The saints of the
past were pure vegetarians. For from eating fish and meat, they loved,
protected and befriended animals. Capillaries stretch throughout our entire
body like cobwebs. Their overall length could run the circumference of the
earth many times over. When we eat meat, such as beef, pork, dog meat, or
chicken, the animal fat enters our body and not only does it make our blood
acidic, it becomes deposited along the walls of our capillaries and eventually
hinders the blood from flowing through them. The results are arteriosclerosis
high blood pressure, and even sudden death. Moreover, there is a possibility of
contracting various diseases, such as tumors, lung disease, syphilis, and leprosy.
A meat diet also arouses the lower passions, animalizing man so that he cannot
control his passion.
Though many people
these days die of cancer, there was a time in our country when we did not even
know what it was. Cancer is a western disease, and statistics show that in many
countries, hundreds of thousands of people die of cancer each year. Yet, people
do not seem to know the basic cause of cancer. Cancer is the result of eating
too much meat. Cancerous germs feed on meat; it is their food. If we simply
abstain from a meat diet and return to the pure diet of Eden, it is almost
impossible to get cancer, and even those who already have cancer can be cured
easily.
Very few animals
in the time of Noah or Jesus were diseased. The animals in Noah’s time were
clean, but these days, chickens, cows, and pigs have all become diseased. When
we eat such meat, we are also eating their diseases and eventually we contract
them too.
Cows are not
meat-eaters. They only feed on grass and vegetables and yet they grow fat. They
are not only free from disease, but also very strong. In order to be free from
disease and strong as well, we ourselves need to eat fruits and vegetables.
However, since we eat the meat of a diseased cow, we contract the same diseases
the cow suffered from. Moreover, these days, cows are fed and injected hormones
to fatten them and they gain weight within a few months. Those who buy and eat
such beef will likewise gain weight, and their bones will become so weak they
will not be able to sustain the additional weight. Such people have only become
fat. If they fall down, their bones will break easily, and they will eventually
collapse since their blood vessels are becoming clogged. Without an
understanding of the law of nature, modern medicine is useless. People deceived
themselves, only to face destruction in the end.
I frequently
visited a certain leper colony quite often. When I asked the patients how they
contracted leprosy, they replied that all they knew was that after scratching
their skin, boils formed on their bodies, and in turn they became lepers.
Modern medicine also does not know the cause of leprosy. Leprosy is the result
of eating pork. Nevertheless, these days, people on TV recommend that food of
minced pork is an excellent snack for children. In addition, when cancer
patients visit the hospital, physicians advise them to eat plenty of meat to
take in a sufficient amount of nutrition.
The director of a
certain hospital contracted a disease that made his bones very frail. His bones
would crack even if he would just bump into something. No medicine in this
world could heal his disease. However, he was healed of his incurable disease
after attending my seminar and listening to my lectures. Man must live
according heaven’s rationality. Apart from it, both medicine and theology are
unreasonable. If cancer patients would only abstain from a meat diet and return
to the pure diet of Eden, they could be cured easily.
Many cases of
cancer appear in western countries and in countries where the citizens consume
large quantities of meat. The reason why there are so many cancer cases in our
country (Korea) also these days is that our citizens have become wealthy and
are eating great deal of meat. Cancer is an incurable disease and once a person
has been operated on, it is that much more difficult to treat him/her with
natural methods. Moreover, it is more difficult to use natural methods to treat
those who have already received chemotherapy; they are more than likely to fail
with them. No matter how advanced modern medicine may be, everyone is afraid of
cancer. In more severe cases, some doctors even give up on their patients and
simply tell them to go home, eat whatever they would like to, and just take it
easy.
Cancer is a fatal
disease. However, if we only eat the natural foods heaven originally told us to
eat, we can fight against cancer and sufficiently overcome it.
These days, the
world has abandoned the food God prepared for us in the beginning, and by
eating the new food man has prepared, doctors and patients alike are dying.
Modern medicine is neither aware of that fact nor even tries to know about it.
Doctors spend their entire life merely researching temporary measures. They do
not even try to direct their attention to that easy, fundamental treatment.
