Great owl
Covering you in ‘darkness’ is a positive from God’s view, or a negative from our view. God expresses love and mercy, symbolized by darkness. If we are in sin, and haven’t been destroyed, God sees that he is giving us mercy. From our view, we say that being in darkness is being in sin and presuming upon God’s mercy. To us, darkness looks like evil.
The Great Owl, which Adam watched hunt and live in the night, represents those in the dark who should not be our teachers. [1] Those people who are like Great Owls, act like God is not watching them do bad things. They pretend that God will never do anything about it. [2]
God always keeps his promises and he is watching everything. We don’t want to lie to ourselves that there isn’t a God or that he is asleep.
- darkness chasak חשך - covering, withholding
- great owl yanshuwph ינשׁוף - ‘I י in the dark נשׁוף’. The one who is in the dark is sinning and presuming upon the grace of God.
