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EATING SWINE FLESH
from my book The Law and The Pauline
Doctrine
by Rav Sha’ul
Eating
Swine Flesh
As with all things physical… “eating” has a Spiritual Truth
associated with it. If we are going to be Righteous Judges, this physical to
Spiritual Parallel must be firmly established. If we do not, we will become
self-righteous in our judgment and condemn others in our ignorance of His Word!
I am going to build to a MAJOR Scriptural Truth that will probably shock
everyone, and overcome a very serious abuse of The Torah in the process…
We see all the prophets (John, David, Ezekiel, Jeremiah
etc.) were commanded to “Eat the Heavenly Scroll”:
Ezekiel 3:3
Then he said to me, "Son of man, eat
this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it." So I ate it,
and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them, and
your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by
your name, O Yahuah, God of hosts.
Revelation 10:9-10
So I went to the angel and told him to give
me the little scroll. And he said to me, “Take and eat it; it will make your
stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.”
Psalm 119:101-103
How sweet are your words (preserved in The Heavenly Scroll Psalms 119:89)
to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandment of
his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Psalm 19:10
More to be desired are they than gold, even
much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
We see Yahusha instruct us to “eat his flesh and drink his
blood”
John 6
55 For My flesh is real food, and My blood
is real drink. 56 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and
I in him. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me (in
fulfillment of The Heavenly Scroll Matthew 6:10) and I live
because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
What is
going on here?
How do we Spiritually Appraise this physical shadow of
“eating” and properly employ The Mystery Language? In this section, I am going
to help us understand “eating pork” and why it appears in Scripture to be so
devastating to your life that Yahuah declares you will utterly perish!
Isaiah 66:17
…16 For Yahuah will execute judgment by fire
And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by Yahuah will be many. 17"
Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in
the center, Who eat swine's flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an
end altogether," declares Yahuah.
One of the most grievous sins unto Yahuah is to abuse His
Torah and self-righteously condemn others by the letter of the Law as I have
shown so far in this book. One of the most damaging examples of this are what I
call “Torah Nazis”; those who abuse the Scriptures and the Dietary Laws
casting condemnation on others out of their own ignorance. These Torah
Nazis go about with the Torah in hand ready to “beat the daylights out of any
and every one “by the letter“… while they themselves are lost in
the “Milk” of the Word (the Letter), always “learning but never coming
to the knowledge of the Truth” which is found in the Meat of the Word (Intent).
2 Timothy 3
1 But mark this: There will be terrible
times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without
love, unforgiving (in Judgment), slanderous (judging others by the Letter not Intent), without
self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Yahuah— 5 having a form of godliness (religiously obeying the Letter) but denying its power
(the INTENT). Have nothing to do with such
people. ... 7 always learning (to do this or that “by
the Letter”) but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth (of the Intent of the Law).
“Eating”
is a Metaphor
Eating is a metaphor for “what you accept as truth, what you
put your faith in, what you believe, etc.” Eating “food” is a physical to
Spiritual Parallel of digesting the Truth or accepting a lie. Sha’ul the
Apostle used “eating” as a metaphor in this way as I have shown in this book,
the prophets used it in this way, and Yahusha did as well…
We do not literally “eat” The Heavenly Scroll or Earthly
Scrolls, Yahusha was not literally saying we are to slice him up barbecue his
remains and eat him. He was speaking in The Mystery Language that he was The
Lamb and later at the Last Supper/Chagigah Meal, on the Eve of Passover, he
further elaborated on this, telling us that we are to keep Passover and eat the
Lamb in honor and remembrance of his sacrifice. We are to accept Yahusha as the
Messiah and put our faith in his sacrifice to cover our sin as the blood of the
Lamb. In other words, we are to “eat his flesh and drink his blood”. In
this way, “Lamb” is singled out among all animals as a shadow of the
true sacrifice. We are to “eat lambs flesh” metaphorically speaking (and
literally on Passover) to demonstrate we are in covenant with Yahuah through
Yahusha’s blood.
So, what about
“eating swine flesh”? Is Yahuah so petty that He is going to literally destroy
everyone who has bacon bits on their house salad?!?!?!
NO! That is a classic example of immaturity trying to
understand The Law by the letter when it is appraised Spiritually.
1 Corinthians 2
14 The person without the Spirit does not
accept the things that come from the Spirit of Yahuah (understanding
of Intent) but considers them (the Intent of
the Law) foolishness (because they think
Righteousness is based on obedience to the Letter), and cannot
understand them (the Intent of His Law) because
they (the Intent of the Law) are spiritually
appraised
NOTE – PORK IS NOT FOOD! DO NOT EAT IT. IT
IS BAD FOR YOUR BODY. The Dietary Laws are “instructions” from a loving Father
on how to eat healthy.
