Recently I wrote to you about Exodus 15:26:
“If you will listen to the voice of the Lord … and keep all His statutes, then I will put NONE OF THESE DISEASES on you...”
God promises His people that if they obey, they will not have the diseases of the pagans. For example, those who ate pork often became infected with roundworms. But God’s dietary laws protected the Israelites.
Today I read about additional dietary restrictions: God’s people are not allowed to eat blood. God says “the lifeblood belongs to Me.” Eating blood is unhealthy. Even people who do not intend to eat blood must wash their hands after butchering animals. As a matter of fact, researchers believe AIDS began when men in Africa killed and ate monkeys. They ate with blood on their hands and the AIDS virus was transmitted from monkeys to men.
There’s another curious rule.
“All fat belongs to the Lord. You must not eat any fat or any blood.” Leviticus 3:16-17.
God says don’t eat FAT. Did you know that? I remember a cousin who would slice the fat from the edges of a steak and eat that first. Yuck. I can’t imagine. And what do doctors tell us? Fat—the famous “marbling” in a steak—is the most unhealthy thing in meat. Chicken is healthier than red meat because red meat has more fat. (Particularly meat from cattle that were “finished” in a CAFO); by contrast, grass-fed cattle (who did not spend their final six months eating corn) are healthier because their meat is less fatty.
Modern medicine has discovered the point behind God’s rules. If you obey, you will be healthier. Fat causes heart disease. Blood spreads AIDS and more. Pork causes worms. And the list goes on: avoid fish without scales, animals without split hooves, meat eaters and scavengers, etc.
Generations followed God’s laws by faith, without understanding that God was protecting them. But in Exodus 15:26, He made it clear: If you obey My rules, I will put NONE OF THESE DISEASES on you.
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