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13 ‘And it shall be that if you earnestly1 obey My commandments which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul,  
14 then aI will give you the rain for your land in its season, bthe early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil.  
15 aAnd I will send grass in your fields for your livestock, that you may beat and be filled.’  
16 “Take heed to yourselves, alest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and bserve other gods and worship them,  
17 lest athe Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He bshut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and cyou perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.  
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I think that these verses clearly establish that animals' well-being is directly tied to man's exercise of his free moral agency. If a man chooses to obey, God will bless both animals and man. As the animals are blessed, so is man; as man is blessed, so are the animals. If a man's livestock is not eating, then it is pretty certain that the wild things are not eating either.

It is interesting to note the sequence here, especially in verse 15. Much of man's sense of physical well-being is usually illustrated in the Bible by a full stomach. It is an illustration that God uses that if your stomach is full, you feel that things are all right in the world. What He is saying is this: if you look at the sequence, that the animals must first be blessed before the blessing accrues to man.

Excerpted from Lessons From the Animals

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