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I’m not aware of one- The bible states that the apostles clearly said that the Jews had not accepted the gift of Salvation and so the covenent was offered to the Gentiles instead. This didn’t set well with the Jews of the time (Many Jews of that time actually did becoem saved, but sects of Jews refused to accept Christ as the Messiah.

God didn’t as far as I’m aware offer the covenent to those who would not accept it- is was a conditional covenent, and required sacrifice (The unspotted lambs etc) to cover the sins. Sin can not enter heaven, and the idea of the sacrifice was to cover the sin- to pardon it. The blood sacrifices only lasted just so long and only covered just so much sin, and had to be performed repeatedly- this syatem was broken due to the stubborness of man’s hearts, and God offered His Son as the final sacrifice to pardon forever.

The whole blood atonment of the old testament is much deeper than what I’ve described, and the parrallels between them and Christ’s finale atonement more invovled as well, but the whole thing boils down to the necessity of showing how the old system was flawed, to pave the way for the acceptence of the new way through the final atonement of Christ. Folks were supposed to see that ‘keeping the law’ was simply not possible due to our very sin nature, and should have accepted the final sacrifice as a burden relieving gift, however, although most did, some sects clung to the pride of ‘self-salvation’ through their own works- Pride simpyl would not allow them to admit that they were not hte oens who saved, but that it was Christ all along. Those in the old testament who truly understood what salvation meant, and understood that it was not the blood of the animals that saved, but rather their heart’s conditions, were the precursors for salvation of the Gentiles.

A very interesting note here: We gentiles are Jews- We’re descendents of the lost tribe of Ephraim- I’ll go into this more if you like.