How to Make Food Safe

Perfect Food From the Creator

The Bible contains vivid prophecies about living conditions under the coming system of things. The prophet Isaiah wrote: "[God] will certainly give the rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and as the produce of the ground bread, which must become fat and oily. Your livestock will graze in that day in a spacious pasture. And the cattle and the full-grown asses cultivating the ground will eat fodder seasoned with sorrel, which was winnowed with the shovel and with the fork."

Isaiah's prophecy also states:  "Jehovah of armies will certainly make for all the peoples, in this mountain, a banquet of well-oiled dishes filled with marrow, of wine kept on the dregs, filtered."  The New American Bible renders that last phrase, "a feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich foo and pure, choice wines." -Isaiah 25:6; 30:23, 24. 

Does that sound appealing to you?  Isaiah's prophecy assures us that everyone living under God's new system will have more than enough physical food. Will it be safe to eat? Without a doubt. Another prophecy assures us that God's people "will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble." (Micah 4:3) Such utter security will be guaranteed by God's Messianic Kingdom, which will take up ruling over all the earth in the near future. -Isaiah 9:6, 7. 

Never again will there be uncertainty about whether food is safe or not. On the contrary, we will delight in saying to one another:  "Enjoy your meal" or "guten Appetit" or "bon appetit." 

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From the AWAKE! magazine, 2001