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Have you ever had a dream that could have been inspired by God? Did you wonder what it could mean? Has a picture or a vision come to your mind while praying or worshipping and have you wondered how to interpret it? Have you read certain Old Testament passages and wondered why God used such vivid imagery? Have you heard others speak on these subjects and wanted to know more? If you would love to understand God’s language involving imagery, then this book is for you.

I could not find a book for the general Christian reader who wants to understand the “picture language” of God and to learn about the symbols and images that He uses to help us understand the spiritual world. So, I decided to write this one.

My aim is to engage the reader interactively, to get you to manage imagery yourself whatever the source, whether dreams, visions or simply just reading the Bible. This is not another reference book. The tables and lists that are in it are there to meditate on rather than to provide a quick source of reference. For this reason the lists are not exhaustive but they are intended to help you develop your own sense of how to look at and interpret symbols. I hope that you might enjoy building up your own reference base of symbols and images as the Holy Spirit leads you.

I trust that this book will bless you by helping you find a new way of understanding and appreciating God’s Word or it will help you to grow if you wanted to be more skilled in the use of God’s imagery. Those who already understand and enjoy God’s imagery will find confirmation that what they do is divinely inspired and that there are good reasons to validate such practice.

My hope is that by the grace of the Holy Spirit, every person reading this book will exhort, strengthen and encourage you to know God better. You will probably not agree with all of it, but I am convinced that whosever reads this book will be blessed by a lot of gems strewn about in the book.

The first part of the book is to define God’s imagery, and to stress the importance of images and symbols for God and for us. What term or name do we give to a pearl in a dream, a pearl in a vision and a pearl in a parable or in elsewhere in the Bible? The pearl appears in all of these and we want to know what it means, the answer will be the same for all of them whether it is a dream, vision or symbol, parable or type. As this book is written for all Christians it is not important for the process what specific term is used, so I have chosen “imagery”.

It is important in the broad sense to understand why God uses pictorial speech, and why it is important to me in my daily walk, but also why in general pictorial language is a more effective and fun way of communication.

The next step will be to look at how an image functions on its own or with God’s language. For instance can the pearl mean many things? Or does it mean one thing only? How do I get the underlying meaning(s)?

Once we understand how to find the underlying meaning, we move to see what else can help us to understand why a “pearl” is used in a dream, vision, or parable.

Part of that is to bring a fresh understanding to Natural Revelation. The things we see reveals to us the things we do not see (Rom 1:20; 1 Cor 11:14). Nature is wonderful in explaining the things of God but can never operate on its own, especially not in visions, dreams and the prophetic it has to be seasoned and made clear by the Holy Spirit, and often in conjunction with God’s written Word, the Bible.

The different lists and tables are included to develop your sense in managing symbols in their different categories and contexts, which is useful in understanding the roles. For instance, gold, silver and precious stones are grouped together, why? What is their worth?

There has been a teaching of late that the Holy Spirit is the only key to unlocking visions, dreams and prophetic utterances. Yet we know that when it comes to doctrine it would be erroneous to say that doctrine would be fine whether it contravenes what the Bible teaches, in a similar way, Jesus and the Apostles left us clear keys on how to be consistent with our interpretation of Scripture and the imagery God uses therein, we would do well to include this harmony in Scripture in interpreting spiritual revelation in terms of images as well. It is often those who have a complete understanding of the Word that will say you only need the Holy Spirit!

I also believe that the lists will be more useful understanding how a definition of an object will make the spiritual qualities more apparent, so don’t just use them to look up something, but also to practice in how to make images alive in spiritual terms.

Finally there is an example to help you to cross over from the image in real life to the image in the spiritual realm or vica versa.