ELTB CC 8-9
ELTB CC 8-9 [∞]
Some locusts have irridescent coloring in their wings or bodies. They look like they have a light in them. Perhaps that is why Adam named them 'light in her'.
Light is a symbol of holiness. Though the locust spends much time on the ground, it jumps to get off the ground, and it appears to have light inside. We sometimes spend much time just living and not thinking about God. Then when we realize he is there, we jump at the chance to praise him or talk with him. As we learn to enjoy the presence of God, we want to spend more time with him. [1]
Do you have a little light in you? I know a song called "This Little Light of Mine". [2] You show others that God is God and he is good when you do good things.
- locust ‘arbeh ארבה - light אר in her בה.
When a grasshopper lays an egg, it wiggles it's body to dig a hole, then lays an egg in the hole. It looks like it is planting a seed. In a short while, the baby grasshopper; called a nymph, emerges. A nymph looks like a fully grown grasshopper, but just really tiny.
Adam named it 'life through the pit'. The new grasshopper looks like the old grasshopper, but different. Other insects produce larvae looking like worms which have to change.
When Jesus rose from the dead, he didn't become a new baby. He looked the same as he did before, just different. His friends could still see the scars in his hands and side.
The grasshopper, like a good teacher, reminds us that Jesus is alive.
- grasshopper chagab חגב - life ח though the pit [grave] גב.
- ↑ ▸ ± Php 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:
- ↑ ▸ ± Lu 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
