obsolete, meaning REPLACED, (smile).....lol, lol, lol. Oh dear.
The covenant God made with the Jewish people isn't obsolete. That's all.
listen and Learn, Hebrews 8:7 "For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second." Hebrews 8:8 "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 8:9 "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord." Hebrews 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:" Hebrews 8:11 "And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest." Hebrews 8:12 "For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Hebrews 8:13 "In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
Oh. Paul's opinion simply doesn't match what's written about the covenant God made with the Jewish people. God didn't make the covenant with the Jewish people old. Paul is notorious for skipping scripture, looking for loopholes. Look, we're talking about Jeremiah 33, here's what God says:
Verse 7-8 + 14
And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, in which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, in which they have sinned, and in which they have transgressed against me.
Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah.
Notice, the promise will be upheld, regardless of the transgressions.
Now pay attention here, this one is phased in the negative.
Verse 20
Thus says the Lord; If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
I can't change day and night. No one can do that.
Verse 21
Then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Since no one can change day and night, then also no one can break God's covenant with David on the throne, and with the Levite priests.
Verse 22
As the host of heaven cannot be counted, nor the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.
There you have it. The levitical covenant, the throne of David, all of God's covenants do not age and wax away and vanish. The book of Hebrews is a lie. It's right there in the chapter that some person is attempting to reverse and unwind God's promise. May God have mercy on their soul.
so no, there is not two covenants. just one.
It's not true. Why do you want it to be true? I think if you examine this motivation, it comes from someplace unholy.
now the CHANGE,
Hebrews 7:11 "If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?"
We can stop here. The scripture is being flipped. The story of Malchi-tzedek occured long before the levites were inagurated. Done. Again, The book of Hebrews is simply wrong. It is not bringing word of God.
NEXT, the Levitical priesthood.... out the door, in with a new and better priesthood with and EVERLASTING COVENANT
What ever holy nation and priests were established after the death of Jesus they do not have any relevance to any Jewish person.
Deuteronomy 22:9
You shall not sow your vineyard with different seeds; lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.