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1/30/11
Who are you?
If you are a believer in Jesus/Yahshua the Messiah, what do you call yourself? Who do you say you are? What does the bible say about you? What does the bible call you? Do you know?
You should.
This is the stepping off point. Once you grasp this fact, your life will never be the same. I promise you. Spend an hour watching the following video, PLEASE! If you call yourself a Christian, WATCH this.
You should.
This is the stepping off point. Once you grasp this fact, your life will never be the same. I promise you. Spend an hour watching the following video, PLEASE! If you call yourself a Christian, WATCH this.
11/3/10
How Long is Forever? A repost.
I am reposting this because it is so important and I don't want it to go unnoticed in the archives. :-)
Forever, always, everlasting, eternal...These are the words that I see when I read scripture referring to Yahweh's commandments and His ordinances, which used to confuse me when I believed that the law was done away with. However, I emptied my cup that was full of other people's doctrine and I then started delving into scripture and praying that God would reveal the truth to me. I had received the love of truth and God made good on His promises to give to those that asked. My eyes were opened and for the first time I saw the truth. I see the veil being lifted all over the world and things, that at one time caused confusion, are now beginning to make sense. I only hope that I can show some of that truth with this blog and that people take the time to seek the truth out for themselves. Not in another man's teachings, but in the Word of God and through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments ALWAYS. ~Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is Yahweh, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS with those who love Him and keep His commandments. ~Deuteronomy 7:9
Regarding the Feasts of God-
You shall eat neither parched bread no parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever thrioughout your generations in all your dwellings. (Firstfruits) ~ Leviticus 23:14
You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute FOREVER in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. (Tabernacles) ~Leviticus 23:41
Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and ALWAYS keep all of My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children FOREVER.~ Deuteronomy 5:29
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children FOREVER, when you do what is good and right in the sight of Yahweh your Elohim.~Deuteronomy 12:28
The secret things belong to Yahweh our Elohim, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children FOREVER, that we may do all the words of this law. ~ Deuteronomy 29:29
It is an interesting fact, that the LAST verses in the LAST book of the Old Testament, before the blank page that separates the Old from the New, are this:
Malachi 4:4-6~
REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for ALL ISRAEL, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
This is right before the "new" covenant starts, in which the "law" has supposedly been done away with. Why would the last words of God's spokesman, Malachi, be "REMEMBER the law of Moses", if it was just going to be done away with on the very next page?
The new covenant is spoken about prophetically in Jeremiah 31:33- "But this is the covenant that I will make with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL after those days, says the Lord: I will put MY LAW in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God and they shall be My people."
Ezekiel also points to this new covenant in 36:27- "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep my judgments and do them"
So, God promises to give us His Spirit, and that Spirit will guide us into walking in His statutes and doing His commandments.
The Old Testament ends with God telling his people to REMEMBER HIS COMMANDMENTS.
Then Yahshua comes and does away with the law...NO!
"Do NOT think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, one jot or one tittle will by NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW UNTIL ALL IS FULFILLED." Matthew 5:17-18
Have heaven and earth passed away? NO! Then ALL is not yet fulfilled, and the law remains.
If the word of God is true, and the word says the commandments are everlasting, and Yahshua says that the law has NOT been destroyed, and that it will remain until ALL is fulfilled, WHY do we insist upon saying it was done away with?
More from Yahshua: "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?" ~Matthew 15:3
Yahshua quoting Isaiah: "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men" ~Matthew 15:8-9
Yahshua again answering a question about how to have eternal life: "Why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. BUT if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." ~Matthew 19:17
And finally in Revelation, which is prophecy that has yet to come: "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Yahshua the Messiah."~Revelation 12:17
And again in Revelation 14:12~ "Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Yahshua."
In the end the dragon is going to make war with the people that keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Yahshua. If you have one without the other, he is not concerned with you.
This is yet to come! The commandments are eternal! God is pleased with those that keep them. So much so that He calls them saints in the end.
The Covenant terms for Israel have never changed. That's what God's word says. He says they are everlasting, forever, always, throughout all our generations. The prophesy about the new covenant says that the terms remain the same...you want to be my people? Walk in my ways. In the end times, those that keep the commandments are called saints.
Could the word be wrong? Is it not truth? Are we walking in truth?
He seeks those that worship in spirit and in truth and truth is an absolute. God is a God of absolutes. When everything else in this world relies on feelings, emotions, and subjective experiences, we can trust that the word is absolute. God is absolute. Love is absolute. Truth is absolute.
