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Summary
- Scripture gives no meaning to garbage seen in a dream. It records many dreams but interprets only a few, and always through a named servant for a named purpose.
- Gehenna, the word our Lord used for hell, is Ge-Hinnom — the valley outside Jerusalem where the city’s waste was burned and the fire never quite went out (Mark 9:47-48).
- Paul, writing from prison, counts his lineage and blameless record as garbage “that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:8). The Greek word means scraps thrown to dogs.
- Most of us search this at night because something in us feels like refuse, not because we are curious about waste.
- Scripture’s answer is a pattern: the rejected stone becomes the cornerstone, the spent son is met on the road, the lost sheep is carried home. Nothing God loves is finally thrown away.
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Sources: Scripture quotations and allusions from the NIV via BibleGateway (Mark 9:47-48; Philippians 3:8; Psalm 118:22; Luke 15; Isaiah 61:3); Genesis 41 and Daniel 2 for the interpreted dreams.
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