A History of Quarantine.
God's Word sets the Precedence.
 

We tilled a little ground in the previous chapter, too make way for the progression of our medical allegory to continue in this chapter.  Previously, we presented an allegory between the natural infectious viruses and their insidious disease process, to make comparisons to what we have called man’s spiritual virus of sin and its pseudo genetics that promotes sin's insidious corruption and death within its host.  Hopefully our vision will be made clear enough, so that in the final analysis of this essay portion, we will have ended some confusion as, pertaining to the Law of God contained within the Hebrew Torah.  The Law of God, was God's preventative instructions, given in His Grace, to protect the chosen people of Israel from their ignorance of the absolute ravages of sin.  God's additional Covenant provisions given to His chosen people, were so that the Messiah would come through the lineage of Adam as the last true Adam, and the Man that would be the Savior of a lost world. 

The Torah of God, were instructive, spiritual laws in total opposition to the spiritual law of sin and death.  The Ten Commandments were given to Adam's genetic offspring of Man, to provide a better perspective and understanding of the Law's ultimate purpose of quarantining or the setting a person apart from sin's further corruption of the human soul, until God's Promised Messiah would be born into God's chosen Race of Man. 

The Incarnate Christ and WORD of God was the Bread of Heaven, Who came down from Eternity to be conceived by His Holy Father in an ovum of a virgin of Israel, the daughter of the genetic Messianic Seed of Ishshah the first given name of the wife of Adam.  To prevent confusion, it was after the insurrection of our first parents, that Adam changed the name of his wife Ishshah to that of Eve. 

Quarantine's History

If we are finished with this beginning logical Word of the TRUTH of GOD, then let's continue with a short history of how man's laws of quarantine came into existence, and then see with logical observations, how these laws paralleled the Wisdom in the Bible and God's redemption plan for mankind.  As we currently know it, man's original practice of quarantine, began during the fourteenth century, in a feeble effort to protect coastal cities from the unknown pandemic of the Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague.  Upon arriving in Venice Italy, ships from infected ports were required to sit at anchor for forty days in isolation, before the crew or cargo were allowed to land.  The word "quarantine" derives its enforcement practice from the Italian words "quaranta giorni", which mean 40 days, a number no doubt that was taken from the Bible by the Vatican. From 1347 until 1353, it is widely estimated that thirty to sixty percent of the population of Europe had died, as a result of the unseen and unknown bacterium within the fleas that were carried by rats.  The enormous mortality rate had huge social and religious repercussions, with life itself, being devalued of dignity. Recorded history reveals that the European society became exceedingly violent with mob rule, with the spread of unabated crime.  With this came the advent of religious flagellants, seeking to appease the wrath of God with their additional religious bodily abasements, followed with persecutions of the populous that were induced by fear.  With the collapse of society, there then came forth wars from without, followed by the religious wars within.   Mankind, ignorant of God, will always do what is right in their own eyes.  The people of the day had no idea, that there would be such chaos from a minuscule causative bacterial agent, carried by the diminutive blood sucking fleas on the back of infected rats.

Lurking in the darkness were viruses, that are about a hundred times smaller than bacterium.  The entities were also discovered to exist in the late 1890's, but could not be seen until the invention of the electron microscope in 1931.  These insidious pathogens, do not go through their own mitosis, but when finding an existence within cells, they force the cells to reproduce its viral kind, making the cell to think that the virus belonged to the cell itself.

For practical purposes, if an unknown infectious pathology of dire consequences is discovered, then it would be appropriate that good quarantining or isolation laws should be enforced to protect society from the deadly contagion.  It would be hoped that the isolation Laws, with the implementation of known sanitation measures with the oversight of good physician care, might abate the spread of the contagion of those infected from the rest of society, that is if society cooperates.  But by themselves, all of these ‘good’ quarantine measures will not be remedial to the infection of the already afflicted. 

