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to understand the uh the dietary laws as best we can and to gain from Leviticus 11 what you would have us learn and um how you would have us live we ask this
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father For Your Glory and the edification of your church and we ask it in Jesus name amen so finally we're going
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to uh dig in actual Leviticus actual Leviticus umus Leviticus
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11 um now I do think when reading Leviticus that you can you can easily uh lose the forest for the trees or or as they say you could get lost in the
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weeds um and and that's often the case when you um when you go to the commentaries you find them talking about
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uh individual words um and and you really I personally I just feel like you get you just get down into the to the weeds and you really
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not hearing what the the text is saying another thing you find in the commentaries is when they don't really understand what the passage means they
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just tell it back to you in their own words and that's real helpful real real helpful I always wanted to paraphrase of Leviticus 11 thank you
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um but and some of the big names like Gordon winham who's a very well-known reformed commentator and his commentary on Leviticus is considered one of the
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best and and frankly most of the time he's just paraphrasing what I can read in the text myself um so as we approach the actual Purity laws starting with
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Leviticus 11 I do want to make sure that we don't lose the forest for the trees that we don't get into the minutia to the point where we
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can't grasp what this is all about and I've already mentioned the problem with the different hermeneutical approaches the the taboo demonic
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approach or the hygiene approach or the um the imitation of God or the political priesthood all these different paradigms that groups have used to
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approach these Purity laws to try to explain them the problem is they can never explain all of them so just for example the the imitatio Dei the imitation of
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God so the idea being that um that man is imitating God and that God has stipulated certain animals to be appropriate for sacrifice and therefore
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they are the clean animals well that's fine as far as it goes but nowhere will you find find sacrific sacrifice of an antelope this is not there and and
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you're going to you're going to be very old before you find the sacrifice of uh halban okay fish weren't sacrificed and then of the birds what do you find pigeon the turtle
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dove right and yet pretty much all the birds out there are clean uh there's a there's a list of about 20 19 plus a bat um I think that's
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how it is um and and they're not clean and you don't eat those but of course you don't sacrifice those either but all the rest of them are clean and yet you only ever read of the sacrifice of a
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pigeon or a turtle dove you don't even have them sacrificing chicken so that the point being is that none of the hermeneutical approaches is
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comprehensive there's there's always something wrong with it it doesn't it doesn't fit the data and you'll find as you read it that they only refer to
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those forbidden animals or those clean animals that do fit their Paradigm they don't ever say well there's an exception here because we don't sacrifice analou but antelope's clean okay so why don't
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we sacrifice analou because God didn't say to sacrifice antalope which means your whole Paradigm is probably wrong okay so um I'm not going to approach it
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that way I'm not going to try to explain why this animal is clean or unclean I'm not going to say that again as we've already mentioned that that God didn't know how to teach the Israelites how to cook their pork so they didn't get
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trinos you know that that's the modern very contemporary very common view as to why pigs are unclean was because of health reasons same thing with shellfish
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um but there's really there's no there's no medical and then what do we say okay well they were ignorant right we know now that you have to cook it at you know whatever whatever temperature
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or um you know we know how to maintain uh our our health while eating these Foods U as if God was also ignorant and
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couldn't explain to them how to do the same thing so most of actually I think pretty much all of the reasons that are given except for one uh that is
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separation and I think that particular hermeneutic the idea of separation is already given to us Leviticus 11 and and really several of the chapters are like
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this you you get the reason for the chapter at the end of the chapter okay but we've already seen that the the prologue to the dietary laws is
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back in chapter 10 where 10 where Aaron and this is the first time that we see the the Lord speaking to
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Aaron then in the Purity laws 11-1 15 we have a repeating uh formula the Lord also spoke
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to Moses and to Aaron saying before that God speaking to Moses and after that God speaking to Moses so
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that right there shows us that we're in what we would call a pericope you know God is is including Aaron in the conversation and in Leviticus 10 just to
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remind us the purpose of this was to to make a distinction between the holy and the profane and between the clean unclean and the clean and so as to teach the
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sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses so the key here is to teach the distinction between the holy and the
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prop Fame and the unclean and the clean and again that's a kaym so you have Leviticus
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1010 and there's the there's the chastic structure the second pair are flipped so that you have this poetic structure um but this is the purpose for all that we're doing
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here in these chapters and the application of that then takes us to passages in the New Testament where we are to be separate come out from among them and be separate
