Reverend George Malkmus, Founder of Hallelujah Acres
George Malkmus
French Documentary Crew Films Saturday Seminar
Nov 7th
Our “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminar this past Saturday at Hallelujah Acres was an exciting event!
The auditorium was nearly full with people coming from 14 different states and four foreign countries. They came from as far away as California and Washington in the U.S. to Poland, Nigeria, Guatemala, and France.
Our French guests consisted of a reporter and cameraman. The videotape footage will be used for a one-hour television documentary that explores the link between food and health and compares The Hallelujah Diet with other popular diets for loss of weight.
To the best of the producer’s knowledge, there is not a diet similar to The Hallelujah Diet in all of France!
The crew followed Rev. Malkmus’ every move throughout the seminar (they could hardly keep up!) and captured dozens of testimonies from people who had seen physical problems disappear after they had adopted The Hallelujah Diet.
Throughout the seminar the people gathered were challenged to “eat to live” and to stop “living to eat,” a sentiment met with a standing ovation!
While Rev. Malkmus spoke with guests after the seminar, the film crew conducted one-on-one interviews with those who had experienced significant weight loss on The Hallelujah Diet.
These one-on-one interviews will go a long way in convincing the French people that The Hallelujah Diet is the simplest, healthiest weight-loss program in the world!
The film crew also gathered some footage of The Villages of Hallelujah Acres, including interview with some excited residents who had just moved in!
Our next “God’s Way to Ultimate Health” seminar is scheduled for Saturday, December 3. Though we will not have the French camera crew with us, it will be an exciting time as people learn God’s way of nourishing our bodies through simple diet and lifestyle changes.
Make plans to attend.
The World’s Diet: Cause of Most Physical Problems
Nov 1st
The Standard American Diet (SAD) — the diet most Christians consume each and every day of their life — is without any doubt, “The World’s Diet”. I can boldly make this statement because it stands in sharp contrast to what God told us we should eat:
“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed (vegetable), which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat (food).”
(Genesis 1:29)
Fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts are the foods God tells us we should eat and they are found exclusively in the garden. No question about it, these are the only foods God tells us we should nourish our bodies with!
But man has chosen to go outside of the garden to obtain his food.
These foods are what Hallelujah Acres refers to as the SAD diet. So if the SAD diet is not “God’s Diet”, whose diet is it? Rhonda likes to call it “Satan’s Alternative Diet” (SAD), because it is in such stark contrast to what God told us we should eat in Genesis 1:29.
Thus the Standard American Diet clearly qualifies for not only being called the “World’s Diet” but also “Satan’s Diet”.
Does the Bible have anything to say about this “World’s SAD Diet” and “Satan’s Alternative Diet”? Absolutely!
Be Not Conformed To This World
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
(Romans 12:2)
Now some might question that this verse in Romans 12:2 has anything to do with what we eat and how we nourish our physical bodies, so I will now quote the verse that precedes it to see if this verse sheds any light on what is being referred to here:
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
(Romans 12:1)
Clearly, Romans 12:2 is directing these instructions to Christians (“brethren”) and is clearly referring to what we have just read in Romans 12:1, because the very first word in Romans 12:2 is the word “And”, which means it is continuing instruction regarding how we are to “present our bodies . . . acceptable unto God.”
There are numerous “so called” nutritional authorities in our society today, some even claiming to be Christian, who promote a diet that includes foods found outside the garden (animal source foods in particular).
What does God have to say about our physical bodies and the teachings of these “so-called” nutritional authorities?
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God (by placing into it harmful substances), him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.”
(1 Corinthians 16-19)
The Standard American Diet – Analyzed
This week I want to begin an analysis of this “world’s diet” which I will refer to as the Standard American Diet (SAD) for the remainder of this article.
But this diet is more than just the Standard American Diet…
…it’s the Standard Canadian Diet.
…the Standard Australian Diet.
…the Standard South African Diet, etc.
In fact, this SAD diet is basically the same diet consumed in most western nations and even many non-western nations today.
This is why there is little difference in the health of the people who adopt this diet no matter what country they live in.
So what’s wrong with the SAD diet?
Why is it so dangerous and destructive to our health?
Let’s start with fiber.
SAD Diet Is A Fiberless Diet
God designed our bodies to function optimally on a diet that contains foods very high in fiber content. This may come as a shock to you, but the SAD diet is almost totally void of any fiber, while the “GOD” diet (God’s Original Diet, Genesis 1:29) is extremely high in fiber.
In fact, garden foods are the only foods that contain fiber.
