Daily Bible Portion (Friday)
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"SEE"
(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Biblically Clean verses Unclean Foods
Did Yahweh Really Say Not To Eat This?
(Deuteronomy 14:1-21)
Because Yahweh has chosen believers as the place where He wishes to reside He teaches us how to keep His temple (us) clean and healthy. Yahweh’s teachings for His temple include what is safe for believers to eat and what is not safe. Unsafe things that Yahweh does not consider food will eventually harm His people if they persist in consuming it. This can trigger sickness and disease through disobedience. In Deuteronomy wisdom is passed on from Yahweh for our health and blessings that we might know how to live a full more abundant life. This brings the blessings and keeps the curses far away.
The animals Yahweh considers acceptable food for us to eat are to be animals that have a split hoof fully divided and that chews its cud. If one or both elements are missing that animal is not to be consumed - it is detestable for us and unclean. Eating it knowingly when we have been instructed against it opens the door to compromise. This will weaken our faith and eventually bring death upon us spiritually, emotionally and/or physically.
The animals Yahweh said are clean and good for our health are the ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goat, ibex, antelope and mountain sheep, for they have split hoofs and chew their cud. These are acceptable to eat.
The camel, rabbit, coney and pig are all unclean things for us to eat and are called detestable to Yahweh. He says they will harm us if we consume them. We are not to even touch their dead carcasses. The pig is the cheapest of all meats to produce and is one of the most consumed in the world today. Any attempt to share with some believers that bacon, sausages, salami, baloney, hot dogs, spareribs, and other pork products are not good for them and they will laugh, saying, “We are no longer under the law!” There is a reason why we are to obey our Father, He cares about our health and wants us to have a long life. Salvation is not the issue here, but obedience.
Consider the creatures living in the waters. Those that Yahweh says are good for our health are those that have both fins and scales. If they are missing one or both of these elements believers are not to consume them. They are not food for us. Those we may eat are fish like salmon, trout, halibut, tuna, etc. The water creatures that are detestable to Yahweh that are not food for us are prawns, lobster, crab, shrimp, clams, oysters, mussels, shark, squid, octopus, calamari etc. All of these are Yahweh’s army of water cleaners and purifiers, and are not fit for human consumption.
The clean birds like chicken and other domestic types are edible. However, the aggressive, scavenger meat eating birds like hawks, eagles, vultures, falcons, owls, herons and bats are not called food in Scripture and are not fit for human consumption.
Only the insects that are winged and have joints in their legs, like locust and grasshoppers, are food for us. Yum! (For a more complete list of clean and unclean Biblical foods see Leviticus Ch. 11).
If we find a clean animal already dead, like road kill, we are not to eat it. It is not fit for believers consumption.
Yahweh gives believers these instructions for our health. Disobeying His instructions opens the door to diseases that may even shorten our lives. Compare this to the full life that Yahweh has planned for us since the beginning of time. What we put into us physically and spiritually will affect us. The choice is ours. Who among us has innocently or knowingly eaten biblically unclean things after asking Yahweh to bless the meal? Are we in essence asking Yahweh to agree to contradict Himself and make the unclean thing clean? Many of us have done this in our past. Nevertheless, we cannot manipulate Yahweh’s Word to fit what we want to eat. It does not work that way.
Some believers say the food laws have been done away with now that Yeshua has fulfilled the law. What law did Yeshua fulfill? Does it have anything to do with His dietary laws given to Moses? No, it does not. Yeshua fulfilled the law of sin and death and became the sacrifice needed for our breaking His Royal Law. When we repent and walk in obedience to the Gospel death no longer has a legal hold on our lives. Fulfilling the law of sin and death is not a synonym for His dietary laws having been done away with. Rebelling against what Yeshua wrote in the Law of Life and eating what not to eat invites the law of sin and death (Satan’s realm) to activate in our lives. Disobedience still gives Satan that legal position to this day.
