Bible Wonders - The Wonder of Milk

Did you ever wonder? Did you ever wonder?

I do. Did you ever wonder? Why the sun always rises, but the stars never fall? Why dry land is never satisfied by water?

And why fire never says enough? And there's just milk all over the place. You might remember that that was one of the things that Abraham would feed his guests, and that when Jacob blessed Judah, or Israel blessed Judah, part of the blessing is that his eyes would be like wine and his teeth like milk. And then, of course, how many times in Exodus are they promised that they would be taken to a land flowing with milk and honey?

And in order to have that, it would be a lot different than the mountains that they were, or the wilderness that they were running around in, because the animals, in order to have plenty of milk, obviously got to have a great grazing, and in order for there to be honey, you got to have flowers and bees. And so, it's an interesting thing that's just commonly used throughout the Bible, and then, you know, several authors in the New Testament, Paul and the writer of Hebrews mentions it a couple of times, and Peter talks about the milk of the word, which obviously the word is a huge thing. So, when I looked at the actual Hebrew way that the word is made up, I saw something that I think was worth wondering about, and that is the very first letter in the word milk in Hebrew is what's referred to as a het.

We've talked about it before. It's a male energy coming down and a female energy going up, and then it has sort of a hetateric across the tops, or like a hupa, and it very much means marriage, and it means life. And I began to wonder immediately, like, oh yeah, in order to have milk, there has to be a union. And so, for us to get the milk of the word, right, we have to be united with Christ and the Holy Spirit to show us, you know, what the actual nutritional value of the milk is before we can actually process it. So, how beautiful that that is the first letter in the word milk, because in order to have milk, you know, in any species that I'm aware of, there first has to be a union, a marriage that begins that process where, you know, obviously you would have a baby that would need the milk. The second letter, which is not unusual when I think about how much my wife loves milk, is a lamed, and this letter has to do with learning, and it also has to do with loving. It's also the first letter in the word heart. So, when they say the milk of the word, and that's learning, isn't that a beautiful thing?

I mean, you just this marriage that leads to learning, and the third letter is a bet, which means home, and we've talked about many times on the show that, you know, there are more songs written about I want to go home than broken hearts. And so, when you put all of that together, you get this wholesome feeling like, man, Pat Boone ought to advertise this stuff. So, as we take in the word, and today's word might be milk, we think about the natural union that you've got to have with Christ in order to take in that milk. Again, we're hopefully going to be prepared for meat later, but first, we obviously need to wonder about milk. Do we ever wonder? Do we ever wonder? I do. .