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| '''Pelican'''
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| Perhaps Adam watched a pelican scoop up his meal, and then vomit up the shell and rocks. He named it 'vomit after'. That's gross.
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| Vomit, like spit, is a symbol of rejection. <ref>{{bgw| Job 20:15 }} He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.</ref> Those who reject the word should not be teachers of the word. <ref>{{bgw| Pr 26:11 }} As a dog returneth to his vomit, [so] a fool returneth to his folly.</ref> The pelican represents those who reject the word of God.
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| * pelican ''qa’ath'' קאת - vomit קא after ת.
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| '''Gier eagle'''
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| The name contains the Hebrew root 'to love'. The birds are mated and seldom separated. This maybe part of what Adam saw, but if this was all, we would have difficulty understanding why it is an unclean bird. Love is a good thing to learn. But the gier eagle eats almost nothing but carrion or road kill.
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| The name actually means 'not understanding love'. Though they are together in the appearance of love, they eat nothing but dead things. It is true that when we eat the bread of communion, we are learning from his death, but it is followed by the wine or 'blood of the grape' which is a symbol of his life. <ref>{{bgw| Le 17:11 }} For the life of the flesh [is] in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it [is] the blood [that] maketh an atonement for the soul.</ref>
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| Paul teaches that if we don't have love, our faith, generosity, and sacrifices mean nothing. <ref>{{bgw|Co 13:2,3 }} And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.</ref>
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| The one who truly loves eats the living word of God with others.
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| * gier eagle ''haracham'' הרחם - not understanding ה love רחם.
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