The Elijah Prophecy - The Health Message and 1844

Will We Follow Israel's Example?

Friends, first I want to thank all of you for your Emails, letters, and cards of encouragement. They are very much appreciated. It is comforting to know I have friends and supporters all around the world.

Now, I want to draw your attention to a few Scriptures that you might know and have read many times. The Scriptures say:

"Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." 1 Corinthians 10:11, 12.

These verses teach us that God uses examples in the Old Testament to teach His people living in the end of time not to make the same mistakes. We have the examples plainly revealed in Scripture not to follow in the same paths as Israel of old and fall into the same apostasy.
Specifically in this chapter, Paul is referring to the time when the people of God were wandering in the wilderness. Here they started lusting "after evil things" and murmuring and complaining against the Lord. Do you know what they were lusting for, and why they were murmuring and complaining against God? The answer is found in Numbers 11.

In this chapter, the Bible tells us that the mixed multitude and the children of Israel "fell a lusting" and "wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?" It further points out that they were complaining about the manna, or vegetarian diet, that God rained from heaven as He was trying to lead them into the Promise Land!

"But now our soul [is] dried away: [there is] nothing at all, beside this manna, [before] our eyes. And the manna [was] as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium [golden]. [And] the people went about, and gathered [it], and ground [it] in mills, or beat [it] in a mortar, and baked [it] in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
"And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased." Numbers 11:6-10.

What have we learned from this lesson so far? Evidently, the Israelites were lusting after a flesh-food diet and complaining about the vegetarian diet God had provided to keep them healthy and disease-free. To the contrary, they murmured and complained and wanted meat.

Psalms 78:24-31 records what happened to those that complained about the Lord's provisions or diet that He deemed best. "And [He] had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels' food: He sent them meat to the full.

     "He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
      "They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths, The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel. For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works."
      Are God's people repeating the same mistake of Ancient Israel - lusting after the Big Macs, the Whoppers and cheese, the dead carcasses of animals that are, often times, too sick to walk? Are we murmuring against the diet God has chosen for us as recorded in Genesis 1:29 - a whole plant food, vegetarian diet, free from all animal products, just like Israelites of old? If God were to slay those who are gluttonous today, according to government statistics, two-thirds of Americans would have eaten their way to the grave!

Once again, God is trying to lead His people into the Promise Land, but this time it is the heavenly Canaan where He will not be serving fried chicken or beef or turkey burgers on the menu. That is for certain, for the Bible assures us "there shall be no more death." (See Revelation 21:4).

Think about it.

God Bless,

Danny Vierra