![]() So milk and honey are generally used in a positive sense most of the time and they typically refer to feeding on the Word of God and that is always a beneficial thing but what does the phrase “the land flowing with milk and honey” represent in the Bible, with particular reference to the Old Testament, where it is found? For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way” (1st Cor 3:12-13)? Peter uses the word milk in a positive way when he wrote “ Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1st Pet 2:2-3). And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. That’s why Paul gave a slight rebuke to the Corinthians when he wrote “ I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child” which has negative connotations about their still being babes and not ready for the solid food of the Word. For example in Hebrews 5:12-13 it says “ For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. Milk has both good and bad overtones when used by the Word of God. ![]() Ezekiel was once told by God, “ Son of man, feed your belly with this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it.” Then I ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as honey” (Ezk 3:3) so in many places the Word of God is spoken of as honey which is both sweet and nutritious but what about milk? How is milk referred to in the Bible? The psalmist writes that by God’s Word “ he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you” (Psalm 81:16). The Bible compares the Word of God as honey where the psalmist writes “ How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth” (Psalm 119:103) but so also are the decrees (words) of the Lord (Psalm 19:9) spoken of as “ More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb” and “ by them is your servant warned in keeping them there is great reward” (Psalm 19:10-11). ![]() Why does the Bible describe the Promised Land as a land that flows with milk and honey? What does this represent? The Word as Honey ![]()
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