Your Subtitle text
                                 MOLD/IN THE BIBLE
                                                                      HOLY BIBLE
                                                                  King James Version
                                                                     Nelson 2005

                                                                    Old Testament
                                                                 Leviticus Chapter 14
                                                                    Verses 33 to 53

Cleansing of Houses

33 And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
35 And he that owneth the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house;
36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean; and afterward the the priest shall go in to see the house;
37 And he shall look on the plague, and behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;
38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days;
39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;
40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city;
41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place;
42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house;
43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house; it is unclean;
45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and she carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.
47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.
48 And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.
49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;
50 And shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water;
51 And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times;
52 And he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;
53 But he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open fields, and make an atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
                                                         RECENT DANGERS VS PAST DANGERS
Today, you have not only the element of surprise; when it comes to not knowing what the particular makeup of a material is, or the chemicals used in the process of manufacturing it, but the unknown causes of health problems stemming from some of these elements. Look at the toys from China with Lead.  Look at the dangers of Formaldehyde in Mobile Homes and Campers, including FEMA Campers; which all these topics/health-scares, have been either past and/or recent news subjects. This is not to mention, that much of this is going unreported or unchecked, in many areas of business. On the subject of Mold, you dont really know what type Mold, Fungus, Bacteria or anything else, that you may be breathing, until this particular material becomes wet and/or starts rotting'. Furthermore, some of this material may not even have to get wet to cause damage to your health. We really dont know what we are breathing in some of these environments. But we do know, if a building, mobile home, camper, etc., has either been manufactured wrong, installed wrong, built wrong; and then gets water damage, which makes mold; in most instances, someone will get sick, and all any person has to do, is like our doctors kept mentioning; "Just go down to some of these hurricane riddled areas, and you will see what Mold can do to someone, because its everywhere!" 

There is an article with the NCBI, a service of the National library of Medicine & the National Institute of Health, which is an "Alarming" article, to say the least! After reading this, it makes one wonder, should all the people in these  New Orleans areas that were affected, be running around wearing space-suits, rerspirators, etc. As I have not seen this article regarding these findings in this investigation anywhere in the media, if it was, or at least if the findings were made public, one would think that due to the severity of this, there would be public awareness seminars and panics over this. From what the article illustrates; the findings show that in some of the outdoors areas, you need be precautious as per the air quality, just as if you were treating this as an indoor contamination problem. The link is:
 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16966092?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystemsz.pentrez.pubmed.pubmed_resultspanel.pubmed_RVAbstractPlus

There are at least (2) new products out now that I am aware of, which are "mold resistant", now available to the building industry, homes, mobile-homes, etc. These woods are specially treated to safeguard from these perils that have been happening across the country, as well as internationally. This should tell anyone that mold is a real issue, or these new products would not be coming out! See the 2 links:
http://www.bluwood.com

http://archchemicals.com/Fed/FG/Homeowners/
                                                                             NOTES
If you will notice, in these above "Biblical Scriptures", there is mention of Mold, as being mentioned as a Plague, to the likes of Leprosy. Even calling it; "The Plague of Leprosy in a House". If you will notice, the first objective, upon recognizing this, is to empty the house. You will also notice, that it is mentioned, that even the stones, whereby the plague is noticed, be not only entirely removed, but placed far away, in an unclean place, out, away from the city, or whereby, away from where people would want to be, also, mentioning, that even the home be scraped within, round about, and the dust, or remnants of this type scraping or cleaning, be also put away from where people would frequent. This alone, would make reference to a natural known danger, and taking extra precautions, to not only remediate anything and everything in close proximity to this Mold, but also, any fragments, and/or remnants of it, that by chance, might get left unremoved.

If you will also notice, whereby it states, if it comes back again; to not only remove the stones, but, as the scripture states, in #45 "And he shall (break down) the house, (the stones) of it, and (the timber) thereof, and (all the morter) of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place." Thus meaning; to totally remove this particular house in its entirety! This would be a house, in our day and time, that would'nt be salvageable, as in those days as well.

A little further on in these scriptures, you will see, whereby, if the priest has not found, whereby it has spread, after the first cleanup, the following scriptures and procedures applied, even though, in that day and era, it was a type of remediation. But, this was just the first test, to see if the home was safe, even after the first attempt to repair, remediate, salvage, etc.

It really is no different today, than back in those ancient times, as far as knowing, that Mold is very dangerous, or there wouldnt have been such controversy over this, as the scriptures show. Another point; if the Mold had not been a  major issue, a priest would not have been needed, to help the people. Usually a priest was called upon, in times of crisis, sickness, death, etc. In this era, the priest would have actually been your remediation specialist; and as the scriptures will indicate; he evaluated the situation with testing, he prescribed the plan to clean/remediate, he prescribed the re-testing, and/or the condemnation of the building as well. There most certainly had to have been sick people, regarding this issue, for it to have ever been this serious, and/or involved, whereby, specialists were called upon, as with Mold, as  these scriptures will prove.

One could only assume, that there were some of the people in those days, as there are today, who were not genetically suscepteable to Mold Exposure, and or its associated problems, who were most likely used to do the type work required to remove the Mold, as the priest probably designated.

It is probable also, to believe, that there may have been protocols used, that we may not know of today, or certain herbs, oils, etc., which may have been used to handle these type dangerous items. As the Egyptians, for example, had embalming techniques, that to this day, cannot be replicated. We do know that Mold can make some sick, and/or cause death, or this would have never been mentioned in our Holy Bible thousands of years ago, nor would people have needed to call upon the priest of that day, to try to figure out what to do. Even then, it took someone more knowledgeable than themselves to figure this out, and/or what to do, from Gods words, not mans.

*Other Biblical Mentioning of Mold/Link: http://torahbytes.org/63-28.htm
Web Hosting Companies