The broken staff(s): favor and brotherhood. Both are restored in the Kingdom of God. Do you have favor, Stranger? Do you have brotherhood? Is your favor or brotherhood anchored in the physical Jerusalem? Is it anchored in flesh? The reason why you are anchored in a spiritual Israel (from above) is because the staffs were broken. You say "wild beast" didn't come upon the nation Israel, but they did. Favor and brotherhood, was moved. The call is to Christ. You prefer to call "wild beast" the Babylonians, then do. Worldly. Wickedness. Uncleanness. Religious vain-seekers of worldly favor at the disposal of God's people. "beast" is man without God. I am not saying every time a word is used in His word it means the same thing but I don't go to the world to define scripture, when we are told to go to God. Let God's word define beast and you will see often it refers to man without God(perdition). Not always. David spoke of this coming in on them as "the deep" come up upon them, a flood into the city of God's chosen. His feet caught in a net but David knowing God would get him free. The bride is without the gate, as Lazarus laid without the gate demonstrates. Gate(s), plural, because there was more than one gate but now there is only One gate. It is in that continuing city you have favor and brotherhood. God broke the staffs for it to be. Same as Adam choose to follow after Eve who was deceived. Same as why the tree of good and evil was planted in the garden. God has a plan. You know it. But if all you speak of is absent of mercy, grace, and forgiveness...then you are not speaking of Him. All condemnation and poison, is bitterness and hatred. This blood-bath you hope for. The one where Mel Gibson could easily play the part of a warrior drenched in the blood of his enemy, where only the white of his eyes can be seen, his yielding a sword that he just slaughtered every "bad" person with...that is not the God I know. Do you really believe God gets any satisfaction or glory out of slaughtering a bunch of flesh? Why? When His people has suffered years of pain in the flesh BY the hand of God to strengthen and break the hold the world has over them? Does corruptible flesh matter to God? It is dead. Flesh doesn't glorify God. It is our absence of love of the world and the temporal flesh that glorifies God. (they loved not their lives unto death). If you are not seeing mercy, that God IS compassion and mercy and longsuffering, and gracious, then you need fresh eyes that haven't been indoctrinated by man telling you, "God is going to slaughter them all!" shake a fist at heaven and cry "KILL THEM ALL GOD!"
We speak with a new tongue: Mercy.
Why is Jacob's trouble not called Israel's trouble?