Introduction:
     Free from what? -- Disease, suffering, (ultimately death whether in this life or the next), what else? In the ensuing discourse we hope to give you a simple but concise explanation which might also answer the question: the eternal enigma of "Whence evil, and why?"
    It has been said, Only the Young are beautiful...and certainly the young are thoroughly innocent.  This may be true, and to go along with this statement, goes the thought, "The young may be beautiful and innocent, but the old have gained knowledge, and wisdom and if persistent, seek to achieve probity concurrent with their ability.
    Oh...that these attributes could be mingled.  Why can't we be youthful, innocent?---harmoniously possessing wisdom and knowledge?  That sounds almost Godlike (or perfect) doesn't it? Could that be one of the mysteries of Godhood?
    Alma said: in Alma 12:10 "And therefore, he that will harden his heart, the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God until he know them in full."
    Think about how this compares with the Doctrine and Covenants 89: 18, 19, 20 our modern-day Word of Wisdom, which says:
18    And all saints who remember to keep and do these sayings, walking in obedience to the commandments, shall receive health in their navel and marrow to their bones;
19    And shall fine wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures;
20    And shall run and not be weary, and shall walk and not faint.
    What does hardening the heart have to do with knowledge and wisdom?---and does obeying the gentle commandments of the Word of Wisdom ensure a gentleness of heart, such as innocent children have?
    One of the first things that caught my attention the first time I read the New Testament was the scripture, Matthew 5: 48, which says,"Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect."  I thought, "My  gosh!, how is that possible?" Just within the last few years, I have read the same scripture in the Joseph Smith Translation which says: "Ye are therefore commanded to be perfect," even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.  A major commandment! Again, I thought,  "Oh no...how is that possible?"
    If one would become perfect (Godlike), then he would have to become perfect in knowledge and then employ that knowledge in his everyday thought, word and deed.
    I have to say right now: It is impossible to become perfect in knowledge…unless… unless...there is a secret teaching of Jesus Christ that I am unaware of at this time-which allows one to become perfect in knowledge?  Is it D&C 89: 18, 19, 20?
    If in fact we are enjoined by our church leaders to search the scriptures, then evidently the scriptures we need to become perfect are there.  Maybe they are hidden and maybe they are just diffused throughout the text.  We just need to find them!  In fact if a higher truth exists (this mystery), hidden within the scriptures, will this higher truth help us to progress faster than we are progressing now?
    So...this document is a humble and honest search for this knowledge or this truth. It has been a long search in which I have received help from an unexpected source, a blessing, -- which I am thankful for.  There is a conclusion...a very serious and life changing conclusion. Be advised:  Read this document only if you are seriously wishing to know it.  If you feel the conclusion is valid, then it is your decision as to whether or not to confirm it with the Holy Ghost.
    Do I think becoming perfect can be accomplished in this lifetime?--or that it can be accomplished by ourselves alone?  No.  However, I feel that we ourselves must begin these first few steps in our eternal progression and then with faith, await the blessings our Lord and Savior has for us.  Full understanding of this will come with the reading of this document.
    Our eternal progression?  Our life eternal?  What is this life that we would want for all eternity?  It has been my experience that it's not that great to want to have it forever.  I have suffered much...both physically and emotionally--and I know many  -- many, who have suffered much more than I.  But the promise is there--the promise that at some point in our eternal existence, it will be worth whatever we have been through and whatever we have to do in the future to obtain it.
    So let us begin with some scriptures that talk about eternal life.

LIFE: WHAT IS IT AND WHY DO WE WANT IT FOR ETERNITY?
2nd Nephi 2:25    Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy.
Moses 1:39        For behold, this is my work and my glory -- to bring to pass the immortality and the eternal life of man.
Romans 6:23     For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
2nd Nephi 2:27  Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life.
2nd Nephi 31:
17   Wherefore, do the things which I have told you I have seen that your Lord and your Redeemer should do; for, for this cause have they been shown unto me, that ye might know the gate by which ye should enter.  For the gate by which ye should enter is repentance and baptism by water; and then cometh a remission of your sins by fire and by the Holy Ghost.
18   And then are ye in this strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life.
St. Matthew Chapter 7
13  Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
 

     These are a few of the scriptures we have that talk about eternal life.  But few of us understand even what life is much less eternal life. The question is what is life?  Did we not come here to earth to get it, i.e. to get a body and learn to live in it and then to have it for all eternity...until eventually we can ourselves attain godhood?
     Joseph Smith said, "God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted Man, sits enthroned in yonder heavens.  You have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves, and to be kings and priests to God, the same as all Gods have done before you; namely by going from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation".
     We certainly have life now, and sometimes it is not so great -- there is much pain and suffering. Do we even want life for all eternity?  If we did, what do we have to do to get it?
     According to 2nd Nephi 31:17, the first gate we should enter to get it is repentance.   Repentance from what?
     We hope to show in this treatise what in fact life is, why it is not so great now, what to repent from to make better, and what may be required to make it eternal.
      Some of the ancients explain life as:
     "Yea, over mere dust hast Thou wafted Thy [holy] spirit, [and hast so molded that] clay that [it can have converse with] angels and be in communion with beings celestial".
Book of Hymns (Fragments) 2:10 The Dead Sea Scrolls
     In our daily round we seldom think about the unique and wonderful place we occupy in this amazing creation.  Why are we here?  Many believe there is more to this play than meets the eye.  Many believe we are spiritual beings clothed in a material body.

If that is so, what can be the reason for such a strange and wondrous combination?
     When we think about our position in the cosmos, humanity does not amount to much.  We are minute beings on a minute speck surrounded by the infinite.  We do occupy a very unique position, however.  Where the light meets darkness is the razor's edge of our human existence.  We exist where light comes to meet the great mineral world to mix and draw it towards the light through the mystery of chlorophyll and its  sugars, the basis of organic life.  This physical experience is our spiritual heritage.
     At this place, meeting an individual human being, is the very end of a single ray of light connected to the great source.

     In "The Allegory of the Cave", Socrates tells us to turn around from our toils at the bottom of the great mine and look homeward, even if it blinds us.
     If we can but accomplish that turning towards the light, we will understand how great the undertaking each individual has as they toil to transmute darkness into light.  Each person literally lives the edge of the mixing of light and dark.  Our work is to transmute stone into gold, darkness into light, inanimate into life as we play our roles in the eternal progression.  The clay of our bodies clothes our very soul, and that animation allows heavens light and dark soil to mingle.
     In that mingling each of us has the choice to toil upward to light, or toil downward into greater darkness.  We each face the choice, we each reap the consequences of what we sow.  If we choose to toil for the increase of light, it is required for us to prepare our bodies in that work.
     We are beings of light, and our heritage is the Heavens above.  It is not a gift without responsibility.  Our choices determine our course, our persistence secures the goal. If in this labor toward the light, a tool is required, that tool must function flawless to that end. A broken shovel is hard pressed to move its  stone, a broken body is hard pressed to move its  soul!
     Is not this human body the divine tool that animates the light of spirit, and provides life to the soul? So how do we maintain this heavenly gift of the human tool so it may move its spirit?
     God did not send us down into our earthen mine with our miraculous tool, and then leave us without council on how to maintain it.
      "Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of God?" and that this is the tool you came to earth to experience and use! So what is the fuel upon which it must run?
      God did not leave us without counsel in that crucial understanding. It appears that, in its foremost importance, it was given within the very first communications of God to Man. "We have prepared for you this garden and from every fruit and every herb therein you may freely eat" "And of the fruit of every tree which bears seed therein and of every herb which bears seed therein, these shall be your meat."
      So herein is God's maintenance manual of diet, right action, love, and the willingness to carry our burden and share the burdens of our brothers and sisters, which will determine whether we have served the Light, or served darkness.
 

       Look around and see the sickness, pain and suffering that people experience.  What are we doing wrong?  We might be heard to say "You would think that after billions of years that Heavenly Father would get it right".  But the answer is yes! -- yes, He did get it right.  The problem is that we get it wrong by the fuel we chose to power this precious heaven designed human motion machine!

     James B. Sumner, Nobel laureate, of Cornell University defined the indications of life as the orderly functioning of enzymes.  In fact he was given the Nobel prize when he first crystalized a protein of the enzyme complex.  He said that if we could postpone the debilitation of metabolic (building and repairing) enzyme activity, what we now label as old age, could become the glorious prime of life.
     So Life, in his science, in fact, has been defined -- in the power of the enzymes!
     Life can also be measured!
    One way in which life force has been measured is by using Kirlian's ElectroMagnetic Photography which shows fields of radiating aura (light) on ultra-sensitive film.  Kirlian photography has for years measured not only the life in animal forms but also in plants.
     So "Life" in many sciences has been defined and has been measured, yet the important question we have now is: How can we maintain it? Can we get more of it?  Or can we enhance that which we have?--Thank goodness the answer is "yes" to this final question.
    So in the recent history of the world, because it couldn't be explained or found otherwise, men have tried to find those specific substances, which might nourish life.  In their efforts, they have turned back to food, but the mark has been totally missed.  The mark has been missed by so far -- that commonly the most important ingredient -- life itself -- is completely removed from 90% of the foods people eat.
     Yet we now know that life is such a powerful force that if left unmolested, it can continue to survive and be maintained even though it is not being replenished (yet it does degenerate).
    It is obvious to most people (in common sense) that it was given to us by the Creator.
    If in fact He created it -- then certainly He must have created it in such a way that it would be better than it is now?  So what has happened to that wonderful creation -- how could it have fallen so low?  How could it have gotten so out of shape -- so degenerate and so diseased?  What magic potion should He have given us to keep us from ending up this way??  What magic potion will return us to health -- and then keep us that way?
     Not only does our own common sense tell us that we must partake of the food or "medicine" that the Creator provided, but, thank goodnes, so do the scriptures!  And now other records besides the Bible have been found which indicate that the Lord did not create, and then forget us -- like to us, at our first presumption, He seems to have done.  There actually was a nurturing, healing and maintaining medicine created by Him.  The medicine is Life itself -- the life which is found in foods which we should be eating every day -- that is: if we have not destroyed it by cooking, pickling, bottling, poisoning, processing, etc.
 

