The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

believed to be engaging in the same with his or her consort. B) Sexual encounters intended to purely appease, entertain, sacrifice, or merge with a god or invisible force. Today’s recreational sex in films and televisions are frank demonstrations of this rite in modern times. Ancient fertility cults of Ishtar, Baal, Aphrodite, and others include ritual sex in their celebrations as offerings required of their priests and priestesses. Temple prostitutes, male and female, were on staff for these purposes in heathen sanctuaries. 1258. River—Symbolism for a prophetic or doctrinal stream. Rivers served as a bridge to the celestial world from the terrestrial one. Early peoples believed this because of the way the rivers lit up at night against the full moon. Prophetically, rivers epitomize a collection of unified thought, a source of enlightenment and revelation. Rivers also represent an assembly and the teachings it embraces, and is carried away by. John 7:38. 1259. Road—A) A sign of travel, a straight course. B) A pathway toward a destination. 1260. Rock—A) Symbolic of permanence, endurance and endurability, strength and integrity. B) Rocks reflect the immovable and stable. 1261. Roeh Prophet—The prophet whose mantle has a strong shepherding element attached to the ministry whereby responsibility for subordinate and novice prophets exists. 1262. Rooms—Rooms, as settings of prophetic dreams, are very important. Generally, rooms are likened to the chambers of the heart and so also the foundation of the thought life, as inspired by the emotions. Paying attention to them can give meaningful clues to what the dream or vision is communicating. The room’s furnishings, use, and the like say much to the dreamer about the interpretation of the word the Lord is sending. They comprise the dream objects that support or elucidate the message and its right application to the life and affairs of the dreamer. What is occurring in the room is the storyboard from which the dreamer is to derive the dream’s message. 1263. Root—The life sources of something, the cause and explanation of its fruit. The Bible uses the term root to designate the nature of a person and his or her behavior and life activity. God likens a person’s treatment of His word and the move of His Spirit to the condition of his or her life root, which is found in his or her heart. Roots were either shallow—that is, not deeply planted—or deep,