PRO:IS secular, national Israel in God's prophetic Plan?

   The case for the modern, secular, Christ-rejecting state of Israel
to be THE prophesied regathering of the children of Israel.

   REGARDING SALVATION, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEW AND GENTILE,
FOR ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF GOD'S GLORY.

   "For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the
same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." - Romans 10:12-13

   BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES, REGARDLESS OF THE CONDITION OF THEIR
BELIEF OR UNBELIEF.

   "What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? shall
their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?" - Romans 3:1-3

   THE ISRAEL OF PROPHECY IS AN UNBELIEVING, CHRIST-REJECTING ISRAEL
UNTIL THE "FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES" BE COME IN.

   "But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my
hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people. I say then, Hath God
cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the
SEED of Abraham, of the TRIBE of Benjamin. God hath not cast away HIS
PEOPLE which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?
how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they
have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left
alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto
him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed
the knee to the image of Baal.

   Even so then at this present time also there is a REMNANT according
to the election of grace. And if by grace, then is it no more of works:
otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no
more grace: otherwise work is no more work. What then? Israel hath not
obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it,
and the rest were blinded. (According as it is written, God hath given
them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears
that they should not hear;) unto this day. And David saith, Let their
table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a
recompence unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not
see, and bow down their back alway.

   I say then, Have they STUMBLED that they should FALL? God forbid:
but rather through their FALL salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for
to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the FALL of them be the riches of
the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how
much more their FULNESS? For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am
the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: If by any means I
may provoke to emulation them which are MY FLESH, and might save SOME
of them.

   For if the CASTING AWAY of them be the reconciling of the world,
what shall the RECEIVING of them be, but LIFE FROM THE DEAD? For if the
firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so
are the branches. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou,
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them
partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against
the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the
root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I
might be graffed in. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God
spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell,
severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not
still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them
in again. For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by
nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how
much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into
their own olive tree?

   For I would not, brethren, that ye should be IGNORANT OF THIS
MYSTERY, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that BLINDNESS IN
PART IS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL, UNTIL THE FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME
IN. And so ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: as it is written, There shall
come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their
sins. AS CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, THEY ARE ENEMIES FOR YOUR SAKES: BUT AS
TOUCHING THE ELECTION, THEY ARE BELOVED FOR THE FATHERS' SAKES. For the
GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD are without repentance. For as ye in times
past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their
unbelief: Even so have these also now not believed, that through your
mercy they also may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in
unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

   O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For
who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him
again? For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom
be glory for ever. Amen." - Romans 10:21-11:36

   In conclusion, I would like to restate one of the lines from this
prophecy that is so apt for proving my point that the Israel of
Prophecy does not need to be SAVED in order to be ISRAEL: "As
concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching
the election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes. For the gifts
and calling of God are without repentance." - Romans 11:28-29

   Incidently, the Jews were not gathered out of all nations AFTER
either their Babylonian or their Medio-Persion captivities, BUT ONLY
after they were utterly destroyed as a nation by the Romans in 70
A.D...just as Christ himself prophesed they would be. See Ezekial
36:21-38 & notice ESPECIALLY verses 22, 24, 28, and 34.