Another Record?

    In 1928 Edmond Bordeaux Szekely discovered an ancient scroll he found in the Vatican in which is recorded that Jesus Christ (during His lifetime) actually visited and taught the Essenes, an ancient sect of people who lived near the Dead Sea -- all about how to eat to stay healthy.
     Edmond Szekely was so enthralled with the translation of this ancient scroll that he formed a society and had his translations published into easily available little books.  He felt that the world desperately needed the message.  He called the translation The Essene Gospel of Peace, Books I thru IV.  Christ's main teaching in Book I was: Don't kill your food and don't kill the living foods by cooking it.  His main teaching in Book IV was:  all grasses are good for man, but that of the grasses, wheat is the more perfect food for man.

The organelle changing Light into Life!
    In the early 1940's medical doctors studied a substance called chlorophyll.  Charles Kettering, then Chairman of the Board of General Motors funded much of the research that was done.  Medical doctors found that chlorophyll was a wonderful healer -- that it cured all kinds of things:  peptic ulcers, sinus infections, anemia, etc.  The AMA actually accepted the cereal grasses as a natural vitamin food in l939!  (Wheat grass juice is liquid chlorophyll.)
     In the 1950's a woman by the name of Ann Wigmore opened a nonprofit foundation in Boston and began treating people with a living foods diet and wheat grass juice. Since that time, people from all over the world have visited her institutes and have been healed of major degenerative diseases, cancer, arthritis, aids, etc.  (See The Wheatgrass Book among others by Ann Wigmore and Wheatgrass, Natures’ Finest Medicine by Steve Meyerowitz.)
     About the same time (1940's, 1950's) a medical doctor by the name of Max Gerson, began treating people with raw foods and fresh juices.  Hundreds of extremely ill people went to him as a last resort after having undergone surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy and were healed with his diet.  (See A Cancer Therapy, by Max Gerson).
     His daugher still has a clinic in Baja California. By now (1999) thousands of people have gone on this diet of living foods and have been returned to health.

    If we in fact become tired of waiting for medical science to discover a solution to our ills, we can then return to the medicine of the Creator -- Life itself! In living foods!
     If in fact we do have a responsibility to choose right action, right diet, then why weren't we told about it in the Bible? -- in the Book of Mormon? -- in the Doctrine and Covenants?

     The fact is, we have been told!

      The purpose of this treatise, then is, of course as we see it, to place in a systematic manner all of the indications in the scriptures, including the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, The Pearl of Great Price, the Apocrapha, the Pseudopigrapha, Nag Hammadi manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, along with personal experience, and current science, that in fact God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ from the very beginning told us what our responsibility was in relation to diet -- and why it is important for the health of our bodies and how that relates to the attainment of the fullness of the Holy Spirit. (What did Joseph Smith think of the Apocrypha and did he retranslate it as he did the Old and New Testaments. For an answer, see Doctrine and Covenants, Section 91:
l.  Thus Saith the Lord unto you concerning the Apocrypha-There are many things contained therein that are true, and it is mostly translated correctly;
2.  There are many things conatained therein that are not true, which are interpolations by the hands of men.
3.  Verily, I say unto you, that it is not needful that the Apocrypha should be translated.
4.  Therefore, whoso readeth it, let him understand, for the Spirit manifesteth truth;
5.  And whoso is enlightened by the Spirit shall obtain benefit therefrom;
6.  And whoso receiveth not by the Spirit, cannot be benefited.  Therefore it is not needful that it should be translated.  Amen

Our great responsibility is to reverence life. All of it!

     So did God the Father, or His Son Jesus Christ, the Creator, intend for the flesh of beasts to be sacrificed and continuously consumed by man? or to drink continually the mammorial fluids of another species or devour their ova?
     We hope to give you the complete picture from the Beginning to the end and even the future --as stated in the Book of Revelations.
     We must at this point take responsibility for our own perceptions recorded herein and let it be known that the information in this letter is the opinion of the writers and is not necessarily a commonly held view by all or even many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and neither is it pertinent to the current labors and required efforts of the Church which must occur to the spreading of its purest beginning principles of faith, repentance, baptism, and the most important receiving of the holy spirit of discernment by the willing listeners of the world.
    We herein are discussing what we believe are possible added personal responsibilities which a person must consider for himself, testing with that same gift of the spirit given in his gospel acceptance and discerning for himself any truth, then making his choices in his own continued path toward perfection.
     We must also point out that in our imperfections and humblest efforts to discover more evidence in our quest for heavens firm and final truth that this information may be subject to change when and as new information comes forward.
     -- Thankfully in this our day, as promised by the prophets, more is being discovered and now is coming forth to us as it were, in a wondrous and blessing flood!

-- Now the question is: are we ready to receive it?

     Hugh Nibley once said, "An open mind is not a mind devoid of opinion but one that is able to change opinion in the face of new evidence".  We concur.
     Orson Pratt once said, "With regard to any principle I teach, God has placed Joseph Smith [now that representative is for us our dearest President Gordon B. Hinckley] as the President of this church, as our leader, guide and teacher, and I am bound not to come in [combative] contact with him -- not to teach differently to what he does; that is when we once ascertain fully his mind and views.  But, very frequently, mankind is so imperfect, and their minds so contracted, and their knowledge so little, comparatively speaking, that they may throw out [promulgate] many ideas that may not be true, that are incorrect: but the Lord has appointed these (general authorities) that hold the keys to correct and give us instructions on all principles of doctrine".

     We friends and this author concur with Elder Pratt, and so do whole heartedly support our current Prophet and President of the Church, Gordon B. Hinckley and sustain him and those righteous men about him in those special mandated labors, of the carrying forth of the Book of Mormon, witnessing Jesus Christ, and the  spreading of His plain and precious gospel beginnings through our missionaries, and the necessary building of the Temples of the Lord in every land, while we at the same time, press lovingly forward using the holy ghost to continue to add blessing to ourselves, our loved ones and each other.

     In the Church today, our most familiar scripture that has to do with diet is D&C Section 89:
A Word of Wisdom beginning with…
1  For the benefit of the council of high priests assembled in Kirtland, and the church, and also the saints in Zion
2  To be sent greeting; not by commandment or constraint, but by revelation and the word of wisdom, showing forth the order and will of God in the temporal salvation of all saints in the last days
3  Given for a principle with promise, adapted to the capacity of the weak and the weakest of all saints, who are or can be called saints.
4  Behold, verily, thus saith the Lord unto you:  In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation.

     Wait a minute here -- "evils and designs that will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days"??  Could He be including the most important source of nourishment, in the last day -- the grocery store?? The grocery store? -- the clean and wholesome grocery store where most of us buy our food??  How strange!  Most people would think that the evils and designs of the last days would take place in the dark alleys of the streets, the political arena or maybe even in the oval office.  But here in the Word of Wisdom, we see that it pertains very much to what we eat.  And can we answer this question:  Are we now in the last days?
     It is the opinion of the writers of this letter that we definitely are in the last days.

    Let us see what Gordon B. Hinckley has to say about the Word of Wisdom,  October 8, 1993, General Priesthood Session Address:
     I thank the Lord for a testimony of the Word of Wisdom.  I wish we lived it more fully. But even though we do not, the Lord pours out his blessing on those who try. The promise is before us that if we will do so, we shall have health in the navel and marrow in the bones and shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even the destroying angel shall pass by us as the children of Israel and not slay us.
     To me it is marvelous that beyond the promise of a physical nature, it is the promise of hidden treasures of knowledge concerning things divine and eternal.  (See D&C:18-21)
     Before we begin at the beginning (Story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden) and find out what the Lord originally told us concerning diet, we have an unusual story to tell. It has been around for thousands of years.  It is called the Myth of the Phoenix:
      Most people are familiar with the Phoenix, a mythical bird who appears every 500 years to tell a great truth to the people of the earth.  The Phoenix obviously flew 2000 years ago during the time of Jesus Christ to bring a great truth to the people of the world.   We feel that the last time the Phoenix flew was the time of the Gutenberg Bible. The same message was given as was 2000 years ago; only now, the truth was available to all people both rich and poor -- and what was really important ! - it was set into print, no longer to be changed at the whim of whoever was in power.  This printing took place about 540 years ago.  This mythical bird is found in the literature of all nations in one form or another.
Baruch 6:
"And taking me, he led me where the sun goes forth and he showed me a chariot drawn by four horses and fire underneath it.  And upon the chariot sat a man wearing a fiery crown [Christ].  The chariot was drawn by 40 angels.    And behold a bird runs along before the sun, as large as 9 mountains."

