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Monday, September 14, 2009

Bible Questions Answered: Hunting

Bible Questions Answered:
Hunting season is coming, what do we read about in the Bible, about hunting?
Ralph / Great Falls, Montana

Bible Answers:

Perhaps the most interesting thing we could say regarding this subject, is that do you know who the first hunter was?
It was God.

Because of the sinful rebellion of Adam and his wife, …

Genesis 3:7 KJV
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

Oh the heart of sinful man, and his ingenuity to hide his sin.

Proverbs 14:12 KJV
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 28:13 KJV
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

I John 1:9,10 KJV
[9] If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
[10] If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

A fig covering, would not do!

Genesis 3:21 KJV
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

Hebrews 9:22 KJV
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Hebrews 9:22 NLT
In fact, according to the law of Moses, nearly everything was purified with blood. For without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness.

Now, we see the condemnation of Cain (Genesis 4:1-7).
Man made atonement though ingenious, is “not,” acceptable to Almighty God.

No doubt many were the times, when parents, Adam and Eve told the story of how that God, sacrificed the first animal in the garden, so that He could cover their rebellious lives.

Did you also know that no one ate animals, until “after,” the flood!
What then was Adam?
A Vegetarian!

After the flood, even vegetation was for the most part dead.
The thing to eat then of course was of the animal stock taken on board, this all in the wisdom and provision of God.

Genesis 9:1-4 KJV
[1] And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
[2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
[3] Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
[4] But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Genesis mentions a mighty hunter, a man by the name of Nimrod.

Genesis 10:9 KJV
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

Of course we know of David, shepherd, with his sling, protecting his sheep.

I Samuel 17:34-37 KJV
[34] And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion, and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock:
[35] And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
[36] Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine (The giant Goliath- I Samuel 17:49-50) shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
[37] David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.

And there of course was Esau...

Genesis 27:1-4 KJV
[1] And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
[2] And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
[3] Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;
[4] And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

Hunting instruments used, as already mentioned, the sling, the bow and arrow, darts or short spears, and the longer spear, the javelin, and no doubt the knife, or lance, net, pit, and snare.

The sling, a piece of narrow cloth, wound around one finger, leaving a loop of cloth to hold a stone, the other end held between thumb and forefinger.

The snare,
a small branch bent to the ground and secured, attached to a noose of a cord. The slightest upset of the cord or branch, meant a captured animal.

The Pit
consisted of an open hole in the ground, covered carefully with branches and the like to disguise it.

The net
, not only used for fishing, but in the capturing of birds. A net would be strung between trees, birds at night, would be caught in it's grasp.

(See: Jeremiah 5:26/ Proverbs 7:23/ Psalm 124:7)

II Samuel 23:20 KJV
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

Animals hunted: (They were of course the, Kosher, or clean animals according to Levitical laws.

Gazelles, goats, jackals, lions, others and clean birds of prey.
Catching wild, “clean,” animals meant, that a Jewish farmer, might save his own livestock for other use.

Now just as our Conservation Dept. has determined the time and limits of the hunting season, so to, hunting had it's limits in Biblical days.

Exodus 23:10,11 KJV
[10] And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof (including animal life):
[11] But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Leviticus 25:1-7 NLT
1 While Moses was on Mount Sinai, the Lord said to him,
2 “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you have entered the land I am giving you, the land itself must observe a Sabbath rest before the Lord every seventh year.
3 For six years you may plant your fields and prune your vineyards and harvest your crops,
4 but during the seventh year the land must have a Sabbath year of complete rest. It is the Lord’s Sabbath. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards during that year.
5 And don’t store away the crops that grow on their own or gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
6 But you may eat whatever the land produces on its own during its Sabbath. This applies to you, your male and female servants, your hired workers, and the temporary residents who live with you.
7 Your livestock and the wild animals in your land will also be allowed to eat what the land produces.

Psalm 147:9 KJV
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.

God's mercy a lesson for us:

Lamentations 3:22 KJV
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.

Proverbs 11:17 KJV
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

Luke 6:36 KJV
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Isaiah 58:10 KJV
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Matthew 5:7 KJV
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.