I’m walking up to the door of a condominium, where I live. I see some tools sitting by the door, where someone has used them to break in.

Prophetic Insights: This condominium, as I saw it in my dream, was the actual condominium I lived in, in Cape Canaveral, FL while living with my dad and step-mother in my 9th and 10th grade years of school. This home in the dream, represents my spiritual house, my heart, my soul, my spirit, etc. The tools represent the schemes or tools of Satan to break into my spiritual house, and the open door indicates that the break-in has already occurred. As Jesus taught in Matthew 24, I should have been keeping watch over my spiritual house, but failed to do so up to this time, out of sheer ignorance of the real need to do so. Again, this is why the Lord had to start with the very basics of helping me to truly understand spiritual warfare. My house was broken into because I didn’t keep watch. Matthew 24:43 - But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

As I get closer, I can see that the door is standing open about 8 to 12 inches.

Prophetic Insights: I did not leave the door open and I had not left the door unlocked, just allowing anyone or anything to come in. No, the door was locked, but I was not keeping watch and I did not expect a burglar to break into my house in broad daylight. Satan often shows up when we least expect him. The open door indicates their has been a breach in my protective armor and a spiritual break-in has already occurred.

I peak around the open door and see that it’s my neighbor who is a drug addicted junkie. I see what are called CAT5 cables (internet/data cables) connected via splices to my internet jacks. He had removed the wall jack plate and connected his own wires. The wires he connected were running through the living room and out of my sliding glass doors. He was trying to steal my internet connection by hiding the cable under the carpet, so I would never know about it.

Prophetic Insights: The thief comes to steal (John 10:10). The internet connection, which is our main connection to the rest of this world, much of which we cannot even see in actuality, represents my spiritual connection to the kingdom of God. By splicing into my internet connection, he is effectively cutting my data rate in half and dramatically weakening and slowing down my connection through the internet to the rest of the world. Spiritually speaking, many of Satan’s schemes are intended to divert, distract, weaken, or prevent our full spiritual connection to God. One need only think of how often Satan has weakened their prayer time, to understand this picture. The Lord wants us to see that this really does happen. Satan and his fallen evil spirits are real and they are responsible for so many of the maladies we face in this life, which often are left to blamed on natural causes. Satan had effectively broken into my marriage and cut off one half of what God intended me to be in that marriage. By this time, Keri had already been cut off from a true faith in Christ and I was seeing evidence of an evil in her that I had not previously seen. She was so angry with me before I went to the rainforest that she would not even take me to the airport.

Once I realized what he was doing, although it was fearful, I ran courageously straight at him to confront him. I quickly knew this was going to be a dangerous confrontation because he was out of his mind and would not be reasoned with.

Prophetic Insights: We must engage in the spiritual battles. We must forcefully and violently defend our spiritual house and our connection to the kingdom of God and heaven. Matthew 11:12 - From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and violent men take it by force.

I jump on him and we begin wrestling and fighting against each other, moving from the hallway down into the dining area. At some point, I realized this was going to be win or lose for him, and that if he got the chance, he was going to kill me.

Prophetic Insights: The wrestling was severe and violent, again showing the need to violently possess the kingdom of heaven by violently fighting against and keeping evil out of our “house” (Mat 11:12). This also shows us that evil puts up a severe fight which can leave us exhausted and sore. I believe the fact that the battle moved into the dining room also represents that the battle of evil against me/us is not only against our prayer life (the internet connection), but also against our Bible reading, the feeding of our heart, soul, mind, and spirit, on the Word of God (the dining room). These are two vital pillars of the Christian faith which must be protected with violence.

While wrestling, I take one of his screw drivers and start stabbing him over and over and over in the chest, but it doesn’t really seem to do anything to him.  He’s not even really hurt by it, and he has no blood coming out from the puncture wounds.

Prophetic Insights: Although this is a vicious and un-Christlike act being portrayed by me, in the dream, and although as a Christian, whose hope is in heaven, I would rather die, than to kill another person, who doesn’t yet have that hope in Christ, and although I would not likely ever condone this type of defense, except perhaps in the most rare of circumstances, this scene must be understood to be an illustration of a spiritual truth.

