In our last two studies, we looked at the subject of Israel. This is an extremely important subject about which most of the Church is confused because of the influences of dispensational and Zionist theology. This theology causes believers great distress when things like the sudden outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas take place. And believers think that whatever happens in modern-day Israel is part of biblical prophecy. No matter what happens or who starts the conflict, believers always line up behind Israel. They feel that it is their sacred duty.
Please remember that in our last two studies, we established that citizens of modern-day Israel are not the people God called out of Egypt and that they do not keep the Mosaic Law. They follow the Talmud, and so, they are not religious Jews. We also made it clear that they are not ethnic Jews but, rather, are Khazarian Jews. Let me say this about the modern state of Israel: Israel is an epicenter for the cabal which means it is the epicenter of evil on God's flat earth. Israel is the main hub for human trafficking, sex trafficking, and child sacrifice. You heard me right—child sacrifice. And in spite of this, Zionist Christians support them. The Khazarian Jews own the media and the banks, so they control what you hear. So do not believe a thing you hear on MSM. Zionism is a destructive doctrine because it supports the evil of Israel. Please watch the video "The Mystery of Israel," in order to educate yourself. It is only an hour long and well worth your time. https://rumble.com/v3pr62s-must-see-the-mystery-of-israel-solved.html
Last week Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime minister, quoted Isaiah 60:18 claiming it was a prophecy that was now being fulfilled.
Violence shall no more be heard in your land, devastation or destruction within your borders; you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. Isaiah 60:18 ESV
He said that God's promise to the Jewish people today is that the word "Hamas" ("violence" in biblical Hebrew) "will no longer be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders." He's playing the Zionist Christians. Attempting to use Scripture to support their massacre of innocent Palestinians.
This verse in Isaiah has nothing to do with Hamas. In Revelation 3:9, Yeshua uses verse 15 and applies it to the Church, (true Israel), and reveals that it was Old Covenant Israel that was persecuting the Church. Yeshua said that the Old Covenant Jews were going to come and bow before the feet of the true Israel of God—His Church.
Understanding that, let's talk about the Land of Israel. What is the Promised Land in the Bible? In Genesis, God promised Abraham that his descendants would inherit the land of Canaan, so Canaan became known as The Promised Land.
And if the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—Deuteronomy 19:8 ESV
Is the plot of dirt in the Middle East a special place to Yahweh? Dispensationalists and Zionists make much of it. They teach that Israel has to be restored because the land promises that God made to Israel were unconditional and forever. Is that true? They will select verses such as the following:
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, Genesis 15:18 ESV
And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God." Genesis 17:8 ESV
Christian Zionism takes these land promises and applies them to the modern state of Israel. To Christian Zionists, this promise of land inheritance is permanent and unconditional.
Israel did inherit real land.
Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. Joshua 21:45 ESV
Several hundred years later, at the height of the earthly kingdom, in his dedication of the temple, Solomon echoed Joshua's declaration.
"Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant. 1 Kings 8:56 ESV
This could not be any clearer! The physical land promise made to Abraham was fulfilled. There is no physical land promise yet to be fulfilled. People will object by asserting that Genesis 17:8 says that the Land was to be an everlasting possession. It does say that, but we must understand that Israel's inheritance of the land was a type.
What exactly do I mean by a type? Theologically speaking, a type may be defined as "a figure or ensample of something future and more or less prophetic, called the 'Antitype'" (E. W. Bullinger, Figures of Speech Used in the Bible, p. 768).
Wick Broomall has a concise statement that is helpful.
"A type is a shadow cast on the pages of Old Testament history by a truth whose full embodiment or antitype is found in the New Testament revelation" (Baker's Dictionary of Theology, p. 533).
Type comes from the Greek word tupos (the basis of our English word "type"). Then we have the Greek word antitupon. Antitupon, as used in the New Testament, denotes "that which corresponds to" the type; it is the reality which fulfills the prophetic picture.
In summary, the type is the picture, the anti-type is the reality. A type is a real, exalted happening in history which was divinely ordained by the omniscient God to be a prophetic picture of the good things which He purposed to bring to fruition in Christ Yeshua. Let me give you a few examples that I am sure you are familiar with.
And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food." Numbers 21:5 ESV
What happens next?
Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. And the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." So, Moses prayed for the people. Numbers 21:6-7 ESV
Why was God killing the Israelites? They were complaining! Let that sink in. We really are Israel, aren't we?
And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." So, Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live. Numbers 21:8-9 ESV
As a means of salvation for the Israelites, the brazen serpent was a remarkable type of Christ.
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, John 3:14 ESV
Yeshua did not here merely find an apt illustration of His means of saving men by dying on the cross. He presented a divinely ordained type of salvation from death and the punishment for sin by a God-appointed means. What did the Israelites have to do to be saved from the poisonous snake bite? Were they to go to church, pray a prayer, get baptized, repent of all wrongdoing, or live a holy life? No! In order to live, all they had to do was to look to that serpent. The bronze serpent in the wilderness was the salvation (deliverance) of those who believed. By comparing Himself to that serpent, Yeshua was teaching that whoever trusted in Him and His death would receive "eternal life." This type very beautifully set forth salvation through Christ by faith alone.
The serpent, then, is the "type" and Christ is the "anti-type." Let me ask you this: Is the Church saved by Christ? Of course! But the type was given to Israel. Yet we see its fulfillment in the Church. So, in typology, we see the unity of the Scriptures.
William G. Moorehead writes the following concerning types:
A type is a draft or sketch of some well-defined feature of redemption, and therefore it must in some distinct way resemble its antitype, i.e. Aaron as high priest is a rough figure of Christ the Great High Priest, and the Day of Atonement in Israel (Leviticus 16) must be a true picture of the atoning work of Christ… A type always prefigures something future. A Scriptural type and predictive prophecy are in substance the same, differing only in form… A type always looks to the future; an element of prediction must necessarily be in it (The Typology of Scripture by William G. Moorehead is reproduced from The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. James Orr [Chicago: Howard-Severance Co., 1930], vol. 5, pp. 3029-3030).
A type is a prophecy acted out. It is as truly prophetic as a spoken prophecy, and it had equal value with spoken prophecy in directing the faith of the Israelites to the coming salvation. The following two elements are requirements for a type:
1. It must be recognized that types are grounded in real history; the people, places, events, etc. were deliberately chosen by God to prepare for the coming of the Christian system.
2. There is a graduation from type to antitype; of the lesser to the greater;
from the material to the spiritual; the earthly to the heavenly.
Thus, it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV
Here Paul is talking about Adam, whom he calls a type.
Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Romans 5:14 ESV
Then speaking of Adam and Christ, Paul says:
But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 1 Corinthians 15:46 ESV
The type is natural, earthly, material, and the anti-type is spiritual, heavenly and the fulfillment or reality.
What I want you to understand, therefore, is critical to your understanding. National, ethnic Israel was a type. Understanding this is crucial to understanding Scripture.
Dispensationalism/Zionism misses this very important point and thus tries to keep separate the type and anti-type. The people of Israel themselves were a type. The nation itself, as God's special people, was typological of the true people of God. It was "physical Israel," but Paul describes Christian believers as "Spiritual Israel." National Israel was divinely ordained to resemble Spiritual Israel. The physical seed of Abraham typified the spiritual seed of Abraham, and some of the promises made to his seed were not fulfilled at all to his physical seed, but, as Paul teaches in Romans 4, only to his spiritual children. Physical Israel as a type of spiritual Israel is constantly set forth by Paul in the Roman and Galatian letters.
And understanding that the nation of Israel was a type, we will not be surprised to find that Israel's sacrifices, priesthood, Temple, and land also had typological significance.
Dispensationalism puts great emphasis on a rebuilt Temple and priesthood because they fail to see these as types. Physical Israel was a type and so was the tabernacle.
They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, "See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain." Hebrews 8:5 ESV
The tabernacle was a type. What is the anti-type? Yeshua is the anti-type.
Yeshua answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." John 2:19 ESV
Yeshua replaces the Temple itself. Yeshua is the anti-type of the Temple. The Temple represented the presence of God among His children in the early days, and that is how Christ is described.
