The Separation of Israel
Book of Leviticus Chapters 11:44; 18:2 through 5; 20:22 through 26
The most important thing we need to know after our salvation are the desires of God.
It is called being in the will of God.
The most important and certainly the safest place we can live our lives is being in the will of God!
This begins when we know the difference between clean and unclean in the eyes of God.
We should understand that God knows things that we cannot know!
What does God expect from His children?
Joh 13:34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
Joh 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
This was the Lord Jesus Christ speaking directly to His disciples and future Apostles, who were to give this same message to give to all believers.
The truth is, God expects us to live in a certain way!
God expects us to live far different from the ways of this world!
The world should be able to see the differences between the people of God and the people of this world.
The thing much of the Church have forgotten is, that God's people are to live Holy "lives" and there are no exceptions and no compromises!
This means taking care of our bodies as well as our spiritual life!
Christians are to bear a strong testimony that they follow the lead of the Holy Spirit and obey the commandments of a Holy God!
*****Lev 11:44 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.
What were these children of Israel to do?
1) They were to sanctify themselves. They were to avoid uncleanness because we serve a Holy God and they belonged to God.
We know that God does not ever change, and this is the same for the modern Church of today.
Uncleanness today means to avoid the filth of this world and we live in a filthy world around filthy people.
Just look at the trash that is deposited along our roads, in our lakes, and in our oceans for one example.
In this day of Israel, Egypt was the land of idolatry and animal worship, and the world of today is still full of idolatry.
It can be said that the only way to be in communion with God is by holiness.
Rom 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Rom 6:20 For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Rom 6:21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
Rom 6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
We must not defile ourselves!
We defile ourselves when we commit any type of sin. All sin is an abomination to the Lord.
We defile ourselves when we have a filthy heart.
Eze 43:8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
Jas 3:6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Mat 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
Mat 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mat 15:20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Just because we live in this world does not mean we are to act like we are part of this world!
*****Lev 18:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 18:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
Notice how God presents Himself here. He says, "I am the LORD your God".
God is saying "I am Jehovah" I am Yahweh, your One and only God.
The Lord our God then says, "You Must Live a Life of Separation from this wicked world"!
It has been obvious for us to see that the "moral" foundation of our societies is crumbling and pushed by our governments to do so.
If you challenge this, you are labeled a bigot and a racist.
Immorality weakens a person.
Immorality brings down desires to the level of wild animals!
Immorality corrupts humanity to live on the level of animals when God has made us to be far more than just animals!
Once relationships between people are destroyed, unkindness, abuse and lawlessness become the rule of society and we see these things are increasingly happening every day.
In fact, we could call Chapter 18 of the Book of Leviticus, "The Laws That Govern Sexual Behavior".
The Children of Israel were taught and told not to behave as the Egyptians nor the Canaanites which were immoral societies in that day of Moses.
When we call ourselves Christians, we are saying that the Lord Jesus Christ is our God, and it is He and Jehovah and the Holy Spirit who are the three persons of the Holy Trinity. Not three separate persons but One God. The Lord our God!
In this instance Egypt and Canaan are placed in the category of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Israel had just left Egypt and were about to enter Canaan Land.
Three times in these five verses we see God proclaim, "I am the Lord your God".
He wants us to be clear on His stance on immorality!
All through the lands of Egypt and Canaan Land, disgusting sexual activity took place including sodomy, bestiality, and homosexuality in illicit, unnatural acts of depravity.
We see an entire world returning to these ways today and it is demanded that we accept it!
As Christians, we will never accept these things and nor should we.
We should believe God!
We must never sink to this level of abomination!
God tells this new nation of Israel in that day and all Christianity in our day, that we must avoid this lifestyle and be obedient to the Word of God.
1Pe 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
1Pe 4:2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
1Pe 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
1Pe 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
1Pe 4:5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
It is a fact that the world thinks we are strange to not agree with them on these matters.
These things do not concern freedoms, these things concern the absolute rebellion to the Word of God!
God does not give us a choice; He absolutely demands that we avoid the lifestyle of the world around us today!
*****Lev 18:4 Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God.
Lev 18:5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
If you are a Christian, you must comply with all the Word of God.
God will keep His covenants with us only if we are obedient to the Word of God, all the Word of God!
As our Savior who washed us in His blood, He has every right to make such demands!
We should understand that we must live a life of separation and obedience to the Word of God.
We must certainly not seek some perversion of the Word of God that would allow such things as these which in fact should be obvious that God would never permit such things to be part of Christianity.
We must never follow the immoral and perverted practices of this world!
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Joh 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Joh 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Joh 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.
We must always obey the laws and the decrees of God, but just because we hate those things, we are never to show hatred to those who do such thing.
They are our enemies, but God says to feed our enemies and besides food we need to feed them the pure Word of God.
