Introduction
This topic recently came up IRL and although I trust the Clementine works pretty well, I trust the older scriptures better (in a sense). I think all scriptures have gone through additions and bad translations. But, when in doubt, the earlier works are going to be closer to what the people of that time thought. My beliefs are not totally hinged on the Clementine works (that’s not the foundation of my belief) saying we are not supposed to sacrifice. My beliefs actually start in the bible itself. I trust the prophets whom the men (who wanted to sin) ignored and killed.
This is the result of a lot of bible study. If you read through these bible verses presented in my 22-page PDF booklet, you will see that YHWH never asked for sacrifices (according to the bible). When Moses was on the mountain with YHWH getting the ten commandments from Him, the Israelites slid back into pagan ways and started sacrificing to Moloch/Ba’al. Some of those sinners wrote some stuff in the bible, and now we have a tale of two YHWHs.
They most likely sacrificed animals and children to the golden calf. When it speaks about them “rising up to play” this seems to be a reference to them having orgies which is why we find out they were naked1 (Exodus 32:25). The reason they were making so much noise2 (Exodus 32:17-18) was most likely to drown out the screams from the children being burned in the fire.
Plutarch described the practice of child sacrifice to Baal in his work "De superstitione," where he wrote:
“with full knowledge and understanding they themselves offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs or young birds; meanwhile the mother stood by without a tear or moan; but should she utter a single moan or let fall a single tear, she had to forfeit the money, and her child was sacrificed nevertheless; and the whole area before the statue was filled with a loud noise of flutes and drums took the cries of wailing should not reach the ears of the people.”
These people rejected Moses and the God he served. They were worshiping pagan gods and this was a common way to “worship” Baal.
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ABOUT THIS BOOKLET
I prayed to our Father to not let me be deceived in 2015, and ever since, He has continually been showing me false doctrines through the scriptures and He's been leading others in the same direction. I suggest praying to Him to know what to think concerning these scriptures and to be led to all truth. In other words, don’t trust me, trust the Holy Spirit.
Thanks to everyone who helped in gathering all these verses showing that there are essentially two YHWHs in the OT. One asking for sacrifices and one who never did…
SCRIPTURES PROVING THE PROPHET’S YHWH
NEVER ASKED FOR SACRIFICES OR ALLOWED MEAT-EATING
Acts 7:35 "This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?'— this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. 37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.' 38 This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.
39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt, 40 saying to Aaron, 'Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
41 And they made a calf in those days and offered a sacrifice to the idol and were rejoicing in the works of their hands. 42 But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:
"'Did you bring to Me slain beasts and sacrifices, during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? 43 You took up the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rephan, the images that you made to worship; and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'...
51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, 53 you who received the law as delivered by messengers and did not keep it.”
Did they bring sacrifices to YHWH? No.
Jeremiah 7:22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, 23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. 24 Yet they did not listen or pay attention, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
When they came out of Egypt, YHWH told them to obey His laws, the ten commandments that Moses gave them. They rejected Moses and instead performed sacrifices to Moloch.
Jeremiah 8:8 How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of YHWH is with us?' But in fact, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
While Moses was up on the mountain speaking with YHWH about the ten commandments, the Israelites went back to their pagan ways of sacrificing animals and their children to Moloch/Ba'al. The problem we have today is that they called that pagan god/elohim by the name "YHWH"3. That means whenever there are passages about YHWH in scripture, we have to ask ourselves which elohim were they referring to? Is it the one giving the ten commandments whom the prophets said didn't ask for sacrifices when they came out of Egypt, or is it the one asking for sacrifices?
The one giving the ten commandments never asked for sacrifices, and only wanted us to be just/fair, love mercy, and righteousness and treat others as ourselves, and take care of animals as they have the same breath of life in them that we do.
The other one said if you sacrifice then you can continue in your sin. Since people love to sin, they’d rather sacrifice innocent animals (or the Messiah) so they can continue in their sin, rather than having to change their behavior and start keeping the commandments that the only true Elohim gave to Moses. The original diet was "very good" and consisted of no animal flesh eaten by animals or humans.
Genesis 1:29 Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth — every thing that has the breath of life in it —I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. 31 And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning —the sixth day.
