Leviticus 21:6,9,21 KJB
God expected His priests whom He appointed to make the sin offering and the burnt offering for the forgiveness of the sins of His people to be especially dedicated to the practice of goodness and righteousness.
God gave them special rules that they had to obey to keep them from being heavily influenced to give in to their evil natures inside of them and begin to practice evil. In other words, God expected His priests to be a living example to His people of His own righteousness, not that the priests were sinless, but that they must make a stringent effort to be better than most of His people.
Whenever these dedicated priests made a burnt offering sacrifice for all God's people, and they ate the bread of God, then God would consider them to be especially holy; that is, sinless at least as far as their burnt offering was concerned. Leviticus 16:29-30; Leviticus 21:6 (KJB). God gave the burnt offering sacrifice to Noah to symbolize the fact that God will never in the future "smite;" that is, kill evil humans with no provision for the salvation of their good and living natures that God creates and loves. Genesis 6:5-7; Genesis 8:20-21 (KJB). God extended the practice of the burnt offering to the Israelite priests. Christ made the true burnt offering sacrifice when He dismissed His Spirit to descend into Hell to leave behind there all of the sins and evil of the entire human race who would not become saved by His grace. Psalm 16:9-11; Acts 2:25-31 (KJB). The Holy Spirit then rose immaculate from the regions of death to reanimate the perfect body of Jesus who rose from the dead with complete victory over all sins, evil, eternal death, and the Devil. I Peter 3:18; Revelation 1:17-18; I John 3:8 (KJB). God never wins just a partial victory over evil. God has Almighty Power, and He will absolutely crush all sins, evil, eternal death, and the Devil completely out of His entire creation so that He can recreate it all to be righteous. Genesis 3:15; II Peter 3:9-13 (KJB). I John 3:8 clearly teaches that Christ will "destroy the works of the Devil," not some of his evil works and not any of His living humans that He creates. Christ will activate the salvation of all of His living humans confined to the regions of death and on the earth when He appears to them in the end of the world, and He causes them all to repent and return to the faith that He put into them when He created them. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). When they repent, Christ will use His fiery wrath against evil to dissolve their beings to separate their repentant, good and living natures for Him to save, and He will cast their dead and evil natures into the eternal lake of fire. I Corinthians 3:11-15; Matthew 13:36-43; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 20:11-15; II Timothy 1:10; Luke 20:38 (KJB). The burnt offering sacrifice symbolized this lesser form of salvation than that of grace.
Whenever God kills sinful and evil persons and consigns their souls and spirits to the regions of death, that is always only a temporary punishment. God provided only temporary punishments to the descendants of Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:14-19 (KJB). God must consign to the regions of death their good and living natures along with their sinful and evil natures because their good and living natures had failed to repent. Hebrews 9:27 (KJB). Whenever living humans still alive in the flesh repents and returns to faith in Christ their Savior, God immediately annuls their spiritual deaths and washes their souls and spirits clean of all sins and evil with the blood of Christ, and He forever saves them by His grace. John 3:3; John 5:24; Matthew 26:28 (KJB).
If the daughter of a priest were to become a prostitute, then the fiery wrath of God should burn her body to symbolize that God would consign her living soul and spirit to the burning Hell. She would not be burned alive but only after being stoned to death. But she will await her salvation in the end of the world. Leviticus 21:9 (KJB).
God did not allow any man who had any kind of physical "blemish" to serve as a priest. God did this to symbolize that He expected His priests to live as close to perfection as was possible for them to do so. Nevertheless, God allowed these imperfect persons "to eat the bread of His God" which was the shewbread that only the priests were allowed to eat. This command of God symbolized the fact that God would provide for their salvation as well. Since all living humans have the "blemish" of sin and evil in their lives, then God will provide a salvation for them all either by His grace or by His fiery wrath against evil. Leviticus 21:16-24; I Timothy 4:10; I John 2:2 (KJB).
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