Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - February 1976

Good News Staff

QUESTION: "Leviticus 11:21-22 says: 'These may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth... the locust ... the bald locust... the beetle... and the grasshopper ....' Does this mean that we can eat these bugs?" ANSWER: The first chapter of the book of Mark speaks of John the Baptist who "was clothed with camel's hair, and had a leather girdle around his waist, and ate locusts and wild honey" (Mark 1:6). Christ said of this man: "Among those born of - women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist." So he was a righteous man, and he ate locusts. However, John apparently lived a very unconventional, austere personal life (Luke 5:33-34) in the desert. In such an arid region there is not a great variety of edibles (see Luke 1:80). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library