What does the desert symbolize in the bible?

Answer 1

In The Bible a desert often means just a desert, but it can also mean a Godless, barren, forsaken area that is presently not watered by the Word of God.

However, there will be both no spiritual or physical deserts iIn the Millennium:-

Isaiah 41

19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box treetogether:

Isaiah 43

19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Isaiah 51

3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Isaiah 35

1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

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