Pastor's Comments July 24, 2009

“. . . I AM the LORD (JHVH ROPHEKA = JHVH that heals you) who heals you (Exodus 15:22).

“You live in a world that relies primarily on Medical Doctors to treat illness” Plain Truth about Healing, Chapter one, page 8, Healing in our Time, Mr. Armstrong.

In this writing, we will take a look at another area that is little thought about yet it also a cause for real concern when understood; it is our food chain. This is the area that contributes largely to the causes of disease and sickness. Unknowingly, we are killing ourselves through what we eat each day

We live in a world that is ruled by the god of this world, Satan the devil, who is the arch-enemy of mankind and continually seeks our destruction through deception, spiritually and physically!

“So the great dragon was cast out (John 12:31; II Corinthians 4:4), that serpent of old (Genesis 3:1-2), called the Devil (Matthew 4:1) and Satan (Matthew 4:10), who DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD” (Revelation 12:8).

With this Scripture in mind, note the following quotes from a booklet written by Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong in 1984:

“You live in a world of awesome progress, but paradoxically, of appalling evils. WHY? It’s a world held captive, deceived into loving its captivity. Deliverance from kidnap in deception, human discontent, suffering and death hastens nearer. World peace, happiness and joy are just around the corner.

Pages 1, 2, 12 “. . . this world has been so completely deceived that it cannot realize what actually has happened to it. . . . There can be no understanding of this present world without a right knowledge of origins. . . . People do not enjoy being told they are deceived. Though it wounds human vanity, being told that one is ignorant of the knowledge of the truth is less painful than suffering the results of the deception.”

There are only the few who understand the dangers to the health and well-being within the food chain; and fewer yet are those who understand the reasons why! For a better understanding, please note the following quote from the following booklet:

The Seven Laws of Radiant Health, Ambassador College Publication, Booklet 1973

“There are immutable laws governing this entire universe which act upon everything and everyone. Ignorance of them does not suspend or annul their effect. Painful penalties are reaped when they are broken; health and happiness result when we are not in harmony with them. Health is not an accident — nor is disease. There is a cause for every effect. . . .”

Mr. Armstrong elaborates further in another of his booklets as to the cause of sickness and disease:

The Seven Laws of SUCCESS, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, 1974 Booklet -- Page 34 The Basic Third Law

“The all important third law coming next in time order is GOOD HEALTH. We are physical beings. The mind and the body form the most wonderful physical mechanism we know. But man is made of matter . . . man IS just what he eats! Some of the most famous physicians and surgeons have said that 90% to 95% of all sickness and disease comes from faulty diet!

“Most people are in utter ignorance of the fact that it does make a difference what we eat! Most people, and the customs of society, have followed a regimen of eating whatever tastes good to the palate.

Page 40 – Without health one is direly handicapped, if not totally cut off from achievement. . . .”

As we have seen from the writings of God’s late apostle, Mr. Herbert W. Armstrong, the food chain must be taken into consideration as a real contributing cause of sickness and disease.

There are the few farmers who realize for the land to produce healthy vegetables and fruits, as well as food for the animals, it not only has to be free from chemical fertilizers but also the land must have its lawful rest.

And the LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, , and gather its fruit; but in the 7^th year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall neither sow your field nor prune your vineyard’ ” . . . (Leviticus 25:1-7).

Ancient Israel did not observe this law of God; and along with their other grievous sins, they paid a heavy penalty because of it (Leviticus 26:33-35).

Aside from the failure of observing the land-rest; the top soil is overworked and exploited. To force it to produce plentifully it is pumped up by the use of artificial fertilizers.

From the beginning stages of growth to almost harvest time, the fruits and vegetables are then sprayed with poisonous chemicals with the effort of killing the insects that eat on them.

A retired school teacher from Exeter, California, told me some years ago that she and her husband were out walking and a plane off-course was spraying a nearby orchard and they were caught in its poisonous spray. It was not suppose to be there. Further, she said her husband died with cancer sometime later, and she also had cancer. She knew the cause for the cancer in both of them was having been caught in its deadly spray. She died a little later.

It was determined by the Agricultural Department of Ambassador College in Big Sandy, Texas some years ago that bugs only eat on fruits and vegetables that are unhealthy. They leave the healthy plants alone.

This has had a terrible impact on all living as has been proven scientifically as made known from a book written by Rachel Carson in 1962, a biologist, who came to see the impact the chemicals were having on nature.

She was the leading cause of environmental studies. By some, she was labeled a radical for what she wrote affected adversely the chemical industry.

“For as long as man has dwelt on the planet, spring has been the season of rebirth, and the singing of birds. Now in some parts of America spring is strangely silent, for many of the birds are dead — incidental victims of our reckless attempt to control our environment by the use of chemicals that poison not only the insects against which they are directed but the birds in the air, the fish in the rivers, the earth which supplies our food, and, inevitably (to what degree is still unknown – man himself. [1962 – far worse today]

“FOR THE FIRST TIME in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic chemicals have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. They have been recovered from most of the major river systems and even from streams of groundwater flowing unseen through the earth. Residues of these chemicals linger in soil to which they may have been lodged in the bodies of fish, birds, reptiles, and domestic and wild animals so universally that scientists find it almost impossible to locate subjects free from contamination. They have been found in fish in remote mountain lakes, in earthworms burrowing in soil, in the eggs of birds — and in man himself. For these chemicals are now stored in the bodies of the vast majority of human beings regardless of age. They occur in the mother’s milk, and probably in the tissues of the unborn child. . . .”

