We've been in this chapter a few weeks, maybe a few months. Title of my message is Animal Ethics and Animalistic Ethics. Dear Father, we do pray you give us indeed what we need today. A little different sermon today, God, but I do pray that you will speak through it, that my words will be your words, God, that you'll give me good ground to preach upon, humble, honest hearts, willing to grow, and we thank you for it. Thank you for thy Holy Spirit, for a perfect Bible that you've given us. In Jesus' name, amen. Let's read some of this chapter today, starting in verse 14. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever, and nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. And God doeth it that men should fear before him. that which hath been is now, and that which is to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is past. And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there, and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. And I said in my heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts. Even one thing befalleth them. As the one dieth, so dieth the other. Yea, they all have one breath, so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast. For all is vanity. All go unto one place. All are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Wherefore, I perceive that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works, for that is his portion. For who shall bring him to see what shall be after him? I want us to understand here, God is not saying that there's no difference between a man and a beast in all things. He's not saying there's no difference in a man and a beast in regard to understanding. God does not want you to live like an animal. In fact, He says in the last days they'll be like animals. They'll be brute beasts. And that they'll just follow their natural inclinations. And often, that's not a good thing. But there is one thing that man is like a beast. And that is, your physical body is going to die. and return to dust. And understanding that, if you did not believe in God, if you did not believe in the Bible and the truth of the Word of God, it would be very depressing. It would be vanity and vexation of spirit. So he concludes by saying, fear God, rejoice in God, enjoy the good things that God has given you, and do right before Him, etc. Now in this discussion, he does talk about animals. And I want to give you some verses that do speak of the future redemption of nature, of animals included in nature. There is coming a time upon this world, things going to continue to get worse and worse in many ways. Man's going to continue to destroy this earth until God is going to come and bring the restitution of all things. He's going to restore. He's going to restrain the curse. So many verses speak of the millennial kingdom and the restoration of all things. And then after the Millennial Kingdom is, of course, the final new heaven and new earth, where it says, God shall dwell with men, and this whole earth, there will be no curse, not just a restrained curse, there will be no curse, no more pain, no more death, no more sorrow. But notice some very interesting verses. Romans 8 says, For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. Paul says nature, animals are waiting for the sons of God, those believers who are going to populate the kingdom and bring glory to the kingdom age through our Lord Jesus. The creature is waiting. Now why is that? It's because the creature has to endure the curse because of man. So the creature is waiting for man, who has dominion over the animals, to bring in the kingdom age. I'm sorry, waiting on the Lord through man, the manifestation of the sons of God, to bring in this kingdom age that the curse shall be lifted and you have redemption of nature. For the creature was made..." You know, that's sad when some animals are looking for the kingdom, but not many people are. The Lord Jesus says, pray, thy kingdom come. That ought to be your expectation. How many Christians know anything about the kingdom of God? It says, after the Lord's resurrection, He was speaking of the kingdom. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him, who hath subjected the same in hope. The Bible's saying that God has not left the animals without hope. Now, when we look at nature, and I'm one of them that says, I can't wait to get out of the city and get in the woods and get in a rural area where we can see the beauty of God and that type of thing. But listen. It's still cursed right now, which you'll find out really quick. We have it pretty good around here. But in a lot of places, there's lots of mosquitoes, there's ticks here, there's bears, there's all kinds of things that, and then animals eat one another. It's not a beautiful thing to go look at nature. And I know a lot of people that are evolutionists, and they try to say, oh, how beautiful. Let's watch the lion eat the gazelle or whatever. That is a curse. It's not a beautiful thing. It's a horrible thing that is happening right now that animals eat one another. The creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of the corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. So the Bible is saying that when you look at nature, you could say some things just aren't right. Nature's groaning, waiting for the kingdom to come. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body. God gives you things to help mitigate the curse. If you follow God's holy living, if you follow some of the things he gives you in the Bible, you can go a long way in procuring help. But eventually the curse is going to get everybody unless the Lord comes and gives us a translation and transformation of your body. So we are groaning in these bodies of death. The animals are groaning. But it's very interesting that the Bible says the animals have hope and that they are going to be delivered We certainly see this in Isaiah 11. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. God says the animals are not going to eat one another anymore. He says in Ezekiel that you'll be able to go dwell in the woods and not have to worry about wild beasts. Hosea chapter 2 says, in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beast of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground. God's bringing in the new kingdom. A restoration to nature. Now we don't know exactly what nature was like before the fall. Some point out that Eve wasn't all that surprised when an animal talked to her. I don't know what type of state things were in before the fall. I don't know what state animals were in, but I know everything was good. And I know that the animals, regardless of what type of abilities they might have had, they were not a help meat for Adam, and he had to make woman. But one thing is for certain here, the creature will be restored. Now, just upon a brief reading of these verses and others, If we said that no animals from this age are going to be resurrected in any way to populate the kingdom or the new earth, to me that seems to not really go with the flow of the Bible. So people always wonder, will my pet be in heaven? I think that question is somewhat messed up. Because what do you mean by heaven? Heaven is where God is, but the whole point of the Bible is looking forward to the kingdom when Jesus comes out of heaven and dwells on earth and the curse on nature is taken. So really a better question will be, will any of my pets be in the coming kingdom? Or on the new earth when God comes down in his tabernacle with men and he dwells on earth for the whole eternity. Read Revelation chapter 21 and 22. But what people are really asking is, is there a resurrection to animals? Are animals in any way immortal? I find it interesting that a great kingdom teacher, G.H. Pember, in his book Animals, Their Past and Future, believes in the resurrection of animals and the fact that when an animal's body dies, there's still something that is conscious Unfortunately, G.H. Pember unnecessarily tries to correct the King James Bible in many places, and he had no reason to do that. People like C.S. Lewis, of course, believed in the resurrection of animals. John Wesley. Wesley says, they too are immortal. They themselves also shall be delivered. They will be restored with vast increase, being exalted and refined in a manner which we ourselves are not now able to comprehend. Adam Clark says, brutes shall have a resurrection and have an endless enjoyment in a new earth. Joseph Butler, in his analogy of nature, Joseph Butler shut down the whole deist movement with his powerful debating skills. And he says in his analogy, neither can we find anything in the whole analogy of nature to afford even the slightest presumption that animals ever lose their living powers, much less that they lose them by death. and so many others, popular teachers that you know and some that you've probably never heard of, but it has been a pretty significant teaching among theologians down through the ages that pets will be in the kingdom, that animals are not just going to disappear once they die. In judging this question, I think we must ask, first of all, what do animals have? What do animals have? Secondly, do they have something that exists after death? And thirdly, if they do, it would appear that they would be resurrected. Now, when we ask what animals have, The first thing is obvious, animals have a body, like men and women, children. This is what Solomon says turns to dust. The Bible says that animals have a soul of some type. In Numbers 31, It says, levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war, which went out to battle, one soul of 500, both of the persons and of the beaves, that is of the cows, and of the asses and of the sheep. There are many theologians that will admit that animals have a soul. Where most theologians would differ is they will say man has a spirit but animals do not have a spirit. Animals just have a body and a soul but they don't have a spirit. But when you think about what the spirit is, The soul being by most, and I believe could be proven from the Bible, being the realm of the appetites and affections and desires. Certainly animals have that. The spirit being the realm of understanding, of thinking, of reasoning. Now that's where We would see immediately that the Bible speaks of the horse not having understanding. The Bible speaks of brute beasts. However, instead of concluding that they're not able to think at all, rather I think it would be better to see it as compared to man. They don't have the ability to understand the things that we understand. However, when men begin to live like brute beasts, many times there's not much of a difference. I mean, you see birds throwing nuts in the middle of traffic so they will let the cars break them. I mean, amazing. If you just look at certain videos of the amazing reasoning skills that some animals have, They certainly cannot reason with the capacity that a man can. There's obviously a difference between man's spirit and the animal spirit. There are some interesting things they are finding out now. They found out that horses make facial expression much like men do. That's something I've always suspected. You could see when a horse pooches their lips out and begin to pout. And we'd say, she's pouting, look at her. I mean, you could almost see the same expression. Well, there's people that have done studies and they're verifying that you need to not look at