Meat Eating Christians
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. 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. Gen 1:29,30
God Gave Ellen White a health message threw vision for his people in the time we are in right now. If you choose to ignore it, you could be choosing to ignore a prophets reward as well. Jesus said himself:
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and
he that receiveth a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. Matthew 10:41
Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh-meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation of man. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 142
Meat eating is doing its work, for the meat is diseased. We may not long be able to use even milk. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
(1926), page 120
First of All we would like to say the Bible does not say you can't eat meat. But it does point out God would rather us stick to our originally planned diet. Which was fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts with lots and lots of water. As you read in the bible you he put some rules on it so we don't end up like a child eating what ever he or she wants which would only be junk and end up with a mouth full of cavities and a nutrient starved body. He didn't want us to eat anything that was unclean. He wanted his family to eat grade A meat only if we decided vegetables, nuts, fruits and grains weren't good enough for our 3 year old ways. Grade A meat in God's eyes is not rodents, pigs, possums, dogs, and cats. You might be thinking, whats wrong with eating a cat? They are clean animals, right? Well Cats eat mice and you wouldn't eat a mouse would you? Well you might ask, whats wrong with eating a pig? Well What isn't wrong with a pig. :-) They roll in mud/urine/feciese. They also stink very bad and eat anything. They are one of natures vacuum cleaners along with a vulcher, catfish, rodents, dogs, shrimp, and lobsters just to name a few. The Bible is very clear on what meat we should eat and even goes as far as to tell us what not to eat if we must put dead animal flesh in our mouths. If your a parent you know sugar isn't good for your children. But they beg for it and you want to make them happy so you usually give in and say only a little bit but first you have to eat your dinner. Well God is the same way. We begged for meat and he finally gave in and said OK but you can only eat this kind of meat and you may not ever eat of this meat. Your body is the temple of God, so why would you fill it with unclean things such as porn, violence, curse words, unclean animals like ham, pepperoni, catfish, shrimp, oysters, turtle soup, shark and alligator meat. If your not willing to eat what your meal ate when it was alive, then you shouldn't eat that animal. Because it ate what you wouldn't eat but in reality your eating exactly what that animal ate. You wouldn't eat a rotting dead animal but a vulcher and pigs will. So what would possess you to ignore God's will and eat something that unclean?
We were warned in the mid 1800s by God threw Ellen White that eating any kind of meat in the last days would be harmful to our health. Even milk, cheese, and eggs wouldn't be safe. Well now we know what God was communicating threw vision to her about. The food market has become so money driven that they are using chemicals and hormones to help cows produce more milk, make cows and chickens grow faster and bigger. They even put a chemical on the meat to make it look brighter red which appeases the eye more. Even fruit and vegetable have chemicals sprayed on them to keep bugs off and to make them look more eye appealing. But God was more concerned with the unsafe meat and dairy that his children would be eating and not knowing how bad it was on the body. Even our water has chemicals in it. I wonder how many chemicals the average person
consumes into the body? I read a report on it a few years ago and it was a big number.
Ellen White was a meat lover. When God showed her in vision how bad meat was going to be soon, she had a hard time giving meat up. And yes she even ate (loved) pig meat before God intervened. This is what she had to say about her struggles in giving it up.
I was a great lover of animal flesh as food. I wanted fat pork fried for breakfast, boiled meat for dinner, cold slices of ham or beef for supper. One of my sweetest morsels was bread well soaked in pork gravy. Gospel of Health, October, 1899 (see also SHM, p. 24).
But since the Lord presented before me, in June, 1863, the subject of meat-eating in relation to health, I have left the use of meat. For a while it was rather difficult to bring my appetite to bread, for which, formerly, I have had but little relish. But by persevering, I have been able to do this, I have lived for nearly one year without meat. For about six months most of the bread upon our table has been unleavened cakes, made of unbolted wheat-meal and water, and a very little salt. We use fruits and vegetables liberally. I have lived for eight months upon two meals a day. I have applied myself to writing the most of the time for above a year. For eight months have been confined closely to writing. My brain has been constantly taxed, and I have had but little exercise. Yet my health has never been better than for the past six months. My former faint and dizzy feelings have left me. I have been troubled every spring with loss of appetite. The last spring I had no trouble in this respect. Our plain food, eaten twice a day, is enjoyed with a keen relish. We have no meat, cake, or any rich food upon our table. We use no lard but in its place, milk, cream, and some butter. We have our food prepared with but little salt, and have dispensed with spices of all kinds. We breakfast at seven, and take our dinner at one. It is seldom I have a faint feeling. My appetite is satisfied. My food is eaten with a greater relish than ever before.
Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 122
Below is what God showed Ellen White in Vision and what God instructed Sister White to warn his people about in the last days.
Those who use flesh meats freely do not always have an unclouded brain and an active intellect, because the use of the flesh of animals tends to cause a grossness of body and to benumb the finer sensibilities of the mind. The liability to disease is increased by flesh eating. We do not hesitate to say that meat is not essential to the maintenance of health and strength. Counsels on Health (1923), page 115
Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat-eating. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 68
Those who indulge in meat eating, tea drinking, and gluttony are sowing seeds for a harvest of pain and death. The unhealthful food placed in the stomach strengthens the appetites that war against the soul, developing the lower propensities. A diet of flesh meat tends to develop animalism. A development of animalism lessens spirituality, rendering the mind incapable of understanding truth. Counsels on Health (1923), page 575
For some reason if you think its not that time yet to give up meat, eggs, and dairy then please read the next 2 statements below.
When will those who know the truth take their stand on the side of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be true to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is dangerous to use flesh meat? I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating were safe, it is not safe now. Counsels on Diet and Foods (1938), page 384
I have been instructed that flesh-food has a tendency to animalize the nature, to rob men and women of that love and sympathy which they should feel for every one, and to give the lower passions control over the higher powers of the being. If meat-eating were ever healthful, it is not safe now. Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat-eating. . . . Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 174
Hasn't most of this next statement already been fulfilled? Their are people who don't eat meat today and they are atheists, non-Christians, and all different type who have cut out some meat or all meat. And in most cases its not because of God they do it, but because of health reasons or cruelty to animal reasons, or other weird religious reasons that have nothing to do with clean or unclean animals. (Holy animals) If you don't believe me go to McDonalds and look at the vegetarian meals they offer. Actually try to find a restaurant that doesn't offer some kind of vegetarian meal. In the 1950s-1990s it was really hard to find a meal at a restaurant that had something for vegetarians.
A positive injury is done to the system by continuous meat-eating. There is no excuse for it but a depraved, perverted appetite. You may ask, would you do away entirely with meat-eating? I answer, it will eventually come to this, but we are not prepared for this step just now. Meat-eating will eventually be done away. The flesh of animals will no longer compose a part of our diet; and we shall look upon a butcher's shop with disgust. Again and again I have been shown that God is bringing His people back to His original design, that is not to subsist upon the flesh of dead animals. He would have us teach people a better way. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 69
I want to make this clear. Just because you choose to continue to eat meat of any kind it doesn't mean you should be kicked out of the Church or dis fellowshipped. If this had happened to you it is wrong in the eyes of the Lord and in the eyes of the founding members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
In her closing lines of the six-page communication, she wrote:
You may inquire, "What effect does this have upon you?" Sorrow only, sorrow of soul, but peace and perfect rest, and trust in Jesus. To vindicate myself, my position, or my mission, I would not utter ten words. I would not seek to give evidence of my work. "By their fruits ye
shall know them." She added, "We have never made meat eating a test of fellowship, never."--Letter 14, 1897.
This Page was only designed to open the eyes of those who are to busy to ready Ellen White's health visions. We hope it inspires you to read them in its entirety so you may have the Holy Spirit work on your heart. If you want or can't give up meat eating then we implore you to pray heavily on this subject due to the shortness of time we have on this Earth. Below is a scripture from the bible that explains what is clean and what is not clean,
what to eat what not to eat. We placed this in the page because we get a lot of new Adventists to this ministry and a lot of curious non Adventists.
If you must eat meat for whatever reason. Then please at least eat what the Bible ask of you to eat.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. 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 ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the 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.