Unfortunately without an antidote, even the health care practitioners, are subject to the affliction.  Without a remedy, the life of a person is dependent upon the strength of their own individual blood immune system, and its ability to overcome the invasion of foreign pathogens.  All of society would be waiting on an antidote that would totally destroy the infectious agent, without harming the potential life of the patient.  If a remedial solution is found and administered, then of necessity, is the patient's continued full and faithful cooperation with the good physician that provided the remedy.  It remains important to practice good healthy laws of diet, exercise, and the drinking of plenty of fresh water, to maintain the physical well being of the natural body. To do other wise, going back to the old bad habits, will affect the physical quality and length of life of the individual.

Some examples of bacterial and viral infections that can be prevented, or treated somewhat affectively by vaccination at this time, include: anthrax, chickenpox, hepatitis A and B, influenza, measles, mumps, polio, rabies, and yellow fever.

With the advent of antibiotics and vaccinations in the mid-twentieth century, large-scaled community quarantines have virtually disappeared.  However, with the increased mutations of the virulent flu virus', antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, and the threat of bio-terrorism, then communal quarantines may once again be seen as being of paramount importance.  The biggest problem with quarantining of disease today, is the immediate and necessary restrictions that would be placed on the movement of independent members of the fast traveling world social order. The following is just an observation.  When the virulence, as well as the mode of the transmission of the AIDS epidemic came to be understood, then the World Health Organization should have implemented an appropriate quarantine, or isolation methodology, with protection for both the none infected as well as the sick, until a cure would be found.

The Prescription Book of the Law until Messiah comes in Grace and Truth.

The precedent for isolation or a quarantining law is first revealed in the book of Genesis.  If you recall, the very first isolation imposed on man, took place in the Garden of Eden.  God gave Adam and Eve only one simple command, calling for their total separation from the infectious Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. There disobedience to the one Command would cause them to perish in the control of sin's death.  Unfortunately for all of humanity, a lust for godly power was conceived in both of the hearts of our first parents.  It was the beginnings of the insidious desires of self centered sin, that blinded them to the consequences of their eventual forbidden actions.  Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed [within his own mind].  Then when lust has conceived [in the mind], it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. ^{(James 1 verse 14 thru 15.)}

What a catastrophic choice the first Man Adam made when he harkened unto the voice of his wife.  Then along with her, Adam, in full disobedience to the one command and warning of God,  they both freely participated in the eating of the self promoting attraction.  Adam and Ishshah/Eve together, made the free choice to challenge God's sanction of death, rather than to remain in God's will of Life for them.  Their rebellion against the Creator, caused them to forfeit Life within God's endless bounds of Love.  Now, instead of remaining in an endless cycle of Life with the Spirit of God, now Adam, thinking that he knew better than God, has opted for a life of sweat and tears.  Because of Adam's treasonous decision to believe the lie and to side with the spiritual entity of death, Adam/Man's life is truncated.  Adam, in participating in the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, chose for himself, and his wife Eve, as well as that of their prodigy, the unrighteous spiritual seed of self centering sin that chooses the varying pathways of confusion of good and evil that eventuates in death.

At this time, God, in His infinite holiness, imposes an absolute quarantine upon Adam and Eve, forcing them from the Garden and the Tree of Life, for an angel drives them from Eden.  With their self defilement, Adam and Eve had forfeited the right to the eternal provisions in the 'Tree of Life', lest the infection of self justifying sin, which they unknowingly had become, have an eternal right to perpetuate itself in them.  God forbids that right, even for their sake and His immediate loss of their fellowship.  It is impossible for God Almighty to participate with sin, for sin brings about an absence of Love, and God is Love, and within His absolute Holiness, His Holy Love is an all consuming fire that obliterates idolatrous sin, as well as its rebel source of insurrection.  Unregenerate man, cannot stand in God's Holiness!  Isolation, or the quarantining of idolatrous sin, began with God exiling or quarantining man from the Garden, and not allowing them to partake of the Tree of Life.  God's principle of quarantining sin and its destruction, will continue in earth's history until His last Word on the matter of sin and death is finished.

