Symbols in the Bible

[Shilo]

Contamination occurs if a good symbol is mixed with a bad
Abomination = breaking any of gods laws, especially by thosewho are in charge of gods house, adding or taken away anything in God’s word orway of worship, IS 44:19, Matt24:14 Ez 8:6-19, Ez 7:20,EZ 14:2-6 deut 27:25 2kings 23: 13-14
Acacia or Shittah tree = beauty
Adultery = serving Idols, stepping out of marriage
Algum = Christ humanity
Almond tree = resurrection , life
Amber = brightness of god, god’s glory
Anchor = safety, security, hope
Ant = diligence, wisdom
Ark = safety, Christ
Arms = Strength, enabler,
Ass = endurance, stubborn, self will
Balaam = worldly, deceiver, plots corruption
Bald = Death, morning
Baptism = resurrection, revealing
Bear = beast, cunning, cruel, kingdom
Bees = people, stinging, honey, hearing
Belly = emotions
Beast = Kingdom, cruel, devouring, government, dan 7
Birds = lying, evil spirits, jer 5:27
Black = death, disease, sorrow, negative human experience,sin, famine
Blue = Law, Holy Spirit, authority, obedience, ex 24:10-12num 15: 38-39
Blood = life, sacrifice
Book = scroll, written message
Bow = taken action to conquer, ps 7:11,12
Bowels = inner man, mercy
Brass = sin, judgment, impure character, EZ 22:20
Brick = work of our hands, false worship
Brown = humble
Bull = strength, labor, servant, burden bearer
Bronze = sin, Judgment
Calf = Praise, thanks giving
Camel = service, burden bearer
Cankerworm = destructive power
Cat = sneaky, undependable
Caterpillar = destructive power
Cedars = power, majesty, royalty, beauty
Chaff = useless
Church = Woman, moon, stars, flock, pearl
Clay = frailness of people
Cloud = Judgment, presence of GOD
Cock = warning, reminder, early riser
Copper = sin, judgment
Cup = punishment measured out = ps 11:6, ps 75:8 , IS 51:17,jer 25:15-17 Jer 49:12
Day = measure of time children of light, new day, hope, num14:34, EZ4:6, GEN 29:27
Dog = unbelievers, hypocrites Rev 22:15, phil 3:2
Dove = gentle, holy spirit,
Down = backsliding, going away from God
Dust = humanity, contempt
Eagle = Swiftness, power, deut 28:49, rev 12:14
Egypt = worldly, bondage, whoredom, idolatry, godlessness
Evil = against GOD,
Eye = Spiritual vision, light of the soul,
Eye = Spiritual vision, light of the soul, matt 6:22 , luke11:34,35
Ear = Spiritual hearing, entrance to the soul
East = new day, sunrise, judgment
Fat = Abundance
Fish = food, souls of man,
Flax = weakness
Flies = evil spirit, filth, Satan’s kingdom
Feet = our walk
Fig tree = Israel
Field = world matt 13:38, john 4:35
Fire = Judgment, purifying, testing, presence of GOD
Forehead = thought, reasoning, memory, imagination, seat ofthe mind, rom 7:25- Ez 3:8-9
Frogs = evil
Fruit = works, actions, gal 5:22
Fornication = unlawful relationships, EZ 16:26, IS 23:17,Jam4:4, rev 14:4
Goat = unrighteous people, Greece Dan 8:21 matt 25:33-46
Grass = people, Is 40:6
Grasshopper = small, locust, order, destructive
Red or scarlet = sin, blood, war, suffering, sacrifice
Gold = kingship, good character, riches, job 23:10 , Jam2:5, Is 13:12
Gray = old age, honor, ½ truths
Green = life, rest, growth, prosper, fruitful, maturity,
Hail = judgment
Hair = Glory, covering
Hands = tools, work, actions, Mica 2:1, ecc 9:10
Hare = Satan, evil host, unclean
Harlot = whore, corrupt church
Head = authority eph 5:23
Heart = sensitivity, mind, center of life luke 6:45, prov4:23 matt 12:34,
Heal = power to crush
Hemlock = wormwood, injustice, calamity
Horn = Strength, power, kings, government dan 7, dan 8, rev17:12, ps 89:17-24, zech 1:18-19
Horse = power, strength, army, beauty, war, chariots, zech10:3, IS 43:17, zech 1:8-10
Iron = strong, inflexible, rule, crushing, impure character,EZ 22:20
Incense = prayer, rev 5:8, lev 24:5-8, lev 5:11, lev 6:15,ps 141:2 rev 5:8, rev 8:3-4
Israel = Children of GOD, rom 9:6-8, gal 3:29
Ivory = beauty
Jerusalem = city of god
Jezebel = corruption, 1 kings 21:25, 2 kings9:22, rev 2:20,rev 3:7-8 Is 22:22
Jesus = Lamb of GOD, lion of the tribe of Judah, savior,redeemer , LORD, king of kings LORD of LORDS, Angel of heaven’s army ,Angel ofthe LORD
Jordan = descending, rom 6:4, deu 4:22
Judgment = measuring rod, scale, trumpets, cup, wrath
Key = power to lock and unlock, power to bind and loose, Is22:22, matt 16:19, rev 3:7-8
Kittim = invaders in the Mediterranean Sea
Knee = reverence, humility
Ladder = Jesus, Gen 28:12, john 1:51
Lamb= Jesus, Christians, sacrifice john 1:29
Lamp = Spirit of GOD, Spirit of man, church
Lead = heaviness of heart, impure character, EZ 22:20
Leader = star, horn, tree
Legs = support, strength of body
Leprosy = sin, death, judgment
Linen = righteousness, purity, rest
Lion = beast, Jesus, Satan, Rev 5:4-9, ps7:2
Locust = order , destructive power Joel 1:4, ps 78:46, deu28:38,42
Loins = strength = reproductive part of body
LORD’s Day = Sabbath, matt 12:8, IS 58:13, EX 20:10

