How could you not see that the circumcises heart imagery is for anyone of any race that is a believer? That's all through Paul. So what "Moses and all the prophets" were saying was that the group of believers who were coming would be defined by faith, not by ethnos, which is what happened after the Gospel started to be spread.
Manifestly, this is not what Moses is saying. Moses clearly says that Jewish nation will only receive this circumcision of the heart with the beginning of the "return". Moses is addressing a nation; the "curse" he describes befalls the Jews, not the world. Likewise, the "return" befalls the Jews, not the world. In fact, the world has already received its "circumcised heart" -- the gospel, and it did so before the Jew. Moses is not describing spiritual distinction amongst believers, but the future history of Abraham's descendents. The Jew will be blessed, the Jew will be cursed, the Jew will return. We can be certain this is so because the people who "return" to receive a circumcised heart are the cursed, scattered people -- Moses describes the returnees thus in the "return". The matter is quite simple -- there is no room for escape.
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