Fiberless Diets Cause Constipation
Constipation is a serious issue for an extremely high percentage of those on the world’s SAD fiberless diet.
Eighty percent of all Americans experience constipation problems at one time or another and some experience chronic constipation. The reason: – without fiber, peristalsis is seriously hindered.
Peristalsis is the contraction and relaxation of muscles which propel food contents by means of waves through the gastrointestinal tract.
On the SAD fiberless diet, lack of fiber hinders peristaltic movement of the food through the digestive tract. That is why doctors recommend laxatives for a person experiencing constipation problems, while others encourage adding daily fiber to compensate for the fiberless diet they are consuming.
God’s Original Diet (GOD), the one God told us we should all consume in Genesis 1:29, is loaded with fiber. When a person converts from the world’s SAD diet to GOD’s diet, constipation problems almost always cease and as long as they stay on the GOD diet, they will not experience constipation ever again.
There Is More To Learn About Fiber
Between where food enters our body at the mouth and where it exits the body as feces, it must pass through approximately 30 feet of tubing. This tubing (the digestive tract) has many pockets, loops, and bends.
To move food rapidly without putrefying requires fiber. When a person consumes a diet comprised exclusively of fiber-rich garden source foods, like The Hallelujah Diet, the food moves very rapidly through the digestive tract, completing the 30-foot journey in about 16-20 hours.
In contrast, foods that are devoid of fiber move very sluggishly through that 30-feet of tubing, taking up to 3-4 days to exit.
Foods that are lacking fiber would include almost everything the average person on the SAD diet consumes each and every day.
For instance, all animal source foods (including flesh and dairy) contain absolutely no fiber.
All refined grains, including refined flour, refined white and brown table sugars, table salt, etc. are devoid of fiber.
SAD-ly, these are the foods that comprise the majority of the world’s diet.
Carnivorous Animal’s Intestinal Tract Compared To Humans
The length of the human digestive tract is approximately three times longer than that of a carnivorous animal and consists of many pockets, loops and bends.
A carnivorous animal’s intestinal tract is very smooth and without any pockets, loops, or bends.
There is a reason for this great difference.
When consumed by a carnivorous animal, the fiberless, unchewed chunks of raw flesh pass quickly into a very strong solution of hydrochloric acid where the flesh is broken down into a form the animal can utilize for its nutritional needs.
The waste is rapidly eliminated before it has opportunity to putrefy.
When humans consume animal flesh, because it contains no fiber, it moves very sluggishly through our 30-foot-long digestive tract, complete with its pockets, loops, and bends.
It can take as long as 3-4 days for animal flesh to make the journey through the human body!
Something worth noting here is the internal temperature of the human physical body – is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Raw Hamburger At 100 Degrees
If you left a pound of ground beef on your kitchen counter, cranked the thermostat to 100 degrees, closed the kitchen door and left for 3 to 4 days, you would return to discover a terrible odor.
What do you think could be causing that terrible odor?
It is the odor of the putrefying and rotting flesh that has been sitting in that 100 degree temperature for the previous 3-4 days.
If flesh putrefies and rots on the kitchen counter in a 100 degree atmosphere, what do you think animal flesh does on its 3 to 4 day journey through your digestive tract at the same temperature?
It putrefies! And the stench escapes through the pores in your skin — most people do not realize that the body odor they are experiencing is the end result of placing flesh foods into their body.
Incidentally, this editor has had no need of a deodorant since he stopped consuming animal flesh 36 years ago.
Consuming animal flesh produces many other problems besides body odor.
Almost all digestive tract problems are the result of consuming fiberless animal flesh foods – diverticulitis, diverticulosis, crohn’s disease, colitis, ulcerative colitis, Irritable Bowl Syndrome (IBS), and even colon cancer.
And a person who tries to be careful about consuming only grass fed, organically grown animal flesh has the same potential of developing these intestinal problems, because organic flesh is just as lacking in fiber and dangerous as commercially grown flesh.
By contrast, it is almost impossible for a person on a 100% plant based diet to experience any of these animal flesh related problems.
How Human Digestion Works
God’s plan for the proper nourishment of the human physical body is the consumption of plant-sourced foods.
When plant-based, fiber-rich foods move through the human body’s 30-foot digestive tract, they digest quickly (in 30 to 90 minutes). Propelled by the fiber, these foods complete their digestive journey in just 16-20 hours.
The most dangerous diets today are low carb, high protein diets. Some justify this type of diet using Genesis 9:3 as proof that God “changed” his mind about man’s diet after the flood, allowing him to eat foods of animal origin.