 

The Myth of the Phoenix
by R. VanDenBrock:

Page 326: "The view that the phoenix lives in Paradise is also found in the rabbinical traditions. The bird hol, which was also called malham or maltam, was said to have been the only bird or beast to refuse the fruit offered by Eve and for this reason to have been given the gift of eternal life by God.  Here it is probably also assumed that this bird was allowed to remain in Paradise after the Fall.  According to one tradition, after the fall of man the Jewish Phoenix went to reside in the mysterious city of Luz, to which even the angel of death could not gain admittance."
Page 329:  "in the grove of the sun there is no pale illness, sorrowful old age, cruel death, or raw Fear:  unutterable crime does not occur there, nor mad passion for money and killing; and bitter sorrow, ragged poverty, sleepless cares, and gnawing hunger are not known."
Page 333:    In this region, according to Claudian, the fortunate sun bird rules entirely alone and protected by the inaccessiblity of the region.  Its abode is free of sick animals [!!!] and it does not have to suffer dire infection from the world of man.  The bird is the equal of the gods: the duration of its life makes it the match of the stars, and it has eternal life because of its capacity to renew itself.
Page 415:  The main accent (in Classical and Early Christian literature) consistently falls on the symbolism of the phoenix as inaugurator of a new era: the appearance at the beginning of the rule of a new King or emperor is a derivative aspect of this symbolism, even though it sometimes seems to occur almost independently.
     The question we now pose:  What does the gospel of Jesus Christ have to do with the myth of the phoenix?
     In a place called Shifta, which is located not too far from Beersheva, Israel, are the ancient remains of what was once a village inhabited by the once nomadic tribes of the Negev desert.  These people were called Nabateans (in Hebrew, Nabatean means sprouter, and in Arabic, Nabatean means vegetarian) by the Palestinian people.  There is evidence that the Nabateans changed from being nomads to being farmers or agriculturists (even vegetarian?) around the years 90 AD to about 100 AD. It is well known that the Nabateans were Christians. What a drastic change in such a short length of time.  What mysterious reason caused these people to change?  Could it be that they became vegetarian at the same time they became Christians? and in order to become vegetarian, they had to give up their nomadic life of following their flocks?
     To get a clue as to what was the reason and to make a connection with the Myth of the Phoenix, let us examine some of their architecture.  On supporting posts of many of their buildings, one finds carvings of animals and trees, the main theme being a huge bird (the Jewish bird Hol, or the phoenix) standing next to the desert palm tree (known in the desert as the Tree of Life).  What does the Phoenix and the tree of life have to do with Christ?
     We know something more about the Tree of Life because of Lehi  s (Book of Mormon) vision of the tree of life:  see 1st Nephi: Chapter 8
     So now we must extrapolate.
     Who was the Phoenix that brought the good news of the Gospel 2000 years ago?  And In what way did the Gospel restore the idea of the Tree of Life which was first represented in the Garden of Eden?  Did someone preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to these nomads of the desert, who for thousands of years had been very much involved with the growing of livestock for human use and consumption who then uncharacteristically broke with their tradition of roaming the desert and settled into communities?  The question is, who preached the gospel to these people?  Paul?  And if Paul preached the gospel of vegetarianism, then was this part of what is considered the primitive Gospel of Jesus Christ?  We hope to present the facts and let you decide for yourself if in fact it was and is central to the Peaceful gospel that Christ taught.

THE ANCIENT SCRIPTURES: WHAT THEY ACTUALLY SAY
ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

We are all familiar with the account of Adam and Eve as found in the King James version of the Holy Bible.  Let us make a comparison now with the account in the Book of Moses (which is the Joseph Smith Translation of the Book of Genesis) and then with the Apocryphal story of Adam and Eve as found in The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden.   We might even include articles from a periodical called Ancient American which actually contains pictures of ancient stone carvings which show that the ancient peoples of America knew about the garden.

THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE

BOOK OF MOSES
Chapter 2
26  And I God, said:   Let them have *dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
     * [Dominion (The Oxford Universal Dictionary):  1. The power or right of governing or controlling; sovereign authority; rule; control. (Ancient meaning was to “provide bread” for, nourish, protect, preserve and guard – as a father given “dominion” for his wife and family; and the mother is given for her children.)]
27   And I God said unto man: Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which shall be the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
28    And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein I grant life, there shall be given every clean herb for meat; and it was so, even as I spake.
    [Interesting  here we learn that herbs are clean.  What are herbs?--spinach, carrots, celery, broccoli, chard, asparagus, beets, on and on.]
Chapter 3
16  And I, 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, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
     [SATAN COMES UPON THE SCENE AND TELLS THE FIRST LIE:]
Chapter 4
10  And the serpent said unto the woman:  Ye shall not surely die;
11  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.
[EVE PARTOOK OF THE FRUIT:]
19  And I, the Lord God, said unto the woman:  What it this thing
which thou hast done?  And the woman said:  the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
20  And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent:  Because thou hast done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
23  And unto Adam, I ,the Lord God, said: Because thou has
hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and has eaten of the fruit of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life
25  By the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground for thou shalt surely die-- for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.
28  And I, the Lord God, said unto mine Only Begotten: Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil; and now lest he put forth his hand and partake also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever,
29  Therefore I, the Lord God, will send him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
[ADAM AND EVE WERE DRIVEN OUT OF THE GARDEN:]
31    So I drove out the man, and I placed at the east of the Garden of Eden, cherubim and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life.  [Cherubim and a flaming sword?   Do you have any clue as to what this means?]
Chapter 5
1   And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I the lord had commanded him.
5  And he gave unto them commandments, that they should worship the Lord their God, and should offer the firstlings of their flocks, for an offering unto the Lord.  And Adam was obedient unto the commandments of the Lord.  [The word offer here comes from the Hebrew word obrear and it means just that.  To lift up, to consecrate, to dedicate.]
6  And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying:  Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me.
7  And then the angel spake, saying: this thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth.
8  Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shall repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore.
9  And in that day the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam
[Adam and Eve did understand repentance and true sacrifice. However Satan came among their sons and daughters and corrupted and defiled that pure understanding.]
13  And Satan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying:  Believe it not; and they believed it not, and they loved Satan more than God.  And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual, and devilish.
14  And the Lord God Called upon men by the Holy Ghost everywhere and commanded them that they should repent. [Have we not often foolishly followed in that misunderstanding?  Do we know what true sacrifice is? Are we not now also being admonished to repent: - To change our minds, our hearts and our actions?]
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Chapter 6
29  Of your own free will have you transgressed through your desire for divinity, greatness, and an exalted state, such as I have; so that I deprived you of the bright nature [Holy Ghost?] in which you then were, and I made you come out of the garden to this land, rough and full of trouble.
Chapter 7
3    Then Adam said unto God,   O Lord, Thou didst create us, and make us fit to be in the garden; and before I transgressed, Thou madest all beasts come to me, that I should name them.
4  Thy grace was then on me; and I named every one according to Thy mind; and Thou madest them all subject unto me.
5  But now, O Lord God, that I have transgressed Thy commandment, all beasts will rise against me and will devour me, and Eve Thy handmaid; and will cut off our life from the face of the earth. [Why would the beasts be angry with Adam for the eating of the   forbidden fruit  ?  Does this displeasure of the creatures give a hint as to what the forbidden fruit might have been?]
Chapter 40
But when thou camest to dwell in this strange land [after they had been cast out of the garden], thy animal body [So  now Adam and Eve have animal corrupted bodies!] could not be on earth without earthly food, to strengthen it and to restore its powers.
Chapter 42
l   Then came the Word of God to Adam and said unto him:
2  O Adam, as to what thou sayest,   Bring me into a land where there is rest,   it is not another land than this, but it is the kingdom of heaven where alone there is rest. [When the bright nature or Holy Ghost is within?]
3  But thou canst not make thy entrance into it at present; but only after thy judgment is past and fulfilled.
4  Then will I make thee go up into the kingdom of heaven, thee and thy righteous [those who walk not in an animal body, but uprightly?] seed; and I will give thee and them the rest thou askest for at present.
Chapter 46
5  God said again to Eve,   What is that he promised thee in the garden, saying,   At the time ye shall eat of the tree your eyes will be opened, and you shall become like gods, knowing good and evil.    But Lo! He has burnt your bodies with fire, and has made you taste the taste of fire, for the taste of the garden; and has made you see the burning of fire, and the evil thereof, and the power it has over you.
Chapter 51
5    Then came the Word of God to Adam and Eve, and said to them,   This is he who was hidden in the serpent, and who deceived you, and stripped you of the garment of light and glory [your worthiness to receive the Holy Ghost? which you must now work to regain.] in which you were.
6      This is he who promised you majesty and divinity.  Where, then, is the beauty that was on him?  Where is his divinity?  Where is his light?  Where is the glory that rested on him?
Chapter 55
3       But now, that I have transgressed, that bright nature, [the sweet gift of the Holy Ghost] is gone from  me  and I am come to this miserable state.  And now am I come to this, that I cannot see you, and you do not serve me as you were wont.  For I am become animal flesh.
 [SATAN IS EXPELLED FROM HEAVEN]
13      But when he fell from among us, there was great joy in heaven, because of his going down from us.  For had he continued in heaven, nothing, not even one angel would have remained in it.
14      But God in His mercy, drove him from among us to this dark earth: for he had become darkness itself and a worker of unrighteousness. [not walking uprightly?]
Chapter 6
8  Thus have you transgressed my commandment, and therefore
have I brought upon you all these sorrows.
9  For I am God the Creator, who, when I created my creatures, did not intend to destroy them.  But after they had sorely roused my anger, I punished them with grievous plagues, until they repent.
10  But, if on the contrary, they still continue hardened [hardened their hearts as in the Book of Mormon?] in their transgression [or sin], they shall be under a curse for ever.
[Is not the same act in choosing the forbidden food that caused the plagues then , causing them now?  Do we not have the same variety of plagues in these modern times?colds, flu, baby killing RSV, allergies, leukemia, Epstein Barr, measles, mumps, the maimers of polio, arthritis, osteo-porosis, Alzheimers, MS, and the killers, heart disease, cancer, Aids, Mad Cow Disease (Crutzfeld Jacobs), Ebola, on and on.  Do you not suppose that these are not the same plagues that they suffered then?  The biological evidence shows that these were their diseases as well.
     From what act of partaking or sin do these diseases come ?]  Revelations 18:4  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,   Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Chapter 68
10    Then Adam and Eve took of the corn, and made of it an offering, and took it and offered it up on the mountain, the place where they had offered up their first offering of blood.  [the story indicates it was their own blood--a metaphor for sorrow.]
Chapter 77
1    But when Adam saw that the elder brother hated the younger, he endeavoured to soften their hearts, and said unto Cain,   Take, O my son, of the fruits of thy sowing, and make an offering unto God, that He may forgive thee thy wickedness and thy sin.
2    He said also to Abel,   Take thou of thy sowing and make an offering and bring it to God, that he may forgive thy wickedness and thy sin.
3    Then Abel hearkened unto his father’s  voice, and took of his sowing, and made a good offering, and said to his father, Adam,   Come with me, to show me how to offer it up.
4    And they went, Adam and Eve with him, and showed him how to offer up his gift upon the altar.  Then after that they stood up and prayed that God would Accept Abel’s offering
5    Then God looked upon Abel and accepted his offering.  And God was more pleased with Abel than with his offering, because of his good heart and pure body [Obviously Abel had not partaken of the forbidden food.]  There was no trace of guile in him.
6    Then they came down from the altar, and went to the cave in which they dwelt.  But Abel, by reason of his joy at having made his offering, repeated it three times a week, after the example of his father Adam.
7    But as to Cain, he took no pleasure in offering; but after much anger on his father’s part, he offered up his gift once; and when he did offer up, his eye was on the offering he made, and he took the smallest of his sheep for an offering, and his eye was again on it.   [It is interesting that in this version, Cain is the keeper of the flocks, and that Abel is the farmer.  What is even more interesting is the Creation Tablet:, A Michigan plate depicting Old Testament scenes which demonstrate the use of and correct understanding of the marks (Son of the Right Hand  and Son of the Left Hand) as they are applied to various scenes throughout the Michigan tablets and the Illinois stones.  The carvings on the left side of the plate show Cain killing Abel.  On Cain’s side of the picture are the flocks of sheep, indicating that they belong to him.  A second witness that Cain was the keeper of the flocks.  See page 7, Volume 4, Issue Number 26 of Ancient American, PO Box 370, Colfax, WI 54730 or go to www.ancientamerican.com for more information about the early Americans.]
8    Therefore God did not accept his offering because his heart was full of murderous thoughts.
9    And they all thus lived together in the cave in which Eve had brought forth, until Cain was fifteen years old, and Abel twelve years old.

