Milk and Honey Spa Notes

Why Milk and Honey?

God calls Israel the “land flowing with milk and honey” 16 times

God specifically chose MILK and HONEY

Flowing with Milk
•Well-fed, multiplying livestock
• New life
• Nurturing, safety
• Nourishing
• Prosperity for the livestock owner

Flowing with Honey
• Beautiful flowers
• Sweet fruit trees
• Fertile grasslands
• Desserts and delicacies

Science is teaching us more about the beneficial properties of milk and honey
• Throughout Genesis 1, God declared what he made good
• Renewed interest in natural healing and beauty products

What we see is a shadow of spiritual reality
Each of these substances also has spiritual significance

Olive oil

Beneficial Qualities
• Absorbs UV radiation
• Efficient in lowering the metabolism rate of body cells
• High in antioxidants, including vitamin E
• Helps relieve itch, stings and bites
• Heals dry brittle nails and softens cuticles
• Conditions and adds shine to hair
• Great make-up remover

Spiritual significance
• An ingredient in the sacred anointing oil (Exodus 30:22-33)
• Anointing oil foreshadowed the coming anointing of the Holy Spirit
• Saul (1 Samuel 10) and David (1 Samuel 16:12-14)
• The lampstand – olive oil (Leviticus 24:1-4)
• We are the light of the world (Matthew 5:14 – compare with John 8:12; 9:5)

Honey

Beneficial Qualities
• Honey is a humectant
• An anti-irritant
• Has anti-bacterial and healing properties
• Has sun-blocking properties

Spiritual significance
• The Word of the Lord
• Ezekiel (Ezekiel 3:3) and John (Revelation 10:10) ate the scroll
• David called the word “sweeter than honey” in Ps. 119:103
• How sweet are Your words to my taste Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Milk

Beneficial Qualities
• contains Vitamins A and D, which helps to make your skin soft, yet strong
• lactic acid in milk has natural beta hydroxy acids which not only exfoliate your skin, but soothe it
• adds essential moisture to your skin
• it seals up the small scales on your hair follicles that can cause hair to look dull

Spiritual significance
• The Word of the Lord
• 1 Peter 2:2 “Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation, if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.”

Salts

Spiritual significance
• The Covenant of God and Israel
• Leviticus 2:13 “Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.”
• 2 Chronicles 13:5 “Do you not know that the LORD God of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?”
• Jesus says, “You are the salt of the earth” and “Have salt in yourselves and be at peace with one another.