{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Christ Covenant Church","title":"Journaling: Leviticus 17-20","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4200,"description":"Leviticus is divided according to the two types of Laws to be taught by the Levites (or priests) (Lev 10:10-11): 1) (chs 1-16) clean laws/{covenant signs} (sacrifices {Adamic/Noahic}, circumcision {Abrahamic}, sabbaths {Old} and separation {Old: diet, diseases, death, decay and discharges: birth, bodily, blood}), 2) (chs 17-27) moral commands.\nSeeking God outside of His prescribed protocol and/or place is playing w/demons and idolatry (17:1-9; 2Ch 11:14-15).\nDemons are real (17:7; Isa 34:14 – “Lillith” = night demon w/Pro 2:13-14; Joh 3:19; Col 1:13; 1Th 5:7; 1Pe 2:9; Jud 1:6).\nBlood is: 1) not to be consumed in any form (17:10, 12-14) 2) sacred since it is used to make atonement (17:11), 3) representative of our life (17:11a, 14).\nVampires and gypsies/fortune-tellers are considered sinful by God and need to repent (17:10b, 14b, 20:6).\nThe phrase “cut off” refers to being unclean and unable to receive God’s covenant blessings (e.g. 18:29-30 w/Num 19:13, 16-20). Since it is God doing the cutting off, it also does not (by itself) indicate the committing of a capital crime which requires the act of man (not God) (e.g. 20:1-5 = Our neglect to carry out death against those committing cap crimes does not stop God from still cutting them off demonstrating the two acts to not be synonymous).\nWe are to listen/look to God and not (listen/look to) the unbelieving (pagan) culture around us to determine what is right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable (18:1-5), since: 1) God views their form of morality as “abominations” (18:26-27, 29-30), 2) they represent those “detested” by God (20:23), 3) they are the reason our planet suffers (ecologically and economically) (18:24-25, 28, 20:22).\nSexual acts/looking at someone’s nude parts for sexual arousal (i.e. uncovering their nakedness) is “depravity” (18:17, 20:14) and “perversion” (20:12) and therefore prohibited/sinful in relation to: 1) blood/step relatives (18:6 – “close relative” = your flesh and blood – which would...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UXGjftzm8Yw--IISwUKe6A6-CX1YtARptisfLmFJFoI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjc4/MmNmNTMxZjNmOTgw/YjA1NWRhYmMxMTNl/YmE1Zi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}