Breaking down the middle wall

In a previous post, we talked about the law of Moses, given to the Jews to keep them until the promised Seed came. They were not justified by the law, for justification is only by faith. Until that faith was revealed, the law was their tutor, to bring them to the Messiah. After faith came, they would no longer be under a tutor.  

The Gentiles were without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. God loved them no less than He loved the Jew.

All the covenants that God made with Israel were sealed with blood. Animals were sacrificed for God’s covenant with Abraham (Genesis 15:8 – 13). Moses sprinkled the people with blood to confirm God’s covenant at Sinai (Exodus 24:6 – 8). In the fullness of time, God’s one and only Son expired on a bloody tree. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). 

Some say it is impossible for someone born as a man to make himself God. Of course it is. That isn’t the question. The question is Can God, being God, appear in human form?

When Messiah died (“I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it frombut I lay it down of myself”) Moses’ law ended. The New Testament explains it like this. In the Temple in Jerusalem was the Court of the Gentiles, where were the moneychangers and the sellers of animals. Then there was a barrier, known as the middle wall of partition. Only Jews were allowed to pass beyond that point.

Moses’ law was what separated Jew and Gentile. When Messiah died, Moses’ law became obsolete. “The middle wall of partition” was broken down. The distinction between Jew and Gentile was removed. Gentiles became able to partake in Jewish spiritual blessings; Jew and Gentile were able to become one new man in Christ.

The Jew is still a Jew; the Gentile is still a Gentile. The promises of material blessings – such as the land – still belong to the Jews. But the promises of God’s spiritual blessings belong to Jew and Gentile. Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow partakers of the promise, through faith in the Jewish Messiah. 

I have a question to ask here. Why do Jews know so little about the new covenant promised to them in the book of Jeremiah in their Hebrew Scriptures?