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That's an excellent question which merits attention.

Nov 11, 2024, 6:52 AM

The deeper issue you're poking at is the difference between the COI before Jesus and the COI and gentiles who accepted Christ afterwords.

Jesus fulfilled Levitical/Mosaic law. Abraham wasn't under the law. He was under the same grace which I enjoy today. So your question should be expanded.

'Why was Abraham allowed to eat port, the COI not allowed to eat pork then those who accepted Christ as savior allowed?'

The law, which included the exclusion of pork as a food wasn't handed down to save the people. Only their faith in God saved them. The law was given to provide guidelines to build a nation.

The COI exited Egypt with an army of approximately half a million men of fighting age, I think, it's been a while. The number 1 million comes in there somewhere according to the math but I think the COI had a total of ~1 mil people but that's extrapolated from the addition of the old, the young and the wimmins folk.

I don't think any of them knew where they were going, no map or such but only knew that being children of Israel their birthright was the land of promise to Abraham. They followed a cloud by light of day and a pillar of fire in the evening. They were a million people but they were not a nation.

They'd never seen their future home, had no law, paid little attention to the guys who led them from captivity and had no clue what God expected of them. They lacked any spiritual development. For about 10 generations they had spent in a land with more gods than they had fingers and toes and had been expected to worship anyone wearing a mask that looked like an animals' face.

They were not a nation. They had no land, no borders, no government, no laws, no standards and no moral compass. They had no clue who God was, what He wanted and expected of them and how to please Him. It seemed to be another of those times when Israel had no prophet for I know of no word from God to the COI after Joseph, while they were in Egypt.

As far as flesh goes. The law established government by instituting Mosaic Law. The Law in Exodus covered: sanitation, hygiene, construction, government, personal property, feast sexuality and law and order or crime, ordinances for living in society, and regulations for worship (requirements for priests, sacrifices, feasts, and the temple dimensions, inclusions with a ton of details).

For adhering to it came the promise of God to Israel for prosperity in the land, livestock, fields of grains, vines and trees for fruit and the multiplication of children which covered growth of the nation.

It also included warnings for disobedience. Israel found out the hard way that God 2nd part of promise was as sure as His first.

Moses was herding cats and red-worms. If God was going to build a great nation with the citizenry being numbered with the sands and stars there was going to be some form of government and plenty of laws. It's common sense in retrospect. Should have been obvious to the COI, maybe it was and that's why they asked for the law but that wasn't the limit of it nor, according to what I understand, was its greatest value.

The NT seems to be more about the Spirit of God than the flesh of men and I've found no reference in the concept of nation building but it seems pretty obvious that it didn't take a genius (like me, right?) to see the value of the law to the flesh.

The law covered Sanitation, Hygene/physical health, construction, government, personal property, feast/holidays, sexuality and crime, just to name the big ticket items.

Personally, I think exclusion of certain animals (pork) was a health issue. It certainly is one today. Many of us have cholesterol issues which pork complicates and the potential of muscle devouring worms of the past might have been a big issue in those days.

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