Online Dictionary: diaspora |dīˈaspərə| noun (often the Diaspora) the dispersion of the Jews beyond Israel.

• Jews living outside Israel.

• the dispersion of any people from their original homeland: the diaspora of boat people from Asia.

• the people so dispersed: the Ukrainian diaspora flocked back to Kiev. The main diaspora began in the 8th–6th centuries bc, and even before the sack of Jerusalem in ad 70, the number of Jews dispersed by the diaspora was greater than that living in Israel. Thereafter Jews were dispersed even more widely throughout the Roman world and beyond.

ORIGIN Greek, from diaspeirein  ‘disperse,’ from dia  ‘across’+ speirein  ‘scatter.’ The term originated in the Septuagint (Deuteronomy 28:25) in the phrase esē diaspora en pasais basileias tēs gēs  ‘thou shalt be a dispersion in all kingdoms of the earth.’

The final diaspora of the Bible culminated in AD 70. It was then that the relatively few Jews who had returned to live in the land rejoined the diaspora already in progress. Will God ever again scatter His covenant people? His new covenant by definition is immune to covenant death by diaspora. The new covenant was created as a spirit realm reunion of the waning old covenant humanity. Unlike the old covenant, the new does not have a centralized physical temple complex or even a chosen country where His people unite to serve Him. At least not a country in the flesh and blood realm of earth. The real temple and the eternal Jerusalem are kept incorruptible in the spirit realm of heaven. Diasporas were earth realm events involving typical places.

Hebrews 13:10-15 – To the Hebrews in covenant transition

ECB ¹⁰ We have a sacrifice altar, whereof whoever ministers the tabernacle has no authority to eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of those live beings, whose blood is brought into the Holies through the archpriest for sin, are burned outside the encampment. ¹² So Yah Shua also, to hallow the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ¹³ So go forth to him outside the encampment, bearing his reproach. ¹⁴ For we have no abiding city here, but we seek one to come [about to be]. ¹⁵ So through him we continually offer the sacrifice of halal to Elohim, that is, the fruit of our lips, professing his name:

Today the physically but not spiritually scattered people of God carry His personal presence with them wherever they are. Wherever God’s covenant people are they have access to the real temple in heaven. Typically the Biblical diasporas involved the disobedience of God’s people when they had physical locations to meet with and serve Yahweh, such as: the garden of Eden, the tower of Babel and the flesh and blood nation of Israel.

The politically induced migrations of today are more like reverse diasporas. People who otherwise would not live around God’s people may actually move into a more human society than the one they left. That is often the reason they want to leave or are forced to leave their own country. Their country is often less humane because their government doesn’t recognize Christ’s humanity.

The humanity of Adam was sent back into the wilderness he was taken from. As the eschatos Adam, Jesus’ test was in reverse of Adam’s. He passed His test in the wilderness and returned to rule in God’s land. He wasn’t expelled for disobedience. He was empowered through His obedience. He voluntarily died and was resurrected into His own diaspora-proof covenant. The new covenant has no centralized location on earth. The new Jerusalem is kept incorruptible in heaven. It extends to earth in the spirit realm not the physical realm.

I know some people today who call themselves old covenant Jews, for reasons that are hard to pinpoint or prove. They claim to be suffering in their diaspora even after their old covenant was made new and diaspora-proof. Jacob certainly did not support the victim mentality of today!

James 1:1

JMNT ¹ Jacob (or: James) a slave belonging to God and to [the] Lord, Jesus Christ (or: a slave pertaining to God, even in fact, really, to [the] Lord and Owner [or, perhaps: = Yahweh], Jesus Christ), to the twelve tribes (or: sprouts and branches which sprang forth) who are to be constantly rejoicing within the scattering (or: which are within the midst of the dispersion [= the planting], “To constant joy and gladness!”).

Biblical diasporas seem to have been the scatterings of God’s people who were actually in a covenant relationship with Him. It was due to their disobedience that they were scattered. It was due to the obedience of the most famous Jew that the 12 tribes scattered were being re-united in the spirit realm covenant.

Hitler was an evil person who massacred and scattered large numbers of people for various reasons, but God did not use Hitler to murder and scatter His old covenant people for failing to listen to what God was telling them to do. God removed Adam and Eve for that reason and used Cherubim to keep them out. He used language confusion to scatter humanity from The Tower of Babel. He used Assyria to scatter the northern tribes and Babylon to scatter the southern tribes. He used Rome for the final diaspora of the disobedient Jews, but not before He united His chosen Jews in their new covenant creation. He united them in the belief of their messiah.