But was the animal flesh allowance in Genesis 9:3 meant to supersede God’s original diet in Genesis 1:29?
Note that the Genesis 9:3 diet was given only after all plant foods had been destroyed by the flood in Genesis chapter 7 and notice particularly verse 19:
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were COVERED.” (Genesis 7:19) “And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” (Genesis 7:24)
I personally believe that Genesis 9:3’s allowance of flesh foods was only for survival purposes because all plant source foods had been destroyed by the flood.
I do not believe that Genesis 9:3 was meant as new instruction as to how man was to nourish his body — just look at all the great harm animal source foods cause the human body.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, in his book, “The China Project” concludes, after the most comprehensive research project ever undertaken by the scientific community on the relationship of diet to disease:
“Only small intakes of animal products were associated with significant increases in chronic degenerative disease.”
Another book containing incredible scientific documentation showing the dangers of animal source foods is John Robbins’ book, “Diet for A New America”.
And then there is Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s book, “Eat to Live”. Dr. Fuhrman, using a basically raw plant foods diet and the elimination of all animal source foods, is seeing almost 100% of his 5,000 annual patients healed of whatever physical problems they were experiencing.
Here at Hallelujah Acres we have received tens-of-thousands of testimonies from people who eliminated all animal source foods and adopted a 100%, predominately raw, plant-based diet, reporting they have recovered from over 170 different physical problems, including diverticulitis, diverticulosis, crohn’s disease, colitis, ulcerative colitis, Irritable Bowl Symptom (IBS), and even colon cancer.
Note: Because raw vegetables irritate the colon lining and often complicate colon issues, those with such issues have found that by juicing veggies (which removes the irritating fiber), they are able to obtain the nutrients necessary for rebuilding the colon wall without causing further irritation. During this healing process, cooking these vegetables softens the fiber and prevents the irritation raw veggies cause.
Isn’t it about time churches and the Christian community in general stopped promoting the world’s diet and returned to the “GOD” Diet – God’s Original Diet?
If this would happen, we could almost totally eliminate prayers for physical healing of disease within the church and we could devote those prayers to the saving of the lost. Also, all the money saved trying to recover from these diseases could provide more money to support missions.
NEXT WEEK, the good Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will continue taking a detailed look at the world’s diet, and learn more reasons why it is so dangerous to our heath and why the SAD is the cause of almost every physical problem we experience. Trust you will join us.
How The Standard American Diet Destroys Our Health
Oct 25th
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f we are going to restore our health “God’s way” we must stop nourishing our body’s the “world’s way”.
For the first 42 years of my life I nourished my body the “world’s way.” As a result, I suffered numerous physical problems, culminating with colon cancer at age 42.
After being told I had cancer, I stopped nourishing my body the world’s way and began nourishing my body God’s way on the advice of evangelist Lester Roloff.
The result: My cancer quickly disappeared, without any medical intervention, and I stopped getting sick.
It has been 36 years since I stopped nourishing my body the world’s way and I am still experiencing excellent health only a few years from my 80th birthday.
I have already outlived both my parents by 13 years (they both ate the world’s diet) — and I am only five years from outliving my longest living ancestor that I am aware of.
Do I believe it is diet that has and is making the difference? ABSOLUTELY!
What’s Wrong With What People Eat Today
Almost everything a person eats today is contrary to what God designed our physical bodies to be nourished with and what science reveals we should be eating if we want to avoid disease and experience health (read The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell).
Dr. Campbell has done more research on the relationship of diet to disease than any other researcher in history. His book reveals how the world’s diet is the cause of almost every physical problem we experience and how God’s diet, as revealed in Genesis 1:29, will not only prevent sickness but restore health to most who adopt it.
Sadly, Satan’s subtle attacks come in various forms, sometimes even creating confusion among leaders in the alternative health field. These leaders go against abundant scientific research and undeniable clinical experience of Dr. Campbell, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, among others. In so doing, they condemn God’s Genesis 1:29 way of nourishing our God created bodies.
In addition to what Dr. Campbell’s research reveals, tens of thousands of people have written me over the past 20 years to report that when they stopped consuming the world’s diet, and began nourishing their bodies God’s way, over 170 different physical problems disappeared and they didn’t get sick anymore.
Are you aware that God wants His children to be in health?
“Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and BE IN HEALTH, even as thy soul prospereth.”
