There’s a published article over on the Assemblies of God News website from back in May 2023 that is getting attention now concerning the number of Muslims being converted in Muslim-controlled countries due to the dreams they are having of Jesus.
In fact, a recent video has popped up over on YouTube dealing with the same subject, except from a Roman Catholic point-of-view.
This is nothing new, thought, as I remember only a few short years ago that an acquaintance of mine while at Biola University, Nabeel Qureshi (now deceased), attributed his conversion to Christianity from Islam on a similar experience.
The biggest problem I have with the whole Muslim dream testimony is that none of it has any biblical support whatsoever.
Taken from the AG website. What is with the beads in her hands?
Instead, personal experience has replaced what the Bible says about the conversion event, which starts with the drawing of the person by God to confess Jesus Christ as Lord (see John 6:44; 65 cf. Rom. 10:9).
If you take the time to read the AG article, it is completely reliant on the the personal testimonies of those Muslims who were supposedly visited in one way or another by Jesus, while they were in an altered state of consciousness.
Some even assumed that the devil might be playing tricks on them, which is also a common belief in Islam, as some evil jinn or genies were believed to influence Muslims to disbelieve or to engage in mischief themselves.((Sahih Muslim 1.483; Maulana Muhammad Ali, The Religion of Islam, p. 133; Paul Derengowski, Muhammad and Joseph Smith, Jr., 32, 34-35, 38.))
Whatever the case, personal experience does not trump God’s special revelation, especially when the experience contradicts it.
Given the charismania within the Assemblies of God, it comes with the territory that the seemingly supernatural would, in fact, be real.
The same would apply to Roman Catholicism’s reliance upon tradition, rather than revelation.
But, the bottom line is, there is no biblical precedent that states that Jesus is leaving his throne to do what he has commissioned Christians to do.
Instead, what we are seeing more and more of are what the apostle Paul wrote about in his second letter to Timothy, when he stated: For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths” (2 Tim. 4:3-4).
And in the case of Muslims suddenly seeing images of Jesus—when there is not even picture, etching, or drawing of what Jesus even looked like—it is all a part of an occultic “myth” that many are falling for and certain religious entities are propagating.
It’s not that God is no longer converting souls and working the miraculous or that the so-called experiences are unreal.
It’s that when God does either, it is in conformity and continuity with what He has revealed and not contrary to it, and that the experiences are more inline with demonic trickery than biblical testimony.
