Holy Toledo!
God's "bride" rejects God's own son? . . .and being God's bride that makes him her son also.
Pass the smelling salts. . .
I have been a preacher 40 plus years, I understand the bible. Can you not read? Because I explained why it is as it is in vivid detail. Yes, God's bride rejected Jesus as their Messiah, so God forsook them for nigh 2000 years but God had a plan. Question, do you really think if Jews had tried to take the Gospel unto the whole world the whole world would have accepted Jesus? God used Israel to birth the Messiah, the promise to Abraham, then God used 12 men and their underlings to teach the Gentiles how to Evangelize the whole world. If God had not allowed the Diaspora, the Gospel would have been perverted into some type of legalistic Judaism , so God knew exactly what needed to be done, Gid used His bride to birth the Messiah, then he used the Church or Jesus' future Bride to evangelize the whole world, then God will use His bride Israel to set up His sons 1000 year reign on earth.
The whole Bride thing is just to show us how our relationship with God is supposed to be pure like a relationship with ones spouse. Israel were put forth as an example. Have you ever seen Christian friend that FALL then get back right with God? So, Israel only rejected Jesus the Promise because they got sidelined with THE LAW, the never understood fully that it was The Promise which came over 400 years before the Law of Moses came. So, the fell because of Paul said.......LACK of FAITH....... and when that faith returns so will Israel unto God.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well;
because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree? 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits;
that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And
so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 For this is
my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Here we can clearly see Paul delineates between THE CHURCH...........&..........Israel.
You can understand it now, or after you get to heaven, but one day you will see it sister. Just like Satan blinded Israel unto THE PROMISE (Jesus) he still blinds us on may things today.