Father, is there any other way?
These were among the last words of Christ who was on His way to the cross to face the inevitable. That, no, there is no other way. The Old Testament with all its places persons feasts and teachings, how many righteous were produced? “None, no not one”. For you see it had to be clear in the past, in that day and ours that apart from the expiration of the Old Covenant, to make way for the implementation of the New Covenant along with all it’s giftings, with a right standing with the Father, could NOT be possible in the Old Covenant system. And the reason why Christ teared up over that old Jerusalem was because of the complete failure of that whole era. That among those born from women, there was none greater than John The Baptist, but of those who are the least in (the New Covenant) Kingdom are greater than he. Showing us that with a change of Covenants came a change of a Kingdom and a change of charecter and nature called “The New Creation”, in contrast with The Old to magnify that contrasts as “The New and living way to the Father.
It was the final Jews of that Old Testament time that tipped the scale for judgement. We say Jews because the other 11 tribes had already been dispersed. So that we say “the last Jews” flippantly because in reality J is not a common sound from the Hebrew language showing us the extent of corruption. Corrected they would say tribe of Yudah and not Jew. But anyway, it was the last of the last 12 tribes now claiming to be Jews, who demonstrated to us that they were the worst of the worst because it was said of them by the Son of God to “fill up the measure of your fathers guilt” accusing them of being fathered by Satan. They did not serve the Creator God, to then finish off the guilty charges for killing Zechariah “whom you beheaded between the Porch and the Altar. To then behead John the Baptist and to finish it off with crucifying The Son of God who said “All these things will be required from this generation” as the guilty ones. And in Gods law, you cannot charge someone else with anotheer mans crime. So yes, their guilt was full because of their own deeds but only because they perfected the ways of their fathers
The Good News
As sad as this all may sound, here is the essence of “The Good News”, which is generally translated as “the Gospel”, meaning good news to the Jews? No!. For the promise given to Abraham to be fulfilled that “he would be the father of many nations (Gentiles) without differentiating the Jews as superior The Jews were never the object of scripture or the plan of God. Think about this if you think the common day jew has something to brag about. You know how to answer.
The scriptures were given to replace the feasts and the Saboth days and their rituals to achieve godliness, to now do so with access to scriptures, given to re-script the mind which had to be given time to prove that “there was none, no not one” of the Jews. Their mouths are open scepelcures” spewing out condemnation, guilt and deadness. To then have Christ blurt out from on the cross “Abba, Abba, why have you forsaken Me”, was said for all to know that payment was rendered. The expectation that The Law era demanded was satisfied to put it out of business. That the laws given to promote righteousness only brought death. To then have the coming of Christ close that era as useless. And NO! There is no other way. And to resurrect the concept of the Jews of old with all their expectations is an inversion and the turning upside down the Gospel.
Annihilation was and is the end game of that scenario. And woe to those who try to repeat and re-enact that era. Even as Paul said “I see that the law is good, but the way to perform it was not found in me”, so that the humble of heart may receive the free gift of righteousness by faith, to have all the requirements from the law and Old Covenant credited to our account without having to do them. But until each one comes to this point, they do not really understand the Cross. That all the law and the prophets and every mandate that was ever given were accredited as having been completed for us to “go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of dead works and repentance’s to God. Even as He said to Isaiah 1.
“Who has required this of you?? And anybody that rejects this gift of life from the cross to go back to the Old, will be condemned by the Old because they’ve despised the Cross of the Only Begotten and counted His blood as a common thing, in the same way as the Law era Jews, “for on you (the Jews not the 12 tribes) shall be all the guilt and shame of the blood shed from righteous Abel to Zecheria. Meaning that era and anyone who would return to that era would receive the same eternal damnation God did not and does not love the jews. That is the wrong association!
Yes to go back to the old pre-cross concepts, to glorify the modern jews and their jerusalem in hopes of another coming Jesus is a total inversion of the gospel, especially since you’ve got the new testament to draw upon as well.
The Kingdom of God is still at hand and indissoluble