Eating Clean

There are three basic precepts that Christ and the Apostles emphasized in the walk of the narrow road.  One is to obey the 10 Commandments,  the next is to Eat Clean and the last is to fulfill the Royal Law.  This article is to explain the various aspects of Eating Clean.  If you want to read about the Holy Covenant and the Royal Law click on the links. 

God gives His Kingdom people advise in various chapters on how to be wise and how to be good caretakers of their bodies and their spiritual life.  God wants to have a kingdom people who are separated from the pollutions of this world, who are holy and righteous and free of sin.  God instructed his people on making a difference between the Holy and Profane; and the Clean and Unclean.  The Bible is a book full of many idioms and symbolic allegories: and "Eating Clean" is not always about physical food, but also about spiritual food and living in holiness; and these messages are always in the context of obedience to God.  God desires His people to be healthy, strong and fully sanctified so they can be close to Him and so His Spirit can abide with them.  We are to separate ourselves from that which is evil and from all manner of ungodliness.  God is a Spirit and He is Holy and his holiness desires not to dwell in something polluted and contrary to himself.  Paul makes mention of this:

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." 

It is ridiculous that the churches have had the Bible for thousands of years and yet remain fixated on a literal interpretation of scripture in most doctrines, and are oblivious to teachings about sanctification and holiness, but push an easy lascivious and ear tickling doctrine; but this also isn't a surprise because the Bible tells us this will happen, and God has a purpose behind concealing a matter (Proverbs 25:2) to preserve His hallowed bread over man's bread so only the true servants can "Hear His Voice" (Matthew 13:10-17).   

Jude 1:4-5  "For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Christ Yeshua.  I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 

ORIGIN OF THE GARDEN AND SIN

The earliest example of man going wrong in "hearing God's voice" and in not obeying Him (in relation to eating something) is of course in the Garden of Eden when Eve listened to the serpent instead of God, and ate of the forbidden fruit from the tree of good and evil.   The sin here is not as much as Eve ate something that would defile her physical body, but her disobedience to God's commands specifically (which is sin) and in her coveting after a portion of the garden beyond what she was given.      

Genesis 3

"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?   And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.  And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.  And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked..."  Nakedness here having the meaning of "sin exposed" similar to what is spoken of in Matthew 10:26 " for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, and that shall not be known." 

The chapter goes on to say both Adam and Eve brought curses upon themselves for this disobedience and of not listening to God; they were kicked straight out of the garden away from God's presence.   The woman received a perpetual consequence for disobeying God: He put her under her husband's authority and gave her pain in child bearing.  Adam was made to work by the sweat of his brow in the field in order to eat, and both of their lives would be given over to the curse of death.   The same manner in which Satan (by the idea that he no longer needed God and could become like God) deceived a multitude of angels just as he deceived Eve, and the consequence is eternal separation from God.  However, God had a plan to redeem his people, while at the same time preparing an eternal damnation for the ones who refuse repentance or who were already beyond repentance.  

DUALITY IN MEANING

God of course knows that his creation needs physical nourishment, so there is some discussion about this, as seen in the Torah law.  As with all things in scripture, there is both a literal physical (flesh) meaning behind a doctrine but also a spiritual reference, which various apostles, prophets and even King David were able to determine with help from the Holy Spirit.  These deeper meanings often come in the form of parables or idioms.   A common example is "eating your daily bread", which is idiomatic for reading scripture like its bread for your soul.   The phrase  "land...flowing with milk and honey", where milk is used in places like Isaiah 28:9 and refers to the basic concepts in God's doctrine; honey perhaps refers to prophecy where it is "sweet in the mouth (yet bitter in the belly);" and both signify a blessing for living in a land given to God's Israel under His law.  

Early references to physical food are verses such as: 

Genesis 1:29  "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." 

So, at first glance of this verse it would appear that God provided for man herbs and fruits with seeds for food, therefore a vegetarian diet.  In the New Testament, however, we see parables using various farming work references related to the servants who give gospel doctrine to others as "seeds planted in the fields," which bear fruits of righteousness in people, which is likely referencing people brought (as lost sheep) to the kingdom of God and to become part of the Olive Tree, the symbol of United Israel.  Similar references are also common in the Old Testament in narratives related to planting Vineyards and making wine or "treading out the corn."  The act of planting a vineyard and making wine can only be done in a condition where God's people live in the land of inheritance, in peace, not in time of war or other disruption, but under God's cloud where rain (his knowledge) causes the increase and abundance.  So, if seeds bear plants in the field when God's people are obedient to him, these Vineyards are a type of kingdom given to the servants as responsible husbandmen, and God gives elevated knowledge and wisdom and riches in the form of spiritual "corn and wine," as opposed to earthly wine which idiomatically is spoken of as pride. 

