What about grains as food for man? What is the Bible really teaching?

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Created 5937_[v2017] 11 15 2034 [2018-02-02]

Edited 5937_[v2017] 11 23 2034 [2018-02-10]

Bible Study

A Little of What I Find in the Bible about…

Grains & Grasses

as Food NOT for the Sons and Daughters of God

but as Food for Animals Only…

cf. Grain as a Mark of the Beast…

Key Background

- that was necessary for me before I could see the light that I now perceive in the Bible passages below:

For many years, even for decades, I had been wondering about, and praying for more light and insight re certain key passages in the Bible. Most particularly so re the exact meaning provided within our Creator’s initial instructions and definition of what is His food designed for those that were created into the image of the Creators themselves.

I had noticed that there was a distinct difference between verses 29 and 30 of Genesis chapter one (Gen 1:29, 30.) Yet it escaped me exactly what that difference was, as originally intended. I carefully studied the various available translations, while also doing my best in understanding the original Hebrew words. Yet the exact meaning escaped me. For many years I had to satisfy myself with the fact that “I do not know yet…”

Then, after learning many other things that God taught me from the Bible and from the details of His creation, and after doing my best in doing God’s bidding, so far as His guidance in healing some of my neighbors and friends in life. Well, after all that I was blessed with the privilege of learning ever more about the most recent scientific discoveries as published within the scientific journals available on PubMed. Most of this was free by means of the overabundant knowledge and insights provided through the almost too many health Summits available on the internet these days. Then it happened that a course designed by Dr Tom O’Bryan for the training of Certified Gluten Practitioners (CGP) was provided to me. In this course Dr Tom is bringing to the forefront many of the most important findings in said scientific journals re all that which has to do with gluten and with gluten related disorders. Adding to that the teachings of Dr Peter Osborne in his book No Grain No Pain, and his bringing to the surface a considerably more comprehensive picture re all grains and grasses, all of which have been shown to contain various forms of gluten and other constituents that mankind is unable to digest… Well, adding that, the answers to my prior longstanding questions rapidly began to pour in.

It suddenly became obvious to me that the findings of a certain researcher named Fasano, who published his initial paper on that particular in 2004, made it clear that everyone among mankind thus far tested responded, within five minutes of putting a grain product in his or her mouth, by ripping holes in the intestinal wall such that whatever partially digested matter could slowly but surely leak into the blood circulation where it was not supposed to be. This leakage, commonly known by the term ‘leaky gut,’ would then trigger an immune response for the immediate purpose of cleaning up the mess resulting from said leakage of the intestinal wall. As a not too common event this would be just fine and well. Yet, seeing that mankind has somehow fallen into the trap of eating such gluten containing grain products as a major constituent in most every meal, said immune reaction would then naturally become, not an infrequent, possibly totally benign event, but a chronic state of inflammation throughout the body. The end result would be, and is, the entire spectrum of autoimmune diseases, that is, the entire spectrum of chronic illnesses, that mankind is currently displaying throughout the world. There are, of course, many many more details involved in said process, but perhaps these few words may serve as a brief summary of the background to my subsequent Bible discoveries re grains and grasses, that is, re such foods as most of us have always thus far believed, taught, and understood as providing some of the most fundamental ingredients of a healthy diet for man. Yes, even as taught and promoted within the Bible itself. Could it be that we all were suffering from a major misunderstanding of true Bible teaching? Could it be that we have all misunderstood our Creator’s original design and intent with much of that which is written in the Holy Scriptures?

A First Eye-Opener…

God has blessed me with many most valuable insights into His Word by opening to me the importance of a better understanding of the most focal meaning of every Hebrew word within the original Scriptures. Most especially I have learned to appreciate the importance within the Bible study principle of focusing upon the context of the very first instance in the Bible of any word I am seeking to more fully understand.

Thus it was, that one day I found reason for seeking the very first occurrence in the Bible of the Hebrew word translated ‘bread.’ I found it in Genesis 3:19.

God had also shown me that every word in the Hebrew language is built letter by letter by the use of letters, each one of which also has a word meaning, into a structure consistent with the intended meaning of every word thus being built.

In thus looking upon the three letter Hebrew word for bread, לחם (Strong’s H3898-H3901, cf. H3859) it first became obvious to me that said word could be subdivided into two parts, the preposition -ל, meaning ‘to, towards, before, etc.,’ and the word חם (Strong’s H2524-2526) meaning ‘hot, warm, etc..’ It came to me then that isn’t it true also that most all grain products must be heated one way or another before being palatable and useful for food. That is, as baked in the oven, as boiled on the stove, as fried in a pan or over the fire, etc.. Indeed, not much grain is ever being consumed in its raw form by most any one among mankind.

A Second Eye-Opener…

So what might I now be prepared to discover re the distinct differences between verses 29 and 30 in Genesis chapter One (Gen 1:29, 30?) Asking that question, it occurred to me that animals, such as cows, sheep, horses, etc. are equipped with a digestive system of stomachs such as make them able to sustain themselves by gracing primarily upon grasses as also upon the seed of grasses, that is, upon all species of grains. And isn’t it true that grasses are green? That is, as in “green herb” (Gen 1:30) and in contradistinction from “herb bearing seed” (Gen 1:29?)

A Third Eye-Opener…

Not long after having recognized the above said, I was reminded of the context within Gen 3:19:

“In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground… to dust shall you return.”

Now, isn’t it true that a most eye-opening characteristic, pertaining to any and all preparation of grain into a food of man, is tied to an excessive amount of labor, that is, as in “the sweat of your face?” Consider each and all of the following necessary steps in the production and preparation of grains as food, that is, bread, for men: Preparation of the soil (multiple steps), sowing the seed, watering the soil, harvesting the grain, threshing, milling, and then gathering the fuel necessary for heating the grain. Indeed, isn’t it true that a major portion of our industrialized society is designed for purposes of facilitating this process such that men will be able to get their preferred forms of grain?

