Leviticus 12 - Purification After Childbirth

Last week the Lord opened up on what are clean and unclean foods that could and could not be eaten.  Once this was practiced, then child birth could commence.
 
Leviticus 12:1-3 The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be ceremonially unclean for seven days, just as she is unclean during her monthly period.”
 
What did Jesus see?
 
It is written in Isaiah 54:5, “For your Maker is your husband – The LORD Almighty is his name – the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth. The LORD will call you back as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit – a wife who married young, only to be rejected.” says your God.
 
It is written in Jeremiah 3:14, “Return, faithless people,” declares the LORD, “for I am your husband.”
 
God declared the people in Israel to be His wife, and himself the husband of Israel. Therefore we can see from God’s point of view that He sees us as his wife, those that have entered into covenant with him. A woman can represent either a man or a woman, since God took woman out of man. It is based on a relationship with God as our Father. So how can you or I become pregnant? To understand this we need to look at the birth of Jesus. This is recorded for us in:
 
Luke 1:26 In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth. A town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus.  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”
 
From the record of the birth of Jesus, it is intimacy with God the Holy Spirit which allows us to give birth. It is shown to us, that through the intimate act of you getting to know God, Holy Spirit allows you to come to the point of giving birth. It was God who chose to become intimate with Mary, and allowed the Word to be birthed in the flesh, just as John wrote in John 1:14. “The Word became Flesh.”. It is the Holy Spirit who allows you to fall pregnant with either a male or female child.
 
A baby boy represents a revelation of the ‘Word‘, who is Jesus.
A baby girl represents a revelation of the Holy Spirit.
 
We have also generally witnessed this in preaches given by the men and women here. Generally, the women have been giving revelations of the wisdom of God, and the men have been giving revelations of the Word of God. 
  
Leviticus 12:3.  “On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.”
 
To understand circumcision, we must look back at Abraham, and what God said to Abraham about this topic. God made a covenant with Abraham in:
 
Genesis 17:1-2. “When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”
 
Continuing at:
 
Genesis 17:9-11. Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come. This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to under go circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or brought with money from a foreigner – those who are not your offspring.
 
Circumcision is a sign of the covenant. So which covenant do we have with God?
 
The covenant of Abraham? No.
The covenant that God made with Moses and the Israelites? No.
We are under the covenant made with the blood of Jesus, for the forgiveness of sin.
 
The ‘Word’ is to be circumcised, meaning that it is to be put under the covenant, or made sure that the word is in the covenant, that it is to be put under. Therefore all word teachings are to be ensured that they are circumcised into the covenant.
 
Leviticus 12:4-7. Then the woman must wait thirty three days to be purified from her bleeding. She must not touch anything sacred or go to the sanctuary until the days of her purification are over. If she gives birth to a daughter, for two weeks the woman will be unclean, as during her period. Then she must wait sixty-six days to be purified from her bleeding.
 
God said in:
 
Leviticus 17:11. “For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I have given it to you to make atonement for yourselves on the alter; it is the blood that makes atonement for one’s life.”
 
In our own blood is our life, which is the way we do things, and therefore our sin is in our blood or life. When a person brings forth wisdom or word from God, that wisdom or word is covered with our life because of our sin corrupts it. But our sin does not affect the birthed ‘wisdom’ or ‘word’. There is a mandatory waiting period for us to wait after the birth depending on whether it is ‘wisdom’ or ‘word’ that is birthed. This waiting is to allow us to understand the ‘wisdom’ or ‘word’ that was birthed and then bring us to the next part which is purification. Purification is for us to consider what was birthed so that we may become purified by the ‘revelation’ or ‘word’ that was birthed, in our hearts.
 
Leviticus 12:6-7 When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering. He shall offer them before the Lord to make atonement for her, and then she will be ceremonially clean from her flow of blood.
 
After the purification period, we are ready for atonement with God.
 
Leviticus 12:7-8. These are the regulations for the woman who gives birth to a boy or a girl. If she cannot afford a lamb, she is to bring two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.
 
From Leviticus 11, we can see that 2 offering were to be given. The first being a burnt offering which is to acknowledge God. God says in
 
Hosea 6:6. “For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings.”
 
So, burnt offerings were used for acknowledgement that that there is ‘God’, and that he has had His hand in that which was done. That God is right, and holy, and perfect in his ways and that we should change our ways to his ways.
 
The second is the sin offering. God says in regard to the sin offering for a member of the community in
 
Leviticus 4:27 “If a member of the community sins unintentionally and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, he is guilty. When he is aware of the sin he committed, he must bring his offering for the sin he committed….”
 
By the birthing of the Word or Wisdom of God, you become aware of your sin during the purification period according to the word or wisdom birthed, and by offering the sin offering, the error of your ways is forgiven, and you are at one with God. 
  
We are not under the law, but under the grace that God gave us through Jesus Christ.
 
Jesus said Matt 5:18 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, nor the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
 
Jesus truly up held the Law, in a way that no one understood, or wanted to understand. Again Jesus saw the Law in love, and not fear. He saw his Father in the law.
 
This translation is to bring justice to Jesus, and to help us in seeing what he saw.