Bread of the Presence in a dream

Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa

Also: Showbread, Shewbread, Bread of the face, Twelve loaves

What it means

Intimate fellowship in God's presence.

Jesus as the source of true life, the bread of life.

Twelve loaves were set before the Lord continually, one for each tribe — the whole people kept perpetually before His face.

✦ When it is positive

Christ as the dreamer's sustenance
Continual fellowship rather than occasional visitation
Bread lawfully eaten in need, as David ate it

⚠ When it is a warning

Presuming upon what is holy
Bread set out but never eaten

How to tell the difference

This bread was set upon a blue cloth, and blue represents what is heavenly. It is called the bread of the FACE — its meaning is presence and fellowship, not merely provision. Distinguish it from ordinary Bread and from Manna, which is daily supply.

Scripture

You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.
Exodus 25:30 (WEB)

⁵“You shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes of it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in one cake. ⁶You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD. ⁷You shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire to the LORD. ⁸Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is an everlasting covenant on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Leviticus 24:5-9 (WEB)

So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the show bread that was taken from before the LORD, to be replaced with hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
1 Samuel 21:6 (WEB)

³But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him: ⁴how he entered into God’s house and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?
Matthew 12:3-4 (WEB)