The Gospel didn't lower God's interest in Israel as a nation.
The Gospel confirmed God's interest in Israel as a nation. The Gospel procured God's promise for the nation of Israel, and the Gospel was Israel's only way of securing the promise.
The Gospel reveals that God is equally interested in the nations of the Gentiles. The Gospel admitted Gentile nations into the same blessing of the same promise.
The Law of God (Moses' Law, or the law written on the heart) - put Jews and Gentiles on an equal footing - as sinners in need of salvation.
The Gospel also put Jews and Gentiles on an equal footing - as equal candidates for experiencing redemption by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Gospel elevated the nations of the Gentiles to precisely the same experience of blessing as the nation of the Jews, without devaluing any of the privileges available to the Jews first, through the Gospel.
So the degree to which any nation enjoys blessing today - including the modern State of Israel - has precisely the same causes and effects.
No nation - including the modern State of Israel - enjoys any privileges above another, nor suffers any exclusions - from anything. And that's how it will always be.
This certainly elevates God's interest in the nations of the Gentiles - but it certainly doesn't diminish God's interest in the modern nation of Israel either.
Only the sky is the limit for the modern State of Israel - but no other nation has any lower limit - because the Gospel is God's highest plan for all nations.
The Gospel confirmed God's interest in Israel as a nation. The Gospel procured God's promise for the nation of Israel, and the Gospel was Israel's only way of securing the promise.
The Gospel reveals that God is equally interested in the nations of the Gentiles. The Gospel admitted Gentile nations into the same blessing of the same promise.
The Law of God (Moses' Law, or the law written on the heart) - put Jews and Gentiles on an equal footing - as sinners in need of salvation.
The Gospel also put Jews and Gentiles on an equal footing - as equal candidates for experiencing redemption by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
The Gospel elevated the nations of the Gentiles to precisely the same experience of blessing as the nation of the Jews, without devaluing any of the privileges available to the Jews first, through the Gospel.
So the degree to which any nation enjoys blessing today - including the modern State of Israel - has precisely the same causes and effects.
No nation - including the modern State of Israel - enjoys any privileges above another, nor suffers any exclusions - from anything. And that's how it will always be.
This certainly elevates God's interest in the nations of the Gentiles - but it certainly doesn't diminish God's interest in the modern nation of Israel either.
Only the sky is the limit for the modern State of Israel - but no other nation has any lower limit - because the Gospel is God's highest plan for all nations.
God answers prayer for nations - any nation.
God treats all nations the same way He treats families. Just as the family exists by Divine decree, the causes and effects of blessing are the same for all families; and just as you can pray for families, and see many results, still regardless of what family someone belongs to and regardless of what prayers are prayed for him or his family, the only way a person can be saved is by grace through His own faith in Jesus Christ - so it is with nations.
That explains the history and condition and future of the modern State of Israel - just as it explains all nations today.
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