Laws and Latrines 🚽🧻

There is a TON of stuff in these 2 chapters. I’m going to only pick out a few couple of them the weirdest ones.

Verse one makes ya realize that Moses isn’t beating around the bush. He just comes out and says what he says. But why?

I’m not a professor of OT with a PhD or anything, but I suspect it has something to do with the importance of the promised “seed” of Abraham. An emasculated male cannot perpetuate the seed.

Also, the word “assembly” or “congregation” here is the equivalent of the word “church.”

So why is an emasculated male not allowed in the OT Church? Yahweh promised Abraham that through his seed all the nations would be blessed. Meaning, that the nations will have the opportunity to come back into fellowship with the Creator through a special descendent of Abraham, Jesus.

If I can say this without it being too crass… At this point in history, Jewish men are literally carrying the future salvation of the world in their testicles. They had better guard the family jewels. A man who had been emasculated, was no longer able to participate in the purpose of Israel – to bring Messiah into the world.

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Well, if I haven’t given the little old ladies a case of the vapors yet, this oughta do it.

Let’s Talk About… Poo.

In the Pixar film “UP” Russel is excited to relieve himself outside…

“You shall also have a place allocated outside the camp, so that you may go out there to relieve yourself, and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn and cover up your excrement. Since the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp to save you and to defeat your enemies before you, your camp must be holy; so He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭23‬:‭12‬-‭14‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

People today tend to joke about poo. I mean, we even have an emoji for it.

And it’s smiling. 💩💩💩

Joking about excrement is mostly shrugged off now even though it is still not strictly socially acceptable. It has not always been so. “Bathroom humor” was, until quite recently, considered rude and in very poor taste. People used to have much more discreet terminology for human waste and the practice of getting rid of it. Personally, I think it shouldn’t be a topic for jest. God calls it “indecent” and seeing filth in the camp is enough to cause God to leave.

(This may explain some things about San Francisco.)

Y’all hold on ‘cuz I’m about to make a spiritual application to going #2.

(Rolls up sleeves)

😳 You what? Oh this I gotta see… 😏

Human waste is all the stuff that the body cannot use. It has no nutritional value or the body would’ve absorbed it. Some of it is toxic and it was ingested inadvertently. Much of it is dead. Dead cells. Dead matter. It is in the process of decomposing, rotting.

The Church is the Body of Christ. There are useless, non-nutritive things that pass through. Fads. Philosophies. Some of it is toxic and was ingested inadvertently. The healthy Body rejects toxins. The things that die (because they didn’t have the life of God in them) have to be expelled. We can’t have dead, decomposing matter inside the Body.

And when we get rid of it, there is a way to go about it. We don’t take a dump on social media or on the sidewalk in the middle of town. To get rid of waste you go outside the camp. Alone. You dig a hole, relieve yourself, bury it, and walk away.

Are you hearing me, saints?

Bury it. We don’t need toxic attitudes, faddish false teachings, and the dead remains of hurt, bitterness, and regret lying around where someone might accidentally step in it. We don’t need stinking piles of pride and sin everywhere. We take it out of the camp and bury it. Repent. Forgive. Release. Forget. This is how we maintain holiness. The LORD doesn’t want to see (or hear) a bunch of filth in the camp of His saints. This is a good time to get it out of your tv, your book shelf, and your phone. But mainly- your heart.

And if the Body is healthy, this is something that will happen regularly. Daily routine: Repent. Forgive. Release. Forget.

Spiritual and moral constipation leads to stinky off-gassing usually called “venting.” 💨

Did you just compare complaining and blaming and gossip and such to flatulence?

Yes. Yes I did.

I’m not sure whether to be impressed or appalled. I’m leaning towards appalled.

Me too.

Anyway…

Let’s get some moral fiber in our diets so we can be regular in getting the waste out of the Body of Christ.

If I had a t-shirt shop for my blog readers, I’d make one that says, “Just a Regular Christian” and we would be the only ones in on the joke.

Instead, I offer for your edification, these vintage laxative ads.

Well – hope you enjoyed that. The Word of God is amazing. Even a passage on how to do your bathroom business can speak to us. That’s how you KNOW it’s inspired.

And just in case you need a little more illumination, here’s Mark Lowery explaining where the “seat of the emotions” is found.

Stay regular, my friends. 😌