Grace
Grace
Do not throw your pearls before Swine.
The Hoof.
In the Book of Leviticus, God speaks to Moses and informs him of animals that are unclean and must not be eaten.
Lev 11:1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
11:2 “Say to the people of Israel, these are the living things which you may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
11:3 Whatever has a hoof that is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.
11:4 Nevertheless among those that chew the cud and has a hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not have a hoof that is cloven-footed, is unclean to you.
11:5 And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not have a hoof that is cloven-footed, is unclean to you.
11:5 And the hare, because it chews the cud but does not have a hoof that is cloven-footed, is unclean to you.
11:5 And the swine, because it has a hoof that is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.
In the Book of Psalms and Wisdom it says that men can become unclean by their actions. Ps (106:36) and Wisdom (2:16) By eating unclean animals, we become what we eat. In the same way, if our food is sinful actions, we become what we do. Let's consider how these unclean and clean animals represent the actions of people.
Climb upon the heights.
Hb 3:19 GOD, my Lord, is my strength; He makes my feet swift as those of YOUNG DEER and enables me to go upon the heights.
Why does Jesus make the statement about pearls and swine?
Matt (7:1) "Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you".
Men have no idea they need a Saviour and thus play in the mud of their passions and pleasures.
What do the pearls represent?
1) Is an animal with cloven hoofs and chews the cud clean or unclean?
2) A camel's hoof allows the animal to climb hills and mountains. Is this true?
3) What type of hoof allows an animal to climb rocks?
4) The swine has a hoof that can climb mountains but it choses to play in the _______.
5) Chewing the cud symbolizes how men must ________ on God's laws, promises, and wondrous works day and night.
6) The ______ is the best symbol of a man climbing the heights?
7) We become _____ when we reflect on God's wisdom and ponder God's secrets.
8) What is the symbol that Scripture uses to represent a man that repeats his sins over and over again?
9) Man has the power to ponder the sciences and thus man has countless advances in making life so much easier than in the past. But man has made no advances in revealing the ________ of God.
10) Jesus likens the kingdom of heaven to a ______?
11) Paul was caught up to the ______ heaven.
12) Different levels of spiritual understanding pertaining to God's mysteries is called ___________.
13) Paul heard things when he was in the third heaven that can't be _______.
14) God requires us to seek Him in the same way a merchant seeks a ________ of great wealth.
15) If we seek God's mysteries first and not money, we enter the kingdom of _______. A _____ man can't enter because he is not seeking God's great glory, the Passion of His Son.
16) Do not throw pearls before swine because such men will not value such mysteries and actually will become ________.
17) Men of pride and arrogance are easily threatened because they feel their _______ has been questioned.
18) He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who rejects what is gained by oppression, shakes his hands free of contact with a bribe, refuses to listen to plans involving bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil can be symbolized as a _______ climbing the heights.
19) Praising God for our salvation doesn't automatically happen. Our hearts, symbolized as the feet of the deer, must climb the heights. This can only be done by the trainer called ______.
20) When we chose dopamine instead seeking the face of God, we are likened as _______ rolling in the ______.
What does the swine (pig) represent?
Cloven hoofs. Great for climbing hills and mountains.
Hoofs. Horses and camels are not good climbers.
Ps 18:32 Truly, who is God except the LORD? Who but our God is the rock?
18:33 This God who girded me with might, kept my way unerring,
18:34 Who made my feet swift as a deer’s, set me safe on the heights,
18:35 Who trained my hands for war, my arms to bend even a bow of bronze.
Psalms is talking about events after death. The safety of the heights is referring to The Final Test. Scripture is describing the 144,000 because they are represented as the deer. Their hands will be trained for war when Jesus takes His revenge against our accusers at the Second Woe, the first event in the Fourth Kingdom.
Is 33:15 He who practices virtue and speaks honestly, who rejects what is gained by oppression, shakes his hands free of contact with a bribe, refuses to listen to plans involving bloodshed, closing his eyes lest he look on evil—
33:16 He shall dwell on the heights, his stronghold shall be the fortresses of rocks, his bread will be given him, his water will be sure.
