ELTB Creepy Crunchies
Eat Learn This Book
Creepy Crunchies
Bugs and stuff
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Eat Learn this Book Creepy Crunchies R.C. Jones bob@2ndBook.org Art: Doris Ong
ISBN: 2ndBook Press, West Jordan, Utah Printed by: Petersmine Ltd.
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| Flying things on all fours
God wants everyone to know him, so all things created teach us something about him. [1] We don't learn from hands, feet, air and earth by looking at them, but by what God says about them; by the symbols. These are symbols we know from other places:
The flying thing was created to fly or live in the air representing spirit. Instead, it swarms on the earth, symbolizing things that follow the crowd on earth. There is an old saying, "If it is popular, there is something wrong with it. The insects we can eat teach us things we should learn. The animals that creep will list things we shouldn't follow.
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| Swarming and reproducing
A flying thing is something intended for the air, or spirit. A crawling thing represents someone behaving selfishly or 'in the flesh'. It would appear that the the flying things that crawl should be living as though they love God but who have chosen to live and work loving themselves first.. [1] When the hands (works) and feet (life) are in the flesh (on the ground), it is an abomination. Flying things are supposed to be living in the spirit. It is worse when they reproduce or multiply children of the flesh. People who choose to live in the flesh and raise children in the flesh, should not be our teachers. [2]
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| Leaping things'
▸ ± Le 11:21 Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon [all] four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth; | |
| Good examples
Le 11:22 [Even] these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. The specific creatures mentioned represent those who are positive influences for us. |
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| Locust
Light is a symbol of holiness. The daughter or family which is holy is a good influence. Even though they still have works and life which are in the flesh, they have been made holy and God is working on them [1]
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| Bald locust
Jesus finished the work of the Father, and he was also known as the rock [1]. The bald locust is a reminder of the completed work of Christ. This is the primary lesson of the good teacher.
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| Beetle
The beetle comforts us from fear. Perfect love casts out fear [1]. The beetle suggests that love accomplishes this by teaching. As we learn who God is and that he is in control we can trust him and not fear in the midst of any circumstance.
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| Grasshopper
The grasshopper reminds us of those people who preach the gospel of life through the resurrection of Christ. The 'great and terrible day of the Lord' [1] was the day of the cross. It was a terrible day because the wrath of God was poured out on the sin of mankind born by the flesh of Christ Jesus. But it was a great day as the source of eternal life.
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| The exchange
Le 11:23 But all [other] flying creeping things, which have four feet, [shall be] an abomination unto you. Le 11:24 And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even. . The evening is the symbol of the cross where grace meets judgement. The sins of man are covered by the works of the Son. Whoever needs forgiveness is unclean until he comes to the cross. [1]
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| Carrying the carcase [∞]
Whoever brags on sin needs forgiveness offered by Jesus through the cross. If they follow the bad teachers, they shall cleanse their minds and works through the word of God.
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There are a few insects that are exceptions to the rule. The actors on the stage could eat them. They teach us something God wants us to learn. These critters are clean because although they fly and creep on all fours, they are distinguished by 'prayer' (kneeling) and leaping into the air, or striving to live in the spirit. These are people who get angry, or frustrated; they may be selfish sometimes; they may forget God from time to time. But they want to do better. So they ask God for help, and try to be good. God knows our heart. [1] The word for leg is also that for kneel, as if in prayer. Leaping is also 'stripping off' or 'tremble'. The apostle Paul said to "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" as we strip off the old man. He calls the flesh the 'old man'.
- leg kara‘ כרע - kneel in reverence
- leap nathar נתר - tremble, strip
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Creeping things
| Le 11:29-31 These also [shall be] unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, 30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole. 31 These [are] unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
Creeping things are those things which reproduce quickly. The things listed will all be things that God does not want to spread. creeping things... on the earth sharats שרץ - increase abundantly [in the flesh], the ox shur שר death ץ. |
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Weasel The weasel represents the teaching of this age, or this world. The world teaches us to succeed. God teaches us to love.
Mouse The mouse is a symbol of the abounding flesh. The mouse chases his success.
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Tortoise Some shield themselves from God, such as refusing to read the New Testament, or refusing to read the Bible.
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Ferret The ferret makes all kinds of noises: whimpering, whining, screeching, screaming, barking, snoring. Perhaps Adam heard one sound like he was groaning and named him that. The whole earth groaned until Jesus came for us. [1]
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Might and power are the opposite of the spirit [1].
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The lizard represents those whose desire for God has become dead.
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The mole represents those who have died desolate. Suggestive of dead authors who were not alive in the spirit. |