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Chapter 11
10    Seth and his children dwelt on the mountain below the garden; they sowed not, neither did they reap; they wrought no food for the body, not even wheat; but only offerings.  They ate of the fruit and of trees well flavoured that grew on the mountain where they dwelt.
12    They were happy, innocent, without sudden fear, there was no jealousy, no evil action, no hatred among them.  There was no animal passion; from no mouth among them went forth either foul words or curse; neither evil counsel nor fraud.  [Note how verse 12  compares with the Myth of the Phoenix.]
Chapter 12
12  [death of Seth]     .And he commanded him (Enos) to feed his people in righteousness, in judgment and purity all the days of his life.
15  After the death of Seth, Enos rose at the head of his people, whom he fed in righteousness, and judgment, as his father had commanded him.
Chapter 15
1    After the death of Enos, Cainan stood at the head of his people in righteousness and innocence  .
Chapter 16
1    [death of Cainan]  Then Mahalaleel stood over his people, and fed them in righteousness and innocence  ..
5    [death of Mahalaleel]  He then kissed his face, and said to him,   O Jared, my son, I adjure thee by Him who made heaven and earth, to watch over thy people, and to feed them in righteousness and in innocence;  ..
Chapter 17
1    Then Jared kept his father’s commandment, and arose like a lion over his people.  He fed them in righteousness and innocence, and commanded them to do nothing without his counsel  ..
Chapter 21
12     Then Jared turned to his son Enoch, and said unto him,   Thou, my son, abide in this cave, and minister diligently before the body of our father Adam all the days of thy life; and feed thy people in righteousness and innocence.
[The question to be asked here is,   How do you feed your children in righteousness and innocence?  ]
Chapter 22
7     [before Enoch was taken up]  Enoch said also to them,   Watch over your souls, and hold fast by you fear of God and by your service of Him, and worship Him in upright faith and serve Him in righteousness, innocence, and judgment, in repentance and also in purity.
[An insert here from the Book of Moses 6:27,28]:
27  And he heard a voice from heaven, saying:  Enoch, my son
prophesy unto this people and say unto them Repent, for thus saith the Lord:  I am angry with this people, and my fierce anger is kindled against them; for their hearts have waxed hard, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes cannot see afar off.
28  And for these many generations, ever since the day that I created them, have they gone astray.
[Does this not sound familiar?  .hearts waxed hard, ears dull of hearing, eyes cannot see afar off.  What percentage of the people in our day have hardened their hearts to the horrors of the shedding of innocent blood in the darkened chambers of the slaughter house, and as a consequence are made to wear hearing aids and are made to wear glasses to see because the animal grease has stopped  up these tiniest capillaries in these organs?]

THE BOOK OF ENOCH
as translated by R.H. Charles

 Page 140:11    [Enoch speaking to the people] Woe to you, ye obstinate of heart, who work wickedness and eat blood:  Whence have ye good things to eat and to drink and to be filled?  From all the good things which the Lord the Most High has placed in abundance on the earth; therefore ye shall have no peace.  [Does this not answer the question of how to feed your children in righteousness and innocence?   Do we today have peace?]
Page 142:10  But in those days blessed are all they who accept the words of wisdom and understand them    .
See also pages 150:
9  Be not godless in your hearts, and lie not and alter not the words of uprightness, nor change with lying the words of the Holy Great one, nor take account of your idols; for all your lying and all your godlessness issue not in righteousness but in great sin.
10   And now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words and lie and practise great deceits, and write books concerning their words.
 According to Eugene Seaich, Mormonism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nag Hammadi Texts,   1 Enoch was one of the books most prized by the early Christians; it was drawn upon no fewer than 128 times in the New Testament itself.

THE OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis  Joseph Smith Translation
Chapter 9
4  And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl [Hold this thought until you have also read Exodus 22: 29 through 31], and offered burnt offerings on the altar [Refer to Books of Adam and Eve,- so what was burnt?]; and gave thanks unto the Lord, and rejoiced in his heart.
5   And the Lord spake unto Noah, and he blessed him.  And Noah smelled a sweet savor, and he said in his heart;
7   I will call on the name of the Lord, that he will not againcurse the ground any more for man’s sake, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; and he will not again smite any more every thing living, as he hath done, while the earth remaineth;
8  And, that seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, andsummer and winter, and day and night, may not cease with man.
9  And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth.  And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
10  Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even asthe green herb have I given you all things.
11  But, the blood of all flesh which I have given you for meat,shall be shed upon the ground, which taketh life thereof, and the blood ye shall not eat.
12  And surely, blood shall not be shed, only for meat, to save your lives; and the blood of every beast will I require at your hands.
     This writing appears to repeat the commandments, which we have thought that he gave Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.  Only it appears slightly changed because after the flood, there is no food growing (a presumption on our part.)  However he gives a major stipulation in verse 12 the same one the Lord gave to Joseph Smith in our Latter Day Word of Wisdom, Section 89:13  And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.[i.e. to save your lives]

