A mule is the result of breeding between a male donkey and a female horse. It is said to have the body of the horse with extremities of a donkey.

Mules can be used for riding and riding events such as dressage, show jumping, endurance events and western riding events. Mules are particularly suited to driving. They are suitable for farms and smallholdings where they can be used as pack animals or for draught work. Mules do have a great ability to high jump. Mules have been used throughout history as reliable pack animals in combat, able to take on the tough terrain that other forms of transport can’t reach.

Genesis 36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

2 Samuel 13:29 And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
2 Samuel 18:9 And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

1 Kings 1:33 The king also said unto them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1 Kings 1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1 Kings 1:44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:
1 Kings 10:25 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
1 Kings 18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the LORD.

1 Chronicles 12:40 Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.
2 Chronicles 9:24 And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

Ezra 2:66 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

Nehemiah 7:68 Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:

Esther 8:10 And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:
Esther 8:14 So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.

Isaiah 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.

Ezekiel 27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

Zechariah 14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.

The Psalmist gives a warning:
Psalm 32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

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The owl, in the Bible, symbolizes an unclean/abdominal animal compared to creatures such as dragons, squids, crocodiles, bats, and ravens. These creatures were animals that the Israelite people were commanded by Moses not to consume as food.

Leviticus 11:16-17 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
Deuteronomy 14:15-16 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind, The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Psalm 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Isaiah 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Isaiah 34:13-15 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Jeremiah 50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

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Created on the 5th day, taken into the Ark by Noah before the flood.
Genesis 7:14 They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

God sealing His covenant with Abram (Genesis 15)
Genesis 15:10 And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

Joseph interprets the chief bakers dream (Genesis 40)
Genesis 40:17-19 And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head. And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days: Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

The law of the leper in the day of his cleansing (Leviticus 14)
Leviticus 14:4-7 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.
Leviticus 14:49-53 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean.

Deuteronomy 14:11 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.

Included in a list of SHALL NOTs
Deuteronomy 22:6 If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

Rizpah, in mourning, kept the birds and beasts away.
2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

The Lord asks Job if a bird compares to a leviathan.
Job 41:5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

The writers of Psalm and Proverbs use birds in many illustrations:
Psalm 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
Psalm 104:17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Psalm 124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Proverbs 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Proverbs 7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
Proverbs 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.
Proverbs 27:8 As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

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1. No
2. No
3. Yes -Matthew 28:19
4. Offices
5. Yes -1 John 5:7
6. Yes -Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Matthew 23:9; Mark 12:29,32; John 8:41;10:30 Romans 3:29; 1 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 3:20; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 2:5; James 2:19
7. Yes -Romans 1:20; Colossians 2:9
8. Yes -Matthew 23:9
9. Yes -Hebrews 1:3,11:1
10. No
11. Yes -Job 113:8; Hebrews 1:3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Colossians 1:19,2:9
12. Yes -Luke 10:21,22
13. Yes -John 14:10, 2 Corinthians 5:19
14. Yes -Proverbs 30:4
15. Yes -Isaiah 9:6
16. Yes -Genesis 1:26;Malachi 2:10;John 1:3;Ephesians 3:9;Colossians 1:16
17. Yes -Colossians 2:9
18. Yes -John 12:44,45
19. Yes -Revelation 1:8
20. No
21. No
22. No -Revelation 4:2
23. Yes -Revelation 1:17-18 (Compare Isaiah 44:6;48:12)
24. Yes -Matthew 4:10
25. No -James 2:19
26. Yes -John 1:1,14
27. Yes -Hebrews 2:9,14
28. Yes -1 Timothy 3:16
29. Yes -John 3:13
30. Yes -Isaiah 45:18; Ephesians 4:5
31. Yes -Colossians 3:24
32. Yes -1 Kings 18:39; Zechariah 14:5; Acts 2:39; Revelation 19:1
33. Yes -Ephesians 4;9-10
34. No -Isaiah 42:8,45:5
35. No -Isaiah 43:10,11; Revelation 1:8;
36. No -Isaiah 44:8
37. No -Hosea 13:4
38. No -Zechariah 14:9
39. Yes -Malachi 3:16
40. Yes -Job 9:8
41. Yes -Matthew 14:25; Colossians 1:16
42. Yes -Mark 2:7; Isaiah 43:25
43. Yes -Mark 2:10; Matthew 9:2,6
44. Yes -1 John 5:20
45. Both Matthew 1:20; Romans 15:6; 2 Corinthians 11:31; Ephesians 1:3; There is but ONE Spirit, Ephesians 2:18; 1 Corinthians 6:17,12:13; Philippians 1:27; 2 Corinthians 3:17;
46. Yes -Acts 9:5
47. Yes -Acts 7:59
48. Yes -John 20:28
49. Yes -Matthew 1:23
50. Yes -John 10:30
51. No -The Godhead was never compared to a woman.
52. Yes -Jude 1:25
53. Yes -Joel 2:28; Acts 2:4,17; Titus 3:5,6;
54. No -Not persons.
55. Yes -Manifestations of One God.
56. Yes -Mark 1:11
57. Yes -Isaiah 44:8 (another God)
58. Yes -Titus 1:2 (Lie)
59. Yes -Acts 20:28
60. Yes -1 John 3:16; Romans 5:6; I Corinthians 15:3

