Gay Marriage

homo hetroThe Bible directly states that a gay relationship is wrong:

Lev 18:22
22 You will not lie with a man (זָכָר) as with woman (נְקֵבָה): it is abomination (תּוֹעֵבָה).
MKJV

But it is much deeper than that. Homosexuality is a sign of something much, much worse (not saying it is a greater sin). Such a thing is naturally shameful and done in secret. When it is no longer done in secret it shows that our society has become full-fledged ungodly. Abomination here is toavah (תּוֹעֵבָה) meaning ‘disgusting’. Pictographically it means, ‘behold, the sign that the house of the eye has been established.’ The eye is that symbol on the back of our dollar bill. Its modern origins date back to ancient Babylon with the tower of Babel. However, it’s meaning dates back to when Adam and Eve sinned. The Serpent promised them illumination; that is what the eye in this context represents, the promise of the Serpent. Satan appears as a messenger of light because our Savior, God is light. The anti-messiah spirit doesn’t just mean ‘against to the Messiah’ but to copy Him in every way shape and form to deceive the very elect if it were possible.

Part of the reason why this is such an issue in the Church is because it has been taught the Torah, the first five books of the Word of God, has been crucified. To what degree a person believes this to be so determines where they stand on homosexuality. But it was established at creation and embedded in nature that heterosexuality is how God formed our world to operate.

Gen 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male (זָכָר) and female (נְקֵבָה) created he them.
KJV

Zachar (זָכָר) means ‘male’. The action is ‘to remember’ by speaking and acting on behalf of another, ‘to give’; the concrete is ‘male’ or to ‘perforate’; and the abstract is ‘memorial’. One modern English term would be ‘penis’.

N’qavah (נְקֵבָה) means ‘female’. The action is ‘to pierce, to receive’; the concrete is ‘female, hole’ or ‘to be perforated’. One modern English term would be ‘vagina’.

The concepts that go along with these words have more to do than just with anatomy; they include the God-given function of a male and female (not roles!). A male is to be the initiator, that is why the sign of the covenant is in his flesh; circumcision. That which initiates must first be set apart and cleansed before it can give the seed (Word of God) to another. That is why our hearts must be circumcised. If it is not then the seed we produce is not the Word of God but our own seed or that of the Adversary. This is why the Messiah was born a male; He is to initiate or act on behalf of God.

A female is to be a receiver. This is why the Messiah was born of a virgin. A virgin is someone who has not known a man and received his seed. The seed that produced the Messiah came from God passed down through Eve, not a man (Gen 3:15). The female is to take what she has received and use it to produce a blessing. We, the Bride of the Messiah, are to take on the function of the female. God is the one who initiates, gives us His seed/ Word, and we are to use it to produce a blessing in our life and the lives of others.

1 John 4:19
We love Him because He first loved us.
KJV

In the society we live in today, nobody knows the functions of a male or female. This can be viewed as the spiritual preparation for the physical manifestation of blatant homosexuality. Our generation no long knows what to think of such things. Most don’t feel that is right, but neither do they feel that it is necessarily wrong. Yet, because of the draw of society, they are forced to at the very least tolerate it and be so ‘open minded’ that their brain falls out. If a person or organization does not tolerate it, they are attacked, ridiculed, and viewed as ‘primitive’ and ‘barbaric’. It should be obvious that such behavior is not born of God but from our Adversary. Our Adversary always expresses a perverted function of the female when he is week; namely he gets what he wants via coercion and deception. When he becomes strong, he expresses a perverted function of the male; namely he gets what he wants by force and abuse. We are on the verge of reentering the Dark Ages when Christians and Jews who cling to God will be persecuted, even unto to death. Our Messiah said such would be so in the End of Days.

We are not responsible to judge those who are not born of faith. Even those born of faith, we must be given the responsibility of a judge before we judge them. Our society today is composed of Godlessness. We and those who cherish our country long to hold on to what we have and many strive to do so. The only way we can change the fabric of society is to change the individuals who make up that society which is something only God by His spirit can ultimately do. In regards to the Church; homosexuality is a sin like any other. If a person truly has a sincere relationship with Jesus, they will strive to remove sin from their life as we all should. Paul never tolerated sin. If a person continued in his sin and did not repent, Paul admonished the churches he was responsible for to excommunicate them. If we practiced the same today, churches would be pretty empty.

