The observation was more along the lines
that Jews also have extracted 'meaningful valuable spiritual content' from Gods Words quite apart from the strict literalist natural methods in the exercises of literal rituals.
When one says 'Jew' it does not automatically imply a lamb butcher with the requirement of a temple and court to find spiritual content and meanings in life.
God has always kept His Own Chosen remnant via the election of Grace receipt from above from their masses.
Such will not find Jesus in discord with the directives of Spiritual understandings and in fact will find the exact opposite. That's what He was and what He represents ALIVE to this day moving entirely in that direction Spiritual Direction and Directive by His Own Spirit upon and in them.
The same Spirit that spoke and moved upon and with them in the Old Testament, as Stephen noted here for example:
Acts 7:
44 Our fathers
had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
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Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
Stephen was very plain to the resistors at that time,
that it was always the intention of God to tabernacle WITHIN men. God Himself
chose Israel to bear the NATURAL ORDER of this first, until we, Gentiles, come in 'settled' to His Accounts.
But God has surely not abandoned them.
They were in fact blinded by God and they can be MADE TO SEE any time God feels like showing Himself to them, no different than Saul on the Road to Damascus.
There is Divine Order and Priority in play. But in the end there will be ZERO abandonment of God to the ones of Israel
whom He Himself BLINDED in our behalves. There is no cause to see them that way, period,
nor does scripture require that sight.
Any man can be given a heart to see, hear and believe by God at any time. IT is however given by God to do so and it is also kept away by God as well.
Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet
the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
They certainly did a very fine fine job keeping His Word intact until THE LIVING WORD arrived on the scene, and also faithful exercised the carnal commandments to a certain extent, again as they were led to do and to perform.
In the final analysis of them and their history, they were working out the patterns of Gods Own Dictates in showing the SHADOW MANNERS of Spiritual things. First the Natural, then the Spiritual is The Way of God. They were the natural order. And they too can be brought into Spiritual Engagement at any time, and in fact are and do already to a certain extent.
It certainly does not pay to slur them or any other person for that matter. But least of all them.
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