He was talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, not the state of Israel.
“He was talking about the Kingdom of Heaven, not the state of Israel.”
Wrong! And that’s one of the problems with the heresy of replacement theology.
The promise of the land is to literal Israel and the Jewish people, not the church or the kingdom of heaven.
One of the worse problems of replacement theology is how Christians who buy into that false doctrine take Scriptures from the Bible meant for Israel and falsely “spiritualise” them to mean the “church” or as you stated the “kingdom of heaven” in that instance.
That promise was to the Hebrew descendants of Abraham through “Isaac” and “Jacob” literally.
In Ezekial 36:21-22 the promise was made by the Lord-
“I will bring you back from the nations where I have scattered you, back to ‘your own land’.,
no longer will there be two kingdoms in ‘your land’, and no longer will ‘your land’ be divided by two nations.”
“And there shall be one king over you.”
And the reference to king is a reference to the Messiah,-Yeshua!
In Luke 21:24 the Lord prophesied:
“And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down [conquered, occupied] of the Gentiles, ‘until’the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
The word ‘until’ is very important. It means the Lord was saying that the time would come when these bad fortunes for the Jewish people of Israel would be reversed.
In June of 1967, for the first time in 2,000 years, Jerusalem was no longer ‘trodden down’ and occupied by foreigners. In a war of self-defense, all Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria were returned to Israel.
1948 saw a fullfilment of the restoration of ‘national’ Israel.
The “spiritual restoration” is also occurring. Many are coming to know and embrace the true Messiah of Israel-Yeshua [Jesus]