Sister, In many places in scripture God talks about mixture…..He hates it and calls it abomination. Why - because mixing the holy with the unclean makes the holy unclean. It doesn’t make what is unclean holy, but it makes what was holy an unclean thing. The Israelites weren’t permitted to mix two kinds of yarn together, couldn’t breed two different species of animals together, and they were not permitted to intermarry with (mix with) the heathen. Mixed wine is likewise spoken of in a derogatory way too, and we are told we must be vessels without mixture. And if someone who was ceremonially clean touched a dead body (unclean) it made the clean person unclean. This is why the Lord instructed the Israelites that they must discern and distinguish between the holy (clean) and the common (unclean) and keep the two separate from one another, so as to preserve what is holy and keep it clean/undefiled. This theme is all over the old testament and it is revealed in the new testament as spiritually being a picture of this scripture I mentioned in an earlier post:
2Co 6:14-18
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
We need ears to hear what the Spirit is saying with that. It’s not to be understood in a carnal way as to suggest we are to be snooty or unfriendly or aloof and uncaring, of course not, but we are to maintain our spiritual separateness unto the Lord. That is what holy means…separated unto God. In the world but not of it.
If you have a glass of pure clean drinking water and MIX it with even a tiny amount of something unclean, like say bacteria or mud, it will render the whole glass of water unclean and not fit to drink. The clean drinking water will not render the bacteria and mud clean, but the opposite happens, the contamination makes the water unclean. The “unclean thing” we are not to touch is MIXTURE. Clean mixed with unclean = unclean. In other words mixture = unclean. So that is why we must discern and distinguish between what is clean (holy) and what is not (common) and not mix the two together. I hope that helps.