Anointed and Appointed

The priesthood was put in place to teach the children of Israel that they also needed a go-between to mediate for them. Because of God’s holiness, not just anyone could come into His presence. God’s holiness is so pure that anything unclean in His presence will be destroyed. The only way anyone could go before the holy presence of God was to be made holy themselves. So God made a way for the priests to put on holiness to come into His presence and mediate for the people. However, some of the priestly family did not take this seriously, and upon entering God’s presence without being clean, they died. Again, they may not have known this yet, but God was teaching them of the ministry of Jesus, Our Great High Priest, who would make it possible for all people to become priests to God who were able to approach and dwell in His holy presence.