The thing we must realize is that we are at a crossroads. God is sifting His people to find those who are truly His and those who aren’t. A separation is coming and will soon be at hand. Those who are truly His will be hated by both the world and those who say they are His but are of the synagogue or church of Satan. We need to make sure our heart and life is right. He has promised that in this sifting none of those who are His will be lost.

Amos 9:9
9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
KJV

We are on the verge of being called out of Egypt. Something I realized just the other day when I was reading about God make a way so He could dwell among His people:

You know how the books in the Torah are named based on one of the first word that appear and how that is the theme of the book? If we squish them together they tell us a story.

  • בְּרֵאשִׁית – in the beginning; family of heads; first family
  • שְׁמוֹת – names; character
  • וַיְּקְרָא – and he called/ proclaimed
  • בְּמִדְבַּר – in the wilderness; word/ thing (of God) produce a family
  • דְּבָרִים – words; things (of God)

So what we have is, “The names and character of the first family which God proclaimed His word producing a family according to the things of God.”

  • b’rashiyth tells a story about the first family God called.
  • shemoth tells a story of the character of the family He called to which He gave His name and showed His character. Namely, He is the one who delivers us, leads us into the wilderness to speak to us and enter into an intimate relationship with us and makes a way so He can dwell among us.
  • viyiqra tells a story about how the people He called fellowship with Him, how they set themselves apart, and He gives them His moedim.
  • b’midbar tells a story of how God purifies His people removing the rebellious making a people ready to enter His rest; it is by His word.
  • d’bariym tells a story about how Israel must hear and obey His word. If they do not then they will be under a curse but if they do then they will be blessed. It also foretells of a generation (the last) that will embrace the words/ things of God and be His people and He will be their God.

Remember to look up, our Redeemer is drawing close.

A Measure of Faith

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What is a measure of faith? Paul tells us that every person has been given a measure of faith.

Rom 12:3
3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
MKJV

What is faith? Faith is an abstract English word that didn’t exist until the 1200’s. The Hebrew word for faith is emunah (אמונה) and aman (אמן). It is a verb that means ‘trust in a firm foundation of truth as a child trusts in a nursing father’. In Hebrew words have gender. Grammatically verbs take on the gender of the noun it is referring to. Aman (אמן) is the masculine form and emunah (אמונה) is the famine form. In English this word is translated into ‘trust, faith, faithful, believe, steady, establish, nurse and truth’.

Alef (א) is an ox and strength. It can also represent God (אל) pictographically meaning ‘strong leader’. This is why Israel made a golden calf at Mt. Sinai; it was logical though contrary to the Word of God which He spoke which they heard in Ex 20. Its English equivalent is Aa.

Mem (מ,ם) is a womb, water, chaos, and produce. One picture is of an open womb meaning ‘give birth’ and the other is a closed womb meaning ‘pregnant’. Its English equivalent is Mm.

Nun (נ,ן) is a seed, life, and continuance. Its English equivalent is Nn.

Vav (ו) is a tent stake, nail and secure. Its English equivalent is Vv, Ww, o, and oo.

Hay (ה) is a man looking at a great sight. It can mean behold, provide, worship, astonishment, and breath. Its English equivalent is Hh.

Aman (אמן) pictographically means ‘a strong womb produces life’. Emunah (אמונה) pictographically means ‘worshiping God produces a secure life’ or eternal life. The action is to ‘trust’, the concrete is ‘foundation’ and ‘nurse’, and the abstract is ‘believe’ and ‘truth’.

Faith requires actions. The apostle James, the brother of Jesus, writes a whole book about this. Faith without works is not faith; it is dead.

We are the bride of Messiah. How are we saved? By grace through faith; it is a gift from God. Paul tells us that God has given to every person a measure of faith; that is the gift. How does this work?

God embedded His word into His creation. When a man and a woman come together, how do they produce life? In modern English terms, they have sex. But what does the woman have that the man doesn’t have and what does the man have that the woman doesn’t have? The woman has an egg and a man has a seed. In order to produce life, the seed of the man must join itself with the egg of the woman. We, the Bride of Messiah, are given a measure of emunah (אמונח), faith, an egg. That should then beg the question, what is the seed?

Luke 8:11
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
KJV

The seed is the Word of God; it is from the beginning and it is eternal. The Hebrew word often used for sex in the Bible is ‘yada’ (ידע) and it means ‘to know by experience’. However, yada means much more than sex; it is a term of intimacy that requires relationship. In other words, without a relationship with God, His seed, His Word cannot join itself with your egg, your faith. When His Word joins itself with your faith it produces life but not just life, life eternal. And what does Jesus say eternal life is?

John 17:3
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
KJV

Eternal life is an intimate relationship with our Creator, our Husband. How does that relationship begin? In horticulture, what is required to pollinate most plants? A bee. And how does a bee tell his fellow bees where the food is at? It does the bee waggle dance. Now you’ll probably find this pretty interesting; the Hebrew word for bee is ‘deborah’ (דבורה). It is a feminine noun form of dabar (דבר) which concretely means ‘word’ or ‘thing’ with the action being ‘to speak’ or ‘to put in order’. The Hebrew word for this bee waggle dance is ‘basar’ (בשר) meaning ‘report’. The concrete word for basar is ‘flesh’ like on your arm and the abstract is ‘gospel’ or ‘good news’.

Do we understand what this is telling us? A bee goes out and looks for a flower. When it finds one it goes back the hive and tells the other bees where it is. The other bees go out to collect pollen and in the process pollinate plants so they can produce life. In other words it requires the good news of the Word of God for the Word of God to come into contact with a person’s faith to produce life. As Isaiah says:

Isa 52:7
7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!
MKJV

The Hebrew word for salvation here is ‘y’shua’ (ישועה) which is Jesus’s Hebrew name. Let me read it again with this in mind:

7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes peace; that brings good tidings of good, that publishes Jesus; that says unto Zion, Your God reigns!

Now that we understand how life is produced, what is the next step? I must grow! After the Word of God joins itself with our faith, how does our faith grow? What does Paul tell us?

Rom 10:17
17 So then faith comes by hearing, and obeying the word of God.
MKJV

The Hebrew word for hear is ‘shama’ (שמע) which is a verb meaning ‘hear and do’. The above should read . . . This is the concept that James is elaborating on in his letter because the Greek concept of ‘hear’ doesn’t include action. If a person does not obey the Word of God, they haven’t heard it. If a person doesn’t hear the Word of God, they can’t possibly obey it. This is what it means by, “Hearing they did not do and seeing they did not percieve,” and we are guilty of this very same thing today.

Turning our attention back to agriculture: if we have a tomato garden, what must we do to help it grow successfully?

  • weed it
  • water it
  • guide it
  • prune it

Even so we must weed temptation out of our life. If allowed to grow it will stunt our faith choking it out and at the very extreme kill it. Living water, God’s Spirit must be working in and flowing out of our life. Our faith must be guided by the Word of God or we will be all over the place and unable to stand when burdened. At times we need to remove the things in our life that at one time appeared born of faith but are not. They are typically things we’ve inherited; no plant starts out full grown.

After a plant grows, what is the next step? It must produce fruit. What is this fruit? Again, I will refer to James:

James 2:21-22
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Do you see how faith is accompanied by works, and by works was faith made perfect?
MKJV

If there is an area in our life that does not produce good works, it is not born of faith and needs to be removed. Is the process complete after a plant produces fruit? No; what good is it if it rots on the vine? It must be harvested and it must be consumed. This cannot be done by us; we can only produce the fruit. We cannot force-feed the Word of God to anybody. They must take hold of it themselves and eat it.

Like I said before: our life is our ministry. As Jesus says:

Matt 5:16
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
KJV

We are responsible to produce fruit. It is the responsibility of those around us to come up to us and pluck that fruit, inquire of us about the light that is inside of us and consume it. If they don’t, they are either not ready to receive the Word of God or they are not interested. Inquiry starts when you have their attention. When you have their attention, they have bitten into your fruit. After they have taken a bite, share the seed, the Word of God with them as the Spirit leads you.

This is still not the end or fulfillment of faith. Everything in life is cyclical. A plant goes through seasons of death, dormancy, and growth so it can produce fruit. There are times in our life when we may not feel as though we are producing fruit. Often it makes us wonder if we are out of relationship with God. But this is a season of death, dormancy and growth.

A couple more things I’d like to talk about if you’re still interested. Jesus said:

Matt 13:23
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
MKJV

What does this mean? Who is the father of our faith? Abraham. How old was Abraham when Isaac was born? One hundred. How old was Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born? Sixty. How old was Joseph when he stood before Pharaoh? Thirty.

