History is not on our side.
The Scribes and Pharisees - the religious leaders of the day - were SURE they knew what the Messiah was going to be like. They had their checklist - tribe of Judah, a descendant of David, born in Bethlehem, etc. - but they were looking for a political leader to overthrow the Roman occupation. They didn’t recognize Jesus because he didn’t fit their preconceptions of what the Messiah was supposed to be.
I pray that my sight be based on Divine revelation - not my human preconceptions of what I want Him to be.
But I remember hearing a sermon once where they did know that the Messiah had to come twice, the first time to die, about 200 years before Christ came. During the period between the testaments.
It just was that when they became under Roman rule and had lost the right of the state to give a death sentence, they despaired and called God a liar. And forgot what they did know.
Will the Gentile church do better? Apart from God’s grace, probably not.
But given that there are double the prophecies of His second coming than His first, who knows? I would not be surprised that God is going to make it VERY clear that His Son will come back. I expect this time to be a bit different. It will rhyme, but not exactly.