Millennial Parallelisms (#3)

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Continuing to explore perceived parallelisms between mankind’s first and likely final millennia on earth, reflect on this question:

How do you think life spans for mortals during Christ’s Millennial Reign will get back up to several hundreds of years, as predicted in The Bible. (Isaiah 65:20)?

That will be some feat, especially if the life span of mortals who will survive the tribulation period are like ours, ~70-90 years. Of course, God can do anything. But I suspect, He may just rely on the natural law He created. Which law? Well, since don’t know its exact name, let’s call it ‘the law of alkalinity’ for Earth beings, human and animal alike. This law may have been a significant factor (among others?) that produced protracted life spans during our initial millennium+ on Earth, e.g., 700-950+ years.

‘What’s that law?!’, you ask? In sum, God created human bodies to maintain a relatively alkalic body chemistry, to be achieved/maintained primarily via our diet. Genesis 1:29-30 identifies the original fuel type instruction for our bodies – herbs, tree fruits. Originally, we were all vegetarians - man and animals alike! Of course, it must have helped that the planet was not polluted then as it clearly is today. This dietary instruction was in place for mankind’s first 1,700 plus years, and was presumably obeyed, though with a possible major challenge! (Noted below) How? The worldwide flood reportedly occurred in 1656 A.C. (after creation), and only afterward did God instruct Noah of a major dietary change, which apparently applied to animals as well as humans. (See: Genesis 9:3 and Life span – How Long?) That change was mankind could become omnivores (adding meat to our diets). As a result of this dietary change (among other factors?), human life spans quickly plummeted following the flood.*

In fact, this one change continues to have the same impact today! Compare the significantly reduced life spans post-flood to ours of today. Then ask yourself, ‘What role have poor, highly acidic diets played in cheating us out of the longer 120 year life span mentioned in Genesis 6:3?’ Modern diets have gotten soooo far away from being mostly alkalic that it isn’t funny. They have made us extremely acidic, and science now affirms this undoubtedly negatively affects both the quality and duration of our lives. As a result, our bodies and organs attack themselves! Not a believer? Read about the pH scale and research the effects of a highly acidic body chemistry. You’ll see. Also, note how we typically name and size our meals - a ‘chicken, steak, seafood, pizza’ lunch or dinner; and typically, the meat and bread are the BIGGEST parts of the meal! Thus, we effectively ‘lead’ all things diet with the most acidic part of our meals! wOw!!!

So, looking futuristically to the likely final millennium of mortals on Earth (during Christ’s promised thousand year reign with the then redeemed and immortal saints from the previous four ages of history), will a return to The Lord's creation diet for us be a major factor in helping to trigger long livers, per Isaiah 65:20? I suspect the answer is a clear YES, especially if you (like me) are unable to discern/perceive any other significant factor(s) noted in The Bible that may have contributed to our dramatic decline in post-flood life spans.

Still a dis-believer? Consider this. Genesis 9:3 specifically mentions only one side of the equation – a diet change for mankind, and omits any reference to animals. Yet, irrespective of the timeline, many animals also became carnivorous! Well, Isaiah 65:25 essentially flips this coin in this style of communication in that it specifically mentions only one side of the equation – a diet change for animals, and omits any reference to mortal mankind (not us immortal saints)! Go figure!

Above, I noted a possible major challenge mankind may have had in their efforts to obey God’s Genesis 1 dietary instructions. At least it would be a MAJOR challenge for us today. From the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, we learn that God had evidently communicated His requirement for blood sacrifice as sin offerings. (Can you perceive where I’m going?) This was pending the arrival, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as God’s final solution to the sin problem. [When we accept Jesus Christ as our personal savior, we embrace His death and new life resurrection as being our substitute.] Well, Abel not only ‘got the memo’, but he also followed God’s instructions. Cain didn’t. He got mad when God rejected his paltry sacrifice, then in a jealous rage, he killed his brother, Abel. Since their dad, Adam, lived 930 years, he undoubtedly shared with his rapidly growing family (all mankind!) the details of mankind’s first physical death experience, and also about his and Eve’s experiences walking/talking with God in the very real Garden of Eden. Thus, for well over our first thousand years on earth, it is reasonable to conclude mankind well knew about blood sacrifices. From the Mosaic laws, we learn that God appreciated the ‘soothing/sweet aroma’ (Genesis 8:21, Exodus 29:18, 25,41, Psalm 66:, etc., etc.) of burnt offerings, including animal offerings. Since plants and trees don’t bleed (!), this means our vegetarian predecessors in the first millennium, who made animal sacrifices, also smelled the aroma of barbequed meat! (Yum~) Like me, does that smell make you just salivate, big time?! Yes, we are used to eating meat. They were not. Do you think the smell of barbeque had a different effect on them, back then, compared to us, today?? Hence I say ‘possible major challenge’ – smelling, but prohibited from eating barbeque!

Since Christ’s sacrifice put an end to blood sacrifices for sin, some might speculate there might  be no need for such. Consider this: If there might be no salvation as we know it in The Millennial Reign age, there could be a role for animal sacrifices, especially for many mortal Jews strewn across a much bigger nation of Israel. (See: Salvation in The Millennium (Series)) Also, The Temple in Ezekiel's vision clearly indicates sacrificial rituals will be happening during this age. Whether non-blood sacrifices/offerings will be required is open to speculation. Ezekiel's vision should put an end to questions about whether there will be a THIRD Jewish temple, and if so, whether the practice of animal sacrifices will be reinstated.

   

Millennial Parallelism #3:

Creation Diets Restored

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* There may be other reasons for expanding human diets to include meat. For example, what if the global flood significantly diminished (washed away) soil nutrients such that the original diet would be nutrient diminished?