Yes Gods nature, essence and his being never changes . I'm confused by what you said. You acknowledge that the death ,burial and resurrection took place . But then you went back in time to a verse way before Jesus even arrives . Should we continue animal sacrifices also ? did Jesus do anything that might have changed things ?
They still apply as history. What happened back then .
The Almighty is not a man.
He doesn't exist one moment at a time as we do.
He doesn't speak one moment at a time as we do.
Nothing occurs to the Almighty as it does with us.
He doesn't need a situation to unfold first to then know what to do next or to correct the course of action.
Most simply put; He, through Moses, actually TOLD the people that they would violate His covenant before they did, and that they would need to perform animal sacrifices
as a rehearsal (i.e. memorial) UNTIL the One would come to perform the real version of the task. He always indicated that animal sacrifices were temporary.
Also, there are still OT prophecies still waiting to be fulfilled. His words are not just past. If He is who was, who is, and who will be then His Word is too.
John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."
// We now have a choice at all times to walk out of the cell or to walk back in.// We didn't take ourselves out of the cell . There is no more cell .
There is still a cell. The door has been opened, just like with Peter...but one must walk through the door themseles. The cell doesn't disappear. The temptation to sin doesn't disappear. But we don't need to walk back into bondage.
Israel was freed from Egypt by the power of the Almighty, THEY wanted to turn back...that generation was eventually destroyed.
Lot and his family were freed from the judgment of Sodom & Gomorrah, but the wife, SHE turned back and was destroyed.
One can "return to their own vomit". Paul also said he must take care lest after all of his work winning souls he fails.
This is an endurance race to the end.