MENSTRUATION

Menstruation takes place if the ovum or egg released by the ovary has not been fertilized.

An unbroken series of estrous cycles occurs throughout the year and pregnancy can occur in any one of them.

Women without knowing of God's menstrual laws are clean, but after they learn of them when not obeying them they become unclean.

A menstruant may not regard her menstrual periods as settled unless; the recurrence has been regular three times.

Females are in type the ever-flowing stream of uncleanness and secret river of sin that pollutes whatever it touches.

LEV 15:19 If a woman has an issue of blood in her flesh, she shall be put apart from all men for seven days.

A woman must check herself for blood at her menstrual time to be sure, even if no blood is present.

Women must closely examine themselves for menstrual blood during their whole period.

If at the women's day of discharge she did not examine herself and finds blood, she must count her seven days one day earlier.

It is better to account the day before as her period to be on the safe side.

It is no good for a woman to feel that her "guest" is coming or is over, she must see or not see blood.

If a woman at her time of menstruation does not bleed she is clean.

If a woman goes without her period three times and then has one she is unclean.

Women having regular periods are unclean when staining between periods.

Women must bathe by immersion at the end of each menses.

A woman, who has passed three menstrual periods with no discharge of blood, is at her first spotting or reappearance of blood unclean.

If uncertain that the blood discharge occurred during the days between menstrual periods, she is still unclean, and must give God a sacrifice.

When a woman loses blood during the later days of a pregnancy she is not unclean, but must give a sacrifice to God before and after birth.

Elder women are to examine virgins for their menarche, but not with their fingers, for this may break the hymen and put question to a woman's highest gift to her husband (virginity).

They are to put oil on a rag and insert it slightly into the vagina and then wipe it for the examination.

The blood of virginity is not as red as menses; it is turbid, meaning that the color is undeterminable.

All colors that are near redness, but not intensely red are regarded as similar to menstrual blood.

Heavy work or extreme athletic exercise will halt periods. These women require no menstrual examination.

Also trembling and fear holds back the menstrual flow, but a sudden fright will also start it.

Women are to be without sexual intercourse fifteen days each month.

Seven days for bleeding, a bath on the eighth, plus seven more days free of staining.

Men that know the menstrual law are expected for their safety to ask godly women they come in contact with, if they are clean or unclean.

All men are unclean when touching any Godly woman that is unclean in menses.

Any man by touching a godly woman with her "curse” will be unclean until the evening.

Females are exempt from this law.

A man that is unclean by touching a passing godly menstruant can convey the same degree of uncleanness to his wife.

Men served by godly women in menses in restaurants, or handled by them in physical services are unclean.

When a woman unclean in menses touches a godly man she does not make him unclean.

When the godly woman is flowing, the bed and seats she uses transfers her uncleanness to men and their clothes.

LEV 15:20 Everything that she lies upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sits upon shall be unclean.

LEV 15:21 Any man touching her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.

LEV 15:22, 23 Any man touching any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.

A menstruant can lounge in an easy chair, fill her husband’s cup, make ready his bed and wash his hands and feet.

But she must serve him with her left hand.

He who has intercourse with a menstruant or touches her must bathe his whole body.

A blood discharge during intercourse makes both the man and woman unclean.

Having sex with a menstruant is as having sex with a dead body.

LEV 15:24 If any man has sex with a menstruant and her blood and secretions get upon him, she shall make him unclean seven days; and the bed whereon he lays shall be unclean.

The wife must to tell her husband of her periods and abstain from sex and other familiarities during her menstrual periods.

Also when friends knowing the wife was a menstruant, yet had sex with her husband who did not know he is to shed his blood by being flogged.

If a man has been forewarned yet indulges in sex with any unclean woman, he too is to shed his blood by being flogged.

Women do not suffer community corporal punishment by breaking the menstruation law because they are cursed to be unclean monthly.

A woman must use two testing rags for uncleanness, before and after every intercourse and must examine it for blood in the light of a lamp.

LEV 15:25 If a woman has an issue of her blood that runs many days past the time of her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be the days of her separation: she shall still be unclean.

LEV 15:26 Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her issue shall be unto her as an unclean bed.

During her separation whatever she sits upon shall be unclean.

LEV 15:27 Any man who touches her bed and chair shall be unclean. He must wash his clothes, and himself and be unclean until the evening.

LEV 15:28 If her issue stops, she shall then number to herself seven more days and after that she shall be clean.

LEV 15:29 And on the eighth day she shall give an offering of money to God's minister.

LEV 15:30 And the minister shall offer half to teach God's word and the other half to feed the poor.

The priest shall do this to reconcile her before the LORD and pay for the blood of her uncleanness.

If the menstruant has guests, others must serve them or they too will be unclean.

The menstruant also brings uncleanness to certain foodstuffs and drinks.

If food becomes unclean accidentally the reminder of food must be burned.

The menstrual bath for the purification of a sinner is also to be noted as one for her conversion to God's law.

Every woman who has abundance, heavy flowing, of menstrual blood generally has many children.

The amount of flow varies considerably, even in perfect health.

Excessive blood loss at each period, known as Menorrhagia, often results from emotional disturbance by the unbalanced action of estrogen.

Also male children, when handled by a menstruant are unclean.

A menstruant is as a divorced or widowed woman, she is unclean.

LK 8:43 Here is a woman unclean by an issue of blood for twelve years.

She had spent all her money upon physicians, yet could not be healed by any.

LK 8:44 She came behind Jesus, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stopped.

This was an exhausting disease that was wasting away her vital powers.

For most of her life this bleeding woman had to stay away from all males. Even her clothes, seats and bed were unclean.

She was an outcast from friends and family. No touching, kissing or comforting of her or her to others.

Her life as a viable woman had ended, until the day Jesus passed her way.

Jesus brought to this daughter of Israel, female freedom with the law of normal menstruation.

She waited seven days to be sure of her healing, then on the eighth day gave a sacrifice of money to her minister, thus fulfilling God's law for women.

Her issue of blood when she touched Jesus did not make Him unclean, because he is the purifier of all humanity.

Without Jesus today all women would be unclean and die hopeless.

Trust him today ladies and be purified in both body and soul.

FOOTNOTE: Many women in Israel during their menstrual cycles are not allowed to work in floral shops.

During their time of month a great amount of toxins are emitted from the female body, causing various types of flowers to wilt and die.

SOURCE

The Preachers Homiletic Commentary, Baker

The Soncino Talmud

Judaica Press, Inc.

Novak's Textbook of Gynecology 7th. ed.

Gynecology by Ten Teachers 12th. ed.

Ovulation R.B. Greenblatt [ed.]

The Pulpit Commentary, Eerdmans

Encyclopaedia Britannica

King James Bible

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