HEALTH REFORM AND THE LATTER RAIN

2. HEALTH REFORM AND THE LATTER RAIN “PHYSIOLOGY”

3. Why Health Reform ? • Health Reform was not simply given as a religious requirement. • There is a Moral Purpose to Health Reform. • Health Reform was given to advance the quality of life now and to prepare for the life hereafter. • Health reform was given that we may have clear minds to discern truth. • If we do not adhere to the principles of health reform we will never see God.

4. WHAT WE DON’T KNOW WILL HURT US !! • In order to be fitted for translation, the people of God must know themselves. They must understand in regard to their own physical frames that they may be able with the psalmist to exclaim: "I will praise Thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." They should ever have the appetite in subjection to the moral and intellectual organs. The body should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the body. {1T 486.3} • I was shown that there is a much greater work before us than we as yet have any idea of, if we would ensure health by placing ourselves in the right relation to life. Dr. A has been doing a great and good work in the treatment of disease and in enlightening those who have all their lives been in ignorance in regard to the relation that eating, drinking, and working sustain to health. God in His mercy has given His people light through His humble instrument that in order to overcome disease they must deny a depraved appetite and practice temperance in all things. He has caused great light to shine upon their pathway. Shall those who are "looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works," be behind the religionists of the day who have no faith in the soon appearing of our Saviour? The peculiar people whom He is purifying unto Himself to be translated to heaven without seeing death, should not be behind others in good works. In their efforts to cleanse themselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God, they should be as far ahead of any other class of people on the earth as their profession is more exalted than that of others.

5. Perfect organs = Perfect beings • Christ is to live in his human agents, and work through their faculties, and act through their capabilities.--M. of B., p. 128. {HL 11.3} • When human agents choose the will of God, and are conformed to the character of Christ, Jesus acts through their organs and faculties.--S. T., No. 3, p. 49. {HL 11.4} • Mind, Sinew, and Muscle to Work Harmoniously.-- By properly using our powers to their fullest extent in the most useful employment, by keeping every organ in health, by so preserving every organ that mind, sinew, and muscle shall work harmoniously, we may do the most precious service for God.--YI, Apr 7, 1898. {2MCP 378.2}

6. PERFECT ORGANS • And those who would be workers together with God must strive for perfection of every organ of the body and quality of the mind. True education is the preparation of the physical, mental, and moral powers for the performance of every duty; it is the training of body, mind, and soul for divine service. . . . {ML 218.4} • Of every Christian the Lord requires growth in efficiency and capability in every line.

7. PERFECT SYMMETRY • The failure of our ministers to exercise all the organs of the body proportionately causes some organs to become worn, while others are weak from inaction. If wear is left to come almost exclusively upon one organ or set of muscles, the one most used must become overwearied and greatly weakened. Each faculty of the mind, and each muscle, has its distinctive office, and all are required to be equally exercised in order to become properly developed and to retain healthful vigor. Each organ has its work to do in the living organism. Every wheel in the machinery must be a living, active, working wheel. All the faculties have a bearing upon one another, and all need to be exercised in order to be properly developed. {3T 310.2}

8. 144,000 / Great Multitude • 2Co 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. • Heb 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

9. OBLIGATIONS TO GOD • Since the mind and the soul find expression through the body, both mental and spiritual vigor are in great degree dependent upon physical strength and activity; whatever promotes physical health promotes the development of a strong mind and a well-balanced character. Without health, no one can as distinctly understand or as completely fulfill his obligations to himself, to his fellow-beings, or to his Creator. Therefore the health should be as faithfully guarded as the character. A knowledge of physiology and hygiene should be the basis of all educational effort.--"Education," p. 195. {MYP 232.1}

10. KNOWING OUR STRUCTURES • 23. We have special duties resting upon us. We should be acquainted with our physical structure and the laws controlling natural life. While Greek and Latin, which are seldom of any advantage, are made a study by many, physiology and hygiene are barely touched upon. The study to which to give thought is that which concerns natural life, a knowledge of oneself. . . . It is the house in which we live that we need to preserve, that we may do honor to God who has redeemed us. We need to know how to preserve the living machinery, that our soul, body, and spirit may be consecrated to his service. U. T., May 19, 1897. {HL 13.5}

11. TO KNOW YOURSELF IS TO GLORIFY GOD !!! • 1Co 6:19 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? • 1Co 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. • PSOMAPSYCHONUEMATIC CONNECTION

