Understanding the Pictorial Images of God.

You have experienced dreams, visions, and spoken prophecies over your life. Some of them may have been very clear, while other elements were full of mystery. God’s prophetic language can take many forms and be expressed in various images. God is now revealing the meaning of his pictorial language so that his people can understand what He is releasing through the prophetic realm. It would take an entire book to fully cover this topic, but in this article I want to lay out some principles and share some examples that will help you.

Let me first recommend that when you have a dream, a prophetic vision, or receive a prophetic word, always write it down. Otherwise, many details can be completely lost in a short time. If you received a prophetic word from a prophet (tess), ask them to explain what they saw and the meaning of what they felt. If it was a vision or a dream, I recommend that you make descriptive notes. You can then search your Bible for any of the images or pictorial types to see what that image conveys in Scripture. There are many free electronic Bibles online that include word searches and study aids, so they can be very helpful.

It is important to pray for the Holy Spirit to bring you understanding. He was the author of the dream, so he has the details. However, he works out details that will make sense to you. He often uses experiences, memories, and settings that are unique to you. Someone else wouldn’t understand them the same way you do. For example, seeing a hot stove can give someone a feeling of warmth, family, comfort, and peace. For another person, seeing a hot stove in a dream can create feelings of fear or pain because they were badly burned when they fell against a stove as a child. In these scenarios, God may be leading the first person toward comfort, a sense of security, or relationship. In the second example, God may be inviting that person to let go of childhood fears. So ask him to identify areas that may reveal deeper restorative work within you.

Let me focus on the images. There are so many images in the Bible that God used, so reference them in a concordance. See if they relate to what you received. Jesus often used parables which are illustrations that contain spiritual truth. A lamp represents light and guidance, while a net would represent harvest. Familiarize yourself with these through word searches and look at the application, if any, to meet you.

When interpreting a dream, it is important to look at the emotional, spiritual, and circumstantial content within that dream. Was it scary, peaceful, encouraging, or threatening? Did the details provide direction or promise to provide? Did the dream detail matters to pray about? Was the dream a training module in which the Lord put you through a test or a training session? Ask questions: why this and not that? Some unresolved issues in dreams are not important. If there were details you didn’t notice (such as color or size, etc.), they probably weren’t important.

Let’s see some examples of dream symbolism:

prophetic symbolism

Dress style in clothes:

open collar = open, nothing hidden, relaxed, informal plans,

white shirt = formal, rigid, leadership, management,

suit = formal, stiff, business

plaid shirt = casual, not stiff, working on a project.

Similarly: Women’s clothing would generally represent the same in formal to less formal.

Numbers:

1 – unity, God

2 – double blessing or anointing, or two confirmations.

3 – trinity – divine perfection

4 – land number, 4 seasons or four directions.

5 – Grace

6 – number of man, 666 represents man in alliance with the world, the flesh and the devil or an Impious Trinity.

7 – perfection

8 – resurrection, new begging, # of Jesus

9 – # divine (3 squared), # of the Holy Spirit, also judgment, evangelism

10 – world # (10 beast horns, 10 fingers on the statue)

11 – incomplete, not yet a government, prophetic anointing

12 – governmental perfection/authority

13 – sin#, speaks of rebellion

animals

Horse – power, physical issues that are going to come like in Revelation with the four horses of judgment.

White horse – the message of the Lord (Revelation when he sat on a white horse)

Also the highest form of power that is established by God.

Elephant – great power and strength, nothing stops them, never forgets.

Predators: Animals that feed on others generally represent that animal’s internal fears. They can often indicate an attack from the enemy in the form of that animal. A lion can represent Jesus as the “Lion of Judah” or it could represent Satan as a roaring lion seeking or attacking someone. The context of the dream would clearly show which Lion is in a dream.

Snakes: snakes, spiders, scorpions, dragons, vampires, etc. They all represent agents of the occult.

Transport

Vehicles (bikes, boats, planes, trains, buses, etc.) usually symbolize some type of ministry, life journey, or destiny. Speed ​​is also important because it defines the arrival time from departure (as at this moment) to arrival (when God brings fulfillment).

Underground – Underground, invisible, can sometimes surface for a moment and then go down.

again, behind the scenes, hidden

Train: A train sometimes represents training (pun intended), but most forms of transportation represent ministry.

Airplane: higher spiritual elevation, higher elevation, higher level ministry OR things you are going to do in the Spirit, although riding an eagle is a more common image for this.

Old Car: An older form of ministry, it could even be an old wineskin.

New car: could be faster, more resourceful (positive or negative), cutting-edge, more efficient and effective.

Truck: used to transport things to different places, bringing supplies from one place to another.

Liners: great influence on people, ministry with great influence. The ocean represents people, nations.

Other prophetic symbols:

Gates of Hell: Satan may have access points in your life. You will not know.

7 trumpets of

Revelation. – 7 great messages of the Kingdom.

Balls or spheres: often signifies completeness, complete or well thought out plans.

Walls: they can be protection or walls that we build to protect ourselves from what is perceived.

danger (they can lock us in or keep us away from danger).

Scene Change – Usually means transition in time, place, or responsibilities.

Being in the air – (in the dream or flying) This is the observation position. It could mean you’re not there yet, or just watching. However notice: .

In 2 Kings 5:25-27, Elisha describes his servant who went with him (in spirit) and saw that he had taken Naaman’s gifts. The prophet Ezekiel also describes how he was carried away by the Spirit and placed in other places in order to see or make prophetic statements for the Lord. Ezekiel 37:1, 2 and Ezekiel chapter 40.

Kitchen: it is the place where food is prepared, spiritual food is prepared

Wardrobe, pantry – storage for the things you are about to use.

Other storage places: Attic, where you store things that probably won’t be used again but that you want to keep for sentimental value or maybe valuable. It’s not that hard to access other storage places for the things you use, just not that often.

Tree: the cross of Jesus, or trees with fruit can refer to your attributes.

Prophetic people – When a prophetic person is in a dream with you it is because you are in training

time and he/she is a mentor.

Women: often represent churches.

Ocean – sea – people, nations.

Luggage: represents something valuable that you need. If you left it behind, there is something unfinished that still needs to be done. If you have taken the luggage with you it is something that you are going to do. Luggage can be very important.

Faceless people: often represent angels who represent someone or something. A messenger who brings a word or does an act. It could also be the Holy Spirit. Or the nameless, faceless-the children of him.

Sources – streams, rivers – Holy Spirit

Clean water, revealing the truth

The Mount of the Lord – from where God rules. It is his will that it be done from this place. The place from which he radiates.

honey-revelation

forest- confusion

trees – leadership

Olive tree – anointed ministry

Almond tree – leadership, also Israel

Almond Blossom – God’s Approval (as when Aaron’s rod budded showing God’s approval of his leadership) When the almond tree is in bloom in Israel, it is a time of favor that we as His Body can experience.

2nd floor – 2nd sky

5 fingers – from thumb to little finger represents apostle, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, in that order.

stirring – it’s starting to happen now, not sitting but still waiting.

things coming and going – things coming in (the house, for example) are coming in (birds flying into a house or packages being delivered to a house are things coming in). things that go out go away (like a person, a family, a ministry, etc.)

As you can see there are many symbols that come in dreams, visions or prophetic trances. The above are just a few examples. There are many other prophetic symbols that may also be unique to one culture. Wisdom and understanding is one of the attributes of the Holy Spirit, so you can ask for clarity in the Prophetic Symbols that may appear in your dream, vision or trance. If you need a consultation, please contact me.