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the earth. When man by his great wickedness provokes the wrath
of God, Christ, man’s intercessor, pleads for him, and points to the
rainbow in the cloud, as evidence of God’s great mercy and compassion
for erring man; also the rainbow above the throne and upon his head
emblematical of the glory and mercy from God resting there for the
benefit of repentant man.
Every species of animal which God had created were preserved in
the ark. The confused species which God did not create, which were
the result of amalgamation, were destroyed by the flood. Since the
flood there has been amalgamation of man and beast, as may be seen
in the almost endless varieties of species of animals, and in certain
races of men.
After Noah had come forth from the ark, he looked around upon
the powerful and ferocious beasts which he brought out of the ark, and
then upon his family numbering eight, and was greatly afraid that they
would be destroyed by the beasts. But the Lord sent his angel to say
to Noah, “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
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upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hands are
they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be [meat] for you;
even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
Previous to this time God had given man no permission to eat
animal food. Every living substance upon the face of the earth upon
which man could subsist had been destroyed, therefore God gave Noah
permission to eat of the clean beasts which he had taken with him into
the ark. God said to Noah, “Every moving thing that liveth shall be
meat for you, even as the green herb have I given you all things.” As
God had formerly given them the herb of the ground and fruit of the
field, now, in the peculiar circumstances in which they are placed he
permits them to eat animal food. Yet I saw that the flesh of animals
was not the most healthy article of food for man.
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