Leviticus
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Leviticus Chapter 20

• Leviticus 20:1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying, 
• 2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. 
• 3 And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name. 
• 4 And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not: 
• 5 Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 

Molech was a god of the children of Ammon similar to Baal and Chemosh of the Moabites. the sacrifice of children were both live sacrifices in which children are killed and offered by fire to the false gods and also the use of children sexually associated with the idolatrous practices of those false religions and priesthoods requiring passing children through fire and using children in such a manner. 

Idolatry was forbidden to Israel and understandably so. Evil spirits are present in any idol worship or false religion even those that claim Christianity but in name only, not in works. This kind of thing is why God allowed Israel to take over some of the land of Canaan and destroy the occupants. It wasn't just the case of having a difference of opinion or religion, it was the murder, rape and child sacrifice that accompanied idolatry that caused the death penalty to be invoked upon any of Israel that partook of their idolatry and caused the judgment of God to fall upon the nations upon the earth. God usually waited until their iniquity was full and they had come to the point of no return.   

God has always hated a mixture of truth and idolatry. It should be avoided at all costs. 

• Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people. 

Magical arts, soothsaying, fortune telling, wizardry, witchcraft are all false religions and substitutes for the real saving power of God. They are an abomination and insult to the real God who created us. They should not be mixed with followers of the real God in any form. The world and Christ are separate, evil and good are not to mingle. This creates a false unity not based on the spirit of God and truth. 

• Leviticus 20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God. 

Many in these latter days have tried to water down this verse and make it null and void. While it is true that we cannot be holy without being covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ, our goal should be to live holy and imitate Jesus in our personal lives. 

Without holiness no one shall see the Lord. Notice also part of this holiness is to follow peace with all men. 

• Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 

Warring and fighting among ourselves is not peace and is not holiness. Holiness begins with the two commandments Jesus gave: Love God with all the heart and soul and love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

• Leviticus 20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you. 

To be sanctified is to be separate and apart from sin and set apart to serve the Lord. Sanctification should always follow salvation by grace. Once we come to Christ, the world and its lusts should vanish from our lives. 

• 1John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

The world we are not to love is the evil, the spirit of the age, lying, going along with the crowd that follows evil, living our lives apart from the word of God and doing our own thing.

• Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. 

Respect for Father and Mother is still a commandment for us today. We must honor them and respect them. Today we see a world that absolutely has departed from the fear of God and the fear of breaking that particular commandment. 

Such evil brings a curse upon people according to Malachi. 

• Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. 
• 11 And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 
• 12 And if a man lie with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them. 

Adultery incurred the death sentence. Under the grace of Jesus Christ, adultery can be forgiven but it also must be forsaken. Jesus died to save us from sin, not so we can continue in sin and expect to be covered by His blood. 

We do not put people to death for adultery but eternal death awaits adulterers if they do not repent. 

• Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 
• 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 
• 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 

We must wake up to the times we live in and remember God's word. The works of the flesh that defiles us and causes us to not inherit the kingdom of God has not changed. It is the same now as it was when these words were written. 

• Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 

This type of sexual sin was forbidden in both the old and New Testaments. Although Christ is the way out, if we ignore Jesus Christ and do not repent of any sin, we will suffer the loss of our eternal soul. It is sad to think about. In Leviticus 20 we see that any sexual sin is an abomination to God. This starts when we refuse to acknowledge God. Secular humanism is dangerous.

• Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 
• 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 
• 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 
• 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 
• 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 
• 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 
• 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 

We in the United States and other parts of the world are reaping the fruits of denying our creator back when creation was removed from our school's curriculum and evolution replaced it. We went from that to removing bible reading and prayer from schools. From there we went to allowing abortion in the first few months, then we went to partial birth abortion, then in 2016 we had the supreme court opening the door to marriage between people of the same sex. Now the children are so confused some of them do not know which gender they are. Slowly and sneaky, Satan has deceived us into believing good is evil and evil is good. We now await God's wrath and judgment if we do not repent and turn away from these things. 

