Halloween HORRORS

I'm going to skip a couple of the passages I had mapped out to post about to share with you the HORRORS that God will afflict upon you if you disobey him.

Deuteronomy 28: 25-29...You shall become an object of horror to all the kingdoms of earth. Your corpses shall be food for every bird of the air and animals of the earth, and there shall be no frightening them away. The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with ulcers, scurvy, and itch of which you cannot be healed. The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind; you shall grope about at noon as blind people grope in darkness, but you shall be unable to find your way; and you shall be continually abused and robbed, without anyone to help.

Anyone think Hitchcock got some of his ideas from the Bible? Huh? Huh?

Unclean Food

Leviticus 11:13-19 These you shall regard as detestable among the birds. They shall not be eaten; they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the osprey, the buzzard, the kite of any kind; every raven of any kind; the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind; the water hen, the desert owl, the carrion vulture, the stork, the heron of any kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.

1) Detestable? Abomination? Way harsh! Actually, this list makes sense.  All of these birds prey on living creatures. Most of them prey on animals such as rats, frogs, and insects. I can see how one might consider them detestable to eat for that reason.  

2) Bats aren't birds but I don't fault them for not knowing that yet.

3) Mom, aren't you glad they didn't want to eat "the heron of any kind?" My Mom loves Herons.  

4) And, for anyone who's curious what a hoopoe looks like (because I definitely was) here you go: