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Blood of the Lambs!
As Jews celebrate Passover and Christians get ready to celebrate Easter, we are all under assault from a silent killer.
Covid19 is the leprosy of our age! A cough or a sneeze can send groups of people scurrying for cover.
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Gayatri Vinayak of Yahoo News India writes:
Though the 2020 quarantine is unprecedented in its sheer numbers, the practice of quarantining is a rather ancient one and has been used since ages as a means of controlling epidemics. It was followed during Biblical times, and the Old Testament Book of Leviticus speaks of leprosy as being the first disease where people were isolated.
Read it here: A history of the deadliest epidemics and largest quarantines in the world
Where do we find meaning?
As in the time of David, we all need security and hope.
Hope that the world will again be safe after we defeat Covid19. Hope that the world will return to some form we can all recognize.
The Leper Messiah provides meaning by examining our frailties as humans. The book uncovers our fear and shows we can overcome and that courage can be born out of it.
Excerpt from the Leper Messiah:
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In David’s war tent: “See what brilliance surrounds him.”
Samuel nudged his quite disciple, “Watch and behold!”
David cut an apple and his hand slipped and a drop of dark red blood spilled into a beautiful blue chalice adorned with Hebrew writing.
The inscription read: ‘there shall set a star out of Jacob and he will rise out of Israel and smite the Moab’s and the sons’ to Seth.
Samuel watched intently as the blood spilled into the goblet. The old prophet smiled with joy and quickly took hold of the cup and it disappeared into the shadows.
“And so it will be,” he whispered to himself, “A precious legacy.”
In The Leper Messiah, we learn why the sons of light battle the sons of darkness – to ensure that David’s blood remains a constant in the world for all time!
Excerpt from the Leper Messiah:
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The men of the army shall be 40 to 50 years old while the commissioners of the war camp will be 50 to 60 old and the officers will all be between the ages of 40 to 50 years old. And those who prepare the provisions and guard the arms shall be between 25 and 30 years old.
And the length of the banners for the entire congregation shall be fourteen cubits while the banner of each of the 12 tribes shall be 13 cubits, and the banner of 10,000 men shall be 12 cubits and the banner of 1000 men will be ten cubits.
When the battle line are spread against thy enemy, they shall go forth in the middle into the gap seven priests of the sons of light, dressed in fine white linen garments, a linen tunic and linen breeches, and a decorated cap on each head. And these caps shall not be worn in the sanctuary.
One priest shall walk before the army to encourage, while the other six shall blow the trumpet of assembly, the trumpet of alarm and the trumpet of pursuit, and the trumpets of re-assembly.
The wind and rain beat about the banners of war and tugged at the horses’ harness while the clouds pulled across a darkened sky.
Chariots danced across the plains while the dust of war rose above all the united host of Israel and Judah.
And the seething mass of men and weapons stood before Jebus, swaying back and forth like an angry wave of war!
The Leper Messiah lays bare what it means to be human and that compassion is not a sign of weakness!
All of this comes from King David, The Leper Messiah, an icon who walked the earth more than one thousand years before the dawn of The Common Era!
Robert