Leviticus 14:33 says, And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Then verse thirty-four adds, When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession; Verse thirty-five continues, And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house: After the people of Israel got to the land of Canaan, the Promised Land, and a person discovered leprosy in their house, they were to come to the priest. As followers of Christ, if we discover sin in our house, we need to come to our heavenly Priest, Jesus Christ, and confess it. Verse thirty-six states, Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house: The house was to be emptied and the priest was to go see it. Verse thirty-seven adds, And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall; Verse thirty-eight continues, Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days: Verse thirty-nine concludes, And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look: and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house; If the priest saw evidence of the plague on the walls of the house, then he was to shut it up for seven days, then come and look at it again. Verse forty says, Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city: If the plague had spread, then the stones of the house were to be taken away outside the city. If we find sin in our lives today, we need to remove it as far away from us as possible. The Holy Spirit will make us aware of any sin that gets into our life. Verse forty-one adds, And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: Verse forty-two continues, And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. The rest of the house was to be scraped and the stones that were taken away were to be replaced. Just as the plague of leprosy was taken seriously then, we need to take sin seriously today. Verse forty-three states, And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; Verse forty-four adds, Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean. If the plague had returned, then it was to be declared fretting leprosy and the house was to be declared unclean. Verse forty-five continues, And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place. In this case, the whole house was to be taken apart and taken out of the city into the unclean place. It is much better that we lose everything we have materially than to allow sin to continue to contaminate our life. Verse forty-six declares, Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even. Not only was the house to be destroyed, but anyone who went into it was to be declared unclean. Verse forty-seven adds, And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes. Everyone who had slept or eaten in the house was to wash their clothes. Verse forty-eight continues, And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed. If the priest went into the house after it had been replastered and there was no evidence of the plague, then the house was to be pronounced clean. Verse forty-nine states, And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: There was a sacrifice to be made by the priest, just as Jesús, our High Priest, is a sacrifice for all our sins today. Verse fifty adds, And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water: One of the birds of the sacrifice was to be killed. Verse fifty-one continues, And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times: The living bird and the things associated with the sacrifice were to be sprinkled with the blood of the dead bird, which was then to be used to cleanse the house. Verse fifty-two says, And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet: The priest was to cleanse the house with the blood of the sacrifice. Being physically clean was not enough, but the house needed to be spiritually clean as well. We may remove things form our lives today that would lead us to sin or are even a sin already, but until we confess our sins to God and ask His forgiveness, we cannot be spiritually clean. Verse fifty-three adds, But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house: and it shall be clean. The living bird was to be set free outside the city, and atonement would be made for the house, and it would be pronounced clean. Verse fifty-four continues, This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall, Verse fifty-five states, And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house, Verse fifty-six adds, And for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot: Then verse fifty-seven concludes, To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy. This was the law of leprosy to determine if a person or place was contagious. If we allow sin into our lives today, we can be certain that we are in danger of affecting others if we do not take it seriously and allow God to remove it from our lives.
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