Pardon me, I was thinking of this (as opposed to your pull-quote) :
“For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and will then repay every man according to his deeds. Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.“ (Matthew 16: 27, 28)
Which ones did not taste death?
You research so much— a plethora of Jewish writings online. (was that Christianity.com or BibleHub?)
It doesn’t change the fact that we have polar opposite beliefs. Everything you wrote is a Christian viewpoint on Judaism— it means nothing to Jews. Jews await the Messiah and the rebuilt, eternal third temple (regarding which you have adjunct scripture and teachings which interpret otherwise.)
“Your tribal affiliations no longer exist. All records have been destroyed. No way to verify anything. The scepter of Judah and its tribal distinctiveness has long since departed.”
Utter malarkey. In my very congregation there is a Jew who can trace his lineage to King David in an unbroken paternal line.
http://www.davidicdynasty.org/
It is a fantasy (or a wish of Christendom?) to think that that knowledge would fade. There are at least 400 such men in the US. The scepter will be in the hands of the shoot that will spring up from the stump (of Jesse....the seemingly cut-down bloodline.)
So where were we... waiting. (Funny, it was Michelle Bachmann’s quote, “Christ is coming soon!” in the OP.) I don’t even doubt your content in your waiting. I certainly have no doubts in the Jewish assertion that his coming is imminent. We are working towards it and you are faithing towards it.
Anyone who managed to live until the Jewish war, and to whom the warnings were meant to benefit: "And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luk 21:20-24)
It's quite clear that this is a stunning prediction of the impending war against Israel, and, indeed, the Gentiles are trodding down Jerusalem even to this day, with your "holy of holies" under the control of Muslims who never cease exploding in your cities.
Utter malarkey. In my very congregation there is a Jew who can trace his lineage to King David in an unbroken paternal line.
They can't prove it, since all such records were long destroyed, and the majority of Jews do not know from what tribe they come from either. Aside from a few magical people claiming to be able to trace their lineage, the tribal distinctions have long disappeared.
It doesn’t change the fact that we have polar opposite beliefs.
Yes, but your opposite beliefs are inspired by idiot Rabbis who think eating mud from around the toilet will cure diseases. Let the reader have their illusions broken about the superiority of Jewish interpreters with that fact alone.