A Messianic Miracle

During the time of Christ leprosy was common, so serious was this disease that those suffering from it had to live outside the town, they weren’t allowed to come within 6 feet of anyone and cried “𝗨𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻!”to alert others of the danger.  A horrible disease, debilitating, painful, and humiliating.  Leviticus gave very strict instructions on how to treat this disease and considered it 2^nd only in seriousness to touching a dead body!

A fascinating articled by Arnold Fruchtenbaum tells us something absolutely enthralling about the healing of leprosy.  There were two kinds of miracles, one that could be performed by anyone under the Spirit of God and another that only the Messiah could perform.  You see, from the time the Mosaic Law was given until the day that Jesus came not one Jewish person had ever been healed of leprosy.  Even though there were detailed instructions on how the priest was to deal with someone healed of leprosy, not one time had those instructions ever been used!  Therefore, 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿.

Enter Jesus and the ten lepers, not one but ten!  “𝑨𝒔 𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒗𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆, “𝑱𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒔, 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒖𝒔!”  𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝑯𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅, “𝑮𝒐, 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔.” 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒅.” (Luke 17:12-14)

“𝗚𝗼, 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀,” Jesus said, fully knowing that the chief priest was Caiaphas who had just pronounced a sentence of death against him!  Oh, the irony, the delicious irony.  Caiaphas had to then take the next seven days investigating, not one, but ten healings, and then declaring that Jesus had performed this miracle.  Ten times over they had to declare that a Messianic miracle had occurred, one that had never happened before!

I love that our LORD has a sense of humor, I love that there was no disputing the fact that Jesus was indeed the Messiah, and I love that this Pharisee, this enemy of our Savior, had to decree that a Messianic miracle had been performed by Jesus.  How it must have stuck in his throat!  Proof yet again that Jesus was indeed the Messiah. 

Sprinkled through God’s Word, time and time again, is evidence of the Messiah, something worth digging for as these treasures are so deep and so great and so very undeniable!