Episode #140: What Does the Bible Really Say About Food? Part 1

In this first episode of a three-part series, pastors Derek and Cliff discuss what Scripture says about food in Genesis 1 and 9, prior to the Old Covenant dietary laws. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:10

Welcome to the With All Wisdom Podcast, where we are applying biblical truth to everyday life. My name is Derek Brown. I'm here today with Cliff McManus. We are both pastors and elders at Creekside Bible Church in Cupertino, California, and professors of theology at the Cornerstone Bible College and Seminary in Vallejo, California. And today we want to talk about food. That's a fun topic, but before we get to that topic, I want to encourage you to check out withallwisdom.org where you'll find a large and growing collection of resources all rooted in God's Word and aimed at helping you grow in your walk with Christ. We have theological topics covered. We have sociological topics covered. We have issues related to the Christian life, marriage, and parenting, and all kinds of things. So check that out. We have articles and videos. We even have books there. We have some recent books that have uh we've just published. Uh we've just published The Biblical Church by Cliff McManus. That is a full orbed uh ecclesiology, you might say, a doctrine of the church, uh, from understanding what the church is in relation to Israel, how the church should be structured, how it should be led, uh, all the various roles and responsibilities of its leaders and so on. So an excellent book. We're really excited to uh have just come out. And so check that out. That's at withallwisdom.org. You can check that book out. We also have just published a book called Proclaim, a comprehensive guide to evangelism, and this is a compendium of articles that Cliff and I have put together and edited, and they have each each article touches on, or each chapter rather, touches on uh an aspect of evangelism. So you we talk about your character, we talk about cold contact evangelism, we talk about door-to-door evangelism, we talk about how to answer certain objections, and so there's just a lot there. So we encourage you to check out those two books at withallwisdom.org. So let's get back to our topic, Cliff. This is actually something that we've spent some time on the last few weeks in church. Actually, there are during our worship service. I've been preaching through the book of First Timothy. When I'm preaching, Cliff preaches through the book of Luke. And I was in First Timothy chapter four, verses one through five, and there, that passage, Paul is warning Timothy that there's going to be those who fall away from the faith, and there's going to be false teachers, and there's they're going to be preaching doctrines of deacon, uh deacons, not deacons, they're going to be preaching doctrines of demons. And uh one of those uh one of the ways you can identify these doctrines of demons is by what they restrict. So there's gonna be these false teachers who come along in the church and they're going to prohibit certain things, and they're gonna prohibit certain things on a religious basis, say this is more spiritual, or this pleases God, and or this is how you need uh this is how you would be saved, or this is how you can be sanctified, is by uh restricting and refusing these certain things. And the two things that Paul mentions are marriage and certain foods. And as I was preparing for that message and then preaching that message, it occurred to me that this is something that we need to actually delve more deeply into as a church, because of there are actually a lot of wrong views out there about food, actually. Uh wrong views in in our culture, yes, but also within the church, professing Christians, writing books and making claims about how we should eat and what we should eat and what the Bible says about food. And and so we I decided that we needed to um cover this in more depth. And I talked to you about it, Cliff, and you agreed. And so for two weeks I spent uh the full sermon talking about food. And so we want to talk a little bit about that, add some more detail, answer some questions that we received that we weren't able to answer through these sermons, and then cover some other ground that we weren't able to cover. So that's the plan.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

And so I'm going to I need to interject here, Kirk, because uh so basically the last three Sundays you have preached on First Timothy four. Right. And Paul's main point there was watch out for false teaching.

SPEAKER_00 4:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

False teachers are actually led by inspired by demons. And there are typical false teachings that are attached to demons or false teachers. Typical. The doctrines of demons, yeah. It's universal, uh, it's in every culture, it's in every age, the demons apparently aren't very original. They keep doing the same thing or coming up with the same stuff. I remember when I first read that passage and studied it when I was a brand new Christian back in like 1986 or whatever, and I came across that passage, the doctrine of demons, and I never it if it was up to me, I wouldn't have thought that one of the main points of emphasis of the doctrines of demons had anything to do with food.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