GENESIS -- JOSEPH SMITH TRANSLATION Chapter 17
1    And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I, the Almighty God, give unto thee a commandment; that thou shalt walk uprightly [i.e. not in animal bodies?] before me, and be perfect.
2  And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I
will multiply thee exceedingly.
3  And it came to pass, that Abram fell on his face, and called
upon the name of the Lord.
4  And God talked with him, saying, My people have gone astray from my precepts, and have not kept mine ordinances, which I gave unto their fathers;
5  And they have not observed mine anointing, and the burial,
or baptism [See later what Peter has to say about baptism] wherewith I commanded them;
6  But have turned from the commandment, and taken unto themselves the washing of children [instead of baptism by immersion], and the blood of sprinkling[sacrificing in blood and violence, not giving of the broken heart in blessing repentance]; And have said that the blood of the righteous Abel was shed for sins; and have not known wherein they are accountable before me
7  But as for thee, behold, I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
[Compare the above compassionate scripture from the Joseph Smith Translation  to the King Jame’s Leviticus Chapter 1: 4, 5]:

LEVITICUS
Chapter 1
4  And he shall put his  hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
5  And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle  the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

EXODUS  THE KING JAMES VERSION
[Moses Leads the People out of Egypt.]
Chapter 15
26    And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases [again, diseases caused by partaking of the forbidden food?] upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians [because of their flesh pots?]; for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Chapter 16
4  And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots [the modern term for this would be butcher shops or meat markets], and when we did eat bread [an early Greek edition of the Bible says meat here.  See The Philokalia.] to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
5  Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain breadfrom heaven for you [The Lord rained   bread   from heaven upon the people for 40 years.  Was this to purify them so that in effect their bodies (temples) would be prepared (purified) to receive the Holy Ghost?]; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
[The People Murmured.   Where is the flesh for our tables?  ]
13  I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel; speak unto them saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

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Chapter 11
18  And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat?  For it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the Lord will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
19  Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither
ten days, nor twenty days:
20  But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
21  And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
22  Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them?  Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
23  And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? Thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
24  And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
25  And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease.
26  But there remained two of the men in the camp, the name of
the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but went not out unto the tabernacle: and they prophesied in the camp.
27  And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad
and Medad do prophesy in the camp.
28  And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his
young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? Would God that all the lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!
29  And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
31  And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
32  And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails; he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
33  And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. [Again see Revelations 18:4]
34  And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.  And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hataavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.

PSALMS   THE KING JAMES VERSION
Chapter 78
10   They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
18   And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
21  Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel:
22  Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
salvation:
23  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and
opened the doors of heaven,
24  And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given
them the corn of heaven.
25  Man did eat angels  food:  He sent them meat to the full.
26  He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his
power he brought in the south wind.
27  He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls
like as the sand of the sea:
28  And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
habitations.
29  So they did eat and were well filled:  for he gave them their
own desire;
30  They were not estranged from their lusts.  But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31  The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32  For all this they sinned still and believed not his wondrous works.

     Do you suppose that God slew them?- or did not they bring death upon themselves by disobeying the law and partaking of a forbidden food?  Do not the preceding verses begin to give a question in your mind as to what was meant by the term meat?  The Lord from the first used the word meat to describe the word food i.e. “The fruit of the trees, these shall be your meat.”    There appears to be quite a distinction here between “meat”   and   “flesh.”
      There are many Jewish people who adhere to this doctrine (do not eat flesh foods) to this day.  Obviously all the time that Moses was with the people in the desert, and even though the Lord provided the people with manna for 40 years, there were those of the people who couldn’t and didn’t obey the Law.  At some point in time, probably about 800 or 900 years BC, there was an actual change made in the written scriptures (Isaiah 24:5  The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  and Romans 1:25  Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever, Amen.)  which is reflected in the writings of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.  Was there a new teaching from God? or is He in fact a God who changes not? (Malachi 3:6  For I am the Lord, I change not;  Mormon 9:19 And behold I say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.)
Re. Romans 1:25: Who changed the truth of God into a lie…  [Why do you suppose they changed the truth of God into a lie?   To understand, see]: Barnabas  Chapter 5:7  For thus saith the prophet against Israel:  Woe be to their soul, because they have taken wicked counsel against themselves, saying, let us lay snares for the righteous, because he is unprofitable to us.
[Does this mean they couldn’t make a $ profit $ by selling them the forbidden food?]

LEVITICUS
     In Leviticus, Chaper 11, we see that for the first time, there is made a distinction between clean and unclean animals.  Was this the lie spoken of in Romans?  We shall show later, that all creatures of God are good; but that animals are unclean (as food for man) and also in the Epistle of Barnabas that these distinctions between the various beasts, had a spiritual meaning, not a temporal meaning.
     Barnabas, was Paul’s missionary companion and this book,  The Epistle of Barnabas, (Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden) lays greater claim to canonical authority than others.  It has been cited by Clemens, Alexandrinus, Origen, Eusebius, Jerome and many ancient Fathers.

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Chapter 9   [These are referring to the commands which you find in Leviticus 11.  Barnabas explains that the commands of Moses concerning clean and unclean beasts, were designed for spiritual signification.]
1  But why did Moses say Ye shall not eat of the swine, neither the eagle nor the hawk; nor the crow; nor any fish that has not a scale upon him?  Answer, that in the spiritual sense, he comprehended three doctrines, that were to be gathered from thence.
2  Besides which he says to them in the book of Deuteronomy, And I will give my statutes unto this people.  Wherefore it is not the command of God that they should not eat these things; but Moses in the spirit spake unto them.
3  Now the sow he forbade them to eat; meaning thus much; thou shalt not join thyself to such persons as are like unto swine; who whilst they live in pleasure, forget their God; but when any want pinches them, then they know the Lord; as the sow when she is full knows not her master; but when she is hungry she makes a noise; and being again fed, is silent.
4  Neither, says he, shalt thou eat the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the kite, nor the crow; that is thou shalt not keep company with such kind of men as know not how by their labour and sweat to get themselves food: but injuriously ravish away the things of others; and watch how to lay snares for them; when at the same time they appear to live in perfect innocence.
5  (so these birds alone seek not food for themselves, but)
sitting idle seek how they may eat of the flesh others have provided; being destructive through their wickedness.
6  Neither, says he, shalt thou eat the lamprey, nor the polypus,
nor the cuttle-fish; that is thou shalt not be like such men, by using to converse with them; who are altogether wicked and adjudged to death.  For so those fishes are alone accursed, and wallow in the mire, nor swim as other fishes, but tumble in the dirt at the bottom of the deep.
7  But he adds, neither shalt thou eat of the hare.  To what end? To signify this to us; Thou shalt not be an adulterer; nor liken thyself neither be like to to such persons.  For the hare every year multiplies the places of its conception; and so many years as it lives, so many it has.
8  Neither shalt thou eat of the hyena; that is, again, be not an adulterer, nor a corruptor of others; such.  And Whereforeso?  Because that creature every year changes its kind, and is sometimes male and sometimes female.
9  For which cause also he justly hated the weasel; to the end that they should not be like such persons who with their mouths commit wickedness by reason of their uncleanness; nor join themselves with those impure women, who with their mouths commit wickedness.  Because that animal conceives with its mouth.
10  Moses therefore, speaking as concerning meats, delivered indeed three great precepts to them in the spiritual signification of those commands.  But they according to the desires of the flesh, understood him as if he had only meant it of meats.
11  And therefore David took aright the knowledge of his
threefold command, saying in like manner.
12  Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the
ungodly; as the fishes before mentioned in the bottom of the deep in darkness.
13  Nor stood in the way of sinners, as they who seem to fear the Lord, but yet sin, as the sow.
14  And hath not sat in the seat of the scorners; as those birds
who sit and watch that they may devour.
15  Here you have the law concerning meat perfectly set forth, and according to the true knowledge of it.
16  But, says Moses, ye shall eat all that divideth the hoof, and cheweth the cud.  Signifying thereby such an one as having taken his food, knows him that nourisheth him; and resting upon him, rejoiceth in him.
17  And in this he spake well, having respect to the commandment.  What, therefore, is it that he says?  That we should hold fast to them that fear the Lord; with those who meditate on the command of the word which they have received in their heart; with those that declare the righteous judgments of the Lord, and keep his commandments.
18  In short, with those who know that to meditate is a work of pleasure, and therefore exercise themselves in the word of the Lord.
 19  But why might they eat those that clave the hoof?  Because the righteous liveth in this present world; but his expectation is fixed upon the other.  See, brethren, how admirably Moses commanded these things?

NUMBERS   KING JAMES VERSION
     In the book of Numbers we begin to see much contradiction; for we have Numbers Chapter 6 in which many people during this time separated themselves unto the Lord and vowed the vow of a Nazarite (Did they do this to separate themselves from the people who were both sacrificing and eating flesh?)  Among the things they vowed was to drink no wine and according to Josephus, part of their vow was to eat no flesh.  Later we shall see that Daniel, John the Baptist, Mary and Joseph, and Jesus among many others were Nazerites.
     And we have Numbers Chapter 11 ( and Psalms 78)  already given which in fact tells the story of what happened to the Israelites in the desert who lusted for flesh and we have many chapters in Numbers which tell about massive sacrifice of animals, and Numbers Chapter 25 in which Israelites who worship false gods are slain.

