Apr 12 (edited) • BIBLICAL ANALOGIES
ANIMALS & INSECTS MODEL INVADING BEAST SYSTEMS
📖In the Bible, beasts and creeping things are used to illustrate government bodies or the behavior of individuals. In Daniel, beasts like the leopard and the bear are used to describe invading armies of foreign kingdoms, while in the gospels, the arachnid and the lizard are used to describe religious leaders who spin webs of lies or sit as spiritual predators in the darkness of an ideological pit.
💥Just as creatures move, consume, produce waste, and destroy, government systems roam for expansion, consume by extraction, produce government waste, and destroy competing systems by default. Predatory and violent beasts model the predatory systems of government, organized crime, and criminals, while peaceful grazing beasts model the systems of the people, civic industry, and herd based collectives of nomads & settlements.
🕊️Animals of flight model angels or Christians when used analogically in the Bible while burrowing rodents and scorpions represent the shame and fugitive conditions of the outlaw, the castaway, refugee, injector, and the guerrilla fighter.
🐉Since creation, the invading occurrence of dragons, pests, & wild animals to a camp or home, modeled today’s occurrence of an invading and consuming government or criminal body. As the competing wild beasts have been collectively vanquished over thousands of years of colonized settlement, now a peaceful sliver of heaven in the home sits as a new territory to model an invasion by insect and to act as the next wave of analogical discovery placed here by God for our experience.
🏡Just as the beast of the field models systems of predation and grazing, insects also act as smaller illustrations that fulfilled the same function animals fill in the wild, but now to the residential sanctuary of the home. The home acts as a kingdom, while the homeowner acts as a king, enforcing his will over the territory allotted for the spiritual expression he fulfills through his daily routine of family and employment. The built-in pest pressure expanding its presence over a region, models the growing and invading spawn of ideology and penetrating forces of extraction always expanding against a populous.
Here are some analogical examples of animals and their role as illustrations of human behavior.
Beasts & Creeping Things:
🦁Lions: Agile, dominant - Dominant, Authoritarian, or Tyrannical governments
Living habits: Predatory, pride-based, stalks by creeping, cuts off air supply, stalk & ambush
Analogical counterpart: Strongman rule or oppression, stalks by intelligence gathering from afar by stealth approach, cuts off the air or your religious or ideological will
🐻Bears: Large, Aggressive, - Territorial governments that both hunt & graze
Living Habits: Roams territory, lives in solitude, hibernates through winter, eats bites from live prey
Analogical Counterparts: Tyrannical expansion, messily consumes resources, can hibernate through storms of tyranny and reemerge to feed, some governments take pieces from different parts before consuming you
🐺Wolves: Pack-based, protective - Tribal or clan-based governments
Living habits: Cooperative hunting, hierarchical, teamwork, exhausts by pursuit, surrounds enemies and eats prey live, Consumes organs first.
Analogical counterpart: Loyal, protective governance or a surrounding & exhausting pursuit and dismemberment. Consumes industry first
🐑Sheep: Gentle, herd-based, Piercing weapon, alert - Compliant or submissive populations
Living habits: Herb grazer, cooperative in preservation from prey & weather
Analogical counterpart: Peaceful, cooperative citizenry, Working together for preservation from tyranny & natural disaster
🐷Pigs: Rough, Dirty, Gluttonous, Toxin retentive
Living Habits: Pigs wallow and eat most scraps of meat and vegetation - Requires strong enclosures and constant cleaning
Analogical Counterpart: Gluttonous and slothful populations, minimal work output, eats scraps, and retains toxins of food and ideology due to a lack or fasting and purging of both food and information
🐄Cows: Gentle, Grazers, Producers -
Living Habits: Nurturing & sustenance - Wild & aggressive if untamed
Analogical Counterpart: Nurturing & producing collectives - Milk & meat mode the Word of God
🐍Snakes: Cunning, stealthy - Deceptive or manipulative governments
Living habits: Sneaky, venomous, eats dust, pit dwelling
Analogical counterpart: Corrupt or deceitful leadership, pit or bunker dwelling, fangs model injections of toxins or lies
🐜Ants: Industrious, Organized self-government - Efficient split of labor, reproduction, expansion, and combat - Prioritized protection of young
Living habits: Colony-based, hardworking, self-sacrificial, eats sugar & meat
Analogical counterpart: Effective administrative systems, networks of food delivery, tribal warfare
🪳Cockroaches: Resilient, adaptable - Signs of moisture - Corrupt or decaying systems
Living habits: Scavenging, hidden nests, hard to eradicate
Analogical counterpart: Corruption and decay in government, moisture mimics financial flows from leaks of liquid currency that attract criminals; invaders, & scavengers modeled by moisture seeking invasive insects
🐝Bees: Harmonious, productive -
Living habits: Cooperative, hive-based
Analogical counterpart: Effective, harmonious governance, Ideal collaborative government, Network communication - Piercing weapon (sword) Sweet food produced (the Word)- Flight, hive-mind, & self-sacrificial (Christ)
🦟Mosquitoes: Disease-spreading, nuisance - relies on heated moisture (anger and money) - Destructive ideologies or policies
Living habits: Blood-sucking, disruptive
Analogical counterpart: Harmful influences or propaganda
Some additional examples:
🦅Eagles: Visionary, Sky-predators - Elevated individuals and perspectives
🐀Rats: Resourceful, sneaky - Corrupt or persecuted individuals in hiding
🐕Dogs: Loyal, protective - Loyal opposition or watchdog groups
The peak expression of animal knowledge is the extension of an offer of homing to a creature found to be, by behavior and aesthetic appeal, fit to be brought into the house of the master, given his food, and given a place of exalted seating beside his own. Pets are the result of societal excess. Of all of the beasts of the field, the pet is chosen to be brought into the home, and to live as companions to their protector and provider. Pets and your relationships to them are to be experienced, and then replaced by humans toward the will of God.