12. HEALTH / HAPPINESS = PHYSIOLOGY • So closely is health related to our happiness, that we cannot have the latter without the former. A practical knowledge of the science of human life is necessary in order to glorify God in our bodies. It is therefore of the highest importance that among the studies selected for childhood, physiology should occupy the first place. How few know anything about the structure and functions of their own bodies and of nature's laws! Many are drifting about without knowledge, like a ship at sea without compass or anchor; and what is more, they are not interested to learn how to keep their bodies in a healthy condition and prevent disease. {CH 38.1}

13. Physiology and Ministerial Labour • Those who understand physiology and hygiene will, in their ministerial labor, find it a means whereby they may enlighten others in regard to the proper and intelligent treatment of the physical, mental, and moral powers. Therefore those who are preparing for the ministry should make a diligent study of the human organism, that they may know how to care for the body, not by means of drugs, but from nature's own laboratory. The Lord will bless those who make every effort to keep themselves free from disease and lead others to regard as sacred the health of the body as well as of the soul. {6T 302.1} • The ambassadors of Christ, those to whom have been committed the living oracles of God, can be doubly useful if they know how to help the sick. A practical knowledge of health reform will better qualify men and women to proclaim the message of mercy and retribution to the world. {6T 302.2}

14. Physiology & Dress Reform • 4T.634“Satan is constantly devising some new style of dress that shall prove an injury , to physical and moral health , and he exults when he see’s professed Christians eagerly accepting the fashions he has invented.” • Whether they be …………….. • Back out. Impedes the circulation of blood to the lungs (cold draft constricts blood vessels affecting the alveoli and diffusion of oxygen into blood stream.) • Belly out. Hinders digestion, causes internal congestions. Depresses the system • Low necklines. Weakens lungs depresses the breathing. • Strapless. affects the lungs and circulation • Tight clothing. layer of clothing too close to the skin hinders respiration. • Tight Jeans. Layer of clothing to close to these major body parts hinders massive amounts of waste from being thrown off through proper respiration. The biggest blood vessels are in the legs, and also their flow can be constricted by the pressure exerted against them from tight clothing and compressed muscles and tissues. • RH. 1881,No.4. “Everything that conflicts with natural law creates a diseased condition of the soul.” • 1JOHN:2:16,17 / ROM:13:14 – Garments of Righteousness

15. Physiologic Reasons • Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation. --T., V. II, p. 531. {HL 178.1} • The more active the circulation the more free from obstructions and impurities will be the blood. The blood nourishes the body. The health of the body depends upon the healthful circulation of the blood.--H. R. {HL 178.2} • At every pulsation of the heart, the blood should be propelled to the extremities quickly and easily in order to have health. . . . The current of human life is struggling to go its accustomed rounds, and should not be hindered in its circuit through the body by the imperfect manner in which women clothe their limbs.--H. R. {HL 178.3} • The limbs were not formed by our Creator to endure exposure, as was the face. The Lord provided the face with an immense circulation, because it must be exposed. He provided, also, large veins and nerves for the limbs and feet, to contain a large amount of the current of human life, that the limbs might be uniformly as warm as the body.--T., V. II, p. 531. {HL 178.4}

16. Physiologic Reasons • The extremities are chilled, and the heart has thrown upon it double labor, to force the blood into these chilled extremities; and when the blood has performed its circuit through the body, and returned to the heart, it is not the same vigorous, warm current which left it. It has been chilled in its passage through the limbs. The heart, weakened by too great labor and poor circulation of poor blood, is then compelled to still greater exertion, to throw the blood to the extremities which are never as healthfully warm as other parts of the body. The heart fails in its efforts, and the limbs become habitually cold; and the blood, which is chilled away from the extremities, is thrown back upon the lungs and brain, and inflammation and congestion of the lungs or the brain is the result.--H. to L., Chap. 5, p. 72. {HL 179.1}

17. THE FOURTH ANGEL • Rev 18:1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. • GOD’S PEOPLE – JOHN:8:44-47 • THEIR MESSAGE – REV:14:6-11 • THEIR CHARACTER – COL:1:26 • THEIR HEALTH – 1CORINTH:9:25 • THEIR WORK – IS:58:12

