But now they are: as many as the sands of the sea, a vast multitude. Revelation 7:9
No, Keras. Only a remnant is saved. The remainder were cast away. How many times must scripture be presented before you will believe it?
It would be nicer if you prefaced your statements with; I think, or this is what I believe, if you can't prove them with Bible quotes or historical proofs.
But I can and have, Keras. Many times. You are the one who cannot prove what you wrote because it is all man-made doctrine. This is how it went:
The northern tribes of Israel (most of them) was kicked out of the land and taken into captivity by the Assyrians for their many sins and acts of disobedience. Some of Israel who escaped captivity later joined with Judah under the commandment (or decree) of King Hezekiah:
"So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria." -- 2Chr 30:6
"For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good Lord pardon every one" -- 2Chr 30:18
"And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced. So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem." -- 2Chr 30:25-26
About a hundred years later, Judah was also kicked out of its land by the Chaldeans (Babylonians) for the same reasons. The Chaldeans also destroyed Jerusalem and the temple.
About 40 years after the temple was destroyed, the nations of Media and Persia defeated the Chaldeans. The first king, Cyrus, was a benevolent king who did much to help Israel return to its land. The Lord even called this Persian king "his anointed:"
"Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut; I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me." -- Isa 45:1-4
The decree of Cyrus, king of Persia (Ezra 1:1-3), went out to all of God's people; and some from all tribes returned. Ezekiel 37:15-19 is essentially a summary of the return from captivity by Israel and Judah, beginning around 537 BC; and the partial rejoining of the two kingdoms into one kingdom, named Judah, under the government of Zerubbabel of the house of David. The book of Ezra confirms that "all Israel" returned to their cities; but as Isaiah 10:20-24 pointed out, only a small remnant of the original number of the northern tribes returned. This is the regathering under Judah, as presented by the Septuagint (LXX):
"Then shalt thou say to them, Thus saith the Lord; behold, I will take the tribe of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel that belong to him, and I will add them to the tribe of Juda, and they shall become one rod in the hand of Juda." (Eze 37:19 LXX)
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The Restoration of Israel began in three waves of returnees in the days of Sheshbazzar (Ezra 1:8, 537BC); Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:2, 522BC); and Ezra (Ezra 8:1, 458BC.) Ezekiel 37:19 explains how Israel and Judah were joined together under the leadership of Judah:
"Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah . . . All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem." -- Ezra 1:8, 11 (see also Ezra 5:14-17)
"Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city; Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:" -- Ezra 2:1-2ff
"These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me [Ezra] from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king." -- Ezra 8:1ff
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There were many devout Jews and Israelites that remained in the nations of their captivity. There was a second "rejoining" or regathering of the remnant under Christ:
"And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea." -- Isa 11:10-11
In fulfilment of the prophecy of Isaiah, Jesus said that he was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel; and he sent his disciples (initially) only to the lost sheep:
"But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." -- Matt 15:24
"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." -- Matt 10:5-6
Those he regathered were a part of the chosen remnant, the elect, which Paul wrote of in Romans.
Recall that on the day of Pentecost, there were devout Jews in Jerusalem "out of every nation under heaven" (Acts 2:5,) from:
"Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them (the disciples) speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." -- Acts 2:9-11
Those cities cover most (if not all) of the areas to which the children of Israel were carried away captive by the Assyrians and Babylonians. We can only assume that, after conversion, those Jews carried the Gospel via the Holy Spirit back their cities because Peter and James wrote to the Jewish elect who remained in the dispersed areas:
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting." -- Jas 1:1
"Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied." -- 1Pet 1:1-2
Peter also mentioned the Mesopotamian church of Babylon (1Pet 5:13), which was an actual church of the Diaspora in the days of Peter (contrary to the doctrine of myth-makers.) Recall that in Acts 2:9 (above) some of the devout Jews were from areas that comprised the Babylonian, Persian and Median empires. In the days of Peter, the Diaspora were common in those areas and cities:
Elam - Southern Iran
Medes - Central Iran
Parthia - Northern Iran, near Caspian Sea
. . . . Ecbatana
Mesopotamia - Between Tigris and Euphrates
. . . . Babylon
. . . . Seleucia
. . . . Pumbeditha
. . . . Nehardea
. . . . Ctesiphon
. . . . Nippur
. . . . Susa
. . . . Spasinou Charax
So, as Paul wrote, "all Israel shall be saved" (Rom 11:26,) but "they are not all Israel, which are of Israel" (Rom 9:6.) Isaiah was more to the point:
"Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah." -- Isa 1:9
Who were the very small remnant that Isaiah (and Paul) wrote of? They were those who were faithful and obedient. This is Moses with the promise, and Peter with the fulfillment:
"And now if ye will indeed hear my voice, and keep my covenant, ye shall be to me a peculiar people above all nations; for the whole earth is mine. And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel." -- Exo 19:5-6 LXX
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;" -- 1Pet 2:9
There were not many of them:
"For many are called, but few are chosen." -- Matt 22:14
The rest were rejected.
It all fits, Keras.