AIR: powers of spiritual control; demons

ALTAR: the condition of full dedication to God

AMEN: used as a noun to represent Jesus

ANGELS: messengers (spirit, human, inanimate objects, events)

ARK: the new covenant arrangement under Christ and His Church

ARMAGEDDON: condition of ripeness for destruction (pictured by this ancient battleground of the forces

of good and evil)

ASIA: mud, boggy; condition of being earthbound

BABYLON: primarily the Roman Church- extends to "daughter" denominations

BARLEY: basic Christian character truths

BEAST: a group of men (institution or government) with unholy characteristics

BEASTS (FOUR): God's four attributes: wisdom, justice, love, and power. Should be translated "living ones."

BED: A place of affliction

BEHEADED: having given up personal will to do God's will

BELLY: effects of having taken in and assimilated information

BIRD (UNCLEAN): demon, selfish profiteer, or person pushing personal ideologies

BITTER: difficult and painful

BLACK: devoid of light (truth)

BLOOD: life or its value; can mean death, as in blood spilled

BOOK: a plan with its information, or a record. (See also "little book.")

BOOK OF LIFE: the record of those found worthy of life (in either Gospel or Messianic Ages)

BOTTOMLESS PIT: condition of powerlessness or dormancy

BRIDE: The church of Christ; the 144,000.

BRIDEGROOM: Jesus

BRIDLES: a controlling element

BRIMSTONE: deadly poison (added to symbol of fire to show no way of escape)

CALF: justice (because the calf was the principal animal sacrificed to satisfy justice)

CAMP OF THE SAINTS: the Messianic Age's earthly government consisting of the faithful pre-Christ ancients

CANDLESTICKS: (7) churches (see also "two candlesticks")

CHAIN: connection of truths

CITY: government (religious or secular)

CLOTHING/CLOTHED: status; one's standing before God

CLOUDS: trouble or obscurity

COURT: the condition of justification

CROWN: authority (when from diadema), victory (when from stephanos)

CUP: experiences

DARKNESS: erroneous and superstitious teachings

DAY: a year; a period of time with certain characteristics

DAY AND NIGHT: in perpetuity

DEATH: loss of spiritual life; condition of being alive but not having received eternal life; loss of previous belief or condition; having sacrificed earthly life-rights

DENS: secret societies, hiding places, conditions of subterfuge

DEVIL: civil power or Rome (papal or pagan)

DEVOUR: see "eat"

DOGS: Gentiles; ultimately, anyone refusing to acknowledge Israel's place in God's plan

DOOR: opportunity; proximity

DRAGON: civil power or pagan Rome

DRAGON, SERPENT, DEVIL, SATAN (as 4-part name): civil power under control of personal devil

DUST: mouming

DWELL ON THE EARTH: having strong ties to earthly or worldly interests (i.e., the establishment)

EAGLE: wisdom; Bible

EARTH: society; the established way of doing things; the social order

EARTHQUAKE: revolution

EAT: absorb, appropriate, come into harmony with

EGYPT: type of Western, Christian world

ELDERS: Old Testament prophecies

EUPHRATES: people who support Babylon

EYES: foresight; wisdom

FACE: favor or displeasure

FALSE PROPHET: a confederation of Protestant denominations

FAMINE: lack of truth

FIG AND FIG TREE: Israel

FIRE: destruction or judgment

FIRSTFRUITS: products of the Gospel Age, i.e., the Church and great multitude

FLOOD: great amount of truths

FOREHEAD: the sum total of character

FORNICATION: a Christian dabbling in affairs of this earth, thus unfaithful to Jesus, the espoused bridegroom

FOUNTAINS: the Church (true or false) as a source of religious truths

FOUR: the component parts

FOWLS: discontents

FROGS: unclean and boastful

FURNACE: heated experiences for proving or judging

GARMENTS: justification

GIRDLE: representative of service or servitude

GLASS: purity; transparency; calmness

GOD: position of highest authority (including its counterfeits)

GOG & MAGOG: symbolism for a rebellious civil power at the end of both Gospel and Millennial Ages

GOLD(EN): of Divine things

GOSPEL: the totality of God's Word including its judgment message

GRAPES: evil fruitage

GRASS: humanity in general, or a specific segment of it; when green is specified, right-heartedness or justification is implied

GREEN: alive in spirit (in the sense of having inclinations toward righteousness); justified

-- H --

HAIL: hard truths

HAIR: wisdom, venerableness

HAND: works; cooperation; responsibility

HARP: harmonious set of doctrines

HARVEST: end period of the Gospel Age; beginning of the Messianic Age; results of prior activities

HEAD: place of ideas; forms of government

HEAT: adverse effects from enlightenment

HEAVEN: the religious world or its leadership

HELL: the condition of oblivion when men die, but from which there will be a release

HORNS: powers

HORSE: doctrine

HORSEMEN: followers or promoters of doctrines

HUNGER: lack of spiritual food

-- I --

IMAGE: federated Protestantism

INCENSE: prayers, sacrifices

IRON: strength

ISLAND: small nation or republic

ISRAEL: the people of God (i.e., the true Church)

JERUSALEM: the Millennial Divine government by the Church

JEWS: Christians

JEZEBEL: the Roman Church

JOHN: Church in the flesh

-- K --

KEYS: ability to control access

KILLED: discredited; having lost prior belief

KINGS OF THE EARTH: men of influence

KINGS OF THE EAST: probably the church who will shine as the sun

-- L --

LAKE OF FIRE: the second death: i.e., perpetuat extinction

LAMB: Jesus

LEAVES: professions

LEFT: position of disfavor

LIFE: justification; spiritual vitality

LIGHTNING: bright flashes of truth which tend to confuse rather than enlighten

LINEN: the righteousness of saints (or its counterfeit)

