Lion

The Lion of Judah is Jesus. But it might surprise us that the lion is also a metaphor for the devil and the ungodly. It is a metaphor with which people living in the Middle East during Bible times were very familiar, for they lived among those wild beasts. With his bare hands, Samson killed a lion that roared at him in the way, giving rise to the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness" ( Judg. 14). The young shepherd David slew a thieving lion who...