Was this a prophecy in the Old Testament?

[JDGaney]

I read somewhere two years ago, in regards to the assurance that Jesus is the Messiah, that if the Jews ever rejected God, He would cast them out of Israel. Thirty plus years following the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Lord, there was the Great Diaspora.

Is this true?

 

[judynurse]

I read somewhere two years ago, in regards to the assurance that Jesus is the Messiah, that if the Jews ever rejected God, He would cast them out of Israel. Thirty plus years following the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Lord, there was the Great Diaspora.

Is this true?

I don’t think so, since they had lost Israel once long before when they were taken captive to Babylon. I think whenever they were “cast out” it was due to unbelief or disobedience, not just in regard to the Messiah. Also, even after the Romans finished off Israel, quite a few remained in the countryside for several centuries. Also, many were already dispersed in a form of the Diaspora when the Romans took over Israel in the first place. He has nevertheless, made a Covenant with the People of Israel, descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and has not revoked His original promises to them for their unbelief in Jesus, He will eventually bring them into His Fold.

 

[Trishie]

When we Christians stray we are still children of God, even when we are living with the adverse consequences of our choices.
However the Jews didn’t reject God, whom they continue to worship, though many did not accept Christ as the promised Messiah.

Regarding the Jews,
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church’
vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm

839 "Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways."325

The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People.

When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327
The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God’s revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews “belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ”,328 [Romans 9:4-5.4] "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable."329 [Romans 11:29]