A COVENANT WITH PROMISE

It is important to make mention of food connected to the Covenants.  After the great world flood,  Noah began to replenish the earth, we see God giving permission to mankind to eat the flesh of animals.  This act of eating correlates with the act of sacrifice, which the Bible says was "a sweet savor to God."  Noah, who was obedient to God's voice and was beloved by him, made a difference between the clean animals and unclean animals and Noah only sacrificed the best of the clean animals.  If Noah had been less deliberate in making a difference between the clean and the unclean, and sacrificed unclean animals, such as swine, those animals who were only put on the Ark in numbers of 2 x 2 instead of the clean which were 7x7, Noah would have wiped out the species of those animals.  The principle of sacrifice in scripture becomes clear in the New Testament when it describes many times how people must give up everything (even their very best) to serve the Messiah in communicating to the people, even if they are hated for it, walk in the ways of Christ by His Spirit so that God's Kingdom people can be found and sanctified in truth and holiness. 

Genesis 7:1  "And the LORD said unto Noah, come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.  >>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."

Genesis 8:20  "And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."   It was a sweet savor unto the Lord."

Then God gives Noah a Commandment regarding man's dominion over animals and all things in the earth.  

Genesis 9:3  "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb (Gen 1:29) have I given you all things." 

God made a unilateral and perpetual Covenant (first Covenant of Promise) with Noah and all the earth which is also called the Rainbow Covenant - (Gen 9:6), and is an early example of what later became part of the dietary statutes in the Torah.  God did this for Noah because Noah had Faith in God and obeyed him and was found righteous by his Faith (Hebrews 11:7), and he was able to manage the resources given to him in wisdom by the Spirit, and he performed work in order to save his family per God's instructions.  Noah did not need a schoolmaster or some other type of regulation to train him in skill, wisdom or righteousness.  Noah was able to discern between the animals that could be eaten from those that could not when that time came.  Noah's righteousness was accounted to him by Faith, and faith is by obedience.

Additional accounts of Noah that parallel Genesis chapter 9 are found in the book of Jubilees:

Jubilees 6: 5-12:  "...increase ye and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it. The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea. And behold I have given unto you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat.  But flesh, with the life thereof, with the blood, ye shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required. At the hand of every man, at the hand of every (beast) will I require the blood of man.  Whoso sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man.  And you, increase ye, and multiply on the earth.'

And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the Lord God for ever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month."  

The context of this scripture is Moses giving an account of what God told him for the "Book of the Law", as he continues: 

"On this account He spake to thee that thou shouldst make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that thou shouldst sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant, which the Lord made with them for ever.  And this testimony is written concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land." 

The "eating of Blood" in this passage has a background of God condemning the practices of pagan cult rituals that involve the eating and drinking of blood, sometimes of human children, a practice done in the wicked generations of the pre-flood world; which also, unfortunately, still exist in a few small  elite cult circles in today's era, who also hold the same ritual practices.  Jubilees goes on to say that Noah's children took up the practice of eating blood after Noah's death.  These cult practices were taught to Canaan and other children of Ham, Canaan also having been cursed for a transgression against Noah.  Canaan created his own kingdom in the land near Gaza and he instituted pagan idol worship with abominable practices that were held during various Sun and Moon equinoxes.   Their gods are spoken often in the scripture, which are Baal (Sky / Sun God), Ashtoreth / Ishtar (Queen of Heaven and Fertility) and Tammuz (Son).  For more information on this (that will also shock most Apostate Christians) see the link to section on "God hates the Traditions of Men". 

Jubilees 6:15-19  "And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.  He set His bow in the cloud for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.  For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.  And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah -twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years [1309-1659 A.M.]: and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah's death, and from the day of Noah's death his sons did away with (it) until the days of Abraham, and they eat blood."

A biographical account of early first century interactions with the Apostles called the "Recognitions of Clement,"  Clement speaks of how Peter described Ham as the first magician in his first book, chapter 30: 

"For these and some other causes, a flood was brought upon the world, as we have said already, and shall say again; and all who were upon the earth were destroyed, except the family of Noah, who survived, with his three sons and their wives. One of these, by name Ham, unhappily discovered the magical act, and handed down the instruction of it to one of his sons, who was called Mesraim, from whom the race of the Egyptians and Babylonians and Persians are descended. Him the nations who then existed called Zoroaster, admiring him as the first author of the magic art; under whose name also many books on this subject exist. He therefore, being much and frequently intent upon the stars, and wishing to be esteemed a god among them, began to draw forth, as it were, certain sparks from the stars, and to show them to men, in order that the rude and ignorant might be astonished, as with a miracle; and desiring to increase this estimation of him, he attempted these things again and again, until he was set on fire, and consumed by the demon himself, whom he accosted with too great importunity." 

