Dream: Snakes and Mockers in the American Church, Judgment, and Servitude to an Islamic Lord

Monday, 05/18/26 at 21:55
Immanuel Acree

May 18 2026

This dream immediately followed my visit to a church that has shown a great disinterest in me but without any reference to a biblical reason and banned me from attendance two years ago.

[Note: Unlike goats; snakes are a different symbolic adversary depicted here within the church. Snakes represent deliberate deception, liars, and inflict pain deliberately on the innocent. A snake will be a deliberate traitor and worse.]

Dream:

I was with people who appeared to be friendly (fictional) Americans and people in my community. We were going to church. The church was a strange building, almost like it had been a modified home, turned into an office, turned into a church, with a big auditorium attached to it. We were entering a side entrance near a driveway and perhaps a garage. It was difficult to get in and after we made it through a key code gate, which some lady had to help us with, as she joked that sometime in the past she had to call someone; I think she may have said Obama, for this problem before; and in any case, we were let through. As we got past the driveway, we entered into what appeared to be some kind of garage landing or outdoor court, leading to another door that would actually take us inside the building. This is where I became trapped by snakes. The door into the house was set on something like a small porch or trucking dock, and there was a snake there which looked dangerous and strange with exotic colors. I had to “shoo” this snake away from the door somehow, and I was panicking the whole time because it was so close to my feet. Then, the door finally being accessible, I opened it, revealing another snake. This process seemed to continue several more times, as I kept running into exotic snakes, and each one had to be prodded and scared and chased out of the doorway and away from this, the court or driveway, that we were trying to slip through to the house of God. The most prominent color of these snakes tended to be a rich blue color. There were stubby short fat snakes, and there were long ones. It happened so many times I lost count in the dream.

Finally, we made it into this door which led us along an upper chamber of some kind into a stairwell, overlooking the auditorium for the church meeting room, so it was like entering a theater from the projection room. In this upper area, I observed some strange things, such as some turtle eggs, that were about four count, in some kind of a square case, see-through, and the eggs appeared to be hatched, right before they were stuck or frozen in time somehow. The turtle faces were sticking out of the shells seemingly petrified. I set this thing off to the side, wondering if the people who owned the building were looking for their turtle eggs. As I wondered about the snakes and the strange threatening nature of this environment, I looked towards the auditorium room and expressed a prayer of reverence openly to my accompanying Christians as to how, “we might as well just be silent in awe of God,” so to speak and words to this effect. This took a few minutes, and when I was done explaining what I had felt, a new part of the dream took place where there was a reaction among some people next to me, and they were mocking what I said and rejecting my perspective on the faith; this was shocking of course because we were here to worship God together!

At this point, we transitioned to a completely different environment, the arctic or antarctic. I don’t recall seeing any preacher or any church service begin, because all we saw was that we had need of traveling over icebergs and some kind of snow covered landscape of course along the ocean. As I looked around me for resources and realized that we were dealing with some jeopardized expeditionary equipment, and that our survival was now in question, I did not go very far anywhere before the ocean became violent and we were in a flood of some kind, and I desperately made my way towards whatever vehicle or shelter had been delivered here. So as I pushed through this storm and water trying to put on a large diving suit that was only represented by a boot and a helmet I think, the water and tempest washed everyone away. As far as I knew, I would be alone for a while messing around with gear. In the dream I knew that these people were mockers that were supposedly Christians in my company from earlier, so I did not fail to notice the justice involved in their disappearance. Then I noticed a modular shelter, like a spacecraft, sitting alone in the snow and water, threatened with submersion. I entered this structure and found a complete diving suit, so I exchanged my boot in ankle deep water and entered the full suit. (This suit was the heaviest imaginable as the whole thing was a metal lobster-like exoskeleton, with boots fatter than ski boots, of solid metal).

As I put the suit on, I noticed new people had arrived somehow, and I think one of them beckoned for me to follow him to some kind of meeting. But as I mustered myself in this suit and headed towards a ladder or exit I was intercepted by a man wearing fancy clothes who had weapons on him and exotic medieval-style armor all over his body. I noticed right away that this was a serious representative of government because he was clearly a member of an elite military unit. As I moved around a bit trying to continue my search for the meeting, I was intercepted all the more and the new people showing up included at least two men in formal attire, especially neckties, but somewhat as if from an eccentric or extravagant fashion, with all kinds of lace, and the one man I spoke to face-to-face had on several neckties stacked around his neck. I said to this man in front of me something about his clothes: That I could tell he was an ambassador for someone, but these are not the words that I used, which I can’t remember. I told him that he must be part of an elite group. He reacted in a somewhat unexpected way, but I don’t recall his words.

At this point, we made our way to a large room that was not bothered by the outdoors or the tempestuous flood. And in this room, I became surrounded by these intercepting people and I knew there was nothing left to do but surrender and take a knee, so that is what I did. A lord of some kind entered the room as well, and was on a prominent seat like a throne. This is who I ended up facing on the ground. And his lieutenant with the fancy clothes that I had met before, was weighing out who I am, and they entered into a kind of examination, as I simply lowered my face to the floor. I told them some things about my life and that I had a couple copies of my personally published book back in the expeditionary wing in a bag. And I extended out onto the floor a short sword with japanese writing on it with the pommel towards the seated lord. After their conversation about what to do with me, I found us moved into a new room, which was much larger, and they were facing to worship Allah in the center of the room, and I cynically joked that we had better not see lucifer manifest in front of them. Someone heard me and quietly chuckled, and that was the end of the dream.

Interpretation

This dream is certainly about the imminent future for American churches and things we may see take place politically with changes in government.

I believe that there is little need for me to put interpretation into detail here other than to offer these scriptures:

“Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?”
Luke 22:48 KJV

“But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”
Matthew 23:8-13

“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath. And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal’s wife. And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him. And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?”
1 Samuel 27:1-5

“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed. For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 29:4-9

Lloyd Immanuel Acree