Metzora

Parashas Metzora

Leviticus 14:1 – 15:33

Please Pray this

Prayer

First before reading.

In the name of Yahushua

Our Messiyah,

I pray for the Spirit of Understanding

The Spirit of Knowledge and

The Spirit of Wisdom

As I read through this Parashas

This Torah portion is the 28 in the Torah cycle and the word metzora means leper, which refers to the complicated ritual for cleansing a leper and the home of a leper.

Parashas metzora deals with the first stage of the purification process. The uniqueness of the laws of the metzora has established that despite the fact that his contamination is manifested in a physical sense, it was caused by his degraded spiritual condition.

Being alone outside the camp will give him or her the opportunity to reflect on their deficiencies and a chance for them to repent so that they can once more be found worthy to reenter the camp.

As soon at that change or correction takes place within the rational mind, the Neshomah and the heart, the personality, the same Elohim who afflicted him of her will remove the mark of his degradation and he can begin the process of reaching maturity.

They then begin a three-stage purification process that is unique to a metzora. The first part of the ritual was performed with two birds, outside of the camp. It was not a sacrificial service, and the birds did not have to be doves or turtledoves, since they were not offerings.

They had to be healthy and kosher birds, but that was all. When that ritual was completed, the metzor was permitted to enter the camp, but he or she was still tamei (ritually unclean) and some of his restrictions remained in force. After a seven-day waiting period, he or she could bring the offering that would complete the process of purification.

This Torah portion is the basic for all spiritual counseling. Everything we read in the natural have a spiritual meaning. It is only those who are spiritually mature are the ones who are qualified to understand this reading.

Lev 14:1  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, - I am YAHVEH You Elohim, I do not Change Mal 3:6 “For I am YAHVEH, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Therefore when He speaks as in this case it is forever.

Lev 14:2 “This shall be the Torah of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest, - Since the Torah mentions that his purification takes place during the day, and we as believers must walk in the light, all our actions should be in the day. He is brought to the priest at the outskirt of the camp, were it would be easer for the Kohem to come and meet him. This also mean that it was away for the eyes of the public.

Lev 14:3 and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look and see, if the leprosy is healed in the leper, - The person who is now an out cast from the camp, must be examine outside the camp before he can be allow back inside. Yisrael is a set apart community and it must be treated as such. It is also a deterance against being contaminated, for no one like to to be alienated.

The Pastor, one of the Mighty Hand of Yahveh is the member of the Priesthood who proform this service. The Laver one of the Altar of the Tabernacle is the altar where all the sacrifice are done.

Lev 14:4 then the priest shall command, and he shall take for him who is to be cleansed two live and clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.- According to Hebrew tradition, this affliction is brought on as a punishment for slander or gossip, therefore his purification is effected by means of chirping or twittering birds.

There must be two birds which represent the Blood and Water that flows from the side of Yahushua. The birds must be free of any illness or defects, they must be clean, they must be a species that it permissible to eat.

Cedar wood, because it grows tall, imposing, and wide, the cedar symbolizes haughtiness. Cedar is not a wood that is esealy rooted.

Crimson thread and hyssop, the thread is wool, dyed with a pigment made from a lowly creature, a type of insect or snail, whose identity is unclear. The thread represent the Warp and woof of the previous Parasha, a type and shadow of the Holy Spirit and the Word that must be used to revitalize the contaminated person.

Thus, it symbolizes the penitent’s newfound humility. Hyssop, a lowly bush symbolizes the same idea of humility.

Atonement for sin requires that the previous sinner purge himself of the moral flaw that causes his misdeeds. The underlying root cause of slander and gossip, the sins that are punished by tzaraas, is haughtiness, because it breeds the contempt for others that let one talk about others callously.

The metzora’s repentance entails a resolve to change themselves, a change that is graphically symbolized by the following three items that accompany his offering.

Lev 14:5 “And the priest shall command, and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water. – The slaughter is done in the same manner of shechitah, at the front of the neck with a knife. It may be performed anywhere, but it must be done by a qualified Pastor. This the the Blood part of the sacrifice. After the ritual is completed, the bird is buried, not burnt.

During the slaughtering of the bird is held over the earthware vessel so that its blood will flow directly into the vessel containing the fresh spring water. This is the Blood and the Water that flows from the side of Yahushua, for our atonement and our forgiveness.

Today we no longer sacrifice birds, we have the Blood and the Water that was establish from the foundation of the world to apply to the person or persons needed cleansing.

Lev 14:6 “Let him take the live bird and the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. – The live bird must be dip in the blood of the bird that was killed, again represent the Blood that was sacrifice and the bird that will be let loose to carry away our sins. The cedar and the hyssop are tied together with the red thread. Then the bungle is held in the right hand together with the live bird and they are dipped into the blood and water mixture. Signifying the resolving of our haughtiness.

Lev 14:7 “And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird loose in the open field. – The sprinkling is the application of Blood and the Water seven times over the person. The seven times is one of the perfect numbers. The person is now returned to a perfect state.

The bird is now let loose to carry away the sins as the Red Sea took away Pharaoh Army, never to be seen anymore. This is true spiritual counseling. The removal of that sin that plague the individual.

Lev 14:8 “And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shall shave off all his hair and wash himself in water, and shall be clean. Then after that he comes into the camp, but shall stay outside his tent seven days. – The focus now turn to the sinner, his responsibility does not end with the letting go of the live bird. His sins had been atoned for, now the root causes have to be dealt with.

By washing the garment is to bring it under the scrutiny of Torah, removing anything that is not sanctioned by EL YAHVEH.

The Shaving of the hair is to remove or discard all old thinking, and bring every taught captive to that of Torah. Only them we may allow the individual to enter the camp to a holding area, to see if he or she is truly sanctified.

Lev 14:9 “And on the seventh day it shall be that he shaves all the hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shaves off. And he shall wash his garments and wash his body in water, and shall be clean. – Seven days after the seclusion inside the camp, the individual is again having all the hair on his head shaved, he is again washed his entire garment and his entire body, and then he shall be clean.

The final stage of purification. The person shall bring three animals offering and each one is accompanied by a meal offering of one tenth of an ephah. In this matter the metzora “The sinner” is an exception to the rule, since sin and guilt offering are not usually accompanied by a meal offering.

It may be that the metzora is accorded this honor as Elohim’s Own testimony to the sincerity of his repentance, as evidenced by the removal of his bodily affliction.

An ephah is an unit of  dry measure equal to about one bushel, or about 33 liters, or a dry measure of about 64 US pint.

