On February 14, 2000, I had a dream in which I watched a screen as a long list of church names scrolled past. When the list ended, I heard a voice from the right side of the screen say, “There will surely be a proliferation of churches as miracles abound, but they shall regroup into three before the coming of the LORD!” I awoke puzzled and could not recall any Scripture that explained what I had heard. I immediately wrote the words down, but after several unsuccessful attempts to understand them, I set them aside.

A few days later, while reading Numbers 2 and 3, I believed the Holy Spirit gave me insight into the dream. I have illustrated that interpretation in a diagram. I understood the Church’s regrouping into three to correspond to the three Levitical families—Kohath, Gershon, and Merari. Just as the Levites camped around the Ark of the Covenant, I understood these three groups as occupying the north, south, and west sides of the heavenly tabernacle. Christ, as the new High Priest, would occupy the east side, perhaps together with the 144,000 described in Revelation 14:1–5, corresponding to the place of Moses, Aaron, and Aaron’s sons.

The following passages also inform this interpretation:
• Romans 1:20 teaches that God’s invisible attributes are revealed through what He has made, leaving humanity without excuse.
• At this point, if the arrangement suggests the Solar System with the sun at its center, that is also the comparison I began to see.
• Matthew 24:27 describes the coming of the Son of Man as lightning flashing from east to west.
• Ezekiel 43:1–4 portrays the glory of the God of Israel approaching from the east and entering the temple through the eastern gate.
• Ezekiel 44:1–3 further describes that eastern gate as shut because the LORD, the God of Israel, had entered through it, reserving it for the prince.
• John 8:12 and John 9:5 identify Jesus as the light of the world, while 1 Timothy 6:16 speaks of God as dwelling in unapproachable light.
• Hebrews 8:1–5 presents Christ as the High Priest and minister of the true heavenly tabernacle, explaining that the earthly priesthood and tabernacle served as copies and shadows of heavenly realities.
• Colossians 2:17 likewise describes certain earthly ordinances as shadows of things to come, while Hebrews 10:1 says that the law contains a shadow of coming good things rather than their complete reality.