Daily Devotional, Year 4 – June 15 (What’s An Aristaphagist!? Part 3: “What Did Jesus Eat?”)
By admin On April 12th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 4 – June 15
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What’s An Aristaphagist!?
Part 3:
“What Did Jesus Eat?”
To read part 1, go here…What’s An Aristaphagist!?
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“Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child,
and thy princes eat in the morning!
Blessed art thou, O land,
when thy King is the Son of Nobles,
and thy princes eat in due season,
for strength, and not for drunkenness!”
Ecclesiastes 10:16, 17
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There are many people in today’s world who insist that the healthiest diet is a vegetarian diet.
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Even one particular denomination advocates a vegetarian diet, citing the Book of Genesis, in which God’s original plan was man’s diet to be totally consisting of fruit, seeds and herbs.
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But many Christians are quick to point out that the New Testament never commands nor even suggests that we are to abstain from meat-eating.
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Fruit Stall in Barcelona Market by Daderot – Wikipedia share-alike license
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BIBLE HAS TEMPERANCE MESSAGE
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The Bible does command us thus…“Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! Blessed art thou, O land, when thy King is the Son of Nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!” Ecclesiastes 10:16, 17
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Here is a call for temperance in diet. One group of princes “feast in the morning”, while another group eat “in due season, for strength”.
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While this above passage has great spiritual implications, the physical earthly interpretation cannot be overlooked. After all, to “eat in due season, for strength and not for drunkenness” is the very essence of a healthy diet!
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John the Baptist by Harold Copping www.wikigallery.com US public domain
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JESUS, THE WAY, TRUTH & LIFE
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Now having said all this, it must not be overlooked that God has given us a great role-model for all matters of life: Jesus Christ.
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And Jesus proclaims of Himself…“I am the way, the truth, and the life…” John 14:6
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Yes, we are commanded to follow Jesus. He is “the Way!” And He is “the Life!”
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Jesus calls His disciples – cropped photo & altered – Wikigallery.org
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JESUS: A LIFE OF HEALTH
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And the closer we examine His lifestyle, it appears that Jesus was extremely healthy. 
After all, his earlier life as a physical laborer (a carpenter), plus the countless miles he traveled on foot during His years of earthly ministry both indicate that Jesus was a very strong and healthy individual (and don’t forget that He spent his last years living totally outdoors on a 24/7 basis).
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And yet, as we examine the very basic lifestyle of Jesus in the four Gospels, we see that Jesus ate fish. So obviously Jesus’ meat-eating didn’t seem to hamper His health in the least little bit!
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Sign of the Son of Man Constellation – made of the various constellations on this website
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“COME AND FOLLOW ME!”
Matthew 19:21
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And so, while vegetarianism may indeed be one of the key fundamental ingredients to God’s original plan, we need never be afraid of imitating the lifestyle of Jesus: His active lifestyle of fasting, outdoor exercise combined with a simple diet of fish, fruit, whole-grain bread, water, etc., worked well for our divine Role-Model. And we would probably do well to also imitate Jesus in this area of our life, which would no doubt result in our greater degree of health.
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Jesus Teaching His Disciples – Luke 4:31-32
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TO READ PART 4, CLICK HERE…
June 25 (What’s An Aristaphagist? Part 4 “How To Cure Fibromyalgia”)
Fruit Cocktail – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Let me eat for strength both in the physical sense, but also in the spiritual sense. Let me always have Jesus before my eyes as I follow Him by faith, imitating whatever I see Him doing…
Woman Praying – cropped image – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… June 30 (The Sign Of The Son Of Man In Heaven, Part 2: “Jesus: The True Way Out of Babylon”)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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THE WINTER CONSTELLATIONS
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“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman….and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon….And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon….And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness….And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.” Rev. 21:1-3, 14, 15
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This Woman of Revelation 12 is definitely fleeing to the mountains . As you can see in this sketch , The Dragon of Revelation 12 is spewing out his water of falsehoods: false gospels, false ideologies, various temptations, false brethren who will embrace her with the poisonous wine of the The Great Harlot of Babylon. These are what comprise this wave of water coming forth from the Dragon’s mouth. (see “Flood Waters of Satan”)
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… “Running The Christian Race (Part 3, Sensual Music)”
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TOMORROW:
June 16 (The Devil Made Me Do It! Part 30: “Fanatics in the Church!”)
David Koresh – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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