We know the flood was caused by people following what the Nephilim did (which was eating flesh according to the Clementine Homilies). God’s given diet was vegan or vegetarian. Even Christians say we weren’t to eat animals until after the flood.
Genesis 6:11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
Genesis 6:19 And you are to bring two of every living thing into the ark—male and female — to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive. 21 You are also to take for yourself every kind of food that is eaten and gather it as food for yourselves and for the animals."
YHWH says to take all the animals AND ALSO take the food that's eaten, therefore the food that's eaten is not the animals.
Please see Clementine Homilies 8 (at the end of the booklet) which describes the blood lust of the giants and how humans followed suit. That lust caused the flood, and you can see the same blood lust from humans when they hear for the first time that the bible says we're not to eat or sacrifice animals. They don't want to give it up. The Essenes might say the anger is the anger of the demons possessing or harassing them that don't want to give the meat up. In common terms, perhaps there are parasites or specific gut bacteria that don’t want to give it up. Many people have become addicted to meat-eating.
Genesis 7: 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
If no one has been allowed by YHWH to eat meat before the flood, how had YHWH informed them of what was a clean or unclean animal before Noah went on the ark?
Genesis 9:2 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. 3 Every creeping thing that liveth shall be meat/food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. 4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. 5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. 6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; 10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. 11 And 1 will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. 14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. 17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which 1 have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
People tend to say this means you can eat animals now, but it says God makes a covenant with those living creatures of flesh that have blood and seems to contrast that with the "creeping things". The word for "creeping things" is from ramas, which may mean "reptile" which would make sense, they're not really flesh like us and other animals. The Septuagint translates this word as "reptile" also.
How do you get all blood out of animals before you eat it? You don't. Every time that you eat dead "flesh" there is blood inside of it and you are disobeying this command.
Also if it says you can eat “all animals”, and then says don't eat blood, and don't eat unclean animals, then you can't eat "all" animals. But if it says eat all insects, then you don't run into a contradiction of the word "all" being allowed. This video on YouTube might be of interest also: Objection #2: YHWH Told Noah To Eat Everything That Moved!
Numbers 19:11 The one who touches the corpse of any NEPHESH (that?) man shall be unclean for seven days.
The verse may be debated, as translators usually translate it as “any man's nephesh”, that is to say any man's soul/being/body. Please look up the various translations and Hebrew words to study it for yourself. But why not just say any man without the word "nephesh" then? It seems to say don't touch the corpse of any dead nephesh (soul) and if you do touch it, then that man will be considered unclean for 7 days.
"The word ‘nephesh’ occurs 754 times in the Hebrew Bible. The first four times ‘nephesh’ is used in the Bible, it is used exclusively to describe animals: Gen 1:20 (sea life), Gen 1:21 (great sea life), Gen 1:24 (land creatures), Gen 1:30 (birds and land creatures). At Gen 2:7 nephesh is used as description of man." See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephesh
1 Samuel 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath YHWH as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of YHWH? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
We can tell by that rhetorical question that YHWH doesn't desire burnt offerings or sacrifices of animals at all.
2 Samuel 12:3 But the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
Job 12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not, in all these, that the hand of YHWH hath wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Psalm 36:6 Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your judgments like the deepest sea. YHWH, You preserve man and beast.
Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 1 know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But unto the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
YHWH has no need of animals to be killed for Him. If you read the Epic of Gilgamesh it talks about a man going through a flood just like Noah’s ark and offering up sacrifices as soon as he gets onto dry land, because the "gods" were hungry and swarmed like flies.
Then I sent forth and set free a raven.
The raven went forth and, seeing that the waters had diminished,
He eats, circles, caws, and turns not around.
Then I let out (all) to the four winds
And offered a sacrifice.
I poured out a libation on the top of the mountain.
Seven and seven cult-vessels I set up
Upon their plate-stands I heaped cane, cedarwood, and myrtle.
The gods smelled the savour,
The gods smelled the sweet savour,
The gods crowded like flies about the sacrificer.
Pagan gods get hungry and ask for sacrifices. YHWH does not hunger.