the ears as much as you look at their face, because you could tell what's going on with a horse by their face expression. Now there's studies showing that goats and horses and other livestock read the faces of people. They can tell if you're smiling or if you're angry. Now, since God made us to be in the presence of animals and to work with animals, it makes sense that there is a relationship between man and the animal. But let's get back to this question of whether animals have a spirit. Certainly not a spirit that can worship God. Certainly not a spirit that can perform high mathematics. Certainly not a spirit that can reason and contemplate things to the degree that mankind can. But the Bible says that we have been made a little lower than the angels and the animals have been made lower than us. Let's look at our verse in Ecclesiastes 21. Notice what Solomon said. Not what many have read it as saying. Perhaps you've read it this way growing up. Perhaps you read it this way. Who knoweth whether the spirit of man goes upward and whether the spirit of the beast goes downward? I say unto you that is not what that says. But even if it did, is plainly showing that animals have some kind of a spirit. The NIV brings this wrong understanding to the passage. Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth? Well, that's a ridiculous question. All throughout the Bible it says they gave up the ghost, that the spirit goes up to some degree. So what Solomon is actually saying is this. Who knoweth the spirit of man? That goes upward. The fact that it goes upward is a fact. And Solomon's asking who knows anything about it to any great degree. And the spirit of the beast, that goeth downward to the earth. Solomon is saying it's a fact that there's a spirit and a beast. And it's also a fact that the spirit goes down into the earth. Ecclesiastes 8 says there is no man that hath the power over the spirit to retain the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death. Look at chapter 12 of the same book. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. To Solomon the spirit is not physical. He says the spirit returns to God. It goes up. You say, well what does he mean then? Who knoweth the spirit of man that goes upward? He's not saying who knows whether it goes upward, he's saying who knows it? It's the same thing he asks in chapter 11. As thou knowest not what is the way of the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child, even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. This is a point that Solomon makes over and over, the limitation of man's knowledge. So when he says you don't know the way of the Spirit, I believe he means you don't know how God put the Spirit in this body of flesh. Nor do you know right now how it operates it and how they exist together in the way it works. What an amazing thing that what you think can affect your body and what your body experiences can affect your mind and it is an amazing thing. As the great brain surgeon said in the 1920s, there is a ghost that operates the machine. There is something operating that brain and it's not the brain. Of course not. There is a spirit in man. And I believe it's saying that there is a spirit in the animals. Now, We might ask here, is the spirit referring to mere breath? I would argue that if the spirit was referring to mere breath, there would be no difference between the animal breath and the human breath at death. You know humans exhale oxygen. You breathe out oxygen. If there wasn't truth in that, you couldn't do mouth to mouth and resuscitate somebody. Obviously, oxygen comes out when you exhale. Only 15%. So when you breathe your last breath, 15% of that is oxygen. Everybody says, well, you breathe out carbon dioxide. Well, 4% of what you breathe out, 4% of what you exhale is carbon dioxide. So you're breathing out 15% oxygen, 4% carbon dioxide. Mainly, you are breathing out nitrogen, 78%, which scientists believe and say that goes directly into the surrounding air and mixes with it. So it would not appear as if it's going up or down. And one thing is there's not going to be a difference between the breath of an animal or the breath of a man in that sense. So I don't believe that when Solomon says, who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth, It would appear to me that Solomon is talking about something that survives after the animal dies. We certainly know this is the case with man, and we certainly see that man gives up his ghost or spirit. It says in Genesis 25, then Abraham gave up the ghost. And in Luke 23, when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. Solomon said, the spirit returns to God. The Lord Jesus said, into thy hands, I commend my spirit. And having said this, he gave up the ghost. And it's not only in godly men and perfect men, like the Son of God, but it's in wicked men as well. They give up the ghost. Herod in Acts 12, and immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because he gave not God the glory. And he was eaten of worms and gave up the ghost. From what I see in the Bible, when a man dies, his spirit leaves his body and goes up. whether he's wicked or not, because where he's going up to is judgment. Now, it says down here, if you'll skip, in Hebrews 9, it is appointed, as it is appointed, unto man once to die, but after this the judgment. I do believe that when a person dies, immediately they have what we might call a pre-trial arraignment, if you will. If somebody is accused of a crime, they have a pre-trial sometimes. And Moses, when a man had sinned, they put him in ward until they could figure out what to do, until they could have court and have trial. So you might go and appear in your first trial