Author: Jim

Skins of Badgers were used to adorn the Tabernacle.
See Exodus 25:5, Exodus 26:14, Exodus 35:7, 23, Exodus 36:19,34, Numbers 4:6,8,10-12,14,25

Badger Skin was apparently wrong as translators seem to have been misled by the similarity in sound of the Hebrew tachash_ and the Latin _taxus , “a badger.” The revisers have correctly substituted “seal skins.”

The Arabs of the Sinaitic peninsula apply the name tucash to the seals and dugongs which are common in the Red Sea, and the skins of which are largely used as leather and for sandals.

In Ezekiel 16 The Lord God reminded the nation of Israel about His loving care He had for them (read the whole Chapter). In vs 16 He speaks of Badgers (seal) skin for shoes.

Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

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Appears 76 times in the Bible: 69 – Old Testament 7 – New Testament

Peter warns of false prophets 2 Peter 2 uses Balaam as one example:
2 Peter 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

Peter is referring to the Story in Numbers 22:21-34 where Balaam’s dumb ass was given a voice to speak. (vs 28) And the LORD opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

The Lord Jesus instructed his disciples to fetch him a colt to ride on to fulfill the prophecy of his arrival into Jerusalem (Zechariah 9:9 …behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass).
Matthew 21:2 Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.
Matthew 21:5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.
Matthew 21:7 And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.
John also recorded the event (John 12:12-15)
John 12:14-15 And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.

After the a leader of Israel chastised the Lord for healing on the Sabbath he responded:
Luke 13:15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
And again answering the lawyers and Pharises:
Luke 14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

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Isaiah writes about the kingdom time (1000 years) promised to the nation Israel when their Messiah (the Lord Jesus) will rule over them (and the whole world). During this time peace will reign that man and animals will dwell together without fear. An example is in:

Isaiah 11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

Read all of Isaiah 11.

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Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

As indicated in the Proverb Ants are very hard, busy workers. Observing an ant hill or colony one will see they all are very busy building, collecting food and protecting the homestead. As opposed to the sluggard, a lazy, idle, sleepy, slow-moving person.

And as suggested observation (and copying) the ways of the ant will make one wise (and perhaps wealthy).
On the other hand, if one continues to act as a sluggard, life will not turn out very well.
Proverbs 6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Proverbs 10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.
Proverbs 26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

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The dietary laws are listed in detail in Leviticus 11 and repeated in Deuteronomy 14 along with the unclean animals and reason for not eating them.

Leviticus 11:4-8 The camel, the coney, the hare, the swine.
Leviticus 11:10-12 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:13-20 the fowls, the eagle, the ossifrage, the osprey, the vulture, and the kite, every raven, the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the swan, the pelican, the gier eagle, the stork, the heron, the lapwing, the bat and all fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
Leviticus 11:29-30 The weasel, the rat, the mouse, the tortoise, the ferret, the chameleon, the lizard, the snail, the mole.
Leviticus 11:41-43 And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten. Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination. Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
Deuteronomy 14:7-8 The camel, the hare, the coney, the swine.
Deuteronomy 14:12-19 The eagle, the ossifrage, the ospray, the glede, the kite, the vulture after his kind, and every raven, the owl, the night hawk, the cuckow, the hawk, the little owl, the great owl, the swan, the pelican, the gier eagle, and the cormorant, the stork, the heron, the lapwing, the bat. And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.
Be sure to read both chapters to see all the Law.
The men the Lord Jesus picked to be his disciples were all Jews and keepers of the LAW. They would never have thought about eating any of these animals. But the Lord Jesus fulfilled the Law, removing all the ordinances.
However Peter had a problem understanding this even though the Lord spoke to him in a vision:
Acts 10:10-17 And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean …

The Apostle Paul made this very clear:
Ephesians 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Paul did agree to 4 rules presented to him.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Restated in:
Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Today, other than the 4 rules, we can eat anything that appeals to us.

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The Lord God continues to put Job in his place (read all of Job 40-41).
Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
The Lord continues to question Job and describe Leviathan:
Canst thou put an hook into his nose?
bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Will he make many supplications unto thee?
will he speak soft words unto thee?
Will he make a covenant with thee?
wilt thou take him for a servant forever?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?
wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Shall the companions make a banquet of him?
shall they part him among the merchants?
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons?
his head with fish spears?

It would appear that Leviathan is a massive sea-monster who’s impervious to human weapons, breathes fire, and emits smoke from his nostrils.

Psalm 74:13-14 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psalm 104:24-27 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

Could this be a reference to Satan?
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Many have said that nowhere in the Bible does the Lord Jesus ever say that he is God.
Well reread the above verse, especially the words:
”How often would I have gathered thy children together”.

Only God could make that statement. Ever since Israel became a nation, when the Hebrew children came out of Egypt, God has tried to gather them together, to be their God. But they have always rejected him. There are many other verses that prove Jesus is God, and here HE proclaims it.

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Animals were created on the 5^th and 6^th day:
Genesis 1:20-23 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.  And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

Looking at these animals as they appear in scripture can teach many things about God, Man and our way of life. After all man is to have dominion (sovereignty or control) over all the animals:

Genesis 1:24-25 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.  And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Not all types of animals are named as the Scripture says “after his kind”.

Select any of the following animals to see what the scripture has to say:

⇛Adder ➾Asp ➾Ass

⇛Badger ➾Bear ➾Beast ➾Behemoth ➾Bird ➾Birds ➾Boar ➾Bull ➾Bullock

⇛Calf ➾Camel ➾Chamois ➾Chickens ➾Cockatrice ➾Colt ➾Conies ➾Cormorant ➾Cow ➾Crane

⇛Deer ➾Dog ➾Dove ➾Dragon

⇛Eagle ➾Ewe

⇛Fish ➾Fowl ➾Fox ➾Frog

⇛Goat ➾Greyhound

⇛Hart ➾Hawk ➾Heifer ➾Horse

⇛Kid ➾Kine

⇛Lamb ➾Leopard ➾Leviathan ➾Lion

⇛Mice ➾Mole ➾Mouse ➾Mule

⇛Owl ➾Oxen

⇛Peacock ➾Pelican ➾Pig ➾Pigeon ➾Pygarg

⇛Quail

⇛Ram ➾Raven ➾Roebuck

⇛Serpent ➾Sheep ➾Snail ➾Sparrow ➾Stork ➾Swallows ➾Swine

⇛Tortoise ➾Turtle ➾Turtledove

⇛Unclean Animals ➾Unicorn

⇛Viper

⇛Whale ➾Wolf ➾Worm

This list may not yet be complete, there may be more that will be added as they are discovered.

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