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Spiritual Significance of  Numbers – The Number 19 and The Number 20

[Study Aired March 22, 2026]

The number nineteen consists of the number nine and the number ten. Nine signifies judgment, and ten signifies the flesh. Therefore this number is connected to the judgment of the flesh which is demonstrated by the destruction of the nation of Judah in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s rule:

2Ki 25:5  And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.
2Ki 25:6  So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
2Ki 25:7  And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
2Ki 25:8  And in the fifth month, on the seventh day  of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
2Ki 25:9  And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
2Ki 25:10  And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

Here are the links to the studies on the number nine and the number ten:

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/spiritual-significance-of-numbers-nine-the-number-of-gods-judgment/

https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/spiritual-significance-of-numbers-ten-is-the-zenith-of-the-flesh/

The tribe of Naphtali received 19 cities, with their villages, as part of their inheritance in the Promised Land. Their inheritance from God was in the northern most part of what would become Israel. It encompassed the entire western section of the Sea of Galilee.

Jos 19:38  And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

Isaiah prophesied that the land of Naphtali and Zebulon would someday see a shining beacon in their lands.

Isa 9:1  Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
Isa 9:2  The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

This prophecy, which only the book of Matthew records as being fulfilled, came true during the life of Jesus within the tribe of Naphtali which inherited 19 cities.

Another significant fact concerning this number is that each year it takes 19 days to observe all of God’s annual Feast days. These commanded yearly celebrations are the Passover (1 day), Days of Unleavened Bread (7 days), Pentecost (1 day), Day of Trumpets (1 day), Day of Atonement (1 day), Feast of Tabernacles (7 days) and Last Great Day (1 day). Nineteen days are required to signify the completed judgment (9) of God, upon all flesh, (10).

That judgment has a negative application for the flesh and a positive application for the spirit because life comes only “through death”:

Col 1:22  In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

The Spiritual Significance of The Number 20

Positive-Being Prepared For Service

Negative-Being Prepared For Judgment

The number twenty first appears in scripture in the story of Abraham bargaining with Christ to spare the destruction of Sodom. Abraham started out asking the Lord to spare Sodom if 50 righteous were found in the city and ended up asking for the Lord’s mercy if only ten righteous were in the city. Twenty was his next to the last request:

Gen 18:31  And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.
Gen 18:32  And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.
Gen 18:33  And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

This can be seen as a negative application of the number twenty inasmuch as not even twenty were being prepared for the Lord’s service in all of Sodom and Sodom suffered the Lord’s judgment for her sins.

The first positive application of the number twenty, demonstrating that it signifies preparation for service is in the story of Jacob who served his uncle Laban for twenty years:

Gen 31:38  This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
Gen 31:39  That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.
Gen 31:40  Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Gen 31:41  Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
Gen 31:42  Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

The Lord had told Jacob to return to the land of his father and Jacob did so.

Gen 31:3  And the LORD said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

If the Lord had not been with him those 20 years in his uncle Laban’s service Jacob would not have been prepared for the trials which he endured on his return. Laban pursued him with the means to do Jacob great harm.

Gen 31:29  It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Gen 31:30  And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Gen 31:31  And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.
Gen 31:32  With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

He was also told that his brother, Esau was coming with four hundred men, and he wrestled with Christ all night the night before confronting his brother, Esau. His twenty years in Laban’s house, suffering “affliction and labor”, serving his uncle, and ‘having his wages changed ten times’ prepared Jacob for the Lord’s service.

Several years after Jacob’s return to the land of his father his son, Joseph was sold by the hand of his jealous brothers to Midianite merchantmen for twenty pieces of silver:

Gen 37:28  Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Joseph was sold for 20 pieces of silver signifying that the Lord was preparing him for a life in the Lord’s service, whereas Christ being sold for thirty pieces of silver signifies His service has been offered and the judgment of Christ’s flesh was immediately at hand.