for a crime, And they're going to decide whether or not you've got to go to jail and wait for your trial, or whether you can bond out until your trial. I believe it's the same thing with people, that you have a trial right after you're dead to know whether you go to a good place or a bad place in your spirit, waiting for your resurrection of your body for you to have your official formal trial. We must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Now look at Luke 16. It came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. Abraham's bosom isn't a place. It meant that Abraham was down there and Abraham gave him a hug. But it was down under the earth, says the Bible. At that time when people died, their spirits went under the earth. The Lord said, in Luke 23, to the thief that believed upon him, Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise. Where was the Lord's spirit? Where Abraham was. Where Lazarus was. However, It says in verse 23 of Luke 16, And in hell the rich man lift up his eyes, being in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. So what I believe happened is this. When the rich man died, his ghost, his spirit, went up for a judgment, where it was decided by God that you're going down to the bad part under the earth. And he lift up his eyes and there he was in hell. I believe that Lazarus was likely judged. And then after his judgment, he was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The Lord's not telling you every detail of everything that happened. He's getting to the point that the rich man in hell had to look at Lazarus. So Solomon says, the Spirit returns to God. The Spirit goes up. And I believe it goes up for judgment. And then it was put in paradise or either hell. Now it appears that paradise has been moved up to heaven. So people that are saved and righteous go up at death to heaven, and those that are not saved after a preliminary judgment go to hell. So therefore, I don't give much weight to near-death experiences or people that say they died. I meant, how do you give weight to any of that type of stuff, you know? But nevertheless, these people that say, I saw a light, I saw a light. Well, you might have saw a light. That's not necessarily a good sign. You might be headed towards your judgment. You got to hear what they say in court. Let's hear what the light says to you. Let's see what God says to you, you know. Now let's get back to animal ethics. Part of animal ethics is how should you treat animals. If there is even a chance that they have a survival after death and a resurrection I believe would add more weight to the fact that we need to treat them ethically, morally, responsibly. Now, interestingly, some interviewers went into some slaughterhouses and they said, if you believe animals were conscious after death and had some type of immortal soul, would it change the fact that you're butchering them? in the slaughterhouse? Some people said no, others said yeah, it really would change it a lot. But then again, an animal rights person in the 1800s says, hey, if you believe animals don't have a soul, then this is the only life they have, and you ought to treat them ethically. So I'm not sure it makes any difference either way. But one thing that I do know is the Bible tells us that we ought to be responsible toward animals as part of our stewardship. You have been given dominion over the animals, and we're to be ethical, responsible, righteous, Remember Balaam's ass? The Bible says God opened the mouth of Balaam's ass. And it didn't begin to speak about religious things. The one thing it said is, have I not served thee all this time? Why are you being abusive toward me? Why are you beating me like this? What have I done wrong? There's an angel in front of me, you know? And the angel said, yeah, if he hadn't have stopped, I would have saved the ass' life and killed you. So that certainly teaches us that you ought not take your anger out upon animals. Abraham Lincoln, it's a pretty good quote. He says, I care not for a man's religion, whose dog or cat are not made the better for it. He's saying that your religion should help you be kinder toward animals. We should certainly regard the life of our pets, and the animals we raise for food, and the animals we use for work. It says in Proverbs chapter 12, a righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. You know, I see a prophecy here in this last part of this verse. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. When it says you regard the life of the beast, it doesn't mean that you can't kill a mountain lion that's about to attack you. It doesn't mean you can't kill a wolf that's about to attack your livestock. It doesn't mean you can't kill a rattlesnake. But it does mean that there ought to be a recognition that you are a steward and you ought to be responsible over nature and certainly the animals that you use, that God has given to bless you to bring happiness to your life or to put food on your table. There ought to be a responsibility we have toward these animals. Our Lord Himself, it says in Luke 12, are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God. Not one single sparrow has been forgotten before God. That's beautiful. But look at that second half of Proverbs 12. A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. Very interesting. I want you to think of the 1970s. In 1970s, animal rights took off. So-called animal rights. And it ended with vegetarianism. The idea is that we ought to treat animals with respect, and therefore eating an animal is a very disrespectful thing. You would not eat your brother or your child, so why are you eating an animal? That was the argument of the 1970s. I'm going to tell you