I agree. That's I've always thought that when I read it, I was like, well, this is an interesting choice, Paul.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Yeah, I think don't they talk about other more extravagant, complicated stuff? Right. So that's always amazed me. But it makes sense because every single human throughout all of history is contingent upon food. Yeah. And it's something we interact with every day of our life. Yeah. And to attach false views of spirituality to it totally makes sense. Yeah. An easy way, subtle way to lead people astray or into wrong thinking and spiritual things. Another thought I had as you're preaching through this for like three weeks, this mini-series on a Christian's proper view, a biblical view of food and all that stuff. Because I'm thinking, uh I don't know that uh on a regular basis uh or many churches would even talk about this issue. But you're forced to because of expository preaching. So so at our church, we don't just do you know topical preaching and pick t topics that we like, yeah. At the neglect of all the other stuff in the Bible, but we gotta go through books of the Bible verse by verse, and we've got to deal with everything that is in there that that Paul says is important, actually that God says is important, and that's why we're talking about it. Yeah. And that's that's the wisdom of God. This is so practical, so relevant. Um as you're preaching yesterday or on Sunday about food and having a proper biblical theology of food, probably the supermajority of people sitting there thought, I didn't know you could have a theology of food, a biblical theology of food. So that was awesome. Yeah. And there was there was a lot of good uh response to that two-week sermon from our saints. Yeah. Oh, because it stirred up thinking they hadn't really thought of or contemplated. Yeah. Or that maybe they've been duped by in the past, or even current wrong views that they have. Um so this is, I just think it's very relevant and practical.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Well, I didn't even think about it like that, but your your point, it's it's it's actually a case for expository preaching. Yeah. Because you're you're touching on all these topics that you may not otherwise touch on.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

Yeah, you kind of hinted at that yesterday when you were opening up in your sermons. Like, if you're a guest today, you might find it odd that I'm talking about a biblical view of the biblical theology of food, but you were forced to because it's in the Bible. You gotta preach the whole council of God. Can't shy away from it. Or when we think, oh I mean, it's not really that spiritual. Well, actually it is.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Yeah. Well, let's uh let's dive in. I we actually are going to cover uh some ground that we covered during the sermons for the sake of our listeners. If you didn't hear those sermons, but we're also gonna use that to branch out and talk about other things. So, what we want to do first is just talk about food from Genesis 1 uh and onward and get a quick brief biblical theology summary of what how food, how how God has uh changed our diet over time, how our diet has changed, how God has directed our diet as humans uh over time, and and what that looks like now under the new covenant. So starting in Genesis 1, God creates uh man, and in Genesis 1, he creates uh man and woman, and as we'll see in a moment, Genesis 1 is an overview of creation, and then Genesis 2 zooms in on day six. But what you see in uh Genesis 1 is God creates the man and the woman, and he says that he is he he blesses them and he uh he says that they're gonna they're made in his image, and he's gonna give them a task, and then immediately after he gives them that task, he's gonna tell them about the food uh situation because they're made uh in his image and they are going to need food for sustenance. That's gonna become obvious in the narrative that God has made us a certain way. We receive our sustenance and our energy, energy through food, and God made this a pleasurable thing so that we don't just shovel food into our mouths, blend material into our mouths, but actually we enjoy the taste of our food. Well, what God does at the beginning, this is prior to the fall, he says uh in verse 29, well, first I'll start in verse 27. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God, he created them, male and female, he created them. He said, Be fruitful and multiply, increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. So that's their job, rule over the fish of the sea and the uh birds of the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground. So that's their task, their responsibility, their assignment from God. And then he in verse 29 he explains the food situation, which is which is good, because they're gonna need the food. He says, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, and every tree that has fruit with seed in it, they will be yours for food. And all the uh beasts of the earth and all the birds of the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground, everything that has the breath of life on in it, I give every green plant for food, and it was so. So we begin with every tree that has fruit with its seed, that is food for us, and every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth, that is for human consumption, so that we might have energy. But not only that, as we even see in 1 Timothy 4, that food is meant to be an occasion for worshiping God. So I trust that Adam and Eve in their pre-Sin existence would have tasted that food and had opportunity to worship and thank their gracious creator for such a wonderful gift. And so that's how things start off.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

