My story is I was born Jewish.
From my perspective, you're not handling well the questions and issues I'm raising.
How do you reconcile the lack of fulfillment of the promises in the Torah with your belief in the Torah?
Nation Israel has never received the promises made in the Torah. Nation Israel was ruled by Egyptians, then held a minor place as desert tribes between power houses of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Before being ruled by Persians, Greeks, Ptolemies, Romans, etc.
Fact is nation Israel has been ruled by others for most of its history. When it did rule itself it was either non consequential to its neighbors or it self-destructed.
Not much to brag about being the chosen of YHWH is it? Put another way, YHWH has done very little for nation Israel compared to the gods of other nations.
Moreover, throughout most of its history it persecuted and killed the prophets. For example, Isaiah is one of the greatest prophets condemned and killed by the high priest and king of nation Israel.
Point is that you guys have always messed things up and are still messing things up by holding on to empty promises.
Which brings me to my point.
At what point do you guys realize the promises as literally written are never going to come and start to realize that scripture has a hidden meaning about things greater than dirt in Palestine. To be frank, “the promised land” is not dirt in Palestine but the “new heaven and earth” foretold by Isaiah. The “Joshua or Jesus” leading his “chosen ones” to the “promised land” is the celestial Messiah bringing order to the cosmos.
It is the pesher approach to scripture arguably pioneered by the Teacher of Righteousness who perceives the scriptures being fulfilled all around him. He was not waiting for some unfulfilled promise according to the letter of the Law, for he was living the fulfilled promises in his lifetime by recognizing the hidden meaning of scripture.
So while you keep waiting on empty promises to be fulfilled, the TOR was receiving the promises for himself and those who believed him. The Dead Sea Scrolls open a window into the hidden meaning of scripture which Philo, Paul, and the gnostic Christians carried on, until the Roman church bull dozed it over, just like the Pharisees did the Essenes.
But the God Most High has a way of making the hidden meaning of scripture known again as day follows night. There is a reason the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered around the same time as nation Israel was freed from foreign rule, and it is NOT for them to rule the nations
on earth, but for a remnant of nation Israel to return to the TOR’s teachings and rule the new heaven and new earth. It will happen as foretold by the TOR himself and the prophets before him.
Today we celebrate the birth of Christ on earth which in its original form represented the rising of the sun in the East (associated with the winter solstice as the solar light increases throughout the year). It is the knowledge of the Most High God, the Father Sun, that rises in our hearts and in the world at the “appointed times”, which the earliest Jewish Christians celebrated.
Shall I get a tissue for you? Perhaps a glass of whine and Pavarotti singing Pagliacci so you can sulk?
I am not sulking but I am astonished at the unbelief and hardness that exists in the world. It presents itself in many forms.