Following are some of the deeper meanings in the Laws that God gave to us:
Deut 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
What is seed?
Gen 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
What is mingling?
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Dan 2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
Note: SOP says iron and clay represent “Church craft and State craft”
What is the result of mingling seed?
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they [were] fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. …
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Exod 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. …
Exod 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exod 34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
We must not allow our children to mingle with unholy children, lest they become defiled!
Deut 22:10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Note: An ox is a clean animal, an ass is an unclean animal. Paul probably refers to this law when he says:
2Cor 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Cor 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
2Cor 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Cor 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,
2Cor 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Note: A believer and an unbeliever yoked together, whether in business relations, marriage, partnership, or any other yoke, are like an clean ox and an unclean ass yoked together. Can you imagine what would happen if you tried to yoke an ox and an ass together! The ass would probably sit down and be stubborn, and the ox would try to drag it along if it could. Either the yoke (marriage relation, business relation, etc.) would break, or the ox would have to sit down with the donkey and give up trying to pull. Haven’t you ever seen a Christian marry an unbeliever and either the yoke breaks or the Christians gets tired of constantly trying to pull their companion along and gives us their standards and sits down with them.
Deut 22:11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together.
What does clothing represent in the Bible?
Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
What happens if we try to mingle Christ’s robe of righteousness with the garments of the world?
Luke 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was [taken] out of the new agreeth not with the old.
Luke 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Luke 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Note: Christ was probably referring to this law when He spoke this parable. In Revelation, the robe represents Christ’s righteousness. We must not try to wear Christ’s robe of righteousness and our old garments from the world at the same time. We must leave the world completely behind, because, “the new agreeth not with the old!”
Deut 22:12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].
Note: Immediately after giving all these laws not to mingle things, God gave the Israelites as special outward sign on their clothing to keep them separate from the world.
Num 15:38 Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Num 15:39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
Num 15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
Note: This fringe was to remind them that they were a special, separate people. They must not mingle with the world. They must “come out from among them and be separate.” (2 Cor. 6:17)
Deut 25:4 You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
Here is Paul’s explanation of the deeper meanings in this law:
Do I say these things on human authority? Does not the Law say the same? (1Cor 9:8)
For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out the grain.” Is it for oxen that God is concerned? (1Cor 9:9)
Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of sharing in the crop. (1Cor 9:10)
If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too much if we reap material things from you? (1Cor 9:11)
If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ. (1Cor 9:12)
Note: So the deeper meaning in this law about not muzzling the ox is that the workman is worthy of his hire.