“Pleasant words are as an honeycomb …” (Prov. 16:24, NKJV)
From the previous teaching we reached the understanding that part of the persecution experienced by believers is, at its core, linked to the pressure one must endure if one is called to experiencing the third dimension in all facets of one’s life. The goal of it is to develop a godly nature.
A beautiful Old Testament typology of this which teaches us much about the battle of the third dimension, is the giants in the promised land (the land of promise, or then – the land of milk and honey) (Ex. 3:8 &17; 13:5; 33:3; Lev. 20:24; Num. 13:27; 14:8; 16:13-14; Deut. 6:3; 11:9; 26:9; 27:3; 31:20; Joshua 5:6; Jer. 11:5; 32:22; and Ezek. 20:6).
Firstly – by this point readers of these teachings should know that the promised land is NOT heaven. Deut. 26: 15 clearly points out that there is a distinction between these two localities: “Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’”
But why refer to it in this specific manner? What does the promised land have to do with these two food products?
In 1 Pet. 2:2 the symbolism of the milk is explained as follows: “And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.” The believers who need this fundamental teaching, are still to a large extent subject to a carnal manner of thinking: “And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?” (1 Cor. 3:1-3. In Heb. 5:12-13 what milk represents becomes clear: “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.”
In the teachings of Days 560-562 we wrote extensively about the meaning of honey as revelatory knowledge. In Deut. 32:13, in the important Song of Moses, we find the first explicit indication that honey is linked to Christ, the Rock (1 Cor. 10:4), and that it is nestled within Him: “He made him draw honey from the rock”. Ps. 119:103 (ASV) provides this beautiful translation: “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”, where “words” points to the rhema-equivalent in Greek (“’êmer”), as found in Prov. 16:24 (NKJV) – “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.”
The land we are entering in the third dimension is a land of fundamental truth about Jesus, and revelatory knowledge about Christ.
- Selah: What foods are nourishing you?
- Read: 18.
- Memorise: 18:11.
