Acts 10:13

CLV ¹³ … “Rise, Peter! Sacrifice and eat!”

When God instructed Noah to eat meat, it was kosher meat. The cleansing of all meat meant the Gentiles could be brought into the Jewish body without becoming proselytes to their types. Converts had previously been required to swear allegiance to the old covenant law before entering the body of Moses. They had to promise not to contaminate the body. Even Noah could only bring the typically clean old covenant meat into his human body. Yet God told Peter to kill and eat the previously unclean meat of the Gentiles.

Rather than teach the Gentiles to obey the old kosher laws, as Peter was accustomed to, all of creation became clean. The Gentile body was not made of kosher meat, yet the new covenant instruction to Peter was not a concession for him to become unclean. It was a revelation to Peter, that all the nations were now kosher. Creation was being altogether changed. It was a covenant creation realization into maturation; out of the typical kosher diet and into kosher adulthood? The Holy Spirit essentially sanctified the new human body from within. The unholy spirits were not a part of the new creation. The new covenant became intrinsic in nature. The Holy Spirit sanctified and united all people groups in the new covenant church.

God’s people the Jews were being instructed to have communion with the Gentiles. Communion across nationalities was not being offered as an option. The sanctification of all creation was unstoppable. The new firstborn was actually fulfilling His great commission by ruling over all His creation. Jesus had already sacrificed His incorruptible Jewish life for the sake of His chosen people. Now Peter was being called on to sacrifice his old way of life for this new creation. Jesus was overruling Jewish presuppositions through Peter. He told Peter many years previously that He would be building His church through him. They were both in the old covenant then. Jesus commissioned all His Jewish disciples after His resurrection, into the new covenant. It would be many years after Pentecost before the Jews were finally urged to go international with their good news.

The Holy Spirit wasn’t breaking God’s typical laws by adding uncircumcised Gentiles to the circumcised body. The new body was no longer in the flesh. The same Holy Spirit Jesus sent to make His own nationality holy was now making all nationalities holy. The Holy Spirit circumcision that started operating in the hearts of the Jews was now operating in the hearts of the Gentiles too. Circumcision of the Jewish heart was the new covenant fulfillment of their law. The 12 tribes in the flesh had already taught their law to the nations. These Hebrew pre-evangelists were followed by the Jewish evangelists to the nations. This calling wasn’t presented to Peter as an option. God’s covenant people could no longer be racist. The Holy Spirit was adding Gentiles to the born again family of the Jews. It was given to all Israel to see it through.

New covenant Humanity even brings a marriage of sanctification to the willing yet unbelieving spouse within the Christian family. Sanctification is no longer by diet or by animal sacrifice or by exorcism of an unclean spirit. There are no unclean foods or unclean spirits in the new covenant body. Unclean spirits had invaded the old covenant body right before it’s demise. After Pentecost, even the unbelieving spouse who was willing to stay and enjoy the Christian family benefits was declared sanctified by the belief of the Christian spouse. The whole house is made holy because the Holy Spirit lives there. Some unbelievers are willing to stay married to believers and enjoy some of the benefits of humanity proper, without being born again by the Holy Spirit.

They won’t live forever, yet cooperation within humanity is good for both believers and unbelievers. The body is no longer contaminated because the unclean types no longer rule the body. The Holy Spirit sanctifies the body from within. Children raised by one believing parent are considered holy rather than unholy. The unbelieving spouse shares the good life of the believing spouse, until he or she dies. It’s the best an unbeliever can hope for. This is far from the modern day message of the most horrible news imaginable for all unbelievers. Get saved or burn in Hell forever isn’t even hinted at as the message to the unbelieving spouse. Stay and enjoy the human family till you die because then you will suffer for eternity is not the message here. 1 Corinthians 7:14 and John 3:16 do not say, be born again or suffer forever. The Holy Spirit does not scare people to life.

