Symbols Are The Language Of Our Dreams

About ninety-five percent of our dreams are saturated with symbols. It is these symbols, when understood that speak to a greater reality or provide a more distinct meaning or understanding of the hidden messages that our dreams are attempting to convey.

What is a symbol? Well, in laymen's terms, a symbol is the use of something to represent something else. A symbol can also be defined as an object, person, idea, etc., employed in an illustration or presentation, dream, or vision to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated, either explicitly or subtly.

Thus, the symbols in our dreams literally become the language of our dreams to reveal the coded messages embedded in our dreams. Our dreams in and of themselves are a mystery. However, once the dream is interpreted, the interpretation is now known as the revelation of what was once a mystery concerning our dreams. Therefore, Dream interpreters translate our dreams' language (symbols) to reveal the hidden spiritual messages incorporated into our dreams.

Our dreams are displayed chiefly in symbols because the reality of the spirit realm, in which the dream is created, is far too complicated for ordinary human understanding. Therefore, signs in our dreams point to real-life situations and matters. Nevertheless, symbols are not just limited to dreams and visions. In fact, throughout the scriptures, symbols are depicted in parables to convey messages from God or compare or contrast spiritual and physical things.

Case and point, in Isaiah 5:1-7, a story of "The parable of the vineyard" is narrated by the prophet Isaiah. This parable reveals that a farmer loved his vineyard to the extent that he had fenced it, removed all the stones, and planted a choice vine. The story says that the Farmer built a tower in the middle of the vineyard and built a wine press. However, to the Farmer's surprise, his well-loved vineyard brought forth wild grapes! The Farmer nurtured his vineyard and provided it with the best of everything to expect that the vineyard would bring forth the best grapes.

In Isaiah 5:3, the Farmer makes a statement and asks a question to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah. "Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard," "what more could I have done to the vineyard that I have not done in it"? "Because when I expected grapes, it brought forth wild grapes."

"Because of this, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge I had in place to protect it, and now it will be eaten up and exposed to everything that the hedge once protected it from. Then I will allow it to lay waste, and it shall not be pruned nor plowed. Instead, I will let thorns and wild bush spring among it. I will also command the clouds not to rain upon it.

However, the revelation of this parable is revealed in Isaiah 5:7, where the symbol of the vineyard is revealed as the house of Israel, and the men of Judah were the Farmer's pleasant plants. The Farmer was the Lord God himself. The Lord expected they would display righteous judgments after his provision and protection of Israel. Instead, they became lords of oppression. The parable further revealed in verse 5 that God would eventually remove his protection from Israel, and other nations would come in and oppress them. In verse 6, however, He promised that he would no longer provide for Israel and that they would become desolate and poverty and hardship would now be their portion.

So as you would have read in the above parable, the symbols indicated the past, current and pending state of the inhabitants of Israel just because they failed to produce what they were empowered by God to produce.

Another example of the spiritual implications of symbols is revealed in Matthew 12:43-44. In this illustration, Jesus told a very profound revelation of how evil spirits classify human beings. Jesus said that when a person is delivered from an unclean spirit, the unclean spirit walks through dry places seeking rest and finds none. The unclean spirit then says to himself, let me return to my "HOUSE" from where I came out. The symbol of a house in this parable represents the life of a human being. Therefore, for the most part, when a home is presented in a dream, it symbolizes a person's life; if it is a huge house or apartment complex, it expresses a family or a group!

Therefore, we must learn the language of our dreams by understanding the symbols presented in our dreams. This, my friend, can only happen via the assistance of the Holy Spirit, who has been assigned to us primarily to lead us into all truth.

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

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