Jubilees goes on to describe how Noah specifically instructed his Sons in righteousness and God's way and emphasizing cleanness and holiness: 

Jubilees 7:20:  "And in the twenty-eighth jubilee [1324-1372 A.M.] Noah began to enjoin upon his sons' sons the ordinances and commandments, and all the judgments that he knew, and he exhorted his sons to observe righteousness, and to cover the shame of their flesh, and to bless their Creator, and honour father and mother, and love their neighbour, and guard their souls from fornication and uncleanness and all iniquity."

However, it didn't take long for Noah's Sons to head in the wrong direction, coveting after things that pleased their flesh and their over inflated sense of importance and it caused mankind to head off in the wrong direction again, and God predicted it to be so, but in spite of this, he had a plan to redeem a people for himself: 

Jubilees 7:25-33 "And the Lord destroyed everything from off the face of the earth; because of the wickedness of their deeds, and because of the blood which they had shed in the midst of the earth He destroyed everything.  And we were left, I and you, my sons, and everything that entered with us into the ark, and behold I see your works before me that ye do not walk in righteousness: for in the path of destruction ye have begun to walk, and ye are parting one from another, and are envious one of another, and (so it comes) that ye are not in harmony, my sons, each with his brother.  For I see, and behold the demons have begun (their) seductions against you and against your children and now I fear on your behalf, that after my death ye will shed the blood of men upon the earth, and that ye, too, will be destroyed from the face of the earth.  For whoso sheddeth man's blood, and whoso eateth the blood of any flesh, shall all be destroyed from the earth.  And there shall not be left any man that eateth blood, or that sheddeth the blood of man on the earth, Nor shall there be left to him any seed or descendants living under heaven; For into Sheol shall they go, And into the place of condemnation shall they descend, And into the darkness of the deep shall they all be removed by a violent death.  There shall be no blood seen upon you of all the blood there shall be all the days in which ye have killed any beasts or cattle or whatever flies upon the earth, and work ye a good work to your souls by covering that which has been shed on the face of the earth. And ye shall not be like him who eats with blood, but guard yourselves that none may eat blood before you: cover the blood, for thus have I been commanded to testify to you and your children, together with all flesh. And suffer not the soul to be eaten with the flesh, that your blood, which is your life, may not be required at the hand of any flesh that sheds (it) on the earth.  For the earth will not be clean from the blood which has been shed upon it; for (only) through the blood of him that shed it will the earth be purified throughout all its generations."

Jubilees 11 "And the sons of Noah began to war on each other, to take captive and to slay each other, and to shed the blood of men on the earth, and to eat blood, and to build strong cities, and walls, and towers, and individuals (began) to exalt themselves above the nation, and to found the beginnings of kingdoms, and to go to war people against people, and nation against nation, and city against city, and all (began) to do evil, and to acquire arms, and to teach their sons war, and they began to capture cities, and to sell male and female slaves."

The book of 1 Enoch Chapter 7 makes this statement:

 "And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.  And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:  Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.  Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones."

The Rainbow Covenant as found in the book of Genesis chapter 9 gave the following commands, which were observed by Abraham (Genesis 26:5) and later rolled into the Mosaic Covenants and added to the Holy Covenant (making Two Covenants of Promise):

• Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the earth. 
• All the animals of the field and of the sea shall be given into your hand, and they will fear you.  
• The flesh with the life thereof, which the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."  
• Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. 
• All flesh shall no longer be destroyed from the earth by means of a flood.  This Covenant is established with all flesh.  
• Every time God sees the Rainbow in the clouds he will remember his Covenant. 

In the book of Acts we see a similar Rainbow Covenant reference when Paul vigorously disputes with Jews on how to bring Gentiles into the fold, when that group never received a Promise nor knew anything about a Messiah, are given the following commands for those Gentiles who turn to God: 

Act 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."   

Romans chapter 11 Paul proclaims that Gentiles can be grafted into the Olive Tree, and as explained in previous chapters, Paul teaches that those who want the knowledge of God must not do so by their own understanding and by the work of their own hands, but by God's righteousness, which is the 10 Commandments.  The 10 Commandments are referenced through various cross references that Paul makes, such as under the phrase "gospel of peace" and "glad tidings of good things" quoting chapters like Isaiah chapter 52 & 56 where God (speaking through Isaiah) calls the Gentiles to Covenant and calls them to "publish peace", and "bringeth good tidings" (gospel) and "touch no unclean thing" and "be clean, that bear the vessels of Yehovah."   

Ephesians chapter 2 we see Paul talking about how Gentiles were strangers from the Covenants of Promise and the commonwealth of Israel because they were without Christ and the Covenants of Promise, but were instead divided by the various man made traditions, burdens and hand written laws.  

