I personally think some of the comments on this site can get pretty ridiculous at times, more importantly, they can utterly obliterate an otherwise important message. However, you know what is said about opinions and how they are like a particular body part (everybody’s got one, and they all stink). The thing I have seen that truly ruins credibility is when atheists/agnostics/whatever pontificate about the Bible, yet they don’t believe in it in the first place.
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Israel is a people, not a geographical location.
This is correct. One of the main problems today with interpreting the bible is the nonsense of spiritualizing everything. There is no spiritual Israel. Israel is real. They are the same people today, all descended from Jacob. To suggest otherwise is to try to make God a promise breaker. He made three very real physical promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that their actual seed would become. There are actually over 100 promises about true physical Israel. They are still being kept today. You just have to interpret the world in light of the bible. Most of Christianity has been taught to try to make the bible fit what they see in the world. It doesn't work that way. The bible is a beautiful love story. Israel is God's wife and he didn't change wives in the new covenant.
I disagree with you on a few things.
Spiritual things are real things.
The Bible teaches spiritual reality.
Downplay Spiritual things shows a lack of understanding of spiritual.
Israel is a people, it is a people that submit to God perfectly.
If Israel is God's wife, Israel is the body and church of Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 45:5 and Daniel 2:44. There is no covenant with any other people. Jeremiah 31:31-33, repeated in Hebrews 8:8-10. If you don't know the story of God's marriage to Israel. https://www.gospelminutes.org/remarry.php
All the law and prophets speak of Jesus Christ.
John 5:36 “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, 38 nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. 39 You study[c] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ is about the Bride of Christ.
We live in the New Testament age, the whole Old Testament points to Jesus Christ and the life of Christ that is in the New Testament, there is no longer a seperation between Jew and Gentile, all nations are blessed in Jesus Christ.