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^{[n 1]} ^{[n 2]}	Notes ↑ A format something like The Magic School Bus books might be helpful for this information. Then you can filter it into several levels of teaching/knowledge. This makes it appeal to a broader age range, as the younger ones can go for the more streamlined “story”of the basic dinner theater idea and the older ones can read the explanatory information balloons or the introductory material and gain more of the training in theological thinking. This would enable you to put the alphabet and word information in there without bogging down a read-through. One reads the main text, and then all the interesting side tidbits and Bible verses that give it theological depth and context. If you do this sort of format, I recommend condensing the main text somewhat so that it reads more like a cohesive narrative with a few main points per page. Then the foundational material can go in info bubbles surrounding it or expository windows around the page or on their own excursus kind of page. I’ve done some of that below; it needs some more finessing if you like the idea. ↑ For this to be a book that introduces children to the topic who have no prior knowledge of the subject, I think you need a bridge between Adam and the dietary laws. Perhaps Aaron’s job, which ties together the roles of teaching and distinguishing between clean and unclean in Lev 10:10. That would provide a bit more of a repetition rhythm. Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
^{[n 1]}	Notes ↑ From the beginning Before God created anything, there was just God. [1] He looked for a place to put a universe. There was nothing larger than God. [2] There was no place outside of him to create. He could only put the new things inside of himself. He opened a pocket within himself and spoke into it. [3] When the heavens and earth were finished; he created his friend. [4] [5] [6] "Hi Adam, I am God; let me teach holiness and love. [7] I will give you a tree as a symbol of holiness. It is separate and different from other trees. You should not eat from it, just because I am God. [8] I am Holy. I am Love." Adam not understanding God, would 'declare' his own rules as God had done. [9] He ate the fruit from the tree. [10] There should be a more explicit connection here between eating and learning (probably about the otherness/holiness of God and the tree) in the context of Adam. God's name tells us that Adam did not understand God. God's name is Elohim. 'El' means 'God', 'im' means 'his people'. The 'H' sound means they don't understand. God is separated from his people because they don't understand. Each of the letters are symbols with meaning. Everything... absolutely everything after this is to teach who God is. Through the dietary law, he reveals his nature by showing how to select good teachers. Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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God wants everyone to know him. So he made the world. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± 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.
Everything he made is designed to teach about him. It is difficult for us to learn about God from stars and rocks. We learn easier through words and actions. ^[1] ^{[p 1]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art ↑ Not many rock stars teach about God! Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± 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:
He chose some people to teach us about him, but they didn't know what to say, since they did not know him very well themselves.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
So God used them like actors in a play. Their lives became a parable for all of us to learn about God. In the play we learn from rocks and stars through what is said about rocks and stars. ^[1] ^{[v 1]} ^{[v 2]} ^{[p 1]} ^{[p 2]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary ↑ stone aben אבן 𝆑- father ab אב and son ben בן ↑ star kowkab כוכב 𝆑- Son of God כ explaining the revelation of God ר by becoming man כ and teaching man ב	Art ↑ ∞ stone ↬ Father and Son together ↑ ∞ star ↬ The Son of God revealed on earth Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± De 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb [parable], and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
God hid lessons for us in the history of Israel. In this book we will look at the things that they were allowed to eat and not eat and see what they teach us about God. ^{[v 1]} ^{[s 1]}	Notes Symbols ↑ ∞ eat ↬ learn Vocabulary ↑ eat akal אכל 𝆑- smite אכ the teaching ל .	Art Questions Answers

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ELTB 2.0300 [∞]

The Law and the Play

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The first section of the Bible contains many laws that God gave the Hebrews telling them how to live. ^{[p 1]} ^{[p 2]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art ↑ I like the stage Doris did. Maybe add bacon in the hand of one of the audience, and a plate of bacon on stage with a "NO!" indicator. ↑ Add something to indicate roles of prophet, judge, priest and king. They should not be those things, but have some small thing that would hint. We can use them to speak in the voices through the series. Questions Answers

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Some of these laws told them what to eat and what not to eat. These are called the dietary laws.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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When the Hebrews followed these laws, they show us the character of God in a riddle. So the dietary law is not about eating. It is more like a play. The laws were the script for the play, and everyone had a role. ^[1] God chose priests to be the directors of the play, telling everyone how to do their part.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± De 28:37 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.