Mat 26:14  Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
Mat 26:15  And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

Jabin, king of Canaan, oppressed Israel for twenty years before the Lord used Deborah and Barak to deliver them from that bondage:

Jdg 4:1  And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.
Jdg 4:2  And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
Jdg 4:3  And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

The Lord always hears a repentant cry, and He sent Israel deliverance via Deborah and Barak:

Jdg 4:4  And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Jdg 4:5  And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Jdg 4:6  And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
Jdg 4:7  And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

The Philistines, in the days of Samuel, the last judge of Israel, won a battle with Israel and took the Ark of the Covenant back to their land where it was a plague to each of the five cities to which they sent it for seven months. The ark was such a curse upon the Philistines that they sent it back to Israel. It spent a little time in the city of Bethshemesh where it again became a curse to the people because they had presumptuously looked into the ark:

1Sa 6:19  And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
1Sa 6:20  And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
1Sa 6:21  And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark of the LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.

The men of Kirjathjearim came and took the ark to the house of Abinadab where Abinadab’s son Eleazar was “sanctified… to keep the ark of the Lord”:

1Sa 7:1  And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
1Sa 7:2  And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

The twenty years the ark was in Kirjathjearim was in preparation for Israel to demand a king of Samuel. The next time we hear any mention of the ark is when King Saul orders Ahiah the high priest, to bring the ark of God:

1Sa 14:18  And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

In verse 2 of this same chapter we are informed that Ahiah was the high priest in the days of King Saul:

1Sa 14:1  Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.
1Sa 14:2  And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1Sa 14:3  And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD’S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

We are not given the exact date when the ark was taken from Kirjathjearim to be with the high priest, Ahiah in King Saul’s camp but the twenty years in Kirjathjearim was in preparation for this service to the new king.

In another negative application of this number twenty it is very interesting to notice that the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah starting with the splitting of the kingdom during the rule of Rehoboam the son of King Solomon, both had 20 rulers before they were carried off into captivity. The northern kingdom started with Jereboam, the son of Nebat, and ended with Hoshea. The southern kingdom started with Rehoboam and ended with Zedekiah.

King Ahaz, who is considered to be one of the wicked kings of Judah reigned 20 years before his son Hezekiah, the most righteous king since King David, began his reign:

2Ch 29:1  Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2Ch 29:2  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

Twenty years of witnessing his father Ahaz’s wicked rulership prepared Hezekiah to be of great service to the Lord and to the Lord’s people.

2Ki 18:2  Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
2Ki 18:3  And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.
2Ki 18:4  He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
2Ki 18:5  He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
2Ki 18:6  For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

That is the fruit of being prepared twenty years for the Lord’s service under his wicked father, King Ahaz.

King Solomon spent seven years building the house of God and then spent another 13 years building his own house for a total of twenty years of construction on those two projects. Hiram, king of Tyre, had supplied Solomon with raw materials and skilled craftsmen. To show his appreciation Solomon gave King Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee. Upon inspection Hiram was very disappointed with Solomon’s gift and returned them to Solomon:

1Ki 9:10  And it came to pass, at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses,—the house of Yahweh, and the house of the king;
1Ki 9:11  Hiram king of Tyre having supplied Solomon with timber of cedar, and with timber of fir, and with gold, according to all his desire, that, then, King Solomon gave unto Hiram twenty cities, in the land of Galilee.
1Ki 9:12  And Hiram came out from Tyre to view the cities which, Solomon, had given him,—and they were not pleasing in his eyes.
1Ki 9:13  So he said—What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them, Unfruitful Land, as they are called unto this day.
1Ki 9:14  Now Hiram had sent to the king,—a hundred and twenty talents of gold. (REV)

King Hiram was so disappointed with the twenty cities Solomon had given him that he “restored [them] to Solomon”:

2Ch 8:1  And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD, and his own house,
2Ch 8:2  That the [twenty] cities which Huram had restored to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused the children of Israel to dwell there.

Samson judged Israel for twenty years:

Jdg 16:29  And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
Jdg 16:30  And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Jdg 16:31  Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

The scriptures record twenty different messages which are conveyed through dreams. The first such dream warns Abimelech not to go near Abraham’s wife:

Gen 20:2  And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Gen 20:3  But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
Gen 20:4  But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?
Gen 20:5  Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Gen 20:6  And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
Gen 20:7  Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

On his way to Haran while fleeing from his brother, Esau, Jacob dreams of a ladder to heaven, which Christ later reveals as signifying Himself:

Gen 28:12  And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Joh 1:51  And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

Jacob is given a second dream where the Lord tells him to leave Laban’s employment and return to his father:

Gen 31:10  And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
Gen 31:11  And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
Gen 31:12  And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Gen 31:13  I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.

