DREAMS AND SYMBOLS FROM THE BIBLE - PART 1

ABIMELECH, SARAH AND ABRAHAM

WARNING TO KING ABIMELECH

Genesis 20:3 NKJV) 3 But God came to Abimelech in a

dream by night, and said to him, “Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”

STRATEGY GIVEN TO JACOB

GENESIS 31:10-12 (NKJV)

10 “And it happened, at the time when the flocks conceived, that I lifted my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams which leaped upon the flocks were streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted. 11 Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’ 12 And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

ORDER GIVEN TO JACOB

Genesis 31:13 New King James Version (NKJV) 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you

anointed the pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now arise, get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’”

GENESIS 37:6-8 (NKJV)

6 So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

8 And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed have dominion over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words.

JOSEPH GREAT DESTINY

JOSEPH GREAT DESTINY

GENESIS 37:9-10 (NKJV)

9 Then he dreamed still another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

10 So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?”

INTERPRETATION BELONG TO GOD

Genesis 40:8 (NKJV) 8 And they said to him, “We each have

had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.”

So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.”

THE CHIEF BUTLER DREAM

GENESIS 40:9-13 (NKJV)9 Then the chief butler told his dream to Joseph,

and said to him, “Behold, in my dream a vine was before me,10 and in the vine were three branches; it was as though it budded, its blossoms shot forth, and its clusters brought forth ripe grapes. 11 Then Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.” 12 And Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days. 13 Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former manner, when you were his butler.

THE CHIEF BAKER DREAM

GENESIS 40:16-19 (NKJV)

16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and there were three white baskets on my head. 17 In the uppermost basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.” 18 So Joseph answered and said, “This is the interpretation of it: The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head from you and hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

PHARAOH’S DREAMS OF THE COWS AND THE GRAIN HEADS

GENESIS 41:1-4 (NIV) PHARAOH’S DREAMS

41 When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, 2 when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds. 3 After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up out of the Nile and stood beside those on the riverbank. 4 And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.

PHARAOH’S DREAM

DANIEL 2:27-30 (NKJV)

27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king. 28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these: 

NEBUCHADNEZZAR’S DREAM:THE GREAT IMAGE

DANIEL 2:31-35 (NKJV)

31 “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32 This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

THE GREAT IMAGE REPRESENTATION

THE STONE STRUCK THE IMAGE

DANIEL 2:34-35 (NKJV)

34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.

There are many dreams in the Bible, we will have a view to some of them in the future.

For now please continue to the slide:Dreams and Visions Seminar –

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