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The Hebrews’ lives would act out the play, and the audience, everyone else, would learn from it. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Ge 22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

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The play is written in symbols and riddle. ^[1] ^[2] ^{[q 1]} ^{[a 1]} This means that for us in the audience, the dietary law says nothing about what we can eat.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions ↑ What’s a symbol? Answers ↑ Where something represents something else. In this case, the animals represent teachers and things to learn.	↑ ▸ ± Pr 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter. ↑ ▸ ± Ps 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of old:

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Instead, eating is a symbol for learning what God says. It tells us who we should learn from, and who we should not learn from. ^{[s 1]}	Notes Symbols ↑ ∞ eat ↬ learn Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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Each of these animals is a symbol for a different type of teacher. The clean animals (the ones the Hebrews could eat) symbolize the people we should learn from. The unclean animals (the animals the Hebrews were not supposed to eat) symbolize those who teach things that God doesn't want you to learn.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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This isn’t the first time that eating symbolized learning in the Bible. Remember Adam and Eve and the tree they were not supposed to eat from? ^[1] You could say that the tree was unclean.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Ge 2:17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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Let’s talk about the different animals that are part of the play and what they teach us about God.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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Introduction The basis for this study is a first century hermeneutic demonstrated by the New Testament authors as they used Old Testament references, and an observable property of the Hebrew language called 'notarikon'. [1] Definition of notarikon here. John demonstrates a fluency in notarikon which is missed when the Septuagint is used instead of the original Hebrew texts. It can be demonstrated that John 1:1-4 is derived using these tools from the first three words of Genesis 1:1. Illustrate using בראשית The hermeneutic and use of notarikon eliminate the need to search for a mystical Q document to explain the so-called 'Synoptic Problem'. [2] Most people don’t know what Q or the Synoptic Problem is, so if you’re going to mention it, it needs a longer explanation.

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ELTB 2.0500 [∞] ELTB 2.0501 [∞] Discussion

Meditate on the word of God	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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The clean animals are the ones the Hebrews were allowed to eat. They symbolize the people we should learn from. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Le 11:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These [are] the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that [are] on the earth.

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The clean animals of the Bible are cows, sheep, goats and deer. These animals 'chew the cud'. They eat something and regurgitate it to chew it again and again until everything is digested. If you are a clean animal, you learn from God's word, then you 'chew the cud', thinking about it over and over again. The symbol of the cow, sheep, goat and deer reminds us to learn from people who spend time meditating (or chewing) on God’s word. ^[1] ^{[v 1]} ^{[p 1]} ^{[p 2]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary ↑ cud gerah גרה 𝆑- pursue ג the revelation ר which is not understood ה	Art ↑ The actual word 'gerah' means to 'pursue the revelation that was not understood'. ↑ The cow has several stomachs, but you have only one. Please chew your food well before swallowing so that you only have to swallow once. Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Le 11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.

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Clean animals also walk on split hooves. These symbolize a 'separated walk' or life. The way you ‘walk' is a symbol for the way you live. If you have a separated life, you are living a life for God, separated from the things that distract us from God. You learn to walk with God by meditating on his word. A good teacher is like this. Clean animals also walk on split hooves. These symbolize a 'separated walk' or life. The way you ‘walk' is a symbol for the way you live. ^[1] ^[2] ^[3] ^{[n 1]} If you have a separated life, you are living a life for God, separated from the things that distract us from God. You learn to walk with God by meditating on his word. ^{[n 2]} A good teacher is like this. ^{[p 1]}	Notes ↑ The hoof of a clean animal is a toenail that lifts the flesh of the foot off the ground like a shoe separates your foot from the ground. ↑ Jesus learned who he was and what he must do from the scriptures, then he obeyed it. Symbols Vocabulary	Art ↑ Perhaps a box with four layers" a bird in the air, boy and cow on earth with 'shoes' and grasshopper jumping, a camel and creepy thing and snake, fish in water. Air = spirit, shoes = above the ground striving for the spirit, on the ground = the earth/flesh, fish= in the word Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Le 11:3 Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, [and] cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. ↑ ▸ ± Heb 7:26 For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; ↑ ▸ ± Ro 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