We are seeing even now natural disasters increase, rioting in our streets, an increase in rape and violence, human trafficking increasing and children disappearing without a trace. Baby body parts are being sold by abortion clinics and many other evils are prevailing. Disease is also on the rise. We reap what we sow.

• Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you. 

If a person lies carnally with a both a woman and her mother it is a death penalty. This shows how serious this sin was. If it incurred a death penalty in the Old Testament, it would incur eternal death if one did not repent of it. 

• Leviticus 20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
• 16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. 

Human beings are not to lie carnally with any beast or anything that is not human. It is utter confusion and abomination as is man with man and women with women. We are to live and walk in holiness. 

• Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity. 
• 18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people. 

Again the Old law stresses holiness and being clean before God. All these sins defile the flesh and separate us from God. 

• Leviticus 20:19 And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother's sister, nor of thy father's sister: for he uncovereth his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. 
• 20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he hath uncovered his uncle's nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. 

Sexual sins many times cause barrenness but dying childless could mean that they die before they can have children. 

• Leviticus 20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless. 
• 22 Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spew you not out. 

When we give ourselves over to sexual sins, we are sinning against our own bodies as well as God who created us to walk holy as He is holy. The land will spew us out. We are like vomit and filth. Disease will kill us and eventually we will destroy ourselves. 

God made the law for our protection and for our good. To keep His ways especially sexually, we protect ourselves from disease literally but also from spiritual separation from God. These things defile the flesh that is supposed to be a temple of the Holy Spirit. 

• 1Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 
• 19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 
• 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 

These commandments are holy, good and will bring us health and salvation. God is good.

• Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. 

These types of sins are the very reason Israel was permitted to destroy and inherit their land. They were not to do as those nations did or God would allow another nation to destroy them. We saw this when God allowed the 70 year Babylonian captivity in the days of Daniel. When Israel desired to pattern after evil nations, God allowed them to be taken over by the same evil nations they wanted to be like. 

• Leviticus 20:24 But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people. 
• 25 Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 

This shows us the there is a difference between unholy and holy. God is holy. We are unholy but we can be made holy and acceptable to God through faith and obedience to Jesus Christ our savior to make atonement for our sins. 

• Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 
• 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. 

Oh my, it will be worth it all. When we see Jesus.... He has greater things for us than the temporary pleasures of this life.

• Leviticus 20:26 And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.  

As Israel was chosen to be God's holy people, those that are cleansed of sin by faith in Jesus Christ also become adopted into the same inheritance as Israel. We are set apart to be God's chosen people by faith. We are not to return to sin and undo what Jesus did on our behalf. 

• Leviticus 20:27 A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them. 

Through the grace of Jesus Christ we live in a different dispensation. We no longer put people to death for these types of sin but preach the gospel to them so that they can choose to be free from sin and live in holiness. If they refuse this good way, we do not bring judgment upon them but leave the judgment to God. At the coming of Christ the 2nd time, judgment will come upon those that do these sins and did not repent and be saved. We are not to bring or usher in judgment ourselves. 

Israel was allowed as a nation to use the death penalty for sin but the church was never given that kind of authority and it was a mistake to ever think we could. Until the church age ends and the day of grace closes we are to preach the gospel only. We are never given authority to harm one human being. Israel was a nation and had to have law into order to hold sin in check until the coming of Christ. We preach the gospel that allows people to willingly come to Christ for cleansing from sin. 

God will judge those that desire to continue in sin and ignore the way of salvation. Our job is to just keep preaching until He comes again. 

Familiar spirits and witchcraft are false spirits which will harm the soul. We should stay far away from that stuff and not mix it with Christianity. God's power is holy. The power of witchcraft and soothsaying is not holy but is done for material gain, domination or power over others or to deceive them into thinking they are really from God. It will destroy the souls of those deceived. 
God has a better way if we choose His way. One way, Jesus our Christ. DC