There is a saying,
‘Pork is worth the price you have paid only when it is eaten well.” Some germs
in pork do not die, no matter how much they are boiled or cooked. They rather
thrive in the warmer temperature. Once those germs enter our body, they start
multiplying very rapidly, as if to say, “Now we’re in charge.” That is how we
develop cancer, syphilis and leprosy. Therefore, by eating pork we are not just
“taking one and losing hundreds” but “taking more and losing ten thousand.” We
gain nothing from it.
In the Bible,
there is an account of Jesus eating fish two thousand years ago. However, these
days all of the rivers and oceans have become polluted and poisoned. Therefore,
even fish is unsuitable for our consumption because our body becomes diseased
when we eat it. Moreover, some fish that may have been caught in clear, clean
water may have already been poisoned from some other remote, polluted water,
some people die immediately of food poisoning after eating such fish. In these
last days, fish is also totally unfit for consumption by the saints of the new
world.
All the oceans in
the world are now polluted, and so the time has come to refrain from eating
fish also. We may think we will suffer from malnutrition if we abstain from
meat and fish. Rather, those people who eat meat and fish may lack the nutrient
they need since their blood vessels become clogged; they only become fat and
diseased. We will not suffer from malnutrition just because we stop eating
meat.
Then why did God
allow His children to eat meat during the time of the Old Testament? Beginning
from the Garden of Eden up until the flood during Noah’s time, God never once
told His children to eat meat. However, when all the fruits and vegetables were
destroyed by the flood and there was nothing left to eat, God allowed Noah and
his family to temporarily eat meat instead of vegetables. Even then, He had
them eat the meat of only select, clean animals and not the meat of unclean
ones. In addition, after the Flood, God fed Moses and the two million
Israelites he was leading, manna not meat. It was only because they complained
and clamored for what they were accustomed to eating in Egypt that He allowed
them meat against His own will. Eating meat was never God’s plan. While raising
our own children, there are times when they cry for something know is harmful
to them, and when we cannot bear it any longer we give it to them even though
we do not feel like it. It was the same for our heavenly Father.
In the wilderness,
the Israelites complained and cried for meat so much that Moses could not bear
it any longer. The reason why God did not allow them to eat meat even until
Moses could no longer bear it was because He knew how unsuitable and harmful
such food would be for them. Moses appealed to God, “For they weep all over me,
saying, ‘Give us meat , that we may eat …Please kill me… and do not let me see
my wretchedness” God replied, “I will give you meat but for a whole month,
until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you
have despise the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him saying “Why
did we ever come up out of Egypt?” God poured clouds of quails down upon them.
As for those who coveted meat, while the meat was still between their teeth,
before it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was aroused against the people, and
the Lord struck the people with a very great plague… There they buried the
people who had yielded to craving.”
Therefore, countless
numbers of Israelites died while they coveted meat and those who survived
became diseased from eating it. Meat is a food that God has prohibited; it
makes us ill, ‘He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul’
and body.
Those who eat meat
can never become saints. Though this may sound extreme, those who eat meat can
never enter the new world. This is because we enter the new world through our
characters and people who eat meat will never be regenerated, nor will their
hearts or characters ever be transformed – even if they fast and pray all night
to God asking Him to regenerate and sanctify them. When we eat meat, our blood
becomes tainted, and accordingly our character becomes wicked.
Therefore,
religionists who eat meat can never be translated, no matter how much they may
pray to be. Not a single verse in the sixty six books of the Bible tells us to
eat dog or pork. Far from telling us to eat the meat of unclean animals such as
dogs or pigs when they die, it is written in the Bible that God has told us not
to even touch their carcasses. He called those who touched their carcasses
unclean and told them not to enter the holy camp until they had purified
themselves.
“Do you not know
that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God duels in you? If you
defies the temple of God, God will destroy him” (1 cor. 3:16, 17)
“Those who
sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens after an idol in
the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination … shall be consumed
together, says the Lord. (Isa. 66:17). There are those who sit among graves,
and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of
unclean meat is in their pots; who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
for I am holier than you!’ these are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns
all the day.’ (Isa. 65: 4, 5, NASB)
The graves, refers to this earth. There are those who privately go to the secret
places; who eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots;
while eating pork and the broth of dog meat, they say, “Keep to yourself, I am
holy servant of God. Do not come near me for I am holier than you!” God has
said that such people who pretend to be religious are ‘smoke in His nostrils, a
fire that burns all the day.’ In other words, they will be destroyed by His
wrath.