Lev 14:10 “And on the eighth day he takes two male lambs, perfect ones, and one ewe lamb a year old, a perfect one, and three-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and one log of oil. – On the eight day, the day of new beginning he must take two male lambs, and one ewe, and one log of oil. The oil was used as describe in verse 15 – 18. A log of oil measure with a volume of six eggs, generally reckoned at between thirteen and fourteen fluid ounces. These were to bring a grain offering.

Lev 14:11 “And the priest who is cleansing shall present the man who is to be cleansed, with these offerings, before יהוה, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. – The Pastor who did the cleansing shall present the person who is to be cleansed along with his offering before the Tabernacle for full reinstatement.

Three animals, the meal offering, must be presented at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Until the metzora is completed all his offering, he stand alone just outside the eastern entrance to the tabernacle, opposite the Tabernacle entrance so that he is not inside it, but close enough for the Kohen to put oil on him, as required by the verse below.

Lev 14:12 “And the priest shall take one male lamb and bring it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before יהוה. – The Pastor shall take the price of a male lamb, and bring it as a guilt offering, along with the log of oil and presented as a wave offering before EL YAHVEH.

Lev 14:13 “And he shall slaughter the lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering, in a set-apart place. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest. It is most set-apart. – At the North Part of the Outer Court, the guilt offering like the sin offering is offered. The sacrificial part is then placed on the Brazen Altar. The other parts like the sin offering belong to the pastor.

Lev 14:14 “And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. – The blood is place on the right ear, the right thumb, and the right big toe, symbolizing that from here on these three body parts must improve himself in mind, deed, and walk.

Lev 14:15 “And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand. –

Lev 14:16 “And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before יהוה. – The Pastor shall sprinkle the oil westward, in the direction of the Holy Place. For each toss of oil the Pastor symbolize that the individual must walk perfectly from now on.

Lev 14:17 “And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest puts some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the guilt offering. – The right ear, the thumb, and the right big toe is now anointed and required to operate in perfection for the rest of the person life, until he or she reaches perfection.

Lev 14:18 “And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he puts on the head of him who is to be cleansed. And the priest shall make atonement for him before יהוה. – The Pastor shall place the rest of the oil on the head and make atonement through El Yahushua for the individual.

Lev 14:19 “And the priest shall make the sin offering, and make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. Then afterwards he slaughters the burnt offering. – The Pastor shall perform the sin offering and an atonement offering for him who is being cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the burnt offering may be offered.

Lev 14:20 “And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. And the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean. – After the final step in this rather lengthy purification process, he may now enter the Sanctuary and eat the sacrificial flesh. The guilt offering atones fore the sins that cause him to become metzora, unclean. The sin offering atones for the blasphemies he may well have uttered. And finally, there is atonement in the sense that the elevation and meal offering elevates him back into the place we was before his demise.

Verse 21 –32 illustrates the point of the offering of the poor unclean person.

   

Lev 14:21 “But if he is poor and is unable to afford it, then he shall take one male lamb as a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one-tenth of an ĕphah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and a log of oil, - Every animal offering must be accompanied by a meal offering, so that a metzora, unclean person who is wealthy enough to bring three animal offering brings three tenth ephah of flour. Since the poor metzora, unclean person brings only one animal, requires only one meal-offering.

Lev 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, and one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. – The requirements of the two turtledoves, which are slightly large than a young pigeons, were indicative of the financial status of the person. A person may bring what-ever he can afford; however a rich person cannot bring a poor person offerings.

Lev 14:23 “And he shall bring them to the priest on the eighth day for his cleansing, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, before יהוה. – The same ritual principles describe in 14:10 - 19 is the same ritual principles here in verse 24 – 32.

Lev 14:24 “And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before יהוה. – Today we bring the cost of the offering for we do not kill a lamb any more. El Yahushua is our lamb slaying from the foundation of the world.

Lev 14:25 “And he shall slaughter the lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot. – Today when we apply the Blood and the Water that flow from the Side of Yahushua we are apply this guilt offering. The Blood on the right ear is to correct what we listen too, the blood on the right thumb is for the correction of our actions, and the blood to the right toe is to correct our daily walk.

Lev 14:26 “Then the priest pours some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand. – The left Hand of our Hight Priest represent the Torah.

Lev 14:27 “And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before יהוה. – The right hand of the High Priest represent the Holy Spirit. The right finger is the offices of the Apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher. It is the use of the five fold ministry to apply the anointing of the Torah to the individual that is cleanse.

Lev 14:28 “And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of the right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the guilt offering. – By anointing the various body parts is to apply the principles of Torah over those particular areas of our lives.

Lev 14:29 “And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he puts on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before יהוה. – Finally, the anointing of the head, the Neshomah, the intellect of the individual is to help him or her to consider their manner of thinking that was the source of the contamination in the first place.

Lev 14:30 “And he shall prepare one of the turtledoves or young pigeons, such as he is able to afford, - We have here the gracious provision which the law made for the cleansing of poor lepers. If they were not able to bring three lambs, and three tenth-deals of flour, they must bring one lamb, and one tenth-deal of flour, and, instead of the other two lambs, two turtle-doves or two young pigeons, as in verse 21, 22.

Here we see, that the poverty of the person concerned would not excuse him if he brought no offering at all. Let none think that because we are poor YAHVEH does not requires any sacrifice from us, since HE has considered us, and demands that which it is in the power of the poorest to give.

"My son, give me thy heart, and with that the calves of thy lips shall be accepted instead of the calves of the stall.’’

That YAHVEH expected from those who were poor only according to their ability; HIS commandments are not grievous, nor does HE make us to serve with an offering. The poor are as welcome to YAH’s altar as the rich; and, if there be first a willing mind and an honest heart, two pigeons, when they are the utmost a man is able to get, are as acceptable to YAHVEH as two lambs; for HE requires according to what a man has and not according to what he has not.

But it is observable that though a meaner sacrifice was accepted from the poor, yet the very same ceremony was used for them as was for the rich; for their souls are as precious and Mesiah and His gospel are the same to both. Let not us therefore have the faith of our Lord Yahushua HaMashiach with respect of persons, Jam. 2:1.

Lev 14:31 that which he is able to afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, with the grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him who is to be cleansed before יהוה. – Every finger of the hand has a purpose, what we called the ring finger represent the ministry of the Pastor. This finger part of the Mighty Hand of YAHVEH, administer the Blood and the Water that flow from the side of Yahushua. This is the ministry of atonement and deliverance, much like the second cup of wine drank at Passover, the cup of deliverance.

Whatever financial position any of us may find ourselves, Messiyah Yahushua has provide a way of deliverance for us. All we have to do is to bring the require offering according to our financial capability. Then with the help of the Pastoral finger apply the Blood of Messiyah over our lives seven times.

