The Right Way To Obey God. Part [9] 01/11/2025 (Morning thought)

Leviticus 11:The swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he chews not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall you not eat, and their carcass shall you not touch; they are unclean to you.

African swine fever is a contagious and deadly viral swine disease affecting domestic and feral swine of all ages. Pseudorabies is a contagious disease that primarily affects swine but it can also affect cattle, sheep, cats goats, and dogs. It is particularly devastating to breeding sows and piglets. In adult pigs, the disease causes abortion and stillbirths, respiratory problems, and occasionally death. In newborn pigs, it attacks the respiratory and central nervous systems causing incoordination, sneezing, coughing, and death.

Foot and mouth disease virus, Pseudorabies virus, Influenza A virus, Nipah virus, Ebola-Restin, Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, PRRS virus (Chinese high path), PRRS virus, Porcine Tescho-virus, (Teschen/PTV1), Japanese encephalitis virus, Getah virus. Transmissible gastroenteritis virus, Menangle virus, Porcine Sapelo-virus, Porcine circovirus, Circovirus 3 Porcine rotavirus, Swine vesicular disease virus, Vesicular exanthema of swine virus, Porcine rubulavirus, Seneca-virus A, Porcine parvovirus, Porcine delta-coronavirus, Porcine para-influenza 1 virus.

Compare or contrast all of the vast information we just discovered, with the simple command and the statement coming from God to us: Do not eat them, they are unclean unto you. If we cultivate the scientific approach to obedience God will have us understand that persons would be obeying the scientists and not God, for we withheld obedience until the lab results verified His word. And therefore, for all intents and purposes, this will not be the type of obedience that God is looking for.

Leviticus 11:10 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: 11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; you shall not eat of their flesh, but you shall have their carcasses in abomination.

May The Lord add His blessing to the study of His word. Good bless!

The Right Way To Obey God. Part [8] 01/11/2025 (Evening thought)

Leviticus 11:46 This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth. 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 well the command: “Do not eat them” and the brief commentary by God: “He is unclean unto you” It certainly does not give much science to hang your obedience upon, nor does it say what makes them unclean. Several important pieces of information are missing from the passages, and it is imperative that we now understand the reasons why. All the Lord says is that they are unclean, and that those items should never ever be eaten.

Jesus does not reveal the gory details; He does not mention in clear terms what diseases will accrue, or how these forbidden items would affect the nervous system of the human body in adverse ways, and He does not make mention of any medicines that could counter the deleterious effects. All God says is that we should never eat them, and that they are unclean, and entirely unfit for human consumption.

The question to be settled is whether we will take Him at His word and obey Him up front, or whether we will wait for science to confirm the facts in the case, before we believe. Just for the record, here is a list of the diseases that come about as a result of eating forbidden foods. It is the scientific discovery behind God’s commands, but not necessary for obeying God up front.

Leviticus 11:13 And these are they which you shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the osprey, 14 And the vulture, and the kite after his kind; 15 Every raven after his kind.

May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!