Who kept the Torah of God for those thousands of years? The Jews.. He revealed His will through His dealings with the Jews and used the Jews as an example..
I would agree as temporal
examples of the unseen eternal Holy. We do not wrestles against flesh and blood, the things seen, in that way we are commanded to know no man after the flesh but we do wrestle against the unseen things in high places.
The faithless Jews were used to represent unbelief (no faith) in the heart any nation. A picture to the whole world. Not just the Jewish world as if it had to with their flesh, as if we did glory in it. .And not the Spirit of Christ, the born again Spirit of God.
My question would be. Who worked in them, yoked with them.... to both will and do the good pleasure of our Father of spirits? Who gets the glory" The Potter or the clay? They turned it upside down just as Catholicism today. Taking away the understanding of the Spirit of Christ.
The faithless Jew that are used to represent unbelief in any nations of the world, simply accredited the unseen work God was performing in them giving it over to their own flesh .Comparing themselves to and by their selves as to what the eyes see as "will worship".
The same kind of men that falsely prophesied "Judging before the time". They were trusting in the flesh of the apostles hoping it rose above the written authority puffing themselves up as oral traditions of men that do make the word of God without effect.
In that way no man can serve two masters as teaching authorities . He will hate the one by not obeying it, believing what it says, and love the other that does generate a faith by which one can believe. I would think we are not to glory in the flesh of any nation any gender we are not what we will be.. Reminds me of the spirit of Catholicism .We are the church , Just look and believe. No faith needed.
1 Corinthians 4:5-7 King James Version (KJV)Therefore
judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. And these things, brethren, I have in a
figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us
not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.For
who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it,
why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
The unbelieving Jew, again was used as a type to represent unbelief in the heart of all of mankind. They received their reward of glorying in their flesh walking by sight. The gospel was hid because of their unbelief. Searching the scriptures making it about their flesh like some sort of Jewish hall of fame. (No offence against the flesh of any nation. Sorry if I had offended). .
In the end of the matter it reveals as a sign to the whole world "unbelief in the heart of mankind" who refuses to hear the gospel .
John 5:38-40 King James Version (KJV) And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent,
him ye
believe not.
Search the scriptures; for
in them ye think
ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of
me.
And ye will
not come to
me, that ye might have
life.