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where all who have their this hope within them purifies them purifies himself okay holiness separateness
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purification that's that's all underlying um the New Testament teaching and yet these particular ordinances and these particular restrictions have been
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taken away we saw that last time where when you look at Mark 7 or acts 10 um it's it's quite clear as Paul says the kingdom of God is not a matter of food
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or drink and so these things are no longer um they're no longer in force in terms of of having to obey them but that
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doesn't mean they're without profit in terms of teaching teaching as to what what does it mean to be separated unto the Lord what does it mean to be a holy
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people living in an Unholy world in the presence of a holy God well that's what the church is okay not holy because of their behavior but holy because of the
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sanctifying blood of Jesus Christ and yet we we still dwell as people with unclean lips among a people of unclean lips so this whole idea of clean unclean
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um I think we should recognize is is a fundamental definition of what can come before God and what and what cannot what's profan defition common
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just common yes common yeah exactly we talked about thank you for asking because um it and the same thing is true with uh with unclean okay you know a camel was an
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unclean animal but you could ride it you know you didn't have to go around killing off all the unclean animals okay so it wasn't that there was something inherently evil about them
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either it's just they were not acceptable for the people of God and so profane again that's what's you know commonly the The New American Standard uses that quite possibly your English
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Bibles do the same but the word just basically means common as opposed to Holy which means separate or set apart okay uh We've we've
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attributed meanings to these words especially holy and profane we've attributed a moral quality to these words when um I mean obviously holy does
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also have a moral quality but its fundamental meaning in in the Old Testament scriptures is set apart dedicated consecrated to the service of Yahweh
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that's what it means and that which wasn't consecrated was common but you could still use that bowl or that or that picture even though it wasn't holy it
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was not something that you had to destroy however if something was dedicated to the Lord and then became defiled often times it did have to be destroyed it couldn't go back to being
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just simply just simply common all right so so when we look at the we look at the fundamental idea of what we're getting into early on
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hopefully that'll keep us from getting bogged down um in the in the individual rituals frankly some of which we just don't know why uh for example I'm I'm
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going to be hardpressed I'm I keep thinking about it because I have another week Lord willing um but why the length of the purification period for a woman
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is twice if she gives birth to a girl than if she gives birth to a boy I don't know I mean I've read a lot of explanations and none of them seem to
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make any sense to me um but we'll we'll get into that Lord willing next week but that kind of stuff you can you can really get tripped up on that U because it sounds like oh God hates women you
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know you well I don't know someone woman would appreciate a double break you know whether it's a boy or a girl you either get you either get six weeks maternity leave or 12 I'll take 12 thank you you
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know that's not misogynistic NE necessarily I don't think it is at all but that's the approach that is taken in the modern uh air quotes church as to
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Leviticus 12 but there are those types of uh for example the the the priest touching the lobe of the right ear the thumb of the right
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hand and the big toe of the right foot yeah got it okay that makes sense to me well we'll deal with that so I mean frankly what I'm saying is there are
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some things that I don't think we're necessarily going to be able to definitively say this is this is why they did that but I think the danger in these passages and I see this again in the commentaries and I think this is
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also a lot of reason why people don't like reading this is because you do get down into the weeds and and it's it's it is like a bog and it's a it's a real
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hard U slog to to get through it and I I think the problem is is that you've you've lost the forest you you've lost the bigger picture so as we approach
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these passages we're going to be spending more time uh looking at the structure of what is here than necessarily the individual parts and to begin with as we look at
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to I want to read some of it I want to read just verse two and ask whether this reminds you of of anything now I'm going to put some emphasis on the words that I'm intending
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should remind you of something but he says speak to the sons of Israel saying these are the creatures which you may eat from all the animals that are on the
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earth in yeah from all the trees that are in the garden you may eat right you hear that that's an echo if not an illusion but that's I mean that's
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almost John 1:1 in the beginning from all the animals on the Earth the these you may eat okay okay well that that puts us in our context doesn't it see
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our context in Leviticus 11 is Genesis 1 and 2 and really 1 2 and three because that's going to carry us on to Leviticus 12 1314 and 15 this is all under the
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of all the trees that are in the garden of all the animals that are on the earth so what what what the purpose of Leviticus 11 is probably the same as the
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purpose of Genesis 2 that what we're dealing with here is a
