Butter and honey shall he eat

Welcome to our study today on butter and honey shall he eat or you can listen to butter and honey audio, what does Isaiah chapter 7:14,15, 21,22 really mean and who is the man that nourishes? Come and find out as we dig into the mine of truth to unlock the following:

• What does butter represent?
• How about honey?
• What is milk in the scriptures?
• What do two sheep and a young cow represent?
• Who is the man?

Greetings in the most exalted and beloved name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ! Welcome to our Bible study lessons, lessons which ONLY address timely revelations, present sealing truth, “meat in due season” for God’s Church today, the Seventh-day Adventist Church. These Bible study lessons have two-fold purpose: (1) to announce the soon coming judgement of the living which God’s people are soon to meet (2) to call them to a decided action to separate themselves from all worldlings and worldliness and anchor themselves on the solid Rock by obedience to all truth known to this denomination, if we are to escape the soon coming ruin.

Text for study

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. “Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good” Isaiah 7:14,15

• This scripture prophetically speaking of Christ and he was given a special diet.
• Can literal butter and honey make one to choose good and refuse evil?
• The questions becomes what is butter and honey?

Literal butter and honey?

• Butter and honey in themselves possess no virtue or efficacy to transmit moral discernment, vitalize the will, and purify the heart.
• “butter and honey” are symbolical of something which Christ freely used, and which made Him wise and able to discriminate between good and evil.
• The butter and honey are therefore symbolical.
• These two points therefore witness that the “butter and honey”, are symbolical of the Scriptures unfolded — “meat in due season,” — the only food that gives one the knowledge and the will to do right instead of wrong. — Tract 14 p. 38.3

Milk in the scriptures

“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which [be] the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” — Hebrews 5:12-14

^“2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:” — 1 Peter 2:2

^“9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.”  — Isaiah 28:9

Milk is used in the scriptures to denote the basics principles of Gods word, but as a baby moves onto solids so must we as Christians progress in maturity in the understanding of Gods truths. We cannot be Adventists 10 years and still not understand the sanctuary doctrine for example.

Land to flow with milk and honey

• God promised to lead ancient Israel into a land “flowing with milk and honey,” — Exodus 3:8
• such a condition did not literally obtain in Canaan;
• so the expression could only have been metaphorical then,
• its fulfilment in the fact that there the prophets did prophecy and write the Scriptures,
• thus flooding the land with “milk and honey”—truth and joy. — Tract No 6 p. 32.1

Isaiah 7:21 and 22

“And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; 

“And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk [that] they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.” Isaiah 7:21, 22

Three milk producing creatures

• Butter is churned from milk, and as the milk from which this spiritual “butter” is made, comes from the “two sheep” and the “young cow,”
• These three milk-producing  creatures symbolize three different sources from which the Word of the Lord (butter) is obtained.
• The cow is young, the sheep are not.
• The source of the butter, God’s Word, represented by the young cow, is of later origin than the sources represented by the two sheep.
• The two sheep represent the Old and New Testament Scriptures; whereas the cow, being larger and younger than the sheep, represents sacred volumes of correspondingly larger proportions and of later origin than the Bible.
• These volumes manifestly are the latter-day writings of the “Spirit of Prophecy” Revelation 19:10, which enable their patrons to “refuse the evil, and choose the good,”. — Tract No 6 p. 29.3

What is honey

“And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.” — Revelation 10:10

• Represents the joy that came to the believers in William Millers time waiting for the soon return of the Saviour.
• Honey = the great joy resulting from feasting on the Word of God.
• The “honey” of Isaiah 7:22 the significance of joy that  shall come to all who join in eating the “butter” from both the “cow” and the “sheep,” which are now “come fresh.” Only those who so do, shall be “left in the  land.”

Who is the Man?

• Here the Lord tells us that the milking of the two sheep and the young cow (the unfolding of the heaven-sent scrolls) is not entrusted to all, but to “a man” (prophet). 
• This means that the one through whom the light is revealed, nourishes these sources of supply by arousing widespread interest in them, thus keeping them alive and producing. 
• Each one who would remain in the land, must give them his steady patronage and be on the alert, of course, to interest others in their lasting, life-giving product. — Tract No 6 p. 44.2

This concludes our present truth study of Isaiah Chapter 7 we hope you have learned much through this study, may the Lord continue to lead you into His marvelous truth.

Yours in that blessed hope

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