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: 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. LEV 11:1-47
all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be
for meat. 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. Gen 1:29,30
God Gave Ellen White a health message threw vision for his people in the time we are in right now. If you choose to ignore it, you could be choosing to ignore a prophets reward as well. Jesus said himself:
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and
he that receiveth a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward. Matthew 10:41
Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not an ounce of flesh-meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh is unnatural. We are to return to God's original purpose in the creation of man. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 142
Meat eating is doing its work, for the meat is diseased. We may not long be able to use even milk. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods
(1926), page 120
First of All we would like to say the Bible does not say you can't eat meat. But it does point out God would rather us stick to our originally planned diet. Which was fruits, vegetables, grains, and nuts with lots and lots of water. As you read in the bible you he put some rules on it so we don't end up like a child eating what ever he or she wants which would only be junk and end up with a mouth full of cavities and a nutrient starved body. He didn't want us to eat anything that was unclean. He wanted his family to eat grade A meat only if we decided vegetables, nuts, fruits and grains weren't good enough for our 3 year old ways. Grade A meat in God's eyes is not rodents, pigs, possums, dogs, and cats. You might be thinking, whats wrong with eating a cat? They are clean animals, right? Well Cats eat mice and you wouldn't eat a mouse would you? Well you might ask, whats wrong with eating a pig? Well What isn't wrong with a pig. :-) They roll in mud/urine/feciese. They also stink very bad and eat anything. They are one of natures vacuum cleaners along with a vulcher, catfish, rodents, dogs, shrimp, and lobsters just to name a few. The Bible is very clear on what meat we should eat and even goes as far as to tell us what not to eat if we must put dead animal flesh in our mouths. If your a parent you know sugar isn't good for your children. But they beg for it and you want to make them happy so you usually give in and say only a little bit but first you have to eat your dinner. Well God is the same way. We begged for meat and he finally gave in and said OK but you can only eat this kind of meat and you may not ever eat of this meat. Your body is the temple of God, so why would you fill it with unclean things such as porn, violence, curse words, unclean animals like ham, pepperoni, catfish, shrimp, oysters, turtle soup, shark and alligator meat. If your not willing to eat what your meal ate when it was alive, then you shouldn't eat that animal. Because it ate what you wouldn't eat but in reality your eating exactly what that animal ate. You wouldn't eat a rotting dead animal but a vulcher and pigs will. So what would possess you to ignore God's will and eat something that unclean?
We were warned in the mid 1800s by God threw Ellen White that eating any kind of meat in the last days would be harmful to our health. Even milk, cheese, and eggs wouldn't be safe. Well now we know what God was communicating threw vision to her about. The food market has become so money driven that they are using chemicals and hormones to help cows produce more milk, make cows and chickens grow faster and bigger. They even put a chemical on the meat to make it look brighter red which appeases the eye more. Even fruit and vegetable have chemicals sprayed on them to keep bugs off and to make them look more eye appealing. But God was more concerned with the unsafe meat and dairy that his children would be eating and not knowing how bad it was on the body. Even our water has chemicals in it. I wonder how many chemicals the average person
consumes into the body? I read a report on it a few years ago and it was a big number.
Ellen White was a meat lover. When God showed her in vision how bad meat was going to be soon, she had a hard time giving meat up. And yes she even ate (loved) pig meat before God intervened. This is what she had to say about her struggles in giving it up.
I was a great lover of animal flesh as food. I wanted fat pork fried for breakfast, boiled meat for dinner, cold slices of ham or beef for supper. One of my sweetest morsels was bread well soaked in pork gravy. Gospel of Health, October, 1899 (see also SHM, p. 24).
But since the Lord presented before me, in June, 1863, the subject of meat-eating in relation to health, I have left the use of meat. For a while it was rather difficult to bring my appetite to bread, for which, formerly, I have had but little relish. But by persevering, I have been able to do this, I have lived for nearly one year without meat. For about six months most of the bread upon our table has been unleavened cakes, made of unbolted wheat-meal and water, and a very little salt. We use fruits and vegetables liberally. I have lived for eight months upon two meals a day. I have applied myself to writing the most of the time for above a year. For eight months have been confined closely to writing. My brain has been constantly taxed, and I have had but little exercise. Yet my health has never been better than for the past six months. My former faint and dizzy feelings have left me. I have been troubled every spring with loss of appetite. The last spring I had no trouble in this respect. Our plain food, eaten twice a day, is enjoyed with a keen relish. We have no meat, cake, or any rich food upon our table. We use no lard but in its place, milk, cream, and some butter. We have our food prepared with but little salt, and have dispensed with spices of all kinds. We breakfast at seven, and take our dinner at one. It is seldom I have a faint feeling. My appetite is satisfied. My food is eaten with a greater relish than ever before.
Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 122
Below is what God showed Ellen White in Vision and what God instructed Sister White to warn his people about in the last days.
Those who use flesh meats freely do not always have an unclouded brain and an active intellect, because the use of the flesh of animals tends to cause a grossness of body and to benumb the finer sensibilities of the mind. The liability to disease is increased by flesh eating. We do not hesitate to say that meat is not essential to the maintenance of health and strength. Counsels on Health (1923), page 115
Cancers, tumors, and all inflammatory diseases are largely caused by meat-eating. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 68
Those who indulge in meat eating, tea drinking, and gluttony are sowing seeds for a harvest of pain and death. The unhealthful food placed in the stomach strengthens the appetites that war against the soul, developing the lower propensities. A diet of flesh meat tends to develop animalism. A development of animalism lessens spirituality, rendering the mind incapable of understanding truth. Counsels on Health (1923), page 575
For some reason if you think its not that time yet to give up meat, eggs, and dairy then please read the next 2 statements below.
When will those who know the truth take their stand on the side of right principles for time and for eternity? When will they be true to the principles of health reform? When will they learn that it is dangerous to use flesh meat? I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating were safe, it is not safe now. Counsels on Diet and Foods (1938), page 384
I have been instructed that flesh-food has a tendency to animalize the nature, to rob men and women of that love and sympathy which they should feel for every one, and to give the lower passions control over the higher powers of the being. If meat-eating were ever healthful, it is not safe now. Cancers, tumors, and pulmonary diseases are largely caused by meat-eating. . . . Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 174
Hasn't most of this next statement already been fulfilled? Their are people who don't eat meat today and they are atheists, non-Christians, and all different type who have cut out some meat or all meat. And in most cases its not because of God they do it, but because of health reasons or cruelty to animal reasons, or other weird religious reasons that have nothing to do with clean or unclean animals. (Holy animals) If you don't believe me go to McDonalds and look at the vegetarian meals they offer. Actually try to find a restaurant that doesn't offer some kind of vegetarian meal. In the 1950s-1990s it was really hard to find a meal at a restaurant that had something for vegetarians.
A positive injury is done to the system by continuous meat-eating. There is no excuse for it but a depraved, perverted appetite. You may ask, would you do away entirely with meat-eating? I answer, it will eventually come to this, but we are not prepared for this step just now. Meat-eating will eventually be done away. The flesh of animals will no longer compose a part of our diet; and we shall look upon a butcher's shop with disgust. Again and again I have been shown that God is bringing His people back to His original design, that is not to subsist upon the flesh of dead animals. He would have us teach people a better way. Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods (1926), page 69
I want to make this clear. Just because you choose to continue to eat meat of any kind it doesn't mean you should be kicked out of the Church or dis fellowshipped. If this had happened to you it is wrong in the eyes of the Lord and in the eyes of the founding members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.
In her closing lines of the six-page communication, she wrote:
You may inquire, "What effect does this have upon you?" Sorrow only, sorrow of soul, but peace and perfect rest, and trust in Jesus. To vindicate myself, my position, or my mission, I would not utter ten words. I would not seek to give evidence of my work. "By their fruits ye
shall know them." She added, "We have never made meat eating a test of fellowship, never."--Letter 14, 1897.
This Page was only designed to open the eyes of those who are to busy to ready Ellen White's health visions. We hope it inspires you to read them in its entirety so you may have the Holy Spirit work on your heart. If you want or can't give up meat eating then we implore you to pray heavily on this subject due to the shortness of time we have on this Earth. Below is a scripture from the bible that explains what is clean and what is not clean,
what to eat what not to eat. We placed this in the page because we get a lot of new Adventists to this ministry and a lot of curious non Adventists.
If you must eat meat for whatever reason. Then please at least eat what the Bible ask of you to eat.
And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you: They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you. 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 ospray, And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; Every raven after his kind; And the owl, and the night hawk, and the 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.
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby. For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth: 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. LEV 11:1-47
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