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Comments on God’s Food Laws

ByBrooks Alden April 19, 2018May 11, 2018
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God's Food Laws

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5: 17,18)

A funny thing about our society is that people just want to offer advice, whether or not they have studied the matter on which they are advising. So often, they are simply repeating what they have heard and very often this means taking a negative view. You see a lot of this with health issues, particularly if an individual is following a holistic or Biblical path. The Bible Food Law is an easy target for such advisors because so few Christians follow them and/or even know much about them. So, if a person does adhere to such Law, they stand out and even they can begin to wonder about the wisdom of them. A teenager following God’s wisdom might be faced with a comment like, “Hey, that’s totally wack!” Or, as I encountered when I adopted the Food Laws many years ago, “you’re being too legalistic.” You know this came from a man with a strong Christian background, a Bible teacher, and I still remember him sitting in his chair, looking very drawn and I know for a fact he has experienced many health problems. Yet, there he sat smugly saying, “Hey, haven’t you read Acts 10” and then proceeded to explain how Peter’s vision demonstrated that the Food Laws codified by Moses at Sinai were abolished. He quoted verses 13-15 to prove his contention, “Rise, Peter: kill and eat”; Peter responds, “Not so Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean” and the response, “What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.” Of course, he failed to say that Peter obviously didn’t believe this (Verse 17) or that the real meaning came clear to Peter (Verse 28) that the vision was about men, not animals, and that God was simply showing him that Peter should not call any man unclean. You see, God wasn’t approving a change of diet, and this goes for other verses quoted to prove forbidden foods acceptable, whether 1st Timothy 4:4-5, Romans 14:14, 1st Corinthians 10:25, 27 or whatever. A close analysis of each of these passages will demonstrate that the meaning is other than what the opponents of the Food Laws desire it to be.

So, how should a person respond when ridiculed because he or she follows the Food Laws? Or, why follow the Food Laws if no one else does. First, we should get away from the idea that the Food Laws represent some religious significance. The fact is, the Food Laws were given us by the Lord God Almighty to keep us healthy. And like my friend who referred to me as being too legalistic, anyone who does not follow them will ultimately pay a price. When someone is very young, they feel invincible, so why sacrifice and follow Law that doesn’t seem to have much impact. It’s hard to look ten/twenty or more years down the road at that age but they should. I say this from experience. When I began following the Laws, as a much younger man, my health, which had been challenged for some years, has progressively improved. Still, I wonder how much better it would be had I adopted the correct practice from youth.

My view today, of course, is that it pays to walk the path God wishes, despite what others might say. You see, the Food Laws were in existence before being codified by Moses; obviously Noah was aware of them when he was told to take two each of the unclean animals, etc. into the ark and seven of each of the clean animals, etc. (Genesis 7: 2,3). They were codified for the Israelites because God chose them to take His Order and Law around the world and he wanted them healthy to be the blessing to the nations, as His Grand Plan unfolded. One thing is clear. We only have to reflect on the astronomical growth of the pharmaceutical industry, or the vast changes in the medical industry or the continuing emergence of industries involved in unclean food production to understand why the huge increase in disease and staggering growth of an infirm society has come upon us, particularly over the past half-century.

I like what Howard Rand had to say on the subject in his book “Digest of the Divine Law.” He wrote, “Men are resentful when there is interference with their appetites. Christians who would not think of violating any of the Ten Commandments will deliberately violate the laws of continued health. Later in life, when the inevitable happens, and health is gone, they blame God, though Moses said, ‘See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments that thou mayst live and multiply.” (Deut 30:15-16) Can God be blamed when men deliberately choose the way of death? Because the penalties for such law violation are deferred, in some cases until life has nearly run its full course, men harden their hearts and Christians cite New testament passages to justify themselves in the sins they commit.”

The verses from Matthew 5 at the outset of this article are the Lord Jesus Christ’s own words. He said in the clearest of terms, “I have not come to change the slightest part of the Law.” Is it too difficult to believe God the Son? What about when He said, “If ye love me, keep my Commandments.” Yet, how many times have we heard theologians say, “The Law was nailed to the Cross.” It doesn’t seem to matter that Colossians 2: 14 demonstrates it was only the Law of Ordinances nailed to the Cross, no longer needed through the blood of Jesus Christ. Yet, such a statement is still taught by those who point out we are not under the Law but under Grace and therefore the Law need not concern us. Malachi 3: 6 tell us, “For I am the Lord, I change not….”. Hebrews 13: 8 points out, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.” So, good advice to those who ridicule the Food Laws or those who keep them is “yes, we are under Grace but we had better not ignore God’s Laws that have been established for our own good.

Read about them in Leviticus 11 & 19 or Deuteronomy 14 & 22, but as you do, keep in mind 1 Corinthians 11:29-30 “For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning the body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep [die].


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Brooks came to the message in 1991 and began writing for Thy Kingdom Come in 2001. His subjects are varied, although prophecy is his favourite. He is a former bank executive and businessman and is now a business consultant. He has authored several books and articles on the Israel Truth and is a regular speaker on the subject. He is co-editor of the magazine and has been a Board Member with the Association for a number of years. Brooks believes that more than any other time in the Christian era is it more important to sow the seeds of the Israel Truth and the Gospel of the Kingdom. He thinks that as in the days of Hosea, Israel today is being swallowed up and the future is dimmer and dimmer without the Lord Jesus Christ as our Beacon. As iot was with Hosea, we True Israel must reach that point where we will say, “Come, and let us return unto the Lord ……he will heal us … and he will bind us up.” All the signs suggest there is not much time.

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