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Already Decided & Determined, as I have painstakenly pointed out, and as St. Paul made it abundantly clear, that the fulfillment would include gentiles as well (Rom 4:13-18; Rom 9:24-26).
All the prophecies about the dispersion and return of the Jews to their own land were fulfilled at the end the Babylonian Captivity in 457 B.C.,— not 1948 when the State of Israel was formed, or sometime in our future.
"In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places desolate . . . ye shall be scattered among the countries . . . among the nations whither they shall be carried captives . . . all the house of Israel shall remove and go into captivity . . . I will scatter them among the nations" (Ezekiel ch. 6–12).
This was the Diaspora. . . . And now the r-gathering of the Jews to their own land 70 years later:
"For thus saith the Lord, that after 70 years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you . . . and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations . . . and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive" (Jeremiah. 29: 10-14).
Not one single verse in the Old Testament, or New, written after the Babylonian Captivity mentions any other dispersion and re-gathering of the Jews from/to the geographic boundaries of earthly Israel. Not even ONE.
What you have said here could not even possible be more completely incorrect.
Ezekiel 36:1-10 very explicitly says that "all the house of Israel, all of it," will again inhabit "the mountains of Israel," along with "the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the cities that have been forsaken." The Hebrew word "kol," which literally translates as the English word "all," is doubled in this sentence to stress that the meaning is absolutely all of "the house of Israel." There is no way to even pretend that this has ever happened. A small fraction of the two tribe nation of Judah and Benjamin is all that returned from Babylon, not each and every living Israelite.
Again, Ezekiel 47 very explicitly defines the future borders of the land. And the following chapter specifies how it will be divided among the twelve tribes. There is no way to even pretend that the restored nation of Judah ever enjoyed these borders. And ten of the twelve tribes never even had any significant representation there, to receive their respective plots of land.
Also, Isaiah 7, 10, 14, 30, and 31, Micah 5, and every chapter of Nahum, describe a future attack on Judea that will come from Assyria. These chapters contain a great many details that have unquestionably never taken place. Two of these details are the precise path that this attacker will follow, in Isaiah 10:28-32. It is an unquestionable fact from well known history, that no ancient attack from Assyria (or from any other nation, for that matter) ever approached Jerusalem by following this path. And the counter attack by Israel so clearly described in Micah 5:5 has never taken place.
I could go on and on. But these details are enough to conclusively prove that the Bible describes a prophetic program which has never been fulfilled.
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