Lifecycles

Lifecycles [∞]

Insects have different life cycles. Some have four stages. God didn’t tell us why, but we know that it must tell us about him in some way. We are allowed to think of God when we see things he has made.

He has told us that he speaks to us in four voices: prophet, judge, priest, and king. The prophet tells you about Jesus. This might be like the seed that is planted, or the egg.

You live creeping on the ground because you don’t really know God yet. You make up your own rules as you go. The voice of the judge would tell you when you are doing wrong.

The priest teaches of Christ’s death on the cross, and you choose to be a new person because you love him. The bug looks like it is dead, but it is being transformed. Jesus gives you a new heart, and new desires. You are born again with wings to fly in the air like living in the Spirit. The king teaches you how to control your flesh.

The grasshopper is born fully formed and looks like an adult. Even though you are changed as you grow, God sees you like a grasshopper, like you are fully developed.

The cycles of four stages is not taught in the Bible. Some people call teaching like this “free-for-all allegory”. Many teachers say that we shouldn’t teach this way, but they do it themselves. God takes delight when we praise him by seeing him in everything he made. We have likened things seen in nature to things we see in the Bible.