DEUTERONOMY
     Were the scriptures changed?  In these writings it is starkly evident - the change from the Gentle Peaceful God of the Joseph Smith translation of Genesis, The Book of Moses, i.e. the Ten Commandments, Thou shalt not kill--to the God in Deuteronomy Who in Deuteronomy 13 says this:
Chapter 13
6  If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers:
7  Namely, or the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
8  Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him;neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
9  But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. [this sounds like murder to me, now see Ether 8:19 neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.]
     That there was change in the doctrine is further corroborated by Eugene Seaich in his book Mormonism, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Texts; in which he says that even the Cherubim in the Jerusalem Holy of Holies had sometime in the history of the Second Temple been redesigned.
     This is also about  the time that Hosea, Amos, Isaiah, and Jeremiah began to speak out against sacrifice and that in fact if the people didn’t repent, they along with Jerusalem would be destroyed.  About this same time (600 BC) Lehi (a contemporary of Jeremiah), after hearing the message of the prophets, leaves Jerusalem and is led by the Lord to the Promised Land.  Certainly The Book of Mormon portrays both types of Jews--the righteous (probably the descendants of the Nazerites) and the unrighteous who later became carnal, sensuous, devlish and bloodthirsty and even in the latter part of the Book of Mormon sacrificed not only animals but humans--as did their counterparts in Judea.
     So…what in fact did these Prophets have to say?

TESTIMONY OF THE PROPHETS--OLD TESTAMENT ISAIAH
Chapter 1
11   To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord:  I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
15    And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16  Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17  Learn to do well; seek judgement, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow
18  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19  If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
[If we become willing and obedient, the Lord is willing to forgive and bless.]
Chapter 2
4   And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:  nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Chapter 11
4  But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:  and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
5  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.\
6  The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.  [See also Luke 18:17  Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.  [Harmless and innocent.  Compare to Daniel 6:23]
7  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8  And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den.
9  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.
Chapter 22
11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: But ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
14  And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to *baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
15  And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
16  And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
[*Baldness; According to Paul Pitchford, Healing With Whole Foods,   Americans have the greatest incidence of baldness of any people;  this is understandable since hair loss is tied to high-fat, high protein diets, which damage the kidneys and create acidic blood.  ]
Chapter 24
5     The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.  [--another scripture that says they have changed the ordinance.]
Chapter 28
1    Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! [Compare with Lamentations Chapter 4, following.]
 7  But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
8   For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
9  Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom shall he make
to understand doctrine? Them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line, here a little and there a little;
11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
this people.
12  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
15  Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge [See Rev. 18:4] shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Chapter 30
1  Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin.
Chapter 35 [In the day of restoration]
8  And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
Chapter 40
30  But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. [See D&C Sec. 89:20]
Chapter 55
2  Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Chapter 58  [true law of the fast]
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed * [See footnote] go free, and that ye break every yoke?
[* To let the oppressed go free--turkeys for example:  “About 45 million turkeys are produced for a typical Thanksgiving.  They are crammed 15,000 to 20,000 per building in warehouses with no windows, with automated food and air.  Just a few weeks old, these birds are debeaked with a hot iron, which also cuts their nerves and muscle tissue; and their back toes are cut off, all without anesthesiaa mutilation to prevent their attacking each other in this man-made hell.  Confined to darkness, they are forced to exist in filth, including their own feces, which gets into their food.  Those not making it are thrown onto a dead pile.    Others monsterized by growth hormones, are forced with brooms, sticks, and kicking to climb steep ramps onto trucks headed for the slaughter house.  Those too weak for loading are left to starve to death.  At 4 to 5 months the turkeys are hung by their legs for 5 to 6 minutes awaiting the killer’s knife.  Some are dropped into vats of boiling water alive as production speed misses them.  Others fall onto the floor to die a slow death in puddles of blood.  The contented gobbles and clucks we once knew are replaced with pitiful cries and screams.”   [These turkeys didn’t fulfill the measure of their creation or find joy therein.]  Nancy Robinson, Founder: Earth’s Best Friend is Vegetarian.
     To read more about the indignities, pain, suffering and death animals face every day, read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.  At this writing, April 17, 1999, there are 9 billion farm animals penned up in filthy conditions, poor, wet sometimes, cold, bedraggled, in fear, waiting for the ultimate trip to the slaughter-house where before their final moments they will experience the indescribable blood and horror of this generation.
      Their final remains will be cremated in the ovens and upon the countless backyard barbecue grills in the sad and damaging ignorance of a populace trapped in darkness and by many with hardness of heart and greed who have not considered the Biblical adage,   "as ye sow, so shall ye reap."  -or at least not in their relation to the animals.
     Animals have feelings, fear and emotions. They suffer pain just as you and I.  Someday at the great judgement we will look to Christ and say, “Have mercy.”  He will wonder what we thought about all those 50 or 70 years we spent here on this planet called earth.  He will wonder if we had a copy of the scriptures and if we read them. Of course we read them, we say, but we just didn’t recognize that the adversary dirtied the water somewhat before we got them. In our unthinking adherence to tradition and to repeated brainwashing from the powers that be, whether from magazine, radio, or television, or maybe even lust for flesh, we ignored and didn’t even want to know what goes on in the slaughterhouse  ‘hidden from public view’  -- the plight our innocent neighbors, the animals, face daily in their poor and sad existence.
Isaiah 58 cont.
7  Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
8  Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.
9  Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer  .[James 5:16   The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.]
11   And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make *fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
*[ It is known among people who study natural health, that osteoporosis is a result of a high protein diet which depletes calcium from the bones.]
12    And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called , The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE AND THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF EDEN

EPISTLE OF BARNABAS
[Barnabas quoting Isaiah:]
Chapter 2
15  Is it such a fast that I have chosen?  Is it to bow down his
head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?  Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the lord?
 16  But to us he saith on this wise, Is not this the fast that I have
chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free; and that ye break every yoke?  [See D&C section 59:20,  neither by extortion.]
18  Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily;[that’s interesting, why would our health spring forth speedily by just letting the oppressed go free?] and thy righteousness  shall go before thee, the glory of the Lord shall be thy reward.
Chapter 59
2  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3  For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Chapter 61 [In the last days the Lord will call his ministers and make an everlasting covenant with the people.]
8  For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. [It will be obvious because of their health and beauty.]
10  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation,{the Holy Ghost?] he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Chapter 65
3    A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4  Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
Chapter 66
3  He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. [This statement got Isaiah sawed in half.]
4  I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

JEREMIAH
Chapter 2
7    And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made mine heritage an abomination.
Chapter 2
20  For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
21  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed:  how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
22  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.  [It is hard to hide a degenerated body.]
Chapter 6
20   To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?  your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.
Chapter 7
21  Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel;  Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
22  For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
23  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
30    For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name to pollute it.

[Notice How the following scripture, THE EPISTLE OF BARNABAS, The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden Relates to  JEREMIAH:]
Chapter 2
9  For so the Lord saith again to those heretofore:  Did I at all command your fathers when they came out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt-offerings of sacrifices?
10  But this I commanded them, saying, Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath.
12   And therefore he thus bespeaks us, The sacrifice of God (is a broken spirit,) a broken and contrite heart God will not despise.
13  Wherefore brethren, we ought the more diligently to inquire after those things that belong to our salvation, that the adversary may not have any entrance into us,  [Remember this verse when you get to the last part of this letter] and deprive us of our spiritual life.

JEREMIAH
Chapter 16
18    And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.
Chapter 19
  4     Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;  [Is there anything more innocent than any life which cannot speak or act in its own defense?]

LAMENTATIONS
Chapter 4
1  How is the gold become dim!  How is the most fine gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2  The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones:  the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4  The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:  the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5  They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:  theythat were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6  For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of mypeople is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7  Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:   [It is interesting here how the Lord compares the common people of the land with the Nazarites who had taken a vow not to drink wine or eat flesh.]

EZEKIEL
Chapter 4
14    Then said I, Ah Lord God!  Behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Chapter 5
11   Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord God; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
Chapter 24
24  Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign:  according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.  [Does this mean also we who live now?]
Chapter 37  [Israel shall inherit the land in the resurrection.  Israel shall be gathered and cleansed; they shall receive the everlasting gospel covenant.]
25  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacobmy servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even  they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shallbe an everlasting covenant with them  .
[We can also make this covenant of peace with the Lord if we so desire to please Him. I.e. D&C Section 89  And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.]
DANIEL
Chapter 1
8  But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defilehimself with the portion of the king’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
9  Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
10  And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort?  Then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.
11  Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12  Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.
13  Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.
14  So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
15  And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.
16  Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse.
17  As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom:  and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.  [Compare to D&C Section 89:19  And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures.]
Chapter 6:
23  My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions   mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
[Daniel chose to feed himself in righteousness and innocency as did the early children of Adam and Eve.]
Chapter 12   [ In the last days ]
10    Many shall be purified [purify themselves?--as Daniel did?], and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.   [Later in the document please note the same text which was found in Qumran (Dead Sea Scrolls) which says ‘purify themselves’, rather than ‘shall be purified.’]

