Leviticus 6:19–23
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Leviticus that the modern mind, what little is left of it, finds particularly baffling. We are in the thick of the priestly code, the detailed instructions for the various offerings. To our generation, which has rejected the very idea of objective holiness, this all seems like so much tedious and arbitrary religious busywork. But to ask that question is to reveal a profound spiritual ignorance. It is like asking why a surgeon obsesses over sterile instruments or why an engineer obsesses over the tensile strength of steel. God is building a house, a holy habitation for Himself among a sinful people. And in order to do that, He must first teach them the grammar of holiness. This is not arbitrary; it is the architecture of reality. The universe is not a meaningless jumble of particles.