Lev 14:32 “This is the Torah for one who had an infection of leprosy, who is unable to afford for his cleansing.” – leprosy in this example is any thing that cause us to become unclean. There is a law, a way in which these things must be taken care off. Today many of us run to see a Physologist for help, when all we have to do is to apply the principles outline in this text. My people perish for the lack of knowledge.

Verse 33 – 57 defines the type of afflictions that affect a house or building. As we have seen in the past chapters a contamination that affect a human is usually caused by a spiritual defecate.

Obviously, the appearance of a Tzaraas is for a reason. This Tzaraas like all the others are Divine punishment for selfish behavior and gossip.  Elohim mercifully begins by afflicting property such as the house where the guilty party lives first, and then his garment, if the victim fails to modify their behavior, he or she will be stricken by an affliction on their body.

By bringing tzaraas to their house, Elohim is forcing them to remove their belongings from it, so that everyone can see what he owns, and how thoughtless he is.

Such a person may display a breath of heresy. He thinks that his property is his alone, acquired solely through his own efforts, and that no one else is entitled to enjoy the benefits of his personal success.

But his wealth and success are from Elohim, the same Elohim Who made him what he is, is the same Elohim that will take it away when he misused it.

Although the imposition of the afflictions goes from the less severe to the more severe, the Torah lists them in the opposite order, beginning with the personal affliction and concludes with the affliction of the house. This is because the Torah usually does thing contrary to man’s thinking.

Lev 14:33 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying, - Again we are reminded that these are not Moses words, they are EL YAHVEH Words.

Lev 14:34 “When you come into the land of Kenaʽan, which I am giving you as a possession, and I put a plague of leprosy in a house in the land of your possession, - The address here is that when we reach maturity, when we reach our objective, the Promise Land given to us as an example of the Spiritual mandate. These are some of the principles we must abide by.

As Lucifer sinned and was cast out, so do anyone who sin while in the promise land. The fall of that person would result in their loss of their physical beauty and appearance due to the affliction on their home, and clothing. It is only in the Holy Land could spiritual flaws have such tangible effects.

What the implication here is, at this stage of spiritual growth sin is dealt with more stringent. A plague in a house is a public way of saying something is wrong in this house.

Lev 14:35 then shall the one who owns the house come and inform the priest, saying, ‘It seems to me that there is some plague in the house.’ – The one who dwells in that house, the leader of the house, the priest of the house the man, must go to the priest and informed the Priest/Pastor that there is an affliction in his house. It is not the wife; it is the person of spiritual authority that must perform this act. This should be the Oldest living male.

Lev 14:36 “And the priest shall command, and they shall empty the house, before the priest goes in to look at the plague, so that all that is in the house is not made unclean. And after that the priest goes in to look at the house. – The Priest/Pastor shall order an immediate cleaning of the house. This is a source of public humiliation to the leadership of that house to allow his house to fall into disrepair spiritually.

The house would be declared tamei or quarantined; everything in it would become tamei as well. 

Lev 14:37 “And he shall look at the plague and see, if the plague is on the walls of the house with sunken places, greenish or reddish, which appear to be deep in the wall, - The Priest/Pastor must make a total examination of the house to determine the level of contamination. The color of the afflicted area will determine the depth of the afflicted area.

Lev 14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house, to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days. – After the Priest/Pastor have made is decision, the house is now close up for seven days.

Lev 14:39 “And the priest shall come again on the seventh day and look and see, if the plague has spread on the walls of the house, - Seven days later another inspection is required, to determine if the affliction is a corporate or an individual affliction. Corporate in that is a family sin or is it an individual who is the cause of the contamination.

Lev 14:40 then the priest shall command, and they shall remove the stones with the plague in them, and they shall throw them outside the city, into an unclean place, - If it is determine that the affliction have not change the Priest/Pastor must order the afflicted stone taken out of the wall. If two people share the same wall, the owner of the afflicted house and his neighbor must join in taking down the offending part of the wall. Woe to the wicked one and woe to his neighbor, for they will both suffer.

Another way of looking at this affliction, is that after several attemp to deal with the affliction, it might be an spiritual affliction, and the stone or the belife system that that is base on must be cast out of the person and remove from among the camp.

Lev 14:41 while he lets the house be scraped inside, all around, and the dust that they scrape off they shall pour out in an unclean place outside the city. – Since the Promise Land is a Holy Place, any contaminance removed from the afflicted house, must be dispose of in a safe place, known as an unclean place or garbage dump.

Lev 14:42 “And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones, and take other mortar and plaster the house. – Fresh clean stones must be used to replace those that have been removes. It is similar to replacing a defective or religious way of thinking with Torah way of thinking. Too often the physical afflection that afflict an individual is based on their religious thinking.

Lev 14:43 “And if the plague comes back and breaks out in the house, after he has removed the stones, after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered, - It is not necessary for the plague to return to the same place or for it to be even large than the first. If it return during the seven days isolation, the house must be rendered contaminated. If it returns after the seven days then it is consider a new affliction.

Lev 14:44 then the priest shall come and look and see, if the plague has spread in the house, it is an active leprosy in the house, it is unclean. – If the Pastoral minister sees that after all the removal of the contaminated area, the problem still persist, then the house itself is beyond restoration.

Lev 14:45 “And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall bring them outside the city to an unclean place. – If after the initial scrubbing, cleaning, and the replacing of the stone; if the plague brakes out again, then the whole house must be dismantled.

If it is a family, the whole family structure needs to be carefully examined carefully outside the city. Too often the spiritual authority over the Family has been compromised. The man is no longer the authority, maybe the woman now wear the pants or even the children, as is so often the case in today’s society.

It this should happen in the redeemed community, that family dwelling place would become a place of contamination. The whole entire family support system in that house needs to be carefully scrutinized.

Lev 14:46 “And he who goes into the house, all the days while it is shut up, becomes unclean until evening. – Because of the spirit of rebellion that is over that house, anyone who enters it is unclean until evening, when he or she washes themselves in the blood and the water that flows from the side of Yahushua. It is so essential for us to apply the Water that flow from the Side of Messiyah to our lives every evening, for we do not know what type of spirit we might have inadvertently bring home with us.

Lev 14:47 “And he who lies down in the house has to wash his garments, and he who eats in the house has to wash his garments. – Anyone who lies down in the house is compatible to someone who associate with the inhabitance of the house is one who tolerates the principles practices in that house.

Anyone who eats in that house is one who accepts the principles practice in that house, both the one who lie and the one who eats must reconsider their belief system and repent and change their mindset to that of Torah.

When we listen to false doctrine, we must always wash our mind our intellect or rational mind from any belief that we may find attrative. Many time women in the church embrace women liberation theology doctrine, because it is mix with a little light and a little darkness, a little obedience and a little self sufficent.

