Soyeong
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What does (Heb. 7:12 ; 9:15-17 ; 10:9,10) Mean?
The way to act in accordance with God's righteousness is straightforwardly based on God's righteousness, not on any particular covenant, and God's righteousness is eternal, so any instructions that God has ever given for how to do what is righteous are eternally valid. If the way to act in accordance with God's righteousness were to change when the New Covenant was made, then that would mean that God's righteousness is not eternal, but it is eternal, therefore Hebrews 7:12 is not speaking about a change to the content of God's eternal law, such as with it becoming righteous to commit idolatry or sinful to help the poor, but rather the context is speaking about a change of the priesthood, which would also require there to be a change in the law in regard to its administration.
Likewise, sin was in the world before the law was given (Romans 5:13), so there were no actions that became righteous or sinful when the law was given, but rather the law revealed what has always been and will always be the way to do that. For example, it was sinful to commit adultery in Genesis 39:9, long before the Mosaic Covenant was made, during it, and after it has become obsolete, so there is nothing about any of God's covenants being made or becoming obsolete that changes which actions are righteous or sinful. The only way that the New Covenant could have a different set of laws would be if it were made with a different God with a different nature and different instructions for what it looks like to express His nature.
Indeed, we are under the New Covenant and not the Mosaic Covenant.
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