IN A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE study sponsored by the U.S. Government, Dan Buettner researches three regions in the world, where people live the longest lives. He called these regions Blue Zones. One of these Blue Zones, is a religious community in Southern California called Loma Linda.
Loma Linda is a city that is home to the largest concentration of Seventh day Adventists in the world. As a result of the research and many studies, Dan learned that Seventh day Adventists live, on the average about 10 years longer than the rest of the U.S. population. What is their secret for this fact?
Dan, who is not an Adventist, summarized his findings into three categories.FIRST- he says they take their diet plan directly from the Bible [Genesis 1 & 2.] where it gives man a plant based diet of fruits, nuts and vegetables.SECONDLY - they take a 24 hour period each week, from sundown Friday, until sundown Saturday, and devote it to rest , time with God and with family. THIRDLY- most of them abstain from meat, and animal products, alcohol, tobacco, and make physical activity a way of life.
We have already covered the spending of quality time with God on HIS Holy day, the Sabbath day, but does the Bible say about a special health plan, that can give us a longer amount of time on this earth?
1. Does the Holy Bible have a plan for our health?
3 John 1:2 "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth"
Revelation 2:7 " He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God."
Note: One of the most important teachings in the Bible, is that Our Father-God, wants us to be in thje the best of health, physically as well as spiritually. God plans for us to eat the Fruit from the Tree of Life, someday. Fruit in one of the healthiest forms of nourishment that our bodies can get.
2. What was GOD' s original diet plan for mankind?
Genesis 1:29 "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Note, please the very next verse,
Genesis 1:30. "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. "
Note: So much for those who say, many were, meat-eaters, due to the spike teeth! Well ever see the mouth and teeth of the fruit bats? They are every bit as "mean-looking" as the T-Rex, only much smaller. God;s plan, in the beginning, was for man to eat fruit. This included a wide variety of foods. A fruit is the product of the blossom on a plant.
3. What changed after Adam and Eve sinned?
Genesis 3:18 "Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;"
Note: After sin, God gave them the HERB, of the field. This they had to do with hard labor, to prepare the soil for seed, and the to tend, and to harvest the vegetables they had to grow, as an addition to their diet.
4. When were flesh foods allowed into man's diet?
Genesis 9:3 "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."
Note: This was AFTER the Flood, that God allowed animals to be food for man. When Noah first got our of the Ark, there were no gardens to supply food, him and his family.
5. BUT, did God intend for man to eat any kind of animal?
Genesis 7:2 "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female."
Note: God made a difference between CLEAN and UNCLEAN animals. Noah was provided with seven clean animals, but only two of the unclean, right?If, Noah had eaten but one of the unclean, species, that species would be extinct!
6. How did God distinguish clean from unclean?
Leviticus 11:47 " To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten."
Note: The Bible speaks to a difference between the clean and not clean animals, and puts them into three distinctions:
(1) LAND ANIMALS: Leviticus 11:3 "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is cloven footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat."
Splits the hoof, and a plant eater, herbivores, thus has a multi-section stomach, and chews the cud.
(2). Water Life-forms:Leviticus 11:12 " Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you."
Therefore, if it has not BOTH scales and fins, it's part and parcel for His Sanitation crew! Meaning, crabs, shrimp, lobster and shell fish, are scavengers, they eat what ever comes along, just as catfish do!
(3). Birds. Leviticus 11:13-19 "And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow,[cuckoo] and the hawk after his kind, And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl, And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat."
Foraging birds--chicken, quail, turkey, and, duck are clean. Birds of prey are not, besides who want a Vulture-breast sandwich?
7. What other restrictions did God give us about meat eating?
Genesis 9:4 "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. "
Leviticus 3:17 " It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood."
Note: Much of what is of a danger to life, IF it does not kill life that ate it, gets stored into the fat of the the animals!In the blood, if there is a any disease present in any animal, it is also in the blood! Fat is the why Pigs can handle most snake bites, because the venom stays locked in the fat, and if it can it will kill and eat the snake!, even while it's biting!
NOTE 2. Today there are very few Kosher slaughter houses, which fully drain all the blood, from any animal. See the reason for the "Blotters" under the meat, that is packaged? Does this include "Blood Sausage and Blood Puddings" YES! Do you know of a Tribe in Africa, that blood from a living cow is used as the primary food? They have a great many heart problems and strokes, all at a quite young age, 40 -50 yrs old!