What is the faith of Abraham? Abraham left Babylon and his family to follow God. He was a first-generation believer. To him were given the covenants and promises and he gave birth to a nation.

What is the faith of Isaac? Isaac was a second generation believer, the son of promise. He remained faithful to the faith of his father Abraham. In the womb of Rebecca good and evil were separated. Both were born into the same family and grew up together. The evil seed continues to cause grief for the seed of promise today. It isn’t until the harvest that the tares are removed. Isaac continued the building of a nation.

What is the faith of Joseph? He was sold into captivity, was stripped of his identity and was tempted with greatest temptation a man can have yet he remained faithful and remembered who he was. His faith saved a nation and by extension the world.

What this is also saying is that Isaac, at sixty, had the faith of Abraham at a hundred. Joseph, at thirty, had the faith of Isaac at sixty. The reason Jesus presents in this order in Matthew is because this is the order that His Bride will follow through time. The apostles and first-generation believers after Jesus’s resurrection gave birth to a nation. Throughout history the Bride has continued building that nation and struggles with the evil seed in the physical Body of Messiah. In the last days we, the Bride must have the faith of Joseph to stand before Pharaoh, a picture of the antimessiah. We will be tempted with the greatest temptation yet must remain faithful, remember who we are and save a nation.

Jesus told Nicodemus, “If you don’t understand natural things when I talk to you about them, how will you ever understand spiritual things?” We’ve only really talked about earthy things thus far. I’d like to summarize all this from a more spiritual perspective.

We all have a measure of faith. God’s Word must join itself to our faith through the Good News and be planted in our heart. Our heart is where our faith grows. We must nourish our faith with the Word of God by reading it, hearing it, studying it, thinking about it all the time, and obeying it. The Spirit of God must be active in our life to cause our faith to grow. We must also weed out the seeds of temptation that plant themselves in our heart. Temptation is all around us sowed by our adversary; the less we can expose ourselves to this temptation the better. We will go through seasons when our faith is dying, dormant, growing and producing fruit. Throughout our life we’ll need to prune the dead things of our faith removing things we’ve inherited and learned that are not faith. Our faith should never stop growing. The life that we have is eternal because both the Word of God and our faith come from God who is eternal. Faith is all about relationship with our Beloved.

Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness – Part 11: We Sin Less than we Think

 

Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about.  I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance.  I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness.  The few things I want to cover are:

If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask.  The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.

We Sin Less than we Think

This is kind of a hard point to address.  Sin has become such an abstract word that it means different things to different people.  If sin is a physical condition, like we have discussed, what must be done for something to be constituted as sin?  An action must take place.  James the brother of Jesus sums it up like this:

James 1:15
15 Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

This is why Jesus spends so much time talking about our thoughts.  Our thoughts are where our spirit battles with our flesh.  It goes back to the principle of the seed.  Temptation is a seed and our mind the field where it is planted.  When that seed is planted, like a weed, it doesn’t take much care to grow.  Once it is grown, it produces fruit.  Fruit is action.  When Adam and Eve ate the fruit, corruption entered their body.  That corruption gives birth to desire which gives birth to sin which will eventually bring death.

This is why Jesus makes statements like, ‘If a man looks upon a woman and lusts after her he commits adultery with her in his heart.’ (Matt 5:28).  Number one, he is referring back to David and Bathsheba but more importantly he’s addressing the weight of our thoughts.  We need to weed our thoughts and think on things that are good (Phil 4:8).  Our thoughts are where we chop a tree down to the root (Matt 3:10).  Its best to do this before it has a chance to bear its bad fruit which is the sin.

We can’t avoid temptation, especially in our day and age; its everywhere.  Temptation comes from anything we see and/ or hear.  Temptation is not sin.  Jesus was tempted yet did not sin (Heb 4:15).  Dwelling on temptation is not sin.  But if we entertain it until it becomes a desire or lust, it is like Eve holding the fruit in her hand drooling over it.  She hadn’t sinned yet but was imminently about to.  She believed the lie that she couldn’t touch the fruit.  When she touched it and did not die, she reasoned that she could eat it and not die.  You know what its like to be starving and walking into a kitchen with the sweet smell of food.  All your senses, your entire focus turns to food.  You’re stomach begins to scream in a gravely voice, “Feed me!”  Any other fleshly appetite is no different.  If we believe that these appetites are sinful when they are not, we will eventually reason that there is likewise no penalty when we feed them.

