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Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." God blesses all these created in the flesh, and tells them to 'replenish' (fill) the earth, since the first earth age had become a 'ruin', and now this was the re-establishing of the second earth age, and all souls are to pass through the flesh once, being born of woman
Hebrew 9:27:’ And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement:’
All these blessings from God to these are dominion over the sea, fowl of the air, and every living thing upon the earth, but...nothing concerning a 'garden' until Gen.2:8. Gen 1:29 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. Notice these were given the fruit from 'every tree' for 'meat', i.e. food? We will discover that the specific 'Adam' (eth Ha Adham) placed in God's Eden was commanded not to eat from a particular tree in the midst of the 'garden'. This is another distinction between the 'adam' of Gen.1:26 and the 'Adam' of Gen.2:7. Notice that nothing has been said of farming, or tilling the soil. The food given here is in the 'field' of the world, not the 'garden of Eden', or 'paradise', where God dwelt on earth. Gen 1:30 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. Was flesh man possibly a vegetarian at this time? There's nothing here about eating animal meat, for the word 'meat' is 'oklah' in the Hebrew, meaning 'food' (Strong's 402). So also, the animals possibly were vegetarians. (You'll find in Isaiah 11 that in God's eternity, the bear will 'feed' like an ox, and the lion will eat straw.) This is where the idea of vegetarianism comes from. However, God gave man 'meat' for food, as we know it today, in Gen.9 after the flood of Noah's time. If you can be a vegetarian, fine, but eating 'clean' meats that God gave commandments for are fine also. Notice that I said 'clean' meats…
(See Deut.14 for an extensive list): That God gave us certain foods to eat, shunning others, is part of His Law, specifically His health Law. If you're starving and in order to survive, you have to eat an alligator, so be it. But, His health Law will not be fooled. The wrong food will cause you problems if you eat enough of it. Pork is the best example of this. It may taste good, but it 'isn't' healthy. This is why God gave us His Law. If you follow it, your life will benefit under a near perfect set of conditions for maintaining this flesh, and also gaining spiritual food for your soul. If we break His Law, we won't escape, for His Law is set up naturally in this earth's 'nature'. This is why so many create a miserable life for themselves, because they listen to the confusion of Satan's evil teachings dealing with the flesh, going against God's Law. He (Satan) well knows that God's Law will not be mocked, and if not followed, it will go against the 'nature' of even the flesh's creation. (That's right; God's Law still stands even today for us Christians, meaning only those ordinances which our Lord Jesus fulfilled upon the cross were done away with. See Colossians 2 and the Galatians studies.) |