Yeshua has brought the Torah into its fullness, which brings life, but we as believers have a responsibility to walk in that provision. If we choose to knowingly walk against Yahweh’s instructions thinking that we have some immunity over Yahweh’s principles because we consider ourselves ‘under the blood of Yeshua,’ we mock Yahweh and put ourselves above His law.
Yeshua’s sacrifice means that we now have the power to walk in Yahweh’s Commandments, to overcome any temptation from the law of sin and death in our flesh, and no longer succumb to its uncleaniness. Eating unclean things can cause heart disease, cholesterol, high blood pressure and many other related diseases, and also open up the realm of the occult (Romans 7:7-8:17).
When we re-examine the food related Scriptures in the New Testament/Brit Chadasha, we discover many of them are about people using food as leverage for salvation, which Paul addresses and corrects. Another stumbling point due to the Hellenization teaching has been over Peter’s vision of a sheet (Yahweh’s Holy talet) descending from Heaven in Acts 10:9-48. The talet was full of clean and unclean animals. In Hebraic understanding, animals in Scripture are synonymous with people groups. The vision was not about food. Yahweh was instructing Peter, through a vivid parable, that he must not consider those who lived among the Nations (the remnant of Israel) as unclean (aperitome-not circumcised) when they have returned to Yahweh (akrobustia-circumcised G203). Scripture also says that those who walk in the ways of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Nations were to be considered native born and no longer strangers among us (akrobustia G203). These were now the people Peter walked with and taught. In Jewish culture, shunning the company of non-Jews was expected, so this vision given to Peter required a heart change for him to obey (John 4:9; 21:15-17; Acts 10: 9-28).
Yahweh says that believers are not to eat anything detestable to Him. The teaching of food is foundational in our desire to obey His Word/Gospel. If we obey the food instructions, we will obey His Sabbath, His Feasts and His Covenants. They go hand in hand.
Adding Is Forbidden
Boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was an occult practice from the nations. This is detestable in Yahweh’s sight. He forbade this for the well being of the mother goat and her offspring. Yahweh does not want this practiced in His family.
In Judaism, oral rabbinical law (coming from man and not Yahweh) has added hundreds of more laws called fences to Scripture in the belief that it would protect Torah from being defiled by man and also protect the Jewish people from persecution from the Nations who mocked Yahweh. One of these rabbinic laws was based on the Scripture above. They taught that cooking an offspring in its mother’s milk meant that people could not mix meat and dairy products together when cooking. In Genesis 18:7-8 however, we see that Abraham mixed meat (a calf) with dairy (curds and milk), and served these to the three messengers at Mamre. One of the visitors was the physical appearance of Yahweh in the flesh, Yeshua. As Yeshua and those with Him accepted and enjoyed Abraham’s banquet it proved that the food was in agreement with His principles as He would not violate or contradict His own word.
Yahweh warns us not to add to His Word. Rabbinic law dictates the separation of all dairy and meat products. It forbids mixing them in recipes or handling them together in the kitchen based on Deuteronomy 14:21. To keep dairy (milchig) and meat (fleshig) separate, rabbinical law advocates households have and use two separate sets of dishes, two sets of cutlery, two sets of serving pieces, two sets of pots, two sinks, two work areas and, if it is affordable, two stoves, two fridges, and two dishwashers - all this because Yahweh taught not to boil a baby animal in its mother’s milk.
Subtracting Is Forbidden
The Jewish people are not alone in adding man’s traditions to Yahweh’s Word. From a church background, man’s traditions have taken Yahweh’s food instructions for our health and blessings and abandoned them all together. No longer are the food laws taught or applied in people’s lives. Eating the detestable is seen as a delicacy and if Yahweh’s dietary teaching is mentioned people mock, saying, “they are no longer under the law.” Many who say this do not understand that the instructions regarding foods are there to bless and give health. Believers oftentimes join prayer lines in church for ailments that may have been caused by consuming unclean entities. Yahweh has asked us not to eat the detestable. We need to stop and ask ourselves, are we obeying man’s laws or Yahweh’s laws? Which ones bring life and which ones bring death? It is a matter of the heart.
