Hello everyone.

When listening to a sermon by the late pastor Stephen Darby, he explained that leprosy was not what people assumed it was in the Bible. He said to read the Bible for yourself.

I needed to know. For with understanding of what the singer Michael Jackson had, it was Vitiligo. The same thing that Naaman in the Bible had, too.

When reading the Bible about the servant Gehazi, I was thinking about how deceptive he was to get valuables from the man that was afflicted with was was called leprosy.

What exactly was that disease really? To compare it with a leopard that has spots of dark and light.

I had always thought that this was what it was because they used the leopard to describe what it looked like to others.

Looking into it further, there is a disease where people can lose their fingers or become disfigured in other parts of their body. Called today “Hansens Disease”.

But that is what it was called leprosy, to become disfigured that way. Losing a nose , fingers toes or whatever.

Vitiligo is what happened to Naaman, who came to the prophet Elisha to be healed. That makes more sense when you read about this affliction Naaman needed healing for.

2 Kings 5:20-27 KJV

²⁰ But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

²¹ So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

²² And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

²³ And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

²⁴ And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

²⁵ But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

²⁶ And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

²⁷ The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow

https://www.medicinenet.com/does_leprosy_turn_your_skin_white/article.htm#:~:text=Leprosy%20does%20not%20cause%20the,sores%20that%20disfigure%20the%20skin.

https://www.medicinenet.com/does_leprosy_turn_your_skin_white/article.htm#:~:text=Leprosy%20does%20not%20cause%20the,sores%20that%20disfigure%20the%20skin.

What is leprosy called nowadays?

According to Google:

Leprosy is now called Hansen’s disease. The term Hansen’s disease is often used because of the stigma associated with the word “leprosy”. 

Explanation 

• Hansen’s disease is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae.
• It affects the skin, nerves, eyes, and lining of the nose.
• Symptoms can include blindness, loss of eyebrows, and nose disfigurement.
• It’s a rare disease that doesn’t spread easily to others.
• Treatment is very effective.

History

• Dr. Gerhard H.A. Hansen discovered leprosy in Norway in 1873. 
• Leprosy was once thought to be highly contagious and was treated with mercury. 
• Chaulmoogra tree oil was used topically to manage leprosy for centuries. 

When we read the word of GOD,  we need to research it, too. Science backs up the word of GOD. In more ways than one.

Peace and blessings ❤️