It’s easy today to look at the modern practice of Judaic faith and say hey, we can’t see much that looks like Christ here... and that’s the point.
Israel dropped the ball like a hot potato, that is, the segment of it that didn’t believe.
Some of these unbelievers embraced Christ as less than Savior — as some kind of mere prophet, and this is called “knowing Jesus according to the flesh.” It’s a weird amalgam of law and Talmudism that results and those who did it were called Judaizers. There is presence of this kind of thing even on this very thread, and it implicitly denies a salvific Savior.
>> “Israel dropped the ball like a hot potato” <<
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You were talking about Judah, and then in the next sentence you switch to Israel. That isn’t coherent.
Yes, Judah is “blinded in part,” but Israel certainly is not.
Israel is who Yeshua was sent to , and who his apostles evangelized across the entire Mediterranean, and they most certainly didn’t drop any ball. They were persecuted for their faith in Yeshua first by the Roman Government, and later form the false ‘church’ that sprung from that pagan government in the mid 4th century under Constantine.
Israel is who are following Yeshua today, and who will meet him in the cloud at the end of the tribulation.
Israel isn’t just the ten tribes, they now include peoples from the entire world (those that sojourn with them as was prophesied over 3 millennia ago).
It will soon be time for Judah to join with Israel, as Ezekiel prophesied in chapter 37.
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