Digestive System

The digestive system processes the food taken into the body for energy and repair. The process starts with the teeth breaking down the food into small pieces and combining it with saliva. We have 2 sets of teeth in our development: milk teeth and permanent teeth. This points to the 2 covenants Yahweh made with the Israelites. The Mosaic law or covenant written in the tables of stone and the everlasting covenant written in the hearts and minds of all men (Jer. 31:31-33). The upper teeth and lower teeth work together to extract the essence from the food, as the law and the prophets combine to show us the truth or the reality that they point to. The food travels from the mouth through the esophagus to the stomach and then to the small intestines where nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. The small intestines empty into the large intestines which have a square like configuration (ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon) which lines up with the brazen altar, which is square. The sacrifices were burned up on the altar, just as our bodies metabolize or burn up our food. Water absorption occurs in the large intestine, as the altar of sin sacrifice had a trough filled with water around its perimeter. The liver is the largest internal organ in the body and lines up with Mt. Sinai (Horeb) in the wilderness of Sinai. The law written on tables of stone was bitter to the children of Israel, just as the bile secreted from the liver is bitter. The 4 lobes of the liver line up with  4 people who went up in the Mount (Moses, Aaron, Nadab and Abihu). The entire alimentary canal portrays the migratory trek of the children of Israel, particularly the small intestines, with the wandering in the wilderness. The duodenum is the beginning of the intestinal system and it means “twelve,” which correlates with the 12 tribes entering the wilderness.