On resurrection day Jesus appeared to His disciples and said, Peace and receive the Holy Spirit, yet He did scare unbelieving Paul with an unusual appearance. Still Jesus said nothing about repent or burn forever in Hell. He simply asked Paul why he was working against the new covenant family. Jesus then put Paul on track to co-operate with the new covenant Jews. When Jesus did point the Jews to Gehenna, He spoke of death and destruction, not eternal torment. Burning to the age or into the age is not the same as eternal suffering. Jerusalem’s typical fires burned out after the old covenant ended. Old covenant Jerusalem was annihilated. Jesus said nothing about Jerusalem being resurrected so she can burn again. The church is the new Jerusalem.

1 Corinthians 7:14

YLT ¹⁴ for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

What kind of covenant blessing did Peter’s sheet vision point to? The Hebrews were already being sanctified by their covenant transition? Why add non-Jews to the Holy-Spirit-sanctified church? What kind of assembly was God building upon Peter and His Hebrew cofounders?

There are no Gentiles pictured in the foundation of the New Jerusalem, as envisioned by John the revelator. But their are 12 international gates opening all around the heavenly city. The 12 pearls from the sea indicated that the international gates were being opened by the 12 tribes in diaspora. The 12 tribes and 12 apostles are envisioned as the foundation of the new covenant city of Jerusalem. So why give any credence to the 19th century ‘revelation’ of Ellen G. White? She obviously contradicts the true revelation as given to Peter and John and Paul in the first century? She espoused vegetarianism as the more mature way to live today. The actual revelations from God guided His actual people through their actual covenant transition to the age of maturation, with abundantly more freedom, not less. Vegetarians represent an immature backsliding into the old covenant of types. Meat eating is for the mature who have come to understand the progress.

Seventh Day Adventists do have a good title for a new covenant people. Paul did envision an imminent new covenant advent that remained to be fulfilled for the first century Hebrews, who were about to inherit their salvation. Modern day Adventists produce a lot of typical “sabbath keepers” who are still awaiting the grand finale sabbatism, as promised to the first century Hebrews. Adventists also produce a lot of vegetarians, due to the visions of one of their founders. Ellen G. White taught the seventh Day Adventists that vegetarianism is the higher moral ground for the new covenant people of Yahweh to occupy. But Peter was taught that the new spirit-realm ‘kosher’ is the higher moral ground of the new covenant. Everyone in the new covenant is made clean by the essential operation of the Holy Spirit within. Birth into the family of Yahweh is itself sanctifying. Sanctification by way of vegification is not very effective or satisfying.

For Adventists however, Ellen’s dreams overrules what God had already revealed to Noah and Peter about meat. It doesn’t seem to matter that all meat was made clean by God and given to his people to eat in the typical last days of the old covenant. There is no typical diet for the typical diaspora in the new covenant realm. All God’s chosen ones live in the new Jerusalem that was coming down in the spirit realm. As Jacob was telling them in James 1:17, Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows [said Jesus’ brother Jacob to the 12 tribes in their transitional trials]. 

God hasn’t changed. He still requires sanctification to be in the new covenant. The body of Christ is the fulfillment of the sanctification of the family of humanity. Unbelievers never enter the new covenant place. Humanity proper was sanctified and is kept incorruptible by Yeshua, not by the continual sacrifice of clean animals, let alone the consumption of only veggies. Priests no longer approve of kosher animal sacrifices for the people of God to consume. All people in the (fully human/fully God) body of Christ were sanctified by His kosher body; once for all.

Ellen had a vision: of a worldwide flood that supposedly stored up that whole violent generation of Noah under the earth. Only Noah and the animals on board escaped from entering our modern storeroom of fossil fuels. Isn’t it then less than clean for a modern day Adventist vegetarian to cook his ‘morally superior’ vegetables with the fossil fuels made of the unclean and disobedient people and animals of Noah’s day? Unless God made the fossil fuels clean retroactively (when He made all the animals clean), the fuel we cook with is still unclean. According to Ellen, cooking veggies on gas stove is accomplished by bringing up the disobedient life forms from their ancient grave and burning them in order to cook my meal. If the energy to cook the veggies is the evil generation of Noah, then we certainly shouldn’t bake the communion bread in a natural gas or propane oven.

