Nu 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell. 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Mariam resisted Moses and became a leper. Moses interceded and she was healed by the mercy of God. Leprosy is a picture of the defilement that comes because of sin. So in Numbers chapter 5 verse 3 God is implementing more than just disease control. He is instructing with a picture of how God sees sin and the fact that it must be put out of the camp or it will spread.
Pr 9:8 “Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”
Pr 22:10 “Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.”
God does not tell us to rebuke a scorner, He tells us that they must be cast out. Some sins seem to come from a heart that will not follow God nor can be corrected.
Brother and sister don’t white wash your sin – cast it out. How can God be in our midst if we allow sin into our life? Later in Israel as they allowed all kinds of sin in the camp the presence of God is not there. How we need the close fellowship with God!
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