Read: Leviticus 20:22-22:16; Mark 9:1-29; Psalm 43:1-5a; Proverbs 19:18
It is difficult to read today’s reading and understand it if you don’t comprehend the Hebrew mindset of God. God married Israel so they are his wife. So for a priest to marry someone who has in any way given herself to another man is to figuratively showing a heart that has given herself to an idol and forsaken God. To “take a wife that is a whore” would mean to accept or mingle with the profane; willingly sin knowing full well what you are doing.
Marriage was the picture of covenant with God. It was not to be polluted in any way. In 21:10-15, if gives us the requirements for the High Priest, which was Aaron at the time. He was to be anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit so the covenant he made with the Lord was to be kept holy. The different women it mentioned had to do with covenants he was to avoid. The widow in the Hebrew means “a desolate house” which has to do with things out of God’s covering since her covering had been removed. The divorced woman had to do with something that was cast out which depicts a sin or spirit you have driven out. A profane woman has to do with something polluted or dead. Satan came to kill but Jesus came to bring life. All things dead are in our past and not to be a part of our new life in Christ. The harlot stands for a complete rebellion against God.
The priest was to marry a virgin which stands for a heart that has not polluted itself with the world and chosen to stay close to God and obeys his commands.
To come into God’s presence we are to come in holy. To be holy we have to repent of our sin and we will be white as snow. To live a holy life takes commitment and a renewed mind. That is really what all these laws are about.
In Mark, Jesus took Peter, James and John to a mountain where they saw Jesus in his glory. It was the sixth day showing us that this is a foretaste of what we will see in the sixth millennium. We are approaching that time when we will behold the Jesus in his glory as the King of Kings. They saw Moses and Elijah on the exact mountain that God talked to them about that day when he would demonstrate his glory to the earth.
The disciples were not to mention this until Jesus had risen from the dead because it was not for then but for the future.
Lord, help us to see the ways your are preparing us for what you are going to do in the future.
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