Several books or letters in the Bible are addressed to Israel (also called the 12 tribes and the Hebrews) during the time of the last biblical diaspora. All were of course written before the AD 70 culmination of the last biblical diaspora. After the old covenant ended, God’s people were no longer in covenant diaspora. The people of Yahweh in their made-new covenant can’t suffer diaspora since they have no centralized location to be removed from. Heavenly Jerusalem is kept incorruptible in the spirit realm of heaven. God’s people in the Holy Spirit realm covenant don’t get kicked out. There is no new covenant death threat. The tree of woke-to-death is past. You can’t be awakened to anything better or worse than the tree Jesus died on to take Adam’s place in the death. The law (knowledge of good and evil spelled out) led to Christ. And Jesus even fulfilled the typical land sabbaths. He put the types to rest.

Malachi 1:1

The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by the hand of Malachi:

Without question, Malachi was a prophet who addressed Israel in their diaspora. Another name for the people who descended from Jacob (aka Israel) was the Hebrews. Israel means God prevails. The word Hebrew means to cross over or to cross the river. When God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldees, he crossed the Euphrates River. Old covenant Yeshua (aka Jesus) led the 12 tribes of Israel across the Jordon River. New covenant Yeshua (aka Jesus) called the Jews to follow Him and cross over into their new covenant realm.

Jesus even called His old covenant death a baptism. When He came up out of that baptism He was in His new covenant. After His resurrection Jesus called on His Jewish brethren to pick up their cross and follow Him out of the old land and into the new. The remnant of Jews who were still nominally in the land were being ruled by the Romans. The kingdom of God that was at hand was in a different realm.

According to Daniel their promised new covenant arrived and their old covenant ended after 490 years back in the land. The new was to be given and the old was to be destroyed during the time of Roman rule. The Jews were called to leave there typical land and follow Jesus into His eternal Jerusalem of heaven. He went to prepare a place in heaven so His people could be with Him where He was, not so He could live on earth again, at least not visibly in a flesh and blood body.

Like their betrothal on Pentecost, the people of God met Him in the air (heavenly realm) when He returned for their wedding to the eternal promised land. He didn’t prepare a place in heaven so He could tabernacle with His people in earthy Jerusalem. The Hebrews at large never returned from their diaspora to live in the typical flesh and blood promised land. The diaspora-proof covenant can be entered from anywhere on earth. Typical Jerusalem was the place where the covenant transition started. Heavenly Jerusalem is where it is eternally kept incorruptible.

Hebrews 1:1-3

KJV ¹ God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, ² Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds [ages]; ³ Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

Hebrews was written to the Hebrews in diaspora. They had been purged of the sins that landed them in the Gentile nations. The last days of that diaspora were upon them. They were not going to be kicked out of their new covenant world for disobedience. Their is no covenant death in the new covenant. Their is no new covenant diaspora for God’s people. The new covenant is a different world because the firstborn remains faithful. The King James era understood the new covenant age to be the new world that never ends.

Ephesians 3:21

KJV ²¹ Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

1 Peter 1:1-2, 2:12

ECB ¹
SALUTATION
Petros, an apostle of Yah Shua Messiah: To the pilgrim diaspora throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Biyournia, ² Select according to the prognosis of Elohim the Father, in holiness of Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah Shua Messiah: Charism to you and shalom be multiplied. KJV ¹² Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Like Hebrews we don’t know when 1 Peter was written. James is commonly thought to be one of the earliest letters written to the diaspora, definitely before the Gentiles started to join the church. If we called the book of James by it’s more obvious name which is Yacobus or Jacob it would indeed appear even more Jewish, if that is possible. Jacob’s half brother in the old flesh covenant was Jesus and nobody was more Jewish than Jesus. Jacob became Jesus’ full brother by rebirth into the new covenant family of Yahweh, before he wrote his letter to the diaspora.

The Diasporas were for Disobedience:

Adam’s Diaspora – Do not eat of knowledge of good and evil and have sway over the animals. Adam ate of the tree and a talking animal had sway over Adam. Adam was returned to the wilderness.

Adam had to live outside the garden in a diaspora away from God’s more personal land of His presence. He returned to the dust that his humanity was first formed out of. Animal sacrifice continued to cover humanity outside the garden until Christ covered His people with His true humanity. Jesus then sent the Holy Spirit to live in them rather than with them in their land. This made them immune to diaspora.

The Tower of Babel’s Diaspora – God’s people usurped serving Yahweh by serving a local temple of their works. They centralized humanity so everyone could serve a temple fantasy that was reaching upward to Yahweh. They were forced to spread out by confusion of languages.

Israel’s Diaspora – Meant to be a light to the Gentiles, Israel became idolatrous and adulterous like the nations, so they were forced to join them.

The diaspora of Israel resulted in a synagogue in every city teaching God’s humanity to the Gentiles. They became a light in the nations rather than to them. 50 days after Israel’s Firstborn resurrection event, the 12 tribes gathered to experience a reversal of the Tower of Babel event, by way of clear Holy Spirit communication through them and to them. Those without the Holy Spirit remained in confusion. Those who received the Holy Spirit presence of Yahweh, returned to their diaspora lands to bless all God’s chosen people regardless of location.

James 1:1

KJV ¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

James 3:7-10

YLT ⁷ For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature, ⁸ and the tongue no one of men is able to subdue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison, ⁹ with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God; ¹⁰ out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Jacob’s letter to the diaspora is so early in the transition of covenants and so Jewish that Martin Luther called it a right strawy epistle. Are the 12 tribes scattered really teaching animals to act human or are they teaching the nations. It wasn’t obvious to Peter that the animals in his sheet vision symbolized the Gentile nations now entering the previously Jewish only new covenant body. The Hebrews who were being united in the body of Christ reluctantly accepted the Gentiles into the one new body of God’s chosen people. By the way Jesus returned to the right hand of the Father in heaven. He returned to the glory He had before He humbled Himself by taking on a flesh and blood body in the realm of the typical promised land. Even the angels who live in heaven don’t have flesh and blood bodies? Flesh and blood can’t live forever.

Acts 10:17-19

KJV ¹⁷ Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate, ¹⁸ And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there. ¹⁹ While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

Today we quickly see from Scripture that Peter’s vision wasn’t primarily about being able to bring unclean food into the Jewish body. Even though the dietary laws were about to go away, the compliment of the Gentiles was also being accomplished during their transition of covenants. The Gentiles were made clean so they could enter the new covenant Jewish body without becoming a proselyte of the old covenant Jewish body. The Gentile inclusion into the Jewish only church did not include submitting to their old covenant dietary laws. But the typical old covenant conscience wasn’t gone yet. It was a touchy subject.

What the law pointed to was in the process of being fulfilled by the spirit realm body of Christ. The Gentiles were never in the old covenant flesh and blood body like the Jews were. The Gentiles did not have to become old covenant Jews to join the new covenant Jews. They did not have a typical Jewish conscience. Jewish Peter was told that the Gentiles were not only clean, but were not subject to the dietary laws that were about to go away. All foods were clean meant that Gentiles who ate pork were now clean without ceasing to eat pork. Peter as a forerunner was told to bring the newly cleansed Gentile creations into His Jewish body. This was the great mystery of the ages being revealed to Peter through his vision. There is one clean body of God’s people and it is no longer typical. The one body of Christ that was about to be was the spiritual body of Christ. The typical body of humanity that originated with Adam and Israel was about to go away along with it’s symbolic diet.

The diaspora body of God’s people and the Gentile bodies who were being tamed by the diaspora united in the one incorruptible body of Christ. There is only one body and it is defined by the Holy Spirit birth into the one family regardless of what food you eat or what nation you grew up in. Mystery revealed. The human body of Christ is no longer subject to dietary laws or the keeping of festivals or sabbaths. They all pointed to the one forever clean body of Christ. The new covenant body can no longer suffer covenant death by diaspora and there is no old covenant body in land or out. The diaspora death of the old covenant culminated in the second death of the old covenant.

