The End Time Church: From the Cathedrals to the Catacombs

By Dan L. White

Copyright 2021 by Dan L. White, all rights reserved.

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (WEB) which is in the public domain.

Chapter 103

The End Time Religion – Vegetarianism

What will the end time religion be like?

The end time religion will be the culmination of six thousand years of human arrogance and ignorance. How can we tell how this religion will be?

There are some ways to discern what is coming.

First, we can look at the past, at the old Roman religion, which has survived in the world for so long. Pax Romana had its basis in military power coupled with religious conformity. Since the end time world power is taken to be a revival of the Roman Empire, we can figure that the Roman religion in some modern form will be part of it.

Second, we can look at the present, at what is happening today. The world around us is being molded by technology and geopolitics into one world, pulled together by modern gadgets but with the same fractious, fighting human spirit. What religious trends do we see developing today?

Strangely enough, when we observe the ethics and mores arising today, one of the elements of the end time religion we see developing is –

Vegetarianism.

Now that’s kinda surprising. Why should a soybean weenie be part of the end time religion?

It is, for sure. We look around us today and we see this huge campaign to ban meat and push bean burgers.

Even McDonald’s, which successfully sells beef burgers in over a hundred countries, introduced a veggie burger a few years ago.

As far left wing Microsoft Network described –
“With an increased awareness of animal cruelty and new innovations in the plant-based food industry, vegetarianism is all the rage. Many restaurants and franchises have adopted vegetarian options, not only because of the myriad health properties and benefits to the environment, but also to provide more inclusive dietary choices for customers.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/mcdonald-s-dumps-its-veggie-burger-what-does-that-say-about-the-franchise/ar-AANy0Au

So the company that advertised “Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and a sesame seed bun,” decided to try veggie burgers.

As that quote from MSN showed, vegetarianism today has two pillars.

One is the religious belief that the foods God created for His people to eat are harmful. The second is the religious belief, from evolution, that animals are equal to people, and it is unethical – immoral! – for people to eat their animal brothers.

Seventh Day Adventists are well known for teaching that eating meats that God said are clean are actually harmful. Saying certain good foods are bad is not totally new, as Paul cited.

1Tim 4 (International Standard Version)
1) Now the Spirit says clearly that in the last times some people will abandon the faith by following deceitful spirits, the teachings of demons,
2) and the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences have been burned by a hot iron.
3) They will try to stop people from marrying and from eating certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Since God created certain foods to be eaten with thanksgiving, saying they are not to be eaten is calling God a liar.

Paul also wrote about ascetics, who took pride in severity to their bodies.

Col 2:20-23 (WEB)
20) If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,
21) “Don’t handle, nor taste, nor touch”
22) (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?
23) Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

Severity to their bodies included ‘don’t taste,’ meaning to avoid certain foods and feasts.

So forbidding foods that God created to be eaten is not new, but currently it is a very strong mega-trend, reaching far beyond SDA’s. Adventists are a relatively conservative Christian group that do teach many Bible principles, but they are now joined in their vegetarianism by the most lawless left wing part of society. In these times, it’s not surprising that humanity calls God a liar about foods, since the world calls Him a liar in a number of other areas, such as relations between men and women. It is surprising that Adventists find themselves teaching the same doctrine on foods as the most anti-Bible people in the world. These end time people kill their own babies, live lascivious lives, forsake marriage and family, believe that criminals should be coddled, and say that the Bible is just legends and Yeshua is a myth.

With all that spiritual blindness, do these anti-Christ vegetarians somehow have truth about meats?

That does seem unlikely.

Seventh Day Adventists teach that a vegetarian diet is healthier than the clean meats taught in the Bible. In getting away from foods that God created to be eaten, there is a strong trend now to promote meat that isn’t. Several large companies have sprung up with the message that they’re saving the planet by creating fake meats.

A small point that is difficult to understand –

If meats are so bad, why do vegetarians go to so much trouble to create concoctions that look like meat? They eat soybean wieners, burgers, and steaks. They sure don’t taste like meat, but they’re made to look like succulent Angus or Charolais. If meat’s so bad, why do they want to make stuff that looks like meat?

