Where is Israel?
ISRAEL
If we will study God’s word one will find indications, hints, signs that God has given to us to know some things about the future. God has used prophets and Jesus (who was also a prophet), to let us know. Just as the prophets of old foretold the coming of Jesus as a baby, born in Bethlehem, born of a virgin, plus 300 more that tells of his entry into Jerusalem, crucifixion, etc. These same prophets of old told of Israel being dispersed and coming back together three times, the Palestinian Covenant, Dt. 30:3-10, this is the third time of the regathering.
What happens to Israel is one real insight to the future. Israel is God’s chosen people, God’s bride. The Church is not God’s bride. The Church is God’s sons, not his bride. The Church is Christ’s bride.
In the Abraham Covenant, Israel was given the land from “river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates.†As of this time Israel has never possessed the whole land.
Today we are in what is called the Dispensation of Grace, the rule of the Gentiles. A time between the first and second advent of Christ. This dispensation began at the resurrection of Christ and is progressing as always on God’s timetable. Everything has been according to God’s will and all things will be according to God’s will.