(3 John 2)
However, even though it is clear that God wants His people to “be in health” they are not. Here is an example of just how sick our generation is…
Let’s Take A Look At The Health of People Today
Here are some statistics from the Statistical Abstract of the United States, as published by the U. S. Department of Commerce:
- Cardiovascular diseases affect 80% of all Americans
- 33% of all Americans develop cancer
- Over 6.5 million Americans suffer with diabetes
- 77% of the adult population suffers with arthritis and rheumatic disorders
- Over 25 million suffer from asthma, bronchitis or emphysema
- 15 million suffer from ulcers
- 10 million are migraine sufferers
- Over 50% suffer chronic digestive disorders
- 80 million suffer from allergies
- 22 million suffer mental illness’
- 98% have bad teeth and 31 million have no teeth of their own
- 70% are overweight and 80 million are classified as obese
- Nearly 90% of our children cannot pass a minimum physical fitness test
The World’s Diet Is A Weapon of Mass Destruction
Following is an interesting verse in the bible concerning the word “weapon.”
“Wisdom is better than weapons of war.” (Ecclesiastes 9:18)
Most Christians realize that we have an “adversary” whom the Bible refers to as “the devil”:
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
(1 Peter 5:8)
One of this adversary’s primary functions is to frustrate and if possible, destroy the work of the Lord.
I personally believe that one of devil’s greatest tools is to weaken and prematurely destroy the physical bodies (temples) of God’s people. He does this so that they cannot effectively do the work of the Lord and fulfill the ministry to which God has called them.
What better way to do this than to get God’s people to consume foods that are harmful to their physical bodies!
How The World’s Way Destroys Our Health
Oct 18th
Over the past month we have dealt with some very provocative subjects in these weekly Health Tips. Surprisingly, I received not a single negative response, but rather an avalanche of positive ones expressing agreement with what I had written. You can read them in the past four Health Tips.
In this Health Tip I want to take up the subject of “How The World’s Way Destroys Our Health.” Sadly, most Christians are trying to restore their health the “world’s way” and it hasn’t been producing very good results in spite of the huge sums of money spent, how good the doctors involved, or how excellent the health insurance policy coverage.
In addition, Christians have also turned to God in prayer. Sadly, prayer has all too often failed to improve the outcome either, evidenced by how often after prayer the person continues to get sicker and then goes on to die.
How Most Physical Problems Are Dealt With
How does the average Christian deal with their physical problems today? The first thing that happens is that the person gets sick. Next, do they not ask God through prayer to remove that physical problem and heal them? They will often request others pray for them as well.
On the average prayer meeting night, what kinds of prayers dominate? Are they not prayers asking God to heal the sick? And are not the same people often prayed for week after week without healing taking place?
After prayer has failed to remove the physical problem, what does the average Christian do next?
In most instances they go to the doctor (if they have not already done so). Then they ask God to give the doctor wisdom to know what drug to give them in order to bring about the healing.
Did the drugs the doctor prescribed remove the problem or did the drugs simply cover the symptom? (Not to mention, they were probably told that they must remain on the drug or the symptom would return.)
These drugs are very toxic to the body and often produce additional symptoms that require additional drugs. Once drugging begins it usually begins a vicious downhill cycle of ever increasing need for medical attention.
After both prayers and modern medicine have failed to bring about healing and that person dies, how do Christians explain the death? Sadly, and all too often, they say: “It must have been God’s will.”
Have you ever considered that it might not have been “God’s will?” Might there be another reason why going to the doctor failed and prayer failed to restore them to health? Could it be as Hosea 4:6 states:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou has rejected knowledge.”
Let’s Take A Look At The World’s Way
So often I hear Christians say, “though we are in the world, we should not be of the world.” In other words we should not follow the ways of the world — yet that is exactly what most Christians do when it comes to what they eat and drink (the world’s diet), and how they deal with the physical problems they experience as a result.
Let’s bring some verses of scripture into play here. Perhaps we can determine why we are experiencing unprecedented sickness among God’s people and attending a steady and increasing number of funerals for ever younger and younger people.
What Is God’s Will For His People?
There is only one source where we can learn “God’s Will for His People” and that source is God’s book, the Bible, the very Word of God.
1. Be in health: The Bible clearly states that it is God’s will that His people be as well in their physically bodies as they are in their spiritual souls: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3 John 2)
Do we not see some of the most spiritual people in our churches getting sick, then sicker and sicker, and then dying in spite of all the prayers we offer and all the best doctors can do? Should not the most spiritual among us have the best health? Yet they don’t! How can we scripturally explain this?
2. Be not deceived – The Bible clearly tells us that (no matter how spiritual we are) what we sow (in this case what we eat and drink) we are going to reap: “Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whasoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
Have you ever considered that what a person “soweth” (eats and drinks) could be the cause of the physical problems? Compare what God told mankind to eat in Genesis 1:29 with what man is eating today. The Genesis 1:29 diet consists of 100% garden foods: fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts.
