everything I command you today,
3 then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back.

John 10:16

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, [and] one shepherd.

So if the plan of God was to redeem Israel, why didn’t he do it in the first century? Because he would NOT redeem Israel until the END of the age.

This may explain Yeshua's strange explanation as to why he spoke in parables.

Matthew 13:10

10 And the disciples came, and asked him, Why do you speak to them in parables?
 11 He answered and said, Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
...14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, "By hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and [their] ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with [their] eyes, and hear with
 

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