Pilate’s wife had a dream where she was told Jesus was innocent. Was the dream from Satan or God?

I believe that this dream was from God and I will tell you why. Pontius Pilate was already inclined to let Jesus go free, (Luke 23:4) so much so, that after having found no basis for charges against Christ, he sent him to Herod Philip II, the ruler of Jesus’ hometown, who happened to be in Jerusalem at that time, to render an opinion on Christ. Christ answered none of Herod’s questions which drew the ire of Herod, his court, and the chief priests and elders of the Law of Moses who were in attendance. Jesus was mocked, further accused of being an undesirable, and was then sent back to Pontius Pilate. Pontius Pilate, after further examining Jesus, was still inclined to free him. Freeing Jesus, however, would have been disastrous for Pilate politically as there were increased demands being made by the citizens of Jerusalem and the chief priests for Christ to be crucified; they even began to question Pilate’s loyalty to Caesar (John 19:12, 15). Freeing Christ, would have likewise been disastrous for Christianity; this being the case, because it was Jesus’ fate to be tried and executed for the sins of mankind (Isaiah 53:8, Luke 18:31–33).

During a critical phase in Jesus’ sedition trial, namely the phase that would have ultimately decided Jesus’ fate, Pilate’s wife sent a note to Pilate, telling him to “have nothing to do with that just man,” namely, because she was tormented in a dream the previous night concerning Christ. Now as the prefect (ruler) of Iudæa, Pontius Pilate had the capacity to free Jesus which is what Satan wanted (i.e., Mark 8:31–33). Satan wanted Jesus to use his talents and divinity to rule kingdoms and become a conquering Emperor (Luke 4:5–6,) not much unlike King Nebuchadnezzar II, Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, and Caesar Augustus. What Pilate’s wife did was further facilitate, in the mind of Pilate, a disposition of passiveness concerning Jesus’ crucifixion that made the chief priests’ and elders’ role in the matter more prevalent. This is important because it fulfills Christ’s own prophecies concerning his execution being the result of malicious actions against him by the chief priests and elders (Luke 9:22, Matthew 16:21).

The political passiveness of Pontius Pilate, which was brought on by a combination of his own inclinations concerning Christ and the warnings of his wife, was the reason that he washed his hands of Christ’s blood and gave the people their choice between the extinguishing of Christ’s life, or the life of Barabbas, of which, Christ’s life was chosen (Matthew 27:20–23). This scenario brought about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ which fulfilled Old and New Testament prophecies concerning Christ’s crucifixion.