– Chapter 6 –
Two Turkey’s
The Nature and the Price of Folly
October 1995
Among the countless dreams I’ve had over a span of 50 years, there were some that spoke of the failure of man to acknowledge God’s holy lordship, leaving the apparent attractions of evil without check. The following dream is one of those.
I Had a Dream of a turkey just outside my brother Dennis’ bedroom window. It’s feathers were a red and green, like that of Christmas colors. It had a green breast and under carriage. The back of the birds feathers were red. White angels breath trailing like a peacock, and a white Pompom at the top of the head and on top of it’s tail. The colors were like none seen on this earth.
Standing at the end of the garden just outside Debbie’s bedroom window a second turkey. He struts down the road along side the garden joining the other.
Interpretation
One may easily want to interpret these three vibrant colors to be suggesting positive qualities on the color chart, but these colors are clothing turkey’s. Turkey’s are symbolic of fools and foolishness, thus, the colors in this dream represent negative characteristics. They are as follows;
green: (-) envy, jealousy, pride
red: (-) anger, war
white: (-) religious spirit
Green covers the breast area of the turkey suggesting that envy, jealousy, and pride live in the fools heart. His entire top feathers is his armor of anger that he wears as he acts in his foolishness. His ornament of plumes on his head symbolizes his religious spirit and pompousness, while his peacock-like tail expanded in display like a fan is symbolic of his arrogance and pride as he struts ostentatiously through life.
Focus of Dream
The focus of the dream is the fools traits. Fools are those who lack true wisdom. They are described as contentious, corrupt, hypocritical, materialistic, mischievous, quarrelsome, mocking, self-confident, self-righteous, self-sufficient, and slandering. They deny God, hate knowledge, and mock at sin. They cannot attain to wisdom because they cannot recognize the source–the fear of the Lord.
Deviating from God’s Design
Sin includes any thought, motive, attitude or action that deviates from God’s design for peaceful, harmonious, loving, responsible human living. Sin always lives in the heart first, and is inevitably expressed by the whole person, including, the physical actions of the body.
Obsessed with self, we live as though God does not exist. A widely acclaimed scholarly study of American life concluded that most people speak positively of religion, but their lives are guided, not by God, but by “the drive for personal success” and by “vivid personal feeling.” God is tolerated, but only when He is bland enough to pose no threat or challenge to our goals of the good life and good feelings.
We are designed by God as active, desiring, responsible, choosing beings. We are also designed to respond when influenced or acted upon. Yet, because we’re born with this tendency to sin, our actions and responses are often sinful.
Sphere of Dream
Each turkey is first seen just outside the individuals bedroom window suggesting an intimate association with that person. Intimate, pointing to being closely acquainted; familiar with.
As the one turkey comes down along side the other is not necessarily in agreement with the one, but having issues of the heart that still displease God. Thus, the sphere of the dream is the influence such an individual has to affect events and developments though it has no formal authority.
The Nature and the Price of Folly
Folly is a lack of good sense. It is prominent in the group of sayings in the book of Proverbs. It is promiscuous in its interests, has difficulty in keeping its mouth shut, insisting on making decisions on its own, and prefers talking to listening. Contrary to the fool is the man who tells the truth, speaks gently, thinks before he talks, and listens carefully to others. There is no book in the Bible, or elsewhere to be found, that equals Proverbs in clear, consistent teaching about good relationships between people. Unrestrained anger, hasty words, personal pride, dishonesty, envy, and a host of other harmful attributes are mentioned as sources of tension in relationships.
Those who misuse wisdom are regarded as foolish and are characterized by being destructive, despicable, and disappointing.
Folly brings trouble to the family, and pain and loss
to the people affected by those decisions.
In 2009 God would appoint me with a commission to my family;
They forsake the law when they praise the wicked,
but such as keep the law contend with them, therefore,
Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets
so that a messenger may run to deliver the message and
read it to those to whom he has been sent. For the revelation awaits
an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay.
(Habakkuk 2:2, 3; Proverbs 28:4)