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Nutrition, David Reuben, M.D. Excerpts from his writings—

“. . . If you want to keep from getting sick, eat healthful, unprocessed, uncontaminated food.”

Pages xvi, xvii “In this book I am going to tell you in detail—supported by the latest scientific evidence—that you have been sold the Emperor’s new clothes. Penny for penny and pound for pound, you eat one of the worst diets in the world—and it is hurting you and your children more than you are willing to admit. Before you say yes or no, slide your hand down over your stomach and see how much you carry there. Run your tongue over your teeth and check the number of cavities—and plastic imitation teeth—your over refined diet has brought you. Think of your friends and relatives with cancer, diabetes, and heart attacks—think of the rotten food they ate to get that way. . . . Your body—and your mind—is only as good and wholesome as the food you put into it. The food processors spend their billions to tell you that your body doesn’t know the difference between a real strawberry and ethyl-3-methyl-3-phenylglycidate, a common imitation strawberry flavoring. Your body knows the difference. And someday when you suddenly wake up with a lump you never had before or a pain that won’t go away from the 5000 synthetic chemicals in your food, write a letter to the big food companies or to the FDA and ask them to take care of your family. Good luck.

. . . the greatest threat to the survival of you and your children is not some terrible nuclear weapon, it is what you and your children eat from your dinner plate tonight.”

For those who might be able to find a copy of this book, published 1979, Avon paperback, it will be worth the price.

As God’s begotten children we have been called to come out of this world of darkness and are to walk in the light of God’s truths that are made known by His holy and righteous laws.

We have been called to live a new way of life, God’s way. And as God’s people, we need to realize that we are the Temple of God in which our Father and Jesus Christ dwell by Their Holy Spirit. And we are to try hard not to defile it in any manner. This also includes the laws that govern the Food Chain as well as all other areas.

The slogan: “Eat foods that will spoil but eat them before they do” – meaning: without the use of preservatives; this is an excellent health guide. There are other books that make known preservatives are connected with cancer.

Learn to read labels and avoid the bad additives in food. Realize they have their bad fallout just as a pharmacist will make known the side effects of a prescription being filled by him or her to a person.

It is realized the purchase of natural uncontaminated foods, organic, untreated and free from poisons, will cost more money. But in the long run they are well worth the added cost. As Dr. Reuben states in his book: People will save pennies in buying their food then spend thousands of dollars in hospital care.

We pay from $7.00 to $9.00 for a half gallon of milk form Organic Pastures in Fresno, California. My wife has an allergic reaction to the normal milk in the grocery stores. Since she began drinking this milk she has no problem. She also has a problem with the cantaloupes in the grocery stores—except the organic ones.

I have an allergic reaction to wine with the added sulfites. They are also connected with cancer. It is realized sulfites is a natural by-product of wine and they present no problem. It is the ADDED sulfites that are the added problem. Because of the bad reactions experienced by many the government passed a law some years ago requiring winemakers to print this preservative on the wine bottles.

It is realized not everyone has access to the organic choices in their purchase of foods for they are not available in all areas. For those who do not, you still should read labels and try hard to buy the best you can.

To come fully out of Satan’s world of deceptive darkness we must repent of the wrong way we have lived which also includes the unwise choices we have made even in the food area. We must also remember when we are sick and ask the elders to anoint and pray for us, it is not only a prayer of faith, but also that of repentance for breaking God’s laws of health.

It should also be remembered there is a need for repentant change in whatever we did to bring the problem upon ourselves—just as Jesus Christ said to the man after healing him of an infirmity:

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you” (John 5:14).

It is God’s Holy Spirit that gives us understanding of all of His laws along with the desire and effort to obey them. And to be a real Christian, we must do all we can to live within His holy and righteous laws in all areas.

“No one can have the Holy Spirit, which alone can OPEN the human mind to understanding of this word of God, without a complete repentance and AN IMPLICIT BELIEF in Christ as well as BELIEVING what He says. Repentance can only follow admission of being wrong—of wrong doing and wrong believing.”

To bring this present writing to a close for this time, it is necessary to add the following comments.

Internet - Current State of Medicine Today There is a great dichotomy in the state of medicine today. While modern medicine is greatly able to take care of many health problems it is incredibly inept and handling many others. Medical professionals are very adept at repairing bodies broken in accidents, but in trying to correct chronic health problems like thyroid disease, diabetes, or any of a long list of diseases, they are virtually helpless.

“I have made it plain that God’s Church does not condemn medical or other doctors—nor sit in judgment of those who are weak in faith and rely on MAN. There is much doctors can do for us today.

I have given the BASIC PRINCIPLE: God does for us what we humans cannot do. One could get into endless arguments and controversy on technical specific issues of what we may go to man for and what to rely on God to do. I've given the broad guidelines. The church will encourage God's people to believe God -- rely on God -- to say, with the apostles,". . . Lord, INCREASE OUR FAITH (Luke 17:5).

God does not expect his ministers to make your decisions for you -- and God's Church will not sit in judgment of you if you go to a doctor but God says one of his benefits, for which he makes no charge is that he offers you the loving services of a miracle worker -- the living Jesus Christ!”

Before ending this series of writings to make it complete it is necessary to write about another area that explains more fully why medical science cannot heal anyone.

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