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Unclean animals If an animal doesn't chew its cud and have a split hoof, it is unclean. Some animals are unclean even if they chewed their cud because they do not have a split hoof. These are like the Scribes in the day of Jesus. They knew the Scriptures but it did not change the way they lived. Others thought they had a split hoof, like the Pharisees who were the most religious people in the day. But their 'righteousness' was not based in the Scriptures that God gave them. They would make up and keep their own rules instead. They were self-righteous. The Hebrews weren't allowed to eat unclean animals to remind us to avoid these types of teachers. When we eat 'unclean' animals, we remember the Hebrews and are reminded that the Word of God should change our lives. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Ro 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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ELTB 2.0600 [∞]

The cow has several stomachs, but you have only one. Please chew your food well before swallowing so that you only have to swallow once. Clean animals also walk on split hooves with two toes. These symbolize a 'separated walk' or life. [2] The way you ‘walk' is a symbol for the way you live. [3] If you have a separated life, you are living a life for God, separated from the things that distract us from God. You learn to walk with God by meditating on his word. [4] A good teacher is like this.

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ELTB 2.0700 [∞] Discussion

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 ^{[n 1]}. The camel is a symbol of a judge. ^{[v 1]} ^{[p 1]} ^{[n 2]} ^{[s 1]} ^{[s 2]} ^{[s 3]}	Notes ↑ Camels walk on toes with flesh on the ground. ↑ There are four voices or roles in the play that speak for God: prophet, judge, priest, king. There are four animals that carry bread in the scriptures. The donkey and camel are two. Can you find the other two? Symbols ↑ ∞ bread ↬ the body of Christ; his finished work on the cross ↑ ∞ donkey ↬ prophet ↑ ∞ camel ↬ judge Vocabulary ↑ גמל - camel, recompense (give what is deserved)	Art ↑ Camel standing behind a judges desk with gavel. Water in his hump is the Word. he carries his own word to judge by. 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 ^{[n 1]}.	Notes ↑ Like the tree in the garden Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
Jesus said that we should not judge, or we too will be judged. ^[1] ^{[n 1]} ^[2] ^[3]. ^[4].	Notes ↑ Adam and Eve both ate the fruit. But only Adam's sin brought death into the world. We can't judge them because we don't know the heart 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. ↑ ▸ ± 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 ^[1] to show that he is also love ^[2]. When you are forgiven, there is no more judgement. ^[3]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; ↑ ▸ ± 1Jo 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. ↑ ▸ ± 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	↑ ▸ ± Mt 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Jesus told a story about a man who owed a lot of money to a king ^[1]. ^[2] 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	↑ ∞ debt ↬ sin ↑ ▸ ± 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 ^[1].	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ∞ not forgiving ↬ judging
We should not learn to be a judge, because if we judge, we will be judged. ^{[n 1]}	Notes ↑ Jesus lived a perfect life and removed all our excuses. His life judged us, so he had to be judged. Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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Coney	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

ELTB 2.0801 [∞] Discussion

The coney is another unclean animal that the Hebrews did not eat. When Adam named the coney he must have seen the coney take a treasure into his den, then return to the opening to defend it with bared teeth. His name means 'hide the treasure' but it also means 'mystery of the biting teeth'. The coney is a symbol of a teacher who hides the Gospel. ^{[v 1]} ^{[v 2]}. ^{[p 1]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary ↑ שפן - coney, hide, treasure up ↑ coney shaphan שפן 𝆑- mystery פ of the biting teeth שן	Art ↑ A picture of c aoney with cross-section of his den. Guarding with ferocious teeth. A treasure chest deep in his den, labelled as "Love". His teeth labelled as "Law". Questions Answers

ELTB 2.0802 [∞]

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In the Bible, God tells us that he is both Holy and Love. Holiness is expressed by the law and judgement. We don't like the law because it bites us like the bared teeth of the coney. In his word, the message of his love is the treasure. ^[1] ^[2] The coney represents the teacher that is always telling you what you did wrong, and never expresses any love or how to get forgiveness through Christ. The treasure; the love, is hidden away.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Ro 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ↑ ▸ ± Mt 13:44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

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When God explains himself through the cross, we see that he is Holy because all our sin is punished. And we see that he is Love, because rather than punish us, Jesus volunteered to take our place. This would be like your mother catching you do a bad thing, but rather than punish you, she punished herself.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

ELTB 2.0804 [∞]

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The coney-like teacher uses the Bible as a weapon. They never tell you how to receive the love of God. You receive his Love by "eating his body" which is a symbol for learning from the cross where he died because he loves you. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± 1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