You can think about donuts all you want, but is that going to make you fat?  No.  You can think about sex all you want, but is that going to make anyone pregnant?  No.  Does that mean we should necessarily think about these things?  No.  Most of us get upset and repent for our thoughts.  We are not commanded to repent for our thoughts because they are not sin.  This is a problem because we usually end up tearing ourselves down for what we think about.  I used to do this a lot but no so much any more because of a question Paul Nordvik asked me; thanks Paul.  In your life, you need to discern what is temptation and what is sin.  You may find that you don’t sin as often as you think you do.  When you do sin, you should be able to be specific in confessing that sin.  If you can’t, then either you haven’t sinned, or if you have, that sin hasn’t been revealed to you yet (Lev 4:27-28).

It is said that our sin separates us from God, but does it (Is 59:2)?  When Adam and Eve sinned, who did the separating?  Adam and Eve.  Who hid?  Adam and Eve.  When we sin, we tend to think that it is God who separates from us which is backwards.  We think he moves far off but we are the ones who distance ourselves because we are ashamed.  Our mentality is the same as the younger brother in the story of the Prodigal Son.  “I’m not worthy because . . . .”  We think God can’t be in the presence of sin yet God is omnipresent (Ps 139).  Think about that for a moment and let it sink in.  We think all these things because this is what we’ve been taught (by doctrine) most our lives and it hinders our relationship with our Creator.

Stop looking at yourself as a sinner; it puts the focus on you and your sin.  Thinking you are a sinner while knowing you’ve repented and that works don’t justify or condemn you is an oxymoron.  A sinner is someone who continues to walks in sin and does not repent.  You have repented and are striving towards home.  That means you are on the path of righteousness.  Someone who walks the path of righteousness pressing towards home is righteous.  Our Father looks at us as righteous.  Just like in the story of the Prodigal Son, we are part of God’s family, clothed with his robe of righteousness.  This should not fill us with pride but humble us.  How we see ourselves makes a huge difference in our relationship with God.  When we see ourselves the way God see us, it allows his Spirit which dwells inside of us to be greater just as John says (1 John 4:4).  It will change your whole perspective on life, strengthen your relationship with God, reflect in your actions and make you closer to our Messiah which is our goal.

References

*all scripture is from the NKJV unless otherwise noted.

  • A Concordance to the Septuagint – Edwin Hatch & Henry A. Redpath
  • Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds:  2012 Pure Seed Book! – rareseeds.com
  • God’s Key to Health and Happiness – Elmer A. Josephson
  • King James Version of the Bible
  • New King James Version of the Bible
  • Strong’s Concordance to the Bible
  • The Ancient Hebrew Lexicon of the Bible – Jeff A. Benner – August 29, 2005
  • Wildbranch Ministries – Brad Scott – wildbranch.org
 

Physics and Definition of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness – Part 5: Physics of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness: Physics of Sin

Sin is a broad subject with a lot to talk about.  I don’t want to talk about sin without talking about repentance.  I don’t want to talk about repentance without talking about forgiveness.  The few things I want to cover are:

If you do not understand something I’m saying, please ask.  The concept may be hard to grasp at first but it will change how you see yourself and your life when you do.

Physics of Sin, Repentance and Forgiveness

Most people think of sin as a spiritual condition.  They think that if there is no God, there is no sin.  If sin is a spiritual condition, it is relative and can be spiritualized away.  Sin, however, is most often a physical condition.  Sin is literally corruption that has entered the body.  We call it bad health, disease, old age and a host of other things but these conditions are not always the result of personal sin.  It can be something we do to ourselves, to other people or to nature.

Before sin, everything was perfect.  This concept of perfect, in Hebrew, is tov (טוב) which means complete in the sense of functioning properly.  Hence the reason why at the end of the day, God said it was good.  It was complete or prefect.  That is why at the end of the sixth day, he said it was very good or all complete.

