Levítico 14

Levítico 14

Morgan - Life Applications from Every Chapter of the Bible - Lev. 14:45 He shall break down the house. -- That is, the house affected by leprosy. There was a time when it was suggested that this law was due to superstition. Modern science has proved its beneficence. A house may be infected with many forms of disease. This now needs no argument. All our present methods of dealing with disease from the standpoint of the welfare of the community are based upon it. It is made a criminal offence to-day not to notify cases of certain diseases. This attitude is entirely warranted by this law. A house which is likely to communicate disease must either be cleansed completely or destroyed. No man has any property rights which are superior to the rights of the health of the community. What we really need to-day, is a more drastic application of the principle. When we turn to the spiritual suggestiveness, we at once realize its importance. In the letter of Jude, the principle suddenly flames out in his words: "Hating even the garment spotted by the flesh" (verse 23). Whatever in our life has been associated with and contaminated by the leprosy of past sin, it is good to destroy without compromise or pity. How often where this is not done, even those who have known personal deliverance have been infected anew! Old haunts, old associations, should be left, abandoned, without compromise, or else the last state may be worse than the first. Leviticus 14:46 "Moreover, whoever goes into the house during the time that he has quarantined it, becomes unclean until evening. Lev 11:24,25,28 15:5-8,10 17:15 22:6 Nu 19:7-10,21,22 Leviticus 14:47 "Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes. Lev 14:8,9 Leviticus 14:48 "If, on the other hand, the priest comes in and makes an inspection, and the mark has not indeed spread in the house after the house has been replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the mark has not reappeared. Lev 14:3 Job 5:18 Ho 6:1 Mk 5:29,34 Lu 7:21 1Co 6:11 Leviticus 14:49 "To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop, Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:50 and he shall slaughter the one bird in an earthenware vessel over running water. Lev 14:5,6,51, 52, 15:13 Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:51 "Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string, with the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, as well as in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times. Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:52 "He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet string. Lv14:5,6,51, 52, 15:13 Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:53 "However, he shall let the live bird go free outside the city into the open field. So he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean." Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:54 This is the law for any mark of leprosy -- even for a scale, law: Lev 14:2,32 6:9,14,25 7:1,37 11:46 15:32 Nu 5:29 6:13 19:14 Dt 24:8 scale: Lev 13:30,31 Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leon Hyatt - SUMMARY NOTE ON UNCLEANNESS FROM TSARAATH Leviticus 14:54-57 Introduction - This note is a concluding statement concerning the principles related to tsaraath. It summarizes the contents of three messages spoken by Jehovah (MESSAGES 16, 17, and 18 in Lev. 13-14). This reference to three messages strongly indicates that this note is an editorial note written by Moses as he recorded the messages he had received from Jehovah. The fact that this note is clearly an editorial comment indicates that the other summary notes of the book (see references cited in comments on Lev. 11:46-47 in MESSAGE 14), also were not parts of the messages spoken by Jehovah but comments added by Moses to explain the origin and subject matter of the messages. CHAPTER 14 Lev 14:54 This is the law for every striking of the tsaraath according to an itch. This type of tsaraath is described in Leviticus 13:29-37. Lev 14:55 And for tsaraath of the clothing or according to the house. This type of tsaraath is described in Leviticus 13:47-58. Lev 14: 56 And according to the swelling and according to the eruption and according to the bright spot, This type of tsaraath is described in Leviticus 13:2-28;38-44. Lev 14:57 To show when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the law for the tsaraath. The purpose of the MESSAGES on tsaraath was to clearly define when tsaraath was present and when it made a person or object unclean. The requirements of a person or object with tsaraath were serious. They needed to be applied only when the priest was sure the condition was present. Leviticus 14:55 and for the leprous garment or house, Lev 13:47-59 Lev 14:34 Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot-- Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Leviticus 14:57 to teach when they are unclean, and when they are clean. This is the law of leprosy . teach: Lev 10:10 Jer 15:19 Eze 44:23 Leviticus 14 Resources - Multiple sermons and commentaries In depth commentaries in Synoptic Gospels where Jesus healed a leper - Luke 5:12-17+, Mark 1:40-44+, Matthew 8:1-4+. cf Luke 17:12-19+, Dt 24:8 “Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests shall teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. MacArthur on to teach when they are unclean… clean - The priest needed instruction in identifying and prescribing the course for disease such as that described herein, to teach people the importance of distinguishing holy things. (MacArthur Study Bible) Gordon J Wenham comments on the NT and Skin Disease: The NT refers to skin disease in a number of places. Though the word used in Greek is lepra, modern medical opinion is uncertain whether this would have included leprosy or only the "skin diseases" mentioned by Leviticus. "Lepers" (leproi) were among those healed by Jesus in the course of his ministry (Mt 8:2-4; 11:5; Mk 14:3; Lk 17:11-19). The Levitical law provided no means of curing "skin diseases." The sufferer had to wait in hope of a cure from God, without human aid. Only then could he present himself to the priest. But with the coming of Christ, God Himself sought out the "lepers" and healed them. Jesus came to seek and save that which was lost (Lk 19:10). His outreach to the lepers was on a par with his ministry to other sick people and social outcasts, such as tax-collectors and prostitutes. In Jesus a new age had come. The kingdom of God was present, and salvation was available to all who had faith (Ed: However all in the OT who had faith in what they understood of Messiah and the Gospel [Gal 3:8] were saved also by grace through faith.). In this new age the old barriers were obsolete (Ed: cf Heb 8:13) because God was calling all men into His new (Ed: Covenant) community. In the day of grace, outward ailments no longer mattered. Jesus had come to heal them. The laws of Leviticus were not abrogated by Jesus; in fact he tells the healed "lepers" to observe them (Mt 8:4; Lk 17:14). But the new (covenant) era of salvation made obsolete the idea that the diseased should be banished from human and divine society. Jesus' ministry and that of His disciples (Mt 10:8) was one which brought reconciliation between God and man (2Cor 5:18-21, Ro 5:10-11). Therefore the old laws isolating men because of their unsightly appearance had become inappropriate and out of date. Like the rules about unclean animals, they did not fit in with the new (covenant) program, which was to climax (Ed: After the Millennial Age) in the creation of a new heaven and a new earth, in which men of every class and nation would be redeemed (Rev 7:9). (The Book of Leviticus New International Commentary on the Old Testament- Gordon J. Wenham-recommended resource)