Thank you, Father for your absolute wisdom and your unfailing love. Have mercy where mercy is due, and give grace as well. Love us like you did ancient Israel, who were stiff-necked and stubborn, yet you did not destroy them. Teach us your ways and lead us into life everlasting. Open our eyes that we may see, and give us ears to hear. Teach us to love the way You intended us to; Love for our fellow humans and Love for You. Father, you are the same yesterday, today and forever. I thank you that you are the one constant I can always rely on. Thank you for your Spirit that will guide us into your ways and teach us all that we need to know. Keep us in your loving, forgiving, arms during trying times, and teach us to not forget you when times are easy. Father, may we bless you in our actions, words,and thoughts. May we be ever mindful of how we are blessing you, instead of always wanting to be blessed. Keep us humble enough to admit our sins when we first commit them, and humble enough to always return to you quickly, never lingering in condemnation. Uphold my steps in Your paths, that I may not slip. Thank you, Father.
10/17/10
Tradition- The Sabbath Day
“It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians, that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” Priest Brady, in an address reported in The News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903.
Matthew 15:3~ Jesus (Yahshuah) replied, "And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God?" NLT
“I am going to propose a very plain and serious question to those who follow ‘the Bible and the Bible only’ to give their most earnest attention. It is this: Why don’t you keep holy the Sabbath day?...
“The command of the Almighty God stan ds clearly written in the Bible in these words: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.’ Exodus 20:8-10...
“You will answer me, perhaps, that you do keep the Sabbath; for that you abstain from all worldly business and diligently go to church, and say your prayers, and read your Bible at home every Sunday of your lives...
“But Sunday is not the Sabbath day. Sunday is the first day of the week: the Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week. Almighty God did not give a commandment that men should keep holy one day in seven; but He named His own day, and said distinctly: ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’; and He assigned a reason for choosing this day rather than any other - a reason which belongs only to the seventh day of the week, and cannot be applied to the rest. He says, ‘For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it’, Exodus 20:11, Genesis 2:1-3. Almighty God ordered that all men should rest from their labor on the seventh day, because He too had rested on that day: He did not rest on Sunday, but on Saturday. On Sunday, which is the first day of the week, He began the work of creation; He did not finish it. It was on Saturday that He ‘ended His work which he had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.’ Genesis 2:2-3...
“Nothing can be more plain and easy to understand than all this; there is nobody who attempts to deny it. It is acknowledged by everybody that the day which Almighty God appointed to be kept holy was Saturday, not Sunday. Why do you then keep holy the Sunday and not Saturday?
“You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has the authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’, who shall dare to say, ‘Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day: but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead?’ This is a most important question, which I know not how you answer...
“You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet, in so important a manner as the observance of one day in seven as the holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding. Who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible, and the Bible only you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.” Excerpts from “Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath Day?”, pages 3-15 in The Clifton Tract, vol. 4, published by the Roman Catholic Church 1869.
“The arguments...are firmly grounded on the word of God, and having been closely studied with the Bible in hand, leave no escape for the conscientious Protestant except the abandonment of Sunday worship and the return to Saturday, commanded by their teacher, the Bible, or, unwilling to abandon the tradition of the Catholic Church, which enjoins the keeping of Sunday, and which they have accepted in direct opposition to their teacher, the Bible, consistently accept her (the Catholic Church) in all her teachings. Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicism and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.” James Cardinal Gibbons, in Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.
Matthew 15:3~ Jesus (Yahshuah) replied, "And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God?" NLT
“I am going to propose a very plain and serious question to those who follow ‘the Bible and the Bible only’ to give their most earnest attention. It is this: Why don’t you keep holy the Sabbath day?...
“The command of the Almighty God stan ds clearly written in the Bible in these words: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work.’ Exodus 20:8-10...
“You will answer me, perhaps, that you do keep the Sabbath; for that you abstain from all worldly business and diligently go to church, and say your prayers, and read your Bible at home every Sunday of your lives...
