The Exiles Of Israel
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Exile and Diaspora are the punishments God imposed on Israel for idolatry and unbelief (Dt 28:64-68; Is 6:11-12; 39:1-7; Jr 6:1-8; 19:1-13; Ezk 5:5-12; Am 8:1-12). Perhaps the primary passage on the subject is Dt 29:24-28: “All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land . . .’ Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord . . . They began to serve other gods . . . Therefore the Lord’s anger burned . . . The Lord uprooted them from their land in his anger, fury, and intense wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’ ”
But this is not the whole story. The prophets also claimed that God would restore David’s fallen dynasty (Hs 3:5; Am 9:11) and give Israel a new covenant to replace the one they had broken (Jr 31:31-34). And now, while Israel is in disobedience and Diaspora, the Gentiles are brought into the new covenant (Rm 11:25-32). The true end of exile will be when Israel turns to their Messiah, Jesus, mourning over him whom they have pierced (Zch 12:6-14).