In other words, all of God’s laws are in force perpetually whether any of us are remotely aware of them or not. For example, the laws of clean and unclean meats were obviously in force from the time of Adam and Eve to the time of Noah (referencing Genesis 7:2-3), as well as the seventh day Sabbath commandment (referencing Genesis 2:3), and moreover, are still in force today, though antinomian Protestant theologians are convinced that these Old Covenant mandates, meant only for the Jewish culture, were permanently nailed to the cross.
Doug Batchelor, in his article “God’s Free Health Plan,” reminds these dutiful antinomians that “the Jew’s digestive system in no way differs from the Gentile’s digestive system. These health laws are for all people for all time.” Tragically, the lion’s share of Jacob’s offspring across the entire earth has blatantly disregarded God’s holy laws-Sabbath laws, morality laws, financial laws, including laws governing eating, drinking, and stewardship of their bodies—and are consequently cursed with the dreaded diseases of Egypt which God at one time removed from them conditionally as they promised to keep His statutes, judgments, and precepts. Let us turn over to a familiar memory verse.
The sons of Ishmael and the sons Esau are all Abraham’s descendants just like all of Jacob’s siblings, and consequently they are our relatives and extended family as well. The Islamic halal laws in the Koran follow the same guidelines as the clean and unclean laws prescribed in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. As we recall, these laws have been in force since creation, way, way before Moses, and thoroughly understood by Noah [Genesis 7:2]. The children of Ishmael put to shame the major Christian professing religions by strictly adhering to the halal laws as well as the major Christian professing denominations on abhorring idols and graven images.
The same principle applies to clean and unclean foods. It appears in Genesis 7:1-2, when Noah was filling up the ark. By the time we get to Leviticus, it was not new. It, too, I am sure, existed right from the very beginning.
How did Abel know to sacrifice a clean animal? Where does it appear? It appears way back at the beginning, just like the marriage and divorce law—that is, God&39;s intention. Then it is assigned in the laws in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Again, in the New Testament we find Peter, in Acts 10, stoutly defending himself because nothing common or unclean—both of them—had ever passed his lips.
