That is pretty funny.
Christ did not say "Heaven and Earth WILL pass away but lonnnnngggggg before that happens I will die on the cros and abolish sacrifices, annual days, and temporal penalties for breaking the law".
Christ did not say "heaven and earth seem to be permanent but they will pass away - sacrifices, annual days, and temporal penalties for breaking the law are even more fleeting - they will be dead and buried before the end of the year - just as soon as I give my self for the sins of the World".
Christ did NOT say "The heavens and earth are pretty stable - but not sacrifices, annual days, and temporal penalties for breaking the law - that is just about done for".
The argument Christ made was "DO NOT think that my purpose in coming to earth ws to destroy ANY of My Law - RATHER heaven and earth will pass away before My Law fails even in the LEAST!". --which included sacrifices, annual days, new moons, physical penalites for breaking the Law, etc.
See how your argument goes.
Christ has given (in HIS WORD - SCRIPTURE) laws that pertain to the CIVIL administration of the NATION of Israel. They did not apply to OTHER nations because the OTHER nations were not valid theocracies.
This is just what I said.
Christ had given in HIS Word - "predictive" laws that POINTED TO His sacrifice - that PREDICTED His sacrifice - once the sacrifice was complete they no longer PREDICTED it. (obviously - but some like to pretend that is too confusing for mortals to figure out).
For that reason Hebrews 10 can "state the obviousl"! That Christ's sacrifice ENDED those Shadow-PREDICTIVE sacrifices that never had power in themselves to forgive sins anyway!
And there were other predictive parts of the Law too. Heb.4 shows that physical rest (ceasing from physical work) foreshadowed the spiritual rest and ceasing from our works for justification. You take one chapter of Hebrews at its word, and then try to reintepret the other.
Now the "game" some like to play is that this simple fact in Hebrews about the sacrifice of Christ is SO complex and confusing that we can ONLY really apply it - if we abolish the LAW of God.
But as James 2 points out we are to be "JUDGED BY" that law.
As Romans 2 points out "IT IS NOT the hearers but the DOERS of THAT LAW that WILL BE Justified... on the DAY when God judges the secrets of men through the man Christ Jesus"
As Romans 3 points out "THAT LAW continues to BIND ALL the world under sin that ALL may be held accountable before God" Hence ALL (even today) NEED a savior and without it - will go to hell UNDER THAT LAW that REMAINS.
For as Romans 6 points out "The WAGES OF SINNING against God's Law is DEATH but the gift of God is eternal life".
For that reason Rev 12 says that the "SAints KEEP the Commandments of God" even AFTER the Cross.
Christ makes the point clear - "IF you Love ME - then KEEP My Commandments" John 14.
But no one's doing away with the Law. But the "Law" or "commandments" we are to keep or be judged by are not all of the SAME ones in the LETTER as in the OT. You yourself attest to this, in showing that some were "predictive".
And there is NOT ONCE any condemnation in the NT for sabbathbreaking.
The real game here is that we can pretend to be keeping "the whole Law", and bragging "I keep more commandments than you"; but then pick and choose which ones we still keep or are abolished; and only agree with scriptures saying they are superseded when they correspond to the rituals we don't feel need to be kept anymore.
Christ the CREATORS' MEMORIAL of HIS creative Act in making mankind REMAINS so much so that for all eternity "FROM SABBATH to SABBATH SHALL ALL MANKIND come before Me to Worship" ISaiah 66. This is NOT said of animal sacrifices.
Priests and Levites are mentioned there. They administered sacrifices! New moons also; which you believe have passed as well. Once again; picking and choosing.
Animal sacrifices were only given AFTER the fall of Adam and end just as Hebrews 10 states. (An obvious point to Christians world wide - I believe).
And so was the physical sabbath command added after the Fall. God created it; but never defined what man was to do with it outside the Law of Moses, where it became a sign of identity to the nation of Israel (Ex.31:13). If we are no longer OT physical Israel (because of the Cross), then that means of INDENTITY has passed along with the other things associated with them.