Real new testament communion is in the incorruptible body of Christ. His old covenant flesh body was sacrificed to unite us in the new covenant body that isn’t sullied by old covenant types. Inventing new typical food laws is surely a false revelation. If Ellen was a Christian, she was definitely an immature one. Her sanctification didn’t come from her veggies. Her typical regression was and is wrong.

Below is an excerpt from World History of Vegetarianism at Vegetarian Society website.

The influence of radical Christianity in the 19th Century was to give the cause of vegetarianism great impetus in Britain and the USA. Such groups were vegetarian fundamentalist Christians, with large congregations made up of the newly urbanized poor. Representatives who ventured away from Britain and vegetarian communes were evident in the USA in the 1830s, practiced among such groups as the Seventh Day Adventists. A notable practitioner of this religion was Dr John Harvey Kellogg, preacher and inventor of famous breakfast cereals.

Did Jewish Peter actually obey God and eat the food served to him when he ate with the Gentiles or was it just a symbolic revelation from a dream he had? Was it a righteous thing for Jewish Peter to bring non-kosher meats into his new covenant way of Jewish life? The word diet actually comes from the Greek word “diaita,” which means “way of life.” Did Peter really change his old way of life and start eating with Gentiles? Or did Peter take the moral ‘high ground’ and become a vegetarian after being instructed to eat the clean meat of the new and forever ‘kosher’ creation? Do Jews today still eat with Gentiles to prove that they have truly grown up and accepted all nationalities into their spiritually sanctified church body?

Jewish Paul confronted Jewish Peter about his so called ‘moral high ground’, when Peter reverted back to the types. Paul called it hypocrisy. Peter became guilty of an offense against Christ and His people for going back to his old kosher way of life (diaita). Peter fell back into his old covenant way of sanctification when the Jews from the first Christian church of Jerusalem came around. How did God’s chosen cofounders so quickly fall back into their old covenant diet (way of life)? Peer pressure? Jewish Paul was mature enough to stand up to Jewish Peter and the Jews from the church in Jerusalem, who still believed in their old covenant status by way of typical birth. Rebirth was pictured in 8th day circumcision, annual passover commemorations, first fruit, day of atonement and tabernacles. Typical rebirth became Holy Spirit rebirth. Who or what can sanctify more than the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit who sanctifies. The Holy Spirit of the new creation is the same Holy Spirit of the original typical creation.

Galatians 2:11-13

YLT ¹¹ And when Peter came to Antioch, to the face I stood up against him, because he was blameworthy, ¹² for before the coming of certain from James [Jacob], with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision, ¹³ and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

Why was it that the first Gentile called into the Jewish body of Christ was already known by his works as a compassionate man. His good labor had even reached heaven because he actually cared for the poor among the people. This Gentile is such a contrast to the violence coming from the “kosher” old covenant establishment Jews. Cornelius didn’t act like the common Jew. The common Jewish leader was overly motivated by the money they could acquire from their people, under the law of Moses. The old kosher Jews presented their ‘moral high grounds’ as a ‘better’ vision for God’s people. Of course it didn’t include eating with the Gentiles, like Peter and Paul did. Peter knew that the typical Jews were refusing to rise up with the new covenant body. Like old covenant Paul, the troublesome Jews approved of using any means necessary, including violence, as the way of cleansing their land, by removing God’s newly covenanted people from their midst. They drove out the truly sanctified humanity of Yahweh, which left nothing but the unclean old covenant humans, who stayed to rule the land by way of continual violence. They were destroyed for their violent refusal to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

The first Gentile did not corrupt the church of the Jews by encouraging violence. He was a true supporter of humanity. The corrupt Jews of the last old covenant apostasy became more violent than ever in their effort to save their dying body from it’s pending destruction. They didn’t believe in God’s way to live. There was and is only one Way of life. The Way is to become eternally human in the humanity of the Messiah. Yet the unfaithful to the Way, killed their own brethren. In their old flesh mode they tried to stop the sanctification of the church body by way of the new covenant husbandman. The stubborn Jews even murdered their own first century prophets, in order to remove them and their gospel message from their old covenant land. The eternal covenant wannabes viewed their new covenant transition as a unclean development. The new way of life was an un-kosher revelation to them. They tried to go stay back rather than forwards with their diet.

