How does the fact of descendants of those who declared “crucify Him, we want Barabbas” convincing us it’s all our fault figure into your eschatology?
Ugh boy.
Bloodlines. Herodians and Rome
Who is this ‘our’ you write of? Anyone who ‘blames’ Jews or Romans (and descendents thereof) for His Death on the cross, and the ‘End Times’ need to read the Bible.
What I know, is that I put Jesus on that cross, as did EVERYONE. Only the ‘perfect’ get to Heaven, and those that accept and acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Savior. As there is no one ‘perfect’ (in otherwords, ‘sinless’), we all need a Savior.
(FWIW, asking Him to be my Saviour is easy, treating Him as Lord of my life? A HUGE struggle for me. Unfortunately, I often fail in that, especially in responding to fellow FReepers, at times.)
God chose the Jews to be His people, as an example to the World, so everything DOES revolve around His City, Jerusalem. The’Law’ was given, to show how we should, but can’t, and won’t, live. Jesus is the Lamb of God. By accepting Him as Savior and Lord, our sins are transferred onto him, as sins were transferred onto the Passover lamb, and His, spotlessness, sinlessness is transferred to us. Passover was/is a foreshadow of Jesus’ Death, Resurrection and His forgiveness of sins.
Anyone who ‘blames the Jews’ for how everything turns out, is blind to the Truth.