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

God continues in verse 30:  "And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so."

We were vegetarians.  Meat was not eaten because in Eden, nothing had to die.  That was God's original intent.   Killing things was not in his plan.

The prophet Isaiah foretold a day that we will live in a land like that again.  In heaven, "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."  Isaiah 11:6

Death is the enemy.  God never intended for us to die.  But when Adam and Eve sinned, God covered their nudity, that part of man that God had blessed when he said, "Be fruitful and multiply."  He covered them with a skin of an animal--and this was the first sacrifice for sin.

And then he cast them out of the garden.

Thank God for his unspeakable gift of his son who died for our sin.  We will live in eternity where there will be no more death.

"O death, where is your sting?  O grave, where is your victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:15

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