I was thinking about God's statement "You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean." Leviticus 10:10. And then, there it was again in the New Testament reading! These Scriptures together made me wonder if the concept of "clean and unclean" has to do with "what the Lord will inhabit and what the devil will inhabit."
Jesus delivered the man with the legion of demons, and when He cast them out, they went and inhabited a bunch of swine ("unclean" animals by Mosaic law). The man was converted and became an evangelist then. Jesus delivered him and he became clean. Jesus called him into cleanness, a habitation for the Lord.
What happened to Aaron's sons, then, in Leviticus? Apparently, they weren't clean, although they had been consecrated with all the ritual. God looks at the heart. It's His heart of compassion to see us delivered from evil. The priests of God had all the advantages, and yet they didn't love God. The man among the tombs was an abused outcast, and yet his immediate response was to be devoted to Christ. The priests were common then, and the delivered man was holy. I think it's very interesting to see the contrasts in these chapters today, and the judgment and mercy of God.
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