The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

The immaterial view or presence of an object. C) Peter’s shadow is said in Acts 5:15 to have possessed special powers to heal. D) Death has its own shadow that is felt and sometimes seen before its arrival. Psalm 23:4; Hebrews 8:5. 1336. Shadows—A) Shadows are significant to dream and prophetic language in that they represent an existing or impending physical being. Shadows are a type of token released by the Spirit as a confirmation of what the shadow indicates. The shadow is something clearly seen whose details are unable to be made out. Prophetically, shadows are used by God to force the recipient to seek the Lord for concrete details of the matter being treated in the dream. Shadows furthermore indicate the brevity of life and its transitory events. They help the dreamer grasp the fleetingness of human life. B) In spiritual language, shadows represent figures of the night exposed to light. In dreams, shadowy figures not only seek to portray the unknown, but they further impress the intangible, insubstantial over the literal or physical. In the Bible, shadows refer to spiritual and literal shelter. The wing of the Almighty is the most repetitive example of this. Shadows appear when the sun has moved or light has been darkened by another object. Therefore the process of day giving way to night is another meaning of the word. Shadows also signify death and aging. See Jeremiah 6:4; Song of Solomon 2:17. For an example of a shadowy figure being a spirit being, see Job 4:12–20. In Psalm 63:7 shadow is applied to wings for covering and protection. In Psalm 102:11 and 109:23 it refers to shade as insulation, protection, and concealment that can double as a supply source. In Colossians 2:17 shadows refer to symbolic tokens, while Acts 5:15 shows Peter’s shadow so full of the Holy Ghost’s glory and strength that it contained power to heal while just passing by. Hebrews 8:5 and 10:1 present shadows as temporary symbolic foretokens meant to be replaced with the real and greater thing to come. 1337. Shadowy Dream Figures—Shadowy figures are those that are shaped as people without flesh or bones. They are known by the intuition or revelation given by the dreamer’s understanding. Seeing shadowy figures in dreams that are unquestionably prophetic refers to the immaterial side or nature of a person, or its spiritual counterpart from God’s perspective. Dream shadows serve to indicate the inner self or motivations of a person that would be otherwise unknown if the dream or vision showed the object in its literal or physical form. Because shadowy figures are obscure versions of the true, the dreamer must rely on the revelatory explanations of the dream agent, an angel or the Holy Spirit, to identify the figure seen. To see beings or creatures as shadowy figures in