Leviticus 11:2-3

“Parteth the hoof” – Split hoof .

“Clovenfooted” – Foot divided into two parts.

“Cheweth the cud” –Eat their “cud” or regurgitated food.

What about Pigs make them “Unclean?”

They wallow in the mud, like to be dirty.

They are cannibalistic, vicious.

What about Eagles make them

“Unclean?”

They are predators

Why?

• What was one purpose of the Lord’s dietary laws for the Israelites (and the Lord’s law of health in our day?

“Our physical body is the instrument of our spirit. In that marvelous revelation, the Word of Wisdom, we are told how to keep our bodies free from impurities which might dull, even destroy, those delicate physical senses which have to do with spiritual communication. “The Word of Wisdom is our armor and will protect us from habits which obstruct the channels of personal revelation” (“Revelation in a Changing World,” Ensign, Nov. 1989, 14).

How has living the Word of Wisdom helped you to not defile yourself?

In what other ways have you or those you know been blessed by living the Word of Wisdom?

Have you ever had to explain the Word of Wisdom to someone who is not a member of the Church?

video “A Brand New Year: Physical Health” (7:28)

The Tabernacle Practices: Leprosy

Leprosy

“A terrible form of skin disease spoken of in the Bible… (Bible Dictionary: Leprosy)

   Because leprosy was so visible and involved the decay or corruption of the body, it served as an excellent symbol of sin.

LeprosyHow to cleanse a Leper

Leviticus 13:45-46Hebrews 13:12  “Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.”

Leviticus 14:1-3

How can a bishop help you receive the blessing of forgivenes

s through the Savior’s Atonemen

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Cleansing a Leper

Leviticus 14:4 “Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet and hyssop.”

Is there an event in Christ’s life that involves 2 birds?

Why two birds? What two things does Christ help us overcome?

Cleansing a Leper

Leviticus 14:4 “Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet and hyssop.”

Cedar helps preserve other things from decay and corruption.

Cleansing a Leper

Leviticus 14:4 “Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet and hyssop.”

Scarlet = A Scarlet Dyed Cloth (Footnote)

Is there an event in Christ’s life that involved a scarlet cloth?

Cleansing a Leper

Leviticus 14:4 “Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet and hyssop.”

A purifying plant

Is there an event in Christ’s life that involved hyssop?

Hyssop?

The Cedar Wood?

Scarlet?

John 19:29 “Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar: and they filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to his mouth.”

John 19:34 “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”

Leviticus 14:5

Why was the blood of the bird mixed with the water?[Hint: see Moses 6:59]

His head (Matthew 27:29-30) His sweat (Luke 22:44) His face (Isaiah 50:6) His back (Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 27:26) His hands (Psalms 22:16, John 20:25) His feet (Psalms 22:16) His side (John 19:34)

Christ’s bleeding in 7

different areas

Leviticus 14:7

Leviticus 14:8-9

What’s the symbolism?

Cleansing a Leper

In ancient times the cry “Unclean!”Would warn of lepers near.“Unclean! Unclean!” the words rang out;Then all drew back in fear,Lest by the touch of lepers’ handsThey, too, would lepers be.There was no cure in ancient times,Just hopeless agony.No soap, no balm, no medicineCould stay disease or pain.There was no salve, no cleansing bath,To make them well again.

But there was One, the record shows,Whose touch could make them pure;Could ease their awful suffering,Their rotting flesh restore.His coming long had been foretold.Signs would precede His birth.A Son of God to woman born,With power to cleanse the earth.The day He made ten lepers whole,The day He made them clean,Well symbolized His ministryAnd what His life would mean.

Cleansing a Leper

However great that miracle,This was not why He came.He came to rescue every soulFrom death, from sin, from shame.For greater miracles, He said,His servants yet would do,To rescue every living soul,Not just heal up the few.Though we’re redeemed from mortal death,We still can’t enter inUnless we’re clean, cleansed every whit,From every mortal sin.

What must be done to make us cleanWe cannot do alone.The law, to be a law, requiresA pure one must atone.He taught that justice will be stayedTill mercy’s claim be heardIf we repent and are baptizedAnd live by every word. …If we could only understandAll we have heard and seen,We’d know there is no greater giftThan those two words—“Washed clean!”

“Washed Clean” President Boyd K Packer

Cleansing a Leper

Washed Clean (Boyd K Packer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUoXAcOoQNU

Cleansing a Leper

Washed Clean (Boyd K Packer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUoXAcOoQNU