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1) In the Old Testament, there are many promises and prophecies over and over again where Yahweh spoke of his intention to regather the dispersed Israelites. Israel and Judah were to be reunited. This regathering is also called the “new covenant” in Jeremiah Chapter 31: “Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
Yahweh made the new covenant with the children of Israel in order to bring them back to Himself. Paul of Tarsus cited the passage from Jeremiah in his epistle to the Hebrews Chapter 8, and in Romans Chapter 9, he wrote that “the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises” were for the Israelites, whom he called his “kinsmen according to the flesh.” Paul was writing around 58 AD and Jeremiah had written centuries earlier and both stated that the new covenant was exclusively for the Israelites.
