Let the dead bury their dead .......

[DeighAnn]

59 minutes ago, Your closest friendnt said:

This is commendable of what you posted....

Jesus told his disciple not to defile himself by going to buried his Father....of course he would touch his body and defile himself or he will touch the defiled people who have touch the dead body...lifeless body...on medical terms they call it a corps...but not in the community...where they used comfort names...

The point Jesus Christ made was to his disciple ....you do not defile your self because you were chosen to preached the Gospel....do not knocked out your self from the Mission I have given you...

Jesus had given this mission to him and not to his relatives or the other people...Jesus said to him let them bury him....he did not say anything against it...

Now this was during the time of the Sinai Covenant...and it was about the Jews only and of course the Gallilians and not about believers in Jesus Christ...

That time as in the book of Leviticus when someone touches a dead person he is defiled and he needs to served the term of his defilement and then do the rituals to be declared clean and enter the community again and participate in their religious activities..

Thus the unclean person or defiled person is like exiled from the community just like a leper was for the time of his uncleaniness. 

They could not appeared before God in their uncleaniness..

That's why Jesus called them dead...and this is why the disciples understood them, and they did not make a fuss about it...

Those people Jesus call dead were the were Alive to God they were not dead to God...they were not Gentiles without any hope...to be alive to God...and we are still in the Sinai Covenant .

They were defiled and unclean and they could not present themselves to the Lord which means that they could not participate in any religious celebrations not even take dinner together with the family so they new that for some reason he was ceremonially unclean and stay away from him not to defile them selves. Till the period of uncleaniness was over...and they had to do the cleansing rituals to re enter the community...of clean people. 

A clean people a Holy Nation that was something...A Holy Nation in the Covenant of Sinai...

Again the people Jesus call dead it was because of their defilement from the dead person...

Those people were alive to God...God was their God when they lived and still after they died they were gathered to Abraham who was also Alive to God to where he was....this is what God gave them till the time of Jesus Christ who will give them the Eternal Life...

God could give them Life but he could not give them the Eternal Life because the Eternal Life came with Jesus in the world...he was the first one to be declared in the eternal Life...

 

Don't even touch a dead body.  Do you know how that works for 'the spirit's coming back for one?  

[Your closest friendnt]

11 minutes ago, DeighAnn said:

Don't even touch a dead body.  Do you know how that works for 'the spirit's coming back for one?  

I can't understand what you saying. 

 

[Neighbor]

Matthew and 1 kings 19:20 have same or similar accounts of pleas to do something else first before following in  immediate obedience to God's commands.

Most all that have been called by God mentioned in the Bible have offered excuse as to why they are not ready, or of things they think they must do first,  or why they are not qualified for the mission directed for them to go and do.

First family duties of even the eldest son  must be secondary to the call from Yeshua, and thus left to someone else to tend.

[farouk]

On 3/25/2023 at 10:52 AM, DeighAnn said:

Don't waste your time with those not of God, let them deal with those like minded. 

 

@DeighAnn It's like a figure of speech to say, Don't get distracted from your primary purposes in testimony, I think.