The 1970s was a warped decade. And there are people living today, some of them in churches, that have never got 1970s thinking out of, and some of them are older, obviously. Some of them that are 20 and 30 in the 1970s, they have, and I'm not saying everybody, but I'm saying there's a lot of people that have some warped ideas in their mind right now from that 1970s type of thinking. I want you to consider this. 1970s wants to save the animals, but it was in 1970s that they decided that aborting your child is a good thing, is a legal thing, and it began to be promoted. What kind of warped people say they're for animals, but then tell you that it's okay to abort your baby? Is that not warped? The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. And you know what? I don't have time to go into it today, but there are so many things in the 1970s that are warped like that. We must save the children! But yet it's the 1970s that brought forth policies that abused children, took them away from parents without due process. funding welfare in these cities that tear up the family. It was the 1970s that began to attack the father. There's no need for the father. And now even the sociologists and psychiatrists and psychologists, so many articles are coming out about how When girls are with their children, I'm sorry, when little girls are with their fathers, the amazing things, they're brighter, they're bolder, they're not as lonely in life. I mean, you just go home and you type in fathers and children and look at what the world is saying now. Totally contradicting everything in the 1970s. God made a mommy and a daddy. And there's a reason for both of them. The 1970s was a warped decade. I believe the 1970s, the people became animals in many ways. Not everybody, but many people. Jude 1, these speak evil of those things which they know not, but what they know naturally as brute beasts. In those things they corrupt themselves. Somebody that believes it's okay for a mom to abort, to kill her baby in the womb is warped. You are worse than an animal in some way. That's why I call it animalistic ethics. The 1970s was filled with animalistic ethics. We're going to save the children, but yet you're abusing the children. We're going to save the animals, but yet you're aborting babies. In the 1970s, it began the decade in 1971 with a book called Diet for a Small Planet by Francis Moore Lappe. By 1995, Peter Singer, authored his Animal Liberation, which led to the founding of PETA in 1980. Vegetarian Times was launched in the 1970s. When I say the 1970s was a decade of lies and error. No need of fathers. It's okay to abort your children. No fault divorce. You don't feel like you love your husband? Divorcing, you don't love your wife? Doesn't matter, just divorce. That was the 1970s. The same decade that gave us junk food is good for you. No, no, no, I'm not lying. I believe it was a Harvard doctor appeared in just about every newspaper throughout the 70s, every week, telling you that soft drinks are good for you, sugar is good, high fructose corn syrup is healthy, junk food is good for you. Now he was funded, we found out, by the junk food industry. They began to say that sugar is good for you, even though there were numerous studies to show that sugar leads to heart disease. In fact, you could go to kjv.health. I have many of the studies there. It is an absolute fact. If you want to do a study about high blood pressure and you want to give high blood pressure to a bunch of rats, you feed them high fructose corn syrup. It gives them high blood pressure. Why is that? because it is a fact that sugar and high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar, go in your body and anywhere there's good cholesterol, they change it into bad cholesterol and start coating your arteries with plaque. And obviously, if your arteries are getting coated with stuff, it's going to increase the blood pressure. You're going to have heart problems from sugar. This is the generation that said, do not eat animals. Was the generation that said, sugar is good for you. Animals are bad. Here's a headline. How the sugar industry funded and paid scientists to tell us that fat and not sugar was the real problem. Here's another headline. Sugar industry bought off scientists. Here's another headline. Coca-Cola funds scientists, $132 million. Guardian. Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease. So if you lived in the 70s, you were told meat is bad. You were made to feel guilty for eating meat. And if you don't want a heart attack, you better quit eating butter. Don't eat coconut oil. Don't eat meat. But use our plastic margarine and our plastic Crisco and all of our trans fats and be a vegetarian. This is what you were told. Eggs are bad for you. Meat's bad for you. Dairy's bad for you. Now anybody that was reading their Bible back then would have had a big problem. Because they would saw that the Lord Jesus said eggs are good, they ate meat all throughout the Bible. When Abraham had his visit from the angels, they went and got milk, and they had meat, and they had a good time. The Bible does say in 1 Timothy 4, Now the Spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter time some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." I do not believe that God created a buzzard to be eaten. The Bible says in the book of Revelation that a buzzard is still an unclean bird. The last book of the Bible to be written, it was still unclean. A rotten buzzard has a purpose upon this earth, but putting it upon your plate to eat was not God's intention. So if you're telling people to eat what God ordained to be eaten, that is a good thing. But if you're telling people you shouldn't eat meat at all, not