So many Christians refuse to read and understand God’s overall plan to restore the Kingdom of Israel...the exact question the disciples asked Jesus/Yahshua as He was ascending...”When are you going to restore the Kingdom of Israel?” Christians also negate so many other Scriptures, such as “I came only for the House of Israel.” He said HOUSE not NATION...and what about “If ye be in Christ Jesus YOU ARE ABRAHAM’S SEED (sperm). I could give 100 more Scriptures to prove God’s plan centers around the final event when Yahshua returns is the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. Oh, final thought. There are twelve gates in the new Jerusalem, each one with the name of a Tribe over it. There is NO CHURCH gate. Which gate are you going to go through?
“There is NO CHURCH gate.”
Because Jesus IS the gate to the Church.
A better question to ask is, why is no Temple in Heaven? Revelation 21:22
Why did God 'choose' Jacob/Israel in the first place? What did Abraham do that God planted him on this earth when He did? History did not begin in the Garden of Eden... The 'flesh' planting of the Adam began the genealogy of the blood line to Christ. There is cause/reason why these people were chosen. The 'Old Testament' is the history of the bloodline to Christ and all those they came in contact.
Paul says ICorinthians 10: 11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. 12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
The 'Old Testament' is our script for what to expect to bring the close of this 'flesh' age. That would mean there is a specific number of souls already created, and when the last willing 'soul' takes this flesh journey then 'end' of this age comes about.
Not really wanting to get into an argument on the Lord’s Day, but I have always found it a curious idea that Jesus came into the world and did His work and that lasted until the apostles died, and then it all went to hell in a handbasket until someone centures later —Mohammed, some Protestants, the Mormons, various sects and cults — discovered and restored the true teachings of Jesus and reversed all the errors of the church. One time years ago I had a Hare Khrishna tell me he had the true teachings of Jesus. Everyone gets it but the church.
CHRISTOS ANESTI!
The gate names are Memorials...any of God’s people will go though any gate. Don’t forget that that the walls ALSO bear the names of the 12 apostles(Revelation 21), three apostles to each wall and three gates on each side. That symbolizes both the harmonization of the old and new covenants under Jesus Christ and of his church built on the foundations of both the Prophets ANNNNND the Apostles!
See also Jeremiah 19:33-34:”But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34”They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”