And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man (Adam) is become as one of Us, to know good and evil.  And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat and live for ever.  Therefore, Jehovah Elohim sent him (Adam) forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.  And He drove out Man (Adam); and He set the Cherubim, and the flame of the flashing sword, toward the east of the garden of Eden, to guard the way to the Tree of Life. ^{(Genesis 3 verse 22 thru 24. Darby.)}

Then the most drastic quarantining measure of all came, when Yahweh God sent the flood of waters over the whole earth, to destroy all flesh that was corrupted, both physically and spiritually by the rebellious sons of God.  In chapter 6 of Genesis, there is no mistaking that these sons of God are renegade angelic beings, and are known in the Hebrew tongue as B'nai haElohim.  However, Elohim, knew that Noah was a just Man, and was perfect in his generations going back to the first Man/Adam.  To be absolutely clear on this matter, Noah being a just Man was genetically pure, going all the way back in his generations to the first Man Adam.   God had made known to Noah of His Covenant Word that He had given in the Garden of Eden, and God knowing that Noah would walk in agreement with his Creator, Elohim made Noah an integral part of His Covenant Word, to bring forth God's Promised Messianic seed from the first Woman, Ishshah, the wife of Adam.  ^{(See Genesis 6 verse 8 thru 9 and 18.)} And so, after Noah had built the Ark, God isolated Noah's family within it, and then He brought forth the flood of waters from the fountains within the depths of the earth, and it rained 40 days and 40 nights, until the whole land was filled with the great waters even above the then mountain tops.  God's Holy Judgment was in the flood of waters that destroyed all the wicked of flesh that served the self corrupting angelic sons of God.  Except for the few on the Arc, save for one person; all peoples of the earth had become genetically and spiritually corrupted by the sons of God, and all the peoples were destroyed in the flood.

God, the Alpha and the Omega, in His Infinite Knowledge and Wisdom, had already set the course of His Infinite Word, from the Beginning to the End.   Most assuredly, God had isolated the genetic seed of His first Man/Adam within Woman/Ishshah to bring forth Seth, who begot Enosh, who begot Kenan, who begot Mahaladel, who begot Jared, who begot Enoch, who begot Methuselah, who begot Lamech, who begot Noah who begot three sons, Shem, Japheth and Ham.  YHVH God would maintain the continuance of His Promised Seed thru Noah's pure genetic son Shem. ^{(See Genesis 11 verse10 thru 27.)} And so in the End, we will see God's quarantining measures were ordained by the Almighty YHVH within the generational sons of the first Adam until the Last possible seed of Adam, for Jesus Christ would be conceived by the Spirit of His Holy Father, the Lord God Almighty, to be one within the ovum of the Hebrew virgin Mary. 

We now move past Shem's ten genetically pure generations to follow Abram.  God made known to Abram, the same Garden Covenant that Noah understood.  Likewise, Abram also believed Elohim God, and God counted Abram's faith in the WORD of God as that of righteousness. ^{(See both Genesis 6 and Genesis 15.)}

However, Abram, at the age of eighty six,  had confusion in his perception of the Covenant Word of God.  Abram listened to His wife Sarai, and went unto Hagar the Egyptian bond woman of Sarai, and conceived of the child Ishmael.  God would make it clear to Abram that the (Genetic) Seed of God's Covenant would be through Abram's wife Sarai, and not the Egyptian blood relative of Mizraim, the son of Ham.  God then changed the name of Abram to Abraham, and changed Sarai's name to Sarah.  At God's appointed time, Sarah conceived of Abraham's seed, from that of Adam, and gave birth to a son they named Isaac, which means laughter.  When the child had grown well enough to be weaned, Abraham provided a great feast in celebration of his son, Isaac.  At the feast, Sarah saw Ishmael mocking Isaac, perhaps with laughter, and she demanded of Abraham that Hagar and her son would be cast out, because Ishmael could not be an heir of God's covenant, along with their son Isaac.  God confirmed to Abraham that he was to listen to Sarah's voice: For in Isaac shall thy seed be called. ^{(See Genesis 21verse 1 thru 12.)} Although God would provide for the needs of Hagar and Ishmael's needs, the Wisdom of God would remove the genetic confusion from Abraham's presence.  Indeed, the Promise Seed of God's Covenant Word would come to pass through the beginning genetic lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 

