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NASB | Romans 11:25 ¶ For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 11:25 ¶ I do not want you, believers, to be unaware of this mystery [God's previously hidden plan]--so that you will not be wise in your own opinion--that a partial hardening has [temporarily] happened to Israel [to last] until the full number of the Gentiles has come in; |
Subject: Has the church replaced Israel? |
Bible Note: MJH Babylonians kept a king from the line of David on the throne in Jerusalem all during the captivity. If we read the Esther we see Jews in Babylonian captivity were kept together. There was a dispersion of the Jews before Christ when the Assyrians carried off the ten northern tribe and dispersed them throughout their kingdom. However the Judah and Benjamin remain intact in Judah. If you look at the empires that conquered Israel you see their philosophy of handling the conquered people was completely different. The Assyrians that conquered Northern Israel spread the conquered people throughout their empire. Their idea was if you move the people out of familiar surroundings you lessen the chance of rebellion. They are the ones that moved pagans into Samaria and later brought Jewish priest in to teach the people thus mixing Judaism with paganism and why pure Jew hate the Samarians so much. 2 Kings 17:26-27 (NKJV) 26 So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; therefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land." 27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Send there one of the priests whom you brought from there; let him go and dwell there, and let him teach them the rituals of the God of the land." Then the Babylonians they took people into captivity as seen in Daniel but as seen Esther the people stayed together plus 2 Chronicles and Jeremiah tell of the How Babylon kept a King of Israel in place. The Medo Persian were next and they actually restored the Jew back from Babylon to Israel but this isn’t the restoration spoken about in scripture short of Jeremiah that foretold the captivity would only be 70 years. Then the Greeks conquered the land but their idea was to assimilate their culture into the conquered land. To this day there was villages in India that speak Greek. The next was Rome and they ruled with an iron fist. Rebellions were crushed but for the most part the conquered people were kept as slaves in their own land to build the structures Rome is so famous for. However in 70 AD after many rebellions Rome finally decided to crush Israel once and for all. Of the Jews that weren’t crucified (because they ran out trees) they were shipped all over the Roman Empire. Your right there was another move to remove the Jew in 135Ad but for all intents and purposes 70AD is known as the great Diaspora of Jewish History. History records many things about the Diaspora but they do so from many perspectives. One a pro Palestine prospective which infers the Jew was out of the land longer than reality. The Jewish perspective that does not consider Shiloh as having come, therefore is not used to set dates. A secular perspective that sees Jews going into captivity but ignoring the importance of a King remaining on the throne. Christian perspective that relies on prophecy and the fulfillment of it by Jesus Christ. As I noted earlier Genesis 49:10 records Jacobs blessing which was prophetic that the scepter or rule would not pass from Judah’s hand until Shiloh came. Therefore we can not consider a dispersion before that time as being the one mentioned where the Jews will be returned. EdB |