18. WHY WE MUST UNDERSTAND PHYSIOLOGY • Recklessness in regard to bodily health tends to recklessness in morals. {CE 173.2} • The body is the medium through which mind and soul are developed for the up building of character. Hence it is that the adversary of souls directs his temptations to the enfeebling and degrading of the physical powers. His success here means the surrender to evil of the whole being. The tendencies of our physical nature, unless under the dominion of a higher power, will surely work ruin and death. {ST, December 1, 1914 par. 7} • With our first parents, intemperate desire resulted in the loss of Eden. Temperance in all things has more to do with our restoration to Eden than men realize. {MH 129.2}

19. WRITTEN IN OUR FLESH • Knowledge of Nature's Laws Is Necessary.-- There are matters not usually included in the study of physiology that should be considered--matters of far greater value to the student than are many of the technicalities commonly taught under this head. As the foundation principle of all education in these lines, the youth should be taught that the laws of nature are the laws of God-- as truly divine as are the precepts of the Decalogue. The laws that govern our physical organism, God has written upon every nerve, muscle, and fiber of the body. Every careless and willful violation of these laws is a sin against our Creator. How necessary, then, that a thorough knowledge of these laws should be imparted! {CG 363.1}

20. The Brain and Mind • Mind Affects Body.--The relation which exists between the mind and the body is very intimate. When one is affected, the other sympathizes. The condition of the mind affects the health of the physical system. If the mind is free and happy, from a consciousness of right doing and a sense of satisfaction in causing happiness to others, it creates a cheerfulness that will react upon the whole system, causing a freer circulation of the blood and a toning up of the entire body. The blessing of God is a healing power, and those who are abundant in benefiting others will realize that wondrous blessing in both heart and life.--CTBH 13, 1890. (CH 28; see also 4T 60, 61 [1876].) {1MCP 59.3} • A Well-nourished and Healthy Brain.--The brain is the organ and instrument of the mind, and controls the whole body. In order for the other parts of the system to be healthy, the brain must be healthy. And in order for the brain to be healthy, the blood must be pure. If by correct habits of eating and drinking the blood is kept pure, the brain will be properly nourished.--MS 24, 1900. (MM 291.) {1MCP 60.1} • 775. The artificial hair and pads covering the base of the brain heat and excite the spinal nerves centering in the brain. The head should ever be kept cool. The heat caused by these artificial coverings induces the blood to the brain. The action of the blood upon the lower or animal organs of the brain, causes unnatural activity, tends to recklessness in morals, and the mind and heart are in danger of being corrupted.--H. R. {HL 185.1}

21. The Brain , Body , Stomach , Nerves • Every organ of the body was made to be servant of the mind. The brain is the capital of the body, the seat of all the nervous forces and of mental action. The nerves proceeding from the brain control the body. By the brain nerves, mental impressions are conveyed to all the nerves of the body as by telegraph wires; and they control the vital action of every part of the system. All the organs of motion are governed by the communications they receive from the brain. {ML 148.2} • The brain nerves which communicate with the entire system are the only medium through which Heaven can communicate with man and affect his inmost life. Whatever disturbs the circulation of the electric currents in the nervous system lessens the strength of the vital powers, and the result is a deadening of the sensibilities of the mind. {ML 148.3} • Any part of the body that is not treated with consideration will telegraph its injury to the brain. {ML 148.4} • It is not only the privilege, but the sacred duty, of all to understand the laws God has established in their beings. . . . And as they more fully understand the human body, . . . they will seek to bring their bodies into subjection to the noble powers of the mind. The body will be regarded by them as a wonderful structure, formed by the Infinite Designer, and given in their charge to keep this harp of a thousand strings in harmonious action. {ML 148.5} • To make a success of Christian life, the development of sound minds in sound bodies is of the greatest importance. {ML 148.6} • The harmonious, healthy action of all the powers of body and mind results in happiness; the more elevated and refined the powers, the more pure and unalloyed the happiness.

22. NERVOUS SYSTEM • 827. A calm, clear brain and steady nerve are dependent upon a well-balanced circulation of the blood.--H. R. {HL 194.4} • Keep the power of the will awake; for the will, aroused and rightly directed, is a potent soother of the nerves.--T., V. I, p. 557. {HL 232.3} • Good Respiration Soothes the Nerves.--In order to have good blood, we must breathe well. Full, deep inspirations of pure air, which fill the lungs with oxygen, purify the blood. They impart to it a bright color and send it, a life-giving current, to every part of the body. A good respiration soothes the nerves; it stimulates the appetite and renders digestion more perfect; and it induces sound, refreshing sleep.--MH 272 (1905). {2MCP 484.1}