But as we all know So Adam and Eve were originally vegetarian, you could say. Yeah. Of sorts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:17

Yep. They were. And uh of course, we we have to reiterate this point so often, but it's it bears repeating given what uh given the society that we live in and the the narrative that is always just always hovering over us, namely that neo-Darwinian view of the world that um evolution is uh macroevolution from molecule to man, evolution is is how we came about. It's the the our origin, the our biological origin. And we have to address this regularly and to say that this narrative in Genesis is a historical narrative that tells us what actually really happened. So we believe that Adam and Eve were real people. They were created by God the way that it's uh relayed here in Scripture, that this command to eat the of the plants and this the food given to them is exactly what God did at the beginning prior to the fall. And so we just need to always keep that in mind. So much is undermined if we forget the historicity of Genesis, including this important doctrine of food. Uh Paul even relies upon the creation narrative when he's talking about the this issue of what God has created in in 1 Timothy 4. So just an important reminder that we always need to uh emphasize the historicity of Genesis. So you come into uh chapter 2 in Genesis, and this is zeroing in on God's creation of mankind on day six. And in day six, in Genesis one, it says that he male and female he created them. So it almost kind of looks like, oh, he created them at the same time, but Genesis two tells us know that there's an order to it. God creates man first out of the dust of the ground, and then he places him in the garden of Eden, and he gives him an assignment to work it and to keep it. That work it means to till, to labor, and then the keep it means to guard, and that's what his assignment was, to work and to keep the garden. And uh, but also immediately, interestingly, immediately after that, it says, God, the Lord God commanded the man, you are free to eat of any tree in the garden. So he gives him his assignment, and here we are again talking about food. The first commandment that God gives to humankind is it has to do with food. That's pretty remarkable. So both the uh encouragement to eat all these things, so God is a great provider here. Satan's going to go and twist this uh his words here in a moment, but God says, You may, you're free to eat every tree of the garden. Here it is, all for you. I'm sure it was lush and amazing. But here's one prohibition: you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for uh when you eat of it you will certainly die. And it's important to note that the restriction in comparison to all that they were given was exceedingly small. This is, if you're thinking about one tree in light of all the trees that would have been available to Adam and Eve, or Adam at this point, it's an exceedingly small uh restriction. And we have to keep that in mind because as we'll see in a little bit, a characteristic, a key characteristic of false religion is food restriction. And here we find out that uh God's not that restrictive when it comes to food. In fact, he says, you can have all of this, just this one small fraction of what I've given you, you may not eat of it. Well, we know the story. After that, the assignment's given given to Adam. He then brings out the animals so that Adam could see that there was not a helper fit for him, and so once he realizes that and names the animals, he then God creates a woman out of Adam's side or his rib. And he's very pleased with that, very excited about this this new companion, his this uh perfectly complementary uh bride of his now who can help him in the task of exercising dominion and being fruitful and multiplying. And it everything is wonderfully, wonderful and bliss in this garden, no sin. And uh verse 25 of chapter 2 says that Adam and his wife were both naked and felt no shame or were unashamed. So it's a really great situation. Uh but we know the story. Uh the serpent sneaks in and tempts Eve and tempts her regarding that commandment um regarding food. But he twists it, he says, Did God really say you must not eat of any tree of the garden? And in fact, that's a very deliberate uh way of twisting what God had said, because that makes it sound like God was being restrictive when he gave the uh uh initial commandment, when in fact he wasn't, as we just saw. But Satan likes to do this, and we have to keep this in mind, his strategy has not changed at all. He likes to make God sound like the great prohibitor, the great restrictor.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

God is stingy, God isn't gracious. Uh when back in chapter two, verse nine again, out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the site and good for food. Yeah. There were probably a gazillion options that could have eaten food.

SPEAKER_00 15:25

Exactly. And so his first part of his strategy is not only to cause her to start questioning the reliability of God's word, the integrity of God's word, but to make it sound as though he was being restrictive. He's prohibiting something, he's keeping something from you, something good, something you should have. And while this throws her back on her heels and she never recovers, and she tries to defend herself, tries to tell Satan what what God had really said, and it doesn't work. He he immediately contradicts what what she had said, saying, You she said, We'll die if we we eat of this tree. And he says, You won't die. You most you will not surely die. And uh, well, so she's persuaded in verse six, it says the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that is a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her husband who was with her, and he ate. And this is the first sin, and it had to do with food.

