ELTB Introduction

God wants everyone to know him. So he made the world. [1] Everything he made teaches about him. [2] It is difficult for us to learn about God from stars and stones. It is easier to learn through words and actions.

He chose some people to teach about him, but they didn't know what to say. They did not know him very well themselves. So God used them like actors in a play.

Their lives became a parable to teach us of God. [3] In the play, we learn from stones and stars through what God said about stones and stars.

God hid lessons for us in the history of Israel. In this book we will look at the things that the Hebrews could eat or not, and see what they teach about God.

star kowkab כוכב - Son of God כ explaining ו the revelation ר by becoming man כ and teaching man ב

stone abed אבן - father אב son בן

1. Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

1 BP Jer 31:34 [The day will come] when everyone will know me, and there will be no more missionaries. I will forgive all they have done by instinct, and forget their intentional sin.

2. Ro 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

2. BP Ro 1:20 They have no excuse for not knowing God. His invisible attributes, like his power and deity, have been seen from the beginning. We know made things have a maker.

3. De 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb [parable], and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

3. BP De 28:37 Everywhere God leads you, you will be desolate. Your lives will be a parable [of Christ], and people will taunt you.