This man, my closest neighbor, represents Satan as the nearby thief, who comes to “steal”, then to kill, and to destroy (John 10:10). He is an earthly representation of the power of demons, hence the reason he does not bleed and is not immobilized by my attack in the natural. Demons are not human and cannot be defeated by natural strength or reasoning. The Lord had already told me that day in prayer in the woods behind our home, just days before I left for the rainforest, that He was about to teach me about a part of life that cannot be seen with human eyes, a battle which cannot be won with a positive mental attitude. The Lord was preparing to teach me and to give me a good understanding about spiritual warfare. Ephesians 6:12 - “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Although the stabbings weren’t very effective, and he didn’t seem to be hurt by them at all, I was still strong enough to overpower him and wrestle him to the ground and keep him subdued long enough to call the authorities to have him bound and arrested.  

Prophetic Insights: This shows the need to have existing strength as a Christian, in order to withstand evil’s initial attack, but at the same time, we must be calling on the power of God, and the heavenly authorities, in order to remove that enemy who is too strong for us. Had I not “called on the authorities” this wicked man would have never left, never been hurt, and would have eventually worn me out. This shows our dependence on God for all spiritual warfare. We can put on the full armor and we can fight the good fight, but we also need to call for backup and ask God to subdue and remove our enemy. In this part of the dream, the answered “prayer” or call to the authorities came quickly, but as we mature in our walk, the Lord often allows there to be longer and longer periods of time between our calling for help and our receiving it.  This is for the building us up in Christlike character and as one writer put it, “getting iron into our soul.”  As soon as the the authorities started coming down the hallway to arrest him, the dream changed immediately to part 2. 

I’m now outside by the pool area, enjoying a gorgeous blue-sky day, trying to rest up from that terrible altercation. 

Prophetic Insights: I believed the battle was over and that now I could now just shut my eyes and relax, paying no attention or worries to my previous troubles. After all, my attacker was now in the possession of the authorities.  I was totally unaware that another battle was coming for me almost immediately, much less an ever bigger one after that.  When you are truly following Christ and doing His will, you will find that although there are times of rest and peace, unfortunately as long as we are still in these bodies, and in this life, we must not let down our guard, as Christians.  There are so many times, I have been caught off guard by Satan and have “dropped my gun” thinking all was well, and how often I have found those times to be the exact time Satan struck again.  It takes energy and time to stay alert, but we must.  We can never totally rest in this life, only in heaven will there be no enemy.

“The devil left him until an opportune time.” - Luke 4:13

“Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” - 1 Peter 5:8

I’m sitting in a lounge chair, slightly leaned back, when suddenly, my neighbor’s girlfriend, who is now seeking revenge, comes up behind me and puts me in a headlock and sticks a garden hose in my mouth.  She had short jet-black hair, cut like a man. 

Prophetic Insights: The woman looked what some would call to be “butch”, lacking the softer more gentile qualities typical of the female gender. She was a woman, but aside of her female facial and body structure, the loving, gentle, and more tender inner qualities known to be common to most females, were not part of her makeup and character. The full body tattoos represented a clear connection between the spirit of her and my neighbor. Tattoos, like words out of our mouth, are typically a reflection of one’s heart, just as Jesus taught. People ink themselves with things they are deeply passionate about. In the dream, I recognized their tattoos as being external signs of their terrible inner darkness. She was a woman, but she was filled with wickedness and hate and malice. A tree is recognized by its fruit.

The hose is wide open, and my cheeks feel like they will burst as she is trying to drown me.  However, with what seems like a strange calm, I do not panic because I got a deep breath of air before she put it in my mouth.  I know that I’m able to hold my breath for a long time, and that she will run out of strength in her arm trying to hold me in a headlock before I run out of breath.  I feel certain that I will be able to overpower her and free myself before I run out of air.  She has short jet-black hair, cut like a guy.  This part ends before I am free from her headlock and immediately part 3 begins.

