More than 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ or Yeshuah the Messiah, came in accordance with God's new covenant , to write God's commandments on Israel's descendants' hearts, and in accordance with John 11 (ESV): 52 "... to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad. ", back to the covenant land, so Israel may be restored in accordance with Ezekiel 37 . The children of God mentioned, is the new covenant people of Judah and Israel's tribes, as they are the scattered remnant of Jacob's descendants. Today they are the worldwide intermingled descendants of Israel, found among all the tribes, tongues, and nations of the earth, on whose hearts God's commandments are written under the new covenant, because God's old covenant of Deuteronomy 28 were broken, and his old covenant people subsequently experienced the Assyrian & Babylonian Captivity & Exile. From there they were further scattered and intermingled, subjected to slavery and fell into idolatry, unto the ends of the earth.
Ezekiel 37 (ESV): 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes,21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and bring them to their own land.22 And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer two nations, and no longer divided into two kingdoms.
Islamic prophet Mohammed, has prophesied in his writings in the Islamic Quran, that the Madi-leader of the Islam nation, as the descendants of Ishmael, as promised by God (Allah as He is called in Islam) in the Hebrew Torah's Genesis, will oppose Dajjal the anti-christ or anti-messiah, as will Isaac's descendants of Israel and Jesus Christ, or Yeshuah the Messiah, at his second coming.
The land the prophet Mohammed has indicated where Ishmael's Islam will persist, is around Mecca and Medina, in Saudi-Arabia. Isaac's Israel's promised land in accordance with God's covenant with them is around Jerusalem, as defined by God in Numbers 34 , together with the land across the river Jordan of the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh as defined by God in Numbers 32 .
Ishmael was Abraham's first born son as the half-brother of Isaac, born from Isaac's mother Sarai's slave Hagar. Abraham entered into a covenant with God, where God promised that he will have a multitude of descendants, through his children Ishmael and Isaac. Isaac became the father of the nation of Israel, and Ishmael the father of the nation of Islam. Ishmael was born, following Abrahams's wife's Sarai's disbelief in God's promises, in Genesis 16 (ESV): 2 And Sarai said to Abram, "Behold now, the Lord has prevented me from bearing children. Go in to my servant; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.3 So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress.5 And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!"6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your servant is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her.7 The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.8 And he said, "Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai."9 The angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."10 The angel of the Lord also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."11 And the angel of the Lord said to her, "Behold, you are pregnant and shall bear a son. You shall call his name Ishmael, because the Lord has listened to your affliction.12 He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen."
When Sarai's own son Isaac was born, at least 13 years after Ishmael was born, Ishmael and his mother Hagar, the Egyptian slave of Sarai was sent off into the wilderness by Abraham, at the demand of Sarai, and following God's command, in accordance with Genesis 21 (ESV): 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.6 And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me."7 And she said, "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."8 And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.9 But Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, laughing.10 So she said to Abraham, "Cast out this slave woman with her son, for the son of this slave woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac."11 And the thing was very displeasing to Abraham on account of his son.12 But God said to Abraham, "Be not displeased because of the boy and because of your slave woman. Whatever Sarah says to you, do as she tells you, for through Isaac shall your offspring be named.13 And I will make a nation of the son of the slave woman also, because he is your offspring."
The Old Covenant that was: Deuteronomy 28 (ESV): 1 And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. 15 "But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. 64 "And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
God's Old Covenant was replaced with a New Covenant, by the sacrifice of our Messiah, who was sent divinely to earth by God, for all that let all of God's commandments (of which Deuteronomy 5 's ten commandments, as was kept in the Holy of Holy's, forms the core of the Torah's or Pentateuch's 613 extensive commandments of God as the 613 Mitzvot, as this is included in the Masoretic five books of the Hebraic Torah, or the 70 to 72 Jerusalem's Jewish or Judaic Rabbi's translated Septuagint Greek Pentateuch, of God's spoken commandments, as is expected to be obeyed by His covenant people) be written on their hearts, by Him: Jeremiah 31 (ESV): 31 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord.33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."
The New Covenant that is: John 11 (ESV): 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
Through the divine workings of our divine Creator God, Yahweh, a Son, Jesus the Christ, Yeshuah the Messiah, was born from a virgin as prophesied. Without the workings of man, all worldly governments will be overruled by God's Messiah, Prince Jesus Christ's Kingdom on Earth with its seat in Jerusalem, and that Kingdom commenced with him overcoming death and Satan itself, with his resurrection from the dead after conquering the forces in hades (the abode of the dead soles) single-handedly being God's divine sacrificial offspring. He subsequently, after anointing his believers with God's Holy Spirit as our Comforter, ascended into the heavens, like Eliah and Enoch, from where he now rules with God as the heavenly anointed King, over God's to-be-fully-restored earth, as the King Messiah. He sits in heaven, on the throne to the right hand, of the throne of God his Father, as the Righteous One, to return to earth at his second coming in accordance with Daniel 2 (ESV): 34 As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.