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Rabbits are unclean!	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
Some teachers are symbolized by rabbits. A warren of rabbits may look like popcorn. They jump when happy; they jump when scared; they just jump sometimes. The name in Hebrew means 'divided jubilation'. ^[1] ^{[p 1]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art ↑ Rabbits looking like popcorn. Questions Answers	↑ hare ‘arnebeth ארנבת - house בת of divided א jubilation רנ.
The rabbit is a symbol of teachers who mix all kinds of religions together. They hop about from one religion to the next. This week it is Christmas, Hanukkah, or Quanza, and next they are celebrating Hindu dust. To them all religions are good. They have no discernment about what to celebrate.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
Some people say we can't trust the Bible because it says the rabbit 'chews the cud' and rabbits don't chew the cud. The Bible says that only in English. In Hebrew is says they chew the 'gerah' which is a thing pursued again because it was not understood. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ gerah כרה - pursue ג the revelation ר that was not understood ה.
The rabbit actually passes its food through a second time by eating its night droppings. Unlike the clean animals that meditate on God’s word, the rabbit-like teacher knows the word of God but is not a good teacher. The teacher symbolized by rabbit or hare is not a good teacher because the knowledge of God does not produce a separated hoof. He does not live what he knows. Without discernment of what to celebrate, the teacher cannot dedicate his life to God.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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Swine Pigs are also unclean. Swine eat, or learn, anything, and teach it as truth. For example, some people say their favorite verse of the Bible is "God helps those who help themselves". That isn't in the Bible. ^[1] ^[2]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Pr 11:22 [As] a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion. ↑ ▸ ± Mt 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
The swine is a symbol of the self-righteous; people who think they are good just because they think they are good. They think their own ideas, or whatever new ideas they hear, are true. ^{[v 1]}	Notes Symbols Vocabulary ↑ Swine chaziyr חסיר 𝆑- perceive חז a new י revelation ר	Art Questions Answers
Swine pass off new teachings from others as if they are from the Bible. They hear from others that there are errors in the Bible. They pass it on as truth to make themselves look clever. Teachers may learn things from scientific theories and pass them on as absolute truth. One thing is absolutely true in science: what it says is true today, will not be true tomorrow. They may read the Bible and not understand it. They will teach their error as truth. When faced with things that appear to be opposite teachings in the Bible, they just choose one and ignore the other, rather than work to understand they are both true. The one who cannot understand the word of God is not a good teacher.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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More Swine The attitude of the swine-like teacher is so contagious it is dangerous. God’s law to the Hebrews about the swine was that they should not even 'touch their dead bodies'. This riddle in Hebrew about teachers means that we should not be 'joined to their foolishness nor plagued by it.' ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Le 11:8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they [are] unclean to you.
A pig-like teacher may brag he gave an apple to a homeless guy. The next swine brags he gave two apples. The first responds that his was the only apple he had and he gave it. The swine will also make you feel bad for the good work that you did, trying to seem better than you.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
This bragging of works is contagious. Do not be joined to it.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
Swine attitudes of self-righteousness based on his own ideas are contagious because they appeal to our desire to be important. We want to be noticed and appreciated. We want to look good to others. Do not be plagued by it. Instead, seek teachers who build their students up. ^[1]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Tit 3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Have nothing to do with the swine or you may get caught up in their folly. Perhaps this is a source for Paul's teaching: 2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

ELTB 2.1200 [∞]

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Fish Water is a symbol the word of God, so the clean fish represents the teacher who moves with fins or lives in the Word of God. The Hebrew word for 'fish' means 'commanded to pursue'. When Adam watched the fish darting around the water, it seemed like an appropriate name. The teacher is commanded to seek God in his word. ^[1] ^{[n 1]}	Notes ↑ dag דג - fish, commanded ד to pursue ג Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± Le 11:9 These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
A clean fish has scales symbolizing the armor of God, and is propelled by fins symbolizing that the love Jesus had for the word, motivates the teacher. This is hidden in riddle. ^[1] ^[2]	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ qasqeseth - scale, mail (armor) ↑ fins סנפיר‎ - 'holy א horned/thorned סנ bull פר'.
God's teachers are always looking to understand God better. They study, meditate, and then live what they have learned. They correct their teaching and their lives as they learn more.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
They are motivated by the same love for God's people that God has for his people. They desire that others know God's love. ^{[n 1]}	Notes ↑ The fish live in three kinds of water or word. [4] The word of God comes from the 1. Father, 2. Son, and 3. Holy Spirit. God is made known through his 1. works; the things that happen in life, 2. his word; Jesus and the Bible, and by his 3. Spirit dwelling within us. Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers
The one who wears the armor of God as he searches the scriptures, swims in the water of God’s word, and is motivated by the love of God, is a good teacher.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