“But Sunday is not the Sabbath day. Sunday is the first day of the week: the Sabbath day is the seventh day of the week. Almighty God did not give a commandment that men should keep holy one day in seven; but He named His own day, and said distinctly: ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’; and He assigned a reason for choosing this day rather than any other - a reason which belongs only to the seventh day of the week, and cannot be applied to the rest. He says, ‘For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it’, Exodus 20:11, Genesis 2:1-3. Almighty God ordered that all men should rest from their labor on the seventh day, because He too had rested on that day: He did not rest on Sunday, but on Saturday. On Sunday, which is the first day of the week, He began the work of creation; He did not finish it. It was on Saturday that He ‘ended His work which he had made: and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.’ Genesis 2:2-3...
“Nothing can be more plain and easy to understand than all this; there is nobody who attempts to deny it. It is acknowledged by everybody that the day which Almighty God appointed to be kept holy was Saturday, not Sunday. Why do you then keep holy the Sunday and not Saturday?
“You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has the authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, ‘Thou shalt keep holy the seventh day’, who shall dare to say, ‘Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day: but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead?’ This is a most important question, which I know not how you answer...
“You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the Bible only; and yet, in so important a manner as the observance of one day in seven as the holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding. Who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible, and the Bible only you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.” Excerpts from “Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath Day?”, pages 3-15 in The Clifton Tract, vol. 4, published by the Roman Catholic Church 1869.
“The arguments...are firmly grounded on the word of God, and having been closely studied with the Bible in hand, leave no escape for the conscientious Protestant except the abandonment of Sunday worship and the return to Saturday, commanded by their teacher, the Bible, or, unwilling to abandon the tradition of the Catholic Church, which enjoins the keeping of Sunday, and which they have accepted in direct opposition to their teacher, the Bible, consistently accept her (the Catholic Church) in all her teachings. Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicism and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible.” James Cardinal Gibbons, in Catholic Mirror, December 23, 1893.
8/9/10
The History of the Church: on the ROCK or on the rocks?
This is a great teaching from WildBranch Ministry. It's a free download and is an hour and 18 minutes long, but worth the time! If you are a believer in the Messiah Yahshua aka Jesus Christ, and don't know early church history, you NEED to listen to this. It will hopefully open your eyes and shed some light on some falsehoods that have been propagated by the man-made religious system that a lot of us have been in, come out of, or are now in.
8/1/10
Isaiah 51:4-8
Listen to Me, My people;
And give ear to Me, O My nation:
For law will proceed from Me,
And I will make My justice rest
As a light of the peoples.
My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And on My arm they will trust.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not be abolished.
Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You people in whose heart is My law:
Do not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from generation to generation.
Praise God for His word which is truth! I love having my eyes opened more and more every day to the truth of Torah.
Create in me a clean heart, Father. Break me and use me and cause me to seek You. Give me compassion, patience, gentleness and knowledge of love defined only by you. Help me speak your truth and help me to do it lovingly but without compromise. Father, forgive me for my disobedience and unbelief. Forgive my hardened heart. Forgive me for seeking my own ways. Father, may I bless you in this this walk and learn to walk just as your son walked.
And give ear to Me, O My nation:
For law will proceed from Me,
And I will make My justice rest
As a light of the peoples.
My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And on My arm they will trust.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
And look on the earth beneath.
For the heavens will vanish away like smoke,
The earth will grow old like a garment,
And those who dwell in it will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not be abolished.
Listen to Me, you who know righteousness,
You people in whose heart is My law:
Do not fear the reproach of men,
Nor be afraid of their insults.
For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
And the worm will eat them like wool;
But My righteousness will be forever,
And My salvation from generation to generation.
Praise God for His word which is truth! I love having my eyes opened more and more every day to the truth of Torah.
Create in me a clean heart, Father. Break me and use me and cause me to seek You. Give me compassion, patience, gentleness and knowledge of love defined only by you. Help me speak your truth and help me to do it lovingly but without compromise. Father, forgive me for my disobedience and unbelief. Forgive my hardened heart. Forgive me for seeking my own ways. Father, may I bless you in this this walk and learn to walk just as your son walked.
7/29/10
This is War - Paul Washer
This is convicting and encouraging. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness...
6/4/10
How Long is Forever?
