"Now THAT'S just disgusting!", "That is not even the same, this isn't even a fair comparison!", "You're taking things way off base here!"
Did you think of any of these or similar statements? If so, good. That was the point of the comic. Remember that outrage and how you felt. Now let's talk.
In the last comic I brought up what the Bible defines as disgusting, or depending on your translation, what is an abomination. Can something that is an abomination be made clean? After all, a common rebuttal to eating only what the Bible calls clean is Mark 7:18-19.
18 He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him, 19 because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine? (making all foods clean) [WEB]
While there are some pretty good arguments out there about the part in parenthesis being added later and not in the original text, that is not going to be our focus here. We are going to take it as this was what was written by Mark. So then, what is food? The outrage initial expressed at the first of the comic was due to knowing excrement is not food. Going back to the question of the first comic in the Food section, where is the list of what is food?
The only place we find a list of food in the Bible is in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. There is no other list ever given. Not in the Prophets and not in the New Testament. So, if Jesus is making all foods clean in Mark 7, then all things that are considered food in Lev. 11 & Deut. 14 are what He is speaking about. Adding to this list to include things that are not considered food (i.e. pigs) would be adding to God's commands.
2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you. [Deut. 4:2 WEB]
Adding to God's commands would be sinning. Would Jesus sin?
The obvious answer should be "no". However, some would say "Jesus is God and can change what He wants."
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. [Hebrews 13:8 WEB]
19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. [Numbers 23:19 ESV]
I don't think He would. He tells us He doesn't.
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"Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it, shall eat the fruit thereof."
Pr 18
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"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."
Hb 10
Thought for Today: Monday March 27:
May Adonai Elohiym’s mercy make you feel like a new creation today, ready to face everything that comes your way with heavenly perspective. Thank You my Adonai, my King, for the daily rewards of Your Love and the simplicity of Your Grace. Thank You for allowing me to discover Your will for my life with patience and understanding. Thank You for creating in me a Clean Heart and Righteous Spirit. Thank You for being a compassionate Father and a constant Saviour.
SERIES K --- ISRAEL’S GOLDEN AGE --- LESSON 14
DAVID RETURNS
KING DAVID RETURNS TO JERUSALEM
From 2 Samuel 19:8-43
Throughout the land, people began to argue and quarrel about the king. ‘King David saved us from our enemies, the Philistines,’ many of them said. ‘But now he has left his palace because of Absalom’s rebellion. We anointed Absalom king, but he is dead. What are we waiting for? Let’s bring David back as king.’ Then David sent word to the two priests, Zadok and Abiathar, to talk with the elders of Israel. This is what he instructed them to say, ‘what are you waiting for? All over Israel people are urging the king to return to his palace. But you are the king’s relatives, from his tribe and yet you are the last ones to invite the king to return.’ David also told the priests to say to Amasa, the man who had led Absalom’s warriors against David, ‘You are one of my own relatives, just as Joab is. I vow to YHVH that I will make you commander of my army instead of Joab.’ When Amasa heard that, he persuaded the elders of Judah to welcome back David as king. They sent this word to David, ‘You and your followers must all return.’ David gathered his followers together and they all headed back toward Jerusalem. When he reached the Jordan River, great crowds of people from Judah met him to escort him across the river. Shimei, the man from Bahurim who had cursed David and threw stones at him when he left Jerusalem, was there, with a thousand of his fellow tribesmen from Benjamin. Ziba, Saul’s steward and Mephibosheth’s servant, was there with his fifteen sons and twenty servants. They rushed into the Jordan River and went back and forth, bringing the king’s household and warriors across, helping David do everything he needed done. Shimei bowed to the king just before David crossed the Jordan River, begging his forgiveness. ‘O my master, please forgive me and erase from your memory my wickedness when you left Jerusalem,’ he pleaded. ‘I have come today as the first of the house of Joseph to meet my master the king.’ Abishai interrupted. ‘Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for cursing you, Adonai’s anointed king?’ he demanded. ‘You must not say that!’ said David to Abishai. ‘Why are you trying to work against me? Today we celebrate, not kill, for I am king of Israel once more.’ Then David vowed to Shimei, ‘You will not die.’ Before long Mephibosheth, Saul’s grandson, arrived from Jerusalem to meet King David. He had not cared for his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes since the day King David had fled. ‘Why did you stay in Jerusalem instead of going with me?’ David asked Mephibosheth. ‘O my king, my steward Ziba deceived me,’ Mephibosheth replied. ‘I told him to saddle a donkey for me so that I could go with you, for as you know, I am lame. Instead, he ran to you and lied, saying that I did not want to go with you. But I realize that your wisdom is like that of an angel of YHVH, so please do whatever you think is best. My family and I were condemned to death when you became king, but you spared me and let me eat at your table. What more can I ask of you now?’ ‘Well, let’s not talk about this any longer,’ King David answered. ‘I have already decided what I will do. You and Ziba will divide the land into two equal shares.’ ‘That’s fine with me!’ Mephibosheth answered. ‘I’m so happy to have you back that I would gladly give all my land to Ziba.’ Barzillai had come down from Rogelim to cross the Jordan River with King David. It was he who fed and cared for David and his followers while they were hiding in Mahanaim. He was about eighty years old and was a wealthy man. ‘Come back to live with me in the palace in Jerusalem,’ King David offered. ‘I’m much too old to do that,’ Barzillai answered. ‘I’m too old to appreciate the king’s rich food or to enjoy your singing men and women. So why should I burden you? I want to cross the Jordan River with you, but then let me go home to die in my own city and be buried where my mother and father are buried. Here is my son Chimham, why not take him and do what you think is best for him?’ ‘I will take Chimham with me,’ David answered. ‘I will do all the things for him that you would have enjoyed letting me do for you.’ After all the people had crossed the Jordan River, including the king, David kissed Barzillai, blessed him and sent him home. Then the king moved on to Gilgal with Chimham, the people of Judah and many of the other people of Israel. The leaders of Israel however, were angry because the people of Judah had brought the king and his followers across the Jordan River. ‘Why have they done this by themselves, instead of sharing the honour with all Israel?’ they demanded. ‘Because we are the king’s relatives,’ the leaders of Judah answered. ‘Why be so upset? We have not received anything for doing it.’ ‘But Israel is ten tribes and you are only one,’ the leaders of Israel answered. ‘We have ten times as much right to the king as you have. Weren’t we the first to say that we should bring the king back?’ Israel and Judah quarrelled for some time, with the people of Judah saying violent things to the people of Israel.
COMMENTARY
GIFTS FOR KING DAVID
The most important gifts David received were given to him during two critical periods of his life; while he was fleeing from Saul, and while he was fleeing from Absalom. The gifts were particularly important because he had no government to provide him with income and day-to-day necessities. Before he became king, he lived on what sympathizers gave him and what he could get by plundering. Although he was wealthy when he fled from Absalom, David’s brief period of exile took him away from Jerusalem where all his wealth was concentrated. Barzillai’s gift of food was therefore particularly welcome. The gifts reveal things about life in Bible times. The diet of David and his warriors was made up largely of bread, grain and fruit. The five dressed sheep sent by Abigail would have made little difference; they were hardly enough for six hundred men. The gifts also show how far loyal people would go for their heroes and leaders. The high priest Abimelech offered David holy bread, which only priests were allowed to eat. And three of David’s warriors risked their lives to break through the Philistine lines just to get David a drink of water from the Bethlehem well.
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