Daily Bible Portion (Thursday)
Daily Bible Portion - 5 of 7
"EIGHTH"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 9:1-11:47, 2 Samuel 6:1-19,Mark 7:1-23, Acts 5:1-11, Acts 10:1-35, 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1, Galatians 2:11-16, 1 Peter 1:14-16)
Testing
There has only been one reported testing of GMO on humans in the fifteen years it has been on the market. A well known crusader and spokesman for exposing GMO is Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception asks the question:
"Although it's never been studied, what happens IF the gene that produces the Bt toxin transfers to the bacteria living inside your intestines like it happen with the soy products? If that happens it might turn our intestinal bacteria into a living pesticide factory continuously producing the Bt toxin inside our intestines."
In 2011 a new study out of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, recently found Bt toxin in human blood samples for the first time. This study revealed that Bt toxin showed up in 93% women's reproductive systems, 80% fetal blood samples and that 69% non-pregnant women tested positive for the toxin in their blood. These women involved in the study had been consuming a typical Canadian diet, likened to the US, which is riddled with GMO material and toxins. Conventional soy, corn, canola, and potato products, for example, are in many of the foods eaten in both the US and Canada, which explains why Bt toxin was highly prevalent in the women's blood samples.
Other GMO News
It is remarkable to note that in 2011, a well-known philanthropist Bill Gates bought 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock reasoning that it would help the African's food shortage. When GMO products originally came on the market fifteen years ago Africa was one of the first to reject this corrupted seed stating they would rather die of starvation than infect their indigenous crops and poison their people, rivers, and land. Now that Monsanto has Mr. Gates the Africans may not have a choice.
Today, no genetically engineered crops are permitted for sale in the European Union.
God has good news for us. In His word He instructs us: "do not sow your field with mixed seed" (Leviticus 19:19). This means do not consume that which is produced from mixed seed either. Our bodies are formed to process only the whole natural foods from pure seed that God created for us. They were not created to process chemicals, mixed seed, processed foods or anything that is not called food for us in His Word. To go against His instructions would be eating from the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and will lead to death. God commands us not to mix clean(holy) with unclean(profane. We will not find a GMO product at His banquet table.
As Jesus calls us priests, He asks us to be wise and discerning in our choices especially about the foods we consume. We have one body, which is remarkable. Thankfully we have the instructions for its care. There is no need to go into fear over what we are learning but we need to be discerning. As believers, we need to be wise, choose life and uphold God's instructions. Those who obey His word receive His blessings. (Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 28; Hosea 4:6).
Do Not Mix
(Clean Versus Unclean)
God put on the earth specific clean foods for human consumption and specific unclean species not fit for human consumption. The unclean species are not called "food" anywhere in Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Theses unclean varieties are designed in such a way as to keep the world clean. They are God's cleaning crews of vacuum cleaners, garbage disposals and water purifiers intended to keep His environment clean. They are just as their name entails "unclean." If we were to eat them it would be as if we were eating the contents of vacuum cleaners, garbage bags and water filters full of contaminants, chemicals, urine, feces, dead tissue and bacteria and whatever else these things were created to clean up in the zones they were designed for. They are dirty, unsanitary, polluters and full of parasites, worms and diseases. If eaten, this is what we put into our bodies.
So why put all this into our bodies? Ever questioned why people get sick? First check out the diet (physically and emotionally). When Scripture mentions food it is always in reference to what Yahweh considers food. Any-thing else is not to be consumed regardless of what man determines is 'food' as dictated by his society or culture. The reason God taught us His guidelines is to make sure we would always know the way to life, what would sustain that life and how keep us healthy.
Keeping Our Tabernacle Clean: Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden(Leviticus 3:17; 7:22-27)
Animal fat is a saturated fat that when eaten, clogs arteries, which is the number one cause of heart disease and heart failure in the world today. Fat causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes, diabetes, obesity and various cancers. Over time, continual consumption of animal fat we will cause our bodies to fail before we have reached a full life span.
