ELTB 2.0700

Camel	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
The camel is an unclean animal. The Hebrews did not eat it because it didn’t have a separated hoof. The camel is a symbol of a judge. ^{[v 1]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary ↑ גמל - camel, recompense (give what is deserved)	Art Questions Answers
Being an unclean animal doesn't mean that judges are bad. It just means that they teach us something that God doesn't want us to learn.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
Jesus said that we should not judge, or we too will be judged. ^[1]^{[n 1]}^[2] But only Adam's sin brought death into the world ^[3]. We can't judge them because we don't know the heart ^[4].	Notes ↑ Adam and Eve both ate the fruit. Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Mt 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. ↑ ▸ ± Ge 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. ↑ {{bgw\| Ro 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: ↑ ▸ ± Jer 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Many people see God as a great and terrible judge. But he judged all of our sins on the cross of Jesus and forgave us to show that he is also love. When you are forgiven, there is no more judgement. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ Ro 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
God's teachers teach his love, the Gospel, by showing his forgiveness through the cross. He doesn't want us to become judges. He wants us to forgive as he has forgiven. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ Ro 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Jesus told a story about a man who owed a lot of money to a king. ^[1] He could never pay it back. When the king forgave him his debt, he put his neighbor in prison for owing him just a little money.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ Mt 18:23-35
The man was shown great love through forgiveness, but then became a judge who had none. The king threw the man in prison for not also forgiving.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
We should not learn to be a judge, because if we judge, we will be judged.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

[1] גמל - camel, recompense (give what is deserved)

[3] Adam and Eve both ate the fruit.

[2] ▸ ± Mt 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.

[4] ▸ ± Ge 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

[5] {{bgw| Ro 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

[6] ▸ ± Jer 17:9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?

[7] Ro 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

[8] Ro 8:1 [There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

[9] Mt 18:23-35

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