Also, there is one major consideration that hasn't been brought up.
All the Jews/Hebrew Israelites scattered around the world can come back to Israel, but their religion of OC Judaism is useless and worthless without a Priesthood and Temple/Sanctuary.[Hebrews 8:13]
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. -- Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking verification which they afford of so many of the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testament,
This is what Jesus told the Samaritan woman at the well:
John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
The book of Hebrews talks a lot about the difference between the carnal/physical OC Levitical Priesthood and the Spiritual Christian Priesthood:
Kingdom Bible Studies Royal Priesthood #1
THE ROYAL PRIESTHOOD
Hebrews 7:12
For being changed/translated<3346> the Priesthood, out of necessity also, of Law a change<3331> is becoming,
Hebrews 8:13
in the to be saying `New,' He hath made Old the first.
The yet being aged and being obsolete nigh of disappearance
Then we have an plethora of prophecies against the OC Levitical Priesthood:
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Malachi 2
1 “
And now, O priests, this command is for you. 2 If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed,
I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
3
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it
7 For the lips of a
priest should guard knowledge, and peopled should seek instruction from his mouth,
for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
8 But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,
9
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
Those prophecies against the OC priesthood was fulfilled in the 70ad destruction of the Temple
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
The three factions, rendered frantic by drunkenness, rage, and desperation, trampling on heaps of slain, fought against each other with brutal savageness and madness.
Even such as brou't sacrifices to the temple were murdered.
The dead bodies of priests and worshippers, both natives and foreigners were heaped together, and a lake of blood stagnated in the sacred courts............
Thus they cut the very sinews of their own strength.
At this critical and alarming conjuncture, intelligence arrived
that the Roman army was approaching the city.
The Jews were petrified with astonishment and fear ; there was no time for counsel, no hope of pacification, no means of flight:-- all was wild disorder and perplexity :- nothing was to be heard but "the confused noise of the warrior, " -- nothing to be seen but garments rolled in blood," -- nothing to be expected from the Romans but signal and exemplary
vengeance.................
Revelation 6:6
And I hear a voice in midst of the four living-ones saying: "choinex of grain/wheat a
denari and three choinex of barleys a
denari,
and the oil and the wine no you should be injuring"."
Meanwhile the
horrors of famine grew still more melancholy and afflictive.
The Jews, for of food were at length compelled to eat their belts, their sandals, the skins of their shields, dried grass, and even
the ordure of oxen...........
Luke 21:23
But woe to those having in womb, and to the ones nursing in those days.
For there will be great distress<318> upon the land and wrath on this people.
Revelation 9:6
And in those days the men shall be seeking the death, and not no shall be finding it;
and shall be desiring to be dying, and the death is fleeing from them.
The Temple now presented little more than a heap of ruins ;
For five days after the destruction of the Temple,
the priests who had escaped, sat, pining with hunger, on the top of one of its broken walls; at length, they came down, and humbly asked the pardon of Titus, which, however, he refused to grant them, saying, that, "as the Temple, for the sake of which he would have spared them, was destroyed, it was but fit that its priests should parish also:" -
whereupon he commanded that they should be put to death...........
Malachi 2:
1 “And now, O priests, this command is for you.
3 Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it
Hebrews 8:13
in the to be saying `New<2537>,' He hath made Old the first.
The yet being aged and being obsolete<1095> nigh of disappearance
