Leviticus 11:29–38
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of God's Word that causes many modern Christians to quietly shuffle their feet. We are talking about moles, mice, lizards, and geckos. We are talking about unclean pots and wet seeds. To our sanitized and sophisticated minds, this all seems terribly primitive, perhaps a bit arbitrary, and certainly irrelevant. Why would the God of the universe concern Himself with whether a chameleon falls into a sack of grain? Why this obsessive focus on what seems to be, for all intents and purposes, bad hygiene? If we think this way, we have fundamentally misunderstood what God is doing in the book of Leviticus. These laws are not arbitrary, and they are certainly not irrelevant. We must understand that God was teaching His people, who were spiritual toddlers fresh out of Egypt, the basic grammar of holiness.