Galatians 4 makes reference to the two Covenants of Promise and explains it as the allegory between Hagar and Sarah (the discernment of practices of Flesh vs obedience to the Spirit); the promises given to Isaac through Sarah and Abraham for "hearing God's voice" and being obedient and having a clean vessel; compared to the sacrificial law of Hagar, who was not the seed of the promise, but of bondage, the end of whose flesh is death.  

Also see the links to the following sections: 

• True Gospel
• Baptism by Water
• Royal Law
• Covenants of Promise

In the book of Daniel, we see an example of Hebrews concerned with eating clean, eating primarily vegetables and water.  The context here is tribe of Judah being conquered by Babylon and taken captive, the Jewish scholars were appointed to high positions in the government and offered new names and a portion of the King's food, which Daniel and company declined.  Daniel then challenges the chief Eunuch of the King to test the health of the company who eat vegetables and water and compare it to the health of those eating the King's food.  

Daniel 1:8-16  "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.  Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.  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.  Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse (vegetables) to eat, and water to drink.  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.  So he consented to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.  >>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.<< Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat, and the wine that they should drink; and gave them pulse." 

Now it would appear that Judah's diet was vegetarian, but this occurred at a time after Moses delivered God's Law to Israel and the Torah laws added, and we know that the law allowed eating clean animals.  Much of the meat eaten in Jerusalem would have been done in relation to the Temple sacrifices, where they would be selecting and offering unblemished lambs, goats or cattle, prepared by the hands of the Temple Priests in a kosher way.  In pagan nations like Babylon, much of the meat was offered as sacrifices to pagan gods (as learned from Canaan), much of it was likely unclean, some animals were strangled, some boiled in the mother's milk, some practices involved saving mixtures of blood to eat.  The idiom of "boiled in the mother's milk"  also means not to pick a sacrificial lamb that is too young for the sacrifice, and wait until it is at least weaned off of its mother's milk.   Daniel and company were in captivity and by practice not able to be properly sanctified before God in the usual way, so their diet was observed by necessity, even using prayer and fasting in place of sacrifices--not in feasting, and not in succumbing to any appetite they desired.  We can only assume that the King's food was rich and tasty yet likely unclean per Torah Law, and thus would have had unhealthy results to those that ate of it.  It says their "countenance" appeared better in ten days than those that ate the King's food.   There is also a spiritual reference here that Daniel and company were not able to be influenced by the "ways of the heathen" and therefore kept their feet on the narrow road to God's heart.  

In Deuteronomy chapter 14 and Leviticus 11, God defines clean and unclean animals, which you don't entirely get from the text of Genesis chapters 7-9.  This is where God tells Moses to establish the difference between what is considered food and what is not.  Oftentimes we hear from other Christian's who want to argue that "God made all foods clean", as if to say we can eat anything we want as long as it is in faith, and this precept is fundamentally untrue.  What God says is to make a difference between the clean and unclean and the Holy and Unholy.  God doesn't give the believer the option to sprinkle fairy dust over their food to make what he considers unclean magically clean.  

Deuteronomy 14 and Leviticus 11 provide a list of things God allows and disallows as food: 

Clean Animals

• Those with cloven hoofs and chew the cud: deer, sheep, cattle, goats and bison. 
• Under the water: any fish with fins and scales.
• Those that fly; every flying and creeping thing that has legs above their feet and leap upon the earth: chickens, turkeys, pigeons,  pheasant, even locusts and beetles.  

Unclean Animals

• Those that chew the cud, but do not have cloven hoofs or vice versa: camel, horses, swine,  or any other "creeping thing" or mammals that move on all four feet that don't have cloven hoofs and chew the cud like cats, dogs, mice, coneys, hares, beavers, weasels, kangaroos, lizards, armadillos, squirrels, possum, etc...  
• Under the water; that which does not have both fins and scales, many of which are bottom feeders and invertebrates: shrimp, lobster, crab, crawfish, shellfish, catfish, shark, mussels, alligator and snakes.  
• Those that fly: vulture, raven, owls, stork, heron, eagle, pelican, hawk

Unclean Flesh

• Any dead animal carcass.  Or, animals that feed upon waste matter or dead animals.  This can even extend to diseased animals and people.  The Torah law is clear (and various New Testament scripture) that if you touch a diseased or dead body you must separate yourself from the camp and wash and wait until evening to be considered clean again, or as it says in Numbers 19 you may be considered unclean seven days.  There is a specific story in the book of Tobit that gives an example of Tobit burying a dead body during a Feast day and calling himself polluted.  The New Testament gives examples of what would be a controversy where Christ healed lepers and rose people from the dead, a practice that would have been considered taboo under sacrificial law.    

