Has that happened? Have they returned unto the Lord? Are they obeying His voice? What you're observing about Israel can't be the fulfillment of a promise if the conditions of said promise haven't been met.And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee……
…..for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
And, by all counts, the thought in Deut. 30 begins at the end of Deut. 29By all counts Deut. 30 is what is being talked about in Neh. 1
These promises mentioned by Moses predate the law and the temple/tabernacle.
Deuteronomy 29:25-29 KJV - Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book: And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.
The deed to the land was rendered at Sinai. And their occupation is conditional upon their faithfulness to, and the viability of that covenant.
The New Jerusalem is the Church. I can't imagine how this can be missed when it's so clearly spelled out in Paul's letters.And in the new heaven and the new earth there is a new Jerusalem.
Abraham had two sons, one from Hagar, a slave, and one from Sarah, a free woman. Hagar represents the old testament and old Jerusalem. And her children represent the Jews. There is nothing supernatural about their birth. They're children of Abraham according to the flesh, like Ishmael was. And like Ishmael, are in bondage.
Sarah represents the New Testament and the New Jerusalem. Her children represent the Christians. Their birth was supernatural, and are children according to the Promise, like Isaac was. And like Isaac, we are freeborn. Christians are the promised seed.
So what does the Scripture say? Banish the slave and her child, because slaves will not share in the inheritance with free men. Gal 4.
Hebrews 12:18, 22-24 - For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, ... But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
The Temple is everything. Shiloh was a longtime location of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. That's what God meant when He said he set his name there at one time.The temple is important but there is more than that.
When the Ark was brought to the Temple, God put His name there. 1 Kings 9:3.
It 's the blessings of the priests that puts God's name on His people. Num. 6:27
It's the Temple that sanctifies a location. Not the other way around. It's the priesthood that sanctifies a people.
God built Himself a new Temple, out of living stones, and He has set His name there.
There's only one name now for that mountain in Jerusalem...Ichabod, thy glory hath departed.