BRAGADAYJAH 19

Immediately after the flood, God turned a new leap in His record of earth and said and did some new things; things that were entirely and completely within the exclusive province of a Creator. Firstly, God blessed Noah and his family, a sort of welcome back to earth, if you please, much the same as a National leader, a Monarch, or a President would welcome home an expedition that has returned safely from a mission that has been well accomplished. Secondly, in recognition of Noah’s service to mankind and in a show of approval for the way he had conducted himself throughout his mission, from the building and equipping of the Ark to the ordeal of the mission through to his safe return to earth, God promoted him. Now God told Noah, I am giving you dominion over the whole earth and all the creatures in it. They are yours to kill and eat as you please. Whereas heretofore man was given only the green herb for food, now you have my permission to kill and eat flesh. The only restriction is that you must not eat anything with the blood in it. In God’s words, “But flesh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.” As we shall see shortly, this permission to eat flesh was most portentous, and would affect the future of man in ways not immediately apparent. More…