It is imperative that we break the influence of these teaching from the initial revelation that we do not entertain any of its doctrine not even for a moment. These teaching, like the thin edge of the wedge, all it needs is a simpatatic ear.

Lev 14:48 “However, if the priest indeed comes in and looks at it and sees that the plague has not spread in the house after the house was plastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. - There is a multitude of spiritual meaning behind every word in the Torah, this verse is no exception. In the context of this verse we can discern that after the priest/pastor has done a through inspection and cleaning, after the seven day isolation period is over, he is now looking for a new sets of criteria.

He looks to see if one, the plague had spread, and two if it did spread. If it did spread the house would be condemned as unclean. If it had not spread and there were sign of improvement, then the house would be considered clean.

Lev 14:49 “And to cleanse the house, he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop. – According to Hebrew tradition, this affliction is brought on as a punishment for slander or gossip; therefore his purification is effected by means of chirping or twittering birds.

The birds must be free of any illness or defects, they must be clean, they must be a species that it permissible to eat.

Cedar wood, because it grows tall, imposing, and wide, it is not easly rotten, the cedar symbolizes haughtiness.

Crimson thread and hyssop, the thread is wool, dyed with a pigment made from a lowly creature, a type of insect or snail, whose identity is unclear. The thread is used as the Warp and woof, the Holy Spirit and the Word to make the new garment for the afflicted person.

Theefore, it symbolizes the penitent’s newfound humility. Hyssop, a lowly bush symbolizes the same idea of humility.

Atonement for sin requires that the previous sinner purge his or her self from all moral flaw that cause his misdeeds. The underlying root cause of slander and gossip, the sins that are punished by tzaraas, is haughtiness, because it breeds the contempt for others that lets one talk about them callously.

The metzora’s repentance entails a resolve to change themselves, a change that is graphically symbolized by the following three items that accompany his offering.

Lev 14:50 “And he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water, - The ritual of purification of the house is identical to the first stage of a metzora’s purification and it is carried out only if the afflicted stones had to be removed from the house. However if the affliction disappeared or the color fade from the house, the ritual is not necessary. Unlike the ourification of a human being, no further steps are necessary.

Lev 14:51 and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the live bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird and in the running water, and shall sprinkle the house seven times. - The live bird must be dip in the blood of the bird that was killed, again represent the Blood that was sacrifice and the bird that will be let loose to carry away our sins. The cedar and the hyssop are tied together with the red thread. Then the bungle is held in the right hand together with the live bird and they are dipped into the blood and water mixture. Signifying the resolving of our haughtiness.

Lev 14:52 “He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and the running water and the live bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet,- During the slaughtering of the bird is held over the earth ware vessel so that its blood will flow directly into the vessel containing the fresh spring water. This Blood and the Water that flows from the side of Yahushua, for our atonement and our forgiveness.

Lev 14:53 and he shall let the live bird loose outside the city in the open field, and shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. – The live bird is the one that take away the sin, it is a figure of El Yahushua that bears the curses of our sin, and so we will not be found guilty.

Lev 14:54 “This is the Torah for any infection of leprosy, and eruption, - This a permanent ritual law for the Children of Yisrael, which everyone who believe in El Yahushua the Messiyah is a part off.

Lev 14:55 and for leprosy of a garment, and of a house, - The spiritual diffinition of garment and house is our righteousness and the way we conduct out lives.

Lev 14:56 and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot, - The spiritual diffinition of Swelling is those areas in our lives that we are particular sensitive to, and the scabs are those area in our lives that are we have shown some improvement yet there are still work to be done. Bright spots are visible manifestation of problems in our lives that we need work on.

Lev 14:57 to teach when it is unclean and when it is clean. This is the Torah of leprosy. – These principles outline in this story elucidate a principle if we are in the Outer court, the individual, the Holy Place the garment, and the Holy of Holies the House. What is the ritual needed to restore or cast out an individual. Too often people get cast out of the body because they angered the pastor or even Rabbi. Torah gave us a specific reason why someone should be declared unclean.  

Chapter 15

Every Kingdom has a set on principle that governs it operation; it is what I will refer to an underlying principle. The various discharges from the human body that are contaminated to various degrees, and which may require offerings as part of the person’s purification process, it the what, the result of why.

The Why are the sins that cause the contamination, the contamination produces the various discharges, or physical manifestation on the person’s body.

In this chapter, we will look at the how, in relation to a cure for the various afflictions.

Verse 1 – 18 deals with the various discharge of the body. Semen or a zav-emission that emanate from a human body is considered contaminated. It causes contamination to the one who emitted it and to others who come into contact with it.

There is three degree of such contamination, depending on the frequency and type of the discharges, as follows:

§       A male who had a seminal emission, whether the fluid is normal semen or the slightly different zav fluid describe in verse 2. This contamination is the mildest of the tree degrees, and it applies no matter what are the circumstances that brought about the discharge. The person who has such an emission is called baal keri, and should immerse or wash himself or herself in water and they will become clean at sundown.

§       This discharge, which makes someone a zav, is different from semen, but a man who has had a single discharge, has the same status as the baal keri person. A man who has had two such discharge is a zav and has the full severity of contamination, as will be set forth in the next passages.

§       A man who has had three-zav discharge, either in the same day within short intervals or on successive days, has the same degree of contamination as an ordinary zav, but he must also bring an offering at the conclusion of a seven-day period of seclusion, following the discharge.

Lev 15:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon, saying, - Since this is a Kingdom principle, the King of the Kingdom determine His solutions for total restoration, and we know that His decree cannot change. The flesh refers here to the male organ. The fluid that Torah calls zov is similar to, but different from semen. This could be describing a venereal disease, which is a result of a form of contamination.

The root word zav ‘bwz’ appears twice in this verse and is followed by the word contaminated. The same root word appears three times in the next verse where it is followed by the word his contamination. In this formula, we see a difference between a man who had two discharges and one who has had three.

Two discharge makes one a zav, and create a level of contamination that lasts for seven days, but is removed by immersion or washing in water, without the requirement of an offering or sacrifice. This is not a sin unto death. The man who had three such discharges requires an offering after seven day.

Lev 15:2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his flesh, his discharge is unclean. – Moses the leader of the Children of Yisrael, a mature spiritual person, was the one who this message was given. It was a result of his maturity, his pure spiritual state, that he was able to hear the Voice of EL YAHVEH. This chapter is teaching us the principle or the spiritual rituals, a person must perform in order to restore them to the position from which their sins had made them fall.

Lev 15:3 ‘And this is his uncleanness in regard to his discharge; whether his flesh runs with his discharge, or his flesh is stopped up by his discharge, it is his uncleanness. – This uncleanness may give a symptom of a discharge or a stoppage of flow. This could also refer to the urinal discharge, which can also be described as stoppage of water in some case.

