Was God choosing the Land of Israel for Old Covenant Jews and assisting them to depopulate the Land and act of Apartheid?
Well, let's check what is a common definition of apartheid >
It seems to mean using politics and theory and unequal rights and maybe killing to separate one group of people from others . . . segregation. I would say this is often done because of competition, wanting to keep another group from having what the apartheid people have and don't want to share. And they can hate and kill the ones they consider to be competition.
And, yes, God was arranging to remove certain people from the land, in order to have a place for Israel to have their national land, the Promised Land. So, yes God was separating Jews from people who already had stayed in the area of the land promised to Israel.
So, according to basic definition, yes it was apartheid.
But what matters is the reason. God wanted to have a pure line from Abraham to Jesus, so that as prophesied Jesus would be born of a Jew. In order to have Jews on the planet when Jesus came, He needed to keep Jews in existence so there could be the Jew Mary who gave birth to Jesus. So, He needed to have segregation of Jews from others, enough so there would still be Jews through whom Jesus would come when He did; mixed marriages, for one thing, could have removed pure Jews from the human race so there would be no Jewish line available to bring Jesus.
Also, the people being removed were evil and not repenting.
So, His reason was not meant to say the Jews were superior, but they were His chosen ones through whom Jesus would come. And they were expected to live for God, in order to keep the benefits of being in the Promised Land. Or else, they also could be cut off . . . separated.
And Jesus is the One superior to all. And Jesus loves any and all of us; He so suffered and died for us; so Jesus is not at all conceited, though He is so superior. His way of apartheid . . . segregation . . . is not because of conceit. But, actually, by staying with God in His Holy Spirit and love, this keeps us separate from people who hate and are conceited. And we are willing to adopt anyone who repents and becomes adopted into God's family and kingdom.
But human apartheid can come from human conceit of one group's individuals who feel superior to another group.
So, yes, technically God practiced apartheid, but not how humans practice it.
And if a Jew went against God, He would deal with that Jew. Jews will receive severe punishment, if they reject Jesus > for those who are self-seeking there will be >
"tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek." (Romans 2:9-10)
If Jews reject Jesus, they are in Satan's kingdom where things can be so unequal and unfair. We see how mothers and fathers even betrayed their own children by saying, "His blood be on us and on our children." (in Matthew 27:25) These included respected Jewish moms and dads; yet, they were able to so hate Jesus and curse their own children with the blood of Christ their Messiah. They became this way, because of their sin and how their sin had them operating in Satan's kingdom of evil, so they could become "worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived" (in 2 Timothy 3:13).
And we see now how Jews without Jesus are living in fear, even though their own writings include >
"You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,
Nor of the arrow that flies by day,"
(Psalm 91:5)
And we have >
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment." (in 1 John 4:18)
So, right now there are ones without Jesus who are suffering in fear, and they are foolish enough to try to solve their problems without first defeating their own anti-Christ character which keeps them weak so they can keep suffering in the "torment" of their fear.
But David a Jew did not do this when the Amalekites raided Ziklag and took the wives and children of David and his men. 1 Samuel 30. First, David was indeed troubled, but that did not solve the problem or give him wisdom to know what to do. But then David got encouraged in the LORD, and he prayed and found out with God what to do. He did what God said to do, and that worked to get their families back.
But those who live in fear are in a wrong spirit which will have them doing things the wrong way.
But God directed the Jews to stay separate, in the right way, from wrong people. But then the Jews themselves practiced evil against the LORD. So, yes He told them to do what is right . . . including to stay separate from evil people; but there are Jews who practice separation in a self-seeking way; they are so conceited that they consider Jesus to not be good enough for them. But other Jews keep separate from the conceited Jews, by trusting in Christ so they can have love which makes them safe from fear and judgment and makes them all-loving and ready to forgive and adopt any person who trusts in Jesus.
So, yes we now have segregation, from evil people including ones who in conceit judge Jesus to be not good enough for them; but anyone is welcome to repent and join us.
