The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

living room. Why would such a thing be done there? What would make the Lord see an inappropriate task being done in an improper place? These are some of the inquiries that should be made when one has such a dream. 785. Lizard—A) An early civilizations religious symbol with snakelike properties. B) Worshipped for wisdom, cunning, divination, magic, and sorcery. As an Egyptian symbol of these (previously mentioned) and secret knowledge, lizards were consulted for their mystical logic and used in mysterious arts. C) Lizard images were used to signify guardian monsters such as gargoyles, and they typified heroes of old. They also represented ancestral spirits honored for guarding the generation’s family line. D) The word means muscular, burly, and lusty. 786. Loa Loas—The voodoo word for it is necro-deities. Necro means “dead.” Loa are abiding spirits that protect the territories or regions (usually of the dead) to which they are assigned. Others are ancestral deities and all are led by a priest or priestess, hungan or mambo respectively. Today’s loa are blended with medieval Christian saints who are felt to typify these abiding spirits in religious significance. 787. Local Church Prophetics—The organized institution of prophetic activities, agencies, and operations manifested in a local assembly under the auspices of its pastor and its prophetic superintendent. 788. Lock—As used in Scripture, which sees instruments and objects as mechanisms that achieved purposes, the word identifies “that which bars the way.” Thus the meaning of the word explains its spiritual connotations and amplifies what the Lord Jesus found wanting in the lawyers’ teachings of His day. In taking away the key of knowledge, they kept the door to God’s wisdom locked and its potential way to eternal life. Their closure of the doorway of the knowledge of Israel’s God and His Messiah condemned those who had yet to hear and learn of spiritual darkness and its corresponding bondage and ravages. Hence, they “barred” the way of salvation. Luke 11:52: “Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” 789. Locust—Symbolic of destruction, in particular, mass destruction as a judgment from God. 790. Lord—A term of reverence and submission toward a ruler. The word means ruler, master, and king. The Hebrew word for Lord is Adoni. In the Greek