Sunday, October 11, 2026

See Leviticus 11 about pork "Not that we need anything beyond Scripture to tell us that pork is not food for us, but here are 13 more reasons to not consume. 
13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK ����������
1) A pig is a natural garbage gut. It will eat anything, including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.
2) The meat and fat of a pig absorb toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.
3) When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat, so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.
4) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.
5) Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.
6) Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because they will eat the snakes, and if bitten, they will not be harmed by the venom.
7) When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than other animals' flesh. In a few days, the swine flesh is full of worms.
Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.
9) Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams.
10) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.
11) The swine carries about 30 diseases that can be quickly passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcass (Leviticus 11:8).
12) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested, can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord, or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present, they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.
13) The pig is so poisonous and filthy that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth, his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat."
-Courtesy BRScience

Thursday, September 24, 2026

The Feast if Ingathering, Tabernacles.

 

The Feast Of Ingathering (Feast Of Tabernacles)

Thursday, September 24, 2026
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A beautiful sunrise highlighting the magnificence of God's millennial Kingdom on earth.

At the same time God gave ancient Israel the Ten Commandments at Mt Sinai, after He freed them from the Egyptians, He also gave them seven annual festivals to celebrate throughout the year. The world, at large, is unaware of these festivals.

Jesus and the Apostles in the decades following the crucifixion observed these festivals, the annual Holy Days, which God gave to ancient Israel. Paul, in writing to the Gentiles at Corinth, encouraged them to keep the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread (1 Corinthians 5:7-8) as they picture Christ’s sacrifice and the need for us to respond to that sacrifice by putting sin out of our lives, which is pictured by putting leaven (yeast) out of our homes for a week. (See Bible Insights Issue 373 What Does The Feast Of Unleavened Bread Mean For Christians for more information.)

The Apostle Paul told the gentiles at Colosse the feasts (outlined in Leviticus 23) were a shadow of things to come (Colossians 2:16-17). When properly understood, some of the festivals picture events that have already occurred this year in God’s plan such as the Passover (Christ’s sacrifice) and Pentecost (the giving of the Holy Spirit to the Church), while the latter festivals picture future events starting with the second coming of Jesus Christ.

God used the harvest seasons of Israel to teach us the proper sequence of events and key elements of His plan of salvation for humanity. The first of the two great harvest festivals is Pentecost. The New Testament refers to God’s church, the first small harvest of souls, as His firstfruits in James 1:18. In Exodus 34:22 we read: “And you shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering [also called the Feast of Tabernacles] at the year’s end.” The Feast of Ingathering represented the great ingathering at the end of the agricultural year – the second and greater of the two harvests. The spiritual meaning of the second harvest is the great harvest of souls that begins with the millennium following the return of Jesus Christ. 

In contrast to the festival of Christmas, observed by mainstream Christianity, which lasts only one day, the Feast of Ingathering or Tabernacles lasts for a week and symbolizes the 1,000 Millennium to take place at Christ’s return. (See the following article What Is The Millennium? In this issue for more information.) I eagerly look forward to it, along with thousands of other members of the United Church of God each year. It is a time to learn how to better fear and respect God (Deuteronomy 14:23). To this end there are church services each morning with informative messages followed by afternoons and evenings to spend with friends who have come together for the festival. Some festival sites where we meet for these seven days are small while others have hundreds of members, many of whom have travelled from interstate and even overseas. In 2026 the Feast of Tabernacles will be observed from September 26 to October 2, with September 26 being the Holy Day, observed from sunset to sunset.

From: https://www.ucg.org.au/learning/bible-insights/the-feast-of-ingathering-feast-of-tabernacles?