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Satan has a false theology of food. He does. And the demons in uh 1 Timothy 4 had a false theology of food.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

Isn't that interesting? I know it's it's funny uh because when I was I can't remember if it's the first or the second message, but I was just trying to emphasize that this is a big deal. We don't think it's a big deal. We don't think these uh food restrictions, you know, they oh they're saying you can't eat certain things. That's not a big deal. It is kind of a big deal, and it traces all the way back to the garden and the first temptation, the strategy of Satan and his demons. So it is kind of a big deal, and we need to be on top of it. So uh so then what happens? Well, Adam and Eve have fallen into sin, and God confronts them, and he actually promises that he's gonna bring a savior. Uh, what a wonderful promise this first the first gospel as it's sometimes called in in verse thifen. God is going to bring this offspring from uh the woman, and he's gonna bruise the serpent's head, and he is gonna bruise the savior's heel, meaning the the savior will win, he'll be victorious, but he will be uh he'll suffer in the process, but though he will be uh ultimately victorious. And then God goes to the woman and and curses her and her calling, namely childbearing, but then he goes to the the man and curses him and his calling, namely to bring forth food from the ground, and now this is going to be hard. And so you said something interesting when we were preparing for this, Cliff, how this is kind of an even an expansion of the diet a little bit from Genesis 1, where Genesis 1, we see it's strictly these plants, it's seed-bearing plants, seed-bearing trees, but now there is more that that Adam is going to be able to eat. Um can you comment on that?

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Yeah, so because in uh origin before sin, it seems like you know, the food that's available from chapter one in Genesis and then Genesis chapter two, verse nine, where it says, out of the ground, the Lord God caused to grow every tree. So God's the gardener. Yeah. After the fall, Adam has to be the gardener. Uh so verse nine, out of the chapter two, Genesis, out of the ground the Lord God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to the sight and good for food. Uh so it sounds like the main diet or menu for Adam and Eve is just all this food on hanging on trees that God's He's done all the work.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Readily, easily available. Then part of the curse, Genesis three, I think, uh, and there are several Hebrew commentators that I trust that say the terminology and words used in Genesis 3.18, it says, Because of sin, part of the curse is that God's gonna curse the earth. He definitely cursed the earth. Um and so now living is gonna be difficult because you're not just gonna have trees that you can go and God did all the work. Now you have to do your own work by the blood by the sweat of your face, and you're gonna have to toil just to eke out an existence. And that's even true with respect to getting food. In verse 18, I think even uh the food they're gonna eat is gonna be different for Adam and Eve, because it says in verse 18 that while thorns and thistles, the ground shall grow for you. So that's new. So there's plants that did not exist before the fall were weeds. Now after the fall, we've got new plants and they're intruders. Thorns and thistles, weeds. Uh but verse 18, I think, is also known in the second part where it says, And you will eat the plants of the field. Very specific Hebrew phrase in reference to a kind or genus of plant that's not fruit trees. Uh and you gotta labor. So you think of the farmer out there and he's uh turning over the soil and it's got rocks in it and thorns and everything else, and uh he has to watch over it and plant the seed and maintain it and trust that it's gonna rain and the sun isn't gonna burn it and the locusts aren't gonna eat it, and he's laboring and he's waiting for months. And what kind of crop are we gonna have? Yeah for the wheat and the barley and our entire existence is based on this, and this is where you know our bread comes from. Um verse 19 by the sweat of your face, you will eat bread. Now, God never said that to Adam and Eve in the beginning before the fall. He didn't say you're gonna eat bread. He said you're gonna eat from all these trees. Yeah. So now it seems like that the menu has expanded. In addition to the fruit that's gonna be that you originally had that was without bugs and varmints and rodents, you still have trees, and the squirrels might eat your fruit on your trees, by the way, and the worms are gonna get inside too, so it's gonna be harder because of the curse. But in addition to that, part of your survival is gonna be based on bread. Yeah. This is new. Yeah, this is and the emphasis there is God's not doing it for you. You don't get bread without hard labor. Yeah. And to this day we we love bread dependent upon it, and somebody's gotta make it.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

