Please allow a brief repetition, with additional:
Therefore, please allow me to ask in return, where was there any Levitical Priesthood in Exodus 5-20?
Is it not apparent that it is seen in Exodus 28, while God is speaking to Moses still upon the Mount, that the Levitical Priesthood, as underneath Aaron was not yet existant, and it is not even until Exodus 39 that the outfit of the Highpriest, who would be Aaron, was even made? and finally coming to Exodus 40:13, wherein Aaron and his sons were anointed to serve in the Levitical priesthood?
Can you see even by vs 5,9,11-12,21,23,27,28, it speaks of the Levitical Priesthood being changed, and the law that made them?
What law of the 10 C made Levitical priests or priesthood?
I refer you to 2 Cor 3:7ff as MoreCoffee posted, I'll highlight some of the meaningful phrases that the blessed Apostle to the Gentiles uses to talk about what has been done away with:
Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
Paul Identifies the Law which has given way to the Spirit, he uses the phrase
carved in letters on stone it is of high importance to the SDA that this carving of letters of stone point to the eternality of the Law, however as the Apostle describes it
was being brought to an end to give way to
the ministry of the Spirit it is of high importance to the SDA that the Judgment be prefigured in
condemnation this is after all the ministry of the Law, however the ministry of the Spirit is one of
righteousness Let's continue on.
Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory.
Since that which was
carved in letters on stone has a glory that fades, surely it too will fade, that is the argument of the Apostle here, it is also
surpassed in glory by that which supercedes it, that which is
permanent is far surpassing in glory.
Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,[bless and do not curse]not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.
Here Paul continues to talk about the effects of the Law, remember it is that which was
carved in letters on stone Since we can easily see Moses as a figuring of Christ in his Priesthood in his work of Mediation between the People of Israel and God at Sinai, we have as a result of the Law the veiling of Moses, yet we are
very bold surely in one sense this means that we commune, or are able to commune with God, for how else would such a comparison be made, indeed Christ himself may speak of this when he says
You are the Light of the World. We are to radiate the glory of God so that men might be convicted of heart, for he says elsewhere
Be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish amongst a twisted and perverse generation, to whom you shine as lights of the world, we who are of the Spirit are bold to expose the evil of man, Moses was timid and because of this he veiled his face to stifle the glory of God. Christ however takes away the veil that is in place because of the Law.
when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
Having been unshackled from the bonds of the veil of the Law, we truly behold the Glory of God and in beholding the Glory of God we die.
This death is not one such that we are bound in Hades, no it is death to self, death to the flesh, we
crucify the old man with his passions and the Spirit takes us like a lump of clay and begins his work, he identifies us with Christ through our Baptism, and grows us into Christ himself through faith and his enduring faithfulness.