There are a lot of people that get crazy trying to interweave the Old Testament with the New Testament.
Stop it!
The Old Testament and the New Testament are too different wills (testaments) created by God to do separate things. There are many similarities because because they are both wills (legal documents) created by God. Both of them work through men (first, Abraham and the second, through Jesus). God is the same in both of these agreements.
The Old Testament (the Torah) was created to give God a group of people He could work through to bring salvation to the world. That's why the Jew's are referred to as God's people. Today we could humorously refer to them as his "crew", "entourage", "posse", "employees",etc.
The Jews are God's people and He has created an everlasting (or eternal) bond with them. Nothing is going to stop that, including the New Testament.
So anyone who claims the New Testament changes or abolishes the Old Testament is absolutely wrong. And here's why!
The New Testament, unlike the Old, is a binding document not of God and sinful man (Abraham) but between God and His sinless Son, Jesus Christ. While the Old Testament gave God "a people", the New Testament gives God "children"!
The Jews always claimed to be the "children of Abraham". Their special relationship with God was through God's covenant (will) with Abraham.
You treat children different than you treat friends or employees. Children have different access to you than do your friends and associates. Children can walk right up to you or walk right into your house. Others have to ring the doorbell, knock on the door or have to be introduced.
Jesus called God "Father" and told His followers that is "Our Father". While Jesus is the only-begotten Son of God, believers are now "adopted" children of God! We have been given the spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba (Father). Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6
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