Hbr 7:12 KJV - For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
I think a there is a lot of confusion about what was actually replaced/changed by the new covenant. I believe and I am convinced that the Scriptures bear out that Messiah, as the Perfect Sacrificial Lamb, once and for all replaced the Levitical Priesthood but left the law/Torah in place.
See it in Scripture
In Exodus chapters 20-23, YHWH lists over 60 commandments that Israel accepts. Moses writes them down on a scroll by hand then Israel ratifies the covenant the next morning.
Exd 24:3 KJV - And Moses came and told the people all the words of YHWH, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which YHWH hath said will we do.
Exd 24:4 KJV - And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH(Torah), and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Exd 24:7 KJV - And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the YHWH hath said will we do, and be obedient. This is the written Torah
Then 5 verses later, YHWH invites Moses to join Him on Mt. Sinai.
Exd 24:12 KJV - And the YHWH said unto Moses, “Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them”. This is an invitation to receive the instructions for the Tabernacle/Priesthood
In Chapters 25-31 Moses learns about the construction and components of the Tabernacle. After 40 days and nights Moses comes down from Sinai with the Tables of Testimony (the tutor that points to Messiah) that has been written by the hand of YHWH:
Exd 31:18 KJV - And He gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of YHWH.
As you can see, two laws were given at Sinai, the Law of Moses (Ex 24:7) then the Law of Animal Sacrifice aka Tablets of the Testimony (Ex 31:18). What is learned from the above verses is that there are 2 provisions in YHWH’s system of salvation: (i) the rules of conduct (law/Torah) and (ii) mercy for violation of those rules (Blood Sacrifice). One written by the hand of Moses the other by the finger of YHWH. This remains consistent in both testaments.
Isa 8:20 KJV - To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.
Rev 14:12 KJV - Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of YHWH, and the faith of Jesus.
It is important to understand that what was written on the tables of stone was not the Torah. Therefore the Law of Animal Sacrifice/Levitical Priesthood was changed, not the law/Torah.
“What “tradition” refers to as the “Ten commandments” is Torah (is “Law“), and
the Torah (the “Law”) is exclusively about defining what is right and wrong, just and unjust, pure and contaminated (clean and unclean), moral and immoral, holy and unholy, etc. And has nothing to do with the requirement of blood for the remission of sin.
But the Testimony is exclusively about the requirement of blood for the remission of sin, to cleanse us of our past violations of Torah (past violations of Yahuwah‘s “Law“)…
He is the provider of the covenant. He lays out the conditions. And it is only through His covenant that one can receive eternal life (by keeping the commandments), and remission of sins past (faith in the Blood).
And the covenant only works when we agree to, and abide by, “His” terms. This covenant is the same covenant given to Avraham; B’resheet (Genesis) 15:13-16; 17:1-27; 26:1-5 & Shemot (Exodus) 2:23-25;6:2-5; and that Yeshua and the Emissaries (Apostles) taught; Luke 1:67-75
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This is where Galatians talks about us no longer being under the tutor.
The tutor was the Tabernacle of the Testimony (the earthly sanctuary) written in stone (and eventually made of stone), pointing the way to Yeshua who tabernacled among us as the fulfillment, in His flesh, of the testimony written on stone, thus perfecting the covenant and opening the door for the nations to be able to enter in.
And it is this perfected form of the sacrificial portion of the covenant that has now been written on the fleshly tablets of our minds, in place of the Tabernacle instructions previously written on stone. The new form of the sacrificial portion of the covenant is what the prophets referred to as the “new” covenant; Yechezk’el (Ezekiel) 11:19; 36:26 & Yerem’yahu (Jeremiah) 31:31.
In this prophesied “new” covenant, the Torah remains the same, the Testimony remains the same. The only thing that would change was how the Testimony, that is, how the remission of sins through the covenant, would be administered. And this is precisely what the book of Ivrim (Hebrews) is addressing in the matter of change concerning the “law“. And as it also states in Galatians, this Testimony, written in stone, which came 430 years after the promises given to Avraham, did not nullify the promise of our redemption through a Messiah.
http://www.hezekiyahhaas.com/upload...of_the_tablets_combined_edition_4-15-2012.pdf
Notice that when “new testament” is mentioned it refers to the Blood, the new testament replaces animal sacrifice with the Blood of the Spotless Lamb, once and for all.
Mat 26:28 KJV - For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Mar 14:24 KJV - And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Luk 22:20 KJV - Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup [is] the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
1Cr 11:25 KJV - After the same manner also [he took] the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink [it], in remembrance of me.
Additionally, in the original Hebrew the term for commandment is “
mitzpah”. In the 3 instances where the “10 commandments” is translated the Hebrew term is actually “
dabar” which means “matters or concerns”.
Exodus 34:28
28 And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments (dabar Strongs 01697).
Deuteronomy 4:13
13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform , even ten commandments (dabar Strongs 01697); and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
Deuteronomy 10:4
4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments (dabar Strongs 01697), which YHWH spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and YHWH gave them unto me.
I hope you will take the time to read this article which presents the complete picture of what actually happened.
http://www.hezekiyahhaas.com/uploads/3/0/0/1/3001861/on_the_mystery_of_the_tablets_combined_edition_4-15-2012.pdf