Those who eat meat
cannot become saints; those who eat meat cannot enter the new world. In the new
world, there is no such thing as butchering an animal and eating its meat.
Those who will live in the new world, as saints must first become saints on
this earth. Moreover, those who eat meat may become so violent that they cannot
live together with the saints in the new world.
Let me show you a
practical object lesson. If you look at the carnivorous animals such as cats,
tigers, lions, wolves, hawks, and eagles, you can see that they are very
brutal. They tear their prey apart and kill even when they do not eat it. From
small cats to large lions, even beautiful birds, all carnivorous animals have
violent brutal characters. On the other hand, herbivorous animals – from small
sparrows to large elephants – that feed on the same food as the saints such as
sheep, dear cows, elephants, sparrows, orioles, and doves have nice characters.
They are all docile and good-natured.
A westerner
experimented with a very ferocious dog. It was so scary that no one could
approach it or even enter the house it was staying in. he brought the dog home
and did not feed it any meat. He put the dog on a strict vegetarian diet for
several months, feeding it boiled beans. Little by little, the dog became
docile. Later, it behaved so well that it followed people around without
attacking them. Later, he feed the dog with meat and bones once again. The dog
soon became scary and ferocious; it would snarl people and attack them. His
experiment was precise, and his results were correct. The food we eat forms our
blood, and our character and disposition are dependent on the type of blood
formed. Tigers and lions were as gentle as sheep when they fed on grass in the
Garden of Eden. It has been said that the lions and deer lay together and the
sheep and wolves played together. However, the world is different now. Ever
since tigers and lions started preying on other animals on this cursed earth,
lions and sheep do not play together in one place; sheep are so scared of lions
that they do not even look at them.
If man and animal
would like to possess the beautiful character they once possessed in the Garden
of Eden they should return to our diet in the Garden of Eden. Even if God look
habitual meat-eaters, like the carnivores, back to the Garden of Eden, they
would not be able to resist their craving for meat.
In order to live
beautifully with all the other animals in paradise, we need to return to the
pure diet of old Eden starting from this world. Eating meat is the dreadful act
of eating another’s corpse. Such ferocious animals or horrible people will not
exist in the new world we will enter and live in. in order to live there, and
in order to become holy, good people, we should eat only clean foods and
possess a good heart and character starting from here on this earth.
Look at the blood
that is stored in the blood banks. The blood that is from meat-eaters is dark,
thick, and heavy, while the blood from vegetarians is clear, pure and light.
That is why blood from vegetarians is very precious and in demand. Because our
blood is our life, we should make our blood clean and free of disease.
Even in the past,
when animals had very few diseases, meat was very detrimental to our health.
Then, with all the serious diseases in livestock these days, how detrimental it
must be to our body! It is like paying a high price to buy and consume
miserable diseases. When people eat meat, they immediately feel stronger, and
when they stop eating meat, they feel like they are losing energy. Many insist
that this proves we need to eat meat.
However, there is
a reason why it happens. Meat is stimulating; it causes pyrexia of the blood
and excites our nerves. Its symptoms can be liken to a drunken man who feels
strong under the stimulating influence of alcohol, but is left completely
exhausted when its influence wears out. After you quit eating meat, you may
feel weak and dizzy. But if you can get through that certain period, you will
be tens of times more energetic and healthier from then on. This is something
all of you will happily experience. You will come to confess that God’s
benevolent plan of forbidding meat is love after all, and deeply appreciate it.
I also ate a great
deal of meat when I was young. My health was very poor back then… I suffered
from many diseases. In order to grow stronger, I ate as much meat as I could.
However, I would fell stronger only when I ate meat; I became increasingly
unhealthy and later, I became a young invalid who could not even walk. That was
when I realized through the Bible that Heaven did not give us meat as our food,
and that meat was the cause of my diseases and feebleness. More than forty
years have passed since I gave up eating meat, I am now so much healthier and
stronger than I was when I was in my twenties. My work is quite difficult,
something not everyone can do… I stand in front of an audience for ten hours a
day, for ten days without even a break. I have done this more than 100 times,
and yet, I still have strength and health to spare. Not only was it all
possible with power from heaven, I was also blessed with health from obeying
the diet of the saints Heaven has given to us.
