I agree with this, but I'm arguing that the singular event hasn't happened yet. The Almighty is specific about what is supposed to happen and when. Deuteronomy 30 starts with...
"And it shall come to pass..."
So immediately, we know whenever we read this phrase, the Almighty is sharing something that absolutely will happen exactly how He says it will. He says that when they are still in the land of their punishment (note: Moses just finished explaining how they'd be punished, concluding with being scattered to the four corners of the world), they will turn their whole hearts back to Almighty...and what does that mean? Obeying the words that Moses shared in the previous chapters of Deuteronomy (i.e., deutero = two; nomia = law; the second witness to the law: every matter is established by a testimony of two or more witnesses).
But there's a problem...
We also know objectively that no one can obey the Almighty's law without faith in Messiah, because of these corrupt hearts of ours. The gift of the Messiah is the solution, and He was THEIR gift to solve this problem, not the Gentiles' gift. Gentiles are blessed to participate in Israel's promise because of the goodness of Almighty. I say this to say that there aren't two different plans for salvation. So that means the one critical event that must happen is the mass conversion of Israelites into believers in the Messiah...and this must happen while they're scattered to the four corners of the world to keep Deut 30 true.
The Messiah is the key to all of this.
Now, when He was here, the Messiah prophesied that when the Son of Man comes, He will gather all who are His from the four corners of the world. Who are the Messiah's people but believing Jews and believing Gentiles?
And when will the Messiah regather all who are His? At the second coming, when the trumpet sounds and the dead in Messiah rise, because all who are the Messiah's receive their reward at the same time, both Jew and Gentile.
The people in the land are in direct conflict with all of prophecy, save one: The prophecy that Edom would claim the land as theirs while Israel is scattered, and that they will be at constant war, as the sword would follow them endlessly.
As a prophesy Deuteronomy 30 fits well into the time of the second temple restoration.
If we interpret into modern times we must also assume that God has still bound a group of people to the law of Moses.
If that was the case the group would also be bound to the curses for disobeying the law.
Yet thankfully that is not what God is doing.
The mediator of the Mosaic was the man Moses, and it was confirmed by the blood of animals.
It was not made with the whole world, but with the 12 tribes of national Israel, on whom Moses sprinkled the blood.
The New covenant is built on a more secure foundation than that.
The mediator was God Himself, sealing it in His own blood for people of the whole earth.
The Mosaic covenant was also bound to failure, as predicted by Moses himself, yet Jesus alone obeyed it.
Just as Jesus was the reason the Mosaic covenant existed, He was also the reason that old covenant Israel ever existed
Yes, the new covenant REPLACED the old covenant.
That means that there is a far better thing available to the Jews than national Israel.
Hebrews 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
13 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
