Instilling Substance Over Semblance

God's intent in establishing the whole nation of Israel as a “kingdom of priests,” or a sovereignty of priests, was to establish a theocracy through which He could sovereignly rule the nation of Israel through direct communication to and through the children of Israel as priests. On two different occasions Israel refused the theocratic rule of God directly through their lives as priests. The first occasion is when they asked for another mediator in Moses to speak to God for them and through which God would speak to them.