Blog 2022-12-14
I have summarized part of the dietary law which speaks of good and bad teachers. Eating is a metaphor for learning.
Good: clean animal = his meditation on the word produces a holy walk
Bad: Camel - teaches to judge
Bad: Coney - legalist who hides the love of the Word
Bad: Hare - spiritual drunk who celebrates all religions
Bad: Swine - Does not discern what he learns
Good: Fish - Lives by the Word and uses it as his defense
Bad: no fins or scales. Compromised in the flesh and spirit
Bad: Eagle: Those who forget the revelation
Bad: Ossifrage: Tear apart the pure
Bad: Osprey - Doesn't understand the word
Bad: Kites - Doubter
Bad: Raven - Improperly mixing Holiness and Love
Bad: Owl - Questions God's purposes
Bad: Night hawk - loves violence
Bad: Cuckow - wastes away in fleshly pursuits
Bad: Hawk - speaks only of Christ's death, not of his resurrection
Bad: Little owl - angry
Bad: Cormorant - Those who have been cast out (for cause)
Bad: Great owl - Those presuming upon grace; continuing in sin
Bad: Swan - Destroyer (not builder)
Bad: Pelican - Rejects the word
Bad: Stork - Doesn't understand holiness and mercy
Bad: Heron - Anger within
Bad: Lapwing - Irregular obedience
Bad: Bat - Turned aside from the teaching
Good: Leaping bugs - Reverent and no guile
Good: Locust - Holiness within
Good: Bald locust - Speaks and lives according to the finished work of Christ
Good: Beetle - Ends fear by teaching
Good: Grasshopper - Preaches life through the cross
Bad: Four feet - Improperly mix flesh with spirit and holiness with grace.
Bad: Carries the carcass - exalts the dead flesh
