Yes, He did promise...but not in that order. He is clear on what has to happen.
Here's one of the first, if not the first, times the promise is made:
Deuteronomy 30:1-5
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
2 And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
3 That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:
5 And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
To Summarize:
1) They receive the blessings = The Ancient Kingdom of Israel
2) They receive the curses = scattered among the nations
3) They remember ^these things while scattered among the nations^
4) They obey The Almighty according to
all that is commanded with all their hearts
5) The Almighty regathers them from the nations and brings them back to the land
There is a condition The Almighty laid out for regathering them, and that is obeying
all that was commanded,
while scattered. While scattered. And yet...
- Tel Aviv is one of the LGBT capitals of the world
- They kill innocent women and children long before October 7th, an abomination to God
- Most of them are Atheists so no obedience to commandments
- They don't believe in the Messiah and openly mock Him
This is why I say either God's word is void and doesn't matter anymore or they are not the people and so aren't held to any convenant. Those are the only choices we have here. Scripture is clear.
Indeed. But are you sure you're not just using your eyes and then claiming it's His eyes? I ask because the passage I reference above is clear on the order of events. They repent and obey the commandments in the nations they were scattered in, with all their hearts, AND THEN He regathers them
Himself during the second coming as prophesied in several passages including
Matthew 24:30 and
Isaiah 11:
Please see my post here:
https://christianchat.com/threads/the-hatred-of-jews.214439/post-5276538
Isaiah 11:10-14 gives the areas where The northern house will be gathered from, where the southern house will be regathered from, how they all will return into the land, and who
will already be in the land when He gets there.
- The Messiah hasn't returned
- Most of those who are currently in the land came from Europe
- Meanwhile, Messiah gathers his people from nations that the world will claim are
not Israel right now
- Edom will already be in the land when Messiah comes
...so we
must conclude that the regathering of Israel hasn't happened yet.
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Next,
Ezekiel 35 & 36 share with us who The Almighty sees as claiming the land as theirs while His people are still scattered among the nations:
Ezekiel 35:2-3,10,13
2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
3 And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
10 Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the Lord was there:
13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Ezekiel 36:5
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
To Summarize:
- Mt. Seir is Edom
- Edom has hate in their hearts
- Edom claims the land as its possession
while Israel is scattered
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Finally,
these are quotes from the Jewish encyclopedia:
"EDOM IS IN MODERN JEWRY." The Jewish Ency. 1925 Ed., Vol. 5, Pg. 41.
“from then on [Edomites] constituted a part of the jewish people, Herod being one of their descendants”, - The Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, 1966 Doubleday & Company, Inc , Garden City, New York, Pg. 592.
They [the non-Israelite Edomites] were then incorporated with the Jewish nation…. "EDOM, IDUMEA," - The Jewish Encyclopedia (New York & London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1904) Vol. V, p. 41
…they [the Edomites] were hereafter no other than [non-Israelite] Jews. - Flavius Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews (Grand Rapids, MI: Dregel Publications, 1960) Book XIII, Chapter IX, Verse 1, p. 279