LION: power; Jesus

LITTLE BOOK: Daniel

LIVING SOUL: Christian

LOCUSTS: devouring force as a plague to false Christianity

LORD'S DAY: Millennial Age

-- M --

MAN (FACE OF): love

MANCHILD: man of sin; Papacy

MANNA (HIDDEN): immortality

MARK: indication of agreement or sympathy or cooperation

MARRIAGE: the uniting of Christ and His complete Church in the spirit realm

MEN: Christians, nominal or true

MERCHANTS: capitalists

MICHAEL: "One who as God" = Papacy

MILLSTONE: a place which prepared spiritual food

MONTH: 30 years (a day for a year)

MOON: Old Testament writings; Jewish Law

MORNING STAR: Jesus

MOUNTAIN: large kingdom

MOUTH: message

MURDERERS: character assassins

-- N --

NAKED: without justification

NAME: sum of character; reputation

NATIONS, KINDREDS, PEOPLE(S), & TONGUES (4-name entity): the "sea" class; people without strong roots or commitments to the present order of things

NEW JERUSALEM: the spiritual government of the peaceable kingdom: Christ's Church glorified

NICOLAITANS: people who lord it over others

-- O --

ODOURS: prayers

OIL: Holy spirit

OLIVE: Holy spirit

OLIVE TREES: see "two olive trees"

-- P --

PALMS: symbol of salvation

PEARL: character developed through trials

PILLAR: stalwart

PIT: see "BOTTOMLESS"

PLACES: conditions

PLAGUES: truths to weaken false Christianity

PRIEST: a mediator between God and men

PRISON: death or restraint

PURPLE: royalty (real or assumed)

-- R --

RAIMENT: justification or righteousness

RAIN: blessings of truth

RAINBOW: covenant

RED: sin

REED: standard of judgment

RIGHT: position of favor

RIVER(S): people who support something; source of refreshment

ROCKS: stable institutions

ROD: strong rule; a standard of measurement

-- S --

SACKCLOTH: mourning or humiliation

SAILORS: workmen

SAND OF THE SEA: those ultimately of the earthly kingdom

SAT: controlled

SATAN: Papacy--or civil government (each under the influence of the personal devil)

SCORPIONS: tormentings

SEA: restless humanity without strong ties to the social or religious order of things

SEA OF GLASS: pure water of God's truths for cleansing purposes

SEAL: events which reveal once they occur; guarantee

SEAT: center of power

SECOND DEATH: extinction from which there is no hope of return

SEVEN: a complete number with reference to spiritual things

SHIPMASTER: businessman

SHIPS: commerce

SICKLE: truths to do a separating work

SMOKE: remembrance, obscuration, or evidence

SODOM: type of Babylon

SONG: praise coming from harmonious truths

SORE: a perpetual, threatening problem

SOUL(S) (see "LIVING SOUL"): Saints who have died and await resurrection

SPIRITS: teachings

STARS: teachers (true or false)

STINGS: painful irritations due to unwanted truths

SUN: Gospel [improperly received, can bum: see 7:16; 16:8, 9]

SWORD: Bible; any cutting message

-- T --

TABERNACLE: dwelling place, i.e., presence; God's plan pictured by a building

TAIL: last part; a lying prophet (Isaiah 9:15)

TALENT: sum total of the Gospel

TEARS: disappointment

TEMPLE: God's plan, including the church itself, The Most Holy room of the Tabernacle

TEN: a complete number in reference to earthly or civil things

THIEF: quietly secretive and unexpected

THIRST: craving for truth which leads to life

THRONE: office of rulership including judgment

THUNDER(INGS): results of lightning; i.e., resulting activities or philosophies or controversies

TIME: (chronos) 360 years; a period of certain characteristics

TORMENTED: vexed to the point of great discomfort

TREE: important individuals or small nations or institutions

TREE OF LIFE: promise of continued existence

TRIBES OF ISRAEL: divisions of the glorified Church

TRUMPET: important and timely message

TWO CANDLESTICKS: Old and New Testament writings-as GIVERS OF LIGHT

TWO OLIVE TREES: Old and New Testament writings-as functions of the HOLY SPIRIT

TWO PROPHETS: Old and New Testament writings-as TEACHERS

TWO WITNESSES: Old and New Testament writings-as TESTIFIERS (in advance) of God's purposes

-- V --

VIALS: mechanisms to deliver plaguing truths

VINE OF THE EARTH: Babylon, the fruitage of Satan's planting

VIRGINS: true Church or great multitude; undefiled by illicit cooperation with the world and its ways

-- W --

WAR: a struggle or persecution

WATER: truth

WATERS: people/truths

WHITE: pure or justified

WHORE: a church which has compromised itself with politics and worldly involvement

WILDERNESS: condition of separation (in mind and attitude) from accepted standards of doctrine and practice

WIND: war

WINDS: powers of demonic control

WINE: gospel (pure or polluted); doctrine; experiences coming out of teachings

WINEPRESS: the last trouble of the harvest which squeezes life out of false religion

WITNESSES: see "TWO WITNESSES"

WOMAN: Church (true or false); covenant

WORMWOOD: Arius, as poisonous and bitter to the apostacy

-- Y --