Here is a kind of interesting thought.  The Jews currently have between 6 and 8 people that they are watching closely to find out if they might be the messiah.  They are making sure that they never sin and have great hopes for a couple of them.  They still eagerly want their messiah to come but they rejected Jesus.

I often wondered what would happen if someone could live a perfect life (though the bible says, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.)  Could they get into heaven on their own account bypassing the need for Jesus altogether?  Then I read this in Romans 11 : 30-31

Even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

God committed everyone to disobedience which means he added the sin curse to everyone including the non-sinners (if there actually were any) so there would be only one way to the father, through Jesus Christ who adopts us as brothers and co-heirs.  Can you imagine how bad it would be if you did get into heaven without Jesus.

Hi Saint Peter.  Looks like I made it.  The place looks nice.  Hey, do you have any available rooms I could live in.

No sorry.  The city is for the bride of Christ and I can’t even give you a spot on the surrounding land to put up a tent because it belongs to Jesus.  Also, you can’t go into God’s temple to see Him because you need to be strengthened by Jesus to stand in His presence.  You can’t even eat from the tree of life so… well… this is awkward.  I guess you can go in, just don’t touch anything.

I guess the moral of the story is we all need Jesus which we already knew but I thought it was kind of interesting that God even solves the impossible problems that we can only speculate about.