SUN-DAY SCHOOL LESSON: WASH YOUR HANDS by eric d.graham
With all the disinformation, scientific research, medical terminologies, sports cancellations, public panic, hand sanitizers and self-quarantines surrounding the spread of the coronavirus, it all BOILS downs to one simple elementary rule-that we all should have learnt as small children, which is-WASH YOUR HANDS.
YELP!!!-THAT’S IT!!! JUST WASH YOUR HANDS!!!
Seriously, despite all the elaborate discussions, presidential new conferences, late breaking news, political talk shows- going back and forth, then forth and back, after all the brouhaha, their final conclusion and solution-IS-WASH YOUR HANDS!!!
According to the Bible, for those, who DON’T and WON’T believe anything unless IT IS IN THE SCRIPTURE (laugh), the Israelites were accustomed to WASHING THEIR HANDS BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER EATING, which was discussed and debated when the Pharisees and scribes questioned CHRIST (Matt 15:2) “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!”...MARK CHAPTER 7 verses: (2-4): describe the scene this way: And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with UNWASHEN , HANDS, they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they WASH THEIR HANDS OF, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.”
Again, I say, these scriptures have a THREEFOLD MEANING, for the true scholars. Especially, for the student of Astro-theology and esoteric masonry. Remember, the tradition of the elders was not the law of Moses, it was the oral tradition based on the interpretation of the law. For, they washed their hands ceremonially to remove defilement, not for hygienic purposes.
Matter of fact, this was called Ablution, which was the ceremonial washing of one’s body, vessel, and clothing for the purpose of religious purification. There are three kinds of Ablution recognized in Biblical and rabbinical law: (1) Washing of the hands, (2) washing of the hands and feet,( John 13:1–17) and (3) immersion of the whole body in water (Baptism). Some of the causes of ritual uncleanliness in the Bible time include: Bloodshed (Lev.17), Childbirth (Lev.12) (Ask the Doctor, Nurses) Sexual intercourse (Lev.18) (Ask the Hotel Housekeepers), Leprosy (Lev.12) (Ask the Professor of Molecular Immunology), Menstruation (Lev.15) (Ask the Custodians; female bathroom are disgusting) and Contact with Dead Bodies(Ask the Mortician; Forensic Pathologist). (Num.19)
This is why many people were SURPRISED as well as they are NOW, when: Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand. What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.” (Matthew 15:10)
See, CHRIST rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for being so obsessed with the traditions, (as we have become now with HAND WASHING WITH THIS CORONAVIRUS EPIDEMIC) that they failed to observe basic commandments. So, Christ, in this incident, chides them for being so concerned with external washings and dietary regulations that they failed to deal with character.
See, the Pharisees wanted “to cleanse” the inside of the cup and dish” instead of their hearts and spirits-Not realizing that the Moral filth cannot be washed away with physical cleaning agents. America, like Peter, failed to understand this…
As a result, Peter asked CHRIST to “Explain the parable to us.”(Matthew 15:15-20)
Which, Christ replied, “Are you still so dull?” Jesus asked them. “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what defile a person; but eating with UNWASHED HANDS DOES NOT DEFILE THEM.”
WITH THOSE WORDS, REMEMBER TO WASH YOUR HANDS; BUT ALSO CLEAN UP YOUR CHARACTER.
So, you maybe one of those (Rev7:14) who have come out of the great tribulation;-that- have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. (Esoteric meaning, not to be taking literal) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)