The Jewish people have added to Yahweh’s Word and the Christian church has subtracted from His Word.
Tithe – The Covenant of Salt
(Deuteronomy 14:22 to 15:23)
The next area under blessings and curses is the teaching on the tithe. Tithes are for the Levites, widows, orphans and poor among us. The Levitical tithe was to maintain the temple. Believers are commanded to bring in our tithe or our tenth for Temple maintenance and for the Levites’ upkeep. The physical Temple no longer exists in Jerusalem. Today the Temple is in us. Our temple is maintained if we give our tenth to those who are true Levites/shepherds - those looking after Yeshua’s sheep according to His Word. This tithe is our deposit into our temple. A tenth is to be given on a regular basis (not sporadically) as a joyful offering.
The "Levites" today are those who have "joined" to Yahweh and teach a correct understanding of Yahweh’s Word to the people. The tithe was for the sole use of the Levites. According to Ezekiel 44, the tithe is to go to those who instruct on the clean and unclean, the holy and unholy, and who keep Yahweh’s decrees, appointed feasts and Sabbaths.
Do you wish to receive a blessing in your temple? Give the whole tithe! Scripture tells us to test Yahweh on this, and see if He will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that we will not have room for it! (Ezekiel 44:23-24; Leviticus 27; Numbers 18; Jeremiah 33:17-26; Matthew 9:27-28; Malachi 3:10).
It is interesting that after the tenth is given, the ninety percent portion that is left for our sole use is called most holy (Leviticus 2:3,10).
Giving freely and making sure the community is provided for brings joy. The more we care and give, the more we receive. The less we give, the less we receive. This is the principle of sowing and reaping into the Kingdom of Yahweh. Again we see blessings and curses. Faith brings the birthright (inheritance); obedience brings the blessing. This is called the law of reciprocation, which produces multiplication and provision in our lives.
Another consideration on tithes pertains to the biblical account of Abraham’s encounter with Melchizedek, the High Priest of Salem. Melchizedek brought out bread and wine to share with Abraham and Abraham then gave Melchizedek a tenth (tithe) of all he had received (Genesis 14:18-20).
This Scripture portrays prophetic imagery for us as we are Abraham’s seed. Melchizedek was a king and a priest, foreshadowing of Yeshua our High Priest, the Davidic Covenant and our position in His Kingdom. The priests handled the sacrifices for the burnt offerings as well as the meal offerings and the wine offerings. The sacrifice, bread and wine (free will offerings) were to be offered together and never be separated. This is why we see Melchizedek offering bread and wine to Abraham. Abraham also knew that these elements were to be offered with the tithe, which is why Abraham gave his tithe to Melchizedek. The tithe was called the Covenant of Salt and our holy portion (Numbers 18:19).
When we partake in the bread, the wine and the tithe, it confirms the Covenant and the sacrifice (of Yeshua/Jesus) within us. The bread, wine and tithes offered by Abraham and Melchizedek happened before the Abrahamic Covenant, before there was an Exodus from Egypt at the first Passover, and 400 years before the law/Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai. This reveals that these elements are eternal originating in the beginning before time (Genesis 14:18-20; 15: 4-20; Exodus 12:40; Galatians 3:7, 17, 29).
Continues Tomorrow...
"SEE"
(Weekly Reading>>Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17, Isaiah 44:11-45:5, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, 1 John 4:1-6)
Biblically Clean verses Unclean Foods
Did Yahweh Really Say Not To Eat This?
