Title:- I’m 1812, with a Bullet
Matthew 2:12 Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.
By comparison, America has of course, had four incidents of this kind compared to Britain having only one. With the USA allowing its citizens the right to bear arms, I suppose that is to be expected. This morning in 1812 in England, Spencer Percival told his wife that he had dreamt the previous night, that he was shot whilst in the House of Commons by a man wearing a green coat with brass buttons. His family tried to dissuade Percival, the then Prime Minister, from going to the House of Commons, but the call of duty and the need to answer pressing questions of policy both at home and abroad, called the duty bound Prime Minister to work.
John Bellingham, who had claimed he had not received remuneration for work he had done in Russia on behalf of the crown, being also quietly insane with the losses that he claimed had been brought upon him by the government, whilst wearing his green coat with brass buttons, calmly shot the Prime Minster through the heart and killed him. Bellingham was tried and just seven days later, was hung in front of Newgate prison.
Had Prime Minister Spencer Percival took note of the dream, no doubt he may have lived a lot longer and history may have been substantially changed. However, he ignored the premonition, the warning, the message, and consequently was killed.
Was this a message from God to someone who is reported to have been an ‘Evangelical Prime Minister’? Should he have listened? After all, what would you have done? If he had shared this dream with anyone other than his family and then refused to have gone to work that day, no doubt he would have been classed as ‘losing his marbles’ as well as being a coward! Really, what can we make of these things? Well, maybe, we can at least modify Shakespeare and say “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, that ARE dreamt of....” Think about it. For sure, if Percival had listened to that dream, the world might have been a substantially different place.
Some dreams are worth listening to.
Listen:- Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.” Matthew 2:13
Pray:- Lord, make me attentive to Your specific communications to me. Amen.
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