The penalty for breaking the Dietary Laws is NOT that Yahuah is going to kick
you out of His Kingdom… the penalty is bad health. Eating
pork, shellfish, etc. is simply not a good choice if you want to “live a long
life” as Yahuah has Instructed (Torah). The “intent” of the Dietary
Laws/Instructions is that we should not just consume everything that
taste good and watch what we eat and take care of our physical bodies as
they are His Temple. It only BEGINS with the Dietary Laws as most of what we
eat today we literally manufacture. We were supposed to be mature and
understand the intent behind what Yahuah was telling us.
I just shake my head when I see these Torah Nazis out
judging everyone by the letter, miss-teaching the Dietary Instructions taking
them extremely literal while denying their Intent. I look at their photos and
they are grossly overweight… addicted to coffee, soft drinks, prescription
pills, and probably consume every processed food they can get their hands on…
yet they “throw the book” at someone for eating a piece of bacon on their
cheeseburger.
So then… why do the Scriptures single out “swine flesh” and
seemingly say if you eat it you are going to “hell and don’t pass Go”? What is
the REAL Truth of this matter… I am going to help us all understand this and
tie it all together with “eating” as a metaphor and “The Lamb” as the proper
sacrifice and show us all why if you eat “swine flesh” you cannot enter His
Kingdom.
Historical
Context
Scripture is not understood in isolation, it MUST be
understood in “context” as follows as I have laid out in this book:
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Historical Context
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Textual Context (kept in context… not sound bites)
·
Scriptural Context (kept in context of the Torah/Prophets and
Heavenly Scroll)
·
Spiritual Context (all Truth is revealed through physical to
Spiritual Parallels)
Today Scripture is misunderstood because it is taken
out of context. We sound bit verses and even sentences within a verse
totally out of context of what the Scriptures are saying. This is the case with
eating swine flesh. We fail to put that into context of HISTORY dating back to
Babylon where the false sacrifice was established as The Ishtar Pig or “eating
swine flesh” as a sacrifice.
The Bible is a story of two “Messiahs” and two religions…
·
The False Messiah or “Beast/Pig of the Earth”
·
The True Messiah the Lamb of Yahuah.
The Way
of the Gentiles
The “Way of the Gentiles” is eating swine flesh AS
A SACRIFICE to their pagan demi-gods which are all fashioned after
Tammuz in Babylon as Mystery Babylon was spread across the Earth at the tower
of Babel. The False Messiah is the fulfillment of the corrupted Zodiac.
For more on Mystery Babylon and what that religion truly is, read my
book:
“The way of the gentiles” is a term used often in The Bible
and in every case it speaking of the religious practices of the pagan Gentiles
it is not referring to a physical path or destination. Below we see the
same phrase “the way of the Gentiles” referring to the religious practices or
those who display the religious practices of pagans. The phrase “Way of the
Gentiles” is translated in various translation to illustrate that it is an
Idiom of “the pagan ways of the Gentile Nations”:
Jeremiah 10:2
New
International Version - This is what the LORD says: "Do not
learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, though
the nations are terrified by them.
NET Bible
- The LORD says, "Do not start following pagan religious practices. Do not
be in awe of signs that occur in the sky even though the nations hold them in
awe.
GOD'S WORD®
Translation - This is what the LORD says: Don't learn the practices of
the nations. Don't be frightened by the signs in the sky because the nations
are frightened by them.
Jubilee Bible 2000
- Thus hath the LORD said, Do not learn the way of the Gentiles, and do not
fear the signs of heaven, even though the Gentiles fear them.
The Way of the Gentiles is eating swine flesh
as a sacrifice to demi-gods on the Spring Equinox… “Easer”. For more on
this subject, see my book The Kingdom.
The “Way of Israel” is eating lamb AS A SACRIFICE on
Passover to cover sin pointing to the role of the True Messiah who is the
fulfillment of The Heavenly Scroll.
It is in this context of history of two sacrifices that we
understand the prophets such as Isaiah condemning the practice of “eating swine
flesh” as a sacrifice. If you “eat” or “put your faith in, believe, accept as
true” the false sacrifice illustrated by Easter (the Ishtar Pig) Yahuah
will utterly destroy you as that is The Way of the Gentiles and
the blood of a Pig on the Altar desecrates Yahuah’s Altar, destroys the Temple
(your body), and does not cover sin. This is called “The Abominable
Sacrifice that Destroys the Body Temple” or for short The Abomination of
Desolation. See my book The Antichrist Revealed! This is why Antiochus
sacrificed a pig on the Altar committing The Abomination of Desolation… he was
a sun worshipper and that was the sacrifice of the Gentiles.
