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God says not to eat, touch or use pigs. They are animals designed to eat garbage. They are full of disease. Healthy children should never eat meat from such an dangerous animal. Sick children and weak children will get sick much easier from such a dangerous animal.
God says the times will come when it will be dangerous to eat any kind of meat. In proportion to the increase of crime on this earth, is the increase in disease in the animals. It is much safer to just eat fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables. The more natural these items the better. The home garden grown items are the best items for our health.

Definition of Clean and Unclean

Based upon our understanding of the Biblical Law of Clean and Unclean, found in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, the following charts explain which meat is clean, and which is unclean.

Clean Meats

1. Clean animals part the hoof and chew the cud: Cattle (beef, hamburger, veal), sheep (lamb, mutton), antelope, buffalo (bison), caribou, deer (venison), elk, gazelle, giraffe, goat, hart, ibex, moose, reindeer; and their products, milk, butter, and cheese.

2. Clean fish have fins and scales: anchovy, bass, bluefish, carp, cod, crappie, drum, flounder, garfish, grouper, grunt, haddock, halibut, hardhead, herring, mackerel, minnow, perch, pickerel, pike, rockfish, salmon, shad, sheep's head, skipjack, smelt, snapper, sole, sunfish, tarpon, trout, tuna (albacore, Bonita, yellowtail).

3. Clean birds*: chicken, dove, duck, goose, grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, peacock, pheasant, pigeon, songbirds, sparrow, quail, turkey. Their eggs are also good to eat.

4. Other clean animals: different kinds of locusts, which include crickets and grasshoppers.

 

Tips for Avoiding Unclean Meats

1. Read the package label.

2. Learn to avoid potential sources of unclean meat: pork and beans, some kinds of Mexican refried beans (frijoles), certain crackers (lard), many cakes (lard or pork shortening), salads with bacon bits, many pizzas (pepperoni), fish oil (shark oil), unknown types of fish (names of fish are not always a guide).

3. If necessary, politely ask questions before you eat at a restaurant or someone else’s house. Do not offend others or be obnoxious when you need to inform a non-believer that you do not eat pork or shellfish.

* The Bible doesn’t reveal a specific set of characteristics of clean birds. However, all clean birds have six characteristics: (1) a crop, (2) a gizzard with a double lining that can be easily separated, (3) do not prey on other birds, (4) do not devour their food while flying, but catch it in the air and then land and divide it with their bills (5) their hind toe and middle front toe are both long, and (6) when perching, the three front toes are on one side of the perch and the hind toe is on the opposite side.

 

Unclean Meats

1. Unclean animals include: swine (boar, peccary, pig, hog; and their products including bacon, ham, lard, pork), canines (coyote, dog, fox, hyena, jackal, wolf), felines (cat, cheetah, leopard, lion, panther, tiger), equines (donkey, horse, mule, zebra), small animals (badger, coney, hare, ferret, monkey, opossum, porcupine, rabbit, raccoon, skunk, squirrel), larger animals (bear, camel, elephant, gorilla, hippopotamus, kangaroo, llama, rhinoceros, wallaby).

2. Unclean water creatures lacking fins and scales: scaleless fish (catfish, eel, marlin, shark, sturgeon, turbot), shellfish (abalone, clam, crab, crayfish, lobster, mussel, prawn, oyster, scallop, shrimp), soft body (cuttlefish, jellyfish, limpet, octopus, squid), sea mammals (dolphin, otter, seal, walrus, whale).

3. Unclean birds* of prey, scavengers, etc.: albatross, bat, bittern, buzzard, condor, cormorant, crane, crow, cuckoo, eagle, flamingo, glede, grosbeak, gull, hawk, heron, kite, lapwing, loon, ossifrage, osprey, ostrich, owl, pelican, penguin, plover, raven, stork, swallow, swift, vulture, water hen, woodpecker.

4. Other unclean creeping animals: reptiles (alligator, crocodile, lizard, snake, turtle), amphibians (frog, newt, salamander, toad), other (groundhog, mole, mouse, rat, snail, slug, weasel), all insects except the locust family**).

"Swan" in Leviticus 11:16 (KJV) is a mistranslation. Swans as we know them are clean birds. The Jewish Publication Society version translates it "horned owl," while Gesenius’ Hebrew-English Lexicon calls it "an unclean aquatic bird." Other translations render it as "water hen." Hemenway says the Hebrew word rendered "swan" could be translated "ibis," or "stork."
** Note that "beetle" is a mistranslation in the KJV, Leviticus 11:22, and should be rendered "wingless locust."

Abomination of Desolation

In Leviticus 11, and  in Deuteronomy 14, unclean meats are called an "abomination." Leviticus 20:25, Isaiah 65:4 and 66:17 associate swine’s flesh with "the abomination." In Daniel 11:31, the "king of the North" is prophesied to pollute the sanctuary, take away the daily sacrifice, and place in it the abomination that makes desolate (see also Daniel 8:9-14). The Hebrew word for abomination means "filthy, detestable."

 
ABOMINATION IN THE TEMPLE- History of a horrible insult to God's house

Antiochus Epiphanes (ruler of one of the four divisions, or horns, of the Grecian Empire established by Alexander the Great) conquered Jerusalem and defiled the Temple by placing an idol of Jupiter Olympus in the Holy of Holies, and thereupon offered swine’s blood upon the altar. What Antiochus Epiphanes did in 168-163 B.C. is a type of the end-time desecrator of God’s Temple, Matthew 24:14-16.

 Antiochus even forced Jews to build idolatrous temples in every city and village, and offer swine upon them every day (Josephus, Ant. 12:5:4). We cannot logically condemn Antiochus Epiphanes for his sacrilegious act in desecrating the Temple of the Eternal, when we allow any swine’s flesh to enter our temples (bodies).

The ultimate insult against God is associated with the pagan practice of offering the unclean blood of pigs! Such a person places himself above God, II Thes-salonians 2:1-11. It is not a coincidence that "the abominable" will not be included in the New Jerusalem, but will be put into the lake of fire, Revelation 21:8, 27. Far from being merely a physical issue, clean and unclean meats, in the Bible, is also a spiritual issue. Those involved in gross idolatry eat and sacrifice unclean animals. God’s people abhor such abominations.

One cannot understand the Abomination of Desolation without an understanding of clean and unclean meats.

 

 
Diseases in pigs: