Devotional verses from the book of Leviticus

In the Bible leprosy is a representation of sin.

When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests: and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.  Leviticus 13:2, 3

As you can see these verses give a list of symptoms that indicate leprosy: a rising, a scab, or bright spot in the skin with the hair growing in that spot having turned white, and that strange spot appearing more than skin deep. Throughout this chapter of scripture symptoms are added: raw flesh (v. 14); a healed reddish boil with certain characteristics (vss. 18-20); in certain instances a spreading of these characteristics (v. 22); an evident skin disease with a thin yellow hair in it (vss. 29,30). By looking at the symptoms the priest was able to determine whether or not an individual had the disease of leprosy.

Let me give you some symptoms of the disease raging in our world today: chasing 30,000 - 40,000 people on to a wilderness mountain to die of starvation and thirst; execute them if they come down; chase all people of all religions but their own out of a land they occupy; execute captives in extreme atrocities; enslave women and children; leave a path of destruction and death; desire war and killing; consider peace to be when they have totalitarian control of the lives of others; despise freedom; hide missiles among civilians so the children will die as a public relations move; reject peace proposals; take the lives of their own female relatives in what some call honor killings. By my observation, I will tell you that such people are a plague upon mankind. They are a leprosy. They are a virulent bloody virus like Ebola.

The nations of the world have an obligation to all people to provide justice and freedom and life, and especially to those under such wicked domination. The nations are obligated to cure this malignant evil. All that it takes for such evil to flourish is that nations whose moral fiber has crumbled do nothing.