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Yahweh cared very much for the well being of animals and they were sacrificed in the most humane way possible. Also, the smell of the incense would have covered the smell of the blood to a degree and put the animal more at ease.
Compare that to the absolute horror that a cow experiences as it smells the blood of death.
My students have done research. A cow at the slaughterhouse hears the sounds made by those being slaughtered, and fear hormones are created in the cow. When a person eats this cow, what is he eating? He is eating fear. After working with thousands of patients all over the world, I have observed that everyone eating meat suffers from multiple emotional upsets, such as fear, depression, anxiety and especially anger. So, if this effects the emotional body, what about the spiritual body? If you are eating meat, can you concentrate? My master says: "If you want to meditate, you have to sit in a very quiet place, in good surroundings."
If your stomach is a graveyard, is it possible to meditate? A vegetarian diet is the only real prescription for physical health, mental health, emotional health and spiritual development. It's very, very hard for people who eat meat to become spiritual.
I disagree with this last part. Obviously the Israelites ate lots of meat. We just have to eat grass-fed cattle killed in a humane way. Also the fat was always burned. Yahweh knew way before we did that it wasn't healthy for us.
Another thing the incense would have done is act as a disinfectant. Killing any bacteria. The Temple was also cleaned thoroughly every week. It was an EXTREMELY clean place. Don't even have to comment on a slauterhouse.
Some other areas of farming:
Leviticus 19:19 Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Deuteronomy 22:9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
GMO seeds from Monsanto (Monsatan) are proving to be a sci-fi nightmare. Total insanity. The poisoning of our food supply. Just imagine if Al-Queda (AllCiaDa) poisoned our food? People would be running around like a chicken with its head chopped off. Total pandemonium. 24hr news coverage. But a Fascist Corporation - no problem. They are actually FORCING Iraq to accept GMO seed! Liberating them from health I guess.
This subject deserves it's own post, so I won't get into it.
Another practice that needs to come back is the 7 year rest of the land so it can rejuvinate it's nutrients. Our soil is completely depleted. No nutrients in the soil, no nutrients in our food.
The people of the bible were an agricultural society with a connection to the land and their creator. How far we have strayed! Most people don't think twice about where their food comes from. I'm afraid famine is on the way. I think the disappearing honeybee is a BAD OMEN of things to come.