8. Does God call it a serious offense to eat unclean foods?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 " Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are "
Isaiah 66:17 "They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's"
Note: If we defile this temple of God's , our bodies, God will destroy us. Of all the unclean animals it is the Pig, the hog, the swine, or all Pork meats, is the most spoken ill of, and He'll consume us { God is a living fire in that sense] for OUR eating of swine and mouse is an abomination to Him.
9. What is the ideal Bible diet?
Daniel 1:12 " Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.."
Daniel 1:15 "And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat."
Daniel 1:20-21 "And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus."
Note: Rather that to disobey GOD, and eat from the King's table, and drink his wine, they asked to be proven by eating Pulse [vegetables] and drink water. For a ten day test, and see if they not locked healthier and had clearer minds than those who sat and ate with the king. They not only looked fairer [more healthy] but ended up ten times the wiser, than the men who worked for the king.
10. What does the Bible say about alcohol?
Proverbs 20:1 " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise."
Proverbs 23:31-32 " Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
NOTE: Wine is a mocker, a deceiver. The Bible speaks to two types of wine, by the same word YAYIN. It calls both grape juice and the fermented juice, yayin-wine. It even says, that we should not even look upon any wine that moves by itself, by the presence of gas bubbles, found only after fermentation. Isaiah 65:8 "Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all".
Note: Wine is NOT found in clusters agree?
11. What about tobacco use, caffeine, and other harmful drugs?
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
1 Corinthians 10:31 "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."
Note: Your BODY is the temple, or the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit. Thus we are told that in every thing we do, eat, or drink, we should to it all to the Glory of God. Nicotine and caffeine, are legal, yes, but both are addictive, harmful to the our bodies, thus enslaving us to them with habits hard to break.
12. BUT. . . .but God cleanse all animals in Acts 10?
Acts 10:13-14 "And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean."
Acts 10:28 "And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean."
Note: As all can see plainly, Peter was NOT told all were clean, but only humans were NOT to be called nor held as common nor unclean, as was the Jewish custom of the day!
13. OK, but did not 1 Timothy 4 say that no meat is to be refused?
1 Timothy 4:2-3 "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth."
Note: the dangers of using one verse in isolation, when there are more than a few, that are also dealing with this topic in Leviticus 11 for example.. To hold all all meat is A OK, misses the points given... " which God has created to be received..." ! Now did God tells us anywhere, that the unclean are to be received as meats, even with thanksgiving? NO! We must keep subject and object in line with each other.Remember He created plants, seeds and fruits to be received, latter clean animals!......
1 Timothy 4:4-5 "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
NOTE: Animals for meat/food, were ONLY those who are listed as CLEAN. Prayers from us over pork, will NOT make it a chicken breast, the "Other White Meat"!
14. ARE BIBLE HEALTH PRINCIPLES PRACTICAL, YET TODAY?
(A) Leviticus 13:46. Quarantine procedures control contagious diseases
(B) Deuteronomy 23:12-13. Human body waste should be buried, away from camps.
(C) Leviticus 17:15-16. Washing body & clothing, controls germs.
(D) Lev.18; Proverbs 5:1-12; Colossians 3:5,6. Moral living prevents sexual diseases.
(E) Lev. 3:17; 7:22-24. Animal fat should NOT be eaten.
(F) Lev. 19:17-18; Prov. 15:17; Hebrews 12:14-15. Hatred-Bitterness is detrimental to one's health.
(G) Prov. 23:2. Overeating is harmful.
(H) Psalm 127:2; Mark 6:31. Our bodies need proper rest.
(I) Exodus 20:910: 2 Thessalonians 3:10. The importance of work.
(J) Prov. 17:22 1 Timothy 6:6. A positive attitude is good medicine.
(k) Deut. 12:25; Exo. 20:5. Parents' habits affect their children.
15. Does God really care that we have healthy bodies?
Romans 12:1 " I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
Note: A healthy body means a healthy mind. God wants to speak to our minds, via the Holy Spirit. He wants us to be able to hear and understand His voice. {Does GOD not speak to us within the Bible?} With a healthy mind and body we are better able to hear and respond to His leading us. That's the why back of the "Present your bodies as a living sacrifice unto God!
ARE YOU WILLING TO FOLLOW GOD'S HEALTH PLAN FOR YOURSELF? After all is it not best to follow the "Manufacturer's" advice for our care and feeding?
NEXT: Winning in Court. or How can we be victorious in the Judgment?
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