Quotes About Symbolism

Then I looked up and saw four horns.

Then the LORD showed me four craftsmen.

“What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.

There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”

Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.

“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”

And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

“This is Wickedness,” he said. And he shoved her down into the basket, pushing down the lead cover over its opening.

“To build a house for it in the land of Shinar,” he told me. “And when it is ready, the basket will be set there on its pedestal.”

And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

the third white horses, and the fourth dappled horses—all of them strong.

The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.

A massive crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.

Then they led the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and He sat on it.

Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, He went to see if there was any fruit on it. But when He reached it, He found nothing on it except leaves, since it was not the season for figs.

Then He said to the tree, “May no one ever eat of your fruit again.” And His disciples heard this statement.

As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.