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Did you know that hair
is intrinsic to mammals and is the fastest growing tissue of the human
body? Did you know that it can grow 0.4mm per day and do so for up to 7
years before falling out? That means that a human hair can grow up to
100cm long! The average minimum life span of a hair is 2-3 years
resulting in a maximum hair length of 30-40cm. Its just the way God
created us. Moreover, He created men hairier than women. In fact, we men
grow a great amount of hair from our face!
IT IS CALLED A BEARD!!!!!
Did you know that God commands men to let their beards grow naturally?
Leviticus 19:27 says,
"You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the
edges of your beard" As a result, the unfashioned beard was associated with
the identity of the men within the people of Yahweh.
Jesus, who fulfilled the entire divine Law, had a beard.
Isaiah 50:6 says,
"I gave My back to
those who strike Me, and My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I
did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting." Jesus' beard identified Him as a descendant of
Abraham, Issac and Jacob, it represented a Law, a people and a God that
they despised. The Romans were generally "clean
shaven" which is an interesting term that implies that beards
are somehow dirty.
In similar fashion, we see in
2 Samuel 10:4-5 that Hanun shamed
David's men by shaving half their beards,
"Hanun took David's servants and shaved off half of their beards, and
cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them
away." When news of this
reached David
"he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king
said, "Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.""
To the unsaved, the instruction of God serves to reveal sin in its true
light and thus the need for a Saviour. To the saved, the instruction of
God serves to increasingly separate us from the world and conform us to
God's Word. It is a great shame that the vast majority of men who
profess the Word of God wake up every morning, stand in front of the
mirror and carefully eradicate their God given facial growth in order to
conform to the world. As a Christian friend flippantly said to me
recently, "I
grew a beard once, but I looked Jewish, so I shaved it off"
Yet Moses,
"refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to
endure ill-treatment with the people of God than to enjoy the passing
pleasures of sin, considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than
the treasures of Egypt" (Hebrews
11:24-26)
Jonathan Vandor
I grew up in churchianity
and lived like the world up until the day I heard a preacher say,
"...listen to the voice of the Lord and
do
what He says!" It was then that the Light went on in my head and in my
heart and I realized that the Bible was a book of instruction for today,
that God's law still applies and that I had broken it. That was 4 years
ago and YHWH continues to separate me and my family from the
unscriptural traditions of men, sanctifying us by His Truth, His Word,
His Commandments. We live in the beautiful country town of Cootamundra,
NSW, Australia where we homeschool our three children and seek to
proclaim His gospel in spirit
and
truth. I host a weekly gospel radio program, TRUTH2U, and keep a blog
at col2v8.blogspot.com
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Jono Vandor
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