I contend that most of the physical problems man is experiencing today are caused by failing to eat the foods God designed our physical bodies to be nourished with. Rather we are eating non-garden and refined foods such as meat, dairy, refined sugar and flour, all of which are loaded with toxic substances. I call this the “world’s diet.”
In addition, we are allowing extremely toxic substances to be injected into our bodies in the form of vaccinations, which compromise our immune systems which God placed in our bodies to protect us.
In addition, we are placing pharmaceutical drugs into our bodies that further compromise the immune system. Drugs are extremely toxic to the body.
3. Do not be lacking in knowledge – In Hosea 4:6 we read “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Sadly, what most Christians eat and how they deal with physical problems is dealt with the “world’s way” rather than “God’s way.”
Rather than eating what God told them to eat in Genesis 1:29, they eat the “world’s diet.” Then, when they get sick, instead of praying for knowledge as to what they need to do to get well, they pray for God to heal them. Asking God to heal them absolves them of any responsibility or participation in their healing.
The most important thing a sick person needs is “knowledge” that can lead them to the resolution of their physical problem. Knowledge is power! Ignorance is not “bliss” — ignorance is dangerous when it comes to dealing with physical problems.
4. Recognize that sickness has a cause – Does God not say in Proverbs 26:2 that “The curse causeless shall not come?” Here we learn that the “curse” of sickness, “shall not come” without a “cause.”
Sadly in today’s society we do not deal with “causes” but rather with symptoms. For instance, if a person never entertained the “cause” of high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, asthma, acid stomach, heartburn, colds, the flue, etc., the person would never have experienced the problem. Eliminate the “cause” and you eliminate the problem.
5. Be acceptable unto God – God places the responsibility for the health of our bodies squarely on each of us individually in Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”
Do we ever consider whether what we eat and drink is “acceptable unto God”? Can we in good conscious ask God to bless some of the things we are placing (or allowing other to place) into our body?
Revelation 18:23 warns us of the dangers associated with drugs when placed into our glorious God-created bodies, but we do it anyway. We should make it a rule in our life that everything we place into our body is “acceptable unto God!”
6. Be not conformed to this world – And just what is necessary in order to enable us to “Present out bodies a living sacrifice, acceptable unto God”? The following verse answers that question:
“And be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable will of God.”
We get sick because we have “conformed to this world” in how we nourish our physical bodies and then get sicker because we go to doctors who give us drugs that make the problem worse, or who in their attempts to prevent disease through vaccinations or mitigate disease with drugs, cause additional disease.
Did you know: “Every day, 5,400 hospitalized patients are injured by medications, and 2,400 others are sent to ER rooms for adverse reactions to appropriately used prescriptions? All told, prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in America.
Did you know: “By age six, our children are required to receive 15 different vaccinations, in 52 doses, most of them for diseases that are no longer a threat in the US? Vaccinations are toxic brews of biological and chemical agents that are clearly linked to skyrocketing cases of autism, which have increased from 1 in 2,500 30 years ago too 1 in 91 today.’’
(Source: Dr. Julian Whitaker in “Health & Healing” August 2011, Vol. 21, No 8.)
Did you know: God warned us of the consequences of going the medical route in book of Mark 5:24-25 over 2,000 years ago:
“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.”
There is an old saying that goes like this: Too soon old and too late smart.
Isn’t it about time we Christians stopped dabbling in the world’s way and started turned back to doing things God’s way?
7. I will conclude our discussion about what God has to say about dealing with our physical problems the world’s way with the following scriptures:
Choose life – “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” (Deuteronomy 30:19)
Ye are the temple of God – “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” (I Corinthians 3:16-17)
Wisdom of this world is foolishness with God – “Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (I Corinthians 3:19a)
What’s Wrong With The World’s Diet
Next week, Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high, we will begin taking a close look at the “world’s diet”, often referred to as the Standard American Diet (SAD), and see how it contributes to our physical problems.
My goal over the next several Health Tips is to compare the SAD diet with the GOD diet (God’s Original Diet.) I believe you will find the comparison most interesting.
Hope you will join us for this analysis and explanation as to why the health of Christians is no better than the health of non-Christians — despite all the prayers we offer for healing!
Is Health Insurance A Good Investment?
Oct 11th
Most people are more concerned about having a good health insurance policy than they are about taking care of their own health — which would negate their need for health insurance in the first place!
Sadly, this is exactly the case for God’s people in our various churches today.
