When we speak of scientific foreknowledge we refer to knowledge (information) that was recorded in the Bible prior to that knowledge being commonly known to man.

Earth is round. (Isaiah 40:22)

Paths in the seas. (Psalm 8:8)

Fountains under the oceans. (Job 38:16)

Treasures in the rain and snow. (Job 38:22)

Stars cannot be numbered. (Jeremiah 33:22)

Germ Control According to Moses

Ebers Papyrus, found by Georg Ebers in 1862, containing 110 pages of papyrus, tells of Ancient Egyptian Medical practices from 1,500 B. C.

What were the medical procedures during the time of Moses?

Germ Control According to Moses

Under a section titled “What to do to draw out splinters in the flesh,” a remedy is prescribed consisting of worm blood, mole, and donkey dung” (p. 73). [Doctor S.I. McMillen noted that dung “is loaded with tetanus spores” and “a simple splinter often resulted in a gruesome death from lockjaw.”

Ebers Papyrus (Medical book circa 1,500 BC

“Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians”

Acts 7:22

Germ Control According to Moses

Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis

“The Savior of Mothers”

Vienna Clinic, 1847- Semmelweis was in charge of the First Division, a division of the hospital that delivered babies. One in six women were dying in one of the best obstetrics training hospitals in Austria, while only 3% of the mothers died when attended by mid-wives.

Germ Control According to Moses

As Semmelweis contemplated his dilemma, he watched young medical students perform their routine tasks. Each day the students would perform autopsies on the dead mothers. Then they would rinse their hands in a bowl of bloody water, wipe them off on a common, shared towel, and immediately begin internal examinations of the still-living women.

Germ Control According to Moses

Semmelweis began requiring the doctors to wash their hands in chlorinated water and dry them on a clean towel. Death rate dropped from 18% to 1%, and some months to 0%.

Semmelweis was ridiculed and fired from his job at Vienna. His writings were repeatedly rejected by the scientific community. He was sent to Budapest, and there he implemented his procedures and the death rate at that clinic dropped to 1%.

His contemporaries, including his wife, believed he was losing his mind, and in 1865, was committed to an mental institution. Semmelweis died there only 14 days later, possibly after being severely beaten by guards. He was forty-seven years old.

Germ Control According to Moses

According to many of their most prevalent theories, disease was caused by “atmospheric conditions” or “cosmic telluric influences” (dark clouds of evil). Semmelweis was ridiculed for trying to persuade his fellow physicians to wash their hands before treating patients.

Germ Control According to Moses

Gospel preacher, college president, attorney, U. S. General, congress- man, 20th President of the United States. Died in 1881 of infection because of doctors continually inserting unwashed hands into his gunshot wound to find the bullet. He was forty-nine years old.James Garfield

How to Make Water of Purification

Numbers 19—Moses Gives God’s Recipe for Water of Purification

Take a red heifer, burn it to ashes. Add cedar wood. Add hyssop. Add scarlet wool. Burn them together. Pour water over it.

Numbers 19-Moses taught that if anyone touched a dead body, they were unclean and must be washed with the water of purification.

Germ Control According to Moses

Lye, also known as sodium hydroxide (NaOH), or caustic soda, is used in making soap. It is easily made at home.

Making Lye Soap1.Gather branches and/or logs of oak, ash, or fruitwoods.

Remember that the best lye is made from hardwoods. Avoid pine, fir, and other evergreens. Palm leaves work well if they are completely dried and brown.

2.Burn it outside in a pile, or better yet, use it in your fireplace or woodstove.

3. Scoop the ashes out and put them in the prepped barrel. You can fill the barrel with ash, but it is not necessary; you can make smaller amounts with less ash.

Making Lye Soap4. Put a pan under the hole and remove the cork. Pour the

soft water in until you see it start to drain into the pan, then put the cork back in tightly. After a day, the first ash should settle and you can add more ash.

5. Let it sit for at least 3 days.

6. Check to see if your lye is ready. Lye concentration gets stronger with each leaching.

7. Add lard to the lye to produce lye soap.

How to Make Water of PurificationNumbers 19—Moses Gives God’s Recipe for Water of Purification

Take a red heifer, burn it to ashes. Add cedar wood. Add hyssop. Add scarlet wool. Burn them together

Hyssop contains high levels of thymol, used today to kill germs. It is used in mouthwash today.

