Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsLife & Death in dreams
16 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Bucket of Water
Life — a bucket of water represents a living soul/life.
✦ Positive: A full bucket of water = life and health of the person represented
⚠ Warning: A broken bucket = death of the person represented — pray immediately
Chain
Life — a chain represents the continuity and connectedness of life.
✦ Positive: An intact chain = life and ongoing connection; A link of authority; On the neck of nobles, a badge of honour and office
⚠ Warning: A breaking or broken chain = death approaching — pray immediately; Bondage to a past cycle or demonic habit; Spiritual bondage; Restriction and captivity
Cistern
Life — a cistern with a functioning wheel represents life.
✦ Positive: A working cistern = life
⚠ Warning: A broken cistern or broken water wheel at the cistern = death approaching — pray immediately; A broken cistern = futility (Jeremiah 2:13)
Crying Over a Loved One
A direct warning dream — pray for that loved one immediately and break the spirit of death over them.
⚠ Warning: A warning that the loved one revealed in the dream may be in danger of death — pray immediately and break the spirit of death over them
Funeral
The death of something. In a positive context it is the death of the old life, anticipating a breaking through; in a negative context it signals a literal death, requiring prayer.
✦ Positive: In a light, colourful, peaceful and warm dream — the death of something, and often the death of the old life; Anticipating the breaking through of something new
⚠ Warning: Sadness, weeping — people crying or the dreamer crying — and black clothes: the dream signals the literal death of someone; Depending on who the subject of the death is, you may need to pray for that person
Garment Eaten by Moth
Gradual death — a garment represents life; when old, it represents old age and the coming of age; when eaten by a moth it represents gradual death.
✦ Positive: A garment = life
⚠ Warning: An old garment = advanced age/old age coming; A moth-eaten garment = gradual death — pray for the person represented
Golden Bowl
Life as manifested through the material fabric of man's body — the vessel that holds the lamp of life.
✦ Positive: An intact golden bowl = life and health
⚠ Warning: A broken golden bowl = death — the eternal disintegration of the human spirit from the body. Pray immediately.
Green Horse
The spirit of death — the Bible calls this color 'pale' (Revelation 6:8), used consistently of the paleness of the human face when terror-struck, dying, or dead.
⚠ Warning: The spirit of death
Morgue
Foretells death; or sometimes means a ministry that condemns people or preaches the law of death.
⚠ Warning: Death foretold — pray immediately; A ministry operating under condemnation and the law of death rather than grace
Open Grave
Death is imminent — foretells death.
⚠ Warning: Imminent death — pray immediately and break the spirit of death
Pitcher
Life — a pitcher with water near a fountain represents life.
✦ Positive: An intact pitcher with water = life
⚠ Warning: A smashed or broken pitcher = death approaching — pray immediately (Ecclesiastes 12:6)
Part of the Ecclesiastes 12:6 life/death symbol cluster.
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:6
Plant Uprooted
Death — a plant growing in the ground represents life; when the plant is uprooted it represents death.
✦ Positive: A healthy, growing plant = life
⚠ Warning: An uprooted plant = death approaching — pray for the person the plant represents
Silver Cord
Life — the chain that holds the golden bowl (the lamp of life). When it snaps, it represents death and the eternal disintegration of the human spirit from the body.
✦ Positive: Dreaming of a chain intact = life and vitality
⚠ Warning: A breaking or broken chain/cord = death approaching — pray immediately
Spilled Blood
A threat to life — blood spilled in a dream represents death approaching.
⚠ Warning: A threat to life — pray immediately and break the spirit of death
Venomous Serpent
The spirit of death — the angel of death in 1 Corinthians 10:10 is called 'the destroyer', which is the Greek 'olothreutes' specifically meaning a venomous serpent.
⚠ Warning: The spirit of death at work
Water Wheel
Life — a water wheel functioning at a cistern represents life.
✦ Positive: A functioning water wheel = life
⚠ Warning: A broken water wheel at the cistern = death approaching — pray immediately
Part of the Ecclesiastes 12:6 life/death symbol cluster.
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 12:6