So, that's your argument, God revoked
His promises? At least you cannot deny these scriptures and don't attempt to distort them. But God is pure, does not change. Which means, He doesn't change His mind and revoke covenants, promises. He doesn't do things, set things in motion, hope these humans will get on board with His plan ... or else have to rearrange things, come up with a new plan, revoke whatever He said in the past. This is a dangerous view of God and His word. His plan was perfect from the start and He didn't have to change anything. Our Savior had this purpose before the foundation of the earth. It was all purposed exactly how it happened with our sin and failures factored in. This is not a God who like humans, makes vows and promuses, puts them in writing, then changes His mind and files a new will, revoking past promises, rights, laws, property, salvation, etc.
Salvation by Grace through faith replaced salvation by keeping the LAW, so that was abolished because Christ fulfilled the Law for us. The time if bondage to these were not to be past on, bit none if this revoked God's promises.
We could not have faith in a pragmatic God who changes. We might suspect He would revoke the NT and come up with a more progressive one.
No, God doesn't change and none of these verses you present supports this.
During this Holiday, we can reflect on the certainty if Christ's promises and that our faith and hope for them is irrevocable, praise and thank Him for His perfect will for us.
Does a New Will and Testament revoke an old will and testament?
It certainly does. That is the very essence of the definition of a will and testament. If you don't believe that, then don't ever attempt to revise your own personal will and testament.
If someone named you as a beneficiary in their own will and testament, but they later revised it and excluded you, what would be your probability of legal success in arguing that you should continue to be a beneficiary in the new will and testament, because you were a beneficiary in the old?
That probability would be exactly zero.
All promises in the old will and testament were made
to Christ, and are fulfilled
in Christ.
Galatians 3:16
Now to Abraham and
his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to
thy seed, which is
Christ.
2 Corinthians 1:20
For
all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
The (second) New Will and Testament revokes and replaces the (first) old, and its promises in Christ are superior to those of the old.
Hebrews 10
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He
taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
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.
Hebrews 8
6 But now hath he obtained a
more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a
better covenant, which was established upon
better promises.
Why would you possibly lament God's replacement of an inferior old will and testament by a superior New Will and Testament? Christ has named you as a joint heir of those better promises with Himself.
Romans 8:16-17
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that
we are the
children of God:
17 And if children, then
heirs;
heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with
Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
Galatians 3:29
And if ye be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and
heirs according to the promise.
Of course, if you don't think that the new promises are better than the old, God will not force you to accept them. The choice is yours.
But replacing the old with the new is the nature of God and of what He does.
2 Corinthians 5
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Revelation 21
5 And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”