I believe you will agree with me that it is not a pretty sight. Take for example the prayer requests in a typical prayer meeting. Are they not requests for the healing of all those sick people in the church, along with their friends and loved ones? Such requests dominate 90% or even more of all prayer requests in the church!
Next question: Are we seeing the health of God’s people being improved as a result of all these prayers — and if not, why not?
Now for a moment consider what God’s people in our churches do next after prayers have appeared to fail.
Are they not encouraged to go to a doctor?
And what happens next? They end up submitting themselves to toxic drugs, radiation, or the removal of some body part!
Do these medical modalities bring healing… or do they all too often complicate the problem and further damage the person’s health?
Friend, if we keep doing what we have always done, we will keep getting the same results.
Have you ever considered the cost involved in going to doctors with our all-too-many health problems? I am sure you have noticed that it is extremely expensive – often bankrupting a person without health insurance.
And for those with insurance, have you considered the cost of that insurance?
Figures just released by the Keiser Foundation reveal that annual health insurance premiums increased last year by 9%. This increase brings the annual cost for health insurance, for family coverage, to more than $15,000 annually.
This sum is either paid for by the family directly to the insurance company or indirectly by an employer.
Most people do not realize that, even if paid indirectly by an employer, the employee still pays for health insurance by receiving a lower salary. Insurance premiums must be paid for by someone, either directly or indirectly.
Now let’s put the cost of Health insurance into perspective.
In some areas of the country the median price of a home is $150,000 and for many it takes 30 years to pay off the mortgage. Add at least another $150,000 for the interest paid on that mortgage and a person ends up paying over $300,000 for their $150,000 home.
Yet in that same 30 years, a family pays $450,000 in health insurance premiums. That is nearly a half-million dollars!
I have a pastor friend who is paying $12,000 annually in health insurance premiums for just he and his wife. He pastors a small country church and if it wasn’t for the church providing their home, there is no way they could afford that insurance.
Let’s Summarize…
When a person gets sick we ask God in prayer to remove the sickness. When prayers appear to have failed, we go to a doctor who uses medical modalities that often complicate the problem and make matters worse. We have also learned that all of these medical modalities cost an exorbitant amount in both money and state of health.
Yet in spite of all these negatives, people have such fear of becoming sick (especially developing cancer), that they are willing to spend huge amounts for so-called health insurance for use in the event they do get sick.
But is this huge expense necessary or a huge waste of our money and hindrance to our health?
How I Have Dealt With My Health and Health Insurance
Thirty-six years ago, after being told I had cancer at the age of 42 (and after refusing all medical treatments for that cancer), I turned to Evangelist Lester Roloff for help.
He confirmed that I had done the right thing in refusing medical treatments. He said that if I wanted to get well I needed to go a different route – I needed to change my diet.
Thankfully I listened to Brother Roloff and eliminated the Standard American Diet (SAD) he said had caused of my cancer. Next, I adopted God’s Genesis 1:29 diet which he said would restore my health.
As a result of making that diet change, healing began immediately. Within a year, my cancer was gone.
It wasn’t long after that experience I realized I could control my health by eating a healthy diet and living a healthy lifestyle. That led me ask why I should continue to pay for an extremely expensive health insurance policy I didn’t need.
That is when I dropped my health insurance coverage.
In fact, I have not had any form of health insurance for the past 36 years — nor have I had any need for any.
You may think that a crazy thing to do, but I figure my savings by not carrying health insurance these past 36 years to be in the $150,000 to $200,000 range.
Is Health Insurance A Good Investment?
Health Insurance is not an investment in good health, because it has absolutely nothing to do with “health”.
Rather it has everything to do with “disease” and sickness. Here’s the proof… You won’t collect a dime from that health insurance policy as long as you remain in health.
It would really be much more appropriate to call it “disease insurance.”
Health Insurance has nothing to do with preventing disease. It only kicks in when a person gets sick — and then it rarely pays the whole bill!
Our nation’s new health care policy will not change this scenario. All it will do is force everyone, whether they want health insurance coverage or not (or have need of it or not) into a system that has utterly failed to bring health in the past.
Not to mention, under this new system, the cost of health care will continue to rise.
Health Insurance is consuming an ever-larger share of employer costs, forcing many companies to eliminate pay raises and pass on more of the medical costs to workers. These costs are forcing some companies to stop providing coverage for their employees altogether.
What is causing health insurance costs to rise so dramatically? Mandates associated with America’s new health care policy! It requires that insurance companies pay for pre-existing conditions and requires insurance companies to extend coverage to children (really adults) until the age of 26.
