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Leviticus 19:19 warns us, `You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind. You shall not sew your field with mixed seed. Nor shall a garment of mixed linen and wool come upon you.`
A similar statement is made in Deuteronemy 22:11, `You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.`
One could surmise from this that The Lord has a `thing` against certain types of clothing, salad blends, or perhaps even the tastey Beeffalo. However this would be missing the point for today, as we are no longer bound to Levitical Law because of The New Covenant in Christ.
Paul clearly brings these Old Testament Laws into New Covenant focus in Galatians 1:8-9, `But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have recieved, let him be accursed.`
These are strong, and clear words that leave very little room for error in interpretation. There is no arguable double meaning to confuse, no room to wriggle into something more comfortable, accommodating, or less exclusive. We know from all of Scripture that God, is a God of absolutes and accepts no substitutes when it concerns to His Word.
The Bible confirms we are made by God in His image. I believe this is why, in a sense, we seek what is pure and perfect in the world when it comes to what we desire from it.
No one seeks a new car with some mechanical defect, or a scratch in the paint. When we see something like this we walk by, and look to the next opportinity. Women who are moderately handsom do not grace the cover of magazines selling the latest fasions, or we might shun the clothes. When we look at diamonds, we seek to find the clearest, brightest, most cleanly cut specimen to adorn the finger of our intended, and the jeweler never seeks to use gold of marginal quality in his wears. As parents, we hope and pray that our children are born with all the fingers and toes in the perfect place, and in the right amount.
This being true, it is tragic we so easily and carelessly turn our hand against the perfection of The Word. Daily many will cut out those parts that seem somehow wrong to us, sew on odd limbs of interpretation, and fuse our weakly woven earthly agendas into the fabric of the ephod our Creator spun to fit us with great precision, and loving care. The result men of such arrogance produce is an ill fitting garment that may appear warm and wonderful at a glance, but upon closer inspection will always reveal its flaws. The shoddy sticthing of inept and foolish hands leave gaps in the panels, and these errors will not cease to expose the shameful sin of presumption, when the Masters` design is at last set before it for all to see.