Cornelius was known by the Jews and by God as an extremely caring man. When Peter is told to kill and eat the unclean animals, it is interpreted this way: the kosher Jews should start accepting the non-kosher Gentiles into the non-violent fellowship of the new covenant saints, starting with the most humanitarian person of Cornelius. How could God make this any more acceptable for the Jews? What doesn’t make sense about this?

Cornelius was already laying down his life for the benefit the body of humanity at large. God didn’t choose Cornelius because he helped himself. If anything Cornelius was chosen as the first Gentile because he was already helping their humanity. God chose a Gentile who actually seemed better than the typical Jew. He cared for the poor un-hypo-politically (less than human politics of the day). Cornelius modeled the humanity he had learned from the diaspora. Humanity took notice of his unusually godly behavior. God chose a Gentile the Jews already approved of. He didn’t become a proselyte who became kosher the old fashioning way. Cornelius became a Jew the new covenant way. He experienced a Holy Spirit sanctification just as the true Jews did.

Jewish Peter had already been instructed to eat the body and blood of Jesus. When Jesus said He was the bread that came down to give life, some disciples left Him. This definitely crashed their dietary laws. Jesus asked the apostles if they were leaving too and Peter answered, where else can we go to get life age-during? In Acts 10 Peter gets a heavenly vision and hears some even more confounding instructions concerning crashing their dietary laws. He and the apostles had already been told to eat the only truly kosher body and kosher blood. Jesus fulfilled all the Jewish laws. ‘Eat, this is my [forever clean human body] body sacrificed for you’. Their last old covenant meal together was His covenant transition meal that was guaranteed to keep them ‘kosher’ like never before.

For His last old covenant meal, Jesus was inviting Jewish believers to partake in the body of Christ’s new covenant fellowship. Jesus knew one of them was actually an unbeliever and would not live through the transition. Judas did not receive life to the age from Yeshua, even though he typically participated in communion. The essential Jewish communion was accomplished by the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. We still celebrate communion as it was first initiated with the Jews prior to their covenant transition. Even today, only God’s chosen people are participate in new covenant communion in Christ. Old covenant sanctification was being fulfilled in the body of Christ. The new covenant Way of life became the inside job of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus finally explained to His foundational Jews. The were not confounded by Jesus’ Jewish old covenant sacrifice that sanctified them in His new Jewish covenant.

John 6:60-68

YLT ⁶⁰ many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, `This word is hard; who is able to hear it?’ <sup>61</sup> And Jesus having known in himself that his disciples are murmuring about this, said to them, `Doth this stumble you? ⁶² if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before? ⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life; ⁶⁴ but there are certain of you who do not believe;’ for Jesus had known from the beginning who they are who are not believing, and who is he who will deliver him up, ⁶⁵ and he said, `Because of this I have said to you—No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.’ <sup>66</sup> From this time many of his disciples went away backward, and were no more walking with him, <sup>67</sup> Jesus, therefore, said to the twelve, `Do ye also wish to go away?’ ⁶⁸ Simon Peter, therefore, answered him, `Sir, unto whom shall we go? thou hast sayings of life age-during;

We have no indication that Peter actually ate non-kosher meat the day he was told to eat it. Even if he did, God made all meat clean before telling Peter to rise up and eat it. God did not tell Peter to eat anything unclean. Peter thought God was telling him to eat something unclean. There is no such thing as kosher and non-kosher meat in the new covenant. Clean and unclean bodies were designations in the old covenant sanctification process. If God Himself made all bodies (nations or races) clean, then stop calling His people unclean. They are no longer foreigners to the one and only covenant.

Peter still saw some animals as unclean until God explained the meaning of the dream. All of God’s creation was maturing into the new covenant. The typical laws that were all going away, included the dietary laws, but the moral laws and the sanctified humanity they had pointed to were all remaining and growing up. God’s name didn’t change. His firstborn Son’s family name changed to match His name.