JOSEPHUS COMPLETE WORKS
Pages 222, 223
ChapterX
2. Now Daniel and his kinsman had resolved to use a severe diet, and to abstain from those kinds of food which came from the king's table, and entirely to forbear to eat of all living creatures:  so he came to Ashpenaz who was that eunuch to whom the care of them was committed, and desired him to take and spend what was brought for them from the king; but to give them pulse and dates for their food, and anything else, besides the flesh of living creatures, that he pleased, for that their inclinations were to that sort of food and that they despised the other.
[after a 10 day trial] ...they grew plumper and fuller in body than the rest, insomuch, that he thought that those who fed on what came from the king's table seemed less plump and full, while those that were with Daniel looked as if they had lived in plenty, and in all sorts of luxury, Arioch, from that time, securely took himself what the king sent every day from his supper, according to custom, to the children, but gave them the forementioned diet, while they had their souls in some measure more pure, and less burdened, and so fitter for learning, and had their bodies in better tune for hard labour; for they neither had the former oppressed and heavy with variety of meats, nor were the other effeminate on the same account; so they readily understood all the learning that was among the Hebrews, and among the Chaldeans, as especially did Daniel, who, being already skilled in wisdom, was very busy about the interpretation of dreams; and God manifested himself to him.

HOSEA
Chapter 2
18  And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
Chapter 6
6   For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7  But they like men have *transgressed the covenant:  there have they dealt treacherously against me. *[Adam and Eve the first to transgress  i.e. change the  (eternal?) progression.]
8  Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Chapter 8
12    I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
13     They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the Lord accepteth them not;  now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins:  they shall return to Egypt [back to the flesh pots and their sin].

AMOS
Chapter 5
21  I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22  Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Chapter 6
1    Woe to them (that are) at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, (which are) named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
4    That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the stall;

HABAKKUK
Chapter 3
19  The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.  To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

ZECHARIAH
Chapter 9
7  And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth:
     So around 600 years before Christ was born, and after listening to the Prophet Jeremiah, Lehi understood that Jerusalem was going to be destroyed and why.  Obviously he was already a righteous man and so was able to believe Jeremiah.  He took his family and guided by the Lord, began a long journey through the wilderness.  During this time he has a vision of the tree of life [See Chapter 8, Book of Mormon]  It is interesting that he also talks about the straight and narrow path.  As they traveled through the wilderness, because of the lack of food, it was necessary that they slay wild animals for food--because the Lord allows it when it is necessary for us to stay alive (winter, cold, famine Word of Wisdom 89: 13,15, to save your life, JST 9:11).
     There came a division among the brothers.  Why did Laman and Lemuel become angry with Nephi?  Could it be that when they were able to grow their own food again, that they didn’t want to work that hard?  Something caused them to always be unhappy, angry, out of sorts with their family. Obviously Lehi and Nephi were preaching the same word of God that Isaiah and then Jeremiah preached.  Laman and Lemuel didn’t like it and didn’t want to listen to Nephi.

THE BOOK OF MORMON

2nd NEPHI
Chapter 5
22    And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities. [He’s talking here about Laman and Lemuel.]
23  And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with theirseed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing.  And the Lord spake it, and it was done.
24  And because of their cursing which was upon them they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey.
     [It is interesting that when it was absolutely necessary for the family to survive they were even led by the Lord to find beasts of prey. Yet when they had plenteous other foods to eat and didn’t have to have flesh to survive, the Lord puts a curse on them.  And why did the Lord curse the seed of those who mixed with their seed?  The answer has to lie in the fact that they were unclean in this behavior.  What does unclean mean and can we inherit it?   We shall see later.]
Chapter 9
40    O, my beloved brethren, give ear to my words.  Remember the greatness of the Holy One of Israel.  Do not say that I have spoken hard things against you; for if ye do, ye will revile against the truth; for I have spoken the words of your Maker.  I know that the words of truth are hard against all uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not, for they love the truth and are not shaken.
Chapter 12
4     And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people:  and they shall beat their swords [butcher knives?] into plow-shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks-- nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5  O house of Jacob, come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord; yea, come, for ye have all gone astray, every one to his wicked ways.
Chapter 30
10    For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people, and the wicked will he destroy; and he will spare his people, yea, even if it so be that he must destroy the wicked by fire.  [Who are the Lord's people?  see verse 15]
11  And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness [Faith enough to repent.] the girdle of his reins.
12  And then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb; and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling, together; and a little child shall lead them.
13  And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
14  And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’s den.
15  They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
[  The great division will be the separating from Babylon while still living in it.  TLR]

ENOS
Chapter 1
6  And I bear record that the people of Nephi did seek diligently to restore the Lamanites unto the true faith in God.  But our labors were vain; their hatred was fixed, and they were led by their evil nature that they became wild, and ferocious, and a blood-thirsty people, full of idolatry and filthiness; feeding upon beasts of prey; dwelling in tents, and wandering about in the wilderness with a short skin girdle about their loins and their heads shaven; and their skill was in the bow, and in the cimeter, and the ax.  And many of them did eat nothing save it was raw meat; and they were continually seeking to destroy us.
[It is curious that Enos went out into the wilderness to hunt and was touched by the spirit and then speaks of his repentance.  So of what did he repent?]
MOSIAH
Chapter 6
6  And it came to pass that king Mosiah did walk in the ways of
the Lord, and did observe his judgments and his statutes, and did keep his commandments in all things whatsoever he commanded him.
7  And king Mosiah did cause his people that they should till the earth.

ALMA
Chapter 5
57     And now I say unto you, all you that are desirous to follow the voice of the good shepherd, come ye out from the wicked, and be ye separate, and touch not their unclean things;
Chapter 7
21     And he doth not dwell in unholy temples; neither can filthiness or anything which is unclean be received into the kingdom of God; therefore I say unto you the time shall come, yea, and it shall be at the last day, that he who is filthy shall remain in his filthiness.
Chapter 8
21   And it came to pass that the man received him into his house; and the man was called Amulek; and he brought forth bread and meat and set before Alma.
22    And it came to pass that Alma ate bread and was filled;
Chapter 11
35  And I say unto you again that he cannot save them in their sins; for I cannot deny his word, and he hath said that no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of heaven; therefore, how can ye be saved, except ye inherit the kingdom of heaven?  Therefore, ye cannot be saved in your sins. [If the kingdom of heaven is within, then we must inherit it by inheriting the fullness of the Holy Ghost.  The Holy Ghost cannot remain in an unclean temple.]
Chapter 12
10  And therefore, he that will harden his heart [ i.e. If we continually harden our heart to the pain and suffering that takes place in the slaughter house], the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God until he know them in full.  [See Word of Wisdom 89:19 And shall find wisdom and great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures.]
34  Therefore, whosoever repenteth, and hardeneth not his heart, he shall have claim on mercy through mine Only Begotten Son, unto a remission of his sins; and these shall enter into my rest.
Chapter 26
22    Yea, he that repenteth and exerciseth faith, and bringeth forth good works, and prayeth continually without ceasing unto such it is given to reveal things which never have been revealed; yea, and it shall be given unto such to bring thousands of souls to repentance, even as it has been given unto us to bring these our brethren to repentance.
Chapter 34 [The following scriptures shed light upon the original law or covenant of God with his children]:
13    Therefore, it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice, and then shall there be, or it is expedient there should be, a stop to the shedding of blood; then shall the law of Moses be fulfilled; ye, it shall be all fulfilled, every jot and tittle, and none shall have passed away.
 14  And behold, this is the whole meaning of the law, every whit pointing to that great and last sacrifice; and that great and last sacrifice will be the Son of God, yea, infinite and eternal. [Is it necessary that we sacrifice animals in our day in order to please God, or in order to live?  or rather did the Lord provide lovingly, without the apeasement of blood sacrifice, fruits, vegetables, and grains and seed  for our food, as He did from the beginning?]
15  And thus he shall bring salvation to all those who shall believe on his name; this being the intent of this last sacrifice,to bring about the bowels of mercy, which overpowereth justice, and bringeth about means unto men that they may have faith unto repentance.  [Do we have enough faith to repent?  If we don’t, then should we pray for it? Faith is a gift but it does come with an effort and the sacrifice of a broken heart.]
Chapter 40
26  But behold, an awful death cometh upon the wicked; for they die as to things pertaining to things of righteousness; for they are unclean, and no unclean thing can *inherit [or receive the fullness of the Holy Ghost who will teach them how to become worthy of the kingdom]  the kingdom of God.
     [Joseph Smith restored the truth of the primitive church--the church that existed during the time of Adam, and continued during the time of Christ.  We need to now, restore our bodies which house our spirits to their undefiled and pristine purity.  Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled with the Holy Ghost (Matthew 5:10) to become perfect as He was perfect, to do what He did. Yes  we have been given the order to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, to have Him as our constant companion, to testify, but we are not filled as Christ was.  But if we are not worthy of the Spirit as Christ was, and do not remain clean from the blood and sins of this generation, He will not tarry:  D&C Section 130:23  A man may receive the Holy Ghost, and it may descend upon him and not tarry with him. ]
Chapter 41
 11  And now, my son, all men that are in a state of nature, or I would say, in a carnal state, are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity; they are without God in the world, and they have gone contrary to the nature of God; therefore, they are in a state contrary to the nature of happiness.
12   And now behold, is the meaning of the word restoration to take a thing of a natural state and place it in an unnatural state, or to place it in a state opposite to its nature?
 13  O, my son, this is not the case; but the meaning of the word restoration is to bring back again evil for evil, or carnal for carnal, or devilish for devilish--good for that which is good; righteous for that which is righteous; just for that which is just; merciful for that which is merciful.
Chapter 60
23    Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things?  Behold I say unto you, Nay.  Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the*inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also.
     [*   The inward vessel is the inside of the body (the body is that container or vessel which holds the spirit within) and has not the inside or our vessel become defiled?  How then can the spirit remain pure if it is housed in a vessel or container which is defiled and polluted within?)  It is well known among those who study natural health, that when one gives up eating animal tissues, the body begins an automatic cleanse.  The body has always been trying to eliminate those abominable things (foreign proteins, fats and materials).  This elimination and rejection process by the body is called sickness by modern day medicine-oriented man.  Under modern (allopathic treatment based ) medicine the effort is to suppress rather than prevent the disease (or cleansing ) process. ]

