Israel represents victorious humanity prevailing under God’s Law. It is first used in Genesis chapter 32:

Genesis 32:28

And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel [literally: Prince with God]; for you have struggled with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

Jacob is renamed Israel after wrestling with the Lord, holding on to the promise of redemption though afflicted by the weight of sin. 

Israel was the title given to one man, who played the parabolic role of foreshadowing the life and work of the Messiah. In this parable, Jacob who was given the name Israel, had 12 sons upon whom an earthly nation was built; and so, Christ as Israel would build the foundation of His church upon 12 disciples. Israel is the LEGAL title of One who has obtained righteousness before the perfect law of God and is declared JUSTIFIED as the covenant INHERITOR. He is the Chosen and Elect Son by birthright, the “first born among many brethren” (Rom 8:29).

Paul expresses the termination of Israel’s national role by calling earthly Israel a “bondwoman” that should be “cast out” as our means of salvation and instead turn to our mother, which is the “Jerusalem above” where we are born again. 

Galatians 4:22-31

For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar—for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children—but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.” [Paul here is quoting Isaiah 54:1]. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” [Another Old Testament quote, Genesis 21:10]. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

Speaking to the land of this life, Hebrews 13:14 teaches that “we have here no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” 

As the sanctuary and its services were made void when Christ entered His antitypical ministry, so was Israel’s shadow role as a “messianic nation” likewise nullified. The things foreshadowed in typology become obsolete when the substance and fulfillment arrive. 

Zionism is a pseudo-biblical movement that has hijacked biblical terminology for the sake of adding legitimacy to a racially orientated, ultra-nationalistic nuclear state. Often miscalled Judaism, Zionism has ideologically infiltrated the foundation of Biblical Christianity and has become “another gospel” as it alters the interpretation of Biblical Israel. 

Zionism places prophetic significance upon the earthly Israel rather than the heavenly. It is fundamentally different and in direct opposition to the plain word of God negating the dominion of Christ. Theodor Herzl, the founder and leader of the political Zionist movement in the early 1900s, was an atheist. He advocated and promoted for the migration of Jews to Palestine. How would dominion be secured?

In a diary entry dated June 12, 1895, Herzl, believing in the “expropriation” of Palestinians by a Zionist state, wrote:

"When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. The property-owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly. Let the owners of immovable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back." (Theodor Herzl, The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, (New York, NY: Herzl Press and Thomas Yoseloff, 1960), 88.)

The Balfour Declaration was written in 1917 as a letter to Baron Rothschild from the UK’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour as a promissory note to the Rothschild empire. Lord Rothschild, along with his other wealthy international business associates, was a key figure in the creation of Centralized Global banking systems. These Central Banks are, in fact, privately owned entities under the guise of such names as the “Federal Reserve,” a name given to ease the public apprehension for fear that their country’s monetary system may be in the hands of foreign investors. 

The Balfour Declaration was used in the Sevres Peace Treaty and the Mandate for Palestine to give the land of Palestine over to Zionist political ideology that is trademarked as “Israel” yet does not qualify as the Prophetic Biblical Israel.

Conversely, the Bible only legitimizes the dominion of the Son of God. The Psalmist says, “I will declare the decree: the LORD has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession … Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him” (Psa 2:7-8, 12). Jesus, the Son of God, will inherit the nations.