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{{3cr| They would act out the play, and the audience, everyone else, would learn from it.  
{{3cr| They would act out the play, and the audience, everyone else, would learn from it.  
<ref>{{bgw| Ge 22:18 }} And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. </ref>
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The play is written in symbols and riddle.  
The play is written in symbols and riddle.  
<ref>{{bgw| Pr 25:2 }} [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.</ref>
<ref>{{bgw| Ps 78:2 }} I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of old: </ref>
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God chose priests to keep the actors in line with the script.  
God chose priests to keep the actors in line with the script.
<ref>The priest was first a prophet, to speak the word of God. </ref>
<ref>{{bgw| 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. </ref>
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The script only told them that they were not good and only God was good.
The script only told them that they were not good and only God was good.
<ref>{{bgw| 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. </ref>
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For us in the audience, the dietary law  says nothing about what we can eat.  
For us in the audience, the dietary law  says nothing about what we can eat.  
<ref>{{bgw|  Ac 10:15 }} And the voice [spake] unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call not thou common.</ref>
<ref group="n">If there was a moral component to the dietary law, God would not have changed his mind.</ref>
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{{3cr|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.  
{{3cr|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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{{3cr|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.
{{3cr|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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{{3cr| If you know the story of Adam and Eve, the unclean animals are like the tree they were not allowed to eat from.
<ref>{{bgw| 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.</ref>
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{{3cr|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.  
{{3cr|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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