Prophetic Insights: One of the very first intentional anti-Christ actions I saw from Keri, was just before she filed for divorce, when she tried to stop me from sharing my faith in Jesus Christ publicly. I was feeling the strong desire to “come out” for Jesus with all my business clients, as can be seen in the 2010 video, where I eventually did this, on my Journey timeline page. I needed to confess Christ and Keri tried to stop me from speaking his name out loud, instead insisting on just “living it”, not talking about it. Yes, there is a need to live it, perhaps more today than ever before, but we must also confess Christ with our mouth and she tried with manipulation to shut me up. This prophetic picture and warning didn’t stop with Keri. I found many others along the way, who through the spirit of Satan, tried to shut my mouth regarding the narrow path Christianity and life of obedience the Lord called me to preach. All the way up to the most recent attempt of Satan to shut me up through the 21 year old girl named Taylor Meitzner. The campaign has long been to shut me up from speaking the cross carrying, self-denying, world hating, faith walking Christianity which leads to eternal life. Satan hates the narrow path!

The hose is wide open, and my cheeks feel like they will burst as she is trying to drown me.  However, with what seems like a strange calm, I do not panic because I got a deep breath of air before she put it into my mouth.  I knew that I’m able to hold my breath for a long time, and that she will run out of strength in her arm, trying to hold me in a headlock, before I run out of breath.  I felt certain that I would be able to overpower her and free myself before I ran out of air.  This part ends before I am free from her headlock and immediately part 3 begins.

Prophetic Insights: The peace I felt was a result of knowing I had the strength to outlast her attack. Empowered by Christ’s grace, no weapon formed against us will prosper, and therefore no matter how much our flesh may wish to, there is never a need or a good time for a Christian to panic. This part of the dream is also a picture of how important it is that we stay calm under spiritual attack and we do not react in the flesh. We can think of Jesus being still and silent before his accusers, as an example. The anger of man does not bring about the righteousness of God. Peace comes when we fight to trust God, no matter the battle or the circumstances. We can trust that if God be for us, who can be against us! Indeed, I can look back and see how God enabled me to hold my peace through so many spiritual attacks because I trusted Him, and therefore He gave me grace!

I’m in a large Home Improvement store with 14 of my friends.  We are walking down the large aisle that runs perpendicular to the other aisles and which cuts the store from front to back.

Prophetic Insights: 1 Pet 2:5 says we are being built into a spiritual house. The Home Improvement store represents my having been in God’s training for ministry program. God has literally been using all kinds of tools on me to improve me, by causing there to be less of me and more of Christ. The center isle dividing the store from front to back represented the season of life and ministry I would be in when this final confrontation would happen. The front half of a Home Improvement store has all the very ugly, heavy duty, sharp tools for tearing down, building, and repairing. This is where you find nails, hammers, saws, pipe, insulation, raw timber, glues, fasteners, power tools, etc. The second half of the store has all the the finer furnishings which make a home feel like home, the flooring, the fixtures, the vanities, cabinets, decorative doors and windows, the appliances, etc. This is where all the refinements of the home are located, which are only installed after all the truly rough and hard work of the home structure has been built. God also builds us in stages like this. Today as I write this, most of the destructive tearing down and building back up has been done in my life with Christ. I have felt in my spirit for some time now that it is time for less of the dramatic and deep suffering and more now of the fine refining and polishing up of my “house” for the Lord. May it be that way all the way until the end of my life.

Suddenly, this very large, giant of a man, comes walking around the corner.  He is probably about 6’6 and weighs 350lbs and instantly I see he has a saw blade in his right hand. He has a long scruffy beard and looks like he would be the leader of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle group.  I recognize him as the father of my neighbor, the junkie.  

Prophetic Insights: This man is a representation of Satan himself, the father of the demon possessed man who had tried to kill me. Jesus called him “The strong man” that must first be tied up. This meant I was to take warning against a much greater climatic battle, than what I previously faced.

He’s walking towards me with the saw, and he’s acting like he wants to talk about it, as evidence in the court case coming up against his son.

Prophetic Insights: Satan always lies about his intentions because he is the father of lies. We must, by His grace, gain the discernment needed to look beneath the surface to make right judgments (Jn 7:24) and not just judge things by what we hear or see externally (Isa 11:3).

I know that he is lying about “court evidence” and that he really intends to run me through and kill me with this saw.  