Lev 15:4 ‘Any bed becomes unclean on which he who has the discharge lies, and any object on which he sits becomes unclean. – Any bed on which urine or semen falls become unclean, and anyone who sleep on it become unclean.

Even if one should sit on a pile of blanket, and the one at the bottom has the zaw contamination of mishkav u’moshav, so that he did not actually come into direct contact with a contaminated blanket, he is still tamei as if he had touched the afflicted blanket.

Lev 15:5 ‘And anyone who touches his bed has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – Anyone who even touches the resting place of this person, have to wash his or her garments and shall bathe in water and become clean again in the evening.

If this is the case, a man should not have sexual inter course on his bed, for fear of contamination of the area in which he sleep.

Lev 15:6 ‘And he who sits on any object on which he who has the discharge sat, has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – The story of Rachel and her father’s idols is a good example. The men who were looking for the idols would not touch her for she was in a state of ritual contamination.

Lev 15:7 ‘And he who touches the flesh of him who has the discharge has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and shall be unclean until evening. – Anyone who has sexual intercourse with that person, must consider first their righteousness actions, wash their cloth, and be clean at sundown.

Lev 15:8 ‘And when he who has the discharge spits on him who is clean, then he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – Even the spit of the contaminated person is considered to be unclean. The person who got spit on must wash himself or herself and be clean at sundown.

Lev 15:9 ‘Any saddle on which he who has the discharge rides becomes unclean. – Even the saddle on which the person sits, even if they were in a bus, or an airplane seat, they become unclean. Can you imagining sitting in a contaminated seat in an airplane when it crashes.

Lev 15:10 ‘And whoever touches any of that which was under him is unclean until evening. And he who is carrying them up has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – We need the Spirit of Wisdom to be with us every day to help us to make the right choose as to were to sit in a public area or whether we can even shake a next person hand. It is a good thing we are commanded to wash every evening in the Water that flows from the side of El Yahushua.

Lev 15:11 ‘And anyone whom he who has the discharge touches without rinsing his hands in water, shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – This verse makes an important discloser here. It is incumbent on the contaminated person to wash their hand before greeting another person. Have we ever wondered why there are so many outbreaks of diseases such as Sars among our midst?

Lev 15:12 ‘And the earthen vessel which he who has the discharge touches has to be broken, and every wooden vessel has to be rinsed in water. – We know from previous study that a vessel made from earth is very porous, and become quite easy for the contamination to reside in the numerous pores of the vessels. This earth vessels must be destroyed if it was even touch by an individual.

Lev 15:13 ‘And when he who has a discharge is cleansed of his discharge, then he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing, and shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in running water, and be clean. – The person who is contaminated by the third stage of this discharge must experience the seven-day cleansing. It is my belief that this could be a discharge of masturbation that was deliberate done by the man. The other two discharges were involuntary.

The seven day if for the man to look carefully at himself and determine why he was drawn to perform such an act.

Lev 15:14 ‘And on the eighth day he takes for himself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall come before יהוה, to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall give them to the priest. – The guilt offering for such an offense is two turtledoves or two young pigeons, which is to be brought to the Pastor/Priest to be offered.

Lev 15:15 ‘And the priest shall prepare them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. And the priest shall make atonement for him before יהוה because of his discharge. – When the victim is healed, he must offer a sin offering to atone for his sin that cause the malady to be brought upon him. Then he must bring his elevated offering to thank EL YAHVEH for having cured him.

The purification process of a metzora the contaminated one, involves three animals; even for a poor person has to bring at least one, but a zav and a zavah must bring only birds.

The sacrificial service of animals requires the Kohanm, so it is inevitable that the metzora’s purification process will become well known. This would cause him no humiliation, however, because his sin and punishment were public in some case.

To the contrary, the fact that so many people will know that he repented and become purified is to his honor.

Because a zav’s sin is a very private matter and EL YAHVEH wishes to spare him from shame, he brings only birds, whose service can be performed by a single Kohen.

Lev 15:16 ‘And when a man has an emission of semen, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until evening. – This also includes our regular sexual intercourse with our wives. It is always a good time to have sex with one spouse just before sundown that they might wash immediately afterwards to prevent any extended time in an unclean state.

Lev 15:17 ‘And any garment and any leather on which there is semen, shall also be washed with water, and be unclean until evening. -  This signified the great gospel duties of faith and repentance, and the great gospel privileges of the application of Messsiyah’s blood and water that flow from His side, to our souls for our deliverance and his grace for our sanctification. YAHVEH has promised to sprinkle clean water upon us, and to cleanse us from all our filthiness, and has appointed us by repentance to wash and make ourselves clean: he has also provided a sacrifice of atonement, and requires us by faith to interest ourselves in that sacrifice; for it is the blood and water from the side of Messiyah his Son that cleanses us from all sin, and by which atonement is made for us, that we may have admission into YAH’s presence and may partake of his favour.

Lev 15:18 ‘And when a woman lies with a man, and there is an emission of semen, they both shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. - It is also essential to know that a man has no reason to masturbate, in the Hebrew culture or in Torah he is allow to have as many wives as he can afford. If the man was having regular emission of semen, he has to go find a wife.

One of Judyah son was consider sinful for he did not deposit his semen in the right place. Exodus 38: ⁸And Judyah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother. ⁹And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. ¹⁰And the thing which he did displeased the YAHVEH: wherefore he slew him also.

Verse 19 – 28 describes the female discharges. These verses deal with the sanctity of the Hebrew home, for it contain the laws of niddah. “The menstruant”, and niddus, the monthly period when husband and wife may not cohabit.

It is significant that this mitzvah is known as purity of the family. Just as the ritual that the binds man and women to one another is called, sanctification, for a Hebrew marriage is an exercise in bringing sanctity to the human relationship that can most easily become an act of degradation.

The maintenance of this sanctity throughout the years during which the home is built and the children of the future are brought into the world depends on the constant purity of the family and the partners to whom the responsibility was given to create it.

It is essential that Hebrew women understand that a great personal sacrifice and hardship is require to maintain this purity, and thereby help to build the family on a strong foundation of holiness. Unlike the contamination of a male discharge, which has virtually no application in the absence of the Temple and sanctities that must be kept ritually pure, the female discharge discussed in this passage still has the applicability of the niddah laws.

The passage here contains two categories of law. The first applies to a woman in her menstrual period, called niddah. The other passage speaks of a zavah, who, like her male counterpart, may be require to bring an offering as part of her purification process.

