[caww]

Christ's unique role as Man and God remains and is not blemished by the sub-shepherds/pastors/priests.

There is a vast difference between catholic Priests and Pastors. As an example: We do not confess to our Pastors but to Christ who as our Priest He alone has the authority to forgive sin and states so as the only mediator between God and man..... I could not imagine any man Priest making the decision if I am to be forgiven or not and how I must "pay" for doing so when Christ paid it all.

Israel will one day have their blindness removed and they will see Christ for who He really is to them..... Christ absolutely "fulfilled" the law which none can keep....and there is now therfore no condemnation for them who are in Christ Jesus. We are free from the law of sin and death.

[Cronos]

Hardly -- firstly, you got it wrong, Anglicans pastors too have confession and Lutherans have Holy Absolution which is done privately to the pastor (commonly only upon request). Here the person confessing (known as the "penitent") confesses individual their sins and makes an act of contrition as the pastor, acting in persona Christi, announces this following formula of absolution (or similar): "In the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

The role of the pastor/priest is as minister of Christ's mercy

Israel will one day have their blindness removed and they will see Christ for who He really is to them

Yes, as I pointed out, Israel is the northern Tribes who rebelled against the line of kings and High Priests in Judah and set up their own kingdom which withered away. They are akin to the groups that broke away from the Church. Judah had bad kings, high priests, yet to break away just because one king was bad was to ignore that God was behind all and focus on the individual person (king or high priest) instead of God.