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Torah - Sanctification?, Salvation?
One Or Two Covenants?

Since the promise in Genesis to Adam and Eve in the Garden that Messiah would crush the head of the serpent, unto the promise in Malachi of the "Sun" of righteousness Who would arise with healing in his wings - Salvation/Yeshua has been through Messiah alone. We are "sanctified" by His Commandments/Mitzvout - we are saved by the Blood of The Lamb. When Adam and Chavah were created they walked both with Voice of YHVH Elohim in the Garden, and in accord with the Mitzvout of Torah that were built into the very fabric of the universe. When they sinned against the Mitzvah/Command of Elohim they died spiritually that day {and within a "day" - within 1000 years - a day is unto YHVH as a thousand years, and a 1000 years as a day.} The Mitzvout are Holy but it is not the fabric of the High Priests garments that saves - it is the atonement of our Cohen HaGadol Yeshua Mashiach that saves. Thus has it been throughout all of Tanakh: the just shall live by faith. Faith in the Promise of Messiah when Abel brought at better sacrifice, faith when Avraham saw Messiah in a vision, faith when Ya'akov wrestled with The Angel of YHVH, faith when David saw Messiah at The Right Hand of Elohim, faith when Daniel saw the Ancient Of Days - faith unto and continuing today where Messiah said that all those who reject Him will perish.

So what shall we say then of the path of the Torah that led us to Messiah Yeshua? - Yes: Yeshua Messiah is the Door and Salvation is by Him alone, but the guard-rail on the straight and narrow path that keeps us from going over the edge is the Torah of YHVH Elohim - the moral commands of Torah give God's standards for righteous living revealed to mankind.

So then how can they reject Him whom they've not known? Was the rejected "another-jesus", whom the crusaders tried to force on the Jewish people at the point of a sword, Yeshua Messiah? - {may Elohim forbid!} - or was it simply "another-jesus"?! - I submit that they rejected, at the point of a sword, "another-jesus". Many Jewish folks even today still think "Jesus" is the greek-god of the gentiles, and know almost nothing about the Jewishness of Yeshua, nor the Judaic roots of the New Covenant. And yes, there were those in Messiah's day who rejected Him, even those ones who "appeared" to be following Torah, but inwardly were a brood of serpents - and even Talmud is just as hard, or even harder, on those of the 1st Century AD/Ce. - {yet for sure not all - please note that early historians tell us that by the close of the 1st Century AD/Ce 1/3 of the Jewish people were Believers in Yeshua Messiah.}   But Elohim knew their heart - whether they would believe or not. Even in a similar way as those who've not heard are judged - as spoken of in Romans: by the "torah" of their conscience, and as the spirit of man is spoken of as the candle of HaShem, searching all the inward parts, {as we read in Proverbs}, so too HaShem knows those who look for Him in Messiah and will find Him, as well as those who have rejected The Davar/Memra/Word of Elohim YHVH - Who is Yeshua Messiah come in the flesh and will continue to reject Him. - Man views the outside, but HaShem views the heart.

Further perspective:

RO2:14   [& v.13,15-17,26-27]: Sha'ul introduces a concept here that
         can lead to some interesting conclusions, but with caution:
         Proverbs 20:27 says: "The spirit of man (is) the candle of the
         LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." And in
         Luke 12:48 we read: "But he that knew not, and committed
         things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few (stripes).
         For to whomever much is given, of him shall much be required:
         and to whom men have committed much, from him they will ask
         the more." This then along with the understanding that man
         received the "knowledge of good and evil" (and so it follows,
         in this context, a conscience) having eaten of the tree in the
         Garden, - we might be able to illustrate the following idea:
              G-d's Word is Light [Ps.119:105]. When Adam and Chavah/
         Eve sinned in the garden, eating the tree of the knowledge of
         good and evil, - it is though they exchanged the full light
         of day in the presence of the L-rd, - for a small flicker of a
         flame as of a match, (the conscience that can accuse or else
         excuse [Ro.2:15]). That being a given, let's try to paint a
         picture:
              All humanity since the fall, has been in a dark room
                                 awaiting death:
            1). From the Garden to Noach, it was as if one held up a
            small flame like a match: and only very few could see their
            way to escape via the Door into Life.
            2). From Noach to Avraham, the flame burned a little
            brighter: and a few more could make out the Door and
            escape into Life.
            3). From Avraham to Moshe, the flame grew even more: and
            a people were born that could more clearly see the Door,
            and thus escape into Life.
            4). From Moshe to Messiah, the flame ignited into a
            brightly burning torch: and the path to the Door was clear,
            and even more could escape through the Door into Life.
            5). From the time of Messiah on, the Door (which is
            Messiah) has been flung wide open, and the Light of day
            shines clearly into the room; and whosoever will look can
            see the Door, and thus all can escape into Life in Him.
         While there needs to be caution here, I believe what Sha'ul
         words can show us indirectly is that some of those who never
         heard the Good-News of Yeshua Messiah, (or even of the Torah),
         will gain eternal life via the small flame of the conscience,
         as though some heard an internal witness from the Spirit about
         Messiah, and in their spirit believed in Yeshua, when: "in the
         day when Elohim/God will judge the secrets of men by Yeshua
         Messiah, according to my Good-News." [Ro2:16]. So then, "some"
         of those who've never heard (or heard falsehood in the name of
         another 'jesus' - another gospel, such as: the Jewish people
         who died at the hands of supposed "Christians" simply because
         they were Jews; and never heard the True Good-News of Yeshua
         Messiah) I believed will be saved and enter eternal life. In
         somewhat the same way, that when Yeshua died He went to those
         that had perished in the flood in days of Noach, that they
         might be: "judged according to men in the flesh, but live
         according to God in the spirit [See commentary on 1Pe.4:6].
              Why the special need for caution then? Because this idea
         could/can be twisted into saying: All paths lead to G-d. -That
         is NOT true!, one can only come to Elohim YHVH The Father
         through Yeshua HaMashiach Who is The Davar/
       Memra/Word of Elohim YHVH ! Further, it could be
         said: Why witness if all who are supposed to be saved will be
         saved? - (this also comes up in Calvinism vs. Arminian disputes)
         - Because if the 'witness' of the conscience is only as a small
         flame, and the witness of the Good-News is as the bright light of
         day... How can we NOT witness, - so that many more can see the
         Light and escape the darkness.

         RABBINIC: Everything is foreseen by the Almighty, yet free
         will is given to man. [Ahvoth III, 19]