Psalms 89:26-28 speaks of Jesus and the New Covenant which the Jews rejected. This is also spoken of in Malachi 3:1 and Daniel 9:24-27 speaks of this and the exact date of Christ’s resurrection. When we read Galatians 3:14-24 we see the New Covenant is older than the Old Covenant. For the promise of Christ was 430 years before the Law Galatians 3:17.
So that we see the Jews rejected the Promise of Christ Abraham’s seed. Thus for time being they are under the curse of the law but we receive His Promise Grace. Isaiah 8:17-18 speaks of this.
A very large number of Jews became Christians and indeed some of the Orthodox church, for example, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Christians in Kerala, India, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Antiochian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East, among others (in particular, those churches which comprise portions of the ancient Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Antioch and of Seleucia-Cstesiphon and Mesopotamia, the successor city to Babylon and the precursor to Baghdad, the former cities abandoned over time due to the migration of the Tigris river), have significant fractions, even a majority, in the case of the Ethiopians, of members who are descended from Jews, and some of the Mar Thoma Christians in India who are of Judaic descent are endogamous, so can be regarded as mostly Hebrew in ethnicity.
Now, I regard these as Christians of Jewish descent, rather than Jews, but on the other hand Rabinnical Judaism isn’t really Judaism in the ancient sense of Second Temple Judaism but rather has changed so much since the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD as to be almost a different religion. Likewise the Karaites, who practice something like Sola Scriptura, rejecting Rabinnical tradition and the Talmud in favor of their own tradition and an approach to logical interpretation of the scriptures called the Kalaam, have their own novel interpretation, which includes among other ideas a rejection of a belief in the existence of the devil as a singular entity (for example, they regard the serpent in the garden of Eden as a cunning snake, which I find absurd and amusing, but what I do not find amusing, although it is absurd, is the horrible persecution the Karaite Jews have endured in Israel at the hands of the Chief Rabbinate, which controls the use of the word “Kosher”, and given that it is a Rabinnate, an institution that Karaites by their very nature reject, it obviously discriminates against them, and I will say some Karaite interpretaitons of Scripture make more sense to me than their Rabinnical counterparts, for example, Karaite fringes are in both white and blue dye, as indicated by the literal Old Testament, whereas the Rabinnical Jews only use white dye because they believe the specific hue and the formula for making that color dye was lost, and it would be a sin to use an incorrect color, this being an example of the Rabinnical principle of creating additional restrictions around the laws of the Torah for fear of transgressing them, which I suppose derives from the lack of assured forgiveness and the somewhat dismal circumstances that resulted from the loss of the Temple and the ordinary means of propitiation of sin). Likewise the Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews, whose worship is almost identical to Ethiopian Orthodox Christians, except the Beta Israel perform animal sacrifices instead of celebrating the one all-sufficient sacrifice of Christ in the Eucharist, and also have the Star of David rather than the Cross on their otherwise identical vestments, experience discrimination in Israel, from the Chief Rabinnate.
However, these religious issues of discrimination are specific to the relationship of these Jewish minority denominations with the Chief Rabinate; the secular authorities on the other hand have not engaged in such discrimination, and indeed after the tolerant Christian Emperor Haile Selassie was martyred by the Derg communists, who strangled him, in the mid 1970s, and then like most communists embarked on an anti-Semitic agenda, the Israelis did mount a rather heroic effort to evacuate the majority of Ethiopian Jews (a small population remained, or perhaps some returned after the downfall of the Derg in the early 1990s and the restoration of democracy, but I think the population of Beta Israel in Ethiopia is around a thousand, give or take a few hundred, the majority having moved to Israel. Many Rabbis believed the Ethiopian Jewish males needed to be “recircumcised”, but this in the end did not happen as the government officially recognized their Judaism.
This incident did demonstrate that the State of Israel can be effective at protecting Jews from pogroms, genocides and ethnic cleansing, which is good, since for many centuries Jews have suffered from this, lamentably on too many occasions at the hands of Christians. Now ironically we need to persuade Israel to adopt policies to covertly protect the persecuted Christians of the Middle East, while appearing to not protect them, because this could be a death sentence for the endangered Christians in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. It is my hope that Evangelical Christian support of the Jewish cause in the US will help persuade the Jews to in turn engage in discrete and subtle policies that will benefit the Orthodox Christian population in the Palestinian territories and in the surrounding lands.