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Originally Posted by Light
My understanding is that the Jews split from Jesus as their messiah around 70 AD when their 2nd temple fell to the Romans. They expected Jesus to save them from the Romans even though Jesus predicted what would happen.
Jews looked to a political messiah rather than a spiritual one. Jesus warned his followers not to take part in that method of bringing in God's kingdom. The destruction in 70 AD was not God's judgment as much as it was the natural result of human beings seeking salvation through their own political and military might. Jesus' method was the opposite of such an approach.
Jesus's methods for peace are still revolutionary today because it requires a higher degree of consciousness to implement. Christians today make the same mistake as the Jews back in 70 AD by looking to Jesus in military conquests. That has nothing to do with what Jesus was talking about.
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For your info, the Jews "split from Jesus" the day they crucified him which was their ultimate expression of hostility toward their Covenant God and the covenant he made with them at Sinai through Moses. Because the Jews broke their covenant with YHWH, He did indeed judge them in 70 A.D., as Jesus predicted. The destruction of the temple and Jerusalem was God's ultimate expression of his categorical rejection of Old Covenant Judaism that was established under Moses. Indeed..."all things have become new" under this current and eternal New Covenant dispensation.
