Why did God take away the Temple and Jerusalem and scatter Israel among the nations?

Les explains that Paul's letters stand in the center of the New Testament and are directed primarily to the Gentile Church, the Body of Christ. The Old Testament, the Gospels, and the early chapters of Acts were directed to and under the auspices of the nation of Israel. But when Israel continued to reject everything and would not believe that Christ was the promised Messiah, God moved providentially. He took away their Temple, took away the city of Jerusalem, uprooted the nation from the land, and put them out into the nations of the world in what is called a dispersion. He then turned instead to the pagan Gentile world, beginning with the Apostle Paul.