Heb 7:12. This verse seems to imply a change in priesthood… however the law says that the Levitical priesthood is eternal?
Heb 7:18. Appears to imply a change in the Levitical commands?? Torah says eternal?
“The basic idea of this passage seems to be about a renewal of the priesthood. However, many get sidetracked upon the Levitical, thinking that it was the first priesthood. It seems that what the general point and thrust of this passage is getting at is that the Melchitzedekian priesthood preceded the Levitical priesthood. It is the Melchitzedekian priesthood that is being renewed. For a season the Levitical priesthood took the pre-eminence in serving at the altar of YHWH.
But now, we see that the true priesthood of Mashiach has come which is a renewal of the Melchetzedekian priest. The writer makes it plain that Yeshua is that High Priest, Melchetzedek (see chapter 5). This priesthood is renewed.
In Isaiah 66:21 we learn that those who are brought back into the land, YHWH will select from among those that return, He will select from among them, those that He wants to be Levites.
What this seems to indicate is that the ministry of Mashiach has altered the priesthood of the Levites, but it did not do away with it.
The English translators having a mindset of the Law has been done away with, did not show diligence in finding the correct rendering of these passages into the English language because the way they translated it “proved” their wrong doctrines!”
