LEPROSY😷

Leprosy is a bacterial skin infection used in biblical times to depict sin

If You Had Leprosy...

• Went to the priest for examination.
• Were not allowed within 6ft. of any other human.
• Had to wear torn clothes and wear your hair out loose.
• Were forced to cover their upper lip, and cry out "Unclean."
• Forced to live alone, and dwell outside the camp by themselves.

Lepers were classified as physically and spiritually unclean. Many believed that God inflicted leprosy on others for committing their sins.

The first leper healed showed that sin spoils us in the sight of the Lord and through Christ, we can be healed of the sin that separates us from God.

Luke 17: 11-19
As he continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee.* As he was entering a village, ten lepers met [him]. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voice, saying, “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” And when he saw them, he said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.”* As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan. Jesus said in reply, “Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?” Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

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