The
Meaning of Isaiah 66
Now getting back to “eating”. Yahuah established that we are
to “eat” the sacrifices on Passover and The Day of Atonement. It is a shadow or
illustration that in The Yahushaic Covenant we are to “eat the flesh and blood”
of the Messiah, who is The Lamb of Yahuah. We are to metaphorically “eat his
flesh and drink his blood” or rather “put our faith in, accept as true” that
Yahusha is the fulfillment of the Passover Lamb and his blood covers our sin.
The Gentiles ate their sacrifice too… for the same reason.
So, the prophets were condemning The Way of the Gentiles
when they spoke of eating the WRONG THINGS as SACRIFICES. Instead of Lamb and
Dove, they would sacrifice Pigs and Rats in keeping with the religion of
Mystery Babylon!
Isaiah 66:17
…16 For Yahuah will execute judgment by fire
And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by Yahuah will be many. 17"
Those who sanctify and purify themselves (by offering
the WRONG sacrifices of Pigs and Rats) to go to the gardens, Following
one in the center (of the corrupted Zodiac),
Who eat swine's flesh (as a sacrifice to Tammuz called
Ishtar Day), detestable things and mice (instead
of clean things like Lambs and Doves as Yahuah commanded to be used as
sacrificial animals), Will come to an end altogether," declares Yahuah
(because those are the wrong sacrificial animals and
there is no forgiveness of sin in those sacrifices). 18"For I know
their works (as they offer up unclean sacrifices to a
Holy Elohim) and their thoughts (their INTENT
is to worship the false Messiah, the Earthly Pig); the time is coming to
gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory.…
Notice in Isaiah above, which is used to condemn all who eat bacon
with their eggs, that he is not talking about “eating pork” in general or the Dietary Laws of good
health, he is condemning those who eat it as a sacrifice to “sanctify and
purify” themselves! He is condemning the FALSE SACRIFICE of the Gentiles (the
Way of the Gentiles) and all those who put their faith in the Ishtar Pig to “sanctify
and purify” themselves. This has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Dietary
Laws, we are speaking in parables and metaphor of the true vs false Messiah and
true vs false sacrifice. The False Sacrifice of Babylon (all pagan religions)
is EATING SWINE FLESH on Isthar Day as a sacrifice to purify and sanctify themselves.
The
True Sacrifice of Yahuah is EATING LAMB on Passover to sanctify and purify. It
is within THAT context that “eating swine flesh” costs you your eternal life.
NOT having bacon bits on your salad.
Epitome
of Hypocrisy
It is the epitome of hypocrisy to keep the Dietary Laws “by
the letter” as if that is where true righteousness is found. While denying the
“intent’ of those same instructions by eating all kinds of “junk” and justify
that because it isn’t listed in the Dietary Law. Then set yourself up as
other’s judge and a “judge over the Law” by condemning others for their diet.
This judgmental Spirit has plagued the body of believers all the way back 2000
years ago. We call these self-righteous hypocrites “Pharisees”:
James 4
10 Humble yourselves before Yahuah (knowing you too have broken His Dietary Laws in your
lifetime), and He will exalt you (forgive you
for YOUR bad eating in the past). 11 Brothers, do not slander one
another (by judging others by the letter condemning
others for their bad eating). Anyone who speaks against his brother or
judges him (by the Letter of the Law) speaks
against the (Intent of the) Law and judges it.
And if you judge the Law, you are not a practitioner of the Law, but a judge of
it (because no one has the authority to judge
another's servant by the Law). 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge,
the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Romans 14
3 The one who eats everything must not
belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not
judge the one who does (because they are instructions
for good health), for Yahuah has accepted him (because
they have NO bearing on Eternal Life just on good health). 4 Who are you
to judge someone else’s servant (by the Dietary Laws)?
To his own master he stands or falls (by the Blood of
the Lamb NOT religiously following the Dietary Laws by the letter). And
he will stand, for Yahuah is able to make him stand (forgiving
our transgressions of the Dietary Instructions, there is NO condemnation).
This is exactly what Yahusha condemned in the Pharisees. A
religious judgmental Spirit. It is paramount to saying “hey everybody, look
at how Holy I am… I keep The Torah, see how perfect I am in obeying the Dietary
Laws!” Just like the Pharisees praying out loud, over giving their alms
and making it publicly known, or walking out looking all pathetic so everyone
knew they were fasting, and so forth.
WALK THE WALK, get in the gym, eat right all the way around
as THAT is what the Dietary Laws are telling us. And KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT in
judgment of others for “their diet”. Hypocrites!
Matthew 23:33
33 (Yahusha said
to the judgmental, self-righteous hypocritical Pharisees) You serpents,
you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell (by the Letter of the Law for judging others by it)?
Matthew 7
1Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2 For
with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck in your
brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?…
Liberty!
You do not have the authority to judge on this issue!