Yeah. It's yeah, you bringing ingredients together, that wasn't always the case.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

During I just talked to a farmer yesterday at our church. He is a full-time farmer. That's what he does for a living. Known him for what, four years or so? And every time I talk to him every six months or so, it's like how I ask him, How's the crop looking this year? And his answer is always the same, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Oh man. It depends on the weather last year. That is hard.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Last year we had good rain this year. The rain has been horrible and it doesn't look good for our crops. Uh two years ago he said, I don't even know if we're gonna have a crop this year. I don't even know if we're gonna be able to stay in existence as a company as a farm because of um so many factors. The bugs, um the sun, the weather, the rain, the lack of rain. This is in 2026. This is a reality. So it is he is living the curse of Genesis 3 17 through 19 as a farmer.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Wow. And just a good reminder that in fact we are living in a fallen state. That uh the food procurement is going to be difficult. That's just and you know, maybe sometimes we forget that living here in America because we can readily have access to food in ways that prior centuries couldn't even have dreamed of. Yep. And a lot of the a lot of the world even right now can't even dream of. So uh maybe we take that a little for granted, but it's a good good reminder. We live in a fallen state. Yep. And pro procuring this food when it's difficult that you remind us that in fact this is a re uh result of our sin, Adam's sin. Yep. Uh but also our so important reminder, but I I I appreciate your insight here that this is actually an expansion of food in that now not only has God provided it, but now there are something that we must do in order to uh create food, and here's a new kind of food, namely bread. Yeah. So that's that's awesome. So speaking of expanding the diet, let's fast forward a little bit. So the fall happens, and from there, just sin and death is unleashed like a tidal wave across humanity. And as you read Genesis 4, 5, 6, what you have is at the very beginning, Genesis 4, you have the first murder, and then Genesis later in Genesis 4, you have uh polygamy and violence and all this kind of stuff, and then chapter 5, you have everybody's dying. They they live they live many years, but they eventually die, and then you uh come to the point where God's looking down on his creation and it's just full of violence. And one verse in chapter six says, The the in the thoughts and the intents of the heart were only evil continually, and this is what sin has wrought, and so God is going to do something about this, he's gonna judge the entire earth with a flood, and he's gonna save Noah and his sons and their wives, and that's it. And he is going to, along with them, save multiple animals to then repopulate the the earth. Each animal have its mate, and they will they were loaded onto an ark, and this ark remained afloat for many days and then eventually settled back down after the flood, and from that point on the earth was repopulated with both man and animals, and it was right as as that was about to commence that God spoke to Noah, and in a kind of uh new creation kind of way. Some theologians have have viewed it this way. This is almost kind of a new creation language, if you can say it that way. And uh because why why would they say it that well? Well, because it it's very similar to how he spoke to Adam in the garden. This is chapter 9, verse 1 and following. It says, And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. We've heard that before. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and every bird of the heavens, this is new, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all fish of the sea, into you ha into your hand they are delivered. Well, what does that mean specifically? Uh verse three, every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. Some people have suggested, well, you know, God wasn't giving every living thing to people for food. They're just giving the things that were actually food to people. And actually this verse doesn't make a distinction. It says, Every living thing that moves shall be every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. So it's and then he goes on to be uh he had just mentioned what what that means specifically, every beast, bird of the heaven, whatever creeps on the ground, fish of the sea in the previous verse, into your hand they are delivered. And as they gave you the green plants, I give you everything. So this is comprehensive. There's really no way to take this except that all the living things that Adam and Eve, or I should say, I'm sorry, now all humanity, uh, now encounter are available for food. So this is a massive expansion. No longer are we to just eat the plants and the fruit and so on, but now, or even bread from the that we bring forth from the ground, but actually, animals are available for food. And and God Himself said this. This is not Noah looking around going, oh, that would be nice. But God actually is the one who's saying this to Noah and saying, this is the way it's going to be now for all humanity. And we have to read this as not just being for Noah and his sons, but actually for all humanity, because that's who they represent now. Just like Adam represented all humanity in his situation, so now does Noah represent humanity in the sense that this instruction is for all of us, and not just for him and his sons and their families. But an important uh restriction is made here in verse four, and we'll talk about this in a little bit in detail. But he says in verse four, but you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning from every beast I will require it, and from man. So here an important s uh qualification is made. Everything you can eat, every I mean, just everything trees, plants, living things, it is all yours for food, unrestriction. Do not eat the flesh with its blood. Do not eat blood. And but beyond that, everything is available.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