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probation so and I'm going to I I I do want interaction if I say something that doesn't sound right you know just jump in and say wait a minute okay because this this is not um I I don't know that this is self-evident until you kind of
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I'm glad we did the biblical theology class because hopefully now you're you're starting to hear these Echoes and realize that they're probably intentional and so what we're dealing
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with here with here Leviticus I'm going to say 11 through 15 but particularly 11 okay uh let me put that in there particular
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God was placing Adam in the garden and he was placing Israel in the land okay so um diagrammatically you you'd have the
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garden and Adam okay and then God says of all the trees in the garden of all the fruit in the garden you may eat
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land and Israel and contrary to the liberal higher critics they're not in the land yet right they're they're stuck between Exodus 40 and numbers one remember
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they're in that 30-day period so they're not in the land yet and they're certainly not just coming out of Babylonian exile that's that's just whoy um and that's technical term um but what he's
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animals okay now there is a difference the difference is that whereas in Eden the vast majority of the trees were trees were permissible in the land the vast majority of the animals will not
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be so there there's there's a difference going on here uh in in scale maybe in degree not so much in kind it is a probation now of course the
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other difference is that at this time Adam had not yet Fallen Israel had you know they were they were fallen in humanity so um
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there's a difference in the in the quality as it were of the of the two actors but the context the the um the position of them is the same they're not
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yet in the land and and this this book is incredibly is incredibly Central it's been you know first of all Leviticus is the center book of the
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pentet and in a in a very real manner Leviticus 16 although it's not numerically the center the day of atonement is the center of that book and
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so if we see that kind of structure and we see them in this the again the only uh chronologically defined position of is Israel is The Book of Leviticus
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places us between two distinct passages in Exodus and numbers for a 30-day period one month and I think that's all very significant that Leviticus is I
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won't say it's the most important book of the pentat took but I would say it's it's the hinge book upon which everything else moves and so I think
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it's not it shouldn't surprise us that we're see we're hearing an echo of Genesis 2 this is a probation and was there something inherently wrong with
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the tree of the knowledge of Good and it right the same question can be asked of
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the unclean the unclean animals who created them God did so there's nothing inherently bad or evil about either the
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil or the unclean animals of Leviticus 11 this is a probation God is establishing a separation to show the people that they
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are to be holy unto him and both h l y and w l l y holy unto him as opposed to
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all the nations of the world they have been brought out and put in and here is their probation now we know just as Adam failed so also did Israel and I
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mentioned this uh I don't know whether it was Sunday school but at some point we were talking about the the gines I think it was last last time we were together on Thursday night um but it's it's always as long as I can remember
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it's always struck me as significant that there was a herd of swine just outside of gadara in Galilee what's that doing
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there who's got a herd of pigs in a Jewish country okay oh it's just to feed the Gentiles right I got a hot dog shop down downtown to feed the Gentiles like no okay I think there's more to
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that story than just the healing of the demoniac of the gines I think that that herd of swine is indicative of the position of Israel at the end of her
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existence that she was disobedient now we don't really read explicitly of you of the you know the Israelites getting together on Passover and having a ham I don't think they did that but I
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think some of them probably did there were many and you can find that out from the rabbi writings but there were many who violated the dietary laws and they did it on a regular basis especially the
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herodians um you know they wanted to to U cozy up with the Romans and so they they would eat whatever was put in front of them and so there was a problem there
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that the the marker of Israel was was not being observed in the time of Jesus and I have no reason to think that it it was observed consistently in the
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hundreds of years before Christ came so we have a probation and just as in the garden we're going to have a failure now I want to point out something else and I I can't do this I don't want to read the
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whole passage but I do want to just read a couple of of chapters or verses I mean chapters um okay he starts out in verse two from all the animals that
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are on the earth now um how do I how do I put this up here okay so I'm going to say this is an echo of Genesis one
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first in 11 verse2 we have the beot now we now adopted that word
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aoth being a large animal it's basically Hebrew for a land animal typically four-legged but it would also include a bear uh who can
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walk on both four legs or two legs but it's it's just simply a we might say a mammal although not entirely because there are mammals in the sea and in the air so and then there's the Platypus
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which is its own okay so which is God saying you're not God are you so the beote these These are what what these are these are created on day
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six right and in fact they're basically discussed in the same manner in Genesis 1 as they are here in Leviticus 11 then we go from