This additional coverage, the expenses involved in paying for this coverage, and the ever-increasing cost of health care and the increasing amount of sickness people are experiencing are all causing insurance premiums to skyrocket.
Eventually, it will bankrupt our nation.
Some Solutions
1. Few people know that from 1980 until 1986 I sold a health insurance policy for the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE). Of the 1,200 insurance agents selling this policy for the NASE, most years I was the lead salesman.
I did it by showing the business owner that by taking a higher deductible, they could more than pay the cost of that higher deductible if they got sick, with the amount they were saving by a lower premium. Where most insurance agents were pushing a $100 deductible, I was suggesting a $1,000 or even higher deductible.
That made sense to the small business owner then, and I believe makes sense today. In the event of a catastrophic health problem, most small business owners can come up with the deductible as long as the policy picks up and pays for the potential catastrophic bill. In today’s dollars, the $1,000 deductible I was promoting would probably be $10,000.
2. Others, though risky in the beginning, could take that $15,000 insurance premium (or whatever the premium amount might be) and place it in an interest bearing account (An untouchable account except for medical expenses). If they went the first year without any sickness or injury, they would have $15,000 in that account to pay medical expenses.
After two years without sickness the amount in that account would increase to $30,000 and each year the amount would grow – $45,000 by the third year, $60,000 by the fourth year, and in ten years it would grow to $150,000. Now I already said that this is risky, but younger people and couples are not considered high risk.
If a person chooses this route, it is important to have some kind of accident insurance as accidents are something we have no control over as we do with disease. Sadly, strictly accident policies are hard to find. If you know of a policy that has no limits on accident claims after a deductible, please let me know about it.
However, I would not ever consider going the route of no health insurance if I and my family were not on a health promoting and disease preventing diet and lifestyle similar to The Hallelujah Diet. Prevention is the key to outstanding health! An optimal diet and lifestyle will almost totally eliminate the risk of disease.
A Better Way
Next week, “Lord willing and if the creeks don’t rise too high”, we will deal with the subject: How To Restore Your Health God’s Way.
Is There A Better Way?
Oct 4th
America, though it spends more money per capita on “Health Care” than any other nation on Earth, is close to being the sickest nation on Earth!
- More money is spent on health care in the USA than in any other nation in the world, and a greater percentage of total income in the nation is spent on health care in the USA than in any United Nations member state.
- The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd in overall level of health.
- In 2009, the United States federal, state and local governments, corporations, and individuals, together spent $2.5 trillion on health care. That amount breaks down to $8,047 for every man, woman, and child in the country each year. This amount represented 17.3% of the GDP in 2008.
- Health insurance costs are rising faster than wages or inflation, and medical causes were cited by about half of bankruptcy filers in the United States in 2001.
How Is This Health Care System Working For You?
With National Health Care having been signed into law and with the constantly increasing cost of health care, are we getting the results and seeing the improved health promised by our current government?
Of course, the answer is a resounding “NO”!
If any business in the business world provided such poor results, it would go out of business. But not the health care business. The worse the results being obtained, the higher the cost, and the more it thrives.
Is there not something wrong with this picture?
Yet our government continues to subsidize this failed industry with tax payer dollars (yours and mine) which will force every citizen, whether they pay taxes or not, or want to be a part of it or not, into this failed system.
From where I sit, I am constantly receiving emails from people who have given this system every opportunity to fix their broken bodies — but their results prove the current health care system’s efforts are a dismal failure.
Letters Tell of Health Care Failures
“Good morning Rev. Malkmus, I am so up to my ears in trying to feel better. I have been dealing with health issues since 2003. Here’s a quick rundown on what happened to me:
In 2003 I took a drug for what the doctor said was a bladder infection. I took only one drug ‘Floxin’, one pill, one time, and that one pill has destroyed my life. I ceased being that happy active mom and wife. I have spent the past eight years looking for help from the medical community.
I’m so tired of going to doctors looking for answers and finding none that I could scream. This one pill, taken only one time, has affected my whole central nervous system. I feel on edge every second of every day. It is awful. I cry myself to sleep most nights thinking of how my life used to be before taking that pill.
I am a Christian and have prayed to the point I don’t even know how to pray anymore. Rev. Malkmus is there anything at all that you can think of that can help me or do you know of any doctor that might be able to shed some light on how to overcome the affect this drug has had on my life and body?”
Jackie R., Miami
“Dr. Malkmus, My 57-year old husband has advanced stage 4 prostate cancer with bone metastasis. He was sent home in November 2010 to die as the doctors said there was nothing more they could do for him.
