but, 'As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.' Then they will live on their own soil."The importance of something is always a tricky thing among people. What's important to one may not be important to another. One of the primary ways that an individual measures importance is often the impact of the event on oneself. Someone who lost a loved one on 9/11 considers the event more important than I do, I'm sure.
Another way that importance is often measured is how recent the event was. 9/11 hurt for me a lot more 15 years ago than it does today. In the same way, the Israelites had been rescued from Egypt roughly a millennia ago. Comparing that to a regathering that would take place much more recently, and it's understandable why the more recent event would become the thing they link God to.
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