ELTB 2.1300 [∞] Discussion

Summary All of these animals are on the stage and part of the play. Though the actors had to follow the rules for eating or not eating them, we may eat them all as we remember what they teach. When we eat beef, lamb or deer we are reminded to meditate on God's word, and let it change the way we live. If we eat a camel we remember not to judge. Should we eat a coney we would remember to share about God's love for us through the cross. The BBQ'd rabbit would remind us to be dedicated to God and not mix up others things in our worship. As we eat bacon, mmm... bacon... We remember to be discerning in the things we learn. Fried fish reminds us to seek God in His word and let it change our lives. As students, we learn to be like the good teachers, and avoid being like the bad ones.	Notes Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers

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Appendix A Introduction The basis for this study is a first century hermeneutic demonstrated by the New Testament authors as they used Old Testament references, and an observable property of the Hebrew language called 'notarikon'. Notarikon is an attribute of the Hebrew language where words get their meanings from the combined meaning of the letters, and letters get their meaning from the dots (yods or jots) and strokes (vavs or tittles). ^{[n 1]} John demonstrates a fluency in notarikon which is missed when the Septuagint is used instead of the original Hebrew texts. It can be demonstrated that John 1:1-4 is derived using these tools from the first three words of Genesis 1:1. Also that John used the notarikon to unpack 1Jo 5:7-8 from the words for 'heaven' and 'earth'. ^[1] Notarikon is used to unpack the meaning of the names of the animals. This is not free-for-all allegory. Examples of animal behavior which may have caused Adam to name the animals thusly are plausible explanations, but not considered 'Bible truth'. The names are used to show why a person represented by the animal would be a good teacher or not. This thesis challenges the common academic acceptance that Paleo-Hebrew is the oldest form of written text and supports the Wiseman hypothesis which suggests that Genesis was written by eye-witnesses. This will be discussed in future works. ^{[n 2]}	Notes ↑ Modern Jewish teachings concerning notarikon can not be trusted since it can be demonstrated that they are intentionally scrambled to hide references to Christ. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiseman_hypothesis Symbols Vocabulary	Art Questions Answers	↑ ▸ ± 1Jo 5:7-8 7 For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

ELTB 2.1500 [∞]

The natural catechism of the Hebrew alphabet

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They heard - אבגדה [∞] God spoke and created the heavens and the earth א and revealed to men ב that he pursued them ג with a commandment ד which they did not understand ה.
They saw - וזחטי [∞] They were distinguished ו as the bride ז when they did understand ח. Through a marriage ט they became a new creation י.
The promise - כלמנס [∞] The Son of God כ taught ל the promise of the Father מ. The Son of Man נ fulfilled the promise ס.
The exchange - עפצ [∞] He was made to be flesh ע, taught in parables, prophecies and riddles פ, and exchanged his righteousness for our sin צ.
The revelation - קרשת [∞] The Son of God died and rose again ק revealing ר that his Word returned with an increase ש and the revelation was finished with new life ת.
The final state - ךםןףץ [∞] The Son of God died ך completing the promise of the Father ם. The Son of Man was restored to Glory ן. Prophecy was fulfilled ף. Judgement is ended ץ. And we became co-heirs with Christ.

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God wants everyone to know him Everything God made is designed to teach about him. [1] However, it is difficult to learn from the stars and rocks. We learn easier through words and actions. God chose some people; the Hebrews, to teach everyone else about him [2], but they didn't know him very well themselves. So God wrote a play and chose the Hebrews to be the actors. [3] He gave them some commandments, a tabernacle, and some feasts to live by. These things were the script for the play, acting out who God was and what he had done for them. Everyone else would watch the play and learn about God. [4] God used their lives to write another story. [5] [6] Using things in their history as symbols, God wrote about himself, Jesus, and the cross. [7] In this book, we will look at the script; the rules God gave them about things they could eat. Through the symbols, good and bad teachers will be revealed by their behaviors.