I strongly believe that eating snakes is bad and I have never, ever tried to make my hot dog wieners look like a snake. So if meat is bad, why make fake meats?

Soybean substitutes often taste repugnant, so if a soybean-burger looks good to the eyes, then I guess that helps vegetarian tongues tolerate it.

SDA vegetarianism does not come from the Bible but from their prophetess Ellen G. White. She said she had a vision about foods in 1863, and because of that vision she came to strongly believe that meat is harmful to body and spirit.

“It has been clearly presented to me that God’s people are to take a firm stand against meat eating.” Counsels on Diets and Foods, Ellen G. White, p383.

“God’s people,” as she called them, had to make a critical choice. Would they accept the Bible with its teaching of clean meats, or would they accept the vision of a woman preacher, who said that eating meat including clean meats “animalized” a person?

Following up on that vision, she went on to teach some very unusual ideas about how meat affects people.

“Meat should not be placed before our children. Its influence is to excite and strengthen the lower passions, and has a tendency to deaden the moral powers.” (ibid, pp. 63-64)

So when you eat a burger, it doesn’t just add calories – it adds carnality.

One analyst of E.G. White’s writings against meat summarized them this way.

To summarize Mrs. White’s teachings on meat in the diet:

Clouds the brain
Benumbs the intellect
Enfeebles and deadens the moral nature
Weakens the higher powers
Lessens spirituality
Renders mind incapable of understanding truth
Causes insubordination
Stimulates lustful propensities
Strengthens the lower passions
Animalizes a person, strengthens the animal appetites
Interferes with the religious life
Causes a person to miss out on companionship with heavenly angels
May cause God to decide not to heal someone’s sickness
Causes sickness and disease
Endangers physical, mental, and spiritual health
https://nonsda.org/study11.shtml

Adventists demanded acceptance of her multiple visions as being inspired by God, regardless of what the Bible says, and they expelled any who did not accept Ellen’s visions. Not all Adventists, though, got the meat of her anti-meat message.

“There are those among Seventh-day Adventists who will not heed the light given them in regard to this matter. They make flesh meat a part of their diet. Disease comes upon them. Sick and suffering as a result of their own wrong course, they ask for the prayers of the servants of God. But how can the Lord work in their behalf when they are not willing to do His will, when they refuse to heed His instruction in regard to health reform? … For thirty years the light on health reform has been coming to the people of God, but many have made it a subject of jest. They have continued to use tea, coffee, spices, and flesh meat. Their bodies are full of disease. How can we, I ask, present such ones to the Lord for healing?” (Counsels on Diets and Foods, Ellen G. White, p. 400)

When Ellen said that some Adventists “will not heed the light given them in regard to this matter;” and “For thirty years the light on health reform has been coming to the people of God,” she was referring not to the Bible but to her visions. This is the most important point about Ellen’s SDA vegetarianism. It’s not God’s teaching. It’s just Ellen’s.

Adding what is considered holy writ to what God wrote is not uncommon. The Jewish rabbis considered their writings equal to God’s word. The Mormons believe that a man who was convicted in New York of selling “seer stones” – rocks that let the buyer see the future – saw the inspired Book of Mormon in his hat. And Adventists believe in Ellen White’s visions, even when they contradict the Bible, as with vegetarianism.

Even if she had been right, basing a religious teaching on a person is really wrong. Whether that person is called a prophet or prophetess, an end time apostle or a pope, basing your religion on what a person says instead of what God says is idolatrous.

Ellen taught that eating meat makes people do immoral things – it “animalizes” them, renders their minds “incapable of understanding truth, and “causes a person to miss out on companionship with heavenly angels.”

This is an incredibly strong teaching.

Also incredibly wrong.

We know that Christ ate meat during his whole physical life on earth.

Did His eating of the Passover lambs every year cause Him to do immoral acts? Hardly. He was not “animalized” by a lamb chop. He was sinless.

When Yeshua fed fish to the hungry multitudes, and doubtless ate of it Himself at that time, did that keep Him from understanding truth, as Ellen said? Hardly. This is what the Master said soon after the fish dinner when He fed the multitudes.