The Land was a type that represented the presence of Yahweh. When the people of Israel were out of the land, they were away from Yahweh. The Land was a type and the anti-type fulfillment came at the end of the 40-year transition period (A.D. 30-70) when the Old Covenant came to an end and the New Covenant was fully consummated. At that time, the inheritance of the New Heavens and the New Earth arrived, where we "tabernacle there with God." The unconditional promises were to Abram and his seed which was Christ. Again, the Land was a type. It pictured the presence of Yahweh.
Notice Joshua's words to Israel before his death.
"And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you, if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you." Joshua 23:14-16 ESV
The land was theirs as long as they were faithful to Yahweh. This is the same thing that Moses had said to them at the end of the book of Deuteronomy.
"And if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all his commandments that I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God." Deuteronomy 28:1-2 ESV
The following 12 verses (3-14) describe the blessing that Yahweh would give them if they obeyed, but the tone shifts in verse 15.
"But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you. Deuteronomy 28:15 ESV
Then we have 53 verses of curses. Please take the time to read through them all.
And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you. And you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. "And the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known. Deuteronomy 28:63-64 ESV
Did the people of Israel transgress the covenant? Did they disobey Yahweh? Absolutely! And Yahweh had warned them over and over that if they disobeyed Him, He would remove them from His presence, He would drive them out of the land. Because of their disobedience, the Kingdom of God was taken from them.
Now someone who is familiar with their Bible might ask about the promise to Israel that God gave them in Amos 9?
I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the LORD your God. Amos 9:14-15 ESV
Some see this as a prophecy that is being fulfilled in our day. But notice the context.
Amos is speaking to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The book of Amos was written just prior to the ten Northern Tribes' being carried off into captivity by Assyria. This happened in 721 B.C. Isaiah, Micah, Hosea, and Amos are all contemporaries. The 10 Northern Tribes had turned from Yahweh and Yahweh was going to judge them. So, the book of Amos is a warning of coming discipline concerning the nation of Israel.
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: "Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up." Amos 5:1-2 ESV
Notice what Yahweh says here of Israel: "No more to rise again." That sounds permanent. But next Yahweh promises that there will be a remnant.
For thus says the Lord GOD: "The city that went out a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went out a hundred shall have ten left to the house of Israel." Amos 5:3 ESV
This is speaking of a remnant that will be left out of Israel.
From a nationalistic view, as a physical people, Israel was to fall and not rise again. But Yahweh said He would save a remnant. We see this in our text in Amos:
"Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD. "For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.' Amos 9:7-10 ESV
These verses proclaim the coming disciplinary judgment upon Israel; but yet, within them, there is a bit of hope because He says He will not destroy from off the face of the earth: "I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob." But, now, in verse 11, there comes the prophecy of hope in the light of that.
"In that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen and repair its breaches, and raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old, that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this. Amos 9:11-12 ESV
James draws on this text, which speaks of Yahweh's judgment and destruction of Israel, which is not complete, and which is not permanent. He promised to return and to restore Israel, rebuilding it as in the days of old (Amos 9:11). But the restoration of the kingdom to Israel is not an exclusive blessing applying only to the Jews. It will be, Yahweh promises through Amos, a restoration which will enable the Gentiles to seek the Lord and worship Him.
As you study the promises of Gentile salvation through the Hebrew Scriptures, you'll find that they are connected to the restoration of Israel. Many prophecies that speak of Israel's restoration speak also of the promise of Gentile salvation. They go together.
Historically, the Tabernacle of David was the tent where the Ark of Yahweh was housed during the latter part of David's reign. The Ark of the Covenant was originally housed in the Tabernacle of Moses (also called the Tabernacle of the Congregation). In the year 1050 B.C., David brought the Ark to Jerusalem and placed it in a tent, the Tabernacle of David (2 Samuel 6, 1 Chronicles 13-16). The Ark stayed in David's Tabernacle for 40 years until it was moved into the Temple built and dedicated by David's son Solomon in 1010 B.C. (2 Chronicles 5-7).
I think that the expression, "The Tabernacle of David" is a reference to the Davidic Covenant and the promise that Yahweh gave to David that someone from his seed would sit upon a throne and rule and reign in the Kingdom of Yahweh. David was a king, and he had the promise from Yahweh that his "throne should be established forever" (1 Chronicles 17:10-14).