🦴Pet Characteristics
🐶Dogs: Loyalty, devotion, protection, companionship, assists with livestock maintenance
Spiritual comparison: Christians called to be loyal, devoted, feed & protect the flock, and protective of faith
Fulfillment: Prioritize relationship with God, serve others, trust God's provision, joint heir of the house, sits on a joint-throne, seeks the face of the master, alerts to intruders
🐱Cats: Independence, agility, curiosity
Spiritual comparison: Christians called to be wise, discerning, and adaptable
Fulfillment: Seek wisdom, stay agile in faith, explore, seeks physical contact, provides protection from creeping invaders
🦜Birds: Beauty, song, mimicry
Spiritual comparison: Christians called to reflect God's beauty, sing praises, stay ascended in perspective
Fulfillment: Cultivate inner beauty projected in word, worship with passion, share God's message loudly & often
🐠Fish: Adaptability, fluid movement, silence
Spiritual comparison: Christians called to adapt to God's leading, flow with Spirit, quiet through adversity
Fulfillment: Trust God's guidance, Move with purpose through the flow of the Holy Spirit, Cultivate inner peace through turbulent waves
👑Common themes:
Domestication: Surrender to God's lordship, yielding to transformation
Care and nurturing: Dependence on God, stewarding gifts and talents
Interaction and relationship: Engaging with God, loving others
👥Joint heir status:
Co-inheritors with Christ: Reflecting God's character, participating in His work
Behavioral models: Embodying pet characteristics in a godly illustration of our heavenly position.
🐕🦺Pet Dog & Christian Analogy
Given the pet dog represents a Christian under God:
Dogs allowed in home: Christians welcomed into God's kingdom
Sitting on throne: Intimacy with God, co-heirship with Christ
Analogical comparisons:
1. Loyalty
Faithful dog: Loyal Christian, devoted to God, collar models halo & wedding ring
Straying dog: Non-believer, no master
2. Obedience
Well-trained dog: Obedient Christian, following God's commands
Unruly dog: Disobedient & unbelieving, rebelling against God
3. Love and affection
Affectionate dog: Loving Christian, showing God's love through care
Aggressive dog: Unloving or bitter scoffer
4. Dependence
Dependent dog: Christian relying on God for provisions of water, food, air, light and information
Independent dog: Self-sufficient scavenger, neglecting God, war with nature, disease from access to cleanness, eating dust on scavenged food like the snake
5. Protection and service
Protective dog: Christian standing up for faith, serving others, alert if threats to the flock, calls down the wrath of the good shepherd
Fearful dog: Timid, anxious, fearing persecution
6. Training and discipline
Well-disciplined dog: Christian submitting to God's training & direction
Undisciplined dog: Unsubmitted Christian, resisting God's refinement & reigns of control
Varying behaviors:
Playful dog: Joyful, enthusiastic Christian
Lazy dog: Lukewarm, complacent, sloth, glutton
Barking dog: Vocal, zealous Christian (good or bad)
Biting dog: Malicious, ungifted, or traumatized
⚔️Both beasts and creeping things model the different characteristics of our competing individual and collective systems and understanding the form they take in their pursuits of space and resources in conjunction with ours, can better help us understand the ways in which their predatory or destructive traits may be better avoided, or engaged for warfare. The service industry of pest control and wildlife removal models this embedded task of kingdom preservation.
🔍Understanding how each animal models the different behaviors of individuals or collectives, can help maximize and accentuate the understanding gleaned from watching nature shows or viewing animal behavior in person. This knowledge can help bring parts of the Bible to life that may have before been dormant with the missing void in meaning regarding its use of analogical language and animal typology. Hopefully this can act as a guide for you to further extrapolate these variables as a template to expand to other animals and creatures, to further discover meaning from the living things in God’s creation.
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ANIMALS & INSECTS MODEL INVADING BEAST SYSTEMS
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