Psalm 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 104:10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst. 12 By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works. 14 He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthened! man's heart. 16 The trees of YHWH are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; 17 Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. 18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
Psalm 147:9 He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.
YHWH protects and cares for all the animals, and all the animals praise YHWH. When you kill one, then you're taking away praise from YHWH.
Revelation 5:13 And I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: "To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!"
Psalm 148:7 Praise YHWH from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: 9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: 10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl: 11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: 12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children: 13 Let them praise the name of YHWH: for His name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Psalm 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise YHWH. Hallelujah!
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to YHWH, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Proverbs 15:17 Better a small serving of vegetables with love than a fattened calf with hatred.
Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to YHWH than sacrifice.
Proverbs 23:1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: 2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite. 3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat. 4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats: 7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but lais heart is not with thee. 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Proverbs 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Proverbs 27:23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass showeth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. 27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith YHWH: 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. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 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 judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith YHWH: 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: 20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of YHWH hath spoken it.
Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; 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; 5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. 6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith YHWH, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
YHWH doesn't want sacrifices in order to make people "white like wool" rather than "red like crimson." He wants people to stop doing evil and to do well instead. He wants us to relieve the oppressed and help the widows. When you take care of other people and do right and repent of your sinful ways you will be washed clean. He never wanted sacrifices of animals to cleanse people. And the fact that they continue to do it in the temple they built for Him (which He didn't even ask for) they're provoking Him to anger since they're profaning His Holy name/character by saying YHWH can’t get people to stop sinning, and needs animals (or a man) to die to get people cleansed from sin. This ruins YHWH's reputation. It ruins His name and profanes Him among the world. All Abrahamic religions do this when they say He needs sacrifices.
Isaiah 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. 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.
This theme is also seen in 2 Thessalonians. Those who delight in abominations and unrighteousness will be given over to delusions.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. 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. 21 Therefore thus saith YHWH, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
Jeremiah 7:5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever....20 Therefore thus saith the lord YHWH; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
21 Thus saith YHWH 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. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Jeremiah 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of YHWH. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of YHWH is with us? But behold the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie. 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of YHWH; and what wisdom is in them?
The "word of YHWH" is His Holy Spirit, that's what came to Ezekiel in Ezekiel 2:1-2. But many people don’t listen to YHWH's Holy Spirit, they follow doctrines of men, the lying scribes because they have pleasure in sin.
Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself 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.
When Daniel rejected the meat, he was blessed with better health, and more knowledge and wisdom.
Daniel 6:22 My God sent His angel, and He shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in His sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, O King.
It's a reasonable hypothesis that animals could smell meat-eaters and since Daniel was not eating meat, he was not looked upon as a threat by the lions.
Daniel 9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The Messiah came to stop the sacrifices, and he did. They're no longer sacrificing in the temple. The priests were making money because they led people to believe that they would always sin, and they needed sacrifices to become one with God again. If someone came to say people could be washed clean and stop sinning, then they would have no need to pay for the sacrifices at the temple. So, they wanted to kill him.
We see the same thing going on today with mainstream Christianity. The priests and pastors want to make money, and keep their jobs, so they push the idea that people need to keep coming back and pay them via tithes, rather than let them know that they can repent, be washed clean, and stop sinning. That is a generalization, but many people do this.
Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery. 14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. 15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor swear, YHWH liveth. 16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now YHWH will feed them as a Iamb in a large place. 17 Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone. 18 Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye. 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.
Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 8:13 They offer sacrificed holocausts, and they eat the meat, YHWH is not pleased with them. Now He will remember their wickedness and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
Amos 5:21 1 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. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. 25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? 26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith YHWH, whose name is The God of hosts.
They didn't listen to YHWH, do righteousness, walk justly or love mercy, but instead sacrificed after they left Egypt. Amos is another reference to the fact that they sacrificed in the wilderness to Moloch/Ba'al not YHWH.
Micah 6:6 Wherewith shall I come before YHWH, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will YHWH be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth YHWH require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
This is a reference to the fact that YHWH does NOT want people to sacrifice their children to pay for sins. And yet mainstream Christianity tells us that's what He went and did. This is another rhetorical question with the answer of, "No. He does NOT want children to die for other people’s sins." He just wants people to love mercy and to walk humbly with Him. This would be a good time to question if you think he wanted Jesus to be killed for someone else’s transgressions. Jesus came to tell us to “go and sin no more.” He forgave people before he died when they repented. Clearly his death was not required.
