Luke 21 :22
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
When Jesus spoke about the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, he made it quite clear that this was the fulfilment of all Old Testament prophecy and Law. Once Jerusalem was destroyed, then that was it. The Old Covenant was over, and the Law as an agreement between God and his people had expired.
Paul corroborates this in Hebrews, written circa 60AD, where he tells us that the Old Covenant has waxed old and is decayed, and is on the point of vanishing.
A lot of those whom I would call 'reprobate' Christians, will argue long and hard, either on the basis of misapplication of Scripture, or because they are pickled in the vinegar of Zionism, that the state of Israel is God's bit on the side, and much as he loves the Church, the real Israel, he just really can't get over his old flame, and will tolerate any behaviour from her, just as long as he can hold her in his arms again.
This is really nonsense. God is not a man. He is a God of justice. He will always accept anybody who renounces sin and comes to him through Christ, but he has no ongoing thing for the land of Israel or the earthly City of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 19 makes this plain:
19 Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel,that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Jerusalem + Judah (the Jews) is a clay jar that has been smashed into millions of pieces (AD 70) and it cannot be reconstructed, nor can its people.
And this is so. The genealogical records of the Jews perished in AD 70 with the temple, so nobody today can show they are a bloodline Jew. Such a thing no longer exists. Only followers of the various strands of Pharisaism exist.
For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
When Jesus spoke about the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, he made it quite clear that this was the fulfilment of all Old Testament prophecy and Law. Once Jerusalem was destroyed, then that was it. The Old Covenant was over, and the Law as an agreement between God and his people had expired.
Paul corroborates this in Hebrews, written circa 60AD, where he tells us that the Old Covenant has waxed old and is decayed, and is on the point of vanishing.
A lot of those whom I would call 'reprobate' Christians, will argue long and hard, either on the basis of misapplication of Scripture, or because they are pickled in the vinegar of Zionism, that the state of Israel is God's bit on the side, and much as he loves the Church, the real Israel, he just really can't get over his old flame, and will tolerate any behaviour from her, just as long as he can hold her in his arms again.
This is really nonsense. God is not a man. He is a God of justice. He will always accept anybody who renounces sin and comes to him through Christ, but he has no ongoing thing for the land of Israel or the earthly City of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 19 makes this plain:
19 Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,
3 And say, Hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:
6 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.
7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
8 And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.
10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,
11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel,that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury.
12 Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:
13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
14 Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord's house; and said to all the people,
15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Jerusalem + Judah (the Jews) is a clay jar that has been smashed into millions of pieces (AD 70) and it cannot be reconstructed, nor can its people.
And this is so. The genealogical records of the Jews perished in AD 70 with the temple, so nobody today can show they are a bloodline Jew. Such a thing no longer exists. Only followers of the various strands of Pharisaism exist.