The old covenant hold outs who refused to accept the faithfulness of their messiah joined their last biblical diaspora in the last days of the old covenant age. Nobody is in the last days of the old covenant today. God’s people are now safe from diaspora in His new covenant. The old covenant hold out Jews who scattered the new covenant transitioning Jews no longer exist. They tried to stop the church by scattering them into the existing diaspora. That diaspora curse was reversed. The Jewish church grew in strength and number after being scattered from Jerusalem. In the end, those who scattered the body of Christ joined the last diaspora in the second old covenant death. The time for old covenant forgiveness of sins was over. There is no more sacrifice for sins. Eschaton Adam saw to it as a Jew. In the middle of the week after there and a half years of ministry earthly Jerusalem went dark at mid-day. Old Jerusalem was destroyed for trying to destroy New Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:27

LITV ²⁷ And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. And on a wing of the altar will be abominations that desolate, even until the end. And that which was decreed shall pour out on the desolator.

Amplified: And he shall enter into a strong and firm covenant with the many for one week [seven years]. And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and offering to cease [for the remaining three and one-half years]; and upon the wing or pinnacle of abominations [shall come] one who makes desolate, until the full determined end is poured out on the desolator.

ESV: And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.

Revelation 21

CLV ¹ And I perceived a new heaven and a new earth, for the former heaven and the former earth pass away, and the sea is no more.” ² I perceived the holy city, new Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.” ³ And I hear a loud voice out of the throne saying, “Lo! the tabernacle of God is with [humanity] mankind, and He will be tabernacling with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them.” ⁴ And He will be brushing away every tear from their eyes. And death will be no more, nor mourning, nor clamor, nor misery; they will be no more, for the former things passed away.” ⁵ And He Who is sitting on the throne said, “Lo! New am I making all! And He is saying, “Write, for these sayings are faithful and true.” ⁶ And He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Origin and the Consummation. To him who is thirsting I shall be giving of the spring of the water of life gratuitously.” ⁷ He who is conquering shall be enjoying this allotment, and I shall be a God to him and he shall be a son to Me.” ⁸ Yet the timid, and unbelievers, and the abominable, and murderers, and paramours, and enchanters, and idolaters, and all the false-their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” ⁹ And one of the seven messengers who have the seven bowls brimming with the last seven calamities came, and he speaks with me, saying, “Hither! I shall be showing you the bride, the wife of the Lambkin.” ¹⁰ And he carries me away, in spirit, on a mountain, huge and high, and shows me the holy city, Jerusalem, as it is descending out of heaven from God, ¹¹ having the glory from God. Her luminosity is like a stone most precious, as a crystalline jasper gem, ¹² having a wall, huge and high, having twelve portals, and at the portals twelve messengers, and their names inscribed, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel.” ¹³ From the east are three portals, and from the north three portals, and from the south three portals, and from the west three portals.” ¹⁴ And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lambkin.” ¹⁵ And he who is speaking with me had a measure, a golden reed, that he should be measuring the city, and its portals, and its wall.” ¹⁶ And the city is lying four square: and its length is as much as the breadth. And he measures the city with the reed to twelve thousand stadia. Its length and breadth and height are equal. ¹⁷ And he measures its wall of a hundred forty-four cubits of a human measure, which is that of the messenger.” ¹⁸ And the building material in its wall is jasper, and the city is clear gold, like clear glass.” ¹⁹ The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every precious stone, the first foundation with jasper, the second lapis lazuli, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰ the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh topaz, the eighth beryl, the ninth peridot, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh amethyst, the twelfth garnet.” ²¹ And the twelve portals are twelve pearls. Each one of the portals was respectively of one pearl. And the square of the city is gold, clear as translucent glass.” ²² And a temple I did not perceive in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the Lambkin.” ²³ And the city has no need of the sun nor of the moon, that they should be appearing in it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lambkin.” ²⁴ And the nations shall be walking by means of its light, and the kings of the earth are carrying their glory into it.” ²⁵ And its portals should under no circumstances be locked by day; for there shall be no night there. ²⁶ And they shall be carrying the glory and the honor of the nations into it, ²⁷ and under no circumstances may anything contaminating, or one who is making an abomination and a lie be entering into it, except those written in the Lambkin’s scroll of life.”

Why were the tribes of Israel scattered? https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org

Ancient Israel was scattered throughout the earth because the people rejected God’s covenant. It was prophesied that Israel would be scattered among the nations of the earth because of the people’s wickedness (see Leviticus 26:33; Deuteronomy 4:23–27; 28:25, 37, 64; 1 Nephi 10:12–13; 21:1; 22:3–4).