"The Land, the Alien, and the Inheritors"

You are perhaps familiar with the dynamic of sinner and saint. An other way of looking at it, Biblically, lies in the metaphors of alien and inheritor.

[@sailingtradewindseeker]

Indeed, I understand the return of the Jews to the land, was always conditional upon their faithfulness to God. Apparently the long time radio preacher J Vernon McGee did not believe that it was God who brought them back in 1947. (Apparently the Rothchilds had their fingers in that deal.). His reasoning was because God makes clear in the Word that he would only bring them back if they were faithful & that they were not. Could it be as Hebrews says, "they were longing for a better country-a heavenly one." & that it's no longer about the land? Your thoughts? Thanks, Debbie

[@davidmackenzie9155]

One thought-- it cannot actually exclude land. The Kingdom of God is not coming in just an ethereal sense. The God, who has been exiled from the world because of human sin, is coming back to tabernacle with us, forever. And all countries will become heavenly countries when the Heavenly One returns to earth to make it new., and take up His rightful reign. The present existence of Israel, and even of Vatican City, may well anticipate this coming reality, by design.