The name of God’s people in Christ became Christian. Some old names for the sons of Yahweh were Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Davidic, Mosaic and, satanic. Old covenant unbelievers were sons of the devil according to Jesus. In the end, the old house became very demonic. All God’s people live in the body of Christ today. There is no place else we can live and never die. God didn’t leave any of His chosen ones to die in the old covenant. The new diet is the only way of live. This good gift came down from heaven to save the people of Yahweh out from the prophesied destruction of their old house. The old demon infested house was destroyed in AD70. It was most unclean just prior to annihilation.

Vegetarianism was obviously not the goal of the old covenant renewal. Vegetarianism was not the characteristic moral high ground that proved that Cornelius really cared for God’s creation. Cornelius had a good reputation among the old Kosher Jews because he actually cared for the poor people, not because he didn’t eat meat. New covenant humanity was instructed through Peter to accept God’s Gentiles into the sanctification process. The first century redemption of the human body included all God’s chosen ones: both Jews and Gentiles alike.

Cornelius didn’t embrace violence like the typically “kosher” Jews did. The first century Jews were actually expecting to come back to life by ruling in the kingdom of God again, by overthrowing Rome. Non-violent Cornelius was made covenantally clean in the Holy Spirit realm of the old covenant rebirth. He was saved and made clean the same way all the Jews in transition were. The non-transition Jews actually killed their own people to remove the sanctification of Christ from their morally corrupt body. The unbelievers actually married up with the nations to try to keep their old body ‘kosher’. Believing Jews became especially unclean to old covenant Jews. Gentiles would have to be circumcised and keep kosher laws to be clean to the old covenant hold outs.

Cornelius was acting more kosher than the old covenant hold-outs, who were living in the typical land of Jerusalem. The unbelieving Jews were actually murdering God’s truly sanctified Jews, in order to remove the ‘unfaithful’ ones from their ‘kosher’ place in the old covenant land. Unbelievers eventually ate their own in their unbelief. They became corrupt in the most inhumane way possible. Near the end of their downward spiral into continual violence, the unbelieving Jews even indulged in cannibalism. The old body was being starved out of the old covenant way of life (the kosher diet) in the land. Just prior to the AD 70 annihilation of the most corrupted and most unclean old covenant body ever their kosher food supply was cut off by the Romans.

Nobody lives or dies in that unclean cannibalistic corpse anymore. Covenant life is only in the living body of Christ. God removed the old covenant to make us one in the Spirit that truly gives life to the body. The new creation was His operation. Covenant death is no more. We still symbolically eat the body of Christ at communion to remember the real sanctification of God’s people. They were called out of the old types and into the body of Christ that the types had always pointed to. Gentiles were brought into the incorruptible body of Christ.

After Acts 10, Peter started eating with the nations, bringing them too into the fellowship of the body. Gentiles were alienated from God by the same lusts of depravity that alienated the Jews. Jew and Gentile were being saved by the same Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was creating a new covenant humanity in all of God’s called out people.

The adversary was the spirit-realm leader in the kingdom of Rome. In the spirit realm the devil showed Jesus all of his authority. That fallen messenger offered Jesus a place in his kingdom; second in command. That spirit of the devil was the same spirit that the old covenant hold outs followed, on their track to destruction.

The faithful were told steer clear of the old covenant stubborn ones in the last days. Jesus warned His people to be out of the land before the end came. Even Paul did not instruct God’s chosen people to help the unbelievers in the land. He instructed the believers to send money to the church of the new covenant, who were still in the land at that time. They all left before the wrath of God arrived on the sons of the devil.

Ephesians 5:6

CLV ⁶ Let no one be seducing you with empty words, for because of these things the indignation of God is coming on the sons of stubbornness.

