The Number 7: The most repeated number in the book of Revelation, it represents wholeness and completion. John wrote to 7 churches. You’ll see 7 lampstands, 7 angels, and 7 stars, representing these churches. You’ll meet a lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes that open the 7 seals of God’s scroll. Then, there will be 7 scenes with 7 trumpets and 7 bowls of wrath paralleling the 7 scrolls. God’s people will receive 7 blessings in this magnificent book.
Horn: Symbolizes a king or kingdom. They also represent power and strength.
Dragon: A depiction of Satan or enemies of Israel
Clouds: God’s presence and glory. Also, how Jesus will return to earth.
Fire: Judgment, purification
Stars: Ruling authority
White: Color of triumph and purity and righteousness
7 Lamps: Holy Spirit
God’s Throne Room: God’s power and rule
Thunder, Wind, & Lightning: God’s judgment
Eyes: Knowledge and wisdom
Lamb: God’s redemptive plan
Incense smoke: Carried the people’s prayers to God
Vines & Fig Trees: Prosperity
Sackcloth: Clothing of mourning and repentance
Scales: Scarcity
White robes: salvation, God’s righteousness
Earthquakes: God’s presence and judgment
Palm branches: Victory
Number 144,000: Completeness. A multiple of 12. Also represents Israel’s tribes and those marked with the Lamb or God’s name.
Trumpets: Announced a war or called God’s people together. They also announce God’s impending judgment.
Women: Religion in the Book of Revelation
Number 12: The 12 Tribes of Israel or the 12 Apostles. It also is a number of completeness and wholeness
Firstfruits: Hope of the harvest and a praise offering to God
Hail: judgment against mankind
Bowls: images of judgment
Clothing: character, God’s gift of a transformed life
Scarlet and Crimson: Sin
Babylon: Rebellion against God
Waters: people or armies. Waters and living waters symbolize blessings from God’s presence
Light: God’s glory
Wilderness or Desert: a place of testing and evil
Mountain: the place God makes Himself known
Washed robes: experiencing God’s grace through forgiveness of sin
Dogs: those who shut God out of their lives and reject His righteousness
