Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbols

Fourteen in a dream

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

Also: 14

What it means

Double perfection (7 multiplied by 7); multiplied blessing and restoration; generations; beloved/darling/favored; the hand of God, open hand.

Fourteen lambs were offered on the Feast of Succoth.

Solomon's feast lasted fourteen days.

The millennial Kingdom altar will be 14 cubits long and 14 broad.

Job had 7,000 sheep and goats in the beginning, and 14,000 in his later years (multiplied restoration).

From Abraham to David are 14 generations; David to the Babylonian captivity, 14 generations; captivity to Christ, 14 generations.

Fourteen is the numerical value of the Hebrew letters forming the name David, meaning 'beloved'.

✦ When it is positive

  • Double perfection
  • Multiplied blessing, restoration
  • Generations
  • Beloved, darling, favored
  • The hand of God, open hand

⚠ When it is a warning

  • Working for the system, a job (Jacob worked for Laban 14 years in Mesopotamia/Babylon — the author identifies Babylon as 'the system' and Jacob as an employee of that system)

How to tell the difference

The author draws a distinction between Egypt (representing 'the world') and Babylon (representing 'the system') in this entry's negative association.

Scripture

12“‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days. 13You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old, all without defect;

Numbers 29:12-13 (WEB)

So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the LORD our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

1 Kings 8:65 (WEB)

The ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and its bottom shall be a cubit around; and its steps shall look toward the east.”

Ezekiel 43:17 (WEB)

So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Job 42:12 (WEB)

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; from David to the exile to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon to the Christ, fourteen generations.

Matthew 1:17 (WEB)

See also: Genesis 10:10

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