well, God certainly, according to His own Word, changed the Covenant. He made a NEW Covenant, just as He promised He would in the Jeremiah 31 verses i quoted. the book of Hebrews makes that abundantly clear.
it's the Covenant He began telling us about in Genesis 3. those Old Testament saints who looked forward in faith to it
are part of Christ's Church.
God never broke His part of the Mosaic Covenant, of course! the sandal covenant was not a part of God's Law, that i know of, but rather a custom, as we see in Ruth 4.
as for salt, i think it's another shadow of Christ. salt was used to preserve, right? to keep meat from "corrupting"?
under the Law, offerings were to be sprinkled with salt and it seems to me that's symbolic in the sense we need
the Lord Jesus' sacrifice for us to keep us from corruption.
WE broke the Covenant God made through Moses, Ma'am. WE desperately needed something better! the Mosaic Covenant was finally and fully done away when God destroyed the temple in 70 AD. because God had given us something infinitely better in the Covenant He made with His Son's own blood and body.
we should rejoice that we're no longer under a covenant we could never keep, but instead under the New Covenant Jesus fully keeps for us.
Thanks for answering with your thoughts.
Scripture, all through talks of the new and better covenant. That is not debatable, even. But the misunderstanding, I see of God, is what God did with the old one. It boils down to does God reward those who obey Him or not? People say no, and I do not see how they can base that on scripture or even on life they see around them. The scriptures they quote are not ones saying God does not reward us for obedience. Look at the fruits of the spirit. Those fruits do not come from disobedience. Look at happy contented life around you. That also comes from obedience. At this point people usually point to salvation. That is completely another subject, salvation relates to faith not obedience. The Mosaic Covenant never mentions salvation, that was already taken care of.
I find no scripture that says God cancelled a covenant, or the word covenant means something that can be cancelled. The temple was not the covenant at all, when we study the temple we never come across the word covenant. It is the same today in our world. If we sign a mortgage or covenant we cannot say oh, I take that back, here is a new one. The old one has to be paid off. That is not true of a testament, it is a different legal document. A new will takes over the old one.
God gave something so much better than the shadow of his blood, the symbol, used before. That, again has nothing at all to do with the Mosaic Covenant.
Also, we know all the attributes of salt, and that God used it as a symbol for those attributes. But scripture is factual and when scripture explains the salt covenant, it gives what that covenant was about. It was about something that once put together could not be torn apart. We are not to say that covenant means more.