God hasn't given up on anybody.
Kent
While I believe that to be true, HE has moved on from a particular 'way'....
We are no longer under 'the Law' - we have a new a better 'way', better sacrifice, High Priest, priesthood, forgiveness, and grace...... 'ALL things have been made new.'
Peter was looking for 'a new Heaven and a new Earth, wherein righteousness dwells'......... they are here.....
The Old one has been done away with and the new one is here....
The Hebrew writer speaks of the old way 'growing old and ready to disappear'....... by 70 AD it was gone and replaced with the new, which began in earnest on Pentecost Acts 2.............. it took 40 years.
Much like the Israelites being freed from Egyptian bondage, crossing the Red Sea, and 'getting home', crossing the Jordan, 40 years later!!! Coincidence!?!?!?!?
But if you reject Peter and Paul you can't get that..........
ISA 65:
17 “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former things will not be remembered or come to [n]mind.
18 “But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
And her people for gladness.
19 “I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
And there will no longer be heard in her
The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.
20 “No longer will there be [o]in it an infant who lives but a few days,
Or an old man who does not [p]live out his days;
For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
And the [q]one who does not reach the age of one hundred
Will be thought accursed.
21 “They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 “They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the [r]lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.
23 “They will not labor in vain,
Or bear children for calamity;
For they are the [s]offspring of those blessed by the Lord,
And their descendants with them.
24 It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. 25 The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the Lord.