Mark 8:34-38 (WEB)
34) He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, “Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
35) For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.
36) For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
37) For what will a man give in exchange for his life?
38) For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

That’s a divine understanding of truth. Eating meat did not make Christ “incapable of understanding truth.”

After His resurrection when He cooked and ate fish with the disciples, did that cause Him to “miss out on companionship with heavenly angels?”

Hardly. They were right by Him when He ascended to the right hand of the Father.

Acts 1:9-11 (WEB)
9) When he had said these things, as they were looking, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight.
10) While they were looking steadfastly into the sky as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white clothing,
11) who also said, “You men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Yeshua, who was received up from you into the sky will come back in the same way as you saw him going into the sky.”

Again, the SDA teaching that clean meats are harmful does not come from the Bible. It is based on the vision of their prophetess, and that vision makes God a liar and Christ a sinner, since He was “animalized” by eating meat. If Ellen’s vision was right, then the Bible is wrong.

Adventists teach that meats that God created “to be received with thanksgiving” are actually harmful to people created in God’s image. They conduct their own studies to – not surprisingly – support Ellen’s vision and subsequent teaching.

However, numerous other studies are not so kind to her 1863 vision.

“Long term vegetarianism can lead to genetic mutations which raise the risk of heart disease and cancer, scientists have found.

Populations who have had a primarily vegetarian diet for generations were found to be far more likely to carry DNA which makes them susceptible to inflammation.

Scientists in the US believe that the mutation occurred to make it easier for vegetarians to absorb essential fatty acids from plants.

But it has the knock-on effect of boosting the production of arachidonic acid, which is known to increase inflammatory disease and cancer. When coupled with a diet high in vegetable oils – such as sunflower oil – the mutated gene quickly turns fatty acids into dangerous arachidonic acid.

‘Those whose ancestry derives from vegetarians are more likely to carry genetics that more rapidly metabolise plant fatty acids’ said Professor Tom Brenna, Professor of Human Nutrition at Cornell.

The finding may help explain previous research which found vegetarian populations are nearly 40 per cent more likely to suffer colorectal cancer than meat eaters, a finding that has puzzled doctors because eating red meat is known to raise the risk.

Previous studies have shown that vegetarianism and veganism can lead to problems with fertility by lowering sperm counts.

Separate research from Harvard University also found that a diet high in fruit and vegetables may impact fertility because men are consuming high quantities of pesticides.

Many vegetarians also struggle to get enough protein, iron, vitamin D, vitamin B12 and calcium which are essential for health. One study found that vegetarians had approximately five percent lower bone-mineral density (BMD) than non-vegetarians.”
Telegraph.co.uk, Wednesday 30 March 2016

And another example —

Babies’ Mental Delay Tied to Moms’ Vegan Diet
The breast-fed infants of two mothers who did not eat any animal products, including milk and eggs, developed brain abnormalities as a result of a vitamin-B12 deficiency, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news web sites) (CDC) reported Thursday.

The primary sources of vitamin B12, which is essential for brain development, are animal products like meat, dairy products and eggs. Since the mothers ate little or no animal products, too little vitamin B12 was transmitted to their children through breast milk, according to the CDC’s Dr. Maria Elena Jefferds.
(Reuters Health) Yahoo! News Fri, Jan 31, 2003

The fact is that people who live a moderate Christian life, as most SDA’s do, who don’t commit adultery, don’t get drunk, aren’t obese and follow a generally uplifting lifestyle are all generally healthier and live longer than non-Christians who don’t follow that lifestyle. This applies to Adventists, Protestants, Catholics and independents or whatever. To the degree that they live within the natural laws of God, as written in the Word of God, they will benefit. Having clean meat in a balanced diet is not harmful, but healthy.

As we said, Adventists have now been joined by the modern anti-Christ movement in preaching that meat is harmful. This is a strange pairing, Adventists and anti-Christers.

The second argument against eating meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving is that, because of evolution, animals are our brothers and it’s downright immoral to eat them.

