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Genesis 9:1 - 9:29   Pages 1-8

 

The last Chapter of Genesis 8 ended with Noah, his family, and all others aboard the Ark, leaving out of it, and going forth to 'replenish' the earth. Noah then built an altar unto God, and held an animal sacrifice to our Father, and He then gave a Promise that He would no more 'curse the ground any more for man's sake', as He had done in the past (Gen.8:21-22).
     If you have understood about that time 'of old', before the flesh time of even the man Adam, God was referring to both destructions of the earth by water; i.e. the time of the first age when Lucifer rebelled, and this time of Noah.
     We now continue with the time of Noah in Genesis Chapter 9, as we ask a Word of Wisdom from our Father in Christ's Precious Name, Amen.

Gen 9:1   And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

     This is a Command by God to re-establish their dwelling upon His earth.

Gen 9:2   And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

     This means God gave man the ability to out think the animal kingdom, by wisdom and knowledge. That of course, means using common sense. If someone goes out and tries to walk right in the midst of a pack of wild wolves, or bears, that's not using the wisdom God provided man.

Gen 9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.

     If you'll remember back to Genesis 1:29-30, nothing about eating 'flesh' meat is given there for man, but the green herb instead. This phrase 'even as the green herb' recalls what God gave man to eat back in those verses of Gen.1:29-30, before this flood of Noah's time. Now flesh meat is given also, for meat. Deut.14 gives a list of the 'clean' meats which are to be received. There is also a Message in...

 1 Tim.4:3-5 that the eating of meats to be received is not to be forbidden by others who think all should abstain.

Nothing wrong with vegetarian diet, but we are not to condemn others for not doing likewise. One thing is for sure; our flesh body will tell us if we've eaten the wrong foods.
     Don't let this confuse you about the 'hunter', of Genesis 1, etc. Yes man ate flesh animal meat before this time. This also involves the letting of blood for animal sacrifice. See also Isa.11 as compared with Gen.1:29-30. Note that this is the first time written as a Command by God for to eat animal flesh.

Gen 9:4   But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

     Deuteronomy 12:23 is a bit more specific about not eating the blood:

Deut 12:23   Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

     To eat (drink) blood is to 'eat the life with the flesh'.

 

Lev.17:14: For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eat it shall be cut off.

 

 

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