Scripture again is speaking about the 144,000. At their Final Tests they will be protected from their accusers. As bread is food for the body, peace will be food for the soul. As water sustains the body, the word of God sustains the soul. Thus the 144,000 will be at peace and comforted with God's words when they are accused by hell's armies. The elect who are rescued in the second and third watches will also have similar protections. But the elect rescued in the fourth, they will be like men who are on a boat being tossed about by a terrible storm.
Is 58:13 If you hold back your foot on the Sabbath from following your own pursuits on My holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’S holy day honorable; if you honor it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice—
58:14 Then you shall delight in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
We must realize their are different spiritual levels of understanding called heavens. As a soul rides the heights he is able to understand Scriptures's mysteries, riddles and parables. This can only be done using grace as our trainer and have feet like the deer, this will be explained in greater clarity as you read the lesson.
Praise the Lord in the heights.
Ps 148:1 Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise Him in the heights!
148:2 Praise Him, all His Angels, praise Him, all His host!
148:3 Praise Him, Sun (Jesus) and Moon (Mary), praise Him, all you shining stars! (The 144,000)
148:4 Praise Him, you highest heavens, (Angels) and you waters above the heavens! (Refers to the 144,000 as rain from above at Noah's flood, the Second Woe.)
Why do we praise the Father, Son and Holy Spirit? This question can only be answered if we understand salvation. Until we come to understand that the only emotions that last forever, that never get old or bored, are the emotions of compassion, mercy and charity, we can't praise God. The plan of God has been created for us to experience these emotions by studying the Passion of Jesus and by imitating Him. Because God has created the emotions of boredom and suicidal depression which automatically occur when exposed to the emotions of sin, we need to be saved from them. Until this is fully understood, our praise of God will be dull and non existent.
Ps 9:1 I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your wonderful deeds.
The wonderful deeds of the Jesus are spoken about by Apostle John when He writes:
Jn 21:25 But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.
The glory of God is that Jesus who is Man and the Second Person of the Holy Trinity experienced every man's sorrows and depressions. All the books in the world couldn't record the total sum of man's pains.
Ps 13:5 But I have trusted in Your immoveable love; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.
13:5 I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with Me.
Praising God for our salvation doesn't automatically happen. Our hearts, symbolized as the feet of the deer, must climb the heights. But how is this done you ask? The answer is by grace, our trainer. But where do we find this trainer called grace? God has given mankind through the Catholic Church many trainers. This website is in the process of listing as many trainers as possible.
Ps 27:8 Come,” says my heart, “seek God’s face”; your face, LORD, do I seek!
27:8 Hide not Your face from me. Turn not Your servant away in anger, You who has been my help. Cast me not off, forsake me not, O God of my salvation!
We are commanded by God to seek His face. We need to use the feet of the deer to climb the heights.
Swine (pig).
Those men who are baptized in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are given by God feet that can climb the heights. But since Catholics and Protestants have chosen the dopamine released from their brains, God considers them swine rolling in the mud. Instead of climbing to seek the face of the Lord, men seek the mud of the earth, their passions and pleasures.
Chews the cud.
Cud is a portion of food that returns from the animal's stomach back into the mouth to be chewed for the second time. In the same way as clean animals digest their food, we as Christians must ponder, contemplate and meditate upon God's words.
Jos 1:58 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
Ps 119:148 My eyes are awake before the watches of the night, that I may meditate upon Your promise.
Ps 145:5 On the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works, I will meditate.
Sir 6:37 Reflect on the statutes of the Lord, and meditate at all times on His commandments. It is He who will give insight to your mind, and your desire for wisdom will be granted.
Sir 3:29 The mind of the intelligent man will ponder a parable, and listening carefully is the wise man’s desire.
Sir 14:20 Blessed is the man who meditates on wisdom and who reasons intelligently.
