Mountains are the apparent impossible obstacles that stand between you and the fulfilment of God's promises.
Swine are pseudo-Christians. In the OT, swine are unclean animals but they have some attributes of clean animals in that they have a split hoof. Those supposed Christians may seem OK at first, but cross them in some way and they will give you grief.
Dogs are the Pharisee types - Philipians 3:2
"Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!"
In order to have accurate discernment, we need to stay close to Lord Jesus and ask Him to lead us in everything. There is no time in our lives that we cannot be deceived. We can and do let our guard down from time to time. We need to stay alert and not get slack.
