Leviticus 7:22–27
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a portion of Leviticus that can seem, to our modern sensibilities, quite strange. We live in an age of nutritional science, an age of cholesterol charts and blood pressure cuffs. When we think about fat and blood, we think in terms of health, diet, and biology. But God is teaching His people something far more fundamental. He is teaching them about the structure of reality. The book of Leviticus is a detailed instruction manual for a people who were going to have the holy God of the universe take up residence in their midst. When the Almighty God pitches His tent in the center of your camp, it changes everything. You can no longer treat anything as common or ordinary. These laws about fat and blood are not arbitrary dietary regulations. They are not primarily about hygiene, though God's laws are always wise and beneficial.