Malachi 3:6 For I am YHWH, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
If YHWH's perfect diet was vegan or vegetarian and it's the diet of the millennial kingdom too, should we say YHWH changed in the middle?
Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 9:12 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: "I desire mercy, not sacrifice." For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.
Matthew 10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Matthew 12:6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.
Sounds like he was referencing their sacrifices of the animals, the innocents/guiltless beings, saying they were condemning the animals to death rather than loving mercy and walking humbly with YHWH.
Luke 3:6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.
Luke 12:6 Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?
John 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
He drove out the people selling animals to be killed and set the guiltless captives free from the temple.
Acts 7:37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall YHWH your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 39 To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, 40 Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands. 42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
We see that when the people wanted to sacrifice, they sacrificed to the idol and YHWH "gave them up to worship the host of heaven" rather than Himself. We know that during the time in the wilderness they were worshiping a pagan god and sacrificing to it. The prophets continually came and told them they were wrong for doing it, but they often ignored the prophets and killed them just like they killed Jesus for letting the captive animals go free from the temple and reminding people that they could repent and be washed clean (rather than kill an animal to supposedly cover their sin).
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
In the next few passages we see that the Israelites were told not to eat meat when they left Egypt. We know this because they had tons of animals with them, and they grumbled for meat. Rather than kill their animals and eat, they grumbled about the fact that they weren't allowed to eat meat.
Exodus 16:2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 "If only we had died by YHWH's hand in the land of Egypt!" they said. "There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!" 4 Then YHWH said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions.
Numbers 11:4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of YHWH was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
11 And Moses said unto YHWH, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat...
18 And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears of YHWH, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore YHWH 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 YHWH which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
31 And there went forth a wind from YHWH, 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 YHWH was kindled against the people, and YHWH smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.
Notice YHWH wanted them to eat bread, but they lusted for flesh. Seems to be a parable as well. Bread is life, and flesh is sin and death. Those who lusted after flesh, died of a plague.
Ezekiel 4:14 Then said I, Ah Lord YHWH! 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.
YHWH hates human sacrifices.
Psalm 49:7 No one can redeem the life of another or give to God a ransom for them
Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not worship YHWH your God in that way, for every abominable thing that YHWH hates, they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
Jeremiah 32:35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded—nor did it enter my mind—that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.
2 Kings 17:17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire. They practiced divination and sought omens and sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of YHWH, arousing His anger.
1 Peter 2:4 As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God's sight, 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture: "See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame." 7 To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone," 8 and, "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
We are to sacrifice our lusts and fleshy wills and do our Father's will instead, that is our spiritual sacrifice. When we do that, we are washed clean, white as wool.
Here is a prophecy linking Israel to a flock of sheep, where sin is linked to devouring flesh, either metaphorically or literally.
Zechariah 11:1 Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
4 Thus saith YHWH my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; 5 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be YHWH; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith YHWH: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. 8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Millennial Reign
Isaiah 11:6 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. 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 YHWH, as the waters cover the sea.
Isaiah 65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And 1 will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of YHWH, and their offspring with them. 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith YHWH.
Hosea 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. 19 So I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion
The millennial reign has YHWH making a covenant with the animals that they shall not be killed or hurt anymore, and people will live in righteousness and lovingkindness. We've seen that those who do are considered "clean." It's those who are not and love sin who would kill the animals as sacrifices.
In Genesis during the creation account, the same word, ‘nephesh,’ (soul) is used both for animals and mankind. They are all created by YHWH with His Spirit/Breath and all are considered “flesh.” We are given the vegetarian or vegan diet in paradise. God’s will did not change from that perfection in the beginning (Genesis 1:29-30) because God does not change.
Isaiah 11:6 seems to confirm this will be the diet of the future millennium kingdom as well, as the mouths of predators will be shut to prey and they will lay down with one another.
Ezekiel 47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf for healing.
