Milk And Honey
According to Science:
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able todigest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of manydiseases in the baby. It also contains many other nutrients.
Honey /ˈhʌni/ is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. However, honey sometimes contains dormantendospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be dangerous to infants, as the endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in infants' immature intestinal tracts, leading to illness and even death.
Biblically, milk and honey are the substances used to inspire God's people to live the land He promised. And these describe the richness of the land which actually belonged to the other tribes, yet God promised to give it unto His children that they may enjoy its wealth. But the question here is, what God meant to say about the abundance of milk and honey?
Milk and honey terms were often used in the Old Testament scriptures upon delivering Israel from the land of Egypt to Canaan which is the territory of Palestine. And when they were near to it, God commanded Moses to send spies there to search of what it looks like.
The spies testified that that land is surely flows with milk and honey as they saw the vineyard on it and took one cluster of grapes to prove them.
Here, the ancient people have literally seen the abundance of crops in that land as the flowing milk and honey. However, Moses mentioned thereafter a significant clue which they were actually filled with; the clue which the land brought its "first fruits" and received by all people.
I believe the significant of milk and honey that was literally shown to the people of Moses in Canaan contained reality that will come soon in their future. And as they have brought the firstfruits of it and ate in the ancient times, the real one was then revealed 430 years later. According to the New Testament writings, Jesus Christ was the firstfruits of them who were in bondage of death. Thus whosoever shall eat of His flesh and drink His blood has eternal life.
Here we see that the abundant food in the land of Israel to sustain life eternally was Jesus Christ itself. It means, that whosoever believed His words shall inherit the gift of promise and this was given in the manner of receiving the gospel that preached by Christ and His apostles.
This is now the flowing of milk and honey of words.
The New Testament writers used the term "milk and meat" to scale the weight of their teaching that a hearer is able to bear. In the church of Corinth, apostle Paul wrote a letter to the members telling that he just fed them with milk and not with meat because of their inability of understanding. In other words, milk represents the visible things whereas meat or honey represents the invisible one. As Jesus said similar to the writings of His apostles;
Milk is a white liquid produced by the mammary glands of mammals. It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals before they are able todigest other types of food. Early-lactation milk contains colostrum, which carries the mother's antibodies to the baby and can reduce the risk of manydiseases in the baby. It also contains many other nutrients.
Honey /ˈhʌni/ is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. However, honey sometimes contains dormantendospores of the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, which can be dangerous to infants, as the endospores can transform into toxin-producing bacteria in infants' immature intestinal tracts, leading to illness and even death.
Biblically, milk and honey are the substances used to inspire God's people to live the land He promised. And these describe the richness of the land which actually belonged to the other tribes, yet God promised to give it unto His children that they may enjoy its wealth. But the question here is, what God meant to say about the abundance of milk and honey?
- Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Milk and honey terms were often used in the Old Testament scriptures upon delivering Israel from the land of Egypt to Canaan which is the territory of Palestine. And when they were near to it, God commanded Moses to send spies there to search of what it looks like.
- Num 13:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
The spies testified that that land is surely flows with milk and honey as they saw the vineyard on it and took one cluster of grapes to prove them.
- Num 13:23 And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs. 24 The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Num 13:27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Here, the ancient people have literally seen the abundance of crops in that land as the flowing milk and honey. However, Moses mentioned thereafter a significant clue which they were actually filled with; the clue which the land brought its "first fruits" and received by all people.
- Deu 26:9 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. 10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: 11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you. 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
I believe the significant of milk and honey that was literally shown to the people of Moses in Canaan contained reality that will come soon in their future. And as they have brought the firstfruits of it and ate in the ancient times, the real one was then revealed 430 years later. According to the New Testament writings, Jesus Christ was the firstfruits of them who were in bondage of death. Thus whosoever shall eat of His flesh and drink His blood has eternal life.
- 1 Cor 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
- John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
- Joh 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Here we see that the abundant food in the land of Israel to sustain life eternally was Jesus Christ itself. It means, that whosoever believed His words shall inherit the gift of promise and this was given in the manner of receiving the gospel that preached by Christ and His apostles.
- Eph 3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
- 1 Peter 1:25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
This is now the flowing of milk and honey of words.
- Prov 16:24 Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
The New Testament writers used the term "milk and meat" to scale the weight of their teaching that a hearer is able to bear. In the church of Corinth, apostle Paul wrote a letter to the members telling that he just fed them with milk and not with meat because of their inability of understanding. In other words, milk represents the visible things whereas meat or honey represents the invisible one. As Jesus said similar to the writings of His apostles;
- John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
- 1 Cor 3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
- Heb 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
- 1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
- Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.