Strangers, Locals and Foreigners – Leviticus 18
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD. ~ Leviticus 18:1-5 KJB
Has the Lord, our God, brought us out the trials, the sin life we were living? Will He – God Himself – send us into enemy territory without an escape, a way out? When we arrive, wherever God sends us, we are not to act like the environment, we are not, necessarily, to acclimate. We are to be Ambassadors of the Kingdom of God. We are to follow local customs, so long as they do not violate God’s commands, God’s will for our life.
We are to wed God’s children, not strangers, locals or foreigners. We live in God’s world – the Kingdom of God – not a place of sin. We may be surrounded by sin on all sides, but as we stand strong in Christ Jesus and the Whole Armor of God, He will strengthen us to withstand the wiles of the enemy.
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In Leviticus 18 verses 6 through 22 God explains to Moses the law of sex and family. God is really describing what we would call incest and how it is an abomination. God also states, very clearly, that homosexuality is absolutely an abomination.
God teaches us again and again – Canaan = evil and Egypt = slavery. What does that mean to you? When Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, had come to earth one of His first teachings, in Matthew 3, was He had come to “fulfill all righteousness“. How does what Jesus Christ Himself, spoke to us fit with what God had spoke to Moses?
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. ~ Leviticus 18:24-25 KJB