Christians that often feel the Old Testament is in conflict with the New Testament in chapters like Romans 14 or 1 Corinthians 10 with chapters like in the Torah or the prophets like Isaiah chapters 65 & 66, it is because they don't understand the book and they create the conflicts by the addition of man's (defiled bread) doctrine.  Once you understand what the chapters are saying you may find they all agree as one, just as Christ is in agreement with the Father.   So, in Romans 14 for instance, the emphasis is not on giving permission to eat anything or for anyone "not to judge" in food and drink, but  for someone who is in Covenant to be fully convinced of what they believe and for those stronger in faith not to condemn in haste those who are growing in their conviction.  This chapter also cautions about being the police over such things as food and drink, which also applies to matters of speech (like those who think it is our righteousness to learn Paleo Hebrew and enforce it upon others), which only serves as a stumbling block to those trying to hear the "Bullseye of the Torah."  (See video link)

1 Corinthians 10 is more about a warning against Idolatry and partaking in the act of idolatry, but Paul also prioritizes how to witness to a nonbeliever (who may be a lost sheep); and he understands that acts of hospitality could include food sacrificed to Idols (unknowingly eating as such).  Paul's faith demonstrates that if you "ask no questions for conscience sake" then the works of idolatry have no affect on you with food being passed through the body (Matthew 15:11), but more importantly, a witness shouldn't first offend the hearer before the gospel is preached unto them, before they can gain their own conviction of the truth.  It is much better to convert a soul by repentance to Covenant, which covers a multitude of sins (James 5:20), than being rigid in performing one's walk over matters of lesser importance.  Paul also makes mention of how a stronger servant must be careful in doing this kind of witnessing so as not to be seen by mockers and scoffers who could jump to conclusions about the apparent hypocrisy of the act and broadcast it wrongfully, or to cause those weaker in faith to stumble.  Some Christians also point out Acts 10 to claim that Peter, who specifically states he would eat nothing unclean, is rebuked by God and therefore it allows anyone to eat a pork sandwich.  IF only these Christians read the full detailed account this story explains itself and the story is not about eating unclean food, but about God rebuking Peter over calling a Gentile unclean and not to separate himself because he is a Jew, but be open to accepting them as a Gentiles whose heart is to come to Covenant--and that convert needs a Preacher to be able to hear that gospel!   

The Old Testament states many times that we are called to throw out all man added doctrines and all traditions of the heathen and put on Christ alone and also obey God!  No where in scripture does it permit those who call themselves Christian to disobey God in any way, shape or form.  If there was ever a strong example of How God feels about eating unclean, Isaiah makes it abundantly clear in this later day prophecy:  

  
Isaiah 65:2-7 "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; A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;  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.  Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,  Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom."   

God also calls his Watchmen (who endure great affliction) to keep focused on the work (this prophecy has other connotations to recent events that are not discussed here, but the testimony of the Watchmen of Ephraim is shown true to parallel this account): 

Ezekiel 24:17  "Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men." 

The "bread of men" are doctrines of men, which is also traditions of men or "commandments of men:" 

Matthew 15:9 "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

Jeremiah 23:16-27 "Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD."  [25-27]  "I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart; Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal." 

SPIRITUAL MEAT FROM BARNABUS

The surface level precepts of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 may have a deeper meaning behind them where it appears King David in the Psalms makes reference to ideas connected to these clean and unclean animals in the Torah, and Barnabus claims it was his discernment from the Father that added clarity to the clean and unclean food doctrines.  So, while Jews (or related Torah novices) fuss and run about to ensure their meat is fully cooked or prepare it so as not to give appearances of cooking on the Sabbath, and have elaborate procedures for cleaning their pots and cups, "do ye not hear the law" (Mark7:4-7 / Galatians 4:21) ?   

EPISTLE OF BARNABUS CHAPTER 10

Now, wherefore did Moses say, “Thou shalt not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven, nor any fish which is not possessed of scales?” He embraced three doctrines in his mind [ in doing so ]. Moreover, the Lord saith to them in Deuteronomy (4-6),  “And I will establish my ordinances among this people.”  Is there then not a command of God they should not eat [these things]?  There is, but Moses spoke with a spiritual reference. For this reason he named the swine, as much as to say: 

“Thou shalt not join thyself to men who resemble swine.” For when they live in pleasure, they forget their Lord; but when they come to want, they acknowledge the Lord. And [in like manner] the swine, when it has eaten, does not recognize its master; but when hungry it cries out, and on receiving food is quiet again. 

“Neither shalt thou eat,” says he “the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the kite, nor the raven.” Thou shalt not join thyself, he means,  to such men as know not how to procure food for themselves by labour and sweat, but seize on that of others in their iniquity, and although wearing an aspect of simplicity, are on the watch to plunder others.” So these birds, while they sit idle, inquire how they may devour the flesh of others, proving themselves pests [to all] by their wickedness. 