This is such an important issue for the priesthood of Christ to follow. Fat and blood mentioned together in Leviticus represent not only physical fat but also what produces destruction in our body spiritually. Thoughts can poison our bodies by triggering over-secretions of chemicals within us that lead to a chemical imbalance, which in turn can produce physical fat. Fear, stress and anxiety - as well as all improper thoughts and emotions – may result in behaviors that cause obesity, disease and cancers in our bodies. So when Scripture instructs us not to eat fat or blood, it not only speaks of the physical abstinence of fat and blood, but also spiritual, emotional, psychological and verbal health. This instruction is to bless us and give us a long life. If we bring contamination into our temples, sickness, disease and even death may result.
Obedience brings the blessings. What we put in our bodies is the key to the priesthood. Jesus's priesthood will be a holy priesthood that serves Him in His Holy Temple. If the people of Christ disregard His teaching of a fat and blood, is this the Bride our Groom will return for? One living in willful disobedience to His instructions? To see how important this is to God as we continue through Leviticus, it is significant to note that every time fat and blood are mentioned; the instructions for the priesthood are mentioned directly following. There should be no distinction between what we physically or spiritually put into us that might defile us. As the priesthood of Jesus(Yeshua), every aspect of us is to be clean, holy and pure before Him.
The life of the animal is in the lifeblood. Blood is both life-giving and is a part of the body's cleaning system. It not only takes the life source to the animal, but also works like a filter taking out toxins and garbage from the kidneys, skin, bowels, and lungs, along with that which makes up the waste products. Thus the blood is rendered unclean for human consumption. If we eat meat with the lifeblood in it, we are eating – also called drinking in Scripture– the very life of that animal along with the animal's characteristics including its behavior.
If an animal has been raised in an inhumane environment, as many are, any subsequent characteristics, viruses or diseases the animal may have picked up are also in the meat. Many hormones and chemicals are given to the animals when they are young that stay with them for life, and therefore are also in the meat. We literally consume all of this and more when we eat unauthorized species or meats with blood still in it. Sadly, this can open the door to the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.
Addiction like ****ography, gaming, alcohol, drugs etc. are all called worshiping the high places in the Bible. It is in epidemic proportions today with the help of the Internet and new technology including smart phones, tablets, apps, the media, movies, magazines and much more. These outside influences are gaining new acceptable status in a society without God or His word, and among believers. We are not saying that media and electronic devices are evil but when they feed a hypnotic addiction into a fantasy world through vivid games and graphics that is choosing a false mixed world (seed) to influence and control our minds. Even our children are consumed with all this electronic entertainment. We tend to justify it by saying how educational it is but how can we if children spend more time isolated in front of these devises than spending one on one time with their parents or interacting with others outside exploring God's Creation.
In a past report from Focus on the Family, Dr. James Dobson reported that when a popular Christian conference comes to town the hotels report a surge of X-rated movies viewed during that time period. One speaker shared that of the 25,000 men at one conference, approximately half the men came forward to repent for cheating on their wives. Blood in the meat can directly affect a person's sexual drive and appetite. Sexual sin passes on to the third and fourth generations through the sin of iniquity and is considered a community sin in the Bible that affects all Israel. Lust destroys; it is not love.
Consuming unclean entities and blood in the foods we eat are considered food offered to idols in pagan worship rituals. Pig was especially common as we see in the story of the Maccabees (1 and 2 Maccabees; Numbers 25:1-3). Pagan cults use blood in their feasts to get the desired results they wanted.
When blood is consumed it can open the door to the occult realm and unclean practices. Eyes linger a little longer on unclean subjects; aggressive behavior and anger become acceptable; defensive attitudes enter, and depressive and unclean thoughts are entertained. Along with these, the quality of life and associations change. Entering the unclean realm can eventually lead to occult involvement. A weakened spiritual walk can lose its passion and enthusiasm for God. Distractions and loss of interest will eventually separate a person's walk away from the life giver, Jesus. Touching the unclean realm makes us unclean. Do we desire to have a deeper walk and glean deeper revelations in His Word? Look into the diet; our diet reflects our spiritual condition. We are what we eat
continued tomorrow...