Since it is very difficult to determine when a is in her niddah and when she is a zavah, it is necessary to impose some regulation of zavah upon all women. Since this state is a state of contamination, the woman is required to isolate her self for seven days. This is enforce by a law prohibit cohabitation with a niddah woman as we will see in chapter 18 and 20.

Verse 19 –24 set forth the first part of the passage deals with a woman’s regular menstrual flow, but not with the separate condition of zavah. As indicated in verse 25, a crucial difference between niddah and zavah is the time of her discharge. If it comes during the time of her regular monthly period, she has the status of a niddah; if it comes at other times, she may be a zavah.

Lev 15:19 ‘And when a woman has a discharge, and the discharge from her flesh is blood, she has to be in her separation for seven days. And whoever touches her is unclean until evening. – In her state of separation, throughout the seven-day period, she is ritually contaminated to the same degree as a zav, and she must therefore separate herself from people or things that are required to remain ritually pure.

Lev 15:20 ‘And whatever she lies on during her separation is unclean. And whatever she sits on is unclean. – Bed she lays or sits on during this time of separation is considered unclean. One of the reasons why I refuse to take public transit if for this same reason. I do not know who was sitting in the seat I just sat in.

Lev 15:21 ‘And anyone who touches her bed has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. It is incumbent on all of the Mighty Hand of EL YAHVEH ministers to stay away from your wives the night before you attempt to minister in Church. Do not even shake the hand of a young woman, for you are not sure if she is ritually clean.

Lev 15:22 ‘And whoever touches any object that she sat on has to wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – There are some churches that require the women to sit on one side of the church while the men sit on the other side. There is some validity to this practice. How many men arrive in church on Sunday hand in hand with their wife and she is on her monthly cycle. This is not to be so.

Lev 15:23 ‘And if it is on the bed or on any object on which she sits, when he touches it, he is unclean until evening. – If a woman who is ritually contaminated touches a Pastor after sundown on Friday evening, that Pastor is not allowed to minister on Sabbath.

Lev 15:24 ‘And if any man lies with her at all, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days. And any bed he lies on is unclean. – Here is another principle, if her husband has marital relationship with her; he is unclean for seven days. and any bed he sleep on will become unclean. Yet today it is taught that a woman is more sensitive during this time of the month, and it is a time for maximum pleasure. Do we ever wonder why there are so many sexual transmitted diseases?

Verse 25 – 28 describes zavah. According to the tradition taught to Moses by EL YAHVEH at Sinai, there are seven days during which a discharge gives a woman the niddah status of the previous verse.

Lev 15:25 ‘And when a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her monthly separation, or when she discharges beyond her usual time of monthly separation, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her monthly separation. She is unclean. – Many days seem to imply plurality of actions is sufficient to indicate that there must be a minimum of two days. The additional words many imply that this is a condition known as a major zavah require a flow of three days. What is this flow one may ask?

Outside of her monthly separation explained in the prefatory remarks, the days of potential zivah can begin only after the seven niddah days are over. Therefore the sense of this phrase is that she in now past her niddah days.

What kind of flow is this verse describing, if it is not the regular monthly cycle, and it is safe to say it is not a venereal disease. Then what is it? Is it the flow that comes from a woman when she is ready for her husband? This flow might mean any undesirable flow that is not part of the monthly cycle.

Lev 15:26 ‘Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge is to her as the bed of her monthly separation. And whatever she sits on is unclean, as the uncleanness of her monthly separation. – Any bed that she lies on will become contaminated, deu to her state of impurities.

Lev 15:27 ‘And anyone who touches them is unclean, and shall wash his garments, and shall bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. – If there is a flow from a woman or a man, if it is beyond the natural boundaries of nature. It is a sign that something is wrong with the body, it is in a state of uncleanness. Mucus from a cold could be one such activity.

Lev 15:28 ‘But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and after that she is clean. – The same principle is seen here after she is clean from her impurities; she must be secluded for seven days.

Lev 15:29 ‘And on the eighth day she takes for herself two turtledoves or two young pigeons, and shall bring them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of Meeting. – On the eight day the day of new beginning she is require to bring her guilt offering and her elevation offering to the Tabernacle

Lev 15:30 ‘And the priest shall prepare the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and the priest shall make atonement for her before יהוה for the discharge of her uncleanness. – The priest/Pastor shall prepare the sin offering, which include a confession for allowing ourselves to get to this stage of contamination. Even though it may not be a sin unto death, it is a sin anyway.

Lev 15:31 ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Yisra’ĕl from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My Dwelling Place which is in their midst. – The result of continue to live in this state, will eventually led to Spiritual death of the individual. The spiritual death comes when we defile the Tabernacle, with our uncleanness.

Lev 15:32 ‘This is the Torah for one who has a discharge, and for him who emits semen and is unclean thereby, These are the statues when anyone has a discharge from their bodies, and it is a law forever.

Lev 15:33 and for her who is sick in her monthly separation, and for one who has a discharge, either man or woman, and for him who lies with an unclean woman. – The charges are repeated here again as a reminder. Notice that the extra chare of associating with an unclean woman is also included.

HafTorah

2Kings 7:3 – 7:28

2Ki 7:3  And there were four leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die? - How the Syrians’ flight was discovered by four leprous men. Samaria was delivered, and did not know it. The watchmen on the walls were not aware of the retreat of the enemy, so silently did they steal away. But Providence employed four lepers to be the intelligencers, who had their lodging without the gate, being excluded from the city, as ceremonially unclean: the Jews say they were Gehazi and his three sons; perhaps Gehazi might be one of them, which might cause him to be taken notice afterwards by the king, ch. 8:4. See how these lepers reasoned themselves into a resolution to make a visit in the night to the camp of the Syrians.

 They were ready to perish for hunger; none passed through the gate to relieve them. Should they go into the city, there was nothing to be gain where they were, they mist die in the streets; should they sit still, they must pine to death in their cottage.

2Ki 7:4  If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die. - They therefore determine to go over to the enemy, and throw themselves upon their mercy: if they killed them, better die by the sword than by famine, one death than a thousand; but perhaps they would save them alive, as objects of compassion. Common prudence will put us upon that method which may better our condition, but cannot make it worse. The prodigal son resolves to return to his father, whose displeasure he had reason to fear, rather than perish with hunger in the far country.

2Ki 7:5  And they rose up in the twilight, to go unto the camp of the Syrians: and when they were come to the uttermost part of the camp of Syria, behold, there was no man there. - These lepers conclude, "If they kill us, we shall but die;’’ and happy they who, in another sense, can thus speak of dying. "We shall but die, that is the worst of it, not die and be damned, not be hurt of the second death.’’ According to this resolution, they went, in the beginning of the night, to the camp of the Syrians, and, to their great surprise, found it wholly deserted, not a man to be seen or heard in it.

