Have the Jews finished transgressing the Covenant?
Are the Jews still sinning?
Has iniquity of the Jews be reconciled and brought to a completion?
You bring up some very interesting points...
Lets take a look at your implications and what they mean for the Jews:
"And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the Great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified" (Rev. 11:8).
This verse designates Jerusalem as "Sodom and Egypt" because it was in Jerusalem that the Lord Jesus was crucified. If we are to say this verse refers to a time in our future and is not yet fulfilled, then we must also say that Jerusalem remains the spiritual "Sodom and Egypt" to this very day because of its Messianic blood-guilt, and that it must remain so indicted until the Judgment of Rev. 11:13-19 is fulfilled sometime in our future. This conclusion is inescapable if the passage has yet to be fulfilled.
And if Rev. 11:13-19 is yet unfulfilled, this logically implies that Paul's indictment against Jews must remain intact to this very day, specifically, that "the Jews [who "killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets"] ...are ...hostile to all men. ...They always fill up the measure of their sins" (I Thess. 2:14-16).
In the consistent futurist doctrine, all people who call themselves Jews today are left wide open to being automatically viewed with special suspicion by Christians. Futurism logically produces a very dangerous ambiguity and ambivalence toward modern-day "Jews" in that, on the one hand, they are in some sense "God's chosen people," and on the other hand they must remain a blood-guilty race of
enemies who are
opposed to all men, and whose Metropolis is
"Egypt" and "Sodom" until Revelation 11 is fulfilled.
In the preterist doctrine, in contrast, Jerusalem was "given to the nations" by God in the late 60's, A.D., and the Great City was then tread under foot for 42 months (Rev. 11:2). During that Great Tribulation which culminated in the destruction of the City and the Sanctuary in A. D. 70, the wrath of God against the Jews had
come to the utmost (I Thess. 2:16; Heb. 10:26-31) and the Jews had
paid the price for their Messianic blood-guilt to the last cent (Lk. 12:54-59). When the fleshly covenant-nation was disinherited as God's covenant people in 70, God's wrath against her was
finished. After that day, the Jews became --covenantally speaking-- simply one of the many ethnic classes in the family of man (Eph. 3:15). And there is not one class (or "race") of man today that is in any sense accepted or rejected by God because of DNA, but
all are freely accepted in Christ.
How many lives would have been saved if this preterist view of Israel in Bible prophecy had been taught instead of consistent futurism?
Probably millions.
to bring in everlasting righteousness
Is there everlasting righteousness among the Jews in the city of Jerusalem?
Adding to the text are you?
Jesus Himself said he fulfills ALL righteousness. Do you doubt His claim?
Are people living forever yet?
Jesus said: "He who lives and believes in me shall never die"
Do you doubt His claim here too?
The Decree of Cyrus - about 536 BC
17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and
from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.
Matthew 1:17
The Math:
14 generations @ 40 years per generation = 560 years
Did I read that right? are you asserting that a Biblical Generation is 40 years?
Bravo!
To arrive at the "going forth of the command" we deduct the time of captivity.
560 - 70 = 490 years from the going forth of the command to the birth of Christ = 490 years. 70 weeks!
No made up generic dates, such as some say 33BC...it's close enough I reckon.
The problem you have is Messiah the Prince refers to a specific event, which is not the birth of Christ.
I have no such problem. As I said, The event "Messiah the Prince" is Jesus' Baptism, not Birth. Never said His Birth... not sure where you got that from but it wasn't me.
The second problem with this is, the prophecy states the it is 69 weeks to the event called "Messiah the Prince".
Shall I continue?
JLB
Yes, keep digging, by all means.