Unclean animals - Don't be like them

Unclean animals - Don't be like them [∞]

The ‘unclean’ animal doesn’t chew its cud or it doesn’t have a split hoof. [1] Some animals are unclean even if they chew the cud because they do not have a split hoof. These are like the scribes in the day of Jesus. They knew the scriptures but it did not change the way they lived.

Others thought they had a split hoof, like the Pharisees, who were the most religious people of the day. But their righteousness, or goodness, was not based in the scriptures that God gave them. They would make up their own rules instead. They were self-righteous.

The Hebrews weren't allowed to eat unclean animals. This was to remind us to avoid these types of teachers. When we eat a clean or unclean animal, we remember the Hebrews taught us that the word of God should change our lives. [2]