Leviticus 15:25–30
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a passage in Leviticus that causes modern readers to shuffle their feet. We live in an age that prizes sterile environments and discreet conversations, and so a detailed discussion of bodily discharges seems, to our delicate sensibilities, somewhat out of place in a worship service. But if we think this way, we are missing the point entirely. The Bible is not a book of Victorian etiquette; it is a book about blood and guts, life and death, sin and salvation. And God, in His wisdom, uses the most basic, earthy realities of our lives to teach us the most profound spiritual truths. The ceremonial laws of Leviticus are not arbitrary hoops for the Israelites to jump through. They are not simply ancient hygiene codes, though they certainly had that benefit. These laws are what we might call acted-out parables.