2 CORINTHIANS 6:17

“Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says YAHWEH.  Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”  2 Corinthians 6:17

Who is “them” ?  It is the world of the unconverted.

What does “be separate” mean ?  To set apart or set a boundary, to consecrate to sanctify, to distinguish one thing from another.

What is unclean ?  Not pure.  An impure unclean spirit human or demon. To be defiled and separated from what is holy and pure.   

When we are called by GOD we are made clean of past sins through baptism.  1 Peter 3:21. Then by the gift of GODS spirit, the good leaven, the old leaven of malice and wickedness is purged out and we are made clean. 1 Corinthians 5:7  Baptism rids us of the evil leaven and we become a new lump ready to be made clean by the giving of the Holy Spirit. 

Therefore,  Acts 10:15  ,  Cornelius and his house were cleansed by GODS spirit, given before they were baptized.  Peter spoke this way to Cornelius,  Acts 10:28   In the law of Moses the clean and unclean laws were only symbolic of the spirit that influenced your life; either the spirit of Satan that is unclean or the spirit of GOD that makes us clean. Satan and the demons are unclean spirits.  The elect saints are clean.  Ephesians 5:26,27   The “word” in this verse is the word of GOD. This word was preached by a man called Jesus of Nazareth.  It was about the kingdom of GOD.   The world has not been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of GOD, only the church of the elect saints know the mysteries.  Matthew 14:11  The entire carnal world is unclean and the saints are not to touch it, that is the things of the world.  Satan is the god of the unconverted world, the children of the devil that do the will of their god, Satan.  This evil is in all the things of their society.  There is no area of their lives that Satan has not infiltrated.  As GODS chosen saints we must be extremely careful and acutely aware of all of Satans devices and not touch them.

We use the gift of spiritual discernment to determine what is of GOD and what is not.  1 John 4:1   Isaiah 35:8  Matthew 7:13,14   Proverbs 16:17   1 Thessalonians 4:7   2 Corinthians 7:1  Romans 12:1,2    Just as light has No fellowship with darkness, Ephesians 5:11 ,  clean has No fellowship with the unclean, 2 Timothy 2:20,21  

Look at this carnal world and ask yourself, what is clean ?  Your answer should be nothing.  The social fabric of the carnal world is unclean.  All their institutions, religions and governments are unclean, do not touch them and YAHWEH will receive you.

This article I hope will, with GOD making it possible, open your eyes to a much better understanding of 2 Corinthians 6:17 .  

Once GOD has made us clean to go back into the unclean is as Peter says,  2 Peter 2:22  and Jesus   Matthew 12:43,44,45   and Paul Galatians 4:9 

If you are a true Christian and are involved in any part of Satans world I hope you will be given the eyes to see it and repent, ask and receive forgiveness.