Bible Study on the Non-Flesh Diet
of the Remnant Church

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Creation—4004 B.C.

First Period, 1656 years—prohibition
Genesis 1:29

• The original Eden diet of fruits, nuts, and grains
• Vegetables added. Genesis 3:17, 18.
• Note why vegetables were added.
• Did not shorten man's life. Genesis 5:3-32; 9:29.
• Before eating flesh, the average life of man for the FIRST TEN generations was over 900 years! (See the table below).
• Enoch is still living, therefore his life not added in for the average.

NAME    Adam Seth Enos Cainan Mahalaleel Jared Enoch Methuselah Lamech Noah	AGE 930 912 905 910 895 962 365 ??? 969 777 950
Nine generations 8210 years
Before the flood, average years 912

The Flood 2348 B.C.

Second Period, 857 years—permission
Genesis 9:1-5

• Flesh never was a good food. Genesis 9:5.
• Flesh added because of sin. Genesis 9:3.
• Only the clean to be eaten by any one. Leviticus 11:1-47.
• Popular dishes of flesh food today, the unclean meats. Leviticus 11:6, 7, 10.
• The blood and the fat never to be eaten. Leviticus 3:17
• Abraham ate flesh food. Why? Genesis 18:1-8.
• Can we justify ourselves behind Abraham? Isaiah 66:17.
• After eating flesh food man's life shortened. The average of the NEXT TEN generations was a little over 300 years. Genesis 11:10-32; 25:7.
• Note that Genesis 9:5, first part, was fast fulfilling.

NAME    Shem Arphaxad Salah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah Abraham	AGE 600 438 433 464 239 239 230 148 205 175
Ten generations 3171 years
After the flood, average years 317

Third Period, 40 years—prohibition
Exodus 16:1-4

Israel entered Canaan—1451 B.C.

• All things a type. 1 Corinthians 10:1-11.
• Egypt and Canaan were types.
• Flesh food gone. Exodus 16:3.
• Tried tapering off. Exodus 16:12.
• All were well. Psalm 105:37.
• Not to be sick, on conditions. Exodus 15:26.
• They were sick afterwards, and why? Numbers 11:4, 20, 33.
• Lust, unlawful desire. Romans 7:7.
• Fish, shell fish, and birds are flesh. Leviticus 11:11; Numbers 11:4, 5, 13, 18, 21, 22, 32, 33; 1 Corinthians 15:39.
• Priests ate of the sin offering. Why? Leviticus 6:26; 10:17; 1 Peter 2:24.
• If they ate flesh, can we? Isaiah 66:17.
• Why did not Christ bless the quails?
• How many of the old stock of Israel went into Canaan?
• Why was all this written? Romans 15:4.
• What should we not do? 1 Corinthians 10:6.
• Lusting for flesh is what? Romans 7:7.

Fourth Period, 3295 years—permission
Deuteronomy 12:20

• Only the clean to be eaten. Deuteronomy 14:1-20.
• Diet of John the Baptist. Matthew 3:4.
• Diet of Christ, and why? Isaiah 7:14, 15.
• Why did Christ bless flesh food in this period?
• The Elijah type—
  • 1st. Bread and flesh. 1 Kings 17:1-7.
  • 2nd. Oil and bread. 1 Kings 17:8-16.
  • 3rd. Bread and water. 1 Kings 19:4-8.
• Where are the people of the antitype in their experience?
• Christ's first temptation, and why was it made the first?
• Can we justify ourselves behind the saints of this period? Why not? Isaiah 66:17.

Fifth Period, to the end of time—prohibition
1 Corinthians 10:6, 11; Romans 7:7

Second deliverance of Israel from all nations—1844 A.D. to the Second Coming of Christ

• This period the antitype of the 40 years period. 1 Corinthians 10:1-11.
• This period the antitype of the last day of each year, from 1491 B.C. to 31 A.D. Compare Leviticus 23:26-32, with Daniel 8:13, 14; 9:27.
• Flesh food taken away, because unlawful. 1 Corinthians 10:8, 11; Romans 7:7.
• The Remnant Church, the antitypical Israel, return to the original diet. 1 Timothy 4:1-6; Genesis 1:29
• We must overcome as Christ overcame. Revelation 3:21, 22.
• Why was he tempted on appetite first? Genesis 3:1-6.
• Will Christ be less particular with the remnant than He was with the type? 1 Corinthians 10:31, 6.
• Then can we expect Christ to bless flesh food for us? He will not. Study Numbers 11.
• Antitypical fast illustrated. Daniel 10:2, 3.
• Beware lest we be found fulfilling Isaiah 66:17.
• Our duty at this time. Joel 2:1, 15; Isaiah 58:1.