Understand the Bible's Word Pictures
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Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society of PA
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Study tip. Understand the Bible's word pictures. The Bible contains hundreds of word pictures, |
| 0:08.9 | yet many Bible readers struggle to understand them. What can help you to grasp the right meaning of |
| 0:15.4 | word pictures used in the Bible? Try these steps. Identify the topic and the image. Word pictures compare a topic to an |
| 0:25.7 | image. For example, Revelation 3-3 compares Jesus coming, the topic, to the coming of a thief, |
| 0:34.3 | the image. Determine how the topic and the image are alike. |
| 0:39.9 | Find the features and the qualities that make the topic similar to the image. |
| 0:45.5 | Draw the correct conclusion. |
| 0:48.3 | Some similarities between the topic and the image may lead to wrong conclusions. |
| 0:53.9 | In the example above, Jesus is not coming to steal |
| 0:57.7 | anything. Rather, the context shows that his coming would be like that of a thief in the sense that |
| 1:04.3 | it will be unexpected and unannounced. End of article. |
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