And thou shalt not eat, he says, “the lamprey, or the polypus, or the cuttlefish.” He means, Thou shalt not join thyself or be like to such men as are ungodly to the end, and are condemned to death.  In like manner as those fishes, above accursed, float in the deep, not swimming [on the surface] like the rest, but make their abode in the mud which lies at the bottom. 

Moreover, “Thou shall not,” he says, “eat the hare.” Wherefore? “Thou shall not be a corrupter of boys, nor like unto such.” Because the hare multiplies, year by year, the places of its conception; for as many years as it lives so many it has. 

Moreover, “Thou shall not eat the hyena.” He means, “Thou shall not be an adulterer, nor a corrupter, nor be like to them that are such.” Wherefore? Because that animal annually changes its sex, and is at one time male, and at another female. 

Moreover, he has rightly detested the weasel. For he means, “Thou shalt not be  like to those whom we hear of as committing wickedness with the mouth, on account of their uncleanness; nor shall thou be joined to those impure women who commit iniquity with the mouth.  For this animal conceives by the mouth.” 

Moses then issued three doctrines concerning meats with a spiritual significance; but they received them according to fleshly desire, as if he had merely spoken of [literal] meats. David, however, comprehends the knowledge of the three doctrines, and speaks in like manner: (1) “Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly” (Psalms 1) even as the fishes [referred to] go in darkness to the depths [of the sea]; “and hath not stood in the way of sinners,” even as those who profess to fear the Lord, but go astray like swine; “and hath not sat in the seat of scorners,” even as those birds that lie in wait for prey. Take a full and firm grasp of this spiritual knowledge. But Moses says still further, (2) “Ye shall eat every animal that is cloven-footed and ruminant.” What does he mean? [The ruminant animal denotes him] who, on receiving food, recognizes Him that nourishes him, and being satisfied by Him, is visibly made glad. Well spake [Moses], having respect to the commandment. What, then, does he mean? That we ought to join ourselves to those that fear the Lord, those who meditate in their heart on the commandment which they have received, those who both utter the judgments of the Lord and observe them, those who know that meditation is a work of gladness, and who ruminate upon the word of the Lord.  (3) But what means the cloven-footed? That the righteous man also walks in this world, yet looks forward to the holy state [to come]. Behold how well Moses legislated.  But how was it possible for them to understand or comprehend these things? We then, rightly understanding his commandments, explain them as the Lord intended.  For this purpose He circumcised our ears and our hearts, that we might understand these things. 

Come on Judah!  Have you not learned anything in 2000 years?  Christ rebuked you in the first century and so does Barnabus and your understanding of the book you claim to follow hasn't changed (and those of the Torah movement are just as stupid, who pattern their religion after yours): and we are predicting you will continue in your error and will be greatly punished by God for this, even if he saves a small remnant of you, most of you are toast (in waiting to be made crispy) for not recognizing nor hearing your Messiah!

When we are discussing biblical food idioms we should point out how God describes his doctrine as "bread from heaven" or manna, but its first account is during the story of the Exodus.  

Exodus 16  Israel murmured against God and complained he was going to starve them to death.  God was angry at their lack of faith, but he provided their needs and rained down upon them their daily bread.  

Exodus 16:4-5  "Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.  And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."  

God also provided them flesh to eat in the form of pigeons.  

Exodus 16:12  "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God."  

God commanded Israel to collect twice the portion on the 6th day and rest on the seventh.  

Exodus 16:23  "And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."  

Even so, some people failed to listen to God's specific instructions: 

Exo 16:27-31  "And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?  See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.  So the people rested on the seventh day.  And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey...And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan."

Israel in the wilderness did eat literal bread from heaven and flesh as God provided, but this reference is also for a future prophetic time when God gives His people knowledge that is also referred to as manna.   It is also worded in a number of places as the "corn and the wine." 

Revelation 2:17 "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it."

Yeshua made reference to this Exodus narrative in John 6, referring to what he came to bring to the servants as teaching doctrine: 

John 6:47-58:  "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.  I am that bread of life.  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.  The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?   Then Yeshua said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.  Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.  He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.  As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.  This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever." 

This bread that Yeshua gave to the servants that he sacrificed his life for, also had the life blood in it  and the Spirit of God (see John 14:15-31).  His flesh which he sacrificed as the unblemished lamb, allowed the ending of sacrificial law, the ending of the Temple and Priest system, and His blood was poured upon the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant, bringing closure for atonement of sin, making a way for the New Covenant.  This was also prophesied in places like Isaiah 53.  Christ's doctrine is all about (1) obeying the 10 Commandments or Holy Covenant (teaching "everything desired at Horeb" Deuteronomy 18:15-22 / Acts 3:19-26, the First Greatest Commandment) (2) eating clean (Rainbow Covenant) and fulfilling the Royal Law (magnifying the Law - Isaiah 42:21), as explained as the Second Greatest Commandment (Matthew 22:36-40 / James 2:8-9).

