Leviticus 11:43 ¶ Ye shall
not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither
shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
44 For I am the LORD your God: ye
shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am
holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. 45 For I am
the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye
shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. 46 This is the law of the beasts, and of
the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every
creature that creepeth upon the earth: 47
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the
beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Moses, guided by the Spirit of God, the very mind of God,
summarizes here the necessity of distinguishing between clean and unclean.
People have a hard time making these judgment calls in modern times. We are
told that to discern between good and evil by God’s standard is bigotry and
narrow-mindedness. That is foolish and the way to death. If you do not judge
between good and bad you will be the agent of your own destruction. This is one
fundamental purpose of the Law, to be holy, to distinguish between God’s
standard and the world’s, to be separate and sanctified being holy as God is
holy.
The Creator of all things, all reality, allowed mankind the desire
of his heart, to turn away to worship Self and Satan by proxy through false
gods, and then carved a people for Himself out of one man, one Gentile, and
through this point built them, corrected them, instructed them, chastised them,
and formed them into the people from which He would emerge over a thousand
years later in human form to save mankind from their sins allowing communion
with Him for those who would for eternity through the Lord Jesus Christ, God in
the flesh.
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