Shadow in a dream

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

Also: Silhouette, Dark shade, A shadow, Shadowy figure

What it means

What is temporary, fleeting and passing away — and the Old Testament as a shadow of what was to come.

A promise of the real thing yet to come. The law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things.

Our days upon earth are a shadow. What casts no substance of its own cannot hold.

✦ When it is positive

The shadow of a real thing to come
Being covered under the shadow of the Almighty

⚠ When it is a warning

A shadow that is aggressive or frightening in the dream, representing a spiritual entity revealing itself as a threat when it is in truth only a weak figure

How to tell the difference

A SHADOW HAS NO SUBSTANCE OF ITS OWN. Where a shadow menaces the dreamer, the counsel is that it is presenting itself as more than it is. Do not magnify it. Distinguish this from Shade, which is defence and covering.

Scripture

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
Job 8:9 (WEB)

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalm 91:1 (WEB)

which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
Colossians 2:17 (WEB)

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
Hebrews 10:1 (WEB)