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there um verse um verse 9 these you may eat whatever is in the water all that have fins and SK those in the water in the Seas or in the
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rivers you may eat so in 119 we have those that are in the
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water well this is also this is day six okay and then we go down to
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um verse 11 we have moreover you shall detest among the birds they are abhorent not to be eaten and he goes on and gives a list of the birds um and then he adds of course the
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bat now whenever this sort of thing happens and there are several of them the rabbit for example has a split hoof but does not
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ruminate right and the bat is not a bird we know now okay again we have this attitude that
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the Ancients were ignorant the Ancients calculated the circumference of the earth and aligned the Great Pyramids with this with the sword belt of the of
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Orion they weren't ignorant they built the pyramids mail pyramids mail order all right all the blocks were brought from from uh um Amazon shipped
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in from China and they all fit perfectly boy it couldn't have been China then of course but I mean there you know on the one hand we say they must have been ignorant they didn't know that a rabbit wasn't a ruminant and they didn't know
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that a bat wasn't a bird that's not the point the rabbit is on the land the bat is in the air again Genesis 1 tells us
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that the taxonomy of Leviticus 11 is following the classification of Creation Day Day six that's why the bats in with
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the birds because it flies does that make sense okay so if we if we understand the the illusion here the Echo and understand that that Moses
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it's it's it's all of a piece for Moses Genesis 1 is not just his theory of how everything started it's the underlying foundation for the whole revelation of
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scripture from start to finish as we pointed out Genesis 1 and 2 end up in Revelation 21 and 22 so they're book They're bookends so we have um starting
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six now I think this also helps us understand the shift between Leviticus 11 which is talking about uh accept able foods and Leviticus 12 that begins talking about a woman after child birth
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and then we get into leprosy and we get into all sorts of well now we're in we're at the end of day six we're now with man so Leviticus
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11 is dealing with all of the animal Creation in relationship to man and then Leviticus 12 through 15 is dealing with man in relationship to God
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yeah oh I think it's very significant I'm not sure I I can uh say definitively what that significance is um although I you know as I as I said Adam was yet in his his pristine sinless
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condition the vast majority of course of of well everything that he ate was was vegetable the animal world was not available to him for food but there is a definite shift and I
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think perhaps the biggest significance is there is that shift that whereas for Adam everything so Adam was was at the beginning when things were still good but now we're we're a way along there
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and now out of so many animals you can only eat this this little bit described as I describe it and out of you know out of all the the
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sea creatures you can only eat the ones that have fins and and scales so instead of a a huge pot of acceptable and just one exception now we have a huge pot of
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unclean and only a few clean I think we can't really imagine what the world was like
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a that has affected all of creation not just man but also animals and and one of the things that some have Scholars have have theorized in terms of why some things like birds are unclean is because
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they are predators of but even that's not really accurate because two of them are not they do not eat caran so um there's again all the little excuses or
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explanations there's always an exception and that tells me we're probably not supposed to go that way I think rather what we should see is is the bigger picture that we're hearing Echoes you
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know we're hearing like Psalm 8 he has made man uh Lord over what the the the beasts of the land and the fish of the Sea and the birds of the air that's the
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big picture is that this thing is broken out the taxonomy of the dietary laws is first of all broken out along the taxonomy of Genesis
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1 oh yes that the man was meant to name these animals and to distinguish in that regard and whatever the animal was so its name was so Adam had had had insight as to their nature and named them
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accordingly so this is also the relationship between man and the animal world but also we're going to see it's the relationship between Israel as
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Eden have easy for yeah yeah it should have only right you got everything else right but here it's more difficult to really sear it's more difficult yeah and yet
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there's a sense in which that God is making it easy here and I'm going to uh I I think when we get through this hopefully I will have explained um that
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that God is is not trying to make life difficult for difficult for Israel um that which is permitted is a pretty complete
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pretty complete diet okay now the plant world is not included in this at all which again kind of destroys the hygienic view because there are far more
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deadly mushrooms than there are animals okay so there there's a lot of plants you shouldn't eat um any of you remember Yu
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Gibbons yeah that that takes us back doesn't it but would would tell us what we can and cannot eat um there's a lot of among the plants because he was a
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vegetarian um but they're not even mentioned here and I think one of the reasons they're not mentioned here is that the very eating of the animal world was something subsequent to the fall and actually subsequent to the
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flood so it places us as you were saying in a completely different world and and we have to acknowledge that that Adam before the fall was in a completely different context than Israel
