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Let’s Practice…

1. Flying insects that walk on all four legs are clean or unclean?

2. A pot or pan touched by a piece of bacon is clean or unclean?

3. Does mold in any part of a house make it clean or unclean?

4. A person with a discharge who sits on a chair makes the chair clean or unclean?

5. Old Testament laws about uncleanness have been set aside. True False

6. The nations in the Promised Land used sex in the practice of their religion. True False

7. Sexual laws are discussed in the NT with reference to self-control. True False

8. The reason behind the Old Testament law code is God’s holy nature. True False

9. Priests could not have a physical defect. True False

10. “Love your neighbor as yourself” is part of the Old Testament law on holiness. True False

Let’s get Personal…

We might miss the background of sin in which we live if we skip the chapters on clean and unclean. They
speak of our normal life. We know of nothing different. In these laws, we get a glimpse of what might have
been and of what one day will be. Perhaps we come closer to understanding through the words of a woman
paralyzed from a young age.

I sense this whenever I see smog, a junkyard, and dead raccoons on the road. When I drive
the coastal mountains just a stone’s throw from where I live and marvel at the jutted,
jagged rocks and canyons, I’m vividly aware I’m in the middle of earthquake country.
Mudslides and fires happen all the time around here. These hills are restless. They’re also
scared by the improbable palaces of movie stars who litter the landscape with satellite
dishes. My heart breaks for these mountains and trees (and movie stars!) to be liberated
from their bondage… Can you feel the heavy silence in the mountains? Can you sense the
restless longing in the sea? Can you see it in the woeful eyes of an animal? Something’s
coming…something better.”
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89 J. E. Tada, Heaven: Your Real Home (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), p. 68.
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