He keeps walking towards me and I start speaking very loudly and authoritatively for him to leave me alone and to the leave the store exclaiming, “You have no business here! This has nothing to do with you, now leave!”.

He was not deterred by my demands and continued approaching me slowly and ominously ignoring all my words.  I now knew there was no escaping a final confrontation! I was going to have to engage in battle one more time.

Prophetic Insights: Satan is NOT intimidated by us, only by Jesus Christ, in us, and contrary to the false teaching, Satan cannot be bound simply by saying, “I bind you Satan in the name of Jesus Christ.”. Only Christ can bind Satan and He will only do so when the timing is right for him to do so, not one second sooner. Satan is the most valuable and widely used tool in God’s hand for the shaping of the saints. Our protection against the ill effects and designs in Satan relies on our abiding in Christ through faith, obedience, and our spiritual disciplines. We must keep ourselves in the love of God and we must resist Satan, but he only flees from us by the grace of Christ, not our words! The power to withstand Satan is not in Michael Chriswell. It is only in Jesus Christ!

I quickly began looking to my left and right, surveying my friends and their strength.  I started feeling confident, as I saw that three of my friends were quite muscular and strong and I then knew that we could overpower this man.

Prophetic Insight: These friends, as explained in the next scene, represent years of my walking by faith with God and being made stronger. This scene teaches us that no years of fighting the good fight, finishing the race, and keeping the faith, are ever wasted. These years, some better than others, added to my strength for a final climatic battle with Satan. When my attorney first heard my parental alienation story, he said in one hour at least 7 times, “You are so strong Michael…you are so strong.” Only by the grace of Christ, but it was these years in which I was made stronger and stronger in Him.

“Jotham grew powerful because he walked steadfastly before the Lord his God.” - 2 Chro 27:6

“The war between the house of Saul and the house of David lasted a long time. David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.” - 2 Sam 3:1

Seconds later, without me doing anything at all, all my friends jumped forward at the exact same time and tackled this large man.  I had not part in the battle at all.

Prophetic Insights: I thought I saw the meaning of this dream about a year and half afterwards. I ended up at a home with a bunch of Christian counselors to tell my story. As soon as I finished telling the story, they all came forward and prayed for me. When I counted them, there was 14, not including the homeowners sitting off to the side. I found this to be remarkable, based on the 14 friends in the dream. However, that event never proved to be significant enough to be something truly worthy of this dream.

The true astonishing meaning was coming…

After the initial lunge forward to attack the man, they began binding him up and sticking him into a large crate sized box.

“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house.” - Mat 12:29

The Lord showed me the true meaning of these 14 friends who suddenly subdue Satan, in early 2023. The 14 friends represented 14 years, just like the 14 cows in Pharaoh's dream represented 14 years of my life. To my amazement, the Holy Spirit had moved me to "suddenly" make a video letter to the State of FL seeking justice for all these years of parental alienation, and it was completed and posted on YouTube on February 22, 2023, exactly 14 years to the day since I had had this dream, without any planning or advance knowledge of this on my part. This was indeed a sudden "leap" forward after 14 years. As a result of this leap, Keri retaliated with two Counter Motions to hold me in contempt and had my enemies write slanderous letters about me. Incredibly, without me ever appearing in court or saying a word, the court completely DISMISSED and closed her cases against me, with the final one being on Jan 3, 2024, exactly 14 years to the DAY from the night she first betrayed me on Dec 31, 2009 (minus the three man added “leap days”) (14 years x 2) ASTONISHING!

Then, me and a few others start pushing the box with him in it, across the floor, to get him out of the store.  It is extremely heavy, and we can only slowly move it, but we are, and then the dream ends.

Prophetic Insight:

This final scene of straining to push out the box with Satan inside, was a representation of just how hard and long the final push was going to be for Lisa and I to finally get Satan out of the way, so I could be set free from this 14 years worth of spiritual battle and bondage against Satan. The court cases and motions filed back and forth between Keri and I, in the nine months that have passed since that video was posted, were absolutely exhausting and pushed Lisa and I to the brink of collapse several times. At the same time, it was the meaning of this dream, and our recalling it, that kept us pushing, all the way to the very end!