They did not join Yahweh’s work in the Holy Spirit Yeshua sent to them. They rejected the Holy Spirit and worked in the spirit of the devil. Jesus called the stubborn hold outs, sons of the devil. The Gentiles also walked in the same spirit before they were reborn by the Holy Spirit. Gentiles were being saved just like the Jews were being saved. All walked in disobedience. The devil was in charge of the kingdom. He ruled the world of Jews and Gentiles and everyone in the mix, until Christ was given the headship.

The 12 tribes were already infiltrating the nations by mixing it up with the Gentiles. Everyone was dead to God until they were in the resurrection. Whether all people were descendents of Adam or not, they were all separated from God by their own immorality. Living in the realm of the devil certainly did not grant life to the dead. Life in Christ is life from the death, no matter how enlightened or in the dark you already were.

Ephesians 2

CLV ¹ And you, being dead to your offenses and sins, ² in which once you walked, in accord with the eon of this world, in accord with the chief of the jurisdiction of the air, the spirit now operating in the sons of stubbornness [those who continued in their rejection of Jesus] ³ (among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest), ⁴ yet God, being rich in mercy, because of His vast love with which He loves us” ⁵ (we also being dead to the offenses and the lusts), vivifies us together in Christ (in grace are you saved!)” ⁶ and rouses us together and seats us together among the celestials, in Christ Jesus, ⁷ that, in the oncoming eons, He should be displaying the transcendent riches of His grace in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.” [we are in the ages of grace in Christ] ⁸ For in grace, through faith, are you saved [the ones having been saved and still being saved] , and this is not out of you; it is God’s approach present, ⁹ not of works, lest anyone should be boasting.” ¹⁰ For His achievement are we, being created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God makes ready beforehand, that we should be walking in them.” ¹¹ Wherefore, remember that once you, the nations in flesh – who are termed ‘Uncircumcision’ by those termed ‘Circumcision,’ in flesh, made by hands -” ¹² that you were, in that era, apart from Christ, being alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and guests of the promise covenants, having no expectation, and without God in the world.” ¹³ Yet now, in Christ Jesus, you, who once are far off, are become near by the blood of Christ.” ¹⁴ For He is our Peace, Who makes both one, and razes the central wall of the barrier” [The final wall of separation didn’t protect the stubborn hold outs in Jerusalem. Even that wall was razed in the end. It temporarily protected the enemies of Jesus who murdered Him in His flesh] ¹⁵ (the enmity in His flesh), nullifying the law of precepts in decrees [law of Moses that typically created the old covenant people of God], that He should be creating the two, in Himself, into one new humanity, making peace;” ¹⁶ and should be reconciling both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in it [the body].” ¹⁷ And, coming, He brings the evangel of peace to you, those afar, and peace to those near, ¹⁸ for through Him we both have had access, in one spirit, to the Father.” ¹⁹ Consequently, then, no longer are you guests and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of the saints and belong to God’s family, [we were no longer considered guests by the faithful Jews like Paul] ²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, [the new wall was being built by the 12 Jewish apostles who were aided in their work by the 12 tribes seeded into the nations. Now the nations too could enter the gates through the evangelistic efforts of the 12 and the 12] ²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:” ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God’s dwelling place, in spirit.”

God sent His Son to grant freedom not slavery. Even today, hypocritical rulers create an ever increasing number of contradictory laws and false moral high grounds to try to set themselves apart. Behind their walls they complain about and go against the true humanity. Old humanity Jews took cover behind the old walls built in the realm of the flesh. Proper freedoms and limitations actually curtail violence. Hypocritical overreach leads people to violence by way of the frustration that is created by the impossible and non-sensible demands of hypocrites. That is why the old walls of Jerusalem didn’t work.

They were cruel. The unbelievers demanded too much from people. True Christianity cares for and empowers people to do good works, more than any twisted ideology can. Todays false promises empower the rich and cause the poor to suffer, while still claiming the moral high ground of their ‘good works’ in the flesh. Their fate is that of the unbelieving Jews whose high walls of hypocrisy invited destruction from Yahweh Himself, let alone the Romans they were unduly rebelling against. Maybe modern day hypocritical governments will also eat their own, like the rich unbelievers did at the end of their old world attempt to live forever in their opulent old covenant status that was used to take advantage of the poor.

