Leviticus 11:9–12
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to the book of Leviticus, which for many modern Christians is like a dusty, unopened room in the mansion of Scripture. We know it's there, we assume it's important, but we are not entirely sure what to do with all the furniture. It is filled with laws about sacrifices, skin diseases, and, as we have it before us, strange prohibitions against eating catfish and shrimp. And because we are a pragmatic people, we are tempted to ask what any of this has to do with us. We are not under the ceremonial law, Jesus declared all foods clean, so why not just skip ahead to the Psalms? But to do this is to misunderstand the very nature of God's revelation. The Old Testament law, and particularly the ceremonial law, was a massive, divinely orchestrated audiovisual aid.