Jeremiah 3:16 New International Version
In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the LORD, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the LORD.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
"I will do X if you obey Me"
Is there a covenant with Israel that states something along the lines of "even if you keep on sinning, rejecting my word, my commandments, my laws, you are still my people and always will be. I was just kidding about My law. I really don't care. Once you're in, you're in forever, no matter what. Don't believe in Me as your Messiah? Kill me and my followers? No problem. You guys are the best. See you all in heaven. (sort of sounds like OSAS/OJAJ, doesn't it?)
Nope. Lawlessness will not be tolerated by God. Chance after chance, after chance. They were given EXACTLY 490 years to repent and then accept the Messiah. They failed. I guess they didn't learn their lesson.
Daniel 9:
24Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 25Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. 26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.