Greetings NB, stick around awhile.
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greetings to you. I have been a leper a few times now. This is what I figured out the first time I was cast out of a church group.
2 Kings 6:25
[my observation]
When you are a leper in Samaria there is no use standing at the gate of the city wanting back in as there is a great famine in Samaria.
6:26 A woman (church is a woman?) cried out to him saying Help me, O my lord the king(type and shadow of Christ)
6:27 The King of Israel (type and shadow of Christ?) was passing on the wall and offered to help them. "From the threshing floor (His body?) or the winepress (His blood?)"
maybe literally was bread and wine but if I was offered literal bread and wine I would have took it instead of what comes next. [my opinion]
6:28 The king said to her, what is your trouble?
instead of responding to his question she says:
Give up your son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
so they boiled the son and ate him
6:29 And on the next day the King said to her, Give up your son that we may eat him, but she hid her son.
This shows she did not keep her end of the bargain after the King gave up his son
This shows that the woman (church) was not true to what she had agreed to.
The King tore his clothes and had sackcloth underneath (signifies great grief)
chapter 7 starting with verse 3
the lepers are at the gate thinking that if they sit there they will die.
( I had this kind of thinking each time I have been a leper).
next they thought if they went back into the city they would die
(I had this kind of thought too).
So they figured they might as well go into the enemy camp and take a chance that they might not kill them.
( I believe anyone who is being viewed as a leper and is being rejected would have these kind of thoughts).
so at twilight (first glimmer of light(truth))(smile I am just making fun, probably is literally twilight) they went to the enemy camp.
to summerize their experience and mine is there was no enemy to be found,, provisions were left behind (food,drink and clothing) (is not cool to be a naked leper)
chapter 7 vs 9
they go back to tell the kings household
and the king rose up in the night (signifies darkness)
and thought that the lepers were in cahoots with the enemy and were trying to trick them into leaving thru the gates of the city(church) so they could all be killed by the enemy.
This is also my experience when I tried to share with all those who were still starving.
am skipping to chapter 7 vs 20
So in conclusion don't stand in the gate when the people come trampling out of the starving city. [my opinion)
Lord Jesus thank you for healing us lepers.
Love You Ned
Brothers please forgive me for using all these allegories.