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Symbols In order to hide a second story in the history of his people, God had to use symbols. [1] [2] When you look at a picture of an apple, you know that it isn't an apple but just a symbol of an apple. It is something to make you think about apples. Words are also symbols. The word 'dog' is not a dog. It is just a symbol to make you think of dogs. Words can be used as symbols of other words. When you are told to 'hop in the car', do you really hop all the way to the car and jump in? I don't think you do that. The word 'hop' is used as s symbol to mean 'get in'. Why would we use 'hop' instead of 'get in'? "Get in" sounds bossy. Parents really don't like to boss you around. To be just a little playful, they would say 'hop in'. We also use symbols in jokes and riddles. You’ve heard the joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? The answer is "To get to the other side". But if we look deeper into the symbol of the riddle, ”the other side" is a symbol for going to heaven. Then whenever we see a chicken, we think of the real answer of the riddle: chickens remind us of going ot heaven. This is similar to how God taught his people. The dietary law is not about eating God gave the Hebrews a number of laws telling them how to live. Some of these laws told Israel what to eat and what not to eat (dietary laws). These laws were to be used as a script for a play. [1] They would act out the play, and the audience, everyone else, would learn from it. The play is written in symbols and riddle. As a part of his law, God ordained priests to teach his people. The priests were to teach people how to be holy in imitation of God. The priests taught the Hebrews to eat the clean things—the things that holy people could eat— and to avoid the unclean things that would divide them from God. In this way, Israel would act out the play that would show others what kind of people they should be and follow. For us in the audience, dietary law [2] says nothing about what we can eat. Instead, eating is a symbol for learning how to live [3]. It tells us who we should learn from, and who we should not learn from. Each of these animals is a symbol for a different type of teacher. Unlocking the riddle of the dietary laws leads to understanding what the kinds of teachers the animals represent.

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Introduction The basis for this study is a first century hermeneutic demonstrated by the New Testament authors as they used Old Testament references, and an observable property of the Hebrew language called 'notarikon'. [1] Definition of notarikon here. John demonstrates a fluency in notarikon which is missed when the Septuagint is used instead of the original Hebrew texts. It can be demonstrated that John 1:1-4 is derived using these tools from the first three words of Genesis 1:1. Illustrate using בראשית The hermeneutic and use of notarikon eliminate the need to search for a mystical Q document to explain the so-called 'Synoptic Problem'. [2] Most people don’t know what Q or the Synoptic Problem is, so if you’re going to mention it, it needs a longer explanation.

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For Israel The dietary law was written for Israel. 'Is' means 'man'. 'El' means God, just as it did in 'Elohim'. The 'R' sound means 'revelation'. Israel means 'man joined to God by revelation'. Jacob was called 'Israel' because God revealed himself through a dream [1], and by wrestling with him. [2] The Hebrews were called Israel because God revealed himself at the mountain. [3] You are called Israel because God has revealed himself to you through the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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Start page main narrative here: The Hebrews did not understand the riddles. They just acted them out. The answers to the riddles come from Jesus and the cross. We can understand the message of the play by the cross. The law tells us about God, by showing us the teachers that he wants for us. We don't need to act it out too. Since eating is a symbol for learning [1], each animal is a symbol of someone who teaches. There are some people we should learn from, and some we should not. Benjamin Franklin said, "He who lies down with dogs, gets up with fleas." He used dogs as a symbol for people who behave poorly, and fleas as bad behaviors we might learn from them. As we sit down to breakfast, we can eat the tasty bacon, think of pigs, and be reminded of what the riddle teaches us: that we should not learn (eat) from people who cannot tell if their own learning is good or bad. Meditate on the word of God The clean animals are the ones the Hebrews were allowed to eat. They symbolize the people we should learn from. The clean animals of the Bible are described as those who 'chew the cud'. The actual word 'gerah' means to 'pursue the revelation that was not understood'. The cow will eat something and regurgitate it, up to three times, to chew it again and again until everything is digested. If you are a clean animal, you learn from God's word, then you 'chew the cud', thinking about it over and over again. The symbol of the cow reminds us to learn from people who spend time meditating (or chewing) on God’s word.

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The cow has several stomachs, but you have only one. Please chew your food well before swallowing so that you only have to swallow once. Clean animals also walk on split hooves with two toes. These symbolize a 'separated walk' or life. [2] The way you ‘walk' is a symbol for the way you live. [3] If you have a separated life, you are living a life for God, separated from the things that distract us from God. You learn to walk with God by meditating on his word. [4] A good teacher is like this.

