Genesis 1:11-12
King James Version
11 And God said,
Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:
and it was so.
12 And the earth brought forth grass,
and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself,
after his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
When you become a student of SPIRIT, all that God cares about, you care about.
Your desire is to know EVERYTHING about God, whether it's food for the soul,
Deuteronomy 8:3
King James Version
3 And he humbled thee,
and suffered thee to hunger,
and fed thee with manna,
which thou knewest not,
neither did thy fathers know;
that he might make thee know
that man doth not live by bread only,
but by every word
that proceedeth
out of the mouth of the Lord
doth man live.
or food for the body.
Genesis 1:29
King James Version
29 And God said,
Behold,
I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the earth,
and every tree,
in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
In the process of finding out what pleases God, I learned what Adam's ORIGINAL diet was.
He was only eating produce from "herb bearing seed" and "tree yielding seed".
There was no mention of other foods, but that.
Even animals had a plant-based diet.
Genesis 1:30
King James Version
30 And to every beast of the earth,
and to every fowl of the air,
and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
wherein there is life,
I have given every green herb for meat:
and it was so.
Life was simple.
Life was good.
Life was in harmony with God.
There was no hardship.
Genesis 2:5-6
King James Version
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it grew:
for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth,
and watered the whole face of the ground.
God provided everything.
Genesis 2:9
King James Version
9 And out of the ground made the Lord God
to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight,
and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
God even walked in the garden where man was.
Genesis 3:8
King James Version
8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God
walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
and Adam and his wife hid themselves
from the presence of the Lord God
amongst the trees of the garden.
God kept man busy, too.
Genesis 2:15
King James Version
15 And the Lord God took the man,
and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
God did have ONE instruction about what to eat, though.
Genesis 2:16-17
King James Version
16 And the Lord God commanded the man,
saying,
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it:
for in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die.
But the serpent was cunning.
Genesis 3:1-7
King James Version
3 Now the serpent was more subtil
than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made.
And he said unto the woman,
Yea, hath God said,
Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said unto the serpent,
We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 But of the fruit of the tree
which is in the midst of the garden,
God hath said,
Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it,
lest ye die.
4 And the serpent said unto the woman,
Ye shall not surely die:
5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened,
and ye shall be as gods,
knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes,
and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she took of the fruit thereof,
and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her;
and he did eat.
It was not made mention what kind of fruit was in the midst of the garden.
But eat the first couple did.
That created the fall from GRACE.
The first disobedience.
Man's life was never to be the same again.
Sin, and hardship, became the order of the day.
Man was now to work for food.
God put out the curse.
Genesis 3:17-19
King James Version
17 And unto Adam he said,
Because thou hast hearkened
unto the voice of thy wife,
and hast eaten of the tree,
of which I commanded thee,
saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it:
cursed is the ground for thy sake;
in sorrow shalt thou eat of it
all the days of thy life;
18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;
and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
till thou return unto the ground;
for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return.
Not trusting man anymore, God sealed the garden of Eden from him.
And just to make sure:
Genesis 3:22-24
King James Version
22 And the Lord God said,
Behold,
the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil:
and now,
lest he put forth his hand,
and take also of the tree of life,
and eat,
and live for ever:
23 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth
from the garden of Eden,
to till the ground
from whence he was taken.
24 So he drove out the man;
and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims,
and a flaming sword
which turned every way,
to keep the way
of the tree of life.
Thus, all the hardship, and complications with food now.
And inconceivable sin.
Diseases followed.
Would we ever get back to that original state one day?
Mercifully, the Lord JESUS has a promise, from a prophecy, unsealed, for the Day of the Lord will come.
All will change.
Our bodies will be changed.
Judgment will be meted out.
The faithful will be reunited with God, in His new city.
Food will be used differently.
The tree of life will finally be given freely.
Revelation 22:2
King James Version
2 In the midst of the street of it,
and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits,
and yielded her fruit every month:
and the leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations.
The curse will be lifted.
Revelation 22:3-4
King James Version
3 And there shall be no more curse:
but the throne of God
and of the Lamb
shall be in it;
and his servants shall serve him:
4 And they shall see his face;
and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Won't you be a student of Spirit, so you, too, may partake of God's love, mercy, and compassion?
It's true was Jesus said.
We are beyond food.
Matthew 4:3-4
King James Version
3 And when the tempter came to him,
he said,
If thou be the Son of God,
command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said,
It is written,
Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word
that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.
Our existence has always been beyond food.
But since we are still on earth, still awaiting the return of the Lord, Spirit allowed me to research on food during the ancient days.
Simple, basic food.
Unlike the vain food turned out by vain men these days.
Head over to the this other post to know how food evolved in the world, after the fall from grace.
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