The name Israel has always been connected to God's Salvation Plan through His Son Jesus Christ and His Church. Notice I said the 'name' or title of Israel (means to 'prevail with God').
I think you are reading a different Bible than the one I read. You may also be reading a different newspaper than the one everybody else reads.
The Bible states that there was once an ancient nation called Israel.
Archeological evidence has proven that this isn't some fairy tale or metaphor.
It was real.
There is a flag that now flies over Tel Aviv today.
It is blue and white and bears the symbol of the Star of David.
The flag represents the modern nation of Israel.
It is real.
Today as ever, the Jew is a problem.
This is especially true for those who can't quite figure out how to justify their exclusive Christian ideology in light of the fact that God
has had and
continues to have a special relationship with the Jewish people. This is the main reason why we get all these long winded extrapolations of scripture and scholarly explanations about 'spiritual Israel'. It's all a lot of rubbish.
Speaking to the nation of Israel through His prophet Amos, God once said:
"You only have I known of all the families of the earth:"
Amos 3:2a
Two thousand years ago God began to offer salvation to the gentiles; the 'other families' of the earth.
Does this mean that He denies the Jew from heaven and the nation of Israel from His affection?
I doubt it. I really do.
In fact, one may go so far as to insist that a context of ideology be presented to affirm that argument. Such a serious matter requires more than a snippet of verses gathered from here and there in the pages of the good book(s). Such an ideology must also include words written by the Jews themselves, since they are intimately involved in the matter.
You know what? You're not going to find any. Not anywhere!
That leaves us with the problem of the Jew as well as the nation of Israel both ancient and modern.
For my part, I see no problem.
I've got enough to do, simply to live my life as God would have me live it without worrying about condeming the Jews and Israel.
You want God's truth?
We are each of us called to respond to the truth that God gives us. None need understand all truth, just the little we get.
That's all.
That includes the Jew, who answers to God as much as any gentile.
Personally I think it's hard enough being a Jew these days without having self-styled prophets cutting them out of God's grace.
The gospel is for the Jew as well as the gentile.
Israel is a manifestation of the hand of God.
Why not leave it at that and rejoice?
Miracles of much smaller degree have been the focus of rejoicing, how much more for Israel?
Unless of course the issue is really bigotry, then we've got something else to talk about.