Leviticus 16:15–19
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We like our religion to be neat, our worship services to be polished, and our theology to be shrink-wrapped. We prefer our crosses to be gold-plated and empty, not splintered and stained. But the Bible, and Leviticus in particular, will not allow us this sanitary distance. It is a divinely orchestrated slaughterhouse, a mess of gore and grace that is designed to shock us out of our polite, domesticated Christianity. It seems primitive, barbaric, and frankly, a bit much. But if we are embarrassed by this, it is only because we have forgotten the true nature of our predicament. We think of it as a mistake, a flaw, a bad habit. We see it as something to be managed with therapy or self-help. But God sees sin as high treason, as cosmic rebellion, as a filth so profound that it pollutes not only our souls, but the very ground we walk on and the holy places where He has condescended to dwell.