even those that God ordained to be eaten, you shouldn't eat a sheep, you shouldn't eat a goat, you shouldn't eat a lamb, you shouldn't eat a cow, you shouldn't eat a chicken, you shouldn't eat a turkey, you shouldn't eat clean fish. The Bible says that devils are coming up with that idea. And of course, we know it comes from Hinduism and Eastern mysticism and the vegetarianism came from the East when the Beatles brought all that New Age garbage in the 1960s and by the time you get to the 70s, vegetarianism exploded all over America. Now, Roloff, the great preacher, was right in the middle of all of that. And he had a lot of discernment And he was pointing out what's wrong with public school. He was pointing out what's wrong with that television in Hollywood. He was pointing out so many things. But one thing he began to say is that you ought to fast. The Bible teaches you to fast in the Bible. The Bible says when you fast, not if you fast. You need to be fasting. And then he began to say, you're cooking your food too much. And he got off into this raw thing. I believe he went too far with the raw thing. In the Bible, they cooked food. And then, Roloff began to stress more and more you shouldn't eat meat. Now, in some ways, you could have some true facts, but then draw some wrong conclusions from those facts. One thing that I believe Roloff knew was that people are eating meat and they're getting sick. But now we know why. It was the processed meat It was the nitrate filled, high fructose corn syrup filled, the antibiotic hormone filled meat, the processed meats, overly processed beyond what God would ordain. Roloff said, hey, when I started drinking green vegetable juices, and I stopped eating meat, it healed my cancer. Sure, you quit eating hot dogs in the 1970s, quit eating bologna, quit eating all that antibiotic hormone, nitrate, high fructose MSG filled garbage that they get off the floor and put a whole bunch of fat in it and then grind it all up and then feed it to you with cows that never saw daylight, that drink pig blood when they're calves. I mean, what in the world do you think is going to happen to you when you're eating that stuff? Unfortunately, Roloff went too far. And he began to quote Jethro Closs in his book, Back to Eden, where Closs says, meats of all kind are unnatural foods. Meats contain bacteria. Well, cook it then. Cook it and then eat garlic and all the other stuff God said to eat with it. So we have now two sides. And as I often do, I just make everybody mad. Because so many times, I'm on both sides, or I'm on neither side. I'm not saying in everything, but sometimes the Calvinists and the Arminians are both right in something. Sometimes when you got a big debate, sometimes there's truth on both sides and there's error on both sides. So I am not a vegetarian and I think it's unbiblical and can be demonic to be into that mess and certainly unhealthy or could be. At the same time, I do believe in eating meat that God ordained to be food. So you have the vegetarian, meat is bad, animals are good, let's never hurt an animal, let's be ethical toward animals, let's never eat them. But then on the other side, you've got people that call them wackos, but in many ways, they are loony. These are people that say, well, that Roloff, he got into herbs. Well, so you don't want to use herbs for medicine. What in the world do you want to use? Something pharmaceutical companies have isolated and created some Frankenstein type of thing. And sometimes you have to use that stuff if you don't know anything better. But I'm telling you, If you think just doing whatever Big Pharma and their state-funded doctors tell you to do, bought off by pharmaceutical companies, is the path to healing, and you're going to mock people that are into herbs, you're just plain loony. And not only that, you're going to suffer a lot in life, likely. Can people get into herbs and also get into witchcraft with it? Absolutely. But if you give me time, and I don't have it today, I'll show you there's a lot of witchcraft in the modern medical system today. I'm not against a wise doctor, if you can find one who's not been bought out. You probably got to go down to some other country and find one, unless they're underground or operating here, contrary to big pharma. So people that mock Roloff sometimes mock him for the wrong reasons. And they live at McDonald's every week. But let me show you some things that Roloff was right about when he told you to fast. Trying to give you a balance here. 2014, years after Roloff died of a plane crash, by the way. It says, fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged old immune system. A study in the June 5th issue of the Cell Stem Cell shows that cycles of prolonged fasting not only protect against immune damage, but also induce immune system regeneration. Periods of no food for two to four days kill older and damaged immune cells and generate new ones. That is amazing. Roloff didn't know that. He just knew the Bible said you should fast. And now we're finding out that fasting not only protects against future damage, it actually regenerates new immune cells. As the Telegraph explains, fasting for three days can generate entire immune system, study finds. Fasting for as little as three days can regenerate the entire immune system even in the elderly, scientists have found in a breakthrough described as remarkable. Although fasting diets have been criticized by nutritionists for being unhealthy, new research suggests starving the body kickstarts stem cells into producing new white blood cells which fight off infection. It could also help the elderly whose immune system become less effective as they age. So people were saying, no, don't