The Apostles therefore, being sanctified in Christ, which means they were taught Christ's words and testimony, and being made clean by that Baptism (washing of the water by the word), not only proclaimed His doctrine, but made a point to separate themselves from all unclean doctrines.   This is not to be confused with the rebuke Peter received when he attempted to not interact with the "uncircumcised", but knowing their position to deliver the Truth to those with ears to hear, they are able to discern between those who care not to wash themselves clean from those who desire to be made clean by Christ: 

2 John 1:9-11 "Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.  If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:  For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds." 

1 Corinthians 11:23-32  "For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Yeshua the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 

After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.  >>Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.  But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.<< For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." 

Note, this above statement by Paul is a rebuke to the Corinthians church for turning a prophetic and symbolic gesture by Christ given to the Apostles, who he transferred the honor and rite of Priest to them (in the order of Melchezedek), as part of a Sedar Passover meal, into a church created ritual (Eucharist) that gives connotation to bread and wine as the literal eating of the body and blood of Christ.  Thereby, if the believer eats this literal body and drinks this literal blood they are magically imbued with the power and Spirit of Christ.  Paul calls this a heresy, and it would be better for them to eat at home than do this thing.  In the previous chapter, Paul explains that drinking of the cup unworthily in front of their idols is drinking from the cup of the devil, and we can't drink both from the cup of the devil and from the cup of Christ at the same time!  Christ already explained how one is given the Holy Spirit of Truth and that is by showing God you love him in obeying the Commandments (John 14:15-31) is the Baptism needed to allow the Spirit to dwell within you!

The book of Hebrews warns against Apostasy and refers to the "many called and few chosen," with a comparison between the (fleshly order) Priests of Aaron who over time became the Pharisees and Saducees and the (spiritual order) of Melchezedek, with Yeshua as the High Priest:

Hebrews 5:2  "Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity."

Hebrews 5:7-14  Who in the days of his flesh, when he (Christ) had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him (God) that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;  And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.  Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.  For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." 

It continues into the next chapter...

Hebrews 6:1-8  "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,  Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit."  For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,  And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,  If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.  For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh often upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:  But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned." 

In regards to the symbolic aspects of food, we shouldn't forget the meaning of how God required Israel (In transgression under sacrificial law) to be reconciled to God.  When Moses wrote the Book of the Law, God established a Temple System to be administered with the law by the sons of Aaron, who were the Priests.  This Temple system was a punishment to Israel, and specifically to Aaron's House, for making the Golden Calf.  It can't be emphasized enough that this Temple System and its "hand written ordinances" and "Tithes and Offerings", were only intended to be temporary (Galatians 3:19) and last long enough to impress upon Israel that worshipping by the works of men's hands and dead works (in the flesh) is not how God wanted to be worshipped, and these things were to become a larger burden than God required under his simple 10 Commandments!  IF the heathen practices and idolatry of Egypt were too ingrained into the people to be rooted out by a change in a new heart, God allowed practices like sacrifices to be done in the meantime, but only to Him and by his exacting instructions.  Some of these instructions used ritual animal killings and the sprinkling of blood to consecrate the implements of the Temple, including the Ark of the Covenant, and for purposes of the atonement of sin on the people--later to be replaced by the blood of Christ upon the Mercy Seat.  The Spirit of a Covenant is always consecrated and established by blood, with an oath, which ends only by death of the testator; where any sin added is atoned for by blood from a sacrifice.  This is the entire significance of Christ on the Cross and the fulfillment of the Daniel 9 prophecy of ending the abomination and establishing of the New Covenant.  

A couple key points in scripture regarding sanctification (being clean) and the eating of the Hallowed Bread (shewbread), once eaten by King David seen in 1 Samuel 21.  Yeshua made mention of this chapter in Matthew 12, when he and the Apostles ate of the wheat berries in the field on the Sabbath, which according to temple law was a forbidden act.  Yeshua rebukes the Pharisees by explaining to them how King David was blameless for eating of the Shewbread on the Sabbath, even though he was not a priest.  The reason is because David had something that Isaiah and Revelation refers to as the "Key of David", which is a spiritual elevation from keeping from women for 3 days unto the sabbath.  The book of Maccabees explains how the Covenant people could fight on the Sabbath because of their obedience and this was also known by Uriah the Hittite who refused to sleep with his wife on the Sabbath, not impacting the strength of the men.   For more information on this, see the Key of David document.   As mentioned before, the bread represents doctrine: and leavened bread compared to unleavened bread is the difference between clean doctrine and doctrine with added sugar and spice (and nothing useful and nice).  So, David eating the shewbread is symbolic of him eating clean doctrine.  But there is another Jewish reference to the Shewbread representing the 12 tribes of Israel (two stacks of 6 cakes), which was made with fine flour (representative of Israel's pride beaten to fine flour) and a pinch of it offered as a sacrifice to God by being thrown into the fire but the remaining flour baked into cakes to be eaten every sabbath.  The sons of Aaron had to literally eat their pride for the iniquity of Israel before they could approach the Lord.  

