Hebrews is a compares and contrasts who Yeshua is as our Great High Melchezedik Priest to the Levite Priests. In the last few sessions we learned about the specific tasks and duties of the Levite Priests. Yeshua is the High Priest of the New Covenant and of the Heavenly Tabernacle. His role as Melchezedik Priest is superior to the Levitical Priesthood. The Levitical Priesthood has not been done away with. The Levitical priests will have a role and duties during Yeshua’s millennial reign (Ezekiel 44:23-24). The reason why Levites don’t have job function is because the Temple got destroyed in 70 AD.
There are a couple of scriptures from Hebrews that are often quoted to try to make the claim that a believer in Yeshua as Messiah should not follow the Torah:
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law (Torah). Hebrews 7:12
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. Hebrews 7:22
It was not the law/Torah that changed, it was the Priesthood that changed. The renewed covenant brings a new Priesthood to govern that covenant.
For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Hebrews 8:7-8
The problem was not with the Torah. The problem was with their stony hearts. He made a way to give them a NEW HEART, a heart of flesh, so that the Torah could be written upon their hearts.
When Moses gave us the 10 commandments at Mt Sinai, they were written upon tablets of stone. That was prophetic of how the Torah would be received by the people: they had stony hearts.
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