It's because God provided a 'remnant' of Israel that would... understand, and He made certain of it. He began with giving Abraham the Promise by Faith of Jesus Christ (according to Paul in Galatians 3). The Christian Church just doesn't go into much Old Testament history, like tracing that Promise by Faith which Abraham believed all the way down to Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, which still has care of the heart of The Gospel Promise by Faith to this day. I know some Christian brethren that will sit and argue all day against the idea of God having split the old kingdom of Israel into two separate 'houses' in the days of Solomon, and all they need do is simply read starting at 1 Kings 11 forward.
I think it's safe for me to say that about 25% of Christian brethren that come to Christian Forums is not just for fellowship, but because their Church isn't feeding them all The Word of God, so they have many questions not being answered by their preachers, mainly because their preachers don't even know, because they are called to be evangelists and not teachers of The Word. These 25% have an urge to know more that God has put in them, so they are looking. At the same time, most seminaries are teaching their preachers to stay on the 'milk' of God's Word.
Some lucky Churches have a teaching pastor that is a scholar in the Bible languages, and that's all they do is teach Bible. This kind of thing was prophesied by God through His prophet Amos for the end of this world, that God would send a famine in the land, not one for bread or water, but for hearing The Word of God, looking everywhere for it and not finding it (See Amos 8).
Those things were to serve as "
ensamples" for us in the last days, Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10.
That rebellion by the Jews against the Syrian-Hasmoneans lasted until Jerusalem was freed from Greek Hellenism around 37 B.C. Antiochus IV desolated the 2nd temple around 170-165 B.C., so that's likely how the rebellion got started in 167 B.C. (See the following about Jerusalem's historical sieges and pagans setting up idols there -
The Sieges of Jerusalem. - Appendix to the Companion Bible)
The Promise God gave Abraham was The Gospel of Jesus Christ. Abraham believed, and God counted Abraham's Faith as righteousness. That was 430 years prior to the giving of the law through Moses. That Promise by Faith is what Apostle Paul said those of Faith have believed, and thus have become the
"children of Abraham." (See Gal.3 and Rom.4) Thus The Gospel of Jesus Christ had always been given first.
Most of the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets just didn't yet understand about Jesus and the crucifixion, His death and resurrection, for the remission of sins through His Blood, which is part of that Promise by Faith. I believe Abraham did know though, because at the end of John 8 Lord Jesus said that Abraham rejoiced to see His day, and was glad. Christ met Abraham per Genesis 18. And per Hebrews 7, the Melchizedek of The Old Testament was another Title for Lord Jesus Christ who met Abraham, and offered Abraham
"bread and wine", and blessed Abraham.
Not at all. To the world, and to the Jews, yes, they lost sight of what happened to the ten lost tribes of Israel, the northern tribes, but God didn't lose sight of them, but had been using the ten scattered tribes, and along with the small remnant of scattered believing Jews, to create the western Christian nations of history, and further The Gospel. This is actually the subject Jesus was covering in His parable in Matthew 21 about His vineyard (ten tribes) and changing its care to another "
nation" to produce its fruit instead of those false Jew crept in unawares in Jerusalem.
The last verse of Zechariah 14, which is future Millennial timing, it says only then will there no more be the Canaanite in the House of God. That's part of Old Testament history most are missing, how pagans crept in among Israel that caused the children of Israel to fall away. God warned Israel about that in Judges 2 and Judges 3, so that's another failure by the children of Israel they had no excuse for.
See Isaiah 6 about that, where Isaiah asked God how long would the people be spiritually blinded and in a stupor. And God showed until the cities are wasted and there is a great forsaking in the land by His removing men far away. But He promised that still in it would be a tenth that will return, referring to His elect.
Most brethren never get what the Essenes were really about. The Jewish historian Josephus was the only one who covered their history to any degree. Yet they aren't mentioned within The Bible. That has led some to think they represented the writers of The Bible; simply not true. The Essenes were like a monastic sect that practiced a certain level of Mysticism. For those not familar with that system, it represents repetition practices, dogma, ceremonial ritual, etc., the things that could not ever save us. To this day, secret societies like the Masonic Lodge and the Rosicrucians claim one of their history connections is from the Essenes. They also teach there was another sect in ancient Greece like them, called the
Therapeutae that were known as healers, like the Essenes were. Those secret societies will lead one down the wrong path though, because they treat all religion as equal, not really recognizing Jesus of Nazareth as God come in the flesh.
For those who 'stay' in God's Word as written, what becomes easy is all the propaganda pushed by the false Jews of the synagogue of Satan who want the world to believe they are the source of God's Kingdom and Promise, when those are definitely not. Those false Jews crept in and are in power in Jerusalem are not even of... the bloodline of Israel. Many of them are leftovers of the Canaanites which Israel was not able to destroy. Others are Idumeans of the seed of Esau that crept in among Judah after God had Edom destroyed. This is why Lord Jesus mentioned them in Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9 to the only two Churches He had no problem with. They were aware by staying in His Word. It's obvious the other five Churches were having problems because of not knowing about the crept in unawares of Jude 4. Is there any wonder why some seminaries today don't want The Old Testament covered line upon line in the Churches? Those are the false Jews pushing that, so the majority stay ignorant of those crept in unawares.