According to the apparent meaning of this promise, it had long since failed; for it had been many generations since a descendant of David had occupied his throne. It was during this period, in which the royal house of David was in ruins, that Amos uttered the prophesy that James quotes.
"'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, Acts 15:16 ESV
The "Tabernacle of David," spoken of by Amos, is used as a prophetic symbol of that "habitation of Yahweh." This is James' argument: The salvation of the Gentiles agrees with what Amos said. What Peter has done, taking the Gospel to the Gentiles, is the fulfillment of what Amos said. Amos said that the Tabernacle of David would be restored "in order that" the Gentiles may seek after Yahweh. The Gentiles were now being saved. So, what does that tell you about the Tabernacle of David? It was at that time being restored. The Gentiles could not call on Yahweh until the remnant (Amos 5:3) was being brought in. The Gentiles could not be saved until the Tabernacle of David was restored. Since the Gentiles were being saved, the Tabernacle of David was being restored. This passage speaks of the restoration of Israel. It is not something that is to happen in our future; it happened in the first century. "I will plant them on their land" (Amos 9:15). This was fulfilled in the first century. Israel's restoration was not to be physical, but spiritual.
To whom was the promise of Amos 9:11, ("In that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David") made? Amos was writing to Israel, the 10 Northern tribes. And yet James is saying that this prophecy is being fulfilled in the Church. I believe that the Bible teaches the essential continuity of Israel and the Church. The elect of all the ages are seen as one people—true Israel, with one Savior, one destiny.
The promises of Yahweh made to Old Covenant Israel are "fulfilled" in the Church of Yeshua the Christ, which is true Israel. Christianity is the fulfillment of Yahweh's promises to Israel because we are true Israel. And our sacrifices and our house are spiritual. Dispensationalists and Zionists want to return to the physical aspect of the Old Covenant. But we believers are in the New Covenant, which is the spiritual Kingdom of Yahweh.
The Land was a type and the anti-type fulfillment came when the inheritance of the New Heavens and the New Earth arrived, where we "tabernacle there with God." The Land was a type. It pictured the presence of Yahweh. Let me try to show you this from Scripture. In 2 Kings 5 we have the story of Naaman, the leper. Naaman hears from a slave girl from Israel that he could be cured of his leprosy in Israel. So, he goes to Israel and is sent to Elisha.
After Naaman was cleansed of leprosy, he followed Elisha's instructions and washed seven times in the Jordan river. Having done so, he came back to thank Elisha.
Then he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and he came and stood before him. And he said, "Behold, I know that there is no God in all the earth but in Israel; so accept now a present from your servant." But he said, "As the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none." And he urged him to take it, but he refused. Then Naaman said, "If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD. 2 Kings 5:15-17 ESV
Naaman held to the opinion that was common in the ancient world—particular deities had power over particular places. We see this view expressed in 1 Kings 20.
And a man of God came near and said to the king of Israel, "Thus says the LORD, 'Because the Syrians have said, "The LORD is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys," therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'" 1 Kings 20:28 ESV
There were gods of the hills and gods of the valleys. In the ancient Near East, gods were generally considered as having defined territorial jurisdiction, just as political leaders would have. This jurisdiction could be divided up along national lines (each nation having its patron deities) or by topographical areas or boundaries (rivers, mountains, lakes, plains), as we see here. The fact that Israel was a mountainous country and that the capital cities, Samaria and Jerusalem, were in mountain regions, would fuel the speculation that Yahweh's jurisdiction was in the mountains.
Because the Syrians said, "Yahweh is a god of the hills but he is not a god of the valleys."—they will now be defeated in such a way as to show that Yahweh's power is everywhere and that the multitude of a host is nothing against him. Yahweh is Lord of
all places, persons, and things.
This view of gods having defined territorial jurisdiction is supported in Deuteronomy 32.
When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God. But the LORD's portion is his people, Jacob his allotted heritage. Deuteronomy 32:8-9 ESV
Chapter 10 of Genesis, the table of nations, is the backdrop for Moses' statement here that Yahweh is responsible for the creation and placement of the nations and the gods over them. Man's disobedience at Babel caused Yahweh to divide them up and to give them to the lesser gods. "He fixed the borders of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God."
Back to our story of Naaman.
Then Naaman