Diaspora - dia = through, across speiro = I sow, I scatter
Through-seeding
We can trace through the Bible some of the diasporas and there outcomes. God's purpose in creation is to develop His image in people. That is what causes people to act more human. When God finally scattered Israel, missionaries were planted throughout the nations to prepare Gentiles for the gospel; even if the Jewish missionaries were scattered due to their disobedience. The thread of scattering God's people runs thoughout the Bible, until the location of God's people is very spread out and multiplied.
Adam's commission was to work the land, to be above the animals and obey His Elohim. He disobeyed and was driven out of his land. Adam's descendents through Jacob would be given rule of the kingdom, only to lose it to the animals again. Four animal combos from the sea (the sea of people outside God's land) ruled over God's people until the messiah arrived to defeat the animal/dragon/elohim who originally enticed Eve to follow him, as one of the animal gods. The lion with wings, the bear, the leopard with wings, and then the dragon ruled the kingdom after what is most commonly called the Diaspora. Peter and James (Jacob) both address the people of God who were in this Diaspora of the northern and southern kingdom of Israel.
Some Earlier Seedings:
Cain was driven out of God's land to a further degree than Adam was, because Cain rejected God's word to him and he murdered his faithful brother instead. When he finds out he must go, he fears vigilante justice from the other people outside of Adam's family. He nevertheless takes with him what he learned growing up with his father Adam. Believe it or not Cain had real people skills. Under his direction the first recorded civilized city was built. And from that comes the first record of, arts, music and manufacturing. Even if Cain was driven off the family land for his apostacy, he still took something from Adam to the nations. He used what he inherited from Adam to organize people and serve himself.
The flood was a de-seeding event. The elohim had crossed their boundaries and directly seeded God's land with their images, which turned into continual violence. Noah and his family were put back in the land to reseed God's purified land.
Noah's grandson Nimrod may be responsible for the first diaspora en-masse. Nimrod, like Cain, used his organizational skills to build with people. From the tower of Babel, Yahwey caused Nimrod's anti-flood alliance to turn into mass confusion. God then scattered His people to reseed His land. God's old covenant land may not have included Asia, Europe, India and Africa. Traditionally we get the table of nations from this scattering, but if Noah's flood was only a national flood then the other nations were still in place. God was just reseeding His chosen land with his people who had refused to spread out and multiply after the flood.
Jesus died for
those who were back in the land and for those still in the
Diaspora. The gospel went out and added the Diaspora faithful ones
before the believing ones from the Gentiles were brought in. They
were already God's people before they were united into the one new
covenant body.
John 11:51-52
1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” 8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel [c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
'erets' means earth or land. Ancient people did not see the earth as we do today. They just looked out and saw the land. They hadn't named the planet earth and they had no pictures of our planet from outer space. The earth was never really named or it would probably be named after a Greek or Roman elohim like all the other planets. Earth to them meant what land means to us today. It is what we stand on. So we just call our planet, the 'land'. We also call each continent 'land' and I call my property my 'land', so the meaning of the above translation is not as certain as it seems at first glance. The 'whole land' in the verses above, could refer to all of God's covenant land, not including the other nations yet. Today all nations have been through seeded with God's people. The land location has become irrelevant. The body of Christ has been through-seeded across all the old covenant land boundaries. The new covenant location is in the hearts of people wherever they live. Those who are trying to hijack God's new world for their religious images are creating continual violence. Since the Holy Spirit won't co-operate with them, they must resort to deception and force to get their way.
When God's people entered the typical promised land they were divided according to tribes to cover and cultivate the whole land. The most valuable land to God is His people. He has spread His messengers out all over the new-covenant-place in order to cultivate His people wherever they may be.
The antidote to deception is to stop believing and even promoting the lies. Only God's people can interpret God's word correctly. Thanks in large part to God's use of the Diaspora to promote the gospel of peace, we are now the ubiquitous yet united new covenant Body. We have the True Seed living in us. The unbelievers don't. Helping the 'lost world of people' rebuild 'Babel' will not bring them or us good results. Paul took up a collection for the struggling Christians in Jerusalem, not for the unbelieving people who opposed Christianity. We are supposed to co-operate in seeding the whole world with the image of God through the gospel of Christ. We should not take up church collections for the sole pupose of building up anti-Christ lands. How obvious is that?
Jesus told the woman at the well that the hour had come to stop focusing on a certain locations for true worship. God wants people's hearts not people's land. All the land is His already. He want's the hearts of the people who live there. When we help purge a certain land just for an antichrist religion to move into it, we are participating in immorality and mass confusion. We boycott department stores in America for far less. Have we lost our ability to be rational? Now we as Christians have blatantly participated in the de-seeding of Christianity. We have helped to spawn religious monsters and we have taken on His name in vain.
USA TODAY headline:
The elect (chosen) ones
refers to the body of people God chose to give eternal life
to.
The Jews were God's elect nation. It seems 'election' biblically refers to the Jews. Among the elect race were both faithful and unfaithful people. They were all part of the chosen race in the old covenant. The unfaithful were weeded out of the new covenant before eternal life became their reality.