Jacob’s employer, his wicked uncle Laban, is warned in a dream to do no harm to Jacob:

Gen 31:22  And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
Gen 31:23  And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Gen 31:24  And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Joseph dreamed that his brothers would bow down to him:

Gen 37:5  And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
Gen 37:6  And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Gen 37:7  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
Gen 37:8  And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

Joseph dreams a second dream. In this dream his brothers and his parents all bow down to him:

Gen 37:9  And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
Gen 37:10  And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Gen 37:11  And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

The next two dreams are those of the butler and the baker:

Gen 40:2  And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
Gen 40:3  And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Gen 40:4  And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
Gen 40:5  And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Gen 40:6  And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.
Gen 40:7  And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?
Gen 40:8  And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
Gen 40:9  And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Gen 40:10  And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes:
Gen 40:11  And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
Gen 40:12  And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
Gen 40:13  Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
Gen 40:14  But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:
Gen 40:15  For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Gen 40:16  When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:
Gen 40:17  And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Gen 40:18  And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
Gen 40:19  Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Gen 40:20  And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Gen 40:21  And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
Gen 40:22  But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Gen 40:23  Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

The next dream mentioned in scripture is Pharaoh’s two different dreams. In the first dream Pharaoh sees seven fat cows eaten up by seven starved cows. His next dream was of seven fat ears of corn being eaten up by seven very thin ears of corn. (Gen 41)

A soldier in the Midianite army dreams that a cake of barley tumbled into the camp of Midian and smote a tent and overturned it. His companion interprets the man’s dream and tells him the Lord has delivered Midian into the hand of the Lord and Gideon.

Jdg 7:13  And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
Jdg 7:14  And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Jdg 7:15  And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

King Solomon is told by the Lord in a dream to ask anything and it would be given to him:

1Ki 3:5  In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

King Nebuchadnezzar is shown, in a dream, all the empires that will rule the world right up to the establishment of the Lord’s kingdom at His appearing:

Dan 2:44  And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Dan 2:45  Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

Nebuchadnezzar’s next dream reveals his own punishment for his self-righteous pride:

Dan 4:13  I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven;
Dan 4:14  He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:
Dan 4:15  Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
Dan 4:16  Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.
Dan 4:17  This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.
Dan 4:18  This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.

Daniel himself has a dream about the four great empires which will rule the earth before the Lord sets up His kingdom on this earth:

Dan 7:1  In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Dan 7:2  Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
Dan 7:3  And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

In Revelation 13 it is revealed to us these same four beasts are really one composite beast within every man, and it is this beast which has been reigning in the kingdoms of this world all along, and he will continue his rule until the stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands destroys this beast and become a kingdom which will not pass away.

The last five dreams are recorded in the New Testament. The first three are given to Joseph, whom they supposed was Christ’s father. These dreams had to do with Christ’s supernatural birth and protecting Him from the wrath of Herod. (Mat 2:13-23)

The next dream recorded is that of the Magi being informed in a dream to avoid Herod on their trip returning to their home. (Mat 2:12)

The twentieth dream recorded in scripture is that of Pilate’s wife warning her husband that he should do nothing to harm Christ (Mat 27:19)

There are other events which may appear to be dreams but they are not called dreams. The disciples Peter, James and John saw the vision of Christ’s transformation on the mount. In this case we are told it was a vision.

Mat 17:9  And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

Paul has a vision of a man from Macedonia telling him to ‘Come over here and help us’. We are told this was a vision (Act 16:9). An angel stood by Paul the night before his ship wrecked and assured him that not one person would be lost at sea. But that event was not called a dream. (Act 27:23)

In conclusion, all of the twenty dreams recorded in scripture, and any mention of the number 20, like Jacob’s 20 years of service to Laban, has either a positive or a negative application of preparation for service whether that service is for good or evil.

The number twenty consists of two tens which signifies that our body of flesh (10) is being used of the Lord as a means of being preparing us to be given a spiritual body:

1Co 15:46  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48  As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.