"The Lion and the Dog" Dream
Linda Dion
November 23, 2025
The particular dream that I'm about to recount was a disturbing and difficult one. The Lord gave it to me at the beginning of June 2018, which was a few weeks after our return to Ottawa from Brantford. It is a dream that I've pondered and prayed about regularly without understanding the whole message, but perhaps recent events are beginning to shed some light.
I was aware of being in a house and a dog was with me. This dog looked very much like Milou (Snowy) in Tintin and I decided that it would be a good idea if it went outside in the backyard. I opened the back door and let him go out onto the green grass. The sun was shining; it was a beautiful day.
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A little while later, I wanted to check on the dog so I went out into the back yard. But all was changed. What used to be grass was now sandy gravel. A lion was roaming around and roaring very loudly and aggressively.
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Then I saw a man arrive, accompanied by a few other people. They got out of their expensive, black limousine and this man began to walk around the property with 2 or 3 small dogs in his arms. He was happy and smiling and the dogs were happy and smiling. Everybody knew that they were safe from the lion. The man looked around and intuitively, I knew that this man had every intention of building on this property which he now felt belonged to him.
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I then quickly looked around and saw my dog lying on the ground. The lion had killed him. I got down on my knees beside the dog, crying, wailing, and pounding the ground in sheer pain. "Why?" was the question going round and round in my mind. "Why was the dog killed?" There was so much sorrow, grief and anger. The emotions were almost overwhelming!
When I got up that morning, I immediately wrote the dream down and at the end of my prayer-time, I asked the Lord for guidance. I opened up my bible and this is what I saw:
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Ezekiel 22: 25, 30-31
In you, the priests are like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They have eaten the people, seized wealth and jewels and widowed many inside her.
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I have been looking for someone among them to build a barricade and oppose me in the breach, to defend the country and prevent me from destroying it; but I have found no one.
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As an interesting little tid bit, Doug Ford had been elected premier of Ontario the previous evening.
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Five days later, I was bringing this dream forward to the Lord and once again, asked Him to help me understand. I opened my bible and lo and behold, opened to: Ezekiel 22: 23-31!! The same scripture!
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Almost 3 months later, at the end of August, I was re-reading my dream and asking the Lord for more insight and then closed my dream journal to move on to something else. I picked up my bible to finish off my prayer time and once again, just simply opened it. I was amazed! I had opened it to the very same passage: Ezekiel 22: 23-31.
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Since that time, so many changes have come to our country. We are no longer the same nation that we were. We have been slip-sliding into a totalitarian system for decades now, but this ideology is gaining ground. Also, foreign belief systems that are absolutely foreign to Christianity have been invading our cities and gaining ground.
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I don't yet understand everything that is in the dream, but I do know this. The Lord wants an army of seasoned prayer warriors, intercessors and worshippers who will come against the growing darkness in our land.
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And I have come to better understand this concept: That in reality, so much is symbolically or literally linked to the concept of land. In Genesis 3, God gives us the Earth and commands us to have dominion over all of His creation. This means having dominion over the actual land in order to establish God's kingdom on earth, to make the earth beautiful, to subdue it and make it thrive.
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The Israelites were promised a very real, physical land...the Promised Land. They were to rule over this land and have dominion over it. In order to gain a foothold in this Promised Land, Abraham bought a plot of land from the Hittites (Genesis 23:17-20). This was no mere insignificant gesture; it was loaded with meaning. Abraham, who believed in God's promises, made an act of faith, believing that the whole land would one day belong to him and his descendants. He now had a foothold in that territory, he had obtained "real estate".
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Churches are built on land and as such, are not just mere buildings. They do provide shelter for worshippers but they also declare that the particular plot of land belongs to them which enables the people to practice their beliefs. At the time of the Reformation in England, Henry VIII made a "land grab" and took over most of the Catholic churches and dissolved all the monasteries. He stole the land and gave it to his followers, thus establishing his rule, his dominion and his ideology in England, which still exists to this day.
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Armies invading other countries don't simply want the resources or the people from that country but they want to occupy the land. And if they win the war, what is one of the first things that they do? They plant a flag of their country...a highly symbolic gesture that brings about a very literal outcome. They then go on to establish their faith by erecting statues and temples on the land that they have gained thus enabling their ideologies and their politics to proliferate in that land. And when that happens, they usually go on to take over more and more ground.
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When William the Conqueror came to England and won the battle of Hastings in 1066, one of the first things he did was to build castles on the land that he had won. Within months! He was declaring loud and clear that the land now belonged to him and that his politics would now rule over this conquered land.
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This concept shows up even in our sports such as football! The whole idea of this game is to gain more ground which is often described as "gaining real estate". If the team is successful, they get their prize: a touchdown.
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Turning to Canada, we see a disturbing trend of churches being vandalized and burned. At last count, around 85 Catholic churches have been destroyed, with our government doing nothing about it. What is this saying and where is this leading us?
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So in my dream, I do understand that the devil (the roaring lion) wants to destroy what is pure and holy (white dog) to provide an opportunity for evil men to come and turn fertile, green land into a sandy, arid area where they will erect their temples and their buildings in order to further their ideologies and their plans of dominance. These men will be influenced by the devil who will be working through them and who will kill and destroy whoever and whatever gets in his way.
I also understand the scripture passage in Ezekiel; the Lord is looking for those who see what is happening, who grieve over the state of things and who will be moved to do something about it. He needs the "watchmen on the wall" to sound the alarm and to call the "army" to respond, so that the land isn't taken over by ideologies and policies that lead away from the true faith and from our true King, the Lord Jesus.
But this Marcel and I know: We have the real lion with us. The Lion of the tribe of Judah. He will roar and He will come. But in the meantime, we also are called to become lions, just like Him. To have a lion's heart. Marcel and I call ourselves the "old, seasoned, lions" and we are looking for more seasoned veterans as well as the "young lions" who will come alongside us to push back the darkness.
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We also try to remember that although we are the Church Militant, we have the Church Suffering and the Church Triumphant praying with us and for us. They too are part of the army! And so are our guardian angels and all the good angels who work to establish God's kingdom on this earth.
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Deuteronomy 8:7-10
But Yahweh your God is bringing you into a fine country, a land of streams and springs, of waters that well up from the deep in valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines, of figs, of pomegranates, a land of olives, of oil, of honey, a land where you will eat bread without stint, where you will want nothing, a land where the stones are iron and where the hills may be quarried for copper. You will eat and have all you want and you will bless Yahweh your God in the fine country which he has given you.