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Amazing Facts

Healing, Health & Holiness

Doug Batchelor

Healing, Health & Holiness, Part 1

Healing, Health & Holiness Part 2

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

In January 2010, a minivan struck and killed a man crossing Brooklyn Street, Especially tragic because this was no ordinary man.

Joe Rolino would have been 105 years old in March.

His friends said he was the model of health.

A World War II vet with 3 purple hearts, Rolino got his start in the 1920s at the Coney Island Carnival, billed as the strongest man in the world.

5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, for his size he was 1 of the strongest men ever.

He could move 3, 200 pounds with his back, lift 475 pounds with his teeth, and 635 pounds he could lift with 1 finger.

At Joe Rolino's 103rd birthday party, a friend gave him a quarter and Rolino bent it with his fingers.

He then apologized because he used to do it with a dime.

Did I mention that Joe Rolino didn't drink or smoke?

He exercised daily and he was a lifelong vegetarian.

You know the Bible also makes a connection between a very strong man and a unique lifestyle.

The Bible says Samson did not drink, and he stayed away from unclean foods.

Anything is possible when we follow God's health plan.

So Join me now as we take a deeper look into this life changing subject.

Tonight I'm going to be sharing a topic that I think the Christian world is long overdue to understand this issue and people have suffered greatly because they do not understand this principle from the Bible that is very practical.

Now our message tonight is dealing with the subject of healing, health and holiness.

It begins with a story that you find in a book of prophecy and it's in Daniel 1, it tells that after King Nebuchadnezzar had conquered Babylon, He took some of the brightest and the best of the nation and he brought them with him back to Babylon and he said, look we're going to train you in the language of the Chaldeans, we're going to feed you from our cafeteria for 3 years and we're going to prepare you to be ambassadors representing your part of the world, and go to the University of Babylon." And you think, well, that would be really good to be eating from the Babylonian cafeteria.

Babylonians ate things that God had told His people they're not supposed to eat.

So Daniel and his 3 friends that had been carried off to Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, their Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah, they said, we can't eat that.

Please let us eat pulse or vegetables and just give us a chance, and the man who was in charge of the eunuchs he said I can't do that because if you start looking scrawny and sick I'm responsible for your health and education my head will be on the block.

Notice it says in Daniel 1 verse 8, Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile, he would not what?

Defile himself with a portion of the king's meat.

So they proposed to Ashkenaz, prince of the eunuchs, prove your servants, test us for 10 days, let us have pulse to eat and water to drink, we're not going to eat the Babylonian food and the fermented wine, and the Bible says he consented to that.

And then at the end of 10 days, their countenances appeared fair and fatter in flesh, you know they just come across the desert, and he found them 10 times better, smarter than all the magicians and the astrologers that were in the realm and the first chapter of Daniel closes by saying and Daniel continued until the time of King Cyrus, Daniel lived to about a hundred years of age he must have been 15 to 17 when he was carried off.

So it's interesting that at this very important book of prophecy it would make a point that Daniel and his friends had purposed they would take care of their bodies even when they were tempted by their surroundings and even though there was social pressure to compromise they said no this is what God says about treating our bodies as the temple of the Holy Spirit and we will not defile our bodies.

This is a truth that has been lost by much of the Christian church and it's an area where there needs to be revival and reformation and that's also true even within our denomination.

Let's look at our lesson, it's going to bring out a number of points.

First question, what was the original diet that God designed for humans?

You read in Genesis 1 verse 29 and God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed and in every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed to you which will be for meat.

And the word meat there that's King James, just means for food and so the original diet that God gave to man was a vegetarian diet containing, actually fruits, grains and nuts, beans but later God expanded the diet, that's the next question, After Adam and Eve sinned, and they were evicted from the Garden of Eden, they could no longer eat from the Tree of Life, God then said, all right, I want to give you something supplemental.

What was added to their diet at that point?

Genesis 3 verse 18, he said, You shall eat the herb of the field, meaning vegetables.

Now I find sometimes people don't know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.

Fruit, onion, vegetable, Brussels sprouts, Onion.

That anything that is the product of the blossom is the fruit.

And anything that's any other part of the plant, whether it's the stalk or the leaves or the bulbs, that's a vegetable.

And so after Adam and Eve, and you know a lot of kids out there are really sorry that Adam and Eve sinned because they didn't want vegetables added to their diet.

But after they sinned and they were told they could no longer stay in the garden God said you can also eat the herb of the field.

But the original diet for man was a vegetarian diet.

And I'll just tell you right now I'm biased.

The Bible does not require you to be a vegetarian, but are you aware that we will be vegetarians in heaven?

When God asked Adam to name the animals, he did not look at the cow and say, whopper.

And he did not look at the chickens and say, McNuggets.

You know, he was supposed to protect them, he wasn't supposed to think about eating them.

And it wasn't until after sin, and especially after the flood, that animals became a part of the diet.

I told you I'm a vegetarian, I encourage that, but the Bible does say you're going to eat meat, but then it says if you're going to eat meat there's some criteria.

You can read about this in Leviticus 11 verse 3 whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud these you can eat.

So it needed to have a cloven hoof, needed both characteristics, not just 1.

Now I know some of you are really bothered by that because you're going to have to go take the camel out of your fridge tonight, right after the program.

But you know this was a problem in Christ's time.

He said, you strain a gnat and you swallow a camel, which is unclean.

He said, you're worried about getting a little bitty bug in your water, but then you go eat camel steak when you go home and God says it's unclean.

Now, some things, they chew the cud, but they don't have a cloven hoof.

And then there's a couple of animals that have a cloven hoof, but they don't chew the cud.

Puercal, the pig, the hog, the swine, though it divides the hoof, having cloven hoofs, yet it does not chew the cud, it is unclean to you." He goes on to say, their flesh you shall not eat, their carcass you shall not touch.

I used to take care of my neighbor's pigs when he would go on vacation and you know I always try and find some new word to describe it, but all I can come up with is to tell you that pigs are pigs.

Their name is the definition and you can't improve on it.

You ever been by, you're driven by a pig slaughterhouse?

Even the Bible says, like the sow that was washed returns to wallowing in the mire.

God made some animals that are scavengers, and they're made to kind of clean up the environment.

You wouldn't eat garbage, but you'll eat the garbage can when you eat a pig.

This little piggy went to the market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, even a pig won't eat pork.

You know, I remember reading once, I think it was 1 out of 5 autopsies done in North America, they found out that the Godiva's had symptoms or evidence of trichinae poisoning.

Trichinosis is a very tricky disease in that when the muscle tissue containing trochina cysts are eaten by a human it says the cysts are then digested in the stomach, then release the larvae which migrate to the intestine, begin a new life cycle female trochina worms live about 6 weeks and in that time they might release 15, 000 larvae.

The migration and incestment of larvae can cause fever, pain, even death.

It can cause stiffness in joints and knees and pain and it's often misdiagnosed.

A person thinks I've got bursitis or arthritis and they've got pigitis.

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