The Destiny of Church and Israel is the Same

In John 10:16, Jesus talks about Gentiles:

"16And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd."

The important thing to highlight here is this. There is no separate destiny for the Jewish people and a separate destiny for the Church. As Apostle Paul says, we have been grafted into the the tree of the Jewish faith through Abraham and we are "one flock with one shepherd." God doesn't have two wives. His only wife is Israel and we have become a part of it. There will be no separate 1,000 Year Reign for the Jews. It will be both for the faithful Jews and for the faithful Christians. All those who follow the Jewish Messiah Jesus will reign with him on earth when he comes into his Kingdom. Indeed, we are his Kingdom.

Revelation 5:9,10
"You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. 10You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth."


But, I don't think that "those who came before" were the Pharisees.

8All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

Because many Pharisees followed Jesus, invited him into their homes and synagogues, otherwise helped him in his ministry, and then became the first members of Messiah's Church. So, he couldn't have been talking about all Pharisees.

I am pretty sure that Jesus was talking here about the false Messiahs, because he said that while those who came before were false, he is the only true door of salvation.

There have been a number of false "Messiahs" before Jesus and many after Jesus. I don't know the exact number of "Messiahs" before Jesus, but there were at least 50 Jewish leaders after Jesus who have claimed to be the Messiah! There's even a book I saw about all of them:
50 Jewish Messiahs: The Untold Life Stories of 50 Jewish Messiahs Since Jesus and How They Changed the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Worlds
http://www.amazon.com/50-Jewish-Messiahs-Stories-Christian/dp/9652292885/

These may have been good people, but they were all obviously false messiahs, because whether they came before Jesus or after him, none of them fulfill the Messianic prophecies. So, in God's book, they are all liars, in spite of the many good deeds they may have done.

I think Jesus talks about these future self-annointed "Messiahs" when he says in another place that "I have come in the name of the Father and yet you do not accept me, but many will come in their own name and you will accept them".

Even today there is an Orthodox Jewish movement which centers in Brooklyn, New York, that believes that Rabbi Mendel Schneerson (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schneerson.html) was the Jewish Messiah. He was born in 1902 in Nikolayev, Ukraine and died in 1994 in Brooklyn, NY. He was a very smart and wise man. But he is obviously not the true messiah. The amazing thing for me was that his followers actually believe that he arose from the dead and that his spirit is with them today. And they believe this even though no one has seen him walking the earth after his death. How much more reason we have to believe in Jesus' resurrection, when he was seen by over 500 people walking the earth after his death!