Again Barn, back to the context, those who rejected the Mes those siah as recorded in the Bible were God's covenanted people. You are saying that out of all of them, only a few were true people of God, but then you say today that all of God's people today are faithful, why so today and not then sir? The only thing I disagree with you on is that you have indicated that they were not God's people, those that rejected Jesus as the Messiah. My point was, would you have rejected the Messiah when he came, and by percentages dear brother most likely you and I would have.
I know that the nation of Israel was in a covenant relationship with the true God. I just think you are forgetting the fact that right from the start God has always wanted people to love him so much they would exercise faith in him. This was true for the first man Adam right down through today. God wants people to love him so much that they will exercise faith that it is he alone who knows what is in the best interests of what he created(good) and what isn't in the best interests of what he created,(evil) and that the true God would never expect the impossible from humans, that he would never command them to do something that's impossible for them to do.
This of course would also be true for the nation of Israel. Yes God was in a covenant relationship with the nation of Israel, but that doesn't mean the nation as a whole exercised faith in the true God as he required. Those who were the true servants of God are those who exercise faith in him, and even though God was in a covenant relationship with Israel as a whole the nation was unfaithful. But there was a remnant or a minority of those people of the nation of Israel that were faithful. All throughout the history of the nation of Israel there were those who were exercising faith and sonremsined faithful even though the nation as a whole though was constantly unfaithful which is why God allowed the gentle nations to trample on Jerusalem and Israel. As a nation, Israel no longer represented God's kingdom on earth because of their constant unfaithfulness. Jesus when he was on the world with his apostles and disciples only represented a minority of the population of Israel and because of the nation of Israel constant unfathfulness as a whole the kingdom was taken from them and given to another nation, that nation is spiritual Israel.
The point I'm making is since there has always been a remnant, or a minority of the population of Israel that have been faithful, the nation as a whole could have been just as faithful, they just chose not to be.
In post #1 you said, "Have you ever put yourself in the shoes of God's people who underwent a changeover to a new covenant?
How hard it might be to accept. God had a nation, a covenanted people of Abrahams descendants for centuries, when a seeming criminal apostate put into force a new covenant, open to all peoples, with completely new laws. What is more, that individual was executed by the authorities, would you have believed he was God's son at the time?"
"Looking back, it is easy for us to see he was the Messiah, and we fully accept the new covenant, but God still only has one people, those who worship Him with spirit and truth. How about you, if you found out you were in the wrong faith, would you be willing to accept the faith that is identified by Scripture?"
Well there were a people who believed him to be the Christ, the son of the living God during that time. They were few, a minority, in comparison to the population of Israel yes, but just as they we're able to exercise that faith that Jesus was the son of God, the rest of the nation could have exercised that faith. Just because only a few exercised that faith doesn't make it hard to exercise that faith.