Twenty in a dream
Biblical meaning from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Also: 20
What it means
Purchase price, redemption, deliverance — Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver; the Tabernacle had 20 boards on the south and 20 on the north (representing man's nature and God's nature redeeming together).
The book of Ruth, a story of redemption, contains 20 names.
Census-takers above age 20 brought ransom/atonement money (Exodus 30:11-16) — total, once-for-all redemption through the blood of Jesus.
Samson, a type of Christ, judged Israel for 20 years (deliverance).
✦ When it is positive
- Purchase price, redemption
- Deliverance
⚠ When it is a warning
- Oppression (Jabin the Canaanite king oppressed Israel for 20 years; Jacob spent 20 years serving Laban in Mesopotamia; Israel mournfully sought the Lord for 20 years after the ark came to Kiriath Jearim)
Scripture
18You shall make twenty boards for the tabernacle, for the south side southward. 20For the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
Exodus 26:18,20 (WEB)
11The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 12“When you take a census of the children of Israel, according to those who are counted among them, then each man shall give a ransom for his soul to the LORD when you count them, that there be no plague among them when you count them. 13They shall give this, everyone who passes over to those who are counted, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs); half a shekel for an offering to the LORD. 14Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the LORD.
Exodus 30:11-16 (WEB)
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
Matthew 26:28 (WEB)
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Romans 3:25 (WEB)
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Hebrews 10:18 (WEB)
See also: Judges 15:16,20; Judges 4:1-3; Genesis 31:38; 1 Samuel 7:2