fast. You're killing some white blood cells in your body. Don't kill them. Well, God was, and the angels were looking down saying, no, if you kill them, your body will make some stronger ones. God's always right. Roloff didn't have anything in the Bible that said don't eat meat. But he did have a lot in the Bible that said you should fast. Now there's people today, like Jordan Peterson and his daughter, who claim they healed their depression by a carnivore diet. So the new carnivore diet is all they are going to eat is beef, salt, and water. That's it, nothing else. And they claim just eating beef, salt, and water have done wonders for us. And if you eat it, I don't recommend that because the Bible said eat olive oil, eat bitter herbs, eat all these other things, eat pomegranates, eat the other things that God's given you to have the polyphenols and antioxidants and all the things that you need. But, very interesting. So after the 1970s, losing their mind. Telling you fathers are bad. It's okay to kill your little baby in the womb. It's okay to divorce without a cause. And meat is bad, dairy is bad, eggs are bad, only sugar is good. What a wart generation. Now, after all this time telling you meat is bad, over the decades, evidence has been coming in, you know what? It's not bad. It's not bad. It's the processed meat. It's the processed meat. It's not meat. It's not meat. Now, it's gone even further and they're saying, uh-oh, meat is good for you. Meat is protecting your heart. Meat actually helps your heart. Medical Express, just a few days ago, says components of heart-healthy diet may differ from what was previously thought. Yeah, you mean like the 1970? The foods that make up a heart-healthy diet for people worldwide may differ from what was previously thought according to late breaking results from the study presented today. in Hotline Session ESC Congress 2018 and simultaneously published in The Lancet. Professor Salem Youssef, senior author, said, thinking of what constitutes a high-quality diet for a global population needs to be reconsidered. For example, our results show that dairy products and meat are beneficial for the heart and longevity. Regarding meat, we found that unprocessed meat is associated with the benefit, not the end of sausages. The results suggest that we should limit the amount of refined carbohydrates we eat and that dairy foods and unprocessed meat can be included as part of a healthy diet. And what they go on to find is, you know what? That Mediterranean biblical diet seems to be exactly the balance we've been looking for. And amen to that. So what are the conclusions today that I'm drawing? We need to be kind to animals. But being kind to animals doesn't mean that you can't protect yourself. And it certainly doesn't mean that you cannot eat them that have been ordained to be eaten. In fact, when you have to slaughter an animal, Part of giving God thanks, I believe, is understanding that an animal gave its strength for me to have strength. And I believe if we looked at it that way, we should ask, what am I doing with the strength from that animal? What am I doing? What am I doing with the health and the strength and the energy that God's given me from that animal? God, I thank you for the animal. I thank you that it gave its life, that I might have energy and strength, not to go serve sin in the world and Satan, but that we might be good stewards of our body and eat for strength. The Bible says that we ought to eat for strength. And blessed are you when your kings and your leaders have examples of showing you how to eat for strength. In review, we've also seen the 1970s where this vegetarianism blossomed was very warped and unbalanced and just plain wrong about so many things that now, after years of covering it up, they can't bury it forever. It's like an avalanche and now there's so much information coming out that they were just plain wrong about a lot of things. And guess what? Your Bible was right all along. Your Bible was right all along. Maybe we should learn a lesson from all of this. When you've got two sides saying meat is bad and the other side saying no meat's in the Bible, maybe we're doing something wrong to the meat. Maybe it's not everything they're saying is wrong. Maybe we're doing something wrong that God never said to do. Dear Holy Father, I do thank you for your goodness. May we be ethical toward animals, not in an unbiblical fashion. And Lord, whatever it is after death, if some animals from this age will be in the kingdom, God will give you glory. But dear Holy Father, let us not be animalistic in our ethics as many brute beasts today that have such a warped, perverted morality, killing their babies, destroying their families, destroying their health, living for drunkenness and corruption and lies. Save us from this untoward generation, God. And You command us to save ourselves from it, Lord, in one sense. That is to take Your Scripture and come out from among them and be a separate. Help us, Holy Father. Now I pray You do bring good health to many, Lord. Better health, God, by wise principles. But Father, we know that good physical health without good spiritual health is vanity in the end. May you help us live right, do right, think right. We thank you for the creatures that you've given us. We thank you for how animals, Lord, lighten up our day. Many times can be very irritating like our goats, but we do thank you for them, God. We thank you for goat milk, and we thank you for all that you've given us to provide for us. I do pray that you enable more families, God, to take the time to provide and grow and raise their own food and the experiences that you give us through doing so. In Jesus' holy name, amen.