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Leviticus 13:1-17 Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 13:1-17.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 13:1-17 (NLT2)<\/em><\/strong>
\n1\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses and Aaron,
\n2\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cIf anyone has a swelling or a rash or discolored skin that might develop into a serious skin disease, that person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons.
\n3\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. If the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, it is a serious skin disease, and the priest who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.
\n4\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cBut if the affected area of the skin is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair on the spot has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days.
\n5\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has not changed and the problem has not spread on the skin, the priest will quarantine the person for seven more days.
\n6\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On the seventh day the priest will make another examination. If he finds the affected area has faded and has not spread, the priest will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. It was only a rash. The person\u2019s clothing must be washed, and the person will be ceremonially clean.
\n7\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But if the rash continues to spread after the person has been examined by the priest and has been pronounced clean, the infected person must return to be examined again.
\n8\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If the priest finds that the rash has spread, he must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean, for it is indeed a skin disease.
\n9\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cAnyone who develops a serious skin disease must go to the priest for an examination.
\n10\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0If the priest finds a white swelling on the skin, and some hair on the spot has turned white, and there is an open sore in the affected area,
\n11\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0it is a chronic skin disease, and the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. In such cases the person need not be quarantined, for it is obvious that the skin is defiled by the disease.
\n12\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0\u201cNow suppose the disease has spread all over the person\u2019s skin, covering the body from head to foot.
\n13\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0When the priest examines the infected person and finds that the disease covers the entire body, he will pronounce the person ceremonially clean. Since the skin has turned completely white, the person is clean.
\n14\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0But if any open sores appear, the infected person will be pronounced ceremonially unclean.
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest must make this pronouncement as soon as he sees an open sore, since open sores indicate the presence of a skin disease.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0However, if the open sores heal and turn white like the rest of the skin, the person must return to the priest
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0for another examination. If the affected areas have indeed turned white, the priest will then pronounce the person ceremonially clean by declaring, \u2018You are clean!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 1-17:\u00a0\u00a0What does it mean to be ceremonially unclean in\u00a0Leviticus?\u00a0 When someone is ceremonially unclean, it means that he or she, from a ceremonial worship standpoint, is unable to participate in the community worship activities of the Israelites for as long as he or she is “unclean”.\u00a0 When the period of being “unclean” is over, that’s when he or she can then join the rest of the community in its community worship services.<\/p>\n

Now when you see the words “unclean” and “clean” used in\u00a0Leviticus, don’t think that “unclean” necessarily means “sinful” and “clean” means “without sin”.\u00a0 Being ceremonially unclean is not the same thing as having a sin issue.\u00a0 In certain circumstances, you can be ceremonially unclean without it having anything to do with sin at all (e.g. when a woman has her period or gives birth, when a man ejects semen, if a person has a skin disease, when a person eats certain foods).<\/p>\n

So what is the point of making this distinction between “clean” and “unclean” if it isn’t necessarily sin-related?\u00a0 One reason was to distinguish the Jewish people from all other nations, many of whom thought that eating and sexual activity stirred their gods to action.<\/p>\n

But another more important reason was to show that getting into God’s presence is not an easy thing for us human beings.\u00a0 If things as natural as eating certain foods, getting your period, or having sexual relations with your spouse can lead to being unclean, it goes to show that\u00a0God’s presence is not something we can easily or naturally access.\u00a0 None of us deserves to be in God’s pure and holy presence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet praise God.\u00a0 Because He loved us, He sent His Son Jesus Christ to get rid of everything that would otherwise keep us out of God’s presence.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In the Gospels, while he lived Jesus showed that the Jewish clean and unclean distinctions we find in\u00a0Leviticus\u00a0no longer apply (For example, see Mark 7:18-19).\u00a0 And when he died on the cross, Jesus dealt with all our sins which once kept us out of God’s presence, paying for them in our place.<\/p>\n

Before it was impossible for us to get in God’s presence or stay there.\u00a0 Now because of Jesus, nothing can separate us from God’s love!<\/p>\n

Thank You, Father, for making a way for us to live in Your holy, perfect presence all the time.\u00a0 We’re so blessed because of Jesus, Your perfect Son and our perfect Saviour.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 13:1-17.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 13:1-17 (NLT2)
\n1\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses and Aaron,
\n2\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIf anyone has a swelling or a rash or discolored skin that might develop into a serious skin disease, that person must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons.
\n3\u00a0\u00a0The priest will examine the affected area of the skin. If the hair in the affected area has turned white and the problem appears to be more than skin-deep, it is a serious skin disease, and the priest who examines it must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean.
\n4\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBut if the affected area of the skin is only a white discoloration and does not appear to be more than skin-deep, and if the hair on the spot has not turned white, the priest will quarantine the person for seven days…….<\/p>\n

On verses 1-17:\u00a0\u00a0What does it mean to be ceremonially unclean in\u00a0Leviticus?\u00a0 When someone is ceremonially unclean, it means that he or she, from a ceremonial worship standpoint, is unable to participate in the community worship activities of the Israelites for as long as he or she is “unclean”.\u00a0 When the period of being “unclean” is over, that’s when he or she can then join the rest of the community in its community worship services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17981,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17980\/revisions\/17981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}