Leviticus 11:13–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Scripture that causes many modern Christians to quietly shuffle their feet. We are comfortable with the grand narrative of redemption, with the cross, with the resurrection. We are even, for the most part, comfortable with the thunder of the moral law from Sinai. But when we get to lists of prohibited birds, our eyes tend to glaze over. We must understand that the ceremonial law was a vast, intricate, and glorious audiovisual aid. He was teaching them the difference between holy and profane, clean and unclean, life and death. He was catechizing them not just with words, but with their dinner plates. They were a schoolmaster, a tutor, designed to lead Israel to Christ. But this does not mean the shadows have nothing to teach us. A man who has arrived at his destination does not burn the map; he can still look at it to understand the road he traveled.