Later, in another of our written chapters, called "The Woman in God's Covenant", we will investigate God's Messianic Promise of the pure genetic lineage of Adam/Man, that will produce the Seed from a Woman that will crush the power of the will of evil.  For as the first Man Adam sinned in his faithlessness, and brought death to mankind, so the Last Man and Son of Adam, Jesus Christ, was holy faithful to God, His Father, and gives His Life for all of sinful man kind that are faithful to God's Only Begotten Son, Whom God raised from the death of our sins. ^{(See 1st Corinthians 15 verse 45 thru 50.)}

Let us move forward in our synopses of the history of quarantine. In the course of God's timing, we see that the children of Jacob, now called the Israel of God, will find themselves in Egypt, where, in the period of 400 years, the twelve tribes of the offspring of Jacob, have become a multitude, and will become enslaved in Egypt.  Moses, believing that he is a prince of the house of Egypt will discover that He is, indeed, a child of the house of Levi from that of the seed of Israel.  Moses will kill an Egyptian, who is beating an Israelite, but when Moses sees himself discovered by his own disgruntled people of Israel, he will flee into the lands of Midian near Mt Horeb/Sinai.  Now this former prince will be isolated in a barren land to become a shepherd of sheep that belongs to another, that is until God's pruning of the self image of the man is humbled.  God will now send back to Egypt, Moses, God's chosen man of meekness, to deliver the house of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt.  The Egyptians, in their blindness to sin and death, did not know they were a corrupted nation in bondage to their gods of confusion.

After the first nine plagues, God gave the Israelite favor among the Egyptians, and the Egyptians gave to the Israel of God all that they asked of them. Then God established on the tenth day of the first month of Abib the selection and inspection of a lamb that was to be slain on the fourteenth day of the first month before the evening of the Lord's Passover. The blood of the lamb was to placed on the two door post and the lintel to mark the house that the angel of death would pass over.  And it came to pass that at midnight (of Nisan the 15th) the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharaoh; even the first born of the captive in prison and all the first born of the cattle: for there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Then while it was yet dark Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said: Rise up, and get you forth from my people.  ^{(See Exodus 12 verse 29 thru 33.)}

In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of  Egypt, the same day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.  At that time God spoke to Moses saying: Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, and be ready the third day, for the  the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all of the people upon the mount.  Three days later, God called Moses up to the top of the mountain, and God spoke to Moses the Words of the Covenant with the 10 Commandments of quarantine, and gave the instructions for the conduct of the people of Israel that would make them unique and set apart from all the peoples of the world.  And all of the people answered with one voice: All the Words that the Lord has said, we will do. Moses inscribed all the Words of the Lord in the book of the Covenant, and then took the blood of the burnt offerings and peace offerings, and took half of the blood and sprinkled the altar. Then Moses read the Book of the Covenant into the ears of the people of Israel, and they agreed with the Covenant and said: All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant, which the Lord has made with you, concerning all these Words. ^{(See Exodus 24 verse 1 thru 8.)} Israel, by the word of their testimony had now entered into a Covenant relationship with YHVH God Almighty, sealed with the blood of God's mercy and grace, that was to separate them from the nations of this fallen world.

