What was exalted and righteous in the Old Testament (hating God’s enemies and killing them, cruelly destroying them, avenging them in the name of God) is considered an intolerable evil, a mortal sin, in the New Testament. What was high and lawful in the Old Testament is an abomination, “skubala,” in the New Testament; what was awarded with honors and the “order of righteousness” in the Old Testament is the cause of excommunication from the Church, spiritual death, and the loss of the Grace of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. For such acts (the Old Testament righteousness: hatred, murder), a New Testament person faces spiritual “criminal” responsibility and receives not honors and glory, but a “sentence” – they are excommunicated from the Church-Eucharist for many years! The Old and New Testaments are two entirely different worlds: what is great in one world, encouraged, in the new world is “skubala,” an intolerable crime (an Old Testament righteous person, who received the title of “hero” for exemplary execution of the law (hating God’s enemies, for example, according to Psalm 108, Psalm 139, following the deeds of King David), for the same actions and zeal in the New Testament, would be put on “trial” as a criminal deserving death (by the spiritual law: whoever takes the sword will perish by the sword); to die is to lose the Grace of the Holy Spirit)! The least in the Kingdom of God (the New Testament) is greater than the greatest (hero, righteous) of the Old Testament! These are two absolutely incompatible, dissimilar covenants, states – like dead and alive (they both have hands, feet, eyes, ears, hearts… but in one, all these are dead, and in the other – full of Eternal Life).
It is a great heresy (see more about this heresy in part III) to equate the two covenants (to be convinced that they are one and the same, two facets of one reality, and to live and act according to that conviction: killing enemies and being convinced that you serve God (see John 16:2), not seeing, not realizing the abyss between these two incompatible worlds, making a smooth transition from the old covenant to the new – when they are two entirely different worlds (like meters and grams, like sour and long), they do not even have a common border (baptism by the Holy Spirit is always an incomprehensible miracle, impossible to fix in time and space, to say when it happens (when the catechumen becomes a Christian, when a person is conceived by the Holy Spirit); the Church, through the rite of Sacrament, only testifies that the Sacrament has taken place, that God has performed the Sacrament). In the Old Testament, a person serves God, offers various sacrifices, performs worship, endless psalm-singing, prayers… and in the New Testament, everything is the opposite: God serves man, God is sacrificed for people, God prays for people, God asks people to repent and receive the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament, there are no more temples – every Christian is a Temple of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity, and all the Saints! There are no more religious intermediaries – priests-priests – every Christian has direct access to the Father, communion with the Father and all the hypostases of the Kingdom of God through Christ in the Holy Spirit! Every Christian is the Catholic Church, a royal priesthood, the Temple of the Holy Spirit, in which the High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, performs the Sacrament of deification! What other priest does a Christian need when the High Priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, Himself serves in their heart, performing the Sacrament of Resurrection-Deification of the created hypostasis in the Holy Spirit?! And who are the priests (presbyters, bishops) and what is this “high” service (which anyone, even a pagan or a Satanist, can perform), we have discussed this in detail in part III. Thus, the New Testament service to God (more precisely, the service of God-Love to man) takes place in the temple of the heart of every Christian who worships God in the Holy Spirit and Hypostatic Truth (in the Lord Jesus Christ) – (see John 4:20-24). Therefore, temples (cult structures: Orthodox temples, cathedrals…) and worship according to books, typikon, statutes, calendars… are the Old Testament: Judaism, paganism, magic…
Now we will say the most important thing – contemporary Orthodox churches, the “New Testament people of God” with their temples and piety do not even reach the Old Testament standard (it is not worth talking about the New Testament, about Christianity). The Lord criticizes Old Testament piety. And the current Orthodox churches (“the people of God”) are in no better condition than the Jews who crucified Christ (or the Jews whose spiritual state was criticized by the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah…). The same temples, the same business-trades, the same splendors, the same priests-priests, the same priestly parades, prayers, needs, consecrations, sacrifices (blood and bloodless), paganism, magic, absurd endless mutterings of prayers, psalms (reading Psalm 108 and the like as well!?), incantations… – and the one thing necessary, for which temples, worship, holidays… exist, for which all this was established – for catechism, learning the will of God, God’s commandments, teaching the word of God – this is absent!