We must live moral, sexually pure lives before our Righteous God!
We must understand that God is always obedient to His own Words!
God will never deviate from the things He has written down in the Scriptures and it would be wise for us to get a translation of the Scriptures that come from the Received Text and not those that come from the "already perverted" Catholic Text.
Joh 8:51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
Rev 22:10 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
Rev 22:12 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
Rev 22:13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Rev 22:14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
God gave all nations a guide to ensure fairness in laws. It was called the Ten Commandments, the moral law.
Many nations once based their own laws upon these Ten Commandments for centuries, but in this day these Ten Commandments have become too burdensome for most of them.
These Ten Commandments are just as important today as they were to the nation of Israel as they entered into Canaan Land.
We must understand that "justice" must be executed upon this earth.
Without "justice" all forms of lawlessness, violence, and sexual perversion would run wild throughout the earth.
Well guess what, we see it happening right before our eyes!
We see little true peace.
We see little true security.
We see much selfishness.
We see much immorality.
We see a world where rogue nations are allowed to kill and maim innocent people.
We see these things have ripped the moral fabric of most all nations.
We see that the family has taken such a beating that most of them are ripped apart just because of these things.
Drug and alcohol abuse run rampant.
Robbery, theft, assault, and murder are daily in every nation and every county in these United States and our government does not seem to care because our government wants it this way so it can step in with Communism and Socialism as is happened in Europe.
Today we live in a world of false religion.
Today we live in an Immoral Age.
There is still only one thing God's people can do!
*****Lev 20:22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out.
We have to obey God in order to escape God's Judgment!
We must keep all the statutes of God!
A statute in the Bible is a law that comes directly from God.
A law that He mentions Himself.
We must keep all the judgments of God!
A judgment in the Bible means God has examined the facts and God has decided which way leads to the truth and that is the way we are to follow.
A judgment can also be the sentence that exist for breaking God's Law.
God knows those who do the truth of the Word of God!
Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
It should be obvious that if you are child of God, Born Again by the Blood of Jesus the true Messiah, we should live a life of separation from this wicked world!
God condemns those who do not obey His Word!
Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
We must live our lives separated from the wickedness of this world!
God spewed most of the residents of Canaan Land out of their countries to make room for the nation of Israel.
God may spew many of the residents of the United States out because they live and allow wickedness to continue.
This Covid Plague may be part of that spewing.
*****Lev 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
There is no clearer message than this one how God feels about immorality and the gay lifestyle.
Abhor means extreme hatred.
Abhor means to despise.
Canaan Land was full of this sort of immorality, and it was for this reason God allowed for the destruction of its people.
God had given these nations four hundred or more years to repent of their wickedness.
Gen 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
God hates the things that are going on in the United States at this time and going on in most European Countries, yet people still ask God for His blessings.
There is only one way to obtain the blessing of God!
2Ch 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The Church must avoid involvement in these practices and certainly not compromise on the Word of God.
If God abhors something, then the Church should also hate these things.
God could give our land to someone else!
*****Lev 20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.
This is why God gave all the land of Canaan to Israel and there should be no question about it today.
Who judges Israel these days? The nations that allow these same things to go on in their own nations and many of the Arab nations that are descendants of Ishmael, Esau, and the sons of Keturah.
Israel had to be obedient to Jehovah before He allowed them to take Canaan Land and they never completed this task because of a lack of faith.
We that call America our home could see this change in our lifetime.
America was also a land that flowed with milk and honey, but there are no reasons for God to bless America today.
As Christians we must be able to discern between clean and unclean in our day-to-day behavior!
*****Lev 20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
This was the way given to Israel to escape the "Judgment" of God.
God had given Israel specific food laws that governed clean and unclean animals.
They could only gain physical cleanliness by eating the right foods!
In that day of Moses without ways to preserve meats, these food laws offered protection from diseases and unhealthy bodies.
These things also showed the world that they were separated to God.
Obedience to these things were key to their relationship with Jehovah God.
In fact, obedience to the Word of God is still the key to our relationship with our Heavenly Father!
This new nation of Israel had to obey those food laws to teach them the difference of clean and unclean, but the Church does not have to obey those food laws, but we must obey all the Word of God, "rightly divided" and still know the difference between clean and unclean.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
If we cannot be holy in the eyes of God, then we are failing in our relationship with Him!
*****Lev 20:25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Lev 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
We must live a holy life to escape the "judgment of God!
Why because God is Holy, and we have the mind of Christ.
God called us to set us apart from this world.
The Church is God's special possession!
We belong to the Lord!
We are a member of God's household!
We must never bring disgrace unto the family of God.
We must never bring shame to our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We must live holy lives while we live amongst those who live in the damnation of God.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Pe 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
2Pe 3:14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Why would we not want to be more like the Lord Jesus Christ?
Amen
