It is often said, garbage in: garbage out, this is precisely true. Our diet has a direct bearing on our mental, physical, social and spiritual health. For us to know the right diet, then we ought to go back to the manual which our master designer, our creator gave us in the beginning in Eden.
NIV Gen 1:29-30
Then God said “I give you every seed bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it this will be yours for food… everything that has the breath of life in it - I give every green plant for food” and it was so.
Adam and Eve in their perfect nature were given seeds: cereals, maize, wheat, legumes: beans, peas, greengrams, lentils and fruits: watermelon, apples, oranges, grapes etc.
NIV Psalms 104:14 “…and plants for people to Cultivate bringing forth food from the earth”.
Man was and is to eat food that comes forth from the earth.
KJV Genesis 3:18 “…and thou shalt eat the herb of the field”, after the fall of man, vegetables were added to man’s diet.
But just before the floods, notice: KJV Genesis 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 … Isaiah makes it clear why there was such a behavior Isaiah 22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh ,and drinking wine….
Great wickedness prevailed, men were careless in eating, they would have flesh meat although God had given them no permission to eat animal food thus they were destroyed.
After the floods, God gives man permission to eat clean meat for the first time as every green thing in the earth had been destroyed (Gen 9:3-4). But even eating of clean bloodless meat had serious consequences. The Bible records a marked decrease in post-flood patriarchs life span.
When God is delivering His people (Israel) from bondage (Egypt) it was His earnest desire that the Israelites get back to His original diet. He removed flesh food from their diet in a great measure… Thus they would have a clear understanding of truth and duty, keen discrimination and sound judgement.
KJV Exodus 16
4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
35 And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
In Daniel 1:8-20 we get to see a perfect example of benefits of a flesh free diet.
Now, we as Israel of today, God wants to restore us to His perfect image and in doing so we have to go back to the Eden diet: seeds, fruits and vegetables.
We are living in times when disease in animals is increasing, and it is not safe to use anything that comes from the animal creation. Contaminated meat, diary products and eggs are common sources of food-related illness. Indeed God is leading us back step by step to His original design: we ought to subsist upon the natural products of the earth.
Join me in the subsequent studies as we the journey back to Eden diet and the blessings in store.🙂
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