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“Ant” starts with “a” and “cherub” starts with “c”. No aardvarks are in my ABC links currently, but the alphabet is pretty long and there’s no telling what might show up in this section.
Pomegranates as a Symbol of God’s Glory
Around the time that Moses went up onto Mount Sinai for forty days and forty nights, Moses was told to have the wise-hearted make holy garments for Aaron (Moses’ brother) for glory and beauty—so that Aaron would be consecrated and would minister unto the LORD in the holy place. [...]
The Olive Leaf as a Post-Flood Sign of New Life
In Genesis 8, we learn that Noah’s ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. Noah tested the conditions outside the ark by sending a raven and a dove on flying expeditions. On the dove’s second flying expedition outside the resting ark, it picked up an olive [...]
[Author's note: I paused for a long time before deciding to include "nests" in this ABC analysis of God's creation. Firstly, many nests do come pre-made by God's hand in the form of hollows in old and dying trees; such nests are favorites of owls and other birds. So how about nests made by eagles [...]
Making the Moon Stop in Place
When the LORD discomfited the Amorites, then slew them with great hailstones at Gibeon, it turned out that more Amorites were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the children of Israel. “Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites [...]
Hosea 14:1-9 gives us a picture of God reaching out to His apostasized children of Israel:
Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to Him, “Take away all iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present [...]
God gave us all kinds of animals and plants for our enjoyment, instruction, and sustainment. There is the giraffe kind, for instance—a kind of animal; the aardvark kind, another kind; and the horse kind, yet another kind. There is the rose kind; the daffodil kind; and the almond tree kind. The various kinds have been [...]
In the book of Isaiah we can see a stern warning against the rebellious people of Judah. The sins of the inhabitants of Judah are many, and among their sins was a love of fine jewelry made by the hands of man:
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished [...]
Ivory as a Symbol of Blessing, and as a Heartbreak When the Unrighteous Have It Taken Away from Them
Ivory the world over is a sign of opulence and beauty. Because of its beauty and rarity it is often in the hands of kings, therefore it has come to connote power and status. In Amos 3, [...]
The Powerful Horse Gets His Bravery, Strength, Leaping Ability, and Flowing Mane from . . . God
In Job 39 we see a picture of the horse as heroically brave. “Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with [...]
Some people like seedless grapes and some like the seed-filled varieties, and some just want to crush the grapes into grape juice or wine. Whatever the case, grapes are delightful for the number of colors and flavors that they offer—and aesthetically, vineyards and grapevines and grape clumps and grapes themselves all reflect the variety and [...]