Bonus Question Answer: Yes -1 Corinthians 15:12-19

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1. (Y or N) Is the word trinity in the Bible?
2. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there are three persons in the Godhead?
3. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there is a Father, Son and Holy Spirit?
4. (P or O) Does Matthew 28:19 mean that there three separate and distinct Persons or Offices (which?).
5. (Y or N) Does the Bible ever speak about the THREE?
6. (Y or N) Is the word ONE used in the Bible in reference to the Godhead?
7. (Y or N) Can the mystery of the Godhead be understood?
8. (Y or N) Has the Christian only one Heavenly Father?
9. (Y or N) When Jesus said to Phillip, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father”, was He claiming to be God?
10. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there are two Persons in the Godhead?
11. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there is one person in the Godhead?
12. (Y or N) Is the Mystery of the Deity hidden from some people?
13. (Y or N) Was God in Heaven while Jesus was on the earth?
14. (Y or N) Did Agur the Prophet inquire about the Mystery of the Godhead?
15. (Y or N) Did the Prophet Isaiah say that Jesus was the Father?
16. (Y or N) When God said, “Let us make man in our image,” was He speaking to another Person in the Godhead?
17. (Y or N) Did Christ possess all of God’s qualities while on earth?
18. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that God sent Jesus into the world?
19. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that Jesus is the Almighty?
20. (Y or N) Is the Holy Spirit the first Person in the Trinity?
21. (Y or N) Is the proper order in the Trinity: God, Holy Spirit, Jesus?
22. (Y or N) Did John see Three Person sitting on the Throne in Heaven?
23. (Y or N) Did Jesus say He was the First and the Last?
24. (Y or N) Did Jesus tell Satan that God alone should be worshipped?
25. (Y or N) Does the Devil believe in more than One God?
26. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that God who is the Word, was made Flesh?
27. (Y or N) God became flesh so He should taste death for every man.
28. (Y or N) Was Jesus God in form of man?
29. (Y or N) Can Jesus be on earth and in Heaven at the same time?
30. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there is but one Lord?
31. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that Christ is Lord?
32. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that the Lord is God?
33. (Y or N) Is He that ascended the same that descended?
34. (Y or N) Will God give His Glory to another?
35. (Y or N) Was there ever a God formed before Jehovah, will there be after?
36. (Y or N) Has Jehovah the knowledge of the existence of an another God?
37. (Y or N) Do we know of more than One God?
38. (Y or N) Do we know of more than One name of the Lord?
39. (Y or N) Is it good that we think upon the name of the Lord?
40. (Y or N) Does Scripture say, God alone treads upon the waves of the sea?
41. (Y or N) Did Jesus walk upon the water (sea)?
42. (Y or N) Is God the only one that can forgive Sin?
43. (Y or N) Has Jesus the Power to forgive Sins?
44. (Y or N) Is Jesus the True God?
45. (G or HS) Is God or the Holy Spirit the Father of Jesus?
46. (Y or N) Did Paul (Saul) call Jesus LORD?
47. (Y or N) Did Stephen call God Jesus?
48. (Y or N) Did Thomas ever call Jesus God?
49. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that Jesus is “God with us”?
50. (Y or N) Did Jesus say “I and the Father are One?”
51. (Y or N) Can it be Scripturally said that Jesus and the Father are One in the same sense that man and wife are one?
52. (Y or N) Does the Bible say there is only One Wise God?
53. (Y or N) Does the Bible say the Holy Spirit is poured out?
54. (Y or N) Can the Trintarian prove that there were three persons present at the Baptism of Jesus by John?
55. (Y or N) At the Baptism, One a voice, One a Dove and One was Jesus?
56. (Y or N) Was God pleased to be in Jesus?
57. (Y or N) Is there anything God does not know?
58. (Y or N) Is there one thing that God cannot do?
59. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that God shed His Blood?
60. (Y or N) Does the Bible say that Christ really Died?

