September 13, 2024
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Reading along with us in Leviticus and Ephesians? Here’s today’s reading:
Leviticus 15 (NIV)
Discharges Causing Uncleanness
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 2“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When any man has an unusual bodily discharge, such a discharge is unclean. 3 Whether it continues flowing from his body or is blocked, it will make him unclean. This is how his discharge will bring about uncleanness:……Continue Reading
Leviticus 15
Leviticus 15
Leviticus 15
Leviticus 15
Leviticus 15 & 16
Was having a hard time grasping “uncleanness” regarding things that are beyond your control (one’s period) or even having sex which God commanded married people to do to have children (be fruitful and multiply.) But it seems this is about not defiling the tabernacle. Is this about separating the holy from the common/unclean?
”‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.“
Leviticus 15:31 NKJV
It also made me think of water and the cleansing effect of water alone.
I think the issue here has both to do with public health and the distinction between the common and the holy. Blood and bodily fluids can be carriers of disease and isn’t it interesting how we have found washing hands and more promotes good public health. And even those things mentioned here are natural and normal as far as how we were created, God wanted there to be special attention to them and wanted that which was connected to the flesh to be distinguish from the purity of His person and His tabernacle.
Leviticus 15