Color in Scripture

1. The Power of Color:
How color affects the totality of
our being—the whole quality
of our life each day

2. Colors are the various wavelengths of visible
light ranging from 760nm (nanometers or one
millionth of a millimeter) of red to the 38nm
of violet. Colors are perceived by the eyes and
absorbed by the body through the skin and
the optic nerves. They penetrate into the
brain where they are processed and utilized
by the hypothalamus, the system to region of
the brain that links the central nervous
system to the hormonal system. The light that
penetrates the brain at various wavelengths
triggers a complex biochemical transfer
within the body, through the endocrine
system.

3. When hormones and enzymes are exposed to
colored light, they themselves undergo
changes in color and begin to have different
effects on the body. This is why people who
are subjected to prolonged periods of
darkness, during which their body cannot
absorb any light/color, suffer from vitamin
deficiencies, hormonal disorders, disorders
of the normal body cycles -- particularly
sleep and metabolic functions and
depression. The balance of light/color is
crucial to our well-being.

4. If colorful art objects are
displayed in an exhibit but
night has fallen and the room is
totally dark, do the objects
contain any color?

5. What Color Do You Feel?
“I’m feeling blue”
“I’m seeing red”
“I’m turning green with envy”
“He’s acting yellow (coward)”
“Growing purple with rage”
“Falling into the blackness of depression”
“Rising in white hope”
“Perk up a blue Monday” by looking through
“rose-colored glasses”

6. Your Response to Color Falls Under 8 Categories:
Your endocrine system reacts a certain way to a
color because of the neurotransmitters you
inherited from your parents.
Endocrine glands react to colors as acknowledged
by your brain. For instance, red is exciting to the
human brain; therefore, neurotransmitters
stimulate the adrenal glands to pump adrenaline
into the body.
1.Inherited

7. People and events from your past can cause
you to like and dislike certain colors in the
present. For example, a favorite grade
school teacher's blue dress can stimulate
an appreciation for blue in your adulthood.
Yet, an intense dislike for that teacher
might cause you to “turn off” to blue. In
adulthood, you tend to respond to stimuli
the way you were conditioned in childhood.
2. Learned

8. The native colors of a geographic
area you like can become your
preferred colors. For instance,
green could be your favorite color if
a rain forest with its lush foliage is
a place that helps you feel at ease
mentally, spiritually, and physically.
3. Geographic

9. Cultural attitudes toward
specific colors can vary in
different regions.
4. Regional

10. The quality and properties of light can cause
you to experience the same color differently
when the fight source changes. Stand at the
rim of the Grand Canyon at five o'clock on a
summer morning and compare the play of
light at that time with the light fourteen
hours later when the shadows have grown
long and the sunlight has weakened. The
color sensations will be different for you.
5. Light

11. Each season of the year has its own
characteristic temperature range and
ratio of daylight to darkness. Any Alaskan
can tell you about the seasonal depression
that tends to come with winter and its
daily shortness of light and color.
6. Climate

12. All economic groups use status
indicators, and color seems to be one
of the most important. How you
combine colors subtly reflects the
class of people you associate with.
7. Income

13. As you grow from
your life's
experiences, you tend
to choose new color
preferences.
8. Sophistication

14. General Overview
Of The Colors:
What Do They Reveal?

15. Red:
Energy
Strength
Passion
Courage Career Goals
Fast Action Vibrancy
Driving ForceLove
Survival
Red is “I Have.”

16. Blue:
Good Fortune
Blue is “I Speak.”
Opening Blocked Communication
Wisdom
Protection
Spiritual Inspiration
Calm
Reassurance
Gently Moving
Creativity

17. Orange: Business Goals
Orange is “I Feel.”
Property Deals
Ambition
Career GoalsGeneral Success
Justice
Legal Matters
Selling
Action

18. Yellow is “I Can.”
Yellow:
Intelligence
Accelerated LearningMemory
Logical Imagination
Breaking Mental Blocks
Selling Yourself

19. Green is “I Love.”
Green: Physical Healing
Monetary Success
Abundance Fertility
Tree and Plant Magic Growth
Personal Goals

20. Purple:
Influencing People in High Places
Third Eye
Psychic Ability
Spiritual Power
Self-Assurance
Hidden Knowledge

21. Pink:
Romantic Love
Planetary Good Will
Healing of Emotions
Peace
Affection Romance
Partnerships of Emotional Maturity
CaringNurturing

22. White: Spirituality
Peace
Higher Self
Purity
Virginity
Protection
Truth

23. Black:
Protection
Repelling Negativity
Binding

24. Color preferences are innate. You are born
with an attraction for particular colors.
What you feel about them will probably
last throughout your lifetime.
Little children who cannot yet speak whole
sentences will often express themselves
eloquently with a set of crayons. A general
delight in colors shown by an adult is
thought by psychologists to demonstrate
the normal emotional tendencies of the
very young. Children usually love bright
colors.

