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In the Old Testament, the prophet Joel writes in Joel 2:28-32 wrote, “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit. And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes”.

In the New Testament, the apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13:8-12, “Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known”. So yes, God still communicates through dreams and visions. However, that doesn’t mean that every dream and vision comes from God. Zechariah 10:2 tells us that there are, “false dreams that give empty consolation”, and 2 Thessalonians 2:8-11 tells us about “the coming of the lawless one”, “by the activity of Satan”, “with all power and false signs and wonders”. The only way we can be sure if a dream, vision or a sign is from God, is if we check it against His Holy Word, the Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16 tells us that the Bible is the very breath of God i.e. God speaking to us, and that we should, “test everything”, and “hold fast what is good” (2 Thessalonians 5:21).