The Inadequacy of the Levitical Priesthood

Understanding the significance of the teaching in Hebrews is needful to know how ministry is to be carried on in the church today. The pattern set forth by God through Aaron and his descendents is not to be practiced or followed today as it functioned as a part of the Levitical system under the Mosaic Covenant. To acknowledge men as priests today is to deny the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ. Scripture makes explicitly clear that no man is a mediator between God and man as the priest functioned other than the man Christ Jesus. Salvation was never provided for or attained by keeping the Law of the Mosaic Covenant. The power of the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ is His ongoing, unending position and the perfection His Self-sacrifice provides.