2Ki 7:6  For YAHVEH had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Yisrael hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us. – The wicked will run away when no one is in persuaded. Some time when we hear of people hearing voices in their mind, do not think it strange.

2Ki 7:7  Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. - Providence ordered it, that these lepers came as soon as the Syrians had fled, for they fled in the twilight, the evening twilight, and in the twilight the lepers came verse 5, and so no time was lost. When our Creator delivered our enemies into our hand it will be total.

2Ki 7:8  And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it. - How they reasoned themselves into a resolution to bring tidings of this to the city. They feasted in the first tent they came to and then began to think of enriching themselves with the plunder;

2Ki 7:9  Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king's household. - but they corrected themselves: "We do well not to conceal these good tidings from the community we are members of, under color of being avenged upon them for excluding us from their society; it was the law that did it, not they, and therefore let us bring them the news. Though it awake them from sleep, it will be life from the dead to them.’’ Their own consciences told them that some mischief would befall them if they acted separately, and sought themselves only.

2Ki 7:10  So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were. - Selfish narrow-spirited people cannot expect to prosper; the most comfortable advantage is that which our brethren share with us in. According to this resolution, they returned to the gate, and acquainted the sentinel with what they had discovered.

2Ki 7:11  And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's house within.- who straightway brought the intelligence to the King, and it was not the less acceptable for being first brought by lepers.

2Ki 7:12  And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.- The king’s jealousy of a stratagem in the Syrian’s retreat. He feared that they had withdrawn into an ambush, to draw out the besieged, that they might fall on them with more advantage. he knew he had no reason to expect that YAHVEH should appear thus wonderfully for him, having forfeited his favor by his unbelief and impatience. He knew no reason the Syrians had to fly, for it does not appear that he or any of this attendants heard the noise of the chariots which the Syrians were frightened at. Let not those who, like him, are unstable in all their ways, think to receive any thing from YAHVEH; nay, a guilty conscience fears the worst and makes men suspicious.

2Ki 7:13  And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Yisrael that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Yisraelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see. - The course they took for their satisfaction, and to prevent their falling into a snare. They sent out spies to see what had become of the Syrians, and found they had all fled indeed, commanders as well a common soldiers. He that gave this advice seems to have been very sensible of the deplorable condition the people were in; for speaking of the horses, many of which were dead and the rest ready to perish for hunger, he says, and repeats it, "They are as all the multitude of Yisrael.

2Ki 7:14  They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see. - Yisrael used to glory in their multitude, but now they are diminished and brought low.’’ He advised to send five horsemen, but, it should seem, there were only two horses fit to be sent, and those chariot-horses. Now YAHVEH repented himself concerning his servants, when he saw that their strength was gone, Deu. 32:36.

2Ki 7:15  And they went after them unto Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned, and told the king.- They could track them by the garments which they threw off, and left by the way, for their greater expedition.

2Ki 7:16  And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of YAHVEH. - The plenty that was evident in Samaria, was seen from the plunder of the camp of the Syrians. Had the Syrians been governed by the modern policies of war, when they could not take their baggage and their tents with them they would rather have burnt them (as it is common to do with the forage of a country) than let them fall into their enemies’ hands; but YAHVEH determined that the besieging of Samaria, which was intended for its ruin, should turn to its advantage, and that Yisrael should now be enriched with the spoil of the Syrians as of old with that of the Egyptians.

Here we see,

1. The wealth of the sinner laid up for the just (Job 27:16, 17) and the spoilers spoiled, Isa. 33:1.

2. The wants of Yisrael supplied in a way that they little thought of, which should encourage us to depend upon the power and goodness of YAHVEH in our greatest straits.

3. The word of Elisha fulfilled to a tittle: A measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel; those that spoiled the camp had not only enough to supply themselves with, but an over plus to sell at an easy rate for the benefit of others, and so even those that tarried at home did divide the spoil, Ps. 68:12; Isa. 33:23. YAH’s promise may be safely relied on, for no word of his shall fall to the ground.

2Ki 7:17  And the king appointed YAHVEH on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of YAHVEH had said, who spake when the king came down to him. - The death of the unbelieving courtier, that questioned the truth of Elisha’s word. Divine threatening will as surely be accomplished as divine promises. He that believeth not shall be damned stands as firm as He that believeth shall be saved.

This lord,

Was preferred by the king to the charge of the gate, to keep the peace, and to see that there was no tumult or disorder in dividing and disposing of the spoil. So much trust did the king repose in him, in his prudence and gravity, and so much did he delight to honor him. He that will be great, let him serve the public.

Was trodden to death by the people in the gate, either by accident, the crowd being exceedingly great, and he in the thickest of it, or perhaps designedly, because he abused his power, and was imperious in restraining the people from satisfying their hunger. However it was, YAH’s justice was glorified, and the word of Elisha was fulfilled. He saw the plenty, for the silencing and shaming of his unbelief, corn cheap without opening windows in heaven, and therein saw his own folly in prescribing to YAHVEH; but he did not eat of the plenty he saw. When he was about to fill his belly YAHVEH cast the fury of his wrath upon him (Job 20:23) and it came between the cup and the lip. Justly are those thus tantalized with the world’s promises that think themselves tantalized with the promises of YAHVEH. If believing shall not be seeing, seeing shall not be enjoying.

2Ki 7:18  And it came to pass as the man of YAHVEH had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria: - This matter is repeated, and the event very particularly compared with the prediction, that we might take special notice of it, and might learn,

How deeply YAHVEH resents out distrust of him, of His power, providence, and promise. When Yisrael said, Can YAHVEH furnish a table? YAHVEH heard it and was wroth. Infinite wisdom will not be limited by our folly. EL YAHVEH never promises the end without knowing where to provide the means.

How uncertain life and the enjoyments of it are. Honor and power cannot secure men from sudden and inglorious deaths. He whom the king leaned upon the people trod upon; he who fancied himself the stay and support of the government was trampled under foot as the mire in the streets. Thus hath the pride of men’s glory been often stained.

How certain YAH’s threatening are, and how sure to alight on the guilty and obnoxious heads. Let all men fear before the great ELOHIM, who treads upon princes as mortar and is terrible to the kings of the earth.

2Ki 7:19  And that YAHVEH answered the man of YAH, and said, Now, behold, if YAHVEH should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? And He said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.-

2Ki 7:20  And so it fell out unto him: for the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died.

Brit Chadasha

Markus 5: 24 - 34

Mark 5:²⁴And Yahushua went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. - Here is one, that comes openly to beg a cure for a sick child; and it is no less a person than one of the rulers of the synagogue, one that presided in the synagogue-worship or, as some think, one of the judges of the consistory court, which was in every city, consisting of twenty-three. He was not named in Matthew; he is here, Jairus, or Jair, Jdg. 10:3.