14:21 He who reflects in his mind on Wisdom's ways will also ponder Her secrets.
One of the first benefits of mediating, contemplating, and pondering Scripture is the fact that words like "dog" have definitions and can be found in the verses. Dog" is the symbol of a man that goes back to his sins over and over again.
Prv 26:11 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.
Other writings other than Scripture is to be pondered and mediated upon. Because of the keys of Peter, we can rely with confidence when we study the writings of the 33 doctors of the Chruch, Ecumenical Councils, Papal Encyclicals, Bulls and Briefs, and the"City of God" writen by Mary of Agreda. (For greater clarification read the keys".)
Saint Catherine from Siena Italy died in 1380. Her book the Dialogue has been around for 631 years and no one has contemplated or pondered her description of the events after death and recognized her writings are directly related to many verses in the Bible. (See Chapter 5 introduction.) It seems we have no clean animals chewing the cud. Her writings on the events that take place after death open the door to recognizing how the Scriptures are speaking about the same thing. Mankind does have the contemplating and pondering abilities; look at the advances in the sciences, medicine and manufacturing. But what advances in proving our faith? Count the many ways in which religious thinkers make public their feelings and faiths; we have a wide array of so called truths. For example, the ordinary cell phone in which billions of people use would never have been invented by science if they were using the same reasoning powers as religious thinkers use in studying the Scriptures. Religious thinkers are in error because they borrow their thinking from other ordinary people. Religious people repeat the faiths of their teachers without giving much thought to how they arrived at such conclusions.
Pearls.
Mt 13:45 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,
13:46 who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.
In the verse above, Jesus' defines the pearl as being the Kingdom of Heaven. But what is the Kingdom of Heaven? The answer can be found in the verses below.
Mt 19:23 And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
19:24Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.”
Matthew says there is a Kingdom of Heaven and a Kingdom of God. Because these titles are grouped together, we can propose they are different. In the next verse Paul spoke about being elevated to the third heaven.
2 Cor 12:1 I (Paul) must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.
12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows
12:2 And I know that this man (Paul) was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—
12:2 and he (Paul) heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.
It was in the third heaven in which Paul heard things that couldn't be spoken about. Scripture doesn't reveal the topics that Paul is not allowed to discuss. No Doctor of the Church, or Papal writings or Papal Council reveals a definition about the third heaven. Because Paul heard things in the third heaven, we can propose that the heavens are different levels of spiritual understanding that pertains to God's mysteries. For example the events after death would be a major mystery. Paul wrote the following:
1Thes 5:1 But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you.
5:1 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. (Final Test)
5:3 When people say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.
Paul veils his knowlege of the events after death because he is commanded to keep them a mystery. This also applies to Peter, John, James and Jude. Each of the Apostles are aware of heavenly mysteries but it seems they are commanded not to speak clearly as well. There will be many men who will find it diffucult to believe God hides His mysteries. But God and His plan requires us to seek God in the same way a merchant seeks out pearls of great price. Thus it can be proposed that the kingdom of heaven is a man that seeks out the mysteries of God. Each mystery revealed can be likened to a pearl of great wealth. See section on heavens for additional information on heavens.
Since we have many different theogies and faiths pertaining to God's will, men are not climbing the heights obtaining pearls of great wealth. The mysteries of God are pearls and can't be obtained through arrogance. Men are folowingtheir feelings instead of becoming a clean animal. We must discern if we are in the mud of our passions and appetites. That is why Jesus says: “Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven". Mt (19:23) Jesus is speaking about obtaining the pearls of God's mysteries here on this earth. If our hearts are seeking the love of money, we will not have time to seek real wealth.
Jesus tells us not to throw pearls before swine because they will not value them and they will attack us. The reason why is rather simple. Pearls of true wisdom will go against another man's religious theology. It's a man's pride that feels threatened because he thinks his goodness has been questioned and will thus grow angry.
The pearls represent how a man seeks out the mysteries of God.
