In a world that is steadily growing darker and more tumultuous, the Lord's voice speaks to the tumult and says in Leviticus

chapter 19, verse 2, ye shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.

That's quite a commandment for his children in a fallen world,

but we know that the Lord knows how to do his work

and he wants his people to be holy.

Welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.

We are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and we are delighted to be with you again this week as we discuss Exodus chapters 35 to 40 and Leviticus chapters 1, 4, 16, and 19.

Today we're going to have the immense privilege of listening to an interview that we did four years ago

with Brother Tad R. Collister, who passed away in October 2025. Since these chapters in the Old

Testament that we are studying are particularly on the atonement. He was the perfect

choice for this interview. His book, The Infinite Atonement, has become a beloved classic. He also

wrote a number of other books, including The Blueprint of Christ's Church, a case for the

Book of Mormon, America's Choice, a nation under God or without God, and

teaching with power. Now let's join this earlier podcast from 2022. Brother Collister, welcome to this

podcast. We're so honored to have you with us. And it's an honor for me to be with the two of you that are such scholars and done so much good for building the kingdom.

Thank you.

Now, some of these lessons in the Old Testament are harder than others, and the reading in this week's assignment may have seemed like one of those.

But we have found over the years in our studies of the Old

Testament that if you're looking for Jesus Christ and His atoning sacrifice in all that you read

and the covenants which bind us to him, then our minds begin to open up more than ever before.

Brother Collister, you quote Elder Bruce Armacconkey in the first part of the Infinite Atonement, and I want you to comment on that quote, which is this,

Now the Atonement of Christ is the most basic and fundamental doctrine of the gospel, and it is the

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