The Jews missed the Messiah when He came because they expected a physical Kingdom. But that didnt happen. There came a spiritual Kingdom that delivered all men rather than conquored them.
The plain and unignorable fact is; no physical temple or geographical place can usurp Jesus and his church as the temple. Sacrifices can not ever replace Jesus. Those things were a shadow of things to come, but the substance is Jesus.
You are missing the Point.
Romans 9:6 (GW)
6 Now it is not as though God's word has failed. Clearly,
not everyone descended from Israel is part of Israel
Genesis 45:7 (HCSB)
7 God sent me ahead of you to
establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
Not these:
John 8:44-45 (ESV)
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Not even these Mortals that GOD has chosen for a different Purpose, (probably to repopulate ISRAEL, in the Millennium.)
Revelation 7:2-8 (ESV)
2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea,
3 saying,
“Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees,
until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
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And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.
Matthew 16:18 (YLT) {Notice the Young's did not change it from ASSEMBLY, when in about 300, everyone else used Church.}
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`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;
John 10:16 (NRSV)
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I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. {At the Rapture, Notice, HOW DO I KNOW? Simple!}
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (HCSB)
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel’s voice, and with the trumpet of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first. {O.T. Saints rise first, because genuine believing Messiah Would Come, - Counts.}
17 Then we who are still alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Here is the Sum Total of the Church
the Other FOLD, including the O.T. Saints. Church was not used when the Bible was Written, HE called us the ASSEMBY, that is N.T. Saints, the
SAME THING HE CALLED O.T. Saints. The Rapture gathers us all UP to Heaven. I don't know for sure, but it is likely, we will not be called Church in Heaven, we will be called the
ASSEMBLY.
Revelation 7:9-15 (HCSB)
9 After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were robed in white with palm branches in their hands.
10 And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!
11 All the angels stood around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures, and they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
12 saying: Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen.
13 Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people robed in white, and where did they come from?”
14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.” Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 For this reason they are before the throne of God, and they serve Him day and night in His sanctuary. The One seated on the throne will shelter them:
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