Page 107 - Laying Down the Law

What then, are we to make of the fact that Yahweh has repeatedly changed His
instructions to man regarding what He can eat, and He is prophesied to do it again
during the Millennial reign of Christ?
Let us examine the Biblical evidence. When God first created Adam and Eve, He
gave them only fruits and vegetables and the produce of the earth for their food.

Genesis 1:29
And God said, "See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the
face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for
food.”

Even the animals ate a vegan diet. There were no carnivores when the earth was
fashioned.

Genesis 1:30
Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that
creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for
food"; and it was so.

Are these instructions Yahweh delivered to the first man and woman identical
to those given to Moses? Absolutely not! Moses permitted men to eat animal flesh.
Animal flesh was prohibited to Adam and Eve. We see then that God’s Torah
(instruction) does change.
The first menu God gave to man lasted for approximately 1,700 years. From
Adam unto Noah man had only plants to eat. After the flood Yahweh declared that
man could eat meat.

Genesis 9:1-5
So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: "Be fruitful and multiply,
and fill the earth... Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you.
I have given you all things, even as the green herbs. But you shall
not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.”

We see that Noah and his descendants were permitted to eat “every moving
thing that lives.” If a pig moved it could be eaten. Crabs and shrimp moved, so they
could be eaten. “Every moving thing...” was the only criteria listed in Yahweh’s
instruction to Noah. The ONLY prohibition was against eating blood, for the life
(literally “soul”) of the animal is in the blood.
Noah understood that certain animals were considered clean, and some unclean,
for he had made a distinction among them when bringing them on the ark. Of every
clean animal, he took them by sevens onto the ark, a male with his female. Of every
unclean animal he took by twos onto the ark.
After the flood subsided, we read that Noah offered to Yahweh a sacrifice of