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Camel The camel is an unclean animal. The Hebrews did not eat it because it didn’t have a separated hoof. Instead of walking with God, the camel is a symbol of a judge. [1] We hope our judges are good people. But God is using the judge to teach about himself through the nature of his teachers. Jesus said that we should not judge, or we too will be judged. [2]

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. [3]

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. [4] Jesus told a story about a man who owed a lot of money to a king. [5] 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. 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. We should not learn to be a judge, because if we judge, we will be judged.

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Coney The coney is another unclean animal that the Hebrews did not eat. When Adam named the coney he must have seen the coney take a treasure into his den, then return to the opening to defend it with bared teeth. His name means 'hide the treasure' [1] but it also means 'mystery פ of the biting teeth שן'. The coney is a symbol of a teacher who hides the Gospel.

God is Holy and he is also Love. Holiness is expressed by separation, the law, and judgement. His love is expressed by patience, long-suffering, and self-sacrifice. Judgement in the Old Testament was required to teach that he is holy. Now through the 'play' which was finished on the cross, His holiness is understood. When his holiness is learned through the cross, God is free to teach of his love. Consider when Elisha removed an ax head from the stream [2]: With an ax as a symbol of judgement, and the water a symbol of his word, he removed judgement from the Word. The same story is told when Jesus turned water; the word, into wine; a symbol of grace.

The coney-like teacher hides the treasure, or message of love, and only presents the teeth; the law. He uses the Bible to threaten people with the anger of God.

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Not dedicated to God Rabbits are unclean! Some teachers are symbolized by rabbits. A warren of rabbits may look like popcorn. They jump when happy; they jump when scared; they just jump sometimes. The name in Hebrew means 'divided jubilation' [1]. The rabbit is a symbol of teachers who mix all kinds of religions together. They hop about from one religion to the next. This week it is Christmas, Hanukkah, or Quanza, and next they are celebrating Hindu dust. To them all religions are good. They have no discernment about what to celebrate.

Some people say we can't trust the Bible because it says the rabbit 'chews the cud' and rabbits don't chew the cud. The Bible says that only in English. In Hebrew is says they chew the 'gerah' which is a thing pursued again because it was not understood. [2] The rabbit actually passes its food through a second time by eating its night droppings. Unlike the clean animals that meditate on God’s word, the rabbit-like teacher knows the word of God but is not a good teacher. The teacher symbolized by rabbit or hare is not a good teacher because the knowledge of God does not produce a separated hoof. He does not live what he knows. Without discernment of what to celebrate, the teacher cannot dedicate his life to God.

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Swine Pigs are also unclean. Swine eat, or learn, anything, and teach it as truth. For example, some people say their favorite verse of the Bible is "God helps those who help themselves". That isn't in the Bible. The swine is a symbol of the self-righteous; people who think they are good just because they think they are good. The name (חסיר )in Hebrew means 'perceive חז a new י revelation ר'. They think their own ideas, or whatever new ideas they hear, are true. Swine pass off new teachings from others as if they are from the Bible. They hear from others that there are errors in the Bible. They pass it on as truth to make themselves look clever. Teachers may learn things from scientific theories and pass them on as absolute truth. One thing is absolutely true in science: what it says is true today, will not be true tomorrow. They may read the Bible and not understand it. They will teach their error as truth. When faced with things that appear to be opposite teachings in the Bible, they just choose one and ignore the other, rather than work to understand they are both true. The one who cannot understand the word of God is not a good teacher.

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Swine -2 The attitude of the swine-like teacher is so contagious it is dangerous. God’s law to the Hebrews about the swine was that they should not even 'touch their dead bodies' [1]. This riddle in Hebrew about teachers means that we should not be 'joined to their foolishness nor plagued by it.'. A pig-like teacher may brag he gave an apple to a homeless guy. The next swine brags he gave two apples. The first responds that his was the only apple he had and he gave it. The swine will also make you feel bad for the good work that you did, trying to seem better than you. This bragging of works is contagious. Do not be joined to it. Swine attitudes of self-righteousness based on his own ideas are contagious because they appeal to our desire to be important. We want to be noticed and appreciated. We want to look good to others. Do not be plagued by it. Instead, seek teachers who build their students up. Have nothing to do with the swine or you may get caught up in their folly. Perhaps this is a source for Paul's teaching: 2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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Fish Water is a symbol the word of God, so the clean fish represents the teacher who has been commanded to pursue, or search, the scriptures.

