...Is rendered "time present...
Again, Hebrews 9:8-9, I believe, clearly states in the perfect tense that under the old covenant the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, and that the old covenant practices were a figure "for the time then present" (enistemi is in the perfect tense, not the present tense), while Hebrews 9:15 and 10:19-22 clearly state in the present tense that the new covenant is manifest, and in the past tense that their hearts have been sprinkled and their bodies washed.
...the Law of Moses was still a living code...
Rather, it had already been abolished as far as God was concerned, without condition: "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man" (Ephesians 2:15).
"If the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished" (2 Corinthians 3:7-13).
"Ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ... Now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter" (Romans 7:4, 6).
"Before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster" (Galatians 3:23-25).
...The "YOU" is the apostles to whom Jesus is speaking in Matthew 24...
Again, I believe Matthew 24 was written for whoever will be alive when it is fulfilled. Jesus didn't prophesy that the apostles themselves would necessarily see the end-time events, which indeed they did not, for in no history do we find that in the time of the Apostles the stars fell from heaven and the sign of the Son of man appeared in heaven, at which all the tribes of the earth mourned; nor does any history describe how all the tribes of the earth saw when the Son of man came in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and sent his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they gathered together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other (Matthew 24:29-31). None of this has been fulfilled. No doubt this is why Jesus commanded the Apostles to pass on every single thing he taught them to those they preached to (Matthew 28:20).
...Christ was talking about a Zechariah son of Barachias whom his contemporaries slew...
Can you quote your source?
...Genea does not mean the whole nation of Jews throughout human history...
It can. Again, note that genea is translated as nation in Philippians 2:15, so it can have more than one meaning.
...would require the jews to undergo total annihilation in Matt 24:34...
"This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled" (Matthew 24:34). The generation of believers that lives to see the 2nd coming will only pass physically in that it will become regenerated into spiritual bodies in the resurrection which will occur at the 2nd coming: "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body... Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality" (1 Corinthians 15:44, 50-53). "In the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19:28).
...Almost 1/2 of the Mosaic Law consists in Temple practices. Also, the 12 tribes are gone with no lineages to ever verify any human being back to bible times...
How does this keep Orthodox Jews and Messianic Jews today from trying to keep as much of the Mosaic law as they can?
...The parousia is what receives the saints unto Christ in Heaven...
Note that nothing requires that the parousia take the saints into heaven.
...The place Jesus said he was going to in John 14:1-3 is the same place as Jn 8:21-24, Jn 7:33-36; and John 13:33-36 -- HEAVEN...
Again, Jesus said "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). Note that he says we will be where he is after he comes again. He says nothing about his making a U-turn back into heaven. And indeed we will be where he is after he comes again: on the earth during the millenium (Revelation 20:4-6, 5:10, 2:26-29).
...you cannot follow Me now; but YOU WILL FOLLOW LATER...
Peter did, by dying. I believe if we die before the 2nd coming, our spirits go to New Jerusalem in heaven until we return to earth with Jesus for the millenium. Note that Jesus told the thief on the cross: "Today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23:43). If we compare the location of the tree of life in Revelation 2:7 (paradise) and Revelation 22:2, 14 (New Jerusalem), we see that paradise is in New Jerusalem.
...Jesus went to Hades that day (Acts 2:27,31)...
In Acts 2:31, the Greek word translated "hell" can simply be translated as "grave," as in 1 Corinthians 15:55. Jesus' spirit was not left in a grave like his body was for three days, and it didn't go to hell, but went into the Father's hands upon his death: "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost" (Luke 23:46). In Luke, the same Greek word translated "commend" is translated "commit" (Luke 12:48) and "set before" (Luke 11:6).
I believe Jesus did not enter Hades until after his resurrection he went there in his spiritual body to preach to the OT saints (1 Peter 3:18-19, 4:6), whom he led up into heaven with him at his ascension (Ephesians 4:8-10).
...The Old Testament says not one word about a "millennium,"...
First, what about the NT? Revelation 20's thousand years? When did Jesus sit on the throne of David? (Luke 1:32) Does Acts 2:30 say that David's throne is in heaven, or that Christ is yet sitting upon it? Does Mark 11:10 say Jesus sat upon the throne of David? Was the donkey David's throne?
When were the following passages fulfilled?
"He that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation 2:26-29).
"And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles" (Zechariah 14:16-18).
"And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it. And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them. In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance" (Isaiah 19:21-25).
"He shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid" (Micah 4:3-4).
...John 4 does indeed say that earthly Jerusalem was no longer going to be a Holy place of worship of the Father...
Actually, it doesn't. Earthly Jerusalem will be a holy place during the millenium: "This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 14:19-21).