Animals of the Bible
I have summarized part of the dietary law which speaks of good and bad teachers. Eating is a metaphor for learning. Good: clean animal = his meditation on the word produces a holy walk Bad: Camel - teaches to judge Bad: Coney - legalist who hides the love of the Word Bad: Hare - spiritual drunk who celebrates all religions Bad: Swine - Does not discern what he learns Good: Fish - Lives by the Word and uses it as his defense Bad: no fins or scales. Compromised in the flesh and spirit Bad: Eagle: Those who forget the revelation Bad: Ossifrage: Tear apart the pure Bad: Osprey - Doesn't understand the word Bad: Kites - Doubter Bad: Raven - Improperly mixing Holiness and Love Bad: Owl - Questions God's purposes Bad: Night hawk - loves violence Bad: Cuckow - wastes away in fleshly pursuits Bad: Hawk - speaks only of Christ's death, not of his resurrection Bad: Little owl - angry Bad: Cormorant - Those who have been cast out (for cause) Bad: Great owl - Those presuming upon grace; continuing in sin Bad: Swan - Destroyer (not builder) Bad: Pelican - Rejects the word Bad: Stork - Doesn't understand holiness and mercy Bad: Heron - Anger within Bad: Lapwing - Irregular obedience Bad: Bat - Turned aside from the teaching Good: Leaping bugs - Reverent and no guile Good: Locust - Holiness within Good: Bald locust - Speaks and lives according to the finished work of Christ Good: Beetle - Ends fear by teaching Good: Grasshopper - Preaches life through the cross Bad: Four feet - Improperly mix flesh with spirit and holiness with grace. Bad: Carries the carcasse - exalts the dead flesh