Forever, always, everlasting, eternal...These are the words that I see when I read scripture referring to Yahweh's commandments and His ordinances, which used to confuse me when I believed that the law was done away with. However, I emptied my cup that was full of other people's doctrine and I then started delving into scripture and praying that God would reveal the truth to me. I had received the love of truth and God made good on His promises to give to those that asked. My eyes were opened and for the first time I saw the truth. I see the veil being lifted all over the world and things, that at one time caused confusion, are now beginning to make sense. I only hope that I can show some of that truth with this blog and that people take the time to seek the truth out for themselves. Not in another man's teachings, but in the Word of God and through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments ALWAYS. ~Deuteronomy 11:1
Therefore know that the Lord your God, He is Yahweh, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy FOR A THOUSAND GENERATIONS with those who love Him and keep His commandments. ~Deuteronomy 7:9
Regarding the Feasts of God-
You shall eat neither parched bread no parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever thrioughout your generations in all your dwellings. (Firstfruits) ~ Leviticus 23:14
You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute FOREVER in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. (Tabernacles) ~Leviticus 23:41
Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear me and ALWAYS keep all of My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children FOREVER.~ Deuteronomy 5:29
Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children FOREVER, when you do what is good and right in the sight of Yahweh your Elohim.~Deuteronomy 12:28
The secret things belong to Yahweh our Elohim, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children FOREVER, that we may do all the words of this law. ~ Deuteronomy 29:29
It is an interesting fact, that the LAST verses in the LAST book of the Old Testament, before the blank page that separates the Old from the New, are this:
Malachi 4:4-6~
REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES, my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for ALL ISRAEL, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.
This is right before the "new" covenant starts, in which the "law" has supposedly been done away with. Why would the last words of God's spokesman, Malachi, be "REMEMBER the law of Moses", if it was just going to be done away with on the very next page?
The new covenant is spoken about prophetically in Jeremiah 31:33- "But this is the covenant that I will make with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL after those days, says the Lord: I will put MY LAW in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God and they shall be My people."
Ezekiel also points to this new covenant in 36:27- "I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep my judgments and do them"
So, God promises to give us His Spirit, and that Spirit will guide us into walking in His statutes and doing His commandments.
The Old Testament ends with God telling his people to REMEMBER HIS COMMANDMENTS.
Then Yahshua comes and does away with the law...NO!
"Do NOT think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, one jot or one tittle will by NO MEANS PASS FROM THE LAW UNTIL ALL IS FULFILLED." Matthew 5:17-18
Have heaven and earth passed away? NO! Then ALL is not yet fulfilled, and the law remains.
If the word of God is true, and the word says the commandments are everlasting, and Yahshua says that the law has NOT been destroyed, and that it will remain until ALL is fulfilled, WHY do we insist upon saying it was done away with?
More from Yahshua: "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?" ~Matthew 15:3
Yahshua quoting Isaiah: "These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men" ~Matthew 15:8-9
Yahshua again answering a question about how to have eternal life: "Why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. BUT if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." ~Matthew 19:17
And finally in Revelation, which is prophecy that has yet to come: "And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Yahshua the Messiah."~Revelation 12:17
And again in Revelation 14:12~ "Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Yahshua."
In the end the dragon is going to make war with the people that keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Yahshua. If you have one without the other, he is not concerned with you.
This is yet to come! The commandments are eternal! God is pleased with those that keep them. So much so that He calls them saints in the end.
The Covenant terms for Israel have never changed. That's what God's word says. He says they are everlasting, forever, always, throughout all our generations. The prophesy about the new covenant says that the terms remain the same...you want to be my people? Walk in my ways. In the end times, those that keep the commandments are called saints.
Could the word be wrong? Is it not truth? Are we walking in truth?
He seeks those that worship in spirit and in truth and truth is an absolute. God is a God of absolutes. When everything else in this world relies on feelings, emotions, and subjective experiences, we can trust that the word is absolute. God is absolute. Love is absolute. Truth is absolute.
Thank you, Father for your absolute wisdom and your unfailing love. Have mercy where mercy is due, and give grace as well. Love us like you did ancient Israel, who were stiff-necked and stubborn, yet you did not destroy them. Teach us your ways and lead us into life everlasting. Open our eyes that we may see, and give us ears to hear. Teach us to love the way You intended us to; Love for our fellow humans and Love for You. Father, you are the same yesterday, today and forever. I thank you that you are the one constant I can always rely on. Thank you for your Spirit that will guide us into your ways and teach us all that we need to know. Keep us in your loving, forgiving, arms during trying times, and teach us to not forget you when times are easy. Father, may we bless you in our actions, words,and thoughts. May we be ever mindful of how we are blessing you, instead of always wanting to be blessed. Keep us humble enough to admit our sins when we first commit them, and humble enough to always return to you quickly, never lingering in condemnation. Uphold my steps in Your paths, that I may not slip. Thank you, Father.
