40 years (this number should be a watermark for Jews) after Christ was died on the Christ, accompanied by an earthquake, an eclipse 12 (watermark) times longer than astrologically possible, the tearing of the veil, and the reserection of a multitude of saints, and finally HIS reserection…the Pagan Romans crushed Judaism and the temple…rendering the practice of the Jewish faith impossible.
The Talmude is just neopagan cope.
Nicely put.
The number of professing "evangelical" believers today who seem not to understand that the "Judaism" of today is not -- and cannot possibly be -- Mosaic Judaism as set forth in the Torah is a testament to the persistent ignorance, if not outright stupidity, of that particular branch of "conservative Christianity."
This isn't exactly theological rocket science:
But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
For he finds fault with them when he says:
“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
-- Hebrews 8:6-13.
The destruction of the second temple in 70 A.D., after giving the Jews the amount of time (i.e., 40 years) nominally associated with a generation to recognize that their Messiah had come, had been crucified, was resurrected, and had then ascended to the sit at the right hand of the Father, as their prophets had foretold, was Yahweh/God's way of punctuating this point, it seems to me.
In Jesus of Nazareth the Law had been fulfilled, and, that, quite perfectly. The way -- and the only way -- for a devout Jew today, one who pursues Torah righteousness, to achieve is to put his or her faith in their Messiah, who is their Savior, and thus be in Christ.
Blinkered by Scofield and Darby, and ignorant of DNA. For the slow kids in the back, the Seed of Abraham is Christ. Israel is the Church. Period.