the need to be clean

UNCLEAN !

Leviticus I am the Lord, who brought you up out of Egypt to be your God; therefore be holy, because I am holy.

The three states of Israel “ so that you can distinguish between the holy and the common, between the unclean and the clean…” (Lev 10:10) 1.Holy Common 2. Clean 3.Unclean Special AcceptableUnacceptable

Leviticus ‘Anyone with such a defiling disease must wear torn clothes, let their hair be unkempt, cover the lower part of their face and cry out, “Unclean! Unclean!” 46 As long as they have the disease they remain unclean. They must live alone; they must live outside the camp.

Leviticus 11 Verse 2: “Of all the animals that live on land…” Verse 9: “Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas…” Verse 13: “These are the birds …”

Why are these animals Unclean? Hygiene? Used in Pagan Worship? They represent something else?

Leviticus ‘“Every creature that moves along the ground is to be regarded as unclean; it is not to be eaten. 42 You are not to eat any creature that moves along the ground, whether it moves on its belly or walks on all fours or on many feet; it is unclean. 43 Do not defile yourselves by any of these creatures. Do not make yourselves unclean by means of them or be made unclean by them.

Genesis 3 V14: ‘Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly…” V17: “‘Cursed is the ground because of you…” V22-23: ”He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever.’ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden…”

Israel = NEW Adam. Canaan = NEW Garden of Eden These Food Laws = NEW food prohibition.

Genesis 3: 22-23: ”He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever.’ So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden…” Romans 8:21: “the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay”

Mark 7 20 He went on: ‘What comes out of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come – sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.’

Hebrews 10 1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming – not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. 2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.”

Hebrews 10 “We have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ - once for all.”

Hebrews Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body,