HELAMAN
Chapter 4
24    And they saw that they had become weak, [weak from eating the wrong kinds of foods] like unto their brethren, the Lamanites, and that the Spirit of the Lord did no more preserve them; yea, it had withdrawn from them because the Spirit of the Lord does not dwell in unholy temples--

3 NEPHI
Chapter 9
19    [Voice of Jesus Christ ]   And ye shall offer up unto me no more the shedding of blood; yea, your sacrifices and your burnt offerings shall be done away, for I will accept none of your sacrifices and your burnt offerings.
Chapter 20
12    Ye remember that I spake unto you, and said that when the words of Isaiah should be fulfilled--behold they are written, ye have them before you, therefore search them
16  And verily, verily, I say unto you, that when they shall be fulfilled then is the fulfilling of the covenant which  the Father hath made unto his people, O house of Israel.
40  And then shall they say: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings unto them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion: Thy God reigneth!
41  And then shall a cry go forth: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.
Chapter 27
20  And no unclean thing can enter into his kingdom: therefore nothing entereth into his rest save it be those who have washed their garments in my blood, because of their faith and the repentance of all their sins, and their faithfulness unto the end
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MORMON
Chapter 9
28       Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your  *lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.  [*Lust is another word which has two meanings.  And most of us do not connect lusting for flesh for their tables as was clearly recorded in Numbers 11 and Psalms 78.]

ETHER
Chapter 4
6     For the Lord said unto me:  They [the interpreters] shall not go forth unto the Gentiles until the day that they shall repent of their iniquity, and become clean before the Lord.
Chapter 8
19  For the Lord worketh not in secret combinations, neither doth he will that man should shed blood, but in all things hath forbidden it, from the beginning of man.  [Does this not challenge and possibly undo Deuteronomy 13: 6, 7, 8, 9?]

MORONI
Chapter 7
3  Wherefore, I would speak unto you that are the peaceable followers of Christ, and that have obtained a sufficient hope by which ye can enter into the rest of the Lord, from this time henceforth until ye shall rest with him in heaven.
4   And now my brethren, I judge these things of you because of your peaceable walk with the children of men.
5   For I remember the word of God which saith by their works ye shall know them; for if their works be good, then they are good also. For behold, God hath said a man being evil cannot do that which is good; for if he offereth a gift, or prayeth unto God, except he shall do it with real intent it profiteth him nothing.
7  For behold, it is not counted unto him for righteousness.
19  Wherefore, I beseech of you, brethren, that ye should search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; [life vs. death?-- health vs. sickness?]and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not [and be not destroyers, living by the plowshare--not the sword!  -as the Ammonite mothers and fathers whose covenant brought the blessings of health and strength to their sons who were the warriors for Helaman.], ye certainly will be a child of Christ.
More of Chapter 7
46  Wherefore my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth.  Wherefore cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail--
47  But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.
48  Wherefore my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear,we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure.  Amen.

THE GOSPEL OF THE BIRTH OF MARY (The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden)
Chapter 2
9  …therefore Anna your wife shall bring you a daughter, and you shall call her name Mary:
10  She shall, according to your vow, be devoted to the Lord from her infancy, and be filled with the Holy Ghost from her mother’s womb.
11  She shall neither eat nor drink anything which is unclean, nor shall her conversation be without among the common people, but in the temple of the Lord; that so she may not fall under any slander or suspicion of what is bad.
    [Note that Anna is the grandmother of the Savior, that she and her daughter Mary lived pure (as Nazerites) before God and so Anna in our record of her in the King James Version of the Bible is given the honor of being called a prophetess.
     In the early church, there were three different groups, all to be Christians with various beliefs. First there were the Judaic Christians, who existed as an organization before the time of Christ.  They were called during the times of Moses, Nazarites.  Later they were called Nazarenes.  Then they were called Ebionites.  These were the first Christians--the believers of the coming Christ, the disciples, then the apostles of Christ.  Their beliefs are reflected mostly in the gospel of Saint Matthew, and the Epistle of James and witnessed in the writings of Paul.
     The second group was the Gnostic Christians.  Most of their early literature has been destroyed by the Catholic Church except for the library, which was preserved at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. Their beliefs were adopted with great acceptance in the development of the early Catholic church and were quite different than that of the Judaic Christians.  Many of these teachings appear to have been laid into the teachings of Paul so that he would be viewed as their prime supportive apostle.
     The third group was the Catholic Christians.  They borrowed from both of the two earlier groups and formed their own belief system--throwing out many of the early beliefs and branding as heretics many who still harbored them.
     Joseph Smith labored to restore the gospel in its primitive form.  Many of the teachings of Joseph Smith reflect the same gentle beliefs of the Judaic Christians.

THE NEW TESTAMENT

SAINT MATTHEW
Chapter 1
In chapter 1 we have a genealogy of Joseph.  Evidently this was important to the Judaic Christians in that they believed that Christ was the son of Joseph and a descendent of David.
Chapter 3
8  And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
 [Obviously this is a mistranslation.  There is a tree in Israel called the Honey Locust Tree.  Even to this day, they call it St. John’s Bread. John the Baptist, as was Jesus, a Nazarite (Nazarene), therefore ate no flesh.  In the Slavonic edition of The Jewish Wars, Josephus says:
     At that time a man was going about Judea remarkably dressed: he wore animal hair on those parts of his body not covered by his own.  His face was like a savage’s[unshaven].  He called on the Jews to claim their freedom, crying: God sent me to show you the way of the Law, so that you can shake off any human yoke:  no man shall rule you, but only the most high who sent me.   His message was eagerly welcomed, and he was followed by all Judea and the district around Jerusalem.  All he did was to baptize them in the Jordan and dismiss them with an earnest exhortation to abandon their evil ways:  if they did so, they would be given a king who would liberate them and master the unruly, while himself acknowledging no master.  This promise was derided by some but believed by others.
           The man was brought before Archelaus and an assemblage of lawyers, who asked who he was and where he had been.  He replied, I am a man, called by the spirit of God, and I live on stems, roots, and fruit.
Chapter 5
1  And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
2  And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
3  Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4  Blessed are they that mourn:  for they shall be comforted.
5  Blessed are the *meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. [With the Holy Ghost?]
7  Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
8  Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
9  Blessed are the peacemakers:  for they shall be called the children of God.
     *Meek (The Oxford Universal Dictionary) 1. Gentle, courteous, kind; merciful, indulgent 1609 [could that also mean harmless before the brute creation--see page 71, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, and remember Nephi’s Isaiah...they shall neither hurt nor destroy in all His Holy mountain.]
10  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake:  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad:  for great is your reward in heaven:  for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
 20   For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and  Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
48  (Joseph Smith Translation)  Ye are therefore commanded to be perfect, even as
your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
      [This is pretty strong language.  We are commanded to be perfect.  It certainly would be easier to think that we can become perfect if we know that Jesus Christ was a man like unto us and not a mythical half-god. Hippolytus (170-236 C.E.) says this in his Refutation of All Heresies: Book 7 Chapter 22 Page 114]:
  The Ebionaeans [Judaic Christians], however, acknowledge that the world was made by Him Who is in reality God, but they propound legends concerning the Christ similarly with Cerinthus and Carpocrates [leaders of Gnostic Christian Churches].  They live conformably to the customs of the Jews, alleging that they are justified according to the Law, and saying that Jesus was justified by fulfilling the Law.  And therefore it was, (according to the Ebionaeans) that (the Savior was named (the) Christ of God and Jesus, since not one of the rest (of mankind) had observed completely the Law.  For if even any other had fulfilled the commandments (contained) in the Law, he would have been that Christ.  And the (Ebionaeans allege) that they themselves also, when in like manner they fulfill (the Law), are able to become Christs; for they assert that our Lord Himself was a man in a like sense with all (the rest of the human family).
Joseph Smith affirms this when he states:   “As man is, God once was and as God is, man may become.”
[Compare with DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS]
Section 93
11    And I, John, bear record that I beheld his glory, as the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, even the Spirit of truth, which came and dwelt in the flesh, and dwelt among us.
12  And I John, saw that he received not of the fullness at the first, but received grace for grace
13  And he received not of the fullness at first, but continued from grace, until he received a fulness.
14  And thus