Priests Should Not Be Sick, and You’re a Priest

Leviticus 21:16-23:
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,
Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.
Only he shall not go in unto the veil, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.

Priests with physical deformities were not allowed into the Holy of Holies under the Old Covenant.  God said that entering His sanctuary with a physical deformity would profane it.  God did not want sickness or deformity in His holy presence.

If God did not want His priests who served Him to have physical deformities under the Old Covenant, why would He want His priests under the New Covenant to be sick or deformed?  You are a priest (Revelation 1:6, Revelation 5:10, 1 Peter 2:9) under the New Covenant!

That doesn’t mean that you can’t approach God if you’re sick or have a birth defect!  The blood of Jesus has permanently opened the Holy of Holies to you.  In fact, you should go to God!  God healed the sick under the Old Covenant, too.  The point I am making is that God did not want sickness in His presence under the Old Covenant.  Why should He want it in His presence, which now dwells within believers, under our New Covenant?  If He didn’t want it in His Old Covenant temple (a tent), why should He want it in His New Covenant temple (your body)?  What landlord would want his property to be a mess?

This is yet another proof that God is against sickness, not in favor of it.  He is FOR you (Romans 8:31).  What He is against is you having to endure sickness.