25. A child's preference for the black crayon probably
indicates repressed emotion or strict parental
domination. A love of yellow is classified as revealing
a youngster's infantile traits and a dependence on
adults. Red shows carefree feelings. Green means the
child is balanced, with few emotional outbursts and a
simple, uncomplicated nature. Youngsters' color
representations of their mothers are nearly always
with pastel shades and of their fathers with darker
shades.
And so it is with adults. A preference for one color
over another reveals your true personality-the
characteristics of your "self.”

26. Following are
some of the
personality
traits
associated
with the color
you adopt as
your own.

27. If you adopt red as your personal color, it
shows that you are outgoing. You are
assertive, vigorous, and prone to impulsive
actions and variable moods. You feel deep
sympathy for fellow human beings and are
easily swayed. You entertain stimulating
fantasies. You are an optimist, but you are
also a complainer and do not hesitate to
voice your complaints.
How many of you like Red?

28. If you adopt orange as your personal color,
you are good-natured, enjoy being with other
people, and are swayed by outside opinions.
You do good work, have strong loyalties, feel
good will, and possess a solicitous heart.
However, unwarranted feelings of elation
often pervade your psyche.
How many of you like Orange?

29. If you adopt yellow as your personal color, you
have a well-functioning imagination, nervous
energy, neatly formed thoughts, and a need to
help the world. However, you tend to be aloof
and more given to theory than to action; you
are inclined to speak of lofty doings without
doing them. Secretly, you are shy, long to be
respected, crave admiration for your
sagacity, and are a mental loner. You are a
safe friend and a reliable confidant.
How many of you like Yellow?

30. If you adopt green as your personal color,
you are a good citizen and a pillar of the
community, "keep up with the Joneses, "
and are sensitive to social customs and
etiquette. You are frank, moral, and
reputable. You make a splendid teacher, and
feel deep affection for your family.
How many of you like Green?

31. If you adopt blue as your personal color, you are
deliberate and introspective. You have
conservative convictions, retreat to gentler
surroundings in times of stress, and are sensitive
to the feelings of others. You keep a tight rein on
your passions and enthusiasms, are a loyal friend,
and lead a sober life. You nourish preposterous
dreams but don’t act on them. Stupidity in others
annoys you, as does superior intelligence.
How many of you like Blue?

32. If you adopt purple as your personal
color, you have a good mind, a ready wit,
and an ability to observe things that go
unnoticed by others. You are easily
incensed and are verbose when
witnessing misfortune. You have a degree
of vanity, display a fine-arts creativity,
and relish the subtle but recognize the
magnificent.
How many of you like Purple?

33. If you adopt brown as your
personal color, you perform
your duties conscientiously,
are shrewd when it comes to
money, are obstinate in your
habits and convictions, and are
parsimonious. You are
dependable and steady, disdain
impulsiveness, and can bargain
as well as any horse trader.
How many of you like Brown?

34. If you adopt gray as your personal color,
you are cautious, try to strike a
compromise in most situations you
encounter, and seek composure and
peace. You have tried very hard to fit
yourself into a mold of your own design.
How many of you like Gray?

35. If you adopt black as your personal color,
you are above average, worldly,
conventional, proper, polite, and regal.
Black is a color that means one thing
(depression) to the clinical psychologist and
quite another (dignity) to you.
How many of you like Black?

36. Life (man)
Strength (Capacity)
for Life
Gen. 1:4, 31;
Heb. 1:3
Glory,
Divine Good
Yellow
Dead WorksIsa. 48:4 (iron neck);
Ezek. 24:6 (rust);
Psa. 2:9;
Rev. 19:15
Human Good
Evil
Orange
Redemption
Suffering
Isa. 1:18
Ex. 27:16
Blood
Sin
Red
DERIVED
MEANINGS
SCRIPTUREMEANING
(Good/Bad)
COLOR
COLORS IN SCRIPTURE

37. Justice
Jealousy
Ex. 27:16; Esther
8:15; Matt. 21:5-
11;Isa. 14:14; Ezek.
28:2, 6, 9
Royalty
Jealous Ambition
Violet
Hidden,
Private
Gen. 7:19;
Lev. 17:13;
Psalm 32:1, 147:8
CoveringIndigo
Heavenly Son of
God
Hardness of Heart
John 6:33, 38;
Ex. 27:16
Heaven
Legalism
Blue
Environment,
Happiness
Lawlessness
Gen. 1:11-13, 2:8, 15Garden of Eden,
Plants
Green
DERIVED
MEANINGS
SCRIPTUREMEANING
(Good/Bad)
COLOR

39. Red
Red refers to the blood of
Christ in the curtain over the
Gate of the Tabernacle. The
blood represented Redemption,
the payment for the sins of
the world. Red signifies sin
(Isa. 1:18). Adam was made
from clay, which was red. The
name, Adam, is derived from
that meaning. Adam was the
source of sin in the human
race.

