Lev 14:1–57
The Hebrew paragraphs:
14:1-20 {s} The law of cleansing for leprosy that has been healed
14:21-32 {p} The law of cleansing for leprosy that has been healed for the poor
14:33-57 {p} The law of leprosy in a house
Metzorah contains a ceremony unlike any other in Torah (Lev 14:1-7 and 14:49-53). Two living birds are brought, with wood, scarlet, and hyssop. One of the birds is killed over running water; the Hebrew is actually, “living water.” Then the living bird, with wood, scarlet and hyssop, is dipped in the blood over the living water. The man is cleansed of his leprosy, that is, his walking death, when the blood is sprinkled on him, and the living bird is set free.
We have seen the wood, scarlet, and hyssop before in Scripture.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, “Pick out and take a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover. And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood [scarlet] that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts [wood] with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. For YHVH will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two doorposts, YHVH will pass over the door, and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.” Exo 12:21-23
This is the most famous prophetic picture of Messiah Yeshua in all of Torah. By the connection of common theme, one of the teaching tools of Torah, we are meant to see that the ceremony of the living bird, with its repeat of hyssop, scarlet, and wood, is likewise a prophetic picture of Messiah Yeshua. The blood of the Passover Lamb is applied with hyssop. He is the Sin Sacrifice who is offered on the wood of the cross. It is His blood which ran scarlet, which imparts resurrection life, just as the living bird is set free, and which cleanses us from walking death.
Lev 15:1–33
15:1-15 {s} The law for bodily discharges
15:16-18 {p} The law for emissions of semen
15:19-24 {s} The law for menstrual impurity
15:25-33 {p} The law for a hemorrhage of impurity
This section forms a reverse parallelism.
“Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they do not die in their uncleanness, when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.” Lev 15:31
And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, “Let us alone; what have we to do with you, Yeshua of Nazareth? Have You come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God.” And Yeshua rebuked him, saying, “Hold your peace, and come out of him.” And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. And they were all amazed, in that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What thing is this? What new doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him.” Mar 1:23-27
The Holy One—Set Apart or Separate One—of God separates His children from their uncleanness, that they do not die, since the dwelling place of God is among them.
For you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore come out from among them, and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and you shall be My sons and daughters,” says the Lord Almighty. 2 Cor 6:16b-18
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