Proverbs 12:10

CLV ¹⁰ The just man knows the soul’s need of even his domestic beast, Yet even the compassions of the wicked are cruel.”

If we believe that our fossil fuels were a one-time development caused by Noah’s flood, then we also believe that we will probably run out of this non-renewable supply of energy. God promised to never flood the world again. On the other hand, if fossil fuel is continuously being replenished from the nonstop ocean deaths as the creatures settle and seep through the sea floor, then that is a different story. It promotes a different way of life for the people who actually care for God’s creation. Do we rule creation as if it is a gift from God that was made to serve humanity or do we enslave ourselves to the female goddess of careless mother nature? If God’s image lives in mother nature rather than the New Jerusalem, then we should live in constant fear of what He is about to do through her? Mother nature is continually threatening us with her violence. The mother of all the living is new Jerusalem. We guard against the physical death threats of mother nature by building houses that heat and cool us with fossil fuels.

My propane stove-top burner is surely contaminating my kosher veggies with the dead unclean animals that make up the body of fuel we continuously exhume from the graves of the unclean dead. Vegetarians who crave meat can now eat artificial meat made from vegetables, but they may have to suffer for it. Fake food actually inflames the the body by way of creating confusion for the immune system. Our bodies are not sure what to reject anymore because the food we eat has never been made so artificially. The fakeness of what the media tries to feed us today seems to be at an all time high too. They stoke the fires of societal inflammation with their lies. Fake meat may be bad for us. Cows were designed to make meat out of vegetation that I can’t even digest. People can’t live on grass.

God made all of creation to serve His humanity. Yet the less than humane people still claim that their ways are higher than God’s ways. Over regulating our way of life away from fossil fuels and real meat will definitely hurt the poor people the most. Cornelius does not approve. Taking away our God-given fossil fuels is inhumane. All you have to do is eat bacon and breath freely to prove you are not stuck in the false teachings of inhumanity. They regress into immaturity. We should be very careful not to encourage or join this regression. Call it ‘progressive’ all you want. Its regressive. God is not promoting our modern day versions of inhumanity in the name of true humanity. True humanity is in His name.

Those who only eat soft fruit and food digested by their mother (mother’s milk) are called infants and nursing babies. Humanity was so immature it didn’t even realized it lacked clothing when it was first born. The new firstborn is fully clothed already. He took the place of unclothed immature humanity on the cross so they wouldn’t have to become unclothed when the old humanity ended. Jesus removed animal covering in order to cover us with His white robe of righteousness. In the end, when animal sacrifice ceased to cover the Jews, they were left naked in Jerusalem. God’s true people, were not trying to regress to naked and blissful fruit eaters in Eden. Those who died unclothed stayed dead and are not God’s people.

They didn’t eventually rise to eat only vegetables as Ellen envisioned. Those who refused new covenant communion, actually ate each other before they died. All nations were made kosher, but God wasn’t actually calling for cannibalism as the new way of life. It is the Holy Spirit who sanctified and saved God’s people from dying, just as Jesus explained with the symbolism. The typical way of life in the land pointed to the spiritual reality coming down from heaven. They weren’t really supposed to eat each other.

The Holy Spirit sent from heaven sustains covenant life in the body of Christ, not actual flesh and blood nourishment. The flesh and blood covenant was brought to spiritual maturity from Yeshua’s throne in heaven. He raised His people up to rule with Him. He is the new covenant firstborn now in heaven. God didn’t tell Ellen to redefine the new covenant way of life again to an even higher ground. Peter himself hypocritically stumbled over Judaism, but he got back up. There is no higher ground than the new covenant. It is kept incorruptible in heaven by Jesus Himself.

Romans 14:2

CLV ² One, indeed, is believing to eat all things, yet the infirm one is eating greens.