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land the middle I'm you do it and if you could pass that test you know we can stay inun I mean it was called
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signes this prob well it it does tie in because the the whole purpose of this is to make a distinction and Adam's distinction the
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make that he was to make was of course between one tree and all the rest but it's more than that because as as Abe was saying that's pretty easy you know you just put a sign up and say not this
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tree all the rest of them were fine and I'm sure all the rest of them were quite delicious and quite beautiful okay why was this tree so tempting well because
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it was a it was a it was an illegitimate means to a true end and all through the scripture God is teaching
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us that there is a way to truth and to Joy and to peace and it's never the way man thinks it is it's always God's way and
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so even in this he is separating them from the Nations and in one sense the dietary law is all about that this marks
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Israel but I don't think that's the major sense I don't think they were they were doing this just to be different I think it was their daily reminder that
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they have been set apart by God that they are holy to the Lord and I think we're going to see that this that this extends to to all of the Israelites not
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just the priests okay so I think there is a significance to the um to the knowledge of the tree of Good and Evil um but I think as you
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were saying were saying earlier the actual context the historical context is so vastly different that I do think we are somewhat limited in our ability to comprehend uh and yet I think we all see
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that there is a parallel here right that I think and I think it's intentional um there's also the teeming things I I'll mention them because they they show up kind of throughout chapter
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things so when you step back and you look at the whole picture and and you see how these uh animal groups have been set apart there is the echo of Genesis one there's the echo of creation and if
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you real you know if you take the first uh the opening of it in verse two and realize that that this is our kind of our situation in space and time then we realize that you know the
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the actual reason for this animal or that animal may not be inherent in the animal itself or it it's it does not derive
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from ancient Babylonian or Egyptian tabos see these are all the the common scholarly excuses as to why for example the um the Canaanites apparently used a
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pig in one of their worship rituals I bet the guy who stumbled on that was happy you know he thinks he's explained um you know but the they don't um others use the camel
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the camel's clean or not the camel the the cow but the cow's clean so there's an exception to all of these rules and yet what what is not there's no exception to the fact that the structure
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is the same as Genesis 1 so that puts our mind back just like John 1:1 that immediately takes our mind back to man as first created and then it tells us
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that what we're dealing with then fundamentally as I said earlier is we're dealing with dealing with Israel as
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Adam and the land as land as Eden the Garden which the Old Testament frequently refers to the land as as the
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garden of God or some other such phrase so this this illusion is not something that we're just making up because we have the same type of of wording here it
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it's trying to teach Israel okay this this is who you are now obviously they're they're not that's why I put it in quotation marks Israel is not the
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second adom and yet out of is out of Egypt I called my son okay so in a sense Israel is Adam the Son of God and of course
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from and through Israel will come the last Adam the Messiah Jesus so this is kind of looking forward to that as well and the land was not Eden and yet it was
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a land flowing with milk and honey that upon the OB Obedience of God's people would continue to be prosperous right Deuteronomy uh which is one 28 or 29
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whatever the you know the blessings I get them backwards but but if but there is now that that uh that contingency that they must obey the ordinances of
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God yeah yeah that see that kind of language we we I mean we look at the Middle East today and we I don't know I don't really think of it as a land of flowing with milk and honey um but I don't think it's also I don't think it's the same today as it was then either
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either but either but um we do read about the land in those types of hon terms edenic even and and
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yet we know it's not Eden man has fallen Israel are they're Sinners okay they're no different than the rest of the Nations and yet God is doing something here he's setting up a paradigm that not
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only takes their mind Back to Eden but also reminds them of the current disconnect between Israel and between the land and Adam as created and Eden
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and that disconnect takes their mind forward to when God will bring the new Heaven and the new Earth and most importantly he will bring the last Adam the Messiah the the seed of woman who
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was promised so it it's looking both backward and that sets our context that sets our hermeneutical Paradigm in which we read these passages but then then it
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points forward to when this will this typology will become reality because it clearly isn't clearly isn't okay any other questions or
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comments right yep that's exactly where we're headed next because this is not just creation this also and this may help us understand the differential between the the many acceptable trees
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and the one forbidden one and now the the many forbidden animals and the few acceptable ones there is that transition but now we have an
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echo of the flood it's not nearly as clear in the language of Leviticus 11 except that it
