Quotes about Symbolism
This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
- Revelation 1:20
The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.
- Revelation 4:3
The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
- Revelation 4:7
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
- Revelation 5:1
And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne.
- Revelation 5:7
Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thunderous voice, “Come!”
- Revelation 6:1
And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.
- Revelation 9:7
They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions.
- Revelation 9:8
He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
- Revelation 10:2
And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”
- Revelation 10:9
So I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned bitter.
- Revelation 10:10
These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
- Revelation 11:4