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learn humility and obedience as we read the history of ancient Israel,
who were His chosen and peculiar people, but who brought their own
destruction by following their own ways.—
Testimonies for the Church
3:171, 172, 1873
647. Our habits of eating and drinking show whether we are of
the world or among the number whom the Lord by His mighty cleaver
of truth has separated from the world. These are His peculiar people,
zealous of good works. God has spoken in His word. In the case
of Daniel and his three companions, there are sermons upon health
reform. God has spoken in the history of the children of Israel, from
whom for their good He sought to withhold a flesh diet. He fed
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them with bread from heaven; “man did eat angels’ food.” But they
encouraged their earthly appetite; and the more they centered their
thoughts upon the fleshpots of Egypt, the more they hated the food
which God gave them to keep them in health physically, mentally, and
morally. They longed for the fleshpots, and in this they did just as
many in our own time have done.—
Testimonies for the Church 6:372,
1900
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Further Statements Regarding the Use of Flesh Meat by the Ante-
diluvians and the Israelites—231, 233
]
Back to the Original Diet
648. Again and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead
us back, step by step, to His original design,—that man should subsist
upon the natural products of the earth.—[
Christian Temperance and
Bible Hygiene, 119
]
Counsels on Health, 450, 1890
649. Vegetables, fruits, and grains should compose our diet. Not
an ounce of flesh meat should enter our stomachs. The eating of flesh
is unnatural. We are to return to God’s original purpose in the creation
of man.—
Manuscript 115, 1903
650. Is it not time that all should aim to dispense with flesh foods?
How can those who are seeking to become pure, refined, and holy,
that they may have the companionship of heavenly angels, continue to
use as food anything that has so harmful an effect on soul and body?
How can they take the life of God’s creatures that they may consume
the flesh as a luxury? Let them, rather, return to the wholesome and
delicious food given to man in the beginning, and themselves practice,