(Deuteronomy 14:1-21)
Because Yahweh has chosen believers as the place where He wishes to reside He teaches us how to keep His temple (us) clean and healthy. Yahweh’s teachings for His temple include what is safe for believers to eat and what is not safe. Unsafe things that Yahweh does not consider food will eventually harm His people if they persist in consuming it. This can trigger sickness and disease through disobedience. In Deuteronomy wisdom is passed on from Yahweh for our health and blessings that we might know how to live a full more abundant life. This brings the blessings and keeps the curses far away.
Psalm 38:3 “There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger, nor any health in my bones because of my [own] sin.”
The animals Yahweh considers acceptable food for us to eat are to be animals that have a split hoof fully divided and that chews its cud. If one or both elements are missing that animal is not to be consumed - it is detestable for us and unclean. Eating it knowingly when we have been instructed against it opens the door to compromise. This will weaken our faith and eventually bring death upon us spiritually, emotionally and/or physically.
The animals Yahweh said are clean and good for our health are the ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, roe deer, wild goat, ibex, antelope and mountain sheep, for they have split hoofs and chew their cud. These are acceptable to eat.
The camel, rabbit, coney and pig are all unclean things for us to eat and are called detestable to Yahweh. He says they will harm us if we consume them. We are not to even touch their dead carcasses. The pig is the cheapest of all meats to produce and is one of the most consumed in the world today. Any attempt to share with some believers that bacon, sausages, salami, baloney, hot dogs, spareribs, and other pork products are not good for them and they will laugh, saying, “We are no longer under the law!” There is a reason why we are to obey our Father, He cares about our health and wants us to have a long life. Salvation is not the issue here, but obedience.
Consider the creatures living in the waters. Those that Yahweh says are good for our health are those that have both fins and scales. If they are missing one or both of these elements believers are not to consume them. They are not food for us. Those we may eat are fish like salmon, trout, halibut, tuna, etc. The water creatures that are detestable to Yahweh that are not food for us are prawns, lobster, crab, shrimp, clams, oysters, mussels, shark, squid, octopus, calamari etc. All of these are Yahweh’s army of water cleaners and purifiers, and are not fit for human consumption.
The clean birds like chicken and other domestic types are edible. However, the aggressive, scavenger meat eating birds like hawks, eagles, vultures, falcons, owls, herons and bats are not called food in Scripture and are not fit for human consumption.
Only the insects that are winged and have joints in their legs, like locust and grasshoppers, are food for us. Yum! (For a more complete list of clean and unclean Biblical foods see Leviticus Ch. 11).
If we find a clean animal already dead, like road kill, we are not to eat it. It is not fit for believers consumption.
Yahweh gives believers these instructions for our health. Disobeying His instructions opens the door to diseases that may even shorten our lives. Compare this to the full life that Yahweh has planned for us since the beginning of time. What we put into us physically and spiritually will affect us. The choice is ours. Who among us has innocently or knowingly eaten biblically unclean things after asking Yahweh to bless the meal? Are we in essence asking Yahweh to agree to contradict Himself and make the unclean thing clean? Many of us have done this in our past. Nevertheless, we cannot manipulate Yahweh’s Word to fit what we want to eat. It does not work that way.
Some believers say the food laws have been done away with now that Yeshua has fulfilled the law. What law did Yeshua fulfill? Does it have anything to do with His dietary laws given to Moses? No, it does not. Yeshua fulfilled the law of sin and death and became the sacrifice needed for our breaking His Royal Law. When we repent and walk in obedience to the Gospel death no longer has a legal hold on our lives. Fulfilling the law of sin and death is not a synonym for His dietary laws having been done away with. Rebelling against what Yeshua wrote in the Law of Life and eating what not to eat invites the law of sin and death (Satan’s realm) to activate in our lives. Disobedience still gives Satan that legal position to this day.
Yeshua has brought the Torah into its fullness, which brings life, but we as believers have a responsibility to walk in that provision. If we choose to knowingly walk against Yahweh’s instructions thinking that we have some immunity over Yahweh’s principles because we consider ourselves ‘under the blood of Yeshua,’ we mock Yahweh and put ourselves above His law.