40. Robes of crimson were worn by the wealthy (2 Samuel
1:24; Proverbs 31:21; Jeremiah 4:30; Lamentations 4:5;
Revelation 17:4). The Greeks and Romans used this color
for military cloaks. The cloak that the soldiers put on
Jesus was crimson according to Matthew 27:28 and
probably was one of the military cloaks. Although Mark
and John call it purple, this is not a contradiction since in
the language of the people purple dye also produced the
crimson color.
The crimson robe on Christ before His crucifixion calls
attention to another meaning of the color. Red means
suffering. The purple-red of crimson refers also to
judgment - i.e. the justice of God. The Lord Jesus Christ
suffered the justice of God on our behalf.

42. The feet of pottery mixed
with iron on the image in
Nebuchadnezzar's dream
(Dan. 2:42-43) represent the
weakness of man (human
good) in the face of divine
judgment. All these things
are associated with negative
volition and the resulting
dead works. Orange refers to
man's human good and evil,
both of which were rejected
on the cross.

45. Blue
Blue is the color of the sky. It reminds us of heaven
and refers to Jesus Christ as the Son of God who
came down from Heaven as portrayed by the Gospel
of John. So long as divine righteousness is
associated with Heaven, that is proper; but when
the created being (mankind) represents himself as
divine righteousness that is a sin.

47. Violet
Violet is a color of the Visible Light Spectrum,
but the only colors in scripture are Artificial
Colors, which are made from dyes. They color
purple in scripture was made from dye. The purple
dye may have tints that run toward blue or red.
The red purple is sometimes translated, violet.
The color purple in scripture is the symbol for
royalty. Kings dressed in robes of purple. The
Lord Jesus Christ, future king of Israel, is
portrayed as the Royal Messiah in the curtain
over the Gate of the Tabernacle as well
as the Gospel of Matthew (Matt. 21:5-11).

48. From the association of purple with royalty,
there are derived meanings for the color.
Royalty has ruling power and is the source of
justice. Jesus will bring swift judgment upon
the nations of the earth like smashing a clay
pot with a rod of iron (Psalm 2:9) . Thus,
purple refers to justice

49. The purple in the Gate of the Tabernacle (Ex. 27:16)
represented Jesus Christ, the Royal Messiah. But this
Royal Messiah would first have to suffer the justice of
God on behalf of mankind. Thus, inherent in the color
purple was the justice of God. Jesus Christ satisfied the
justice of God and thereby became the mediator
between God and mankind.

50. Colors are part of creation. They are also part of
the Plan of God. When the meanings of the
colors are understood, then faith-application will
take on new meaning. The stage of life will be
portrayed in living color. Of course, the stage
lights can only been seen by the believer who is
walking in the light (I John 1:7). This is only
possible by means of the filling of the Holy
Spirit (Eph. 5:18).

51. The only production that
counts in this life is from
grace. Attempts to whitewash
the devil's world are
legalistic. Our Lord Jesus
Christ referred to such
people as whitewashed
tombstones:
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
whitewashed tombs that on the outside appear
beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s
bones and all uncleanness.”

52. Where there is light, there is God; but the true
interpretation of that light is only possible by
means of faith. Faith perception must precede
faith-application. Colors can only be understood
by means of accurate application of doctrine to
experience. Those who attempt to understand
the meaning of colors apart from grace will not
succeed. For those who "walk in the light,"
colors emphasize and highlight divine good
production.
CONCLUSION

53. As the believer walks in the light,
the Plan of God provides an
encapsulated environment. The
believer on the stage of life is
surrounded by the production of
the Plan of God. Everything on
the stage of life is color coded,
numerically coded, and the
production of the Protocol Plan of
God by means of the work of the
Holy Spirit.

54. The stage of life is
guarded by angels.
Nothing enters or exits
without the approval of
the Director of Human
History, the Lord Jesus
Christ. When evil
enters the stage, it
enters under the
Justice of God, which
means it is separated
and color- coded
appropriately.