Holy Fire to Unholy Kindling

Part 2 of Epic Mini-Series: God is Good. Mullets are Bad.

The reality at the time of the Leviticus download to Moses is that the future Holy Land is already overrun with gobs of unholy hordes that do pretty much the opposite of everything GOD intended back in Eden.

Specifically, regarding GOD’s warning about supposedly, malignant mops: there were a group of indigenous Arabs, a subset of the surrounding culture already entrenched in the Promised Land – thus, the Jewish people would be living in-between them all – that were known to have an idolatrous practice of keeping the hair short at their temples and sides of their heads and letting it grow long in the back, and, the front.

A rudimentary mullet, if you will – and the redundancy of that phrase, is not lost on me.  In practice, it probably resembled more of a mini-horse’s mane than a mullet, but you get my point. 

And apparently, one of the beliefs these idolatrous influencers had was their god that was responsible for keeping the sun on the straight and narrow for 10-12 hours a day, then liked to throw it down when was he off the clock. And so, in honor of his dichotomous business-party lifestyle, they glorified him with, or without, shaved-in racing stripes.

SO the straight up knock down for legislating the individual issue of the mullet must be the setting He’s sending them into, right? 

As a good Parent, He’s trying to keep the Israelites from playing with, and subsequently getting burned by, the current paganistic philosophies that in reality were so far gone and caught up in the demonic undertow that the people actually thought inanimate objects like the sun, moon, and stars – or even trinkets they carried around in their pockets – were the ones in control of their destiny and committed barbarous acts like cutting themselves, having sex with animals, even burning babies in cauldrons of fire in order to curry the inorganic favor of these items. Or, the so-called-gods they represented.

And GOD wanted it ALL out of there. His conquest of Canaan was indeed to give back His chosen people the best-chosen land in ALL the land. 

But it’s also a spiritual take-backsies.  It’s kingdom give, and Kingdom take. 

The entrenched worship of anything other than GOD was to be to be purged, burned, discarded, and ground to dust.  He wasn’t messing around. 

That’s because he’s not sending the Israelites into the Land of Promise just for them to keep up with the Kardashians of Canaan. 

And what He’s saying to them in Leviticus 19, He’s said to them before: for your own good, THOSE guys are devoted to destruction along with whatever they devoted themselves to – including, whatever is trending at the time – because the demons behind it all know that the imitation of these influencers isn’t a form of flattery, it’s the best formula for your flattening. 

Let alone, it would be IMMENSELY ironic to propel His singled out holy people to take the Holy Land back from the pagans, only to have them start behaving, like pagans. 

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