Yeshua’s sacrifice means that we now have the power to walk in Yahweh’s Commandments, to overcome any temptation from the law of sin and death in our flesh, and no longer succumb to its uncleaniness. Eating unclean things can cause heart disease, cholesterol, high blood pressure and many other related diseases, and also open up the realm of the occult (Romans 7:7-8:17).
When we re-examine the food related Scriptures in the New Testament/Brit Chadasha, we discover many of them are about people using food as leverage for salvation, which Paul addresses and corrects. Another stumbling point due to the Hellenization teaching has been over Peter’s vision of a sheet (Yahweh’s Holy talet) descending from Heaven in Acts 10:9-48. The talet was full of clean and unclean animals. In Hebraic understanding, animals in Scripture are synonymous with people groups. The vision was not about food. Yahweh was instructing Peter, through a vivid parable, that he must not consider those who lived among the Nations (the remnant of Israel) as unclean (aperitome-not circumcised) when they have returned to Yahweh (akrobustia-circumcised G203). Scripture also says that those who walk in the ways of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Nations were to be considered native born and no longer strangers among us (akrobustia G203). These were now the people Peter walked with and taught. In Jewish culture, shunning the company of non-Jews was expected, so this vision given to Peter required a heart change for him to obey (John 4:9; 21:15-17; Acts 10: 9-28).
Micah 2:12 “I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob [all twelve tribes]; I will surely bring together the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in its pasture; the place will throng with people.”
Acts 10:28 Peter said, “But God has shown me [through the animals in the sheet/talet], that I should not call any man impure or unclean.”
Acts 10:28 Peter said, “But God has shown me [through the animals in the sheet/talet], that I should not call any man impure or unclean.”
Yahweh says that believers are not to eat anything detestable to Him. The teaching of food is foundational in our desire to obey His Word/Gospel. If we obey the food instructions, we will obey His Sabbath, His Feasts and His Covenants. They go hand in hand.
Adding Is Forbidden
Deuteronomy 14:21 “Do not to cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Boiling a kid in its mother’s milk was an occult practice from the nations. This is detestable in Yahweh’s sight. He forbade this for the well being of the mother goat and her offspring. Yahweh does not want this practiced in His family.
In Judaism, oral rabbinical law (coming from man and not Yahweh) has added hundreds of more laws called fences to Scripture in the belief that it would protect Torah from being defiled by man and also protect the Jewish people from persecution from the Nations who mocked Yahweh. One of these rabbinic laws was based on the Scripture above. They taught that cooking an offspring in its mother’s milk meant that people could not mix meat and dairy products together when cooking. In Genesis 18:7-8 however, we see that Abraham mixed meat (a calf) with dairy (curds and milk), and served these to the three messengers at Mamre. One of the visitors was the physical appearance of Yahweh in the flesh, Yeshua. As Yeshua and those with Him accepted and enjoyed Abraham’s banquet it proved that the food was in agreement with His principles as He would not violate or contradict His own word.
Yahweh warns us not to add to His Word. Rabbinic law dictates the separation of all dairy and meat products. It forbids mixing them in recipes or handling them together in the kitchen based on Deuteronomy 14:21. To keep dairy (milchig) and meat (fleshig) separate, rabbinical law advocates households have and use two separate sets of dishes, two sets of cutlery, two sets of serving pieces, two sets of pots, two sinks, two work areas and, if it is affordable, two stoves, two fridges, and two dishwashers - all this because Yahweh taught not to boil a baby animal in its mother’s milk.