He addressed himself to the Messiyah, though a ruler, with great humility and reverence; When he saw him, he fell at his feet, giving honor to him as one really greater than he appeared to be; and with great importunity, he besought him greatly, as one in earnest, as one that not only valued the mercy he came for, but that knew he could obtain it no where else.

The case is this, He has a little daughter, about twelve years old, the darling of the family, and she lies gravely ill; but he believes that if The Messiyah will but come, and lay his hands upon her, she will return even from the gates of the grave. He said, at first, when he came, She lies a dying (so Mark); but afterward, upon fresh information sent him, he saith, She is even now dead (so Matthew); but he still prosecutes his suit; see Lu. 8:42–49. Messiyah readily agreed, and went with him.

Mark 5:²⁵And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, - Here is another, that comes clandestinely to steal a cure (if I may so say) for herself; and she got the relief she came for. This cure was wrought by the way, as he was going to raise the ruler’s daughter, and was followed by a crowd. See how Messiyah improved his time, and lost none of the precious moments of it.

Many of his discourses, and some of his miracles, are dates by the way-side; we should be doing good, not only when we sit in the house, but when we walk by the way, Deu. 6:7.

Now observe, he piteous case of this poor woman. She had a constant issue of blood upon her, for twelve years, which had thrown her, no doubt, into great weakness, had embittered the comfort of her life, and threatened to be her death in a little time.

She had had the best advice of physicians, that she could get, and had made use of the many medicines and methods they prescribed: as long as she had any thing to give them, they had kept her in hopes that they could cure her; but now that she had spent all she had among them, they gave her up as incurable.

Mark 5:²⁶And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, -  That skin for skin, and all that a man has, will be give for life and health; she spent all she had upon physicians. It is ill with those patients whose physicians are their worst disease; who suffer by their physicians, instead of being relieved by them.

Those that are not bettered by medicines, commonly grow worse, and the disease shows no sign of improvement. It is usual with people not to apply themselves to Yahshua, till they have tried in vain all other avenues, and find them, as certainly they will, physicians of no value. And he will be found a sure refuge, even to those who make him their last refuge.

Mark 5:²⁷When she had heard of Yahushuas, she came and press behind Him, and touched His garment. - Those who have not been made bettered by medicines, commonly grow worse, and the disease gets the worst of the Patents. It is usual with people not to apply themselves to Yahshua, till they have tried in vain all other helpers, and find them, as certainly they will, physicians of no value, and He will be found a sure refuge, even to those who make him their last refuge.

Mark 5:²⁸For she said, If I may but touch the end of His Garment, I shall be whole. –   The strong faith that she had in the power of Messiyah to heal her; she said within herself, though it doth not appear that she was encouraged by any preceding instance to say it, If I may but touch his “tzitziyot”clothes, I shall be whole.  She believed that he cured, not as a prophet, by virtue derived from EL YAHVEH, but as the Son of YAH, by a virtue inherent in Himself. Her case was such as she could not in modesty tell him publicly, as others did their grievances, and therefore a private cure was what she wished for, and her faith was suited to her case.

Mark 5:²⁹And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. - The wonderful effect produced by it; She came in the crowd behind him, and with much ado got to touch the fringes of His garment. This fringe is called tzitziyot, Numbers 15:38, and immediately she felt the cure wrought.

The flux of blood was dried up, and she felt herself perfectly well all over her, as well as ever she was in her life, in an instant; by this it appears that the cure was altogether miraculous; for those that in such cases are cured by natural means, recover their strength slowly and gradually, and not all at once; but as for YAHVEH, his work is perfect.  Those whom Messiyah heals of the disease of sin, which bloody issue, cannot but experience in themselves a universal change for the better.

When any believers wear tzitziyot on the end of his garment, it is a sign that they observed all of EL YAHVEH commandment. Such a person is a walking source of healing, for virtue dwells with them.

Mark 5:³⁰And Yahushua, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? - Messiyah’s enquiry after his concealed patient, and the encouragement he gave her, upon the discovery of her; our Messiyah knew in himself that virtue had gone out of him. He knew it not by any deficiency of spirits, through the exhausting of this virtue, but rather by an agility of spirits, in the exerting of it, and the innate and inseparable pleasure he had in doing good.

Mark 5:³¹And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? - And being desirous to see his patient, he asked, not in displeasure, as one affronted, but in tenderness, as one concerned, Who touched my tzitziyot? The disciples, not without a show of rudeness and indecency, almost ridiculed his question; The multitudes throng thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? As if it had been an improper question.

Mark 5:³²And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. - Yahushua passed by the affront, and looks around to see her that had done this thing; not that he might blame her for her presumption, but that he might commend and encourage her faith, and by his own act and deed might warrant and confirm the cure, and ratify to her that which she had surreptitiously obtained. He needed not that any should inform him, for he had presently his eye upon her.

Mark 5:³³But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. - As secret acts of sin, so secret acts of faith, are known to Yahushua Messiyah, and are under His eye. If believers derive virtue from Messiyah ever so closely, he knows it, and is pleased with it. The poor woman, hereupon, presented herself to Yahushua Messiyah, fearing and trembling, not knowing how He would take it.

Yahushua Messiyah’s patients are often trembling, when they have reason to be triumphing. She might have come boldly, knowing what was done in her; yet, knowing that, she was in an unclean state she was  in fears and trembles. It was a surprise, and was not yet, as it should have been, a pleasing surprise. However, she fell down before him.

There is nothing better for those that fear and tremble, than to throw themselves at the feet of YAHVEH Yahushua; to humble themselves before him, and refer themselves to him.

Mark 5:³⁴And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague. - she told him all the truth. We must not be ashamed to own the secret transactions between Messiyah and our souls; but, when called to it, mention, to His praise, and the encouragement of others, what He has done for our souls, and the experience we have had of healing virtue derived from him.

The consideration of this, that nothing can be hid from Messiyah, should engage us to confess all to him. See what an encouraging word he gave her; Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole. Yahushua puts honor upon faith, because faith gives honor to the Messiyah.

But see how what is done by faith on earth is ratified in heaven; Messiyah saith, Be whole of thy disease. If our faith sets the seal of its amen to the power and promise of EL YAHVEH, saying, "So it is, and so let it be to me;’’ YAH’s grace will set the seal of its amen to the prayers and hopes of faith, saying, "So be it, and so it shall be, to thee.’’

Therefore, "Go in peace; be well satisfied that thy cure is honestly come by, is effectually wrought, and take the comfort of it.’’ They that by faith are healed of their spiritual diseases, have reason to go in peace.