The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

of the ordinary prophetic communications. Generally, revelations depicting something new to the earth were received by way of trances. Such was the case with Balaam in Numbers 24:4, 16. In Acts 10:10 Peter’s trance was the result of what was understood in his day as a spiritual translation of his mind. A region of his mind was opened to the world of God where the Lord communicated a message that was tantamount to a crash course on his global ministry. 1537. Transcend—To rise above or extend beyond. 1 Peter 1:19–21. 1538. Transfiguration—English rendering of Greek word metamorphoo, from which we derive our word metamorphosis. The term means to change into another form. 1539. Translation—A) To carry or bear from one place to another, to take from one form to another. B) Explanation of the unfamiliar, unlearned, or foreign. C) It is also the term used for the carrying away of the Christian to heaven when Christ comes for His church. Hebrews 11:15. 1540. Transmutation—A less glorifying form of transfiguration, it means to alter by mutating or changing the basic substance and nature of something. Not merely changing color, style, or form, but altering, by some act, the very essence of a thing from one type or kind to an entirely different one. Biblical foundation for this is Moses’ changing his staff into a serpent. Without Moses having performed this feat at the behest of the Creator, the idea would seem ludicrous and purely paranormal fantasy. However, the fact that God decreed Moses to perform such a feat indicates that in His creation, transmutation is in the realm of possibility. Jesus repeated such a feat when He changed the water at the wedding of Cana to wine. 1541. Trees—Creator plantings, nations. See Isaiah 61:3. Outside of the Lord, the tree represented the nesting place of the agents (spirits) of celestial and high terrestrial beings. The souls of dead humans were sometimes believed to haunt them. In any case, trees were divinatory prophetic emblems where the birds nesting in them were thought to be possessed or empowered by spirits to convey a message to the earth. Thick, large, leafy trees represent powerful, prosperous kingdoms. With that, the tree also represented the human power of the kingdom. Lastly, trees signify fluency in revelatory speech and the nourishment that comes thereof. See Cosmic Tree. 1542. Trespass—Pass over; to go beyond a prescribed, ordained, or