The Temple practices and implements discussed in detail in the book of Leviticus also hold a spiritual reference to things of how God intended to reconcile the sin of the people to Him.  God gave instructions on how to construction and layout the outer tent and gate, and the altar for sacrifices, the wash basin at the door of the sanctuary, the implements of the sanctuary like the table for shewbread, a candlestick (Menorah) and a bowl of incense, the veil in front of the Ark of the Covenant within the Holy of Holies (inner sanctum).  All of these items have symbolic significance for how we are to approach the throne of God, but they also serve as reminders to the sons of Aaron the cost of their disobedience.   Fortunately, this process and approach to sanctification is no longer required now that Christ did away with sacrificial law and there is no longer a Temple to service these things.  The new process of sanctification is by the "water of Baptism", which is idiomatic of an internal cleansing of the heart by obedience to the Covenant and of hearing the Words of Christ and doing the good works of God.  

Unfortunately,  there are growing numbers of people who flee the Christian churches, and they swing from the far Left (lawlessness) to the far Right (letter of the law).   These people who were already raised in a church that rejected the Old Testament, are unskillful in reading and understanding it, recognize the importance of the Old Testament but they go strait to the letter of the law and pattern their desire for obedience after the traditions of the Jews.  They assume that the Jews do their worship correctly per the book.  And while there is a focus on the Torah, they miss many precepts upon precepts and they go off in the error to do Feasts in a profane land and not in the correct days and times.  Those leading the charge of the Torah keepers are in serious error and fulfill prophecy against themselves for feeding their own belly in creating Feasts that they imagine, casting stumbling blocks and setting up their people for future captivity, as God promised.  The book of Amos talks about this kind of error in many places.  

Amos 5:21-27  "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 

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.  Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.  But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.  Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?   But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.  Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts."

The Bible speaks poorly of the modern day Christian churches through the prophets, which often make reference to the latter days; and as with anything in scripture, there is a condition in the day which a prophecy was written but also a future connotation.   God knows the end from the beginning and beginning from the end, and the workings of Satan to deceive the whole world will not last forever.  God will pour out his Spirit upon all flesh and some will be made righteous by taking hold of the Covenant.  In the meantime the churches don't obey the Covenant, they don't make a difference between the Holy and Profane and they build temples of hewn stone, untempered mortar walls (fake facades) and doctrines by the workings of men's hands, which is idolatry.   God's people who enter into New Jerusalem (as described in Jeremiah 31) will have the Commandments written on their hearts, because they also hear God's voice and obey him, and they know him "from the least to the greatest of them."   God's people put aside all forms of Idolatry (the sin that leads to death) and covetousness, and the "tabernacle within men" is cleansed.    In the end days prophecy, this process of sanctification, even the furnace of affliction of the Tribulation saints, serves to purge all the lawlessness out of man, and God separates the wheat from the chaff.  The wheat are God's people who are harvested and brought into his barn and the chaff are blown away or burned in fire.   

Ezekiel 22:24-31 "Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.  There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst thereof. Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.  Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain.  And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.  The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.  And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.  Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD."

What Ezekiel is describing about Temple system of his time describes the modern day Christian church and their 40,000 variations of apostasy with perfect clarity.  Ezekiel 44 also says similar things such as: 

Ezekiel 44:6-10  "And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,  In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.  And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.  Thus saith the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.  And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity." 

It goes on to describe the Priests that God will favor who have garments of clean linen, not wool (which are heathen garments):

Ezekiel 44:16-24  "They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.  And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.  They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.  And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments. Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.   Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.  Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.  And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.  And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths." 

The simple explanation of the character of God's people who are "Eating Clean" we find the following: 

• God's people Hear His voice, and reject their own appetites or the voice of the serpent.  
• God's people have no participation in traditions of the heathen and Idolatry
• God's people literally eat clean per Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
• God's people only follow God's pure (unleavened) doctrine with precision with no variation and zero added precepts by the imaginations of man or the workings of Satan.   
• The feet of the saints walk the path of Christ, strait to the gate, and they remain on the narrow road not going to the Right nor to the Left.   
• God's people will be righteous as He is righteous and living in holiness in God's presence.
• The sin and error of Eve will be finally be atoned and God's people will be in New Jerusalem, a new Garden of Eden.