other night.  and im not a big "i had a dream" kinda guy, but i did.  and, well, most of you know my spiritual conviction but im not to say that this was FROM GOD or anything.  But in my dream, I was rather convinced it was...  (when i woke up, i couldnt quite figure it out)..

It was about flags, actually.  And something was showing me flags for the different nations and then talking about how different nations represent darkness with their symbols of moon/stars etc.....          it was interesting.  cuz i woke up and later on went on a flag site and looked at flags of different nations and there's TONS of flags from odd places like Algeria that have crescent moons and stars on it.  But the dream was moreso focused on the moon aspect of the dark, I think, than on the stars.  And when i was flipping through the flags, the crescent moon kept appearing .  have you ever seen saudi arabia's flag?  it says something like "There is only one God and that is Allah and Mohammad is His prophet" in arabic and under that is a sword underlining the sentence.  hardcore!!!!!   and so looking at all these flags, i saw the recurring crescent moon which represents Islam......   interesting interesting interesting.  not that i take any considerable amount of stock in this, because its not like the most oblivious piece of knowledge out there, but it's still interesting.

on a side note, scandanavia is known for it's flags of the cross.  Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, England, etc... all have crosses.  And the Red Cross, yknow, the RED Cross (christian symbolism in case you didnt catch it) actually changed their flag emblem from the red cross to a "red crystal,"  in deferrence to Israel and the other nations who wouldnt be a part of the Red Cross because of its reference to Christ.    The said crystal is actually a diamond shape, but it's vastly interesting to me nonetheless - considering the whole story of Exodus and stuff with the people putting their faith and hope in things like golden calves and little man made statuettes and divination rods and such are closely related to the whole 'crystal' based recurring movements...

If you wanna get insane with it, and im sure no one cares enough to read this far, the tower of Babel from the O.T. bible is thought by some scholars to have been a giant tower (ziggurat)[spiritual high place] with CRYSTALS at the top where the people (as have many many many cultures throughout time) believed these crystals enabled them somehow to kind of pick up transmissions, if you will, from the spirit realm.  Even the Jews own breastplate of the high priest contained 12 different stones, some crystals, and had two special stones the Urrim and the Thummim (even the modern jews have a hard time figuriing out these things) but supposedly theyd ask God a question and he'd answer by lighting one of those two special stones.

So, yeah, crystals are nothing new.  but the difference was that people (for ex. the tower of babel ppl) put their faith in stones and other pieces of creation while the Jews put their faith foremost in the creator and sometimes applied the tools of the creation under authority of the headship of their God.