I was driving on a four lane highway and saw a lady stopped on that road. She had blocked the left lane – the fast lane – with her car and was out on the pavement getting a terrapin off the road. The speed limit on that major US highway is 65, and many people drive way over that limit. That lady felt enormous concern for that terrapin crossing the road, but had no concern whatsoever for any of those people who easily could have been killed running into her stopped car.

As they were in this incident –

Andre Roy, 50, and his daughter Jessie, 16, were killed when Roy’s Harley-Davidson chopper slammed into the rear of Czornobaj’s Honda Civic on June 27, 2010.

Seconds earlier Czornobaj, a financial analyst, had stopped her car in the left lane of a provincial highway in Candiac, south of Montreal, after she spotted a group of ducklings on the median, CTV News reported. She got out of her car and tired (sic) to herd the ducks into her car.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/woman-faces-life-in-prison-for-stopping-car-to-help-ducks-and-causing-crash-that-kills-two

This mindset believes that ducks and terrapins are equal to people. They believe it is immoral to take animal lives for food, as God directed, yet they think it is ethical to risk human lives to save a terrapin or a duck.

PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Others have said those letters can also stand for People Eating Tasty Animals.

PETA is the most notorious US supporter of the ‘animals equal people’ doctrine. Their motto is, “Animals are not ours to experiment on, eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.”

Activistfacts.com says, “PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs.”
https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/peta-people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals, 12/7/21

That also ultimately means no pets. No dogs, no cats, no parakeets or canaries.

PETA even took major league baseball to task for using the term “bullpen” for the area where pitchers warm up. These people are true religious zealots.

Global warming preaches that people raising cattle for milk and meat is overheating the planet with bovine flatulence. Therefore people must stop eating meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving in order to save people from extinction. This global warming campaign has turned into a religious movement, with prophets amassing just as many missed prophecies as any Christian preacher.

Of course, some might argue that the flatulence is coming from more than the cows.

Left Wing Burger King has shown their global warming religion by promoting a zero-beef burger – the Impossible Whopper.

“100% Whopper, 0% Beef!” they crow.

But wait – since it’s a veggie burger, should I say they “crow” about it?

Anyway, Burger King’s 0% beef burger is part of the global warming-vegetarian religion. All those people who live in the mega-polluting urban areas are going to save the planet by eliminating all the cows in the country fields. Thus the Burger King ban-the-beef campaign.

So if the new Whopper is not beef, then what is it?

Well, for one thing, its soy leghemoglobin.

Leg of lamb is delicious eating, so I guess that leg-hemoglobin is the best cut of a soybean?

What else is in the Impossible Whopper?

“Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Coconut Oil, Sunflower Oil, Natural Flavors, 2% Or Less Of: Potato Protein, Methylcellulose, Yeast Extract, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Antioxidant), and Soy Protein Isolate.”

Well, since the first and biggest ingredient is water, the Impossible Burger does make a healthy start. But– since the main ingredient is water, maybe they should call it a Slopper instead of a Whopper. Or to compete with the Texas What-a-Burger chain, maybe Burger King could call this zero beef burger the Water-Burger.

If the plant based fake meat concoction is so superior to beef, then why does BK also add –

“Vitamins and Minerals (Zinc Gluconate, Thiamine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B1), Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12)” –

Why do they add synthetic vitamins, which are found naturally in beef? And it is a given that synthetic vitamins are not absorbed in the same way as vitamins from natural food.

The Impossible Burger seems about as natural as nylon. And in all the times I have gone through the BK drive-through this past year, I was constantly bombarded with ads about the Impossible Burger. The BK phone app has repeated “taste test” deals trying to persuade me to try the Impossible Burger.

And after all these months of such promotions, you know what I have concluded about the Impossible Burger?

It’s impossible to get me to eat one.

Now in this end time another branch of holy vegetarianism, besides SDA’s, has arisen.

Vegans.

Vegans eat only plant-based foods, restricting themselves to grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Vegetarians, including SDA’s, may cheat and eat some animal products, such as milk and eggs, but vegans are more strict in their religious zeal as to what they will not eat.

I emphasize that vegetarianism is much more a religious practice than a health practice. This is shown by the way that vegetarians react. They don’t just want to eliminate meat eating. They want to eliminate meat eaters.