11/16/09
Why we eat biblically clean animals
We have always been concerned with what we put in our bodies (having both been raised on processed foods we feel, and see, the effects of it to this day) but for the past year we have been lead down a path to greater understanding about what God intended for us to put into our bodies. It started with a good look at the Food Laws in the Scriptures. For the first time we looked at the list of clean and unclean animals and saw what God intended for food and what He did not intend for food. Swine, shellfish, certain other fish, birds of prey and all sorts of scavenger birds, rodents, insects (except for locusts and grasshoppers), and many other specific animals like cats and dogs; these are all unclean meats. It didn't take too long to understand why God didn't intend for these animals to be food for humans. Almost all of them are the garbage eaters of the earth. Pigs will eat nearly anything including other dead pigs, cancer off of sick pigs, garbage, feces, etc. Pork was an easy animal to give up since we never really ate it anyway. The only time we ate it was when it was served at another persons house and we felt rude for pushing it away. So we ate it. Pork has always made me sick, but understanding HOW it was unclean was an eye opener as to why it may have made me sick to begin with. Pigs are really disgusting creatures. Filthy and disease ridden. Why would we want to put that into our bodies? We don't and God never intended us to. He created us. He knows exactly how our bodies work because He designed them. He knows what is good for us and what is bad for us. So, in faith, we decided to believe that, and we stopped eating biblically unclean animals.
Lobsters, muscles, shrimp and crab- these are the bottom dwelling sea animals. They, like the pig, are also the animals that clean the earth of garbage and toxins. It is interesting to know that fisherman would spot crabs swarming around boat docks soon after the boats would come in for the night. During this period of time, it was common for the fishermen to dump their toilets overboard. This was what was bringing the crabs in. They were feeding off of the feces from humans. Gross. No matter how good crab might taste, there is nothing that would make me want to eat something that eats the feces of any animal. Which is why we don't eat rabbits either, another unclean animal. Rabbits have very poorly developed digestive systems, like pigs and many other unclean animals. It doesn't take long for what they eat to travel through their bodies and out the other end. Their food travels so fast through their digestive system in fact, that many nutrients remain in the food and it is then deposited at the end of the cycle in their fecal matter. Rabbits, dogs, cats, and others then eat their feces to get more nutrients out of it.
With most biblically clean animals that God intended for food, they have very highly developed digestive systems, like the cow. Cows have several stomachs and they continue to regurgitate what they've already eaten in order to receive the most nutrients from the food and to digest it properly. This makes their meat more nutritious. We are what we eat. If we are eating things that eat garbage and toxins, we are eating garbage and toxins. If we eat animals that are eating clean vegetation, like cows, then we can be assured that we are eating clean meat that has nutrients in it.
Now, this brings us to another subject. Factory farming! Food production has become a corporation. In order to produce the most food at the quickest rate and in order to make the animals as fat as possible as soon as possible, factory farms feed their animals, like cows and chickens, corn instead of their natural diet. Cows are not meant to eat corn. It makes them sick, makes them fat and not to mention the majority of the corn in the US is genetically modified, so it's not even real food that they are consuming. So, how can we be eating real food if we eat these factory farmed animals? So, as well as abstaining from biblically unclean animals, we also abstain from factory farmed animals. This year we are purchasing half of a grass fed cow which will be our main source of meat for the year. We will also be purchasing a few lambs for the year, and a few pastured chickens each month. It's nearly impossible to find grass fed meat in the supermarket and if you do find it, it is so expensive! But, when we shop locally, from local farmers, the prices are very reasonable.
So, not only are we eating the foods that God designed for our bodies, but we are getting them locally, they are non-GMO, for the most part organic and to top it off, these animals are happily living on family farms, where they are able to live as God intended them to live. We are called to be good stewards of our bodies and all that God has given us, this includes our animals. We no longer wish to contribute to the mass production and slaughter of animals in this country just to feed our fat bellies. We want to honor God above all things, and that means honoring our bodies, our earth and the animals on our earth.
A good site for an explanation of biblical eating is here.
I encourage you all to check it out and see what the bible actually has to say about it.
Interesting stuff!
