Shalom. . . on a hot, windy, and dusty day (sharav)!
I have been reminded again from comments by unbelieving Jewish Zionists: those who believe that the Jewish people have the right to return and to live in the sovereign State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people do not include, nor ever intended, that a Jewish and Zionist state in the Land of Promise would include active faith in Yeshua/Jesus as the Messiah, Son of the living God. If we were to be honest, I think this could be compared with those who believe that when people have normally spoken of and written laws about marriage, no one had ever remotely considered that that could be understood to include two men or two women marrying each other.
One could say that the comparison is not a fair one, but both have to do with faith, and both reject the truth of the Word of God. When the Lord Jesus returns, as He promised, He will not set up a rabbinic Jewish state, but will restore the whole House of Israel under His sovereign and righteous rule. Until then, we can expect stiffer opposition to His Kingdom and those who are of it, as the mystery of iniquity comes to fullness, even as the Holy Spirit works in the saints to fully complete that which God has begun to conform us to the image of His Son, making us ready for His coming and the redemption of our bodies, to rule and reign with Him over His people and the nations. Meanwhile, we are called to suffer with Messiah outside the camp, bearing His reproach, being sent into the world to help bring others out to Him, the MAN whose heart is fully after God’s, and whom God anointed to be His choice of King over His creation. This is the great mystery of godliness, that God was manifested in the flesh that He could dwell literally in the midst of His people.