23. HOW CERTAIN DRUGS AFFECT PHYSIOLOGY . • . This drug poison, opium, gives temporary relief from pain, but does not remove the cause of pain. It only stupefies the brain, rendering it incapable of receiving impressions from the nerves. While the brain is thus insensible, the hearing, the taste, and the sight are affected. When the influence of opium wears off, and the mind arouses from its state of paralysis, the nerves, which have been cut off from communication with the brain, shriek out louder than ever . . . because of the additional outrage the system has sustained in receiving this poison.-- H. to L., Chap. 3, p. 56. {HL 195.1} • PANADOL ? TYLENOL ? ADVIL ?

24. 1Co 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. • 1Co 6:16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. • 1Co 6:17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

25. HARLOT FOOD / HARLOT LIFESTYLE • Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. • Rev 18:13 And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men. • Rev 18:15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

26. THE TEMPLE OF GOD • 2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. • 2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, • 2Co 6:18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. • KINGS AND PRIEST – IN THE ANTITYPICAL DAY OF ATONEMENT- WE MUST BE CLEAN !!

27. THE TEMPLE OF GOD • Dan 1:8 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. • 1Co 3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

28. MESSENGER OF THE COVENANT • Mal 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. • Mal 3:2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: • Mal 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.

29. MESSENGERS OF THE COVENANT • Says the prophet: “Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers’ soap; and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.” [Malachi 3:2, 3.] Those who are living upon the earth when the intercession of Christ shall cease in the sanctuary above, are to stand in the sight of a holy God without a mediator. Their robes must be spotless, their characters must be purified from sin by the blood of sprinkling. Through the grace of God and their own diligent effort, they must be conquerors in the battle with evil. While the investigative Judgment is going forward in Heaven, while the sins of penitent believers are being removed from the sanctuary, there is to be a special work of purification, of putting away of sin, among God's people upon earth. This work is more clearly presented in the messages of Revelation 14. {GC88 425.1}

30. CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY • Luk 5:34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? • Luk 5:35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days. • Luk 5:36 And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old. • Luk 5:37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish. • Luk 5:38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

31. NEW WINE = NEW TRUTH = OLD FOUNDATION = LATTER RAIN • The end is near! We have not a moment to lose! Light is to shine forth from God's people in clear, distinct rays, bringing Jesus before the churches and before the world. . . . The instrumentalities to be used are those souls who gladly receive the light of truth which God communicates to them. These are God's agencies for communicating the knowledge of truth to the world. If through the grace of Christ His people will become new bottles, He will fill them with the new wine. God will give additional light, and old truths will be recovered, and replaced in the frame-work of truth; and wherever the laborers go, they will triumph. As Christ's ambassadors, they are to search the Scriptures, to seek for the truths that have been hidden beneath the rubbish of error. And every ray of light received is to be communicated to others. One interest will prevail, one subject will swallow up every other,--Christ our righteousness. . . . {SD 259.3}

32. GOD’S CHOICE= CLEAN BODIES = CLEAN MINDS = NEW WINE • We need to be constantly filling the mind with Christ, and emptying it of selfishness and sin. When Christ came into the world, the leaders of the Jews were so permeated with Phariseeism that they could not receive His teachings. Jesus compared them to the shriveled wineskins which were not fit to receive the new wine from the vintage. He had to find new bottles into which to put the new wine of His kingdom. This was why He turned away from the Pharisees, and chose the lowly fishermen of Galilee. {YRP 21.2} • Let it not be with us who are living in the last days as it was with the Pharisees. Let it not be said of us, as it was of them, that new wine cannot be put into old bottles. Let not those who have been long in the truth, who have been made the depositaries of the law of God, exalt the ideas and opinions of men above the advancing truth of heaven, lest they be left as old, withered bottles, whose place will be filled by new bottles which the Lord shall select for the new wine. We must be in a position where we shall ever have an appetite for the fresh manna, for the new wine of heaven. {ST, September 19, 1892 par. 11}

33. HEALTH REFORM AND THE LATTER RAIN • In order to be fitted for translation, the people of God must know themselves. They must understand in regard to their own physical frames …. The body should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the body. {1T 486.3} • The laws that govern our physical organism, God has written upon every nerve, muscle, and fiber of the body. Every careless and willful violation of these laws is a sin against our Creator. How necessary, then, that a thorough knowledge of these laws should be imparted! {CG 363.1}