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The dietary law is not about eating
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God gave the Hebrews a number of laws telling them how to live.
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| Some of these laws told Israel what to eat and what not to eat (dietary laws).
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| These laws were to be used as a script for a play.
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- ↑ ▸ ± 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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| They would act out the play, and the audience, everyone else, would learn from it.
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- ↑ ▸ ± 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.
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- ↑ ▸ ± 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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God chose priests to keep the actors in line with the script.
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- ↑ The priest was first a prophet, to speak the word of God.
- ↑ ▸ ± Ex 7:1 And the LORD said unto Moses, See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh: and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
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The priests were also actors.
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The script only told them that they were not good and only God was good.
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- ↑ ▸ ± Da 9:11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that [is] written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
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For us in the audience, the dietary law says nothing about what we can eat.
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- ↑ ▸ ± Ac 10:15 And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.
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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.
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| Each of these animals is a symbol for a different type of teacher. The clean animals are good to learn from. The Unclean animals teach things God doesn't want you to learn.
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| If you know the story of Adam and Eve, the unclean animals are like the tree they were not allowed to eat from.
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- ↑ ▸ ± 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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| Since the scriptures all speak of Christ, the animals all represent Christ. Some represent him as the good teacher. Others represent him bearing the sins of the bad teacher.
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