🌲Pine Frost🌲 (@PineFrost)

In the law of Moses, the dietary laws set forth in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 was a list of clean animals that were acceptable to present *as sacrifices to a priest*. Meat was only ever eaten when it was presented to a priest, who were the only qualified butchers. You could have gotten exiled and cut off from your people if you were caught butchering meat by yourself (Leviticus 17:1–5). Under the sacrificial system, it was required for meat to be butchered a certain way. The person presenting the sacrifice had to place its head on the animal as the priest slit its throat (Leviticus 1:3-5; 3:1-2, 8, 13; 4:4, 15, 24, etc.) The kidneys and liver of the animal had to be placed on the altar, and the blood and fat had to be drained to the best of the priest's ability (Leviticus 3:3-5, 9-11, 14-16; 4:8-10; 7:3-4), then the priest had to boil or roast the meat thoroughly (Leviticus 6:26-28; 8:31) to ensure that the blood was cooked out, and it can be inferred that it was probably cooked extra well-done. The whole point of this, especially with a sin offering, was supposed to inflict guilt on the sinner offering the sacrifice, having to slaughter an animal that he raised, and then eating it in order to shorten his life span, as meat consumption releases oxidative stress that damages the DNA, among other things. It was an allusion to the golden calf event where Moses ground up the idol into dust, put it into the water, and made the Hebrews drink it in order to shorten our lifespans via heavy metal toxicity to punish them for their sin against God. It's not like the priests were cooking juicy, medium-rare steaks with salt, pepper, and other seasonings and spices, topping it with A1 steak sauce and parsley. The pieces of meat that they were eating were probably bland, tasteless, and undesirable to eat. This combined with the law's strict mandates on butchering was clearly designed to deter them from wanting to eat meat in order to deter them from wanting to sin. Genesis tells us that God reduced the human lifespan to 120 years after the Flood. If we’re not living up to that age, or close to it, then we are doing something wrong. The Bible says in two places not to consume blood (Genesis 9:4, Deuteronomy 12:16). Consider that where there are blood cells present, there is blood. If you were to do the same as the priests did and drain the blood and fat to the best of your ability, and then cook your steak until it is burnt, the blood cells would still be present in the meat, only they would be warped and charred making them cancerous. So the only way to fulfill the law is to just abstain from meat altogether. Due to the fact that the meat sold at the grocery stores is not processed and butchered according to the Torah's mandates, the fact that it's not butchered by a priest indicates that even the "clean" animals are unclean to eat. The Aaronic priesthood doesn't exist anymore, so that means we are not supposed to be eating meat at all. Given that all the meat today still contains its blood, is pumped with hormones and chemicals and is slaughtered from animals who are fed genetically modified soy feed makes it not just all unclean, but *abominable*. > [Deuteronomy 14:3] Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing. As for Matthew 15 and Mark 7, says in Matthew 15, “*Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man,*” this is by no means an allowance to eat anything we want. Earlier in that chapter (v. 3), he asks the Jews “Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?” So, in the context of the passage, it is implied that Yahshua was already obeying the Law, and certainly wouldn’t give us permission to eat whatever we want, especially what was forbidden by God in his law, for God “does not change” (Malachi 3:6) That fact that Jesus had to ask his disciples, “Are ye also yet without understanding?” meant that they didn’t understand this parable and had to have it explained to them. This means that Christians, who have *much less* understanding than the apostles, don’t understand it at all, yet pretend like they know how to interpret the passage in which they claim that Jesus was doing away with the Law’s dietary restrictions. This is absurd considering in the same chapter, Matthew 15, verse 3, Jesus asks the Pharisees, “why do you forsake the Law for your own tradition?” which implies that Jesus was already obedient to the Law, and could not have possibly been doing away with it, much less the dietary prohibitions. This is actually a bearing of false witness against Jesus, and a hostile contradiction to Matthew 5:17-18 where Jesus said that the Law is still in effect “until Heaven and Earth pass away,” which obviously has not happened yet. Because the Pharisees were criticizing the apostles for eating with unwashed hands, Jesus is explaining that any dirt that is ingested is not going to defile them, but what comes out of the mouth comes from his heart is what defiles him, which consist evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. The thought of depriving an animal from its life is an *evil thought*. The act of killing an animal is *murder*. The act of eating what God did not intend for you to eat is to *adulterate* your body. *Whoring* is to eat food sacrificed to idols, considering that we are supposed to be the “bride” of God, and in the ancient world, meat was the common food that was sacrificed to idols. *Theft* accounts for milk and eggs being stolen from cows and chickens, as well as to the Temple practice of sacrifice (cf. “den of robbers”). *False witness* is to allege that Jesus taught what he did not, and blasphemy goes along with the false witness. The narrative in Mark 7:19 “He declared all foods clean” is not found in any of the Greek manuscripts or in the King James Version or the other English translations that predate it. This narrative was clearly manually inserted to suit translators’ bias. What doesn’t make any sense is when the NASB reads the passage as “because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?” (Thus He declared all foods clean.) We all know that food is not eliminated in the stomach, but is expelled through the bowels! The ASV and the ERV actually render the narrative “This he said, making all meats clean” when the word that is used in the Greek is *bromata*, which means “food” and not “meat,” otherwise the word used there in Greek would be *krea*. Let’s quote the Greek with the word-for-word meaning of Mark 7 > ὅτι [because] οὐκ [not] εἰσπορεύεται [(what) enters] αὐτοῦ [(of) him/it] εἰς [into] τὴν [the] καρδίαν [heart/mind/character] ἀλλ’ [but] εἰς [into] τὴν [the] κοιλίαν [abdominal organ] καὶ [and] εἰς [into] τὸν [the] ἀφεδρῶνα [draught/drain/latrine] ἐκπορεύεται [expels (itself)] καθαρίζων [purifying] πάντα [all] τὰ [the] βρώματα [food] > “Because it enters him not into the heart/mind/character, but into the stomach and into the intestines, (where it) is expelled—purifying all the food.” What Jesus is addressing here is that any dirt that gets transferred onto your food from your unwashed hands is not going to defile you because the body purges it out through digestion, but whatever is “ingested” by the *mind* has the capacity to defile you. This is probably the strongest metaphor in Scripture; Jesus is comparing the Pharisees’ vain inquiry to *shit*, right in this context which Christians like to use to justify their dismissal of God’s Law and breaking it! What you put into your stomach has proceeded from murder, then what comes out of your character is the murderous intent is exactly what the defilement is! > [Hebrews 9:25-26] Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. As long as you keep butchering (sacrificing) animals (to the idol of your stomach), then you fail to recognize that Jesus' sacrifice was the final sacrifice once and for all, and you commit idolatry. #meat #steak #sacrifices #Moses #Jesus #idolatry