Jehovah declares that human sex is incompatible with their piety. He declared: “You shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy” (Lev. 19:2). When Jehovah commanded Moses to call the people of Israel to receive the law at the foot of the mount Sinai, he forbade the people to go up the mount, under death penalty (Ex. 19:12). Then Moses came down the mount and spoke to the people, saying: “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman” (Lev. 19:15). This proves, then, that the practice of sex is incompatible with the holiness of Jehovah. He does not condemn sex in this situation, only. When David was running from king Saul’s face, who wanted to kill him for jealousy and envy, David went to Nob, tired and hungry, to the priest Ahimelech, and asked for a few loaves of bread. Ahimelech told him: I do not have common bread at hand; there is holy bread, though, “If only the young men have kept themselves from women” (1 Samuel 21:4). And David answered: “Truly, women have been kept from us about these three days”, and the day before yesterday, when I came out. The priest gave him the holy bread (the show bread). If David and the young men had touched women, they would not be allowed, under death penalty, to touch the show-bread (1 Sam. 21:1-6). Every worshipper of Jehovah who practices sex from one to three days before the worship service and preaching is condemned to death by Jehovah, for he declared that he does not change (Mal. 3:6). Those who do not observe the commandments of Jehovah, who said: “But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you” are under curse (Deut. 28:15).
If you think that Jesus came and changed the commands of Jehovah, you are very mistaken. “Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill” (Matt. 5:17). And James says in his epistles: “But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all” (James 2:9-10).
Jehovah reveals why he forbids sex before someone may come near him. In Leviticus 15 we read that Jehovah said to Aaron and to Moses: “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, because of his discharge he is unclean” (v.2). Gonorrhea is a purulent inflammation of the urethra, caused by the bacillus Gonococo, which, if not detected in time, invades the body, affecting all the genital mechanism. Our Bibles use the word “discharge,” but the Hebrew originals say “Gonorrhea.” This is an infectious plague sexually transmitted. The treatment was very painful in those days, but 3,600 years after, with the advent of antibiotics, it has been almost eradicated. In Lev. 15:1, instead of discharge, read Gonorrhea. Do the same in Lev. 15:13.
In Brazil we have in our hands the Bible published by BAC (Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos), located in Madrid, Spain, 1953 edition. In this official Bible of the BAC publishing house, which published almost all the books of the fathers of the Christian Church of the first four centuries, the text of the book of Leviticus says that the men and women who have Gonorrhea are unclean and cannot go into the tent of the Tabernacle. Every piece of furniture, chair, stool, and bed on which the unclean sits becomes unclean, too. Whoever touches these infected objects also becomes unclean. After the washing and cleansing, in the afternoon, it is clean again. When the carrier of Gonorrhea is healed, he remains seven days outside the temple to be purified. At the eighth day he will take two turtle-doves and two young pigeons and will go before Jehovah, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and will give them to the priest, who will offer one for a sin offer, and the other for a burnt offering. Then the priest will make expiation before Jehovah. This is all in Leviticus 15:1-15.
What is surprising is that Jehovah compares the filth of Gonorrhea with the uncleanness of the seed of the copulation of men. This is to say that, to Jehovah, the human sperm is by nature unclean. Let us continue to read Leviticus 15 to confirm this biblical truth.
The problem is that Jehovah condemns the sexual act, not Pr. Olavo, according to some critics. Let us continue:
The sacred text says: “If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. Every garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening” (Lev. 15:16-18). To get to the tabernacle, though, he has to wait for three days (Ex. 19:12; 1 Sam. 21:1-6). If he does not respect this time of purification and sanctification after the sexual intercourse, he will die; such is the uncleanness of the seed of the copula to Jehovah.
The woman, when she goes through her period, remains unclean for seven days, and anyone who touches her is unclean until the evening (Lev.15:19-20). Anyone who touches the bed of the woman or a piece of furniture where she has sat has to bathe himself with water and will be unclean until the evening (Lev. 15:22-23). The woman will only be free from the uncleanness of her ovulation after seven days are passed (Lev. 15:28). On the eighth day she will take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and take them to the priest, who will offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest will make atonement on her behalf because of her impure discharge before Jehovah (Lev. 15:29-30). THIS RITUAL IS THE SAME AS THE ONE FOR THE PURIFICATION OF GONORRHEA, WHICH IS A VENEREAL DISEASE, INFECTIOUS AND UNCLEAN.
Jehovah also ordered to say: “Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him” (Lev. 22:4). In this passage Jehovah compares the uncleanness and the leprosy uncleanness with the uncleanness of the Gonorrhea, and also with the uncleanness of the sperm that issues from men. The ones of the churches who are hungry for sex beware of the vengeful anger of Jehovah, who dictated it to Moses in Leviticus 15.
It is easy to understand, now, why every child who is born as a fruit of sex, is born unclean, and the mother is considered unclean for seven days (Lev. 12:2). “She shall continue in the blood of purification thirty-three days. She shall not touch any holy thing, nor come into the sanctuary” (Lev. 12:4). “But if she bears a female child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her period; and she shall continue in the blood of purification sixty-six days” (Lev. 15:5). “When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering” (Lev. 12:6). Who could imagine a holy couple united by God, who loves each other, when they bring a son or a daughter to this world, to have to offer sacrifices for sin? This is only in the head of Jehovah (Lev. 12:6-7).
And Jehovah ends the teaching, saying: “Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in their midst. This is the law of him who has a discharge, and of him who has an emission of semen, so that he is unclean thereby; and of her who has her period, and of a man or woman who has a discharge, and of him who lies with her who is unclean” (Lev. 15:31-33).
To Jesus, marriage is holy and clean. And it is written in the letter to the Hebrews: “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled” (Heb. 13:4). This means that matrimony has nothing unclean about it, as Jehovah has declared. Besides that, matrimony is a picture of the marriage of Christ and the Church (Eph. 5:25-32).
By Pastor Olavo Silveira Pereira