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preeminence which was His purpose for them they did not attain.—
The
Ministry of Healing, 311, 312, 1905
Nonflesh Diet to Modify the Disposition
642. The Lord plainly told His people that every blessing would
come to them if they would keep His commandments, and be a peculiar
people. He warned them through Moses in the wilderness, specifying
that health would be the reward of obedience. The state of the mind
has largely to do with the health of the body, and especially with the
health of the digestive organs. As a general thing, the Lord did not
provide His people with flesh meat in the desert, because He knew that
the use of this diet would create disease and insubordination. In order
to modify the disposition, and bring the higher powers of the mind into
active exercise, He removed from them the flesh of dead animals. He
gave them angels’ food, manna from heaven.—
Manuscript 38, 1898
Rebellion and Its Punishment
643. God continued to feed the Hebrew host with the bread rained
from heaven; but they were not satisfied. Their depraved appetites
craved meat, which God in His wisdom had withheld, in a great
measure, from them.... Satan, the author of disease and misery, will
approach God’s people where he can have the greatest success. He
has controlled the appetite in a great measure from the time of his
successful experiment with Eve, in leading her to eat the forbidden
fruit. He came with his temptations first to the mixed multitude, the
believing Egyptians, and stirred them up to seditious murmurings.
They would not be content with the healthful food which God had
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provided for them. Their depraved appetites craved a greater variety,
especially flesh meats.
This murmuring soon infected nearly the whole body of the people.
At first, God did not gratify their lustful appetites, but caused His judg-
ments to come upon them, and consumed the most guilty by lightning
from heaven. Yet this, instead of humbling them, only seemed to
increase their murmurings. When Moses heard the people weeping in
the door of their tents, and complaining throughout their families, he
was displeased. He presented before the Lord the difficulties of his
situation, and the unsubmissive spirit of the Israelites, and the position