God scattered the Jewish people across the globe, and they are defiled in sight of the nations. 

Ezekiel 22:15-16

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“I will scatter you among the nations, disperse you throughout the countries, and remove your filthiness completely from you. You shall defile yourself in the sight of the nations; then you shall know that I am the Lord.’” Ezekiel 22:15 -16

In 70AD, the Roman general Titus destroyed Jerusalem and demolished the Jewish temple. During this period of severe Roman aggression against the Jewish people, we can envision how terribly disheartened the Jewish people were, and their hands were too weak to do anything against the Romans. At this time, the majority of the Jewish people had rejected Jesus Christ as their Savior, did not have His peace within their heart and were still focused on fighting with physical might instead of in His Spirit. Being physically powerless against the Romans and disheartened, they left Jerusalem and were scattered far and wide.

For 1848 years, the scattering and dispersion of the Jewish people continued. That is the time between 70AD to when they were regathered to Israel in 1948. During that time, the Jewish people were spread across all of Europe and even across the ocean. Their filthiness was removed completely from them in the sense that their wholeness as the rebellious house of Israel was disbanded by the hand of God. Across the globe, the Jewish people defiled themselves in the sight of the nations. They were claiming to be the people of God but were disgracefully chased from the land of Israel as well as rejecting Jesus Christ. In Europe, the Jewish people were definitely defiled in the sight of nations, as most evidently seen in the way the Nazis of Hitler’s Germany saw them.

Jesus Christ said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” Matthew 23:37-39

Even to this day, the Jewish people are scattered all across the world, as seen in the map below. The larger half of the Jewish population lives in Israel, the smaller half lives in the United States, and all the rest are scattered in other countries.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1