A Forth Eye-Opener…

Within the same verse Gen 3:19 there is yet more to learn re the consequence of “you eat bread…” That is, as per the original warning found in Gen 2:17:

“You shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die.”

That is, as reemphasized in Gen 3:19:

“In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground… to dust shall you return.”

A Fifth Eye-Opener…

Thence it wasn’t long before I was reminded of the dream of the foreign enemy soldier as revealed to Gideon per Judges 7:13-15:

“13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream to his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, see, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came to a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

“14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand has God delivered Midian, and all the host.

“15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.”

Isn’t there a lesson, greatly overlooked for millennia, inherent in the nature of said “sword of Gideon?” Or, what is the foundation of most all disease, death, and dying, among mankind today, if not our traditions in the form of all its variations of “cake of barley bread?” That is, considering the above said scientific findings of the last five to fifteen years or so (2004-2017) re the inflammatory, in the end deadly, consequence of using grain as a chief staple of food for men?

A Sixth Eye-Opener…

Indeed, this one had been revealed to me many years prior, but in this particular context, yes, it may be properly placed in this order of events. That is, what all is implied within the concept of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? To make a long story short: I had learned that this tree is standing as a representative of any such school of thought such as is constituted of a mixture of truth and error. That is, any such teaching as is building upon man’s own considerations and constructions such as constitutes in effect an overstepping of the boundaries provided in advance by the warnings and by the instructions weaved into the first beginnings of the Word of God.

As such I find no problem in applying the Tree of Knowledge to all of that which is being involved in the preparation of grains into any species of food or bread for mankind.

A Seventh Eye-Opener…

So what about bread being such a focal object within the tabernacle and within the tabernacle service provided by God through Moses? Isn’t all that properly understood in terms of teaching each and all of us to use bread as a primary food? That is, as in the “show bread” of Exodus 25:30? And likewise, as in the “unleavened bread” designed as the focal object of “the Feast of Unleavened Bread?”

Not to mention also the Waving of the Sheaf sacrifice that is placed at the very center of the Seventh Day Sabbath falling within said Feast of Unleavened Bread. Indeed, the sacrifice that stands as the very foundation of the fifty day count towards the Day of Sabbaths, aka. Pentecost, that per God´s own definitions falls on the seventh Seventh Day Sabbath following said Waving of the Sheaf sacrifice. That is, a whole fifty days designed for purposes of carefully considering, and for asking God about, His intent and purpose for those Sabbath Feasts of His! Consider it! Selah!

Or else, could it be that said bread was being placed as the very most central and focal object, within a sacrificial system, for the very purpose of waking up, if possible, any one among His People, to the realization that there is something of life vs. death importance to be discovered within our choice of using ‘bread,’ that is ‘grain products’, as a main constituent of that which has been, for ever so long, a traditional food of men? Indeed, could it be that this central placement of grains and of bread is designed from the very beginning for the very purpose of calling the attention of someone among God’s Sons and Daughters towards the connection between the choice between the two trees of Gen 2:16, 17, and between of grains, bread, and all the products thereof as a food of men?

That is, as in the scientific findings, discovered and published only now, that is, since the year 2004 or so? Consider it!

Isn’t it true then that Yeshu (Jesus) ate bread, and that the feeding of the 5000 and of the 4000 as thus recorded, were miracles providing bread for the people to eat? But what were Yeshu’s concluding words and lesson? Consider the last words within the quote below! Mark 8:19-21:

“19 When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him, Twelve.

“20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? And they said, Seven.

“21 And he said to them, How is it that you do not understand?”

Furthermore, what is the real meaning of the Greek New Testament words that are translated ‘bread?’ Per Strong’s Concordance I find only one Greek word translated bread in KJV: Strong’s G740: “αρτος, artos, from 142; bread (as raised) or a loaf.” Under Strong’s G142 I find a reference to Strong’s Η5375-78: “to lift… to lead astray… to delude… to seduce…” Indeed, as in the raising of bread, but also as in being deluded or seduced, as were Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. Another word found in KJV is ‘meat.’ This English word is a translation based upon several different Greek words: Strong’s G5160, G5315, G1033-5, G4620, G4371, G5132. Several of these words are better understood in terms of ‘food’ generally, not ‘meat’ specifically.

And what is the context of the very first instance of the word ‘bread’ in the New Testament, that is, as found in Matt 4:3-4? Isn’t Yeshu responding to Satan’s temptation by using the negative in direct association with the word ‘bread?’ And how about the second instance of said word? Matt 6:11, “Give us today our daily bread.” That is, part of the Lord’s prayer as taught by Yeshu, our Savior? What about the immediate context of those words?: “Hallowed be thy name.” Or alternatively, “May thy words and names be better understood.”

Thus we are faced, even here and now, with a choice! That is, what lesson are we, am I, choosing to gather from our/my own, interpretation of these words? Will we/I continue to give preference to our/my own traditions as taught us/me by men, or else, are we willing, finally, to wake up and realize that we have been deluded and seduced into believing a lie of one species or another? Or isn’t that a choice we are given even in the realm of the here, now, and I?

Now, as to the number ‘seven.’ Well, isn’t it true that the very first word of the Seventh Day Sabbath Commandment is none other than “Remember…?” Exodus 20:8. That is, as in afterthought, as in foresight based upon careful consideration of prior history and experience? And isn’t that one chief characteristic upon the foreheads of God’s own Sons and Daughters? Cf. Ezekiel 9:4!

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