That's amazing. Uh so verse three every moving thing that is alive that's animals, creatures, right? Shall be food for you. So before Noah got on the ark, he's a vegetarian, a strict vegetarian for six hundred years. That's a good point. Six hundred years. Yeah. That's a long yeah. He's on the ark for a year, gets off, and all of a sudden God says, Well, you're not gonna be a vegetarian anymore. You gotta eat meat. That had to be hard. Yeah. Because we have vegetarians that we know, Derek, yeah. Christian vegetables, and if we told them you should start eating meat, they they are averse to the idea. Yeah. And they are not 600 years old. This is uh this is radical. Yeah, yeah. Six hundred years, and now all of a sudden your diet's gonna change. Yeah. You're gonna eat uh plants and have you ever heard the theory that the reason God one of the reasons God instituted this menu expansion for Noah and his family, that you're not just gonna eat plants anymore is because there was a flood and it wiped out all the plants and the trees, and so when it got they got off the ark there was no plants and trees to eat.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

No.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

But there were animals.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

I haven't heard that.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

So now you're gonna have to eat animals to survive because there's no plants around.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Or do do vegetarians make that argument?

SPEAKER_01 29:06

No, but I'm just somebody was saying this is I heard from uh Oh interesting. So when I thought, oh, that's okay. I mean it practically that makes sense. They get off the ark. Right. I mean, there are no trees. In full blown.

SPEAKER_00 29:19

That's true. So what are we gonna do now?

SPEAKER_01 29:21

What do we eat?

SPEAKER_00 29:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

There's nothing here. Oh, we got a bunch of animals on the ark. The seven unclean ones, I mean the seven clean ones, you know. Yeah. Extras for maybe sacrifice, maybe for eating. I don't know, I'd never thought of that, but uh but he does quickly grow a garden and put some vines and some grapes and that stuff.

SPEAKER_00 29:42

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

But it doesn't say that in the Bible. Right. It doesn't say why.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

Right, yeah. But it is a massive expansion of the food that's available now to humankind.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Yes, every so like pigs and bacon grasshoppers, was that on the menu? Well, y I guess so. It's snake rattlesnake. There's no blood if you cook it right. Rattlesnake?

SPEAKER_00 30:06

If you if you cook it right, if because um I think you just asked us this the other day. Um, have you had rattlesnake before? It tastes like chicken. I've I've never tried rattlesnake, but I've heard that. Yeah. Um so so this is important. And I one thing I mentioned in the sermon was uh here's a situation where God takes a a bad situ uh bad thing, namely death. You know, we had the Adam and Eve sin, and the result of that is death, and tidal weight of death just washes over all humanity. And here we have a situation, and including the animals, right? Death was was not only not only did it afflict Adam and Eve, but it affected all of life. Now the animals die. And here's a situation where God is going to take animal death and turn it into a a good thing for a beneficial thing for humans, which is remarkable. I mean, God's always doing this.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Life comes from death, right? Which is spiritually true with Jesus. That's exactly right. Spiritual life comes from his death.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

Yeah. So, but this is what happens in uh Genesis 9. And so I think what we're gonna do here is I I'm I'm realizing that this is probably gonna be a multi-part podcast series, if you're all right with us taking a few more and talking, filling this all out, Cliff. Uh, we'll we'll end this one, come back and start talking about what God did in the old covenant with Israel regarding food, because he did something significant there. So let's plan to come back and talk about that. We appreciate you listening in. Again, I encourage you to check out with all wisdom.org where you'll find all of our resources, articles, videos, and books. And until next time, keep seeking the Lord is good.