Psalm 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

How to Make Water of PurificationNumbers 19—Moses Gives

God’s Recipe for Holy WaterTake a red heifer, burn it to ashes. Add cedar wood. Add hyssop. Add scarlet wool. Burn them together

Hyssop also contains high levels of Carvacrol, a natural and biodegradable disinfectant. The antimicrobial activity of carvacrol was observed in concentrations as low as 0.07 percent. http://www.ehow.com/info_7773589_carvacrol.html

How to Make Water of PurificationNumbers 19—Moses Gives

God’s Recipe for Holy WaterTake a red heifer, burn it to ashes. Add cedar wood. Add hyssop. Add scarlet wool. Burn them together

Thymol and carvacrol are natural plant chemicals with antimicrobial properties. Hyssop oil bears 50% carvacrol which is an antifungal agent and antibacterial. http://www.essentialoils-online.com/hyssop-oil/prod_34.html

How to Make Water of PurificationNumbers 19—Moses Gives

God’s Recipe for Holy WaterTake a red heifer, burn it to ashes. Add cedar wood. Add hyssop. Add scarlet wool. Burn them together

Scarlet wool was used. It burns into tiny little balls or flakes. It is a gritty substance. We use the same technique today for hand scrubbing.

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Which is better?

Wood Plastic

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

Microbiologist with the Food Safety Laboratory and World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Food Virology at the University of California -Davis

Dr. Dean Cliver

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

Inoculated wood cutting boards with:

Escherichia coli

Salmonella

Campylobacter jejuni

Listeria monocytogenes

Staphylococcus aureus

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

Ten woods used in the test, including:

hard maple, birch, beech, black cherry, basswood, butternut, American black walnut

Four different types of polymers were used for the plastic cutting boards in this test.

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

Within 3 minutes of inoculating wooden boards with cultures of the food-poisoning agents, 99.9 percent of the bacteria were unrecoverable.

Results of the Test

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

On the other hand, none of the bacteria tested under similar conditions on plastic died.

Results of the Test

Wood or Plastic Cutting Boards?

Dr. Dean Cliver

Microbes left overnight on plastic multiplied. Those left on wood disappeared.

Treating wood with oils and other finishes retard wood’s bactericidal activity.

Results of the Test

Germicidal Qualities of Wood

Does the Bible have anything to say about this?

Leviticus 15:11 And whomever the one who has the discharge touches, and has not rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

Germ Control according to Moses—3,500 years ago

12 The vessel of earth that he who has the discharge touches shall be broken, and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

Germicidal Qualities of Wood

Dr. Dean Cliver

Microbiologist

Moses and Dr. Cliver

agree on the germicidal qualities of

wood.How did Moses know?

Circumcision on the Eighth Day

Genesis 17:12 He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised, every male child in your generations, he who is born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

Genesis 17:11 and you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Circumcision on the Eighth Day

One in 200 babies could bleed to death if the circumcision was performed on the wrong day.

But, if the surgery takes place on the eighth day, there is almost no chance of bleeding to death because of the high prothrombin count on that day. The safest day for the surgery is day 8.

Circumcision on the Eighth Day

Day 1- 90% prothrombin

Day 2-5- 30%

Day 8- 110% (10% higher than it would be for the rest of the child’s life.)

Three things are necessary for blood to clot—Vitamin K, platelets, and prothrombin (coagulation factor II).

Circumcision on the Eighth DayOn the eighth day, the amount of prothrombin present actually is elevated above one-hundred percent of normal—and is the only day in the male’s life in which this will be the case under normal conditions. If surgery is to be performed, day eight is the perfect day to do it. Vitamin K and prothrombin levels are at their peak. (None of These Diseases, by S.I. McMillen, M.D.)

Old Testament Laws of QuarantineQuarantine defined: Enforced isolation or restriction of free movement imposed to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

Old Testament Laws of Quarantine

Earliest known date of quarantine- 549 A.D.In the wake of one of history's most devastating epidemics of bubonic plague, the Byzantine emperor Justinian enacts a law meant to hinder and isolate people arriving from plague-infested regions.

Old Testament Laws of QuarantineYet, Moses taught the importance of quarantine 3,500 years ago.

Leviticus 13:45-46 “Now the leper on whom the sore is, his clothes shall be torn and his head bare; and he shall cover his mustache, and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’ 46 He shall be unclean. All the days he has the sore he shall be unclean. He is unclean, and he shall dwell alone; his dwelling shall be outside the camp.” NKJV

Numbers 5:1-4 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. 3 You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.” 4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp; as the Lord spoke to Moses, so the children of Israel did. NKJV

Disposal of Human WasteArmies have been defeated by flies as a result of not burying their waste. Flies carry diseases which make the soldiers sick and sometimes cause death.

Armies today have policies concerning the proper disposal of human waste. This is necessary to maintain proper sanitation.

Disposal of Human WasteProper disposal of human waste is important to avoid pollution of water sources, avoid the negative implications of someone else finding it, minimize the possibility of spreading disease, and maximize the rate of decomposition.

Disposal of Human WasteDid you know that Moses told the Israelites to practice proper and safe sanitation.

Deuteronomy 23:12-13 “Also you shall have a place outside the camp, where you may go out; 13 and you shall have an implement among your equipment, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn and cover your refuse. NKJV

Disposal of Human WasteDid you know that Moses told the Israelites to practice proper and safe sanitation.

Deuteronomy 23:13 As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement. NIV

“The fool has said in his heart, there is no God”

Psalm 14:1