 

[Shilo]

Mark = Sign, ownership, EZ 9:4, rev 7:2-3, rom 4:11
Mirrors = reflection, looking inward
Moon = light reflector, bride, witness in heaven, ps89:35-37, IS 66:23
Mountain = kingdoms, nations, IS 2:1-5, dan 7:35, 44,45, EZ35:2,7,8 Zech 4:7
Mouth - = heart, beliefs , luke 6:45 prov 4:23 matt 12:34,
Mulberry = sorrow, broken heart
Myrtle = God’s blessing, humble
Night = Spiritual darkness, wrath, judgment
North = Power, authority, toward throne of GOD
Nose = breath, discernment
Oak tree = strength, durability
Oil = Holy Spirit, anointing, zech 4:2-6, rev 4:5
Owl = evil Spirit, night bird
OX= sacrifice, service
Palm tree, victory in Christ, God centered
Palmer worm = destructive
Pearls = Church, wisdom, matt 13, job 28:18
People = grass, sand, sea, stars
Pine tree = fragrance, beauty
Pleasant land = Israel, PS 106:24, Zech 7:14
Pomegranate, abundance, joyfulness, law
Power = GOD, beast, head, horn, mountain
Purple = royalty, riches num 4:13 , john 19:2,5
Rain = out pouring of gods spirit= IS 55:10-11
Rainbow = covenant promise
Ram = male sheep or goat
Reapers = Angels Matt 13:39
Rib =people, nation, Persia swallowed up Egypt, Lydia,Babylon
Sackcloth = mourning, sorrow, repentance
Sacrifice = blood, circumcision, offering
Salt = preservative, Ps 16:10, LEV 2:13, matt 5:13
Sand = unsaved multitudes, multitudes of Abraham’s earthlyseed
Satan = Lion, serpent, dragon, devil
Scales = Judgment
Scepter = Power, Authority, ruler ship
Scorpion = evil spirit, evil men, pain
SEA = humanity, rev 17:1, IS 57:20, dan 7:2, ps65:7, IS1712,13, Jer 51:42
Seed = descendants, word of god, rom 9:8, gal 3:16
Separation = door, fence, wall, 2cor 2:12, rev 3:20
Serpent = Satan, evil spirit, evil man, cunning
Sheep = Gods people, defenseless, sacrifice
Shoulders = seat of gods government, elders, strength,burden holder,
Sickle = reaping
Silver = redemption, understanding, prov 2:4, prov 3:13,14,prov:10:20, prov 25:11, ps 12:6
Sin = corruption, darkness, whore, fornication, abomination,unclean, leaven, lawless
Snail = slow, dependable
Sodom = immorality, Ez 16:46-55, Jer 23:14, gen 19:4-14
South = quietness, calm, refreshment
Spider = wisdom
Stars = Abraham’s heavenly seed, Spiritual Israel, ministersof the gospel, light bearers, angels, rev 1:16-20
Stars falling = apostates, judgment
Stiff necked = stubbornness, resistance to authority
Sun = life, glory, brightness, light, bridegroom, ps 84:11,matt 17:2, john 8:12
Sweat = man’s efforts, man’s works
Sword = word of GOD, weapon, Eph 6:17 HEB 4:12, matt 10:34,Is 49:2
Thigh = our walk
Thorns and thistles = curse
Tin = weak, worthless, impure character, EZ 22:20
Treasure = Israel, beliefs, ex 19:5, deu 32:8, ps 135:4, IS51:1,2, deu 32:10 deu 26:1-5
Trees = people, leaders, nations, ps 1:1-3, ps 52:8 , EZ 20,EZ 31, like 23:31, Matt 21, deut 21:22, ps 92:12
Trumpet = warning
Turtle dove = Holy Spirit
Up = going toward god
Vessel = jar, person, jer 18;1-4, 2 cor 4:7
Victory = White robes, crowns, palm branches,
Vineyard = church, Israel, Luke 20:9-16
WAR = horses, locust, chaiets
Water, Holy Spirit, knowledge, life, Hab 2:14, rev 171,15,IS 57:20, ps 65:7, john 7:39, john 4:14
West = evening, setting sun, end of age
White = purity, righteousness, healthy
Whoredom = Idolatry, false doctrines
Willow tree = weeping, heart break
Wind = war, jer 25:31, zech 7:14
Winds = 4 winds, four corners, whole world jer 49:36
Wings, Speed, protection, Hab 1:6-8, Jer 4:13
Wolf = Satan, false teachers, hypocrites,
Wool = warmth, comfort
Worm = instrument of judgment, despised, lowly
Wormwood = sorrow, bitterness, Deut 29:17, Jer 9:15, Lam3:19
Yoke = servitude, slavery
Head = thoughts, mind, intelligence, Christ, leader,
Heart = center of life, seat of emotions, mind

