The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

511. Fertility Gods—Pagan idols built and crafted as symbols of trees, nature, the elements, and animals (even the stars and planets) to worship and serve in return for their commuted powers of reproduction, agriculture, and procreation in nature and humanity. 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 21:7 and 23:4. 512. Fertility Rites—Sexual acts, rituals, and fetishes engaged in by worshippers of an idol served for its power to affect nature and stimulate agriculture. Jeremiah 2:20 and 3:6; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Kings 17:10; Numbers 25. 513. Fetish—A) A popular term for an object used for its imagined magical power. B) Usually represented on a small stone; fetishes are generally carvings of animals that are sometimes worn as jewelry. C) The fetish is believed to protect or aid its owner in times of need or crises and, regarded superstitiously, is accorded irrational trust and reverence. D) Fetishes engender obsessive devotion by their possessors who see in them the presence of their chosen gods or perhaps a dearly departed kin. In the latter they are tied to totemic (animalistic ancestral) worship. E) Fetishes are also used for real or fantasized sexual gratification. F) As objects of fixation, fetishes may be worshipped and used for sexual expression. G) A series of rites observed by cult worshippers. 514. Fifteen—A) The number of a Levitical servant, the slave’s wages. It is also a shepherd’s number. B) Half of the mature portion for divine service, which is thirty, the spiritual number of a mature priest and shepherd. 2 Kings 20:6; Hosea 3:2; Galatians 1:18. 515. Fingers—Spiritual outreach and activity. Individual assistance or supports of the hand. See Hand. Symbolic of all of the fivefold officers and their positions. See Ephesians 4:11. The thumb refers to the apostle, the pointer finger refers to the prophet, the middle finger refers to the evangelist, the ring finger refers to the pastor, and the pinky finger refers to the teacher. Psalm 8:3; Daniel 5:5; Exodus 8:19; Deuteronomy 9:10; Luke 11:20. 516. Fire—Fire is an important element in the sphere of the prophetic. As far as prophetic language goes, it is a regularly employed symbolism that depicts the emotions of God, His use of His elements, and exemplifies the affects of the Lord’s transmission of His word to the messenger assigned to deliver it. Fire, of all the elements, is the one that humans can create. This uniqueness makes it that much more instrumental to prophetic language as the heat of God’s word. Compared to fire, the prophet Jeremiah said God’s word was shut up, burning in his bones. Jeremiah said that receiving God’s prophecies was a fiery experience to him. Prophetic imagery, too, uses fire in its apparitions as messenger after