Hebrews 5:11-14

LITV ¹¹ Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to interpret since you have become dull in hearing. ¹² For indeed because of the time you are due to be teachers, yet you need to have someone to teach you again the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God, and you have become in need of milk, and not of solid food; ¹³ for everyone partaking of milk is without experience in the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. ¹⁴ But solid food is for those full grown, having exercised the faculties through habit, for distinction of both good and bad [discrimination between good and bad is good].

Romans 1:18-25

LITV ¹⁸ For God’s wrath is revealed from Heaven on all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, holding the truth in unrighteousness, [who was holding the truth in unrighteousness more than the old covenant hold-outs?]¹⁹ because the thing known of God is clearly known within them, for God revealed it to them. ²⁰ for the unseen things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both His eternal power and Godhead, for them to be without excuse. ²¹ Because knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful. But they became vain in their reasonings, and their undiscerning heart was darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became foolish ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things. ²⁴ Because of this, God gave them up to impurity in the lusts of their hearts, their bodies to be dishonored among themselves, ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into the lie, and worshiped and served the created thing more than the Creator, [this first happened at the foot of Mt Sinai while the human nation was being created. They had to be typically regenerated before entering the typical promises. A made new body of people entered the promised land.] who is blessed forever. Amen.

We don’t serve the covenant creation. We serve the covenant Creator. His creation serves us when we rule over it in His name. When we misinterpret His revelation we can imagine a false higher ground. Humanity at large is corrupted by false vision. Humanity proper is kept incorruptible in heaven by Jesus Himself. When we empower the deceivers by following them, we add to the inhumanity on earth. Regression is the only place to go after rejecting true humanity. The corrupt status quo is always regressive by nature, even while calling themselves progressive. Claiming to be heading for the higher ground of humanity, they demand universal belief in their make believe world. Their conclusions are not debatable, because they are not reasonable. They are not compelling when you actually think about it. That is why the lies must be enforced by force. Truth is reasonable and willingly followed by mature believers.

Isaiah 1:18-19

LITV ¹⁸ Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool. ¹⁹ If you are willing and hear, you shall eat the good of the land.

Acts 17:10-15

YLT ¹⁰ And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; ¹¹ and these [Jews] were more noble than those [Jews] in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so; ¹² many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and [also] of the honorable Greek women and men not a few. ¹³ And when the Jews from Thessalonica knew that also in Berea was the word of God declared by Paul, they came thither also, agitating the multitudes; ¹⁴ and then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul, to go on as it were to the sea, but both Silas and Timothy were remaining there. ¹⁵ And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;

Isaiah 1

LITV ¹ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth! For Jehovah has spoken: I have nursed and brought up sons, but they have rebelled against Me. ³ The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not understood. ⁴ Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward. ⁵ Why will you be stricken any more? Will you continue the revolt? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint. ⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head, no soundness is in it; only a wound and a stripe and a fresh blow; they have not been closed, nor bound up; nor was it softened with oil. ⁷ Your land is a desolation; your cities burned with fire. Foreigners devour your land before you; and behold, ruin, as overthrown by foreigners. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. ⁹ Except Jehovah of hosts had left a remnant for us, a few, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, rulers of Sodom. Listen to the law of our God, people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats. ¹² When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts? ¹³ Do not add to bringing vain sacrifice; its incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting, and the evil assembly. ¹⁴ My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them . ¹⁵ And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Yea, when you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil. ¹⁷ Learn to do good, seek justice, reprove the oppressor, judge the orphan, strive for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool. ¹⁹ If you are willing and hear, you shall eat the good of the land. ²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken. ²¹ Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it. But now, murderers! ²² Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water. ²³ Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them, ²⁴ and says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Alas! I will be eased of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies. ²⁵ And I will return My hand on you, and refine your dross, as with lye, and take away all your alloy. ²⁶ And I will return your judges as at the first; and your advisors, as at the beginning; then you shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town. ²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her returning ones with righteousness. ²⁸ And the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake Jehovah shall be consumed. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the trees which you lusted after; and you shall be ashamed of the gardens that you have chosen. ³⁰ For you shall be like a tree whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water in it. ³¹ And the strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark; and they shall burn both together; and no one shall quench them .