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Leviticus 3 – Infectious Skin Diseases

Covers a variety of skin diseases: infections, ulcers, boils, scabs, and general eczema. Leprosy is a mistranslation. Anyone judged infected is sent outside the camp boundaries until healed. Primary emphasis is cultic (religious ceremony and ritual). A diseased person is not qualified to… (READ MORE)

Leviticus 11-15 Ritual Cleanness

Uncleanness is not to be equated with dirty or evil. A person who was ritually unclean was not permitted to take part in Israel’s worship.  Ritual cleanness and uncleanness set Israel apart from all other peoples, and emphasized approach to… (READ MORE)

Daniel 5 The Handwriting on the Wall

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of… (READ MORE)

Ezekiel 45, 46 The Temple District

  A narrow strip of land running from the Mediterranean to the Jordan is set aside as a sacred district.  Some of it is in the charge of the priests, and the rest in the charge of the prince (Messiah). … (READ MORE)

Ezekiel 42: Separation between Holy and Unholy

Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most… (READ MORE)

Measuring the Future

Ezekiel could be called one of the most visionary prophets.  God showed him spiritual insights that still stir the imagination 25 centuries later.  Like other prophets, Ezekiel’s ministry among his people had two distinct phases: condemnation and consolation. The first… (READ MORE)