What I want to accomplish here, is that the verses condemning all
those who “eat swine flesh” has nothing to do with the Levitical Law on how to
eat healthy. I am NOT saying the Instruction on good eating in Leviticus
no longer apply. I am saying they do not apply to Isaiah 66 and have
nothing to do with “utterly perishing for eating swine flesh”. We
associate the two in error, bearing false witness of Isaiah who was not talking
about the dietary laws, but rather The Way of the Gentiles sacrificing pigs and
mice in honor of Tammuz/Jesus on Ishtar/Easter. By not understanding the
context of Isaiah, we bear false witness of the Scriptures and use that false
witness to then self-righteously condemn others for their diet.
We are out of step with The Yahushaic Covenant which is NOT based
on ritualistic observance of The Law by the letter, that is “immaturity and
milk”.
Righteousness
is not “hey look how well I keep the dietary laws compared to you… YOU SINNER”
that is the issue here most of all. Righteousness is based
on “eating the Lamb” on Passover not “eating a pig on Ishtar/Easter” and it is
based on the INTENT of the heart not the letter of the Law. That is “New
Covenant 101” and we have fallen out of covenant by judging “another’s servant”
when we do not have that authority because of a little thing called… “Liberty”.
Liberty is Yahuah’s privilege to extend to each person grace
and liberty in light of the letter in the process of individual training in
Righteousness (sanctification) based on that person’s current state of maturity
and circumstance. Since “we” are not involved in that personal relationship, we
are then condemned by Yahuah if we intervene as if “we are their judge” by
denying Him His privilege to train each person individually.
James 4
10 Humble yourselves before Yahuah (knowing you too have broken His Dietary Laws in your
lifetime), and He will exalt you (forgive you
for YOUR bad eating in the past). 11 Brothers, do not slander one
another (by judging others by the letter condemning
others for their bad eating). Anyone who speaks against his brother or
judges him (by the Letter of the Law) speaks
against the (Intent of the) Law and judges it.
And if you judge the Law, you are not a practitioner of the Law, but a judge
OVER it (because no one has the authority to judge
another's servant by the Law they do not know the other's INTENT or where they
are in their relationship with Yahuah and Liberty). 12 There is only one
Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy (that is Yahuah NOT you). But who are you to judge
your neighbor (they are not in covenant with YOU)?
Romans 14
3 The one who eats everything must not
belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not
judge the one who does (because they are instructions
for good health), for Yahuah has accepted him (because
they have NO bearing on Eternal Life just on good health and Yahuah grants LIBERTY).
4 Who are you to judge someone else’s servant (by the
Dietary Laws)? To his own master he stands or falls (by the Blood of the Lamb NOT religiously following the
Dietary Laws by the letter). And he will stand, for Yahuah is able to
make him stand (forgiving our transgressions of the
Dietary Instructions and grant us Liberty as we grow in obedience and maturity)
Matthew 23:33
33 (Yahusha said
to the judgmental, self-righteous hypocritical Pharisees) You serpents,
you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell (by the Letter of the Law for judging others by it)?
Matthew 7
1Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2 For
with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure
you use, it will be measured to you. 3 Why do you look at the speck in your
brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?…
Most people have no idea about the concept of Liberty. It
has been abused by Christians to “do away with the law” when that is not at all
what Liberty is. It is Yahuah’s right to extend to each of us a measure of
understanding as we progress in sanctification so that we do not stand
“condemned” in the process… like these self-righteous hypocrites would have us
believe. Everyone has current “sin” in their lives and past sins… outside of
Liberty there would be no growth and no training in Righteousness (which is
what The Law is, it is NOT Righteousness in itself…)
I explain all of this in my book The Law and The Pauline Doctrine.
It is because each of us are in a personal relationship with a
LOVING (not condemning) Father and have an individual level of Liberty extended
to us personally, that NO ONE ELSE has the right/authority or position so
“Judge another’s servant” because that “other” is Yahuah and HE will make us
stand at all times through Liberty.
Summary
I want to keep this message on point. And that point is that
… the dietary laws are no the point! Isaiah is not talking about that. He is
condemning The Way of the Gentiles which was established all the way back in
Babylon which is a FALSE sacrifice of pigs and mice instead or clean animal
sacrifices of Lamb and Doves to “sanctify and purify” ourselves.
If you keep Easter over Passover and put your faith in The
Beast/Pig of the Earth known as Jesus, you are “eating swine flesh” and that is
the wrong sacrifice for sin and desecrates Yahuah’s altar (your heart) thereby
destroying His Temple (your body) in the lake of fire…
The dietary laws are a very personal guide (instructions) on
how to eat right so that you “live a long life” they were never intended to cost
you your salvation or even your relationship with Yahuah.
It is only by taking the Scriptures out of context and (in
error) associating the dietary laws with the point Isaiah is making that we
come to that false conclusion, then set out to judge others as if they are
going to hell for eating bacon with their eggs. This has to stop.
Blessings,
Rav Sha’ul
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