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 Eating Meat – God’s Concession to
Human Weakness? Did Jesus Eat Meat?
The article The Lamb of God contains the following significant sentence: Eating meat is God’s concession to human weakness. That is close to the truth. We know, from the Christ of God in This Is My Word and from other revelations, that the Prophet Moses, who had to contend with a headstrong people, some of whom longed to return to the “meat pots of Egypt,” clearly taught “You shall not kill,” but that he finally silently accepted the fact that meat was nevertheless being eaten among the people. It is therefore true: a concession to human weakness – but not God’s concession.
Many who like to eat meat use the argument in their defense that Jesus ate the Easter lamb, as is told in the Bible. But let us hear what He has to say on this Himself:
Neither the apostles nor the disciples gave the order to slaughter a lamb. But as a gift of love, parts of a prepared lamb were offered to Me as well as to the apostles and disciples. With this, our neighbors wanted to make a gift for us, for they did not know better. I blessed the gift and began to partake of the meat. My apostles and disciples did the same. Afterwards, they asked Me in the following sense: We should refrain from consuming meat. This is what You have commanded of us. Now You, Yourself, have consumed meat.
I instructed My own that man should not willfully kill an animal nor should he consume the meat of animals which were killed for the consumption of their meat. However, when people who are still unknowing have prepared meat as nourishment and make of it a gift to the guest, offering it with the meal, then the guest should not reject the gift. For there is a difference whether a person consumes meat because he craves for meat or as a token of gratitude to the host for his effort.
However, when it is possible for him and outer circumstances and time permit, the knowing person should give general indications to the host, but should not want to set him right. When the time is ripe, the host, too, will understand these general indications.
In this world, understanding and tolerance, too, are aspects of selfless love. Leave to each person his free will whether or not he wants to understand and accept your general indications. If you always think, speak and act selflessly, you abide in love and love will bless you. What is then offered to you, as a gift of love, is blessed. (This Is My Word, pp. 786-787)
And so, Jesus did not eat meat, for He lived the law of God.
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