Imagine the joy of a once-leprous sufferer when the priest “shall pronounce him clean” (Lev 14:7)! Leviticus 14, although the subject is still leprosy, is a very happy chapter. In it, God anticipated the day when people, formerly leprosy patients, would be declared clean! Thus the chapter begins, “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, […]
The unwelcome sensation of pain is actually our friend, warning us that something needs help. Until quite recently, it was thought that the hands and feet of people with leprosy disintegrated as a direct result of the disease. That was until Dr Paul Brand, son of missionary parents to southwest India, returned in 1946 to […]
We must constantly be on guard for the tell-tale signs of sin’s effect in ourselves and those we love. Ninety-six times in Leviticus chapters 11-15, the word unclean is used. Thankfully, its opposite, clean, which is God’s objective, also occurs 49 times. This was the desire of the man “full of leprosy” who met Jesus […]
A doctor didn’t diagnose leprosy, nor did the examining priest. It was God who made the decisions! It’s vital to note that the decision whether or not a person had leprosy wasn’t really the priest’s. The priests made careful observations, but it was God who gave them the diagnostic tools which they used. These were […]
Read More… from May 9, 2022 — The Life-Changing Difference Between Yes & No
Is there such a thing as a little leprosy? Or a little sin? Watch out! It’s sure to grow. And GROW. “When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling, a scab, or a bright spot, and it becomes on the skin of his body like a leprous sore, then…The priest shall […]
God is Jehovah Ropheka, The-Lord-Who-Heals-You, but sometimes He hurts us to heal us. Did you think you would be in a seminar today about leprosy? As we turn from Leviticus 12 to chapters 13 and 14, we move from the subject of having babies to having this dread disease. But don’t despair. The Bible is […]
Every child born into this world is of equal value, and in equal need of salvation, says God. Before we leave Leviticus 12, we’ll stop once more at the great bronze altar. Can you see the parents with their little babe in arms? But all eyes would be on a one-year-old lambkin and a little […]
Read More… from May 4, 2022 — All Together Now, Girls And Boys
“Neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord” (1 Cor 11:11). Our last study discussed the mother’s responsibility after giving birth to a boy. We concluded with the first half of Psalm 127:3, “Children are a heritage from the Lord.” Now, as we turn to the birth of a […]
No surprise, prothrombin and vitamin K (for clotting) are at their highest levels on the eighth day. When we come to Leviticus 12, we remind ourselves of a simple definition of what is true and right: it’s whatever God thinks about something. He wants us to think about these issues, too—not to make up our […]