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uses the terminology of clean and unclean in terms of animals and and we we we generally think well you know that's where the clean and unclean come from but in Genesis
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7 Noah is instructed that of the clean animals and that's exactly the
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pair of unclean and again the same word clean and unclean and to give a little bit of credence to the the idea of the sacrificial being the clean and then
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therefore acceptable to to eat in Genesis 8 uh verse
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clean so this is all already there which I always find intriguing you know it it's there's there's obviously well I say obviously there seems to have been some communication by God that has
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not been recorded priesthood there's no priesthood Noah is the priest yeah Noah Noah would be the priest because he's the one offering up the sacrifice um as
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Abraham would be a priest or as as Adam would have been a priest um and even the um the Judgment between Cain's sacrifice
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versus Abels uh we we look at that as and people have said God Is So arbitrary you know he just decided he like he has favorites he decided he liked AEL before more than he liked Cain no that's not
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God it it is quite clear though it may not be clear in the text but it has to be clear in the nature of God that Cain was not following some proper procedure
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I think frankly he was offering a peace offering and not a burnt offering he he was he was not acknowledging his sin and yet he wanted to acknowledge his communion with God and it's like like no
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you you can't do that I don't know that because the text doesn't say that I'm reading into it but then even those sacrifices are mentioned in the prosaic
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Chron chronology so this is this is this is somehow already ingrained in the human mind whether it's explicit which it very well may have been or whether it's
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implicit in in the very nature of God I think it's explicit when Noah when Noah is told seven of the clean animals two of the unclean and yet he's not told
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Leviticus he is cast out oh yeah yeah and if you didn't do this or and we're going to find out that's actually it's more explicit in numbers five but if a man refuses for example to be purified when he has been defiled he is
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then cut off from his people and cast out so this is this is serious stuff if if it's followed okay if it's actually obeyed and and as Abigail was mentioning
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uh we and I don't know exactly um I think it's in Genesis 9 but we have um the basically the basically meat is permitted
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without restriction okay this represents Now The Way of the World Fallen man the sin of Adam has passed through the flood the flood did
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not wash away the corruption of Adam's fall and it is still in innate in Noah and his sons and his descendants and now this is the world we have the table of
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Nations and from that world God will call Abraham but no such restriction on Abraham's diet is in the text he's still
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part of the Nations it isn't until SI it isn't until the Wilderness that God makes a specific
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distinction between one nation and all the rest okay so we're we're moving in progressive revelation of Salvation history we go from an entirely
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vegetarian diet with one restriction to really a completely carnivorous diet I mean obviously they could still eat fruit and vegetables but there's no
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restriction on what Noah and his descendants are allowed to eat among the animal world he has given God has given them into his hand so again that argues against the hygienic
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view right I mean Abraham could have had pork and sauerkraut for Christmas it would not have been forbidden to him to do
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to do so so what's what's wrong with that picture he's before Israel right so if Israel doesn't know how to cook a pig how did Abraham know how to do it again
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these are the arguments against the common understanding of the dietary laws that just really aren't they don't hold water they don't work there's got to be something else going on here and I think
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fundamentally what's going on here is the uh the distinction God has already made a distinction in calling in in Saving Noah and his sons the eight Souls
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that were saved in the ark now it's it's kind of okay repopulate the Earth and not only the plants do I give you but all the animals so whatever you want to eat you can
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eat without incurring guilt you might still incur trichinosis or gallbladder or uh appendicitis go ahead do you think confus so were
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it it oh no I I yeah just at this point one one definition of clean if we used the the noic example was that the only the clean animals are acceptable for
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sacrifice that's not a Prohibition that's not a Prohibition because as I said no one was allowed to eat any of them there's no prohibition on eating there no dietary not like restriction
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he's Notting restri no no no he's he's there were no rest and yet there was a knowledge of a distinction between clean and unclean that's the mystery that's
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the Intriguing part that you know it was okay for Noah and then by implication Abraham and Isaac it was okay for them and Jacob by the way to eat an unclean
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animal and not incur uncleanness or or guilt now one of the things that we've already seen in the early chapters of L Leviticus is that um in going back to
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God walked with Adam in the garden right and God dwelt with dwelt with Israel in the Tabernacle so one of the fundamental
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truths that that lies behind all of what we're reading is the imminent presence of God with his people okay
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people okay During the period between Noah and Si God was not dwelling in the midst of his people acts 14 talks Paul talks about
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God basically leaving the Nations to their own their own paths during this time he's he's not dealing with the rest of the Nations he's not even dealing with Israel yet
