THEY DIDN'T GET IT

HOW ODD OF GOD TO CHOOSE THE JEWS, BUT NOT SO ODD AS THOSE WHO CHOOSE A JEWISH GOD BUT SPURN THE JEWS. ODD STILL IS THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T GET IT. COULD THEIR HISTORY OF NEVER-ENDING PERSECUTION AT THE HANDS OF CHRISTIANS, NON-CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS ALIKE BE RELATED TO THE SAD FACT THAT THEY REJECTED JESUS AS THEIR PROPHESIED SAVIOR, THE FULFILLMENT OF THEIR COVENANT BETWEEN THE CHOSEN PEOPLE AND THEIR GOD? IN A.D. 70, THE APOSTLE PAUL TWEAKED OLD TESTAMENT TRADITION BY DECLARING THAT THE GENTILE CHRISTIANS DID NOT HAVE TO OBSERVE THE MOSAIC LAW OF THE JEWS. SUCH A CHANGE OPENED THE RIFT BETWEEN THOSE WHO GOT IT AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T. GOD'S CHOICES FROM DAVID TO SOLOMON TO JACOB AND LEAH AND TO JUDAH AND BENJAMIN CLEARLY FORESHADOWED THE A NEW KINGDOM SUPERCEDING THAT OF JUDAISM. ALSO, JESUS DIED FOR THE JEWS (AND GENTILES) TO FOUND CHRISTIANITY. YET THE JEWS DIDN'T GET IT. THE CHRISTIANS WRESTED THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM FROM THE MUSLIMS IN THE 1ST EUROPEAN CRUSADE, HOLDING THAT CITY UNTIL 1291, BUT TO WHAT PERMANENT AVAIL IF THE JEWS DID NOT GET IT? JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY HAVE EQUALLY SHARED THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM IN PALESTINE. THIS IN SPITE OF ONE FAITH THAT DIDN'T GET IT.

I HAVE PICKED AT THE WHY OF THIS TRAGEDY LIKE A SCAB THAT WON'T HEAL ITSELF. WHERE IS THE LOGICAL AND SATISFACTORY RESOLUTION? I WISH THE JEWS HAD GOTTEN IT. COULD MILLENNIA OF PERSECUTIONS HAVE BEEN AVOIDED? WOULD JESUS HAVE BEEN BETTER SERVED AND GOD MORE PLEASED? OR BOTH APPEASED?