The color black symbolizes danger spiritually, but this danger can either be for your good or destruction if you don’t act on it fast. So, what is the biblical meaning of black smoke in a dream?
Dreams are an essential part of our Christian journey. They open our eyes to things going on around us, to things that are about to happen, or to the direction of God for our life at that point in time.
Revelation 9:2: He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
Biblical meaning of black smoke in a dream
Confusion
Black smoke in dreams reveals that you are battling confusion and indecision. You find it very difficult to make decisions, and this state of confusion has affected your love life and everything in your life.
This constant confusion has paralysed action in your life. You contemplate things until the opportunity passes. You are afraid of making the wrong choice or being blamed for the wrong choice.
God said he has not given us a spirit of fear but of power, instruction, and love. Begin to make decisions, whether they turn out right or wrong, or whether you are blamed or not, and your life will improve.
Anger
Dream of reveals that you get angry easily, and this anger has chased away people who were meant to be of help in your life. This anger has made you destroy things with your words or actions.
For every temperament in us, God put there for a reason, but when we don’t understand the purpose, then the devil could make us use that temperament towards our destruction.
God may have put that anger in you so you could challenge the forces of darkness or so you could stand up for the helpless, but he didn’t put it in you to use against your partner, children, business partner, or anyone else you meet.
Destruction
Dreaming about black smoke indicates destruction is coming upon you and your household because of your turning your hearts away from God and your persistent sinful ways (Joshua 7:25).
Deviating from God’s plans for your life while also defiling yourself can bring sudden destruction to your life. One may begin to experience accidents, sicknesses, and debacles that will devour their finances and leave them unhappy.
The beautiful thing about this dream is that it makes it clear what the errors are, so you can amend your ways and avoid the big destruction that is coming.
Mourning
Black smoke dream represents sudden death. Someone around you may lose his or her life very soon due to a natural cause or an evil role in your life.
Pray against any spirit of mourning that will engulf your family and friends. However, pray in this fashion: God, have mercy on my family and extend our lives; however, if there is anyone in my family or around me who has strongly stood against good things in my life, let them die!
It can be very painful to know or accept that someone close could be the reason why you have been going through a lot of suffering. In my years of interpreting dreams, I have encountered, more frequently, enemies of the blood (family members or close relatives who don’t want good things to take place in your life).
And the most painful thing is that you may never suspect, you will keep telling them about good things about to happen in your life, and all of a sudden, disappointments will set in. God wants to purge your family of bad seeds.
Spiritual attacks
Black smoke in the dream reveals that your life is oppressed by spiritual entities that seek to drain your virtues and bring frustration, losses, and anger into your life.
What can give these forces access to your life is entangling yourself with entities possessed by marine spirits, python spirits, and witchcraft. It is very terrible to share your bed with just anyone you feel like. Allow the determined spirit of God to guide you on who should be in your life or not.
Also, your sinful, contentious, and unforgiving lifestyle could open the gates for your enemies to launch an attack on your life. The devil can only do harm to the extent that you are ignorant. So, when you lack knowledge of his devices, he will prey on you.
Financial loss
Dream about black smoke portends an impending financial loss. Someone is about to set you up and extort you, or you are about to make the wrong financial decision that will cost you dearly.
Be careful of who you enter into any business deal with, and cross-check everything thoroughly before you dive in and the people you share your secrets with, so they don’t connive with someone and extort you.
Loving something else more than God
The spiritual meaning of black smoke in a dream reveals that you are beginning to give your appearance, phone, job, relationship, and business more attention than you pay to your maker, and he is not so happy about it.
The Lord your God is a jealous God (Deut 4:23–24). When you begin to pay attention to other things and you don’t give him any attention, especially if he loves you so much, he may let you experience certain trials and temptations so as to draw your attention back to him.
Through his steadfast love, he has first warned you in your dream, that if you persist, you may not like what will follow.
Pride
Dreaming of black smoke reveals that pride and arrogance have crept into your life, and they will eventually lead to your downfall.
It is good to be great at anything you do, but you don’t need to exhibit pride so much that it begins to build strife in the hearts of people around you that they begin to look for ways to pull you down.
Pride could also stir the anger of God against you, bringing hardship and failure to your doorstep. You don’t need to be humble to the point where people begin to step on your head, you only need to regulate your pride so it drives you towards success and not towards destruction.
Judgment
Mathew 7:1-3 “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but not consider the plank in your own eye?
Dreaming about black smoke reveals that your hypocritical attribute is about ushering in God’s judgment upon your life. You spend your time and day criticizing people’s lives, yet yours is not as perfect as you want others to be.
You speak against people because they sleep around and do other things, forgetting that you lie a lot and do lots of other terrible things. If someone is going astray, you are meant to pray for them, and if you sincerely feel concerned, you could speak with them and find out how you can help get them back on track and not judge them.
Summing Up
The biblical meaning of black smoke in a dream bears important warnings that you need to heed to avoid misfortune and mishaps from taking place in your life. If you want a more bespoke interpretation of your dream, feel free to use the comment section.