"Like grapes in the wilderness I found Israel. Like the first fruit on the fig tree in its first season... Ephraim's glory shall fly away like a bird - no birth, no pregnancy, no conception!... Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts... Ephraim is stricken; their root is dried up; they shall bear no fruit."
What does those verses tell us? God used several metaphors for Israel! Israel is being compared to grapes, fig tree, bird, root, and a mother! "No birth, no pregnancy, no conception!" Does it means Israel cannot have a baby? I don't think so. The Bible often use motherhood to represent Israel's growth. Israel's dream. I don't know if you are laboring with God-given dreams. God may put a seed into your dream-womb. Their promise land isn't like a promise land to them no more for they had a miscarrying womb. God once gave Mary a God-seed into her womb. Maybe God is giving you a God-seed dream into your dream-womb, but is your heart in the right place like Mary's?
Sometimes God's message can be like a multi-dimension metaphors or parables if you'd like. Jesus told us many parables, but why did he show us multi-dimension metaphors instead of straight talk? Jesus answered, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables, so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.'" Let's turn back to the book of Hosea 10:4, "so judgement springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field."
Through the multi-dimension metaphors, God will be able to weave our minds around His mind by teaching us through our dimension and then He will pull our dimension into His dimension. Just like how He pulled King David's dimension into His dimension. David once thought that it is allright to send Uriah into a death trap, so he may get away with what he did with Bathsheba and marry her to clean up his act. So God sent the prophet Nathan to tell him His parable in David's dimension, a story of a wealthy and poor shepherd. Then God used Nathan to pull David's dimension into His by simply saying, "You are the man!" So David was ready to "turn and be forgiven". This parable turned into a straight talk because God knew that David was ready to "turn and be forgiven", so the Spirit led Nathan to tell David, "You are the man!" David was strong enough to receive the straight talk, so God's judgement wasn't like a poisonious weeds for David.
For this reason, God is telling us not to judge others, but to correct others' dimensions through God's breathing scriptures. We cannot tell the others, "you have to read this or that," but to sit beside the others and show them how to read and allow God to direct them to read this or that. We also sit beside them and show them the correct dimension of hearing God's voice and allow God to judge them according to His knowledge, only He knew when the time is right for His parables to be turned into a straight talk. God, our Father, knew when to start feeding us the solid food.
Maybe you've been hearing a lot of parables from your pastors, in your dreams, in your visions, from your friends, from prophets, or wherever those parables came from. Let us ask Him to prepare our heart for His straight talk so that we may turn and be forgiven! So that we may carry God-seed dream in our dream-womb!
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