In the garden, there was a tree of knowledge which produced fruit that contained the seeds of both good, tov (טוב), and evil, ra (רע).  Now, if tov means complete, take a guess at what ra means?  It means to ‘destroy’, ‘ruin’, or ‘break’ that which is complete or to make dysfunctional.  It is better known as corruption and scientifically as entropy which is part of the second Law of Thermodynamics.

Seth was created after the image of Adam (Gen 5:3).  What this tells us is that this seed that has the nature of both good and evil is passed down to all mankind.  This is why our flesh has to be reborn in the image of God; this corruption must be removed.  There is no such thing as inherently good or inherently evil.  Inherently, both natures exist in our body and are continually at war whether or not a person is a believer.  That is why some people tend to do good while others tend to do evil.  Either way, they are producing the fruit of the tree of knowledge.  The tree of knowledge, however, is not the tree of life hence why our works can’t save us or condemn us.

Physics of Sin

Now that we have covered this, let’s look at some examples.  We are commanded to eat fruit whose seed is within itself.

Gen 1:29
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.”

Hybrid fruit is quite common in our day.  It does not contain seeds or if it does, those seeds are basically sterile.  Studies show that hybrid plants have smaller pores in their and are unable to absorb vitamins and minerals properly.  This results in food that has little to no value.  In other words, it’s basically worthless.

We are commanded not to crossbreed our plants.

Lev 19:19
19 “. . . You shall not sow your field with mixed seed . . .”

In our day and age, it is hard to find food that isn’t crossbred.  Studies show that crossbred grains and fruits have their caveats though they offer initial positives such as disease and insect resistance, larger size, yield and color, etc.  Additionally, genetically modified organism (GMO) are becoming the staple form of food used to feed the world.  GMO goes way beyond simply crossbreeding.  Genes from bacteria and viruses are inserted into the DNA of seeds to mutate them and bring out desired qualities.  Scientists who produced these mutations warned of the health risks before their company’s product was introduced to the farming industry.  Now that these seeds are commonplace and preferred, further studies have been conducted and show reproductive disorders, immune system damage, accelerated aging, organ and digestive problems, and dysfunctional regulation of insulin and cholesterol related to GMO foods.  People who have switched to a non-GMO diet have often recovered from most of the health problems they were having related to GMO foods.

We are commanded not wear clothes made from both wool and linen.

Lev 19:19
19 “. . . Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you . . .”

Studies show that wool produces a frequency that is medically proven to treat asthma, high blood pressure, menopause complications, diabetes and a whole host of other conditions.  It is good for maintaining a constant body temperature and promotes circulation.  Linen produces a frequency that complements the human cellular structure.  This is why it is used in surgical settings.  It promotes healing, reduces pain, is anti-bacterial, protects against solar radiation and many more things.  When these two materials are combined, their frequencies cancel each other out hence no healing properties.   Some studies even suggest that, combined, they produce a destructive frequency which would degrade our health.

We are commanded to rest on the Sabbath.

Ex 20:8-11
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Most often we think of circadian rhythm as relating to our daily life and sleep.  Our body also has a weekly circadian rhythm that runs on a seven day cycle.  Medical studies suggest that there are both short and long term mental and physical consequences for not resting once every seven days.  The same thing has been found in animals.

We are commanded to only eat mammals that chew the cud and have a split hoof.

Lev 11:3
3 Among the animals, whatever divides the hoof, having cloven hooves and chewing the cud — that you may eat.

There is an anatomical difference between these animals and other animals.  Animals that chew the cud and have split hoofs have three stomachs that purify their food.  It takes over 24 hours for them to digest their food.  During that time, poisons, toxins and other harmful substances are removed from the food while the vitamins and minerals are absorbed.  These animals also eat only herbs, fruits and vegetables.  Animals that don’t chew the cud and have a split hoof process their food in a shorter amount of time, usually much shorter.  Their digestive system also works differently absorbing poisons, toxins, parasites and other harmful substances.  These types of animals also tend to eat and re-eat anything and everything.  In short, they were created to clean the earth and/ or other purposes.

Every commandment has a practical and physical application.  The studies and research I presented were conducted by people and institutions that were not out to prove the Bible.  Most are probably not even aware of what the Bible says on their subject of research.  I could talk about circumcision, menstruation, what it means to be unclean, eating blood, incest, the circadian rhythm of plants and animals, blessing and cursing, sexual sins, mold, murder, reaping and gleaning, and so on, but I want to take time to talk about the physics of repentance and forgiveness.