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{{3cr| God wants everyone to know him.
God wants everyone to know him
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Everything God made is designed to teach about him.  However, it is difficult to learn from the stars and rocks. We learn easier through words and actions.
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{{3cr| Everything he made is designed to teach about him.


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God chose some people; the Hebrews, to teach everyone else about him
{{3cr| It is difficult for us to learn about God from stars and rocks.
<ref group="a">Not many rock stars teach about God!</ref>
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, but they didn't know him very well themselves.
{{3cr| We learn easier through words and actions.


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So God wrote a play and chose the Hebrews to be the actors. [3]
{{3cr| He chose some people to teach us about him, but they didn't know what to say, since they did not know him very well themselves.


He gave them some commandments, a tabernacle, and some feasts to live by. These things were the script for the play, acting out who God was and what he had done for them.
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Everyone else would watch the play and learn about God. [4]
{{3cr| God used them like actors in a play. Their lives became a parable for all of us to learn about God. In the play we learn from rocks and stars through what is said about rocks and stars.


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God used their lives to write another story. [5] [6]
{{3cr| We don't learn much about God by looking at the tabernacles or having festival. We learn from what God said about them.


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Using things in their history as symbols, God wrote about himself, Jesus, and the cross. [7]
{{3cr| God hid lessons for us in the history of Israel. In this book we will look at the things that they were allowed to eat and not eat.


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In this book, we will look at the script; the rules God gave them about things they could eat. Through the symbols, good and bad teachers will be revealed by their behaviors.</ref>
{{3cr| If eating is a symbol for learning, what do you think the clean animals teach us?


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