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all he did he did like his Spirit wasused them what to do what to say
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well I think that there was there there's clearly evidence of God communing with communing with individuals he walked with Enoch and Enoch walked with God and was no more right I I think there had to be some
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understanding that Cain and Abel had that Cain rejected that may have come through Adam I mean I these things aren't
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recorded and I don't think we have to um I don't think we have to conclude that they just made them up as they went along that's again the liberal view is that they just kind of made these things up as they went along I don't think so
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we know that he talked with Abraham and that he wasn't even going to bring judgment down upon Sodom and Gomorrah without first talking to to Abraham because he had called Abraham in order
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that Abraham would teach his children and his grandchildren so yes you're absolutely right he had a a Remnant or at least a line that stretches from Seth
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all the way to Jesus but we we have something new here because we have a people and we have a territory and we have God dwelling in that with that
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people in that territory okay we have a people Adam and Eve we have a territory the Garden of Eden and we have God dwelling with man in that
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Garden same thing here okay so part of the application of all of this is to transpose these
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environments to the new creation and the new creation people the church okay so what do we have let's let's I'm jumping ahead but let's let's
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me can we say that God is dwelling in the midst of this people can we say that God is dwelling in the midst of the New Covenant New
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Creation people that's the holy spir Spirit isn't it okay
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Justin people could WIP everybody out start over start over sear people rules follow AB of chist came these I was
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able yeah the only to show that you still couldn't do it like in a s in a sense that's very true but in another sense it it's it it it moves along the line of dispensationalism which I know
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you're not doing that but but I I appreciate what you're saying because it'll allow me to to try to connect these in the ways that they are commonly connected or commonly
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disconnected the dispensational view is there was there was this that didn't work then there was this that didn't work okay and what about the
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future well this ain't going to work either we're already told that right okay even Jesus himself is going to get trapped in Jerusalem by the armies of go and mug
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that always struck me as weird that the Risen Lord Of Glory huh what are you talking about dispensationalism they say that yes oh yeah and in Armageddon he's he's actually trapped and it'll have to
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be God himself kind of like the Marvel movie when oh never mind I won't go there I mean it's pretty bad stuff it really is when you get into it and read what they say about how the things are
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going to turn out they they really Verge on blasphemy right because Paul says that that the work was finished on the cross the hostility was yeah tear down yes
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right that's not dispensationalism but if if you and I'm not suggesting that you do but if you read into dispensation you would be shocked at what you're actually reading okay you really would je a different way it will save them a
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different way but but as I said at Armageddon Jesus is actually surrounded by the armies of Gog and MOG and God has to come rescue him wait a minute this is the Lord Of Glory all authority in
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Heaven and Earth has been given unto him I don't think so um but this is the problem but as you know what what the truth is is
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this okay now what this tells us also is application is that we occupy an analogous position in God's Redemptive history to the position that Israel
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occupied only we're not localized nor is God in other words he's not only in the Tabernacle or later in the temple in
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fact he never came to the second temple and the Jews knew it they were aware that the Shag had never descended upon the second temple so the the context
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when we read the Old Testament what we should be thinking of is we We Are The Next Step huge step in what Israel
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was am yes it's getting larger and larger until it becomes the consummation which is the new Heaven and the new Earth where righteousness dwells
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way not an attorney in Russian nesting dolls all right um cut off right right right right yeah but they are distinct they are distinct yeah and they are in a
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sense concentric yeah I can I can see that I can see that yes see okay yes just makes
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that's exactly the intentionality and that's what I was going to finish up with is you're absolutely right about the intentionality the the the error of dispensationalism is to say that God's intentionality ever either failed or
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changed it has always been his intention to do these things what matters for us is to recognize this connection right here that this is who we are which is
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analogous to who they were which was analogous to who who Adam was and so though we don't have these restrictions we still have the demands
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of cleanness and uncleanness we have Purity and impurity we have holy and profane because Paul says come out from among them and be separate touch no unclean
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thing he says and yet he knows now that all foods have been declared clean so obviously he's he's referring to this whole Paradigm but under a completely
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different regime it also seems simar to how Paul
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call yeah and and even thank you yes God called Abraham and made the Covenant before circumcision Paul points that out he he has the clean and unclean with Noah though there's no restriction on
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Noah Noah's diet so the the the facts are there um and I think that also plays into something I mentioned before and that
