This is no time to be hesitant or tentative about the wonderful Adventist (Biblical) health message we have been given.

Check out how Joel Osteen, a mega-church pastor, recently presented the subject of clean and unclean meat to his congregation in this video clip (found with comments on Seventh-day Adventist Pastor Dean Waterman’s blog)  http://web.mac.com/pastordean/Deans_Blog/Blog/Entries/2008/6/27_Joel_Osteen_&_Biblical_Health_Principles.html

Amazing!

About one hundred years ago this message was placed in print in The Ministry of Healing ( Chapter 24 “Flesh As Food”) “Upon their settlement in Canaan, the Israelites were permitted the use of animal food, but under careful restrictions, which tended to lessen the evil results. The use of swine’s flesh was prohibited, as also of other animals and of birds and fish whose flesh was pronounced unclean. Of the meats permitted, the eating of the fat and the blood was strictly forbidden.” {pp. 311-312}