Lobsters, muscles, shrimp and crab- these are the bottom dwelling sea animals. They, like the pig, are also the animals that clean the earth of garbage and toxins. It is interesting to know that fisherman would spot crabs swarming around boat docks soon after the boats would come in for the night. During this period of time, it was common for the fishermen to dump their toilets overboard. This was what was bringing the crabs in. They were feeding off of the feces from humans. Gross. No matter how good crab might taste, there is nothing that would make me want to eat something that eats the feces of any animal. Which is why we don't eat rabbits either, another unclean animal. Rabbits have very poorly developed digestive systems, like pigs and many other unclean animals. It doesn't take long for what they eat to travel through their bodies and out the other end. Their food travels so fast through their digestive system in fact, that many nutrients remain in the food and it is then deposited at the end of the cycle in their fecal matter. Rabbits, dogs, cats, and others then eat their feces to get more nutrients out of it.
With most biblically clean animals that God intended for food, they have very highly developed digestive systems, like the cow. Cows have several stomachs and they continue to regurgitate what they've already eaten in order to receive the most nutrients from the food and to digest it properly. This makes their meat more nutritious. We are what we eat. If we are eating things that eat garbage and toxins, we are eating garbage and toxins. If we eat animals that are eating clean vegetation, like cows, then we can be assured that we are eating clean meat that has nutrients in it.
Now, this brings us to another subject. Factory farming! Food production has become a corporation. In order to produce the most food at the quickest rate and in order to make the animals as fat as possible as soon as possible, factory farms feed their animals, like cows and chickens, corn instead of their natural diet. Cows are not meant to eat corn. It makes them sick, makes them fat and not to mention the majority of the corn in the US is genetically modified, so it's not even real food that they are consuming. So, how can we be eating real food if we eat these factory farmed animals? So, as well as abstaining from biblically unclean animals, we also abstain from factory farmed animals. This year we are purchasing half of a grass fed cow which will be our main source of meat for the year. We will also be purchasing a few lambs for the year, and a few pastured chickens each month. It's nearly impossible to find grass fed meat in the supermarket and if you do find it, it is so expensive! But, when we shop locally, from local farmers, the prices are very reasonable.
So, not only are we eating the foods that God designed for our bodies, but we are getting them locally, they are non-GMO, for the most part organic and to top it off, these animals are happily living on family farms, where they are able to live as God intended them to live. We are called to be good stewards of our bodies and all that God has given us, this includes our animals. We no longer wish to contribute to the mass production and slaughter of animals in this country just to feed our fat bellies. We want to honor God above all things, and that means honoring our bodies, our earth and the animals on our earth.
A good site for an explanation of biblical eating is here.
I encourage you all to check it out and see what the bible actually has to say about it.
Interesting stuff!
3/10/09
TRUTH
http://www.everystudent.com/features/bible.html
The bible is not just a bunch of stories, written by men. It is the inspired word of God. The truth. It shows us how to live, what sort of character is pleasing to God, how to raise our children, how to have a happy and healthy marriage, how we should treat people, what God requires of us, and WHO we should live for. All throughout the bible, it paints a picture of Jesus (Yeshua). It still amazes me that the book of Isaiah, which was written hundreds of years before Yeshua was even born, contains in it the prophesy of the coming Messiah.
Watch this video about the Great Isaiah Scroll that was found among the rest of the scrolls in the Dead Sea Scroll discovery. It's absolutely amazing.
Isaiah Chapter 53:
1 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
Lord, I pray that eyes are open to see. That ears are open to hear. Draw near to your children, Lord. Lift the veil that keeps them from seeing and believing the truth. Your word is truth, Lord.
The bible is not just a bunch of stories, written by men. It is the inspired word of God. The truth. It shows us how to live, what sort of character is pleasing to God, how to raise our children, how to have a happy and healthy marriage, how we should treat people, what God requires of us, and WHO we should live for. All throughout the bible, it paints a picture of Jesus (Yeshua). It still amazes me that the book of Isaiah, which was written hundreds of years before Yeshua was even born, contains in it the prophesy of the coming Messiah.
Watch this video about the Great Isaiah Scroll that was found among the rest of the scrolls in the Dead Sea Scroll discovery. It's absolutely amazing.
Isaiah Chapter 53:
1 Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant,
And as a root out of dry ground.
He has no form or comeliness;
And when we see Him,
There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
3 He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
8 He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
9 And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
Lord, I pray that eyes are open to see. That ears are open to hear. Draw near to your children, Lord. Lift the veil that keeps them from seeing and believing the truth. Your word is truth, Lord.
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