Leviticus 21:10–15
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We want a casual Friday God, a deity who is more of a cosmic buddy than a consuming fire. We have domesticated the Almighty, put Him in jeans and a t-shirt, and taught Him to speak in the therapeutic platitudes of our day. We want a God who makes no demands, who draws no lines, and who is certainly not fussy about details. And when we come to a passage like this one in Leviticus, our modern sensibilities are often baffled, if not altogether offended. Why these meticulous, seemingly arbitrary rules for the high priest? Why does God care so much about who he touches or who he marries? The short answer is that God is holy, and we are not. And the entire Levitical system, with all its blood and smoke and regulations, was a massive, technicolor, object lesson designed to teach Israel this fundamental reality.