"EIGHTH"
(Weekly Reading>>Leviticus 9:1-11:47, 2 Samuel 6:1-19,Mark 7:1-23, Acts 5:1-11, Acts 10:1-35, 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1, Galatians 2:11-16, 1 Peter 1:14-16)
Testing
There has only been one reported testing of GMO on humans in the fifteen years it has been on the market. A well known crusader and spokesman for exposing GMO is Jeffrey Smith, author of Seeds of Deception asks the question:
"Although it's never been studied, what happens IF the gene that produces the Bt toxin transfers to the bacteria living inside your intestines like it happen with the soy products? If that happens it might turn our intestinal bacteria into a living pesticide factory continuously producing the Bt toxin inside our intestines."
In 2011 a new study out of the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, recently found Bt toxin in human blood samples for the first time. This study revealed that Bt toxin showed up in 93% women's reproductive systems, 80% fetal blood samples and that 69% non-pregnant women tested positive for the toxin in their blood. These women involved in the study had been consuming a typical Canadian diet, likened to the US, which is riddled with GMO material and toxins. Conventional soy, corn, canola, and potato products, for example, are in many of the foods eaten in both the US and Canada, which explains why Bt toxin was highly prevalent in the women's blood samples.
Other GMO News
It is remarkable to note that in 2011, a well-known philanthropist Bill Gates bought 500,000 shares of Monsanto stock reasoning that it would help the African's food shortage. When GMO products originally came on the market fifteen years ago Africa was one of the first to reject this corrupted seed stating they would rather die of starvation than infect their indigenous crops and poison their people, rivers, and land. Now that Monsanto has Mr. Gates the Africans may not have a choice.
Today, no genetically engineered crops are permitted for sale in the European Union.
God has good news for us. In His word He instructs us: "do not sow your field with mixed seed" (Leviticus 19:19). This means do not consume that which is produced from mixed seed either. Our bodies are formed to process only the whole natural foods from pure seed that God created for us. They were not created to process chemicals, mixed seed, processed foods or anything that is not called food for us in His Word. To go against His instructions would be eating from the forbidden Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and will lead to death. God commands us not to mix clean(holy) with unclean(profane. We will not find a GMO product at His banquet table.
As Jesus calls us priests, He asks us to be wise and discerning in our choices especially about the foods we consume. We have one body, which is remarkable. Thankfully we have the instructions for its care. There is no need to go into fear over what we are learning but we need to be discerning. As believers, we need to be wise, choose life and uphold God's instructions. Those who obey His word receive His blessings. (Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 28; Hosea 4:6).
1 John 2:15-17 "Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever."
Do Not Mix
(Clean Versus Unclean)
God put on the earth specific clean foods for human consumption and specific unclean species not fit for human consumption. The unclean species are not called "food" anywhere in Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Theses unclean varieties are designed in such a way as to keep the world clean. They are God's cleaning crews of vacuum cleaners, garbage disposals and water purifiers intended to keep His environment clean. They are just as their name entails "unclean." If we were to eat them it would be as if we were eating the contents of vacuum cleaners, garbage bags and water filters full of contaminants, chemicals, urine, feces, dead tissue and bacteria and whatever else these things were created to clean up in the zones they were designed for. They are dirty, unsanitary, polluters and full of parasites, worms and diseases. If eaten, this is what we put into our bodies.
So why put all this into our bodies? Ever questioned why people get sick? First check out the diet (physically and emotionally). When Scripture mentions food it is always in reference to what Yahweh considers food. Any-thing else is not to be consumed regardless of what man determines is 'food' as dictated by his society or culture. The reason God taught us His guidelines is to make sure we would always know the way to life, what would sustain that life and how keep us healthy.
Keeping Our Tabernacle Clean: Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden(Leviticus 3:17; 7:22-27)
Animal fat is a saturated fat that when eaten, clogs arteries, which is the number one cause of heart disease and heart failure in the world today. Fat causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, strokes, diabetes, obesity and various cancers. Over time, continual consumption of animal fat we will cause our bodies to fail before we have reached a full life span.
Leviticus 7:22-27 Yahweh told Moses to say to the Israelites: "Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats [Biblically clean animals]. The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it [i.e. road kill]. Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be made to Yahweh must be cut off from his people. And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people."
