I'm not the first person to make this point, but it's something that every time I hear it, I get a similar reaction to "eat ze bugs".
When everyone on the internet describes their stuff as "content" or other things as content. Like "Wow Nintendo just announced a bunch of new content coming for [insert thing]"
What a bland revolting consumerist phrase. I wish the term "content" was banned from the English language unless you're describing the content of someone's character.
When you say they have a good content of character, it's a fine word.
But when you describe art, entertainment, or videos as that way you couldn't pick a more soul-less word, and they're choosing it for themselves.
Something doesn't have to be high art in order to not be called content. The weather channel is pretty dry stuff, but they don't open up the show by going "hi here's our weather content for the day". It really is like something a dystopian society would say.
They say "Good morning everyone, glad to have you back. Let's look at how the weather is going to look like today". Or I assume that's along the lines of what they say. I haven't seen a weather channel in many years.
Anyways, mini rant, had to get it off my chest.
That sounds like some pretty hard cope, honestly. What would the point even be in recognizing the new covenant (which is entirely a "You've been fucking up, you need to change" reform movement) if everybody who just up and decides to ignore it (or revile it, or, say, lynch the prophet who brings it) gets just sort of grandfathered into the new deal anyways?
And saying "prophet" there is the softest scenario. You could parse it just as well as "God himself came down for an audit (which most of you failed) and you murked him in a backwater because you couldn't lawyer out of it."
They will be restored the same as an unbeliever is restored. The first believers were Jews. Paul was an murderer of Christians and a Jew and he became the biggest spreader of the gospel in the NT.
Isreal will cry out after they're persecuted by the anti-Christ and repent.
They aren't grandfathered in. Jews who die right now believing in Judaism go to hell.
The prophecy is about the last generation who cries out and repents.
God made similar prophecies to the Jews throughout the old testament.
He would say "you will forsake me and follow other gods, and I will crush you and have enemies devour you. BUT one day you will cry out to me and I will rescue you and restore you."
He wasn't saying the Jews who died being conquered for their worshipping other gods go to heaven. He's making a claim that when they get carted off to other nations, after a few generations they'll finally call out to God and He will remember His promise to them.
This plays out multiple times in the old testament.
It will play out one more time, in armageddon, and this time they won't forsake God in favor of other gods ever again. The Jews who are prophecisied about at the end times are a generation who get saved the same way you or I get saved, which is repenting and calling out to Jesus for forgiveness.
That's what the generation at the end times will do. Now I don't know if it means every Jew at that generation will, but it wouldn't be the first time something like that happened. I believe everyone in Ninevah repented. But it will be a significant amount of Jews repent and Israel as a nation repents.
Well, a couple of notes:
First, because Paul gets brought up a lot in these contexts: Paul repented. It wasn't something he might do, or is prophesied to do, or is likely to do. He did it, no conjecture necessary, he walked the walk and talked the talk. Literally nobody ever says that a person can't enter the fold, but they have to actually do it for it to count.
Second:
I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, bunch of fucking idol-worshiping heretics.
It's prophecy. Zecheriah 12 and 13 prophecies this event. It says they will mourn the one they pierced like one mourns their only son.
Who pierced Jesus, Christians or Jews?
It says of those who mourn those who pierced Him that
In that day a fountain will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.
“It will come about in that day,” declares the LORD of hosts, “that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and I will also remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
Now did that happen in Jerusalem? No, it says of the Jews that they stumbled and rejected Jesus which brought it to the Gentiles. Jerusalem was then destroyed in 70 AD. The minority of Jews believed.
It certainly cannot be said that a fountain has been opened for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and impurity.
Jerusalem has not been removed of their false prophets (Rabbis) or unclean spirits (any anti-Christ spirit), so this is clearly something that has not happened yet. And we know it can't be referring to a past event pre-Christ because it says "they will mourn the one they pierced"
I've lost track of what specific people you're even talking about. Unless...nah. I mean, unless you're claiming that the current tenants of the Country Israel are the same people mentioned in the verses you've quoted.
Is that what's going on here? Do you think these people are the same? Because if so, whew lad, good luck with all that you've got some very not fun learning in your future. And if not, then a gazillionty different things need to happen to even begin to set up the conditions needed for a start to any of those prophecies--like, "In the year 2757, North Korea leads the world in GDP" kind of so-far-in-the-future-who-the-fuck-even-knows.