Bonus Question: (Y or N) Did Christ really rise from the Dead?

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The fourth Plague sent by God upon Egypt, Flies is found in Exodus 8:21-31. (6 more to go).

Exodus 8:21 Else, if thou wilt not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses: and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
Exodus 8:22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exodus 8:24 And the LORD did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.
Exodus 8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from thee, and I will intreat the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, to morrow: but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD.
Exodus 8:31 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.

Reminding Israel of what the Lord God did to Egypt.
Psalm 78:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Again speaking of the plagues the Lord sent upon Egypt.
Psalm 105:31 He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

Just a word of wisdom:
Ecclesiastes 10:1 Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

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Twice in the Old Testament

The common name snail is used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.

Listed as unclean.

Leviticus 11:30 And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

Part of a prayer for deliverance from his enemies.
Psalm 58:8 As a snail (slug) which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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a locust is a type of grasshopper that migrates in huge numbers quickly eating the plants in their path, or a hardwood tree with fragrant white flowers.

The 8th plague sent by God on Pharaoh and Egypt. Exodus 10:1-20
Exodus 10:14 And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.
Exodus 10:19 And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

Listed as a clean meat to be eaten.
Leviticus 11:22 Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Moses speaking to Israel: Blessings when obeying the Lord, curses when Israel disobeyed the Lord (Deuteronomy 27-28)
Deuteronomy 28:38 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
Deuteronomy 28:42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

King Solomon’s prayer for Israel:
1 Kings 8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

A reminder to Israel of the Plagues sent upon Egypt (Psalm 78:43-51)
Psalm 78:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

David’s cry for mercy (Psalm 109:21-26)
Psalm 109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

One of the 4 little things on earth that are exceedingly wise:
Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;

Joel warns Israel of impending judgement.
Joel 1:4 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.

But obedience will bring Blessing.
Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Remember Leviticus 11:22, Locust were good meat for food.
Matthew 3:4, Mark 1:6 And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

A repeat of the 8th Plague that God sent to Egypt by Moses.
Revelation 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Part of the horrors to occur during the Tribulation.
Revelation 9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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A carnivorous mammal of the dog family with a pointed muzzle and bushy tail, proverbial for its cunning. A cunning or sly person.

Judges 15 is the story of Samson getting even with his father-in-law.
Judges 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

Sanballat was not impressed with the wall being built by the Jews (4:1-2) and said even a fox (jackal) could break it down.
Nehemiah 4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

David, fleeing from is enemies cried unto the Lord and vowed that those who sought to destroy his soul, theirs would wind up in Hell (63:9) and their bodies eaten by foxes.
Psalm 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.

Song of Solomon 2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

Jeremiah’s prayer for Israel to be restored.
Lamentations 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Just as today, there are many who are false teachers. Israel had their share (13:1-3), cunning and sly.
Ezekiel 13:4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

The Lord Jesus teaching His disciples about His ministry.
Matthew 8:20, Luke 9:58 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

The Lord Jesus refers to King Herod as “that Fox”.
Luke 13:32 And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

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