And the Lord said unto Moses: Come up to Me into the mount, and I will give you the Tables of Stone with Law and Commandments, which I have written, that you may teach them. And Moses was in the mount forty day and forty nights. Moses, himself, was isolated forty days and nights on the smoking mountain top of Mount Sinai in the Presence of God Almighty, where he would receive the protective Commandments of the Covenant written in stone. This was also the beginning, when Moses would receive Godly knowledge in the spiritual instructions for Israel in the manner of their life and worship of their Covenant God. The first two tablets of stone were inscribed with the 10 Commandments of God's Covenant, and were the work of God alone, for they were  written by the finger of God. ^{(See Exodus 32 verse 15 thru 16.)} And then the Lord Said to Moses: Go down, for the people which you brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; for they have turned aside quickly out of the Way, Which I Commanded them. They have made a molten calf, and have worshipped it and sacrificed unto it; saying: These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Then YHVH God tries the very heart and will of Moses, with a threat of destruction for this stiff-necked people.  Moses intercedes for the people with wisdom and the Words of God, and God is satisfied with Moses' intercession, and stays the execution of His judgment. ^{(See Exodus 32 verse 1 thru 14.)} And Moses took the tables in his hands and went down the mountain, and as soon as he came to the camp, he saw the molten calf and the revelry of the people, and in his anger, he through down the tablets and broke then at the base of Mount Sinai/Horeb. The judgment from Moses and that of God ensued. ^{(See Exodus 32 verse 25 thru 35.)}

Afterward Moses will again intercede for the people and then entreat the Lord, asking to see His Glory.  And the Lord said unto Moses: Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: And I will write upon these tables the Words that were in the first tables which you broke. ^{(See Exodus  34 verse 1 thru 5.)}  In his anger, Moses physically broke the tablets of the Law, and perhaps the spirit of the law. Interestingly, YHVH God Commands Moses the Man to make new tablets of stone like the first ones he broke, and then God will rewrite His Commandments on the stone that challenges the matter of the heart of man kind.  The fuller expression of the covenant continued: And the Lord said unto Moses: Write these Words, for after the essence of these Words, I have made a Covenant with you and with Israel.  In those 40 days that Moses was on the mountain, inscribing the tenor of all the Words of YHVH the Lord God Almighty, he neither ate bread nor drank water during this time of intense separation from the people of Israel.

When Israel had left Mt Sinai and was encamped at Paran, God commanded Moses to send the chief men of every tribe of Israel to search out the land of Canaan.  For 40 Days these 12 men searched out the promised land that Yahweh God had sworn to give to the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Ten of the Israelites feared the people of the land, and not the Word of God, and brought an evil report of the giants of the land, thereby bringing fear to the people of Israel.  Israel murmured against God and his representative Moses, and as a result of their threatened insurrection, Israel was quarantined in the wilderness for forty years, until the faithless and rebellious had perished.  The two exceptions were Caleb and Joshua, who gave a good report to the people of Israel, and forty years later they would enter into the Promised Land with the new generation of Israelites.  

The Laws of God were given to the Covenant people of God to protect themselves, from their ignorance of their own destructive nature of self willed sin.  In every aspect of their fallen humanity, God's quarantining instructions within the whole of the Torah, were designed to protect Israel from the defilements of the sin that was innate to the desires within their flesh. The instructions of God, when followed, would isolate and separate the chosen people from the nations that were of the genetically corrupted children of Ham and his wife.  The Israel of God, as a chosen people of God, needed to follow the instructions of the Torah, so that in God's future appointed time, God's unfailing Word of the promised Messiah, would come forth as Man from the pure genetic seed of a faithful virgin daughter of Israel. 

Therefore, in the beginning of God's Covenant Word, Elohim would set apart, a people as a pure genetic race from the seed of Adam from whom the Promised Messiah would come as the Adamic Seed of the Woman.  In all aspects of the Word of God, the Israel of God were quarantined by God, from the rest of the people of the world that were not only spiritually corrupted in sin, but physically corrupted by sin's intrusion into the genetics of man.  The quarantining instructions of the Torah, were not perfect for they could not cure man of sin's sting of death.  Perfection was never in the Law, but the Law was preventative in that it isolated, and made known the desires of the flesh within the offspring of Adam.  God's instructions to the Israel would help to insure that the Covenant Seed of a generational daughter of Adam, would indeed bring forth God's incarnate Christ, and Savior of man kind.  The Decalogue in Commandments, exacerbated the knowledge of sin and its consequences of death, and as such was to quarantine Israel from sin's rebellious nature that always gives birth to death.