Clementine Homilies 8
Chapter XV. The Giants
But from their unhallowed intercourse spurious men sprang, much greater in stature than ordinary men, whom they afterwards called giants; not those dragon-footed giants who waged war against God, as those blasphemous myths of the Greeks do sing, but wild in manners, and greater than men in size, inasmuch as they were sprung of angels; yet less than angels, as they were born of women. Therefore God, knowing that they were barbarized to brutality, and that the world was not sufficient to satisfy them (for it was created according to the proportion of men and human use), that they might not through want of food turn, contrary to nature, to the eating of animals, and yet seem to be blameless, as having ventured upon this through necessity, the Almighty God rained manna upon them, suited to their various tastes; and they enjoyed all that they would. But they, on account of their bastard nature, not being pleased with purity of food, longed only after the taste of blood. Wherefore they first tasted flesh.
Chapter XVI. Cannibalism
And the men who were with them there for the first time were eager to do the like. Thus, although we are born neither good nor bad, we become one or the other; and having formed habits, we are with difficulty drawn from them. But when irrational animals fell short, these bastard men tasted also human flesh. For it was not a long step to the consumption of flesh like their own, having first tasted it in other forms.
Chapter XVII. The Flood
But by the shedding of much blood, the pure air being defiled with impure vapour, and sickening those who breathed it, rendered them liable to diseases, so that thenceforth men died prematurely. But the earth being by these means greatly defiled, these first teemed with poison-darting and deadly creatures. All things, therefore, going from bad to worse, on account of these brutal demons, God wished to cast them away like an evil leaven, lest each generation from a wicked seed, being like to that before it, and equally impious, should empty the world to come of saved men. And for this purpose, having warned a certain righteous man, with his three sons, together with their wives and their children, to save themselves in an ark, He sent a deluge of water, that all being destroyed, the purified world might be handed over to him who was saved in the ark, in order to a second beginning of life. And thus it came to pass.
Chapter XVIII. The Law to the Survivors
Since, therefore, the souls of the deceased giants were greater than human souls, inasmuch as they also excelled their bodies, they, as being a new race, were called also by a new name. And to those who survived in the world a law was prescribed of God through an angel, how they should live. For being bastards in race, of the fire of angels and the blood of women, and therefore liable to desire a certain race of their own, they were anticipated by a certain righteous law. For a certain angel was sent to them by God, declaring to them His will, and saying:—
Chapter XIX. The Law to the Giants or Demons
'These things seem good to the all-seeing God, that you lord it over no man; that you trouble no one, unless any one of his own accord subject himself to you, worshipping you, and sacrificing and pouring libations, and partaking of your table, or accomplishing anything else that they ought not, or shedding blood, or tasting dead flesh, or filling themselves with that which is torn of beasts, or that which is cut, or that which is strangled, or anything else that is unclean. But those who betake themselves to my law, you not only shall not touch, but shall also do honour to, and shall flee from, their presence. For whatsoever shall please them, being just, respecting you, that you shall be constrained to suffer. But if any of those who worship me go astray, either committing adultery, or practising magic, or living impurely, or doing any other of the things which are not well-pleasing to me, then they will have to suffer something at your hands or those of others, according to my order. But upon them, when they repent, I, judging of their repentance, whether it be worthy of pardon or not, shall give sentence. These things, therefore, ye ought to remember and to do, well knowing that not even your thoughts shall be able to be concealed from Him.'
Exodus 32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)
From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (25)When Moses saw that the people were naked.--Most modern commentators prefer to translate "that the people were licentious," or "unruly." But the rendering of the Authorised Version may be defended. In the lewd and excited dancing of idolatrous orgies, garments were frequently cast aside, and the person exposed indecently. Egyptian dancers are represented on the monuments with scarcely any clothing.
Exodus 32:17 When Joshua heard the sound of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “The sound of war is in the camp.” 18 But Moses replied: “It is neither the cry of victory nor the cry of defeat; I hear the sound of singing!
Exodus 32:1 Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!” 2 So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” 3Then all the people took off their gold earrings and brought them to Aaron. 4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before the calf and proclaimed: “Tomorrow shall be a feast to YHWH.”
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