Latest revision as of 08:34, 29 April 2018

God is separated from his people because they do not understand that he alone is God. In order to help them understand, he speaks ד, he reveals ר, and he teaches ל. This is so important to understand. God teaches. He desires for us to know him. ^[1] His teaching is propositional in nature. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} That means he says stuff. He does not just leave it to us to discover stuff.

He spoke with Adam, Eve, Cain, Abram and many others. He uses dinner theater (literally) in the dietary law. He uses historical metaphor, puns, riddles, types, shadows.

The dinner theater method is largely unknown to the church since it is part of the mystery. Consider the clean animal; It ruminates, and has a split hoof. People love to debate the dietary benefits of the clean animal, but the law has nothing to do with that. Others love to debate that there is some sort of moral connection to them. If it was morally wrong, God would not have changed his mind on it.

It is dinner theater. When you sit down to dinner you have a nightly lesson. Christ would be the clean animal. Remembering that eating is a metaphor for learning; he would ruminate on the word of God (the grass that withers; Christ who would die), and it would produce in him a separated walk or life. He was holy.

Consider the Pharisees who had a form of holiness, but it was not based in the word of God. They had a split hoof but did not ruminate. The scribes were the opposite; they ruminated upon the scriptures as they fastidiously copied them, but it did not produce a holy walk. The Pharisees and scribes were unclean animals.

God uses many ways to teach, and it is exciting to find them hidden in the mystery which is revealed in Christ. "Revealed in Christ" ... do you see that no one could have understood the law of the clean animal until the time of Christ?

Oh, and don't forget... people say Jesus started his ministry when he was about 30, but he started teaching when he was 12. ^[6]

Here is the boring stuff:

When drawn by hand, the lamed ל starts above the upper horizontal with a small yod י signifying that the teaching does not originate with what can be known about God, but it's source is in the heart of the Father (whom we will never see). It descends as a vav וon the left since God's teaching starts in holiness. The horizontal stroke is between the upper and lower horizontals of the square text template, signifying that teaching is done at the place you can understand it. It is a shared heart, the one learning, desires to do so. The lower portion curves to the left like a small qof ק. In both it is the Son of God who dies, but in the lamed ל it does not descend into actual death, below the lower bound,since it is just the teaching of the cross.