Subtracting Is Forbidden
The Jewish people are not alone in adding man’s traditions to Yahweh’s Word. From a church background, man’s traditions have taken Yahweh’s food instructions for our health and blessings and abandoned them all together. No longer are the food laws taught or applied in people’s lives. Eating the detestable is seen as a delicacy and if Yahweh’s dietary teaching is mentioned people mock, saying, “they are no longer under the law.” Many who say this do not understand that the instructions regarding foods are there to bless and give health. Believers oftentimes join prayer lines in church for ailments that may have been caused by consuming unclean entities. Yahweh has asked us not to eat the detestable. We need to stop and ask ourselves, are we obeying man’s laws or Yahweh’s laws? Which ones bring life and which ones bring death? It is a matter of the heart.
Deuteronomy 12:32 “See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it” (Deuteronomy 4:2)
Revelation 22:18-19 "I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book."
The Jewish people have added to Yahweh’s Word and the Christian church has subtracted from His Word.
Matthew 5:17-19 Yeshua said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Hebrews 13:8 “Yeshua is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Tithe – The Covenant of Salt
(Deuteronomy 14:22 to 15:23)
The next area under blessings and curses is the teaching on the tithe. Tithes are for the Levites, widows, orphans and poor among us. The Levitical tithe was to maintain the temple. Believers are commanded to bring in our tithe or our tenth for Temple maintenance and for the Levites’ upkeep. The physical Temple no longer exists in Jerusalem. Today the Temple is in us. Our temple is maintained if we give our tenth to those who are true Levites/shepherds - those looking after Yeshua’s sheep according to His Word. This tithe is our deposit into our temple. A tenth is to be given on a regular basis (not sporadically) as a joyful offering.
The "Levites" today are those who have "joined" to Yahweh and teach a correct understanding of Yahweh’s Word to the people. The tithe was for the sole use of the Levites. According to Ezekiel 44, the tithe is to go to those who instruct on the clean and unclean, the holy and unholy, and who keep Yahweh’s decrees, appointed feasts and Sabbaths.
Do you wish to receive a blessing in your temple? Give the whole tithe! Scripture tells us to test Yahweh on this, and see if He will not open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that we will not have room for it! (Ezekiel 44:23-24; Leviticus 27; Numbers 18; Jeremiah 33:17-26; Matthew 9:27-28; Malachi 3:10).
It is interesting that after the tenth is given, the ninety percent portion that is left for our sole use is called most holy (Leviticus 2:3,10).
Giving freely and making sure the community is provided for brings joy. The more we care and give, the more we receive. The less we give, the less we receive. This is the principle of sowing and reaping into the Kingdom of Yahweh. Again we see blessings and curses. Faith brings the birthright (inheritance); obedience brings the blessing. This is called the law of reciprocation, which produces multiplication and provision in our lives.
Another consideration on tithes pertains to the biblical account of Abraham’s encounter with Melchizedek, the High Priest of Salem. Melchizedek brought out bread and wine to share with Abraham and Abraham then gave Melchizedek a tenth (tithe) of all he had received (Genesis 14:18-20).
This Scripture portrays prophetic imagery for us as we are Abraham’s seed. Melchizedek was a king and a priest, foreshadowing of Yeshua our High Priest, the Davidic Covenant and our position in His Kingdom. The priests handled the sacrifices for the burnt offerings as well as the meal offerings and the wine offerings. The sacrifice, bread and wine (free will offerings) were to be offered together and never be separated. This is why we see Melchizedek offering bread and wine to Abraham. Abraham also knew that these elements were to be offered with the tithe, which is why Abraham gave his tithe to Melchizedek. The tithe was called the Covenant of Salt and our holy portion (Numbers 18:19).
When we partake in the bread, the wine and the tithe, it confirms the Covenant and the sacrifice (of Yeshua/Jesus) within us. The bread, wine and tithes offered by Abraham and Melchizedek happened before the Abrahamic Covenant, before there was an Exodus from Egypt at the first Passover, and 400 years before the law/Torah was given to Moses at Mount Sinai. This reveals that these elements are eternal originating in the beginning before time (Genesis 14:18-20; 15: 4-20; Exodus 12:40; Galatians 3:7, 17, 29).
Continues Tomorrow...