Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbols

Twelve in a dream

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

Also: 12

What it means

Governance; Israel; day; Kingdom — in the second half of Revelation, number 12 becomes prominent (12,000 sealed in each tribe, 12 gates, 12 pearls, 12 angels, 12 foundations, 12 apostles, the tree of life's 12 fruits).

✦ When it is positive

  • Governance
  • Israel
  • Day
  • Kingdom (fullness — the prominence of 12 in Revelation's second half)

⚠ When it is a warning

  • Servitude (the five kings subject to Chedorlaomer for 12 years before rebelling in the thirteenth year)

Scripture

Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Matthew 26:53 (WEB)

5Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more. 6He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.” 8His brothers asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

Genesis 37:5-11 (WEB)

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Genesis 49:28 (WEB)

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Luke 22:30 (WEB)

1A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 2She was with child. She cried out in pain, laboring to give birth. 3Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns. 4His tail drew one third of the stars of the sky, and threw them to the earth. The dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she gave birth he might devour her child.

Revelation 12:1-5 (WEB)

See also: John 11:9; Genesis 14:3-4

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