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Amazing Facts

How to Postpone Your Funeral

Joe Crews

01 How to Postpone Your Funeral?

02 How to Postpone Your Funeral


The average person in the United States consumes 1, 488 pounds of food every year. On any day of the year, there are 1 and a half million Americans flat on their backs in hospitals. What's the relationship between diet and disease? I'll be back in a moment with some amazing facts about postponing your funeral. Hello, this is Joe Cruz and the Amazing Facts broadcast, facts which affect you.

You know the world today is desperately trying to discover an answer to the problem of overpopulation and threatening starvation. Our own affluent nation can hardly visualize the fact that millions of people go to bed hungry every night. In contrast to the malignant malnutrition problem of many other countries, our greatest chronic health problem seems to be obesity or overweight. The amazing fact is that the average American consumes 1, 488 pounds of food every year, and this is undoubtedly a large factor in the 1 1⁄2 million hospital patients who fill American hospitals every day of the year. Did you know that God has given a prescription in the Bible for postponing your own funeral?

It is found in Exodus 15, verse 26, listen, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes. I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, that healeth thee." Now right here You find the secret for a long, happy life. If we obey God and follow His commandments, we will prosper in both body and soul. It is not God's plan, in other words, that any of us should be sick or diseased. We will find in our study today that heaven has given a plan to the world, whereby we may enjoy abundant health.

These laws are just as certain and predictable as the laws of nature. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. If a man follows the rules, he can reap a harvest of good health, But bad dietary habits bring disease and death every time. Well, it is impossible, of course, to separate the matter of diet from our subject today because millions of people are almost literally digging their graves with their teeth. Poor habits of eating and drinking account for a large portion of deaths and disabilities in this modern age.

Now you may be asking, does the Bible really have something to say about what we ought to eat and drink? And friends, if there is any relationship at all between good health and religion, then the Bible should certainly be concerned with this question, and indeed it is. Listen to this text in 1 Corinthians 10, 31, 31. 31. Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Now let's read a text that will forever settle whether or not our health is a spiritual matter. In 1 Corinthians 6, verses 19 and 20, What know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." Now, friends, what a solemn thought this presents to us. Our bodies are not really our own.

Some people feel they can treat their bodies just like they please, and it is nobody's business, but that is not true. We belong to God. His Holy Spirit is to inhabit these body temples, and we must preserve them for that holy purpose. What is to guide an individual in the question of food and eating and drinking. Should we follow appetite and allow that to be our rule in the way we eat?

Isaiah 55 says we should eat that which is good. Now remember that, friends. Our appetite can be perverted and lead us to actually destroy ourselves. It is never a safe guide. So let's turn to the Bible now and see if there are some rules given which might apply in our case.

Now in the beginning God created a beautiful, perfect world and put our first parents in it, And then He specified the kind of food He had ordained for the human family to eat. Maybe you didn't know about this text in Genesis 1, 29, but it says this, Genesis 1, 29, God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, and the which is the fruit of a tree, yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat." Now there it is, friends. This is the perfect diet for maintenance of health. You see, God made the body. He knew what elements were necessary to keep it strong and growing.

Of course, nobody would dare question the Creator about this provision. He made us, after all. Now Henry Ford, of course, made the Ford automobile, and no 1 knew better than he the kind of fuel to burn in that car. And when God said, fruits, nuts, grains, and vegetables were the best diet for His creation, we should accept that without any doubt or question. Now, friends, these 4 great pillars of a perfect diet were fixed right in the very beginning, nuts, fruits, grains, and vegetables.

But you might ask, what about meat? Well, it just wasn't included in the original diet of mankind, friends. In fact, meat was never used by human beings as far as we know, apparently until after the flood, at which time God permitted the use of certain clean animals for food. Now the reason for this extra provision becomes clear as we study the case more closely. Remember now that Noah took the clean animals into the ark by sevens and the unclean animals by twos.

You can read that in Genesis 7, verses 2 and 3. Now God had a purpose for this arrangement. After the water subsided, of course, all vegetable matter had been destroyed, and God allowed the clean animals to be eaten for the first time. Now perhaps you are wondering which animals are clean and which are unclean. Why did God make any distinction in them back there, even in the days of Noah, so that He took in certain ones by sevens and certain ones by twos?

Some people seem to think that only the Jews were to be careful about the food they ate. But the distinction between clean and unclean foods goes all the way back to the Flood, in fact before the Flood, before there were any Jews in existence at all. In Leviticus 11, 3-10, God lists the rules which govern the eating of flesh foods. Notice verses 3-7, "...whatsoever parteth a hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth a cud among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof, as the camel, because he cheweth a cud, but divideth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you. These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters, whatsoever hath fins and scales on the waters, and the seas, and the rivers, them shall ye eat. And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you, ye shall not eat of their flesh." Now notice, friends, something very interesting. Those animals which are forbidden as food seem to be the very ones that Satan has created an appetite for today. The swine, for example, has been accepted in the world as good food, and yet God says not to eat it, not to touch it.