 

[Spokenpassage]

dont forget olive tree, and lampstand

 

[Shilo]

Lamp = Yeshua, Spirit of GOD, Spirit of man, church
Olive Tree = faithfulness and steadfastness, The two "witnesses, Israel, people not of physical Israel (wild olive) ," Rev. 11:4, Zech. 4:3, 11-14,Rom. 11:24,Psalms 52:8

 

[Spokenpassage]

here are some scripture, i bet there is more but here is a few its meantioned:

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever. - Psalm 52:8

“I will heal their backsliding,
I will love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]I will be like the dew to Israel;
He shall grow like the lily,
And lengthen his roots like Lebanon.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]His branches shall spread;
His beauty shall be like an olive tree,
And his fragrance like Lebanon. - Hos.14:4-6

These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. - Rev.11:4

 

[nathan3]

A few to consider : King James Version (KJV)

Water : Revelation 17:15

Moon : Revelation 13:5 ( months)


Trees: Ps 1:1 ; Hosea 9:10; Hosea 14:6;Mark 8:24;Ezek 31:3 ;Ezek 31:7 ( people ,etc)



I have a fuller study if anyone likes.

 

[RedTent]

Thank you for this post, I'll keep a copy in my files.

An interesting way of looking at this is called the Duality of Reality. It is the idea that reality is but a shadow of the spiritual. For instance, the lood laws were to point out spiritual facts. Or, God created light on the first day, a spiritual light, but God created the sun on the fourth day.

Throughout the bible God uses our physical world to teach us about the spiritual.

 

[Bookends]

I wouldn't say the Lord's day equals the sabbath...

The sabbath is what I kept with Lord everyday in Christ, for He alone gives me rest in Him.

The Lord's day is simply the day or any day we gather together to worship our Triune God

 

[Bookends]

I would also suggest that Israel is a name for Christ. Israel is the antitype to Christ. For Christ did what Israel couldn't.

From Wiki, Israel is a Biblical given name. The patriarch Jacob was given the name Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל, Standard Yisraʾel Tiberian Yiśrāʾēl; "Triumphant with God") after he wrestled with the angel (Genesis 32:28 and 35:10) The name already occurs in Eblaite and Ugaritic texts as a common name.[SUP][1][/SUP] Commentators differ on the original literal meaning. Some say the name comes from the verb śarar ("to rule, be strong, have authority over"), thereby making the name mean "God rules" or "God judges".[SUP][2][/SUP] Other possible meanings include "the prince of God" (from the King James Version) or "El fights/struggles".[SUP][3][/SUP] "The Jewish Study Bible" of Oxford University Press says on page 68 "The scientific etymology of Israel is uncertain, a good guess being '[The God] El rules.'"[SUP][4][/SUP] Jacob's descendants came to be known as the Israelites, eventually forming the tribes of Israel and ultimately the kingdom of Israel, from whence the name of modern day Israel.

Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names, uppity as ever, renders He Will Be A Prince With God.

 

[RedTent]

I wouldn't say the Lord's day equals the sabbath...

The sabbath is what I kept with Lord everyday in Christ, for He alone gives me rest in Him.

The Lord's day is simply the day or any day we gather together to worship our Triune God

This sounds wonderful, so pious and makes common sense. However, it isn't what the bible says and the bible is the word of God.

 

[Bookends]

This sounds wonderful, so pious and makes common sense. However, it isn't what the bible says and the bible is the word of God.

Think again please.
[h=3]Hebrews 4[/h]New King James Version (NKJV)

[h=3]The Promise of Rest[/h]4 Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. [SUP]2 [/SUP]For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them,[SUP][a][/SUP] not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. [SUP]3 [/SUP]For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

“So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest,’”[SUP][/SUP]


although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [SUP]4 [/SUP]For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; [SUP][/SUP] [SUP]5 [/SUP]and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.”[SUP][d][/SUP]

[SUP]6 [/SUP]Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of disobedience, [SUP]7 [/SUP]again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said:
“Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts.”[SUP][e][/SUP]

[SUP]8 [/SUP]For if Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. [SUP]9 [/SUP]There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. [SUP]10 [/SUP]For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.