[high info voter]

"Your assertion that the Diaspora equals the "Gentiles" is an unusual, if not unique, view. How did you come up with it, or where did you get it from? Do you have any Bible passages or other evidence to back up your claim?"

There are three people in scripture who's life mission was set out before they were born. Jesus, John the Baptist amd Jeremiah. Question - do you know what Jeremiah's mission was?

[Charles Henrickson]

The fact that Jeremiah was set apart as a "prophet to the nations" (1:5) does not support your claim that "the Gentiles" = "the northern tribes." Indeed, there is a lengthy section of Gentile oracles in chapters 46-51, directed against nations who clearly were not the northern tribes.

Also, you have not addressed all the passages in the NT wherein "Gentiles" cannot possibly mean the dispersed northern tribes of Israel.