I don't believe that we necessarily have to prove the scientific reasons for God's prohibition in this matter. If God says it is unclean, I believe it, I accept it. But it is interesting to read what modern research has established about the hog. Pork contains a tiny microscopic worm called trachina. And if it gets into the system, the disease trichinosis results.

And governments warn that there's no inspection for this parasite. And in the Reader's Digest some time ago, there appeared an article entitled, Must Our Pork Remain Unsafe? Notice a few statements now about trichinosis. It said, A single serving of defective pork, even a single mouthful, can kill or cripple or condemn the victim to a lifetime of aches and pains. For this unique disease, trichinosis, there is no cure.

With no drugs to stop them, the worms may spread through the entire muscular tissues of the human system. 1 of 2 things then happens depending on the intensity of the infection. Either death ensues, or a successful effort is made by nature to throw an enclosure or cyst around each of the teeming parasites, which then becomes dormant although they remain alive for years. Don't blame your doctor. All that the best doctor can do as yet is to conserve the patient's strength and try to relieve the painful local symptoms as they appear.

What these symptoms are, the layman had much better not worry about. Trichinosis can simulate to some degree almost any other malady. That pain in your arm or leg may be arthritis or rheumatism, or it may be trichinosis. That pain in your back may mean a gallbladder involvement, but it may mean trichinosis." End of quotation. Well, that's interesting, friends.

And you know, the American Medical Association Journal said something about this infestation of Americans with trichinosis. Several years ago in 1 of their journals they said this, 1 would conclude that they are presumable of the following percentages of trichina infestation in American cities, Washington, D.C. 24.6%, Minneapolis and Rochester 31.5%, San Francisco 43%, Boston 49.7%, an average of 37 infestation of the urban population of the United States." Now that statement, as I say, was made a few years ago, and I don't have the very latest statements on it, but, friends, suffice it to say that God indicated that it was not to be eaten, it was unclean, it was unfit for food, and, of course, it will cause problems. God says, if you want to be healthy, you keep My laws, and obey My laws. Now some have thought that thorough cooking of the meat might destroy the Dracina parasite.

But surely, friends, one-third of the American population didn't eat their pork raw or half-cooked, and not even a few years ago. No, no, God knew what the body of man needed for food, but He said, Don't eat the swine. Other animals also mentioned as unfed include the fish that don't have fins or scales. Some may ask just why God made these unclean animals if they are not to be eaten at all? Well, the obvious answer is they serve the purpose of being scavengers on the earth.

The buzzard and eagle were made for the purpose of making the earth clean of refuse and charin. Again, let me remind you that these are not restrictions which originated with the ceremonial ordinance of Moses. They were a part of that law that was given to Moses, but the clean and unclean animals were present in the ark hundreds of years before Moses even lived. So these were basic laws that existed from the very beginning before there were any Jews, before there was any ceremonial law given. But now let's read another text in Isaiah 66, 15-17, and this ought to settle it for all of us.

It says, For behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire, and by his sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh. And the slain of the Lord shall be many. They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves, and the gardens behind 1 tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse shall be consumed together, saith the Lord." Now friends, this text is talking about the Second Coming of Jesus and proves that the nature of these animals will not experience any change that will make them fit to eat, not even down to the very last day of this earth when Jesus comes, because this verse plainly tells us that those who are eating those unclean things at the coming of Christ will be consumed at that time. Now this makes it a moral issue, and no 1 can say that God has not spoken out clearly to warn them about these dangers.

Well, our time has slipped away from us again today, and we have got to close for today, but perhaps you have learned something today, friends, that will help you now to preserve your health in a much larger way. But listen, you need to study these things much more. The average American just doesn't understand very much about his own health and about the food that is going into his body. Sickness and pain probably causes more unhappiness than any other factor in the world today. What lies behind all these deadly viruses?

Some of them have never yet been understood, even by the finest medical science people. The body and its complicated function bears witness to the power of an infinitely wise Creator. And Do you think it is God's will for His creatures to be sick and suffering? Not at all. And if man had followed the plan of God, he wouldn't be sick today.

And we found out in our broadcast story today about some of those things that God actually forbade. Well, I hope you are right for information folder I, which covers the material in this special series on health and also what I'll be giving in the next broadcast. And now this is Joe Cruz saying goodbye for today. You

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