The Bible,The Spiritual, and Allegories

To understand prophecy, someone may need to understand allegories. In Ezekiel 1, Prophet Ezekiel has a vision of angels.  This can not be understood outside of an allegorical or spiritual understanding.  The Book of Revelations cannot be understood outside of an allegorical or spiritual interpretation.  

Interesting Things About Allegorical Interpretation and Different Denominations:

• Catholics - Tradition based interpretation.

• Protestants (Conservative) - Bible Only Interpretation.

• Liberal Christians - Allegorical Interpretation.

Someone like Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote about "The Nature of Angels." This gets into an Extra Biblical Understanding. How many Angels are there, and what do they do? What is their nature? That may have been Extra Biblical, received through revelation, and someone reading between the lines in the Bible. All revelation should be tested. Some Protestant Reformers didn't like Revelation and Extra Biblical Understanding. What is the nature of Heaven and Hell? What does Heaven and Hell look like? The Bible gives us some glimpses into Heaven and Hell. Someone writing about it may have had Extra Biblical Revelation or Understanding. Is there a purgatory? Extra Biblical. Protestant Reformers didn't like that. Some went to "Bible Only Literalism."


Some Protestant Reformers really had a chip on their shoulder for The Saints. They may have taken The Bible out of context of men living it.


An Allegorical Understanding gets into a spiritual or prophetic understanding. Someone would not be able to understand Ezekiel 1 without a allegorical understanding. Someone would not be able to understand The Book of Revelations without an Allegorical Understanding. Am I over simplifying or generalizing all of this? Maybe. An Allegorical Understanding gets into a Spiritual or Prophetic Understanding. Given someone was taking the Bible out of the context of The Prophets and the Saints, they may have been off in interpretations of prophetic scriptures.


People have become confused with Liberal and Conservative and Literal and Allegorical after Darwin. A Conservative was Bible only literalism in his view of Genesis, and a Liberal was for Allegorical Understanding?


I learned of an Allegorical Understanding through God's Holy Spirit, and some articles I was guided to on the internet.

Applying Allegorical Interpretation of The Bible - Living Dead

Below is Hellinistic Philosopher, and early Christian Origen's wiki on his view of Allegorical Interpretation of the Bible.

Allegorical interpretation of scripture

According to Origen, there are two kinds of Biblical literature, which are found in both the Old and New Testaments: historia ("history, or narrative") and nomothesia ("legislation or ethical prescription").[145] Origen expressly states that the Old and New Testaments should be read together and according to the same rules.[147] Origen further taught that there were three different ways in which passages of scripture could be interpreted.[147][30] The "flesh" was the literal, historical interpretation of the passage;[147][30] the "soul" was the moral message behind the passage;[147][30] and the "spirit" was the eternal, incorporeal reality that the passage conveyed.[147][30] In Origen's exegesis, the Book of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs represent perfect examples of the bodily, soulful, and spiritual components of scripture respectively.[148]

Origen saw the "spiritual" interpretation as the deepest and most important meaning of the text[148] and taught that some passages held no literal meaning at all and that their meanings were purely allegorical.[148] Nonetheless, he stressed that "the passages which are historically true are far more numerous than those which are composed with purely spiritual meanings."[148] Origen noticed that the accounts of Jesus's life in the four canonical gospels contain irreconcilable contradictions,[149][150][151] but he argued that these contradictions did not undermine the spiritual meanings of the passages in question.[150][151] Origen's idea of a twofold creation was based on an allegorical interpretation of the creation story found in the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis.[129] The first creation, described in Genesis 1:26, was the creation of the primeval spirits,[152] who are made "in the image of God" and are therefore incorporeal like Him;[152] the second creation described in Genesis 2:7 is when the human souls are given ethereal, spiritual bodies[153] and the description in Genesis 3:21 of God clothing Adam and Eve in "tunics of skin" refers to the transformation of these spiritual bodies into corporeal ones.[152] Thus, each phase represents a degradation from the original state of incorporeal holiness.[152]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen

Origen wrote a lot, and I don't know that I agree with him on everything he wrote, we are focusing on Allegorical Interpretation. Again, nothing else he wrote. Just Allegorical Interpretation.

The Bible asserts Truth capitol T. Various Words, Phrases, Ideas, and/or Concepts, things, in the Bible, carry meaning and Truth. There is a particular way to look at them.

• Given God and the Spiritual, God has Law.
• Given God has Law, God has been working in particular ways.
• The Spiritual is other dimensional and complex. Allegories and Parables have been used to describe complex things.

The Church as God's Wife

In the Old Testament Israel or Jerusalem was like God's Wife. The Song of Songs is said to be in the Bible as a display of God's Love for Israel. In Ezekiel 23, and many of the Prophetic Books, Israel or Judah are often referenced as God's wife or love. In the New Testament, The Church is like God's Bride.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Ephesians 5:25

Is Israel more of a Virgin Israel or a Harlot Ezekiel 23? In Revelations 17 there is a Great Prostitute. Are the Nations drunk on her wine?

These Allegories have cause and effect relationship with real world or physical things. Using these Allegories as lead by The Holy Ghost and The Lord Jesus Christ, someone may be able to explain various happenings in the world.

In Ezekiel 37, there is The Valley of the Dry Bones. In the Valley of the Dry bones there were "Living Dead People." People who were in their graves. God gave them form. He breathed life into them. The wages of sin are death. How did they become dead? Sin and unrepentance to God. God Almighty, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is not of the dead but God of the living. He is the living God. He is an Awesome God. Someone in sin may be like a living dead person or a zombie. Reading the signs of times, the Spiritual Allegory that has been most often used is "Zombie Apocalypse" or something similar to. Rob Zombie sang "Living Dead Girl." A sinner may be like zombie. Some of them work to bite like a snake bite, bite others, bite them and lead them into sin as well, similar to Eve with Adam? The wages of sin are death.

God gave me three videos to play one after the other, in order, to express something for him: 

• "Regulator."
•  In Ezekiel 23, Israel and Judah were AWOL Nations."Sail"
• The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil. (Isaiah 57:1)"Rapture of Riddley Walker"

Some Bible verses I referenced:

Romans 6:23

Luke 20:38

These Allegories work in particular ways and have particular meaning. Someone giving them wrong may be off. He may be a false prophet. Beware. Someone centered on God working to build God's Kingdom will find these Allegories useful in his service to God.

(This was originally written and posted well over a year ago.  It came to pass.  Post:  (https://www.reddit.com/r/OriginalChristianity/comments/8ykffx/applying_allegorical_interpretation_of_the_bible/)