Within the whole of the Torah, God gave practical instructions, so as to protect and to enable the people of Israel to live a more blessed and fulfilled life, setting them apart from their ignorance of disease, and its causative factors.  In obedience to the Word of God, Israel would not suffer any of the diseases of the Egyptian people brought on by Egypt's mingled genetics and their following of their gods of death.  But if Israel failed to adhere to the Commands of the Almighty Creator, then the plagues of Egypt, and the intermingling with the people of the land, would become a genetic plague that would destroy the wholesomeness that was to be in the set apart tribes of Israel.

YHVH God desired Israel's faithfulness to His Covenant of Messianic Promise, but He knew in the years that would follow, they would fail to keep His Covenant Word. (See Deuteronomy 31 verse 15 verse 19, and the Song of Moses.) Even after their settling into the promised land, some of the tribes of Israel would comingle with the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and yield to these nation's satanic culture with the worship of their gods.  In time, the unrepented sins of Israel would spew them out of the land of promise.  Nevertheless, God would watch over His Covenant Word, and would maintain a faithful remnant of His people with the pure genetic seed of Adam, and in the End, Yahweh would bring to the forefront His conception of His Word within the Covenant Seed of the Hebrew virgin woman, Mary.  That Seed would be born the Savior of mankind, to bring forth God's Everlasting Covenant of Life within the absolute Love and Obedience of the Son of Man, the very Last Adam and the Incarnate of Son of God.  Now that the Promised Messiah of the seed of Woman has come in the flesh of Man, as the Son of Man/Adam, let us in Spirit follow Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah wherever He goes. 

God's Spirit of Holiness will lead Jesus Christ, into the wilderness to fast and pray for forty days and nights, and to be tempted of Satan in that time of isolation.  Jesus, in the temptations of His flesh by the devil, stood fast in the written Word of God.  Even the Lord God's Eternal Son, born of flesh from the seed of Woman/Ishshah, was taken through an initial quarantining trial of testing, in preparation for His final selfless sanctification, against the onslaught of the virulent nature of the sin's of the world.  Jesus, the Word of God in the flesh of Man, stood fast in separating Himself from all of sin's corruption, so that Satan could find nothing to bring a railing accusation against our Lord Jesus/Yeshua, not even of His genetics as the Son of Adam.  God's Salvation Gift has come to all of mankind; for all who believe and are conceived in the Faith of Christ, with His sufferings, His death on the cross, and His resurrection into Life by the Power of God, will also see Resurrection Life in Christ Jesus.  And Jesus said in prayer to His Father: for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the Truth. ^{(John 17 verse 19.)} In the isolation process of God's Salvation, we witness that although He was a Son, yet Jesus [as Man] learned obedience by the things which He suffered; And being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him. ^{(Hebrews 5 verse 8 thru 9.)}

Death is swallowed up in Christ's resurrection victory over our sin.  For those of faith within Christ Jesus, death has lost its sting of sin, and the grave no longer has its victory, for Jesus Christ, the Son of Man/Adam, has risen from the dead. ^{(See Isaiah 25 verse 8, and 1st Corinthians 15 verse 53 thru 55.)}

If you would have looked at the word "sanctify" in the Greek you would see that it means to set apart, as in quarantining.  As the Son of Man, Jesus Christ would always set himself apart from any hint of sin, in spite of His trials and sufferings, so that He would always do the Will of His Father. and not the will of His own human flesh. We see in every case, it was God through His Spirit, Who initiated the isolation or quarantining of His subjects.  God's desired purpose remains constant, for in setting His called apart from the evil bondages of sin, His will is that He might utilize them as son's, for their benefit and His glory.  For you have forgotten the exhortation, which speaks unto you as unto children.  My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: For whom the Lord loves, He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives.  If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chastens not?  ^{(Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 7.)} The resulting quarantining and cleansing processes are never comfortable to the hide and the will of the flesh.

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