Over the years and especially since last fall I have encouraged him to go vegan but it was not an easy sell despite the fact that we are both ordained ministers. We should have been eating to live – not the opposite as the world is doing, living to eat – and we have repented.
In January 2011 I did convince him to begin vegetable juicing and it started to turn around his cancer. His PSA fell from 348 to 112. However, he still insisted on some animal products and as a result in April his PSA started to rise again.
We are both on leave from ministry at this time as he is very ill. His left side, especially his left leg is losing circulation. The doctors want to give him more radiation but he says ‘no’.
I have just completed Dr. Campbell’s three online courses from Cornell on plant based nutrition and one of my instructors directed me to you and the Hallelujah Acres website. I really thank you for all you are doing in the field of biblical nutrition. I am astonished by all that I have learned.
We both lost our first spouses to cancer. My first husband and the father of my two children died at age 33 of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Now my second husband has terminal cancer. I believe God has a nutritional ministry in mind for the two of us once he recovers.”
Marilyn F.
In My Seminars…
In my seminars I will often ask questions of those attending. Here are a few of those questions that I ask:
How many of you have had a friend, loved one, or family member who was diagnosed with cancer?
- Almost every hand in the room goes up. Then I ask how many of those who had cancer died after being treated for their cancer. It is hard sometimes to see much difference between the numbers of those who had cancer and those who died following cancer treatment.
How many of you, or a friend, family member, or loved one were prescribed a drug for the physical problem being experienced?
- The response is almost 100% of those present.
How many had an adverse reaction to a doctor prescribed drug?
- Once again, almost every hand was raised.
How many of you, or a friend, family member, or loved one was cured of the physical problem they were given the drug to correct to the extent they no longer had need of that drug?
- Hardly ever does a hand get raised.
The Two Letters Above
For a moment, let’s reflect on the two letters above and the results to the questions I ask in my seminars to see how they compare.
In the letter from Marilyn, both her spouse and her husband’s spouse died following cancer treatment and now her current husband is in such critical condition after medical treatments, they have sent him home to die.
Is that not the same results indicated by the show of hands when I asked in my seminar “How many have a friend, loved one, or family member who was diagnosed with cancer?”
And when I asked “How many of those died after treatment,” did not it produce the same results as Marilyn and her husband experienced with their first spouses?
Now consider Jackie’s reaction after taking just one pill one time. Not only did it not correct the problem but produced new symptoms that have destroyed her life for the past eight years.
Isn’t that similar to results expressed by the thousands of people in my seminars who have not seen their physical problem cured as a result of taking a drug?
The World’s Way
What I have shared above is the world’s way of dealing with physical problems!
I find it so amazing that the world’s approach to physical problems today produces no better results than the results the doctors of the Bible 2,000 years ago:
“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.” (Mark 5:25-6)
Friends, the result people obtained going the world’s way in Bible times is the same today when they go the world’s way in their attempt to correct physical problems.
So the logical question one must ask is: “Is there a better way?”
Thankfully there is indeed a better way — God’s way!
God’s Way
Let’s see if the Bible can shed some light on the subject…
God Created Man – “AND THE LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7)
God Placed Man In A Garden – “AND THE LORD GOD planted a garden eastward in Eden: and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Genesis 2:8)
God Told Man What To Eat – “AND GOD SAID, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed (vegetable), which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seek; to you it shall be for meat.” (Genesis 1:29)
Man Charged With Taking Care Of His Own Body – “I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable UNTO GOD, which is your reasonable service.” (Romans 12:1)
Man Told Not To Pursue The World’s Way – “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect WILL OF GOD.” (Romans 12:2)
Consequences Of Going The World’s Way – “Be not deceived, GOD IS NOT MOCKED, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” (Galatians 6:7)
So we have messed up! We Christians have been following the “world’s way” instead of God’s way in how we take care of our physical bodies. We have consumed the world’s food and drink, and as a result have become sick, gone to the world’s doctors to get better, taken the world’s drugs, and suffer the same physical and emotional breakdowns as the world and to the same percentages.
Is It Too Late To Change?
For most people it is not too late to change and correct the results they have obtained by doing things the “world’s way.” In fact, almost every physical problem presently being experiencing can be corrected by ceasing to feed the body the world’s way and by starting to nourish it God’s way if the world’s way” has not already done irreversible damage.
How To Restore Your Health God’s Way will be the subject of next week’s Health Tip! I will give you a plan that will allow a person to fix almost any physical or psychological problem they are currently experiencing through a simple diet and lifestyle change — without doctors, drugs or health insurance. I pray you will join us!
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