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Dreaming About Wolves: The Bible Gives It No Meaning — but It Warns About Wolves

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Summary

  • Scripture records no dream of wolves and gives no meaning to one. It keeps no dream dictionary.
  • In daylight the wolf appears repeatedly, always as danger to the flock — and almost always danger from inside.
  • “They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves” (Matthew 7:15). Paul warns the Ephesian elders that “savage wolves will come in among you” (Acts 20:29).
  • John 10 gives a test rather than a warning: the hired hand is not wicked, only employed, and he runs when the wolf comes. What someone does when it becomes expensive is the test.
  • Isaiah’s final word is not extermination but peace: “The wolf will live with the lamb… and a little child will lead them” (Isaiah 11:6).

Scripture records no dream of wolves, and gives no meaning to one. But of all the animals someone might see in the night, this is the one the Bible has most to say about — and what it says is specific, uncomfortable, and finally very hopeful. Does the Bible interpret dreams about wolves? It does not. Scripture records many dreams and interprets only a handful, each meaning given by God through a named servant, for one person, about one matter.…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Matthew 7:15; Acts 20:29; John 10:11-13; Isaiah 11:6).

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