Understanding the Dreams You Dream Vol. 2: Every Dreamer's Handbook by Ira Milligan

Author:Ira Milligan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Dream Interpretation, Dreams
ISBN: 9780768430301
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2000-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

All Creatures Great and Small

When God created the world’s inhabitants, He first made the birds and fish, and then progressed to land animals. All in all, Genesis lists five different types of creatures that He made. Although His animal creation included every creepy-crawly thing in existence, He mentions only a few by name. We’ll keep our discussion down to a few, also.

It wasn’t until the fifth day that God made living, moving creatures, and that gives us a clue as to what animals were made for: They were all created to serve Him. (Remember, five means “service.”) This information also helps us to see how creatures are used as symbols. So let’s take a look at the Genesis record:

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Genesis 1:20-28).

The Fish of the Sea

The waters brought forth the fish and fowl. Water often depicts things that are spiritual, and because the fish and fowl were brought forth from water, their source reveals they relate to spiritual things—especially things that relate to the soul. For instance, Jesus used fish as a type of lost souls. He said to Peter and Andrew, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men” (Mt. 4:19b). We know that most symbols have opposite meanings; and so, fish can also represent souls that are saved. After all, one doesn’t cease to be a fish just because

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