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Remember the Bible has got to harmonise. I keep reminding you because you keep forgetting that Israel in the New covenant expanded to include Jews and Gentiles who have faith in Jesus and do His will.Ezekiel 36 16Again the word of YHWH came to me, saying, 17“Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity. 18So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
19I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered throughout the lands. I judged them according to their ways and deeds. 20And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of YHWH yet they had to leave His land.’ 21But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they had gone.
22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what adonay YHWH says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went. 23I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am YHWH declares adonay YHWH, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.
24For I will take you from among the nations and gather you out of all the countries, and I will bring you back into your own land.
If zionism is a restoration of the state of israel...then God that is YHWH/Jesus is the first and foremost Zionist.
All the unfulfilled promises made to Israel in the Old Covenant are now under the New Covenant Israel. Which is spiritual since these the Israelites are scattered around the world.
So yes Jesus believes in Israel being restored but its not the Israel of the Old Covenant. The Old Covenant was made obsolete, "In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away" (Hebrews 8:13).
Hebrews 8:6-7, "But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second."
The Israel that is going to be restored is not an earthly one with political deliverance. Its the restoration of God's kingdom and its capital city is the holy city, New Jerusalem with Jesus as King. Christ preached more than two thousand years ago that the kingdom of God is at hand. This kingdom will encompass the entire earth. It will be the new earth.
Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here” (John 18:36).
Do not forget that true Israel/spiritual Israel has both Jews and Gentiles in it in the New covenant. That our home is not of this world. Then you will stop believing the Zionist doctrine that focusses on an earthly state rather than a heavenly one as God's word teaches.