As for the priests, the Levites, within decades of Yahweh’s making this promise about them, they were indeed making these offerings in the restored temple, and they did so for six centuries, but then a further and final destruction of Jerusalem terminated these offerings, and they have not been made for two millennia. It is again possible to say that the man from Nazareth functioned metaphorically as a priest, though his Judahite and Davidic lineage that enabled him to be metaphorically designated
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