Importance what we eat

Gen 1,29: God designated Fruits and seeds

Gen 3,18: Change of condition after fall - herbs of the field

Gen 9,3-4: Change of condition after the flood - animals without blood and green herbs

Ex 16,15: Change of condition in the wilderness - Manna

Deut 8,3: Parallel - spiritual and literal food - Word of God and Manna

Deut 8,16: A proof - for their good

Lev 11,46-47: Distinguishing between clean and unclean animals

Lev 11,44-45: Relation of food and holiness

Num 11,4-6: People were complaining - always only Manna - no meat

Num 11,10: People were weeping - anger of the Lord arose

Num 11,18: Sanctify yourself because tomorrow meat - 2. Reaction

Num 11,33-34: People died - plague

Ps 78,18-19: Not good to desire food, which God didn't designate for us

Ps 78,26-34: Description of this Story and the punishment

1. Kings 10,5: Salomon's food was an example

Job 23,12: Literal and spiritual food - More importance for spiritual food - word of God

Lam 1,11: Food to restore life - to remain alive                                                 

Dan 1,8: Daniel purposed not to defile himself with the king's delicacies

            Relationship between food and cleanness - holiness

Hag 2,12: Food doesn't become through touching holy - Pentecost - through praying everything is good

Mat 22,4: Preparation

Luke 12,22-23: Life is more than food

John 4,34: Food in relation with the will of God - to do the will of God

John 6,26-27.54-56: Comparison of literal and spiritual food - salvation

Acts 15,28-29: Prohibition of Leviticus mentioned - neither blood nor meat offered to idols

Rom 14,1-2: Two groups:

1. Ate all
2. Only vegetables

Rom 14,3-6: Don’t despise the other

Rom 14,16-17: Conclusion: Don't grieve your brother with your food

Rom 13,13-14: No provision for the flesh to fulfill its lusts

1. Cor 8,1-4: Meat offered to idols

1. Cor 8,6: Only one God

1. Cor 8,12-13: If my brother stumbles I will never eat meat again

Col 2,16-17: Not to judge about food

Purpose of these verses is that God gave decisions regarding food and that there is a relation between food and the spiritual condition of a person.

Hebr 12,16: Esau - fornication and profanation because of food - relation spiritual food

Rev 22,2: The tree of life

Why we don't eat meat?

 The seven periods of Food

 1. Period

Gen 1,29: No meat for food - fruits and seeds

2. Period

Gen 3,18: Fruits, seeds and herbs

Gen 7,2-3: Difference before the flood between clean and unclean animals

3. Period

Gen 7,2-3: Fruits, seeds, herbs and flesh without blood

4. Period

Ex 16,15: Manna - heavenly bread

Num 11: Flesh was not the purpose of God

5. Period

Lev 11: Permission to eat clean meat - connection with 3. Period

6. Period

Lev 23,28-32: Day of Atonement - day of fastening

Zach 8,19: 4 days of fastening during a year

Num 29,7-8: Afflict your soul - fast in different translations

Is 58,3-7: Fastening + affliction - true meaning of fastening

Jer 36,6-9: Reformation in relation with fastening

Joel 1,14-16: Judgment + fastening

Joel 2,12-14: Conversion and fastening

Mark 2,18-20: John's disciples

1. Time to eat - Jesus present
2. Time to fast - Jesus absent

People didn't fast in time of fastening

Is 22,13-14: They ate clean animals instead of fastening

Hos 8,12-13: Clean animals eaten in disobedience are also sin - apostasy in context

People ate unclean meat or blood

Is 65,4: Swine's flesh

Is 66,16-17: Completely destruction - eat unclean meat

Ez 4,14: Never ate unclean meat

Ez 33,25: Flesh with blood - won't possess the land - not saved

Fastening and clean animals

Dan 10,3: Daniel didn't eat pleasant food or meat

7. Period

Rev 2,7: fruits - tree of life

Rev 2,17: Manna

E.G.W. - Testimony - 9T 159 - 160

   We are not to make the use of flesh food a test of fellowship, but we should consider the influence that professed believers who use flesh foods have over others. As God's messengers, shall we not say to the people: "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"? 1 Corinthians 10:31. Shall we not bear a decided testimony against the indulgence of perverted appetite? Will any who are ministers of the gospel, proclaiming the most solemn truth ever given to mortals, set an example in returning to the fleshpots of Egypt? Will those who are supported by the tithe from God's storehouse permit themselves by self-indulgence to poison the life-giving current flowing through their veins? Will they disregard the light and warnings that God has given them? The health of the body is to be regarded as essential for growth in grace and the acquirement of an even temper. If the stomach is not properly cared for, the formation of an upright, moral character will be hindered. The brain and nerves are in sympathy with the stomach. Erroneous eating and drinking result in erroneous thinking and acting.  {9T 159.3}