“Animal rights activists” believe that animals are people’s brothers. So to show their love for animals, they may kill you.

“In the land of boeuf bourguignon and steak-frites, eating meat is turning controversial. Even selling it is becoming dangerous…

A butcher’s shop window was stoned on Sunday night in the Paris region and tagged with a sign that read “stop speciesism” to denounce the exploitation of other species by mankind, Le Parisien reported. In April, seven meat shops were doused with fake blood in the northern Hauts-de-France region while another and a fishmonger suffered broken windows, according to Agence France-Presse.

Five animal rights activists were fined near Paris on Tuesday for storming a local slaughterhouse in April, trying to block operations….

The front page headline for the newspaper L’Opinion this week read “Welcome to Veganistan,” characterizing vegan and vegetarian promoters as “a threat to freedom rights.”
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/vegans-are-rising-in-france, 12/16/21

These veggie zealots want to make it impossible for anyone to have a beef burger. They want to force me to eat the Impossible Burger.

The quoted French newspaper called that approach “Veganistan,” because their approach is similar to some Muslim nations. Even if you disagree, they will try to force you to obey them. And if you continue to think differently than they do, they may cut off your thinker.

In a US incident –
“Animal rights agitators stormed a Florida Chick-fil-A for the restaurant’s Cow Appreciation Day Tuesday, and staged a bloody protest that left many small children traumatized.

“They came in slicing each other’s throats, putting each other on their knees, dropping them onto the floor in front of a bunch of children,” patron Crystal Valle-Najar told WFLA.

Videos of the protest posted online show several animal rights crusaders dressed as cows and chickens, and another dressed as butcher with a large fake knife, as they staged a bloody slaughter in front of children screaming in horror.”
https://www.theamericanmirror.com/blog/2017/07/12/video-kids-scream-animal-rights-protesters-storm-fl-chick-fil

Can you see that vegetarianism is a religious movement, part of the end time religion?

The animal rights movement ultimately comes from teaching evolution in government schools. Evolution is the religious belief that God is not Creator, and vegetarianism and animal rights are just extensions of that belief. This typifies the mind of Satan, whose modus operandi is to repeatedly call Yahweh God a liar.

Veganism is based on the belief that eating meat is morally wrong.

Vegetarianism is based on the belief that eating meat or animal products is unhealthy and damaging to the body.

Both are based on the premise that God is a liar.

In the Bible God says that some meats are clean and some aren’t. Noah’s ark carried seven pairs of clean animals and two pairs of unclean.

Gen 7:2 (WEB)
2) You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

The Hebrew word translated “clean” is “tawhore,” defined as pure, as in the gold on the high priest’s vestments.

Exod. 39:30 (WEB)
30) They made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote on it a writing, like the engravings of a signet: “HOLY TO YAHWEH.”

In the same way that certain meats are pure, Yahweh’s words are pure.

Ps 12:6 (LEB)
6) The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times.

So that definitely does not sound like clean – or pure! – meat is bad for you.

This is not a ceremonial law. This is a creation law. When Noah went on the ark, those animals had been clean or unclean since creation. Clean animals were to be eaten, unclean were not.

Yahweh Himself ate beef, although admittedly it was tender and good beef.

Gen 18
1) Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.
2) He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
3) and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.
4) Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
5) I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
6) Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”
7) Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.
8) He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

Yahweh there was the being who became the Messiah, the one who directly dealt with Abraham and his descendants. This was God on earth. Abraham killed a young calf while He was there, prepared it, and then Yahweh/Yeshua ate it.

Was that animal cruelty?

Apparently Yahweh didn’t think so. That’s why He had created those animals.

When Yahweh led Israel out of Egypt, where did He take them?

Exod. 3:7-8 (WEB)
8) I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey;…

Yahweh took Israel to the land of milk and honey, both animal products, and both delicious.

Had vegans been there, they would not have gone into the land of milk and honey. And that puts them in the company of these guys.

Num. 14
28) Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

29) your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,
30) surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

They didn’t want to go into the land of milk and honey. Vegans wouldn’t want to go into the land of milk and honey.