The Hebrew word for 'fish' means 'commanded to pursue'. [1] When Adam watched the fish darting around the water, it seemed like an appropriate name. A clean fish has scales symbolizing the armor of God [2] , and is propelled by fins symbolizing that the love Jesus had for the word, which motivates the teacher. This is hidden in riddle. [3] God's teachers are always looking to understand God better. They study, meditate, and then live what they have learned. They correct their teaching and their lives as they learn more. They are motivated by the same love for God's people that God has for his people. They desire that others know God's love. The fish live in three kinds of water or word. [4] The word of God comes from the 1. Father, 2. Son, and 3. Holy Spirit. God is made known through his 1. works; the things that happen in life, 2. his word; Jesus and the Bible, and by his 3. Spirit dwelling within us. The one who wears the armor of God as he searches the scriptures, swims in the water of God’s word, and is motivated by the love of God, is a good teacher.

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Summary When we eat clean animals which ruminate and have a split hoof [4], we remember that our teachers should meditate on the Word of God [5], and it should produce a Holy life or walk, in them. The camel is a symbol for a judge. Jesus said that we should not judge others [7]. Judges aren't good teachers. The coney hides the gospel and only teaches the law. The rabbit appears to celebrate at inappropriate times. The swine are those who have no discernment in what they learn [6]. A swine shouldn't be a teacher. These animals represent the behaviors of some people. We will need to understand what symbols are, then we can examine how the symbols are used to represent various kinds of people. This needs a summary/reiteration of the theater/play idea. Also, a summary of the fish.

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[1] A format something like The Magic School Bus books might be helpful for this information. Then you can filter it into several levels of teaching/knowledge. This makes it appeal to a broader age range, as the younger ones can go for the more streamlined “story”of the basic dinner theater idea and the older ones can read the explanatory information balloons or the introductory material and gain more of the training in theological thinking. This would enable you to put the alphabet and word information in there without bogging down a read-through. One reads the main text, and then all the interesting side tidbits and Bible verses that give it theological depth and context. If you do this sort of format, I recommend condensing the main text somewhat so that it reads more like a cohesive narrative with a few main points per page. Then the foundational material can go in info bubbles surrounding it or expository windows around the page or on their own excursus kind of page. I’ve done some of that below; it needs some more finessing if you like the idea.

[2] For this to be a book that introduces children to the topic who have no prior knowledge of the subject, I think you need a bridge between Adam and the dietary laws. Perhaps Aaron’s job, which ties together the roles of teaching and distinguishing between clean and unclean in Lev 10:10. That would provide a bit more of a repetition rhythm.

[3] From the beginning Before God created anything, there was just God. [1] He looked for a place to put a universe. There was nothing larger than God. [2] There was no place outside of him to create. He could only put the new things inside of himself. He opened a pocket within himself and spoke into it. [3] When the heavens and earth were finished; he created his friend. [4] [5] [6] "Hi Adam, I am God; let me teach holiness and love. [7] I will give you a tree as a symbol of holiness. It is separate and different from other trees. You should not eat from it, just because I am God. [8] I am Holy. I am Love." Adam not understanding God, would 'declare' his own rules as God had done. [9] He ate the fruit from the tree. [10] There should be a more explicit connection here between eating and learning (probably about the otherness/holiness of God and the tree) in the context of Adam. God's name tells us that Adam did not understand God. God's name is Elohim. 'El' means 'God', 'im' means 'his people'. The 'H' sound means they don't understand. God is separated from his people because they don't understand. Each of the letters are symbols with meaning. Everything... absolutely everything after this is to teach who God is. Through the dietary law, he reveals his nature by showing how to select good teachers.

[4] ▸ ± 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.

[6] Not many rock stars teach about God!

[5] ▸ ± 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:

[8] stone aben אבן 𝆑- father ab אב and son ben בן

[9] star kowkab כוכב 𝆑- Son of God כ explaining the revelation of God ר by becoming man כ and teaching man ב

[10] ∞ stone ↬ Father and Son together

[11] ∞ star ↬ The Son of God revealed on earth

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

[13] ∞ eat ↬ learn

[12] t akal אכל 𝆑- smite אכ the teaching ל .

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