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Because the Old covenant did not fade away until all the prophecy was fulfilled. The old covenant did not end until 70 AD when sacrifices at the Temple were no longer possible.
All the Prophesy regarding the Christ has not been fulfilled, even to this day. For people to make the claim that ALL the Prophesy regarding the Christ has been fulfilled by 90AD is simply foolishness. And Jesus was forgiving sins "Apart" from the Levitical Priesthood before He was even murdered, long before 90AD.
Jesus promised two things in the New Covenant. No more animal sacrifices for remission of sins (I will forgive your sins). No more Levite Priests to administer or filter His Word's to His People. (I will write MY LAWS on their hearts)
And here we are today, most all of us have direct access to God's Word without the filter of any human preacher, unless we want one. Just about anyone who lives in the World today can find His Word in a Motel, the internet, book stores, hospitals, etc..
I find this reality fascinating. "For you all shall know me from the least to the greatest". Now if we can ju
st NOT do what the Mainstream teachers did back then.
Rom. 1:
21 Because that,
when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And
changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
If that doesn't make you pause and consider Christ's warnings, what will?
However there is still punishment for evildoers in the New covenant. Just read Revelation.
Your logic is flawed. Just because God says the Abrahamic covenant is eternal, does not mean all covenants are eternal.
Didn't God give Abraham's Children the same instructions He gave Abraham? Wasn't it this Covenant He remembered.
Ex. 2:
23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24 And God heard their groaning, and
God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Isn't this the covenant what was being broken by reason of bondage? (Deception) Wasn't the Priesthood "ADDED" because of transgression to these instructions that Abraham kept.
Gal. 3:
19 Wherefore then
serveth the law?
It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Transgression of what? God's Commandments, YES? Transgression of God's Ordinances, YES? Transgression of God's Laws, Yes? So how many God's are there? Only one God, Yes?
Gen. 26:
4 And I will make thy seed
to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham
obeyed my (
The only God's)
voice, and
kept my (
The one and only God's)
charge, my (
The one great and Almighty God's)
commandments,
my (
The one and Only God of Abraham's)
statutes, and
my (
The ONE Mighty God's)
laws.
Isn't this the same God that created "ALL THINGS"? Isn't this the Word which became Flesh, that is the SAME yesterday, today and forever? Isn't it the Word's of this God that Last's Forever?
It's the difference between someone adopting a child forever and hiring a man to tend the Garden for a day.
Rom. 11:
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded,
but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches,
take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
Because as it is written: "for there is no respect of persons with God" and as Jesus said:
Matt. 12:
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said,
Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother, (Son or daughter).
When the covenant at Mount Sinai was establish, Moses predicted its end.
This is true. Moses knew the Priesthood would come to an end, He also knew God's Covenant with Abraham that He shared with Abrahams children was an eternal covenant, that, as Jesus said, would be here "Till all be fulfilled".