In the New Testament, John the baptizer announced the coming of the Messiah. He did not announce that he was not an animal rights guy.

Mark 1:6 (WEB)
6) John was clothed with camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.

John the baptizer wore clothes made from animals, ate locusts that God said were clean, and consumed a delicious animal product – wild honey. Christ said, “Among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer,” yet the vegans and vegetarians would have thrown blood on John’s camel’s hair coat.

Twice Christ fed hungry multitudes with grains and fruits that He miraculously created on the spot.

Well, no, He didn’t. He didn’t feed them grains and fruits. Actually He twice fed them fish that He miraculously created. He caught them in that big fish pond in the sky.

Matt 14:19-20 (WEB)
19) He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
20) They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

Matt 15:32-37 (WEB)
32) Yeshua summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
33) The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
34) Yeshua said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven, and a few small fish.” [That shows what they normally ate themselves.
35) He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground;
36) and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
37) They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

Why did Christ feed those people? Because He had compassion on them. They were hungry. If He had compassion on them, would He then have given them unhealthy food?

No.

Instead of fish, why didn’t Yeshua give them fruits, nuts and grains, as Ellen White would have done? Was Ellen better than Christ?

No. Yeshua didn’t give them fruits, nuts and grains because they were hungry. Christ gave them filling, nutritious food – meat.

You know what?

If Ellen had been there, in that crowd listening to the giver of truth who Himself was truth –

SHE WOULD NOT HAVE EATEN HIS FISH.

Now that sounds a little fishy, doesn’t it?

Yeshua ate the Passover lamb His whole life. He also ate it at the end of His life.

Matt 26:17-19 (WEB)
17) Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Yeshua, saying to him, “Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
18) He said, “Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is
t hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.”’”
19) The disciples did as Yeshua commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.

Christ’s last meal was meat. Was the Master defiled by eating “harmful” foods?

No. The foods He ate were not harmful. And He should know, since “all things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made,” John 1:3.

And after His resurrection Christ ate fish, to make his disciples feel comfortable.

Luke 24:36-43 (WEB)
36) As they said these things, Yeshua himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”
37) But they were terrified and filled with fear, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38) He said to them, “Why are you troubled? Why do doubts arise in your hearts?
39) See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”
40) When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41) While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”
42) They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
43) He took them, and ate in front of them.

Even after His resurrection, the risen Messiah cooked fish for His disciples.

John 21:9-13 (WEB)
9) So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
10) Yeshua said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”
11) Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.
12) Yeshua said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.
13) Then Yeshua came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

Again Christian vegetarians face this dilemma. If you had been there with Christ’s disciples, and Yeshua gave you a piece of fish that He had just cooked, what would you have done?

“Sorry, but I don’t eat that. It’s bad food, you know.”

Well, no, Yeshua didn’t know that. So did He know less than Ellen White or those in Veganistan?

You can see how vegetarianism is not just an alternate way of eating. It is a direct assault against God, accusing Him of being cruel to animals and accusing Him of harming His chosen people by ordering them to consume animal products. This is not a simple thing. It’s not just another choice. Calling God a liar is a serious offense, even if it’s done in a “Christian” manner.

Now if you want to avoid foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving, that’s your choice, but you must not call God a liar by saying those foods are harmful. If you do, you are the liar.

Vegetarianism is now part of the end time religion pushed on the world by the rabid anti-Christ movement. I expect the movement to include sexual abandon, violence, self-exaltation –

But vegetarianism?

So why in the world would Satan not want us to have milk and meat and wool coats and leather shoes?

Simple, I guess. Those things are blessings made by the Creator for His people. Satan hates people and fervently and feverishly tries to destroy them. And that even includes stopping them from having leg of lamb or filet mignon or Whoppers.

Christian vegetarians must ask themselves if they are wise to be brothers in this belief with the modern anti-Christ movement.

The end time religion certainly has different aspects, but the central core of this religion is the same message that Satan preached to Eve.

“Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” …“You won’t surely die.”
Genesis 3

Satan’s message is that Yahweh God is a liar, and people can survive without their Creator.

And that’s the biggest lie of all time.