This is such an important issue for the priesthood of Christ to follow. Fat and blood mentioned together in Leviticus represent not only physical fat but also what produces destruction in our body spiritually. Thoughts can poison our bodies by triggering over-secretions of chemicals within us that lead to a chemical imbalance, which in turn can produce physical fat. Fear, stress and anxiety - as well as all improper thoughts and emotions – may result in behaviors that cause obesity, disease and cancers in our bodies. So when Scripture instructs us not to eat fat or blood, it not only speaks of the physical abstinence of fat and blood, but also spiritual, emotional, psychological and verbal health. This instruction is to bless us and give us a long life. If we bring contamination into our temples, sickness, disease and even death may result.
Obedience brings the blessings. What we put in our bodies is the key to the priesthood. Jesus's priesthood will be a holy priesthood that serves Him in His Holy Temple. If the people of Christ disregard His teaching of a fat and blood, is this the Bride our Groom will return for? One living in willful disobedience to His instructions? To see how important this is to God as we continue through Leviticus, it is significant to note that every time fat and blood are mentioned; the instructions for the priesthood are mentioned directly following. There should be no distinction between what we physically or spiritually put into us that might defile us. As the priesthood of Jesus(Yeshua), every aspect of us is to be clean, holy and pure before Him.
The life of the animal is in the lifeblood. Blood is both life-giving and is a part of the body's cleaning system. It not only takes the life source to the animal, but also works like a filter taking out toxins and garbage from the kidneys, skin, bowels, and lungs, along with that which makes up the waste products. Thus the blood is rendered unclean for human consumption. If we eat meat with the lifeblood in it, we are eating – also called drinking in Scripture– the very life of that animal along with the animal's characteristics including its behavior.
If an animal has been raised in an inhumane environment, as many are, any subsequent characteristics, viruses or diseases the animal may have picked up are also in the meat. Many hormones and chemicals are given to the animals when they are young that stay with them for life, and therefore are also in the meat. We literally consume all of this and more when we eat unauthorized species or meats with blood still in it. Sadly, this can open the door to the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life.
Addiction like ****ography, gaming, alcohol, drugs etc. are all called worshiping the high places in the Bible. It is in epidemic proportions today with the help of the Internet and new technology including smart phones, tablets, apps, the media, movies, magazines and much more. These outside influences are gaining new acceptable status in a society without God or His word, and among believers. We are not saying that media and electronic devices are evil but when they feed a hypnotic addiction into a fantasy world through vivid games and graphics that is choosing a false mixed world (seed) to influence and control our minds. Even our children are consumed with all this electronic entertainment. We tend to justify it by saying how educational it is but how can we if children spend more time isolated in front of these devises than spending one on one time with their parents or interacting with others outside exploring God's Creation.
In a past report from Focus on the Family, Dr. James Dobson reported that when a popular Christian conference comes to town the hotels report a surge of X-rated movies viewed during that time period. One speaker shared that of the 25,000 men at one conference, approximately half the men came forward to repent for cheating on their wives. Blood in the meat can directly affect a person's sexual drive and appetite. Sexual sin passes on to the third and fourth generations through the sin of iniquity and is considered a community sin in the Bible that affects all Israel. Lust destroys; it is not love.
Consuming unclean entities and blood in the foods we eat are considered food offered to idols in pagan worship rituals. Pig was especially common as we see in the story of the Maccabees (1 and 2 Maccabees; Numbers 25:1-3). Pagan cults use blood in their feasts to get the desired results they wanted.
When blood is consumed it can open the door to the occult realm and unclean practices. Eyes linger a little longer on unclean subjects; aggressive behavior and anger become acceptable; defensive attitudes enter, and depressive and unclean thoughts are entertained. Along with these, the quality of life and associations change. Entering the unclean realm can eventually lead to occult involvement. A weakened spiritual walk can lose its passion and enthusiasm for God. Distractions and loss of interest will eventually separate a person's walk away from the life giver, Jesus. Touching the unclean realm makes us unclean. Do we desire to have a deeper walk and glean deeper revelations in His Word? Look into the diet; our diet reflects our spiritual condition. We are what we eat
2 Corinthians 6:16 "What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God/Elohim."
Ezekiel 33:24-26 "Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was only one, and he inherited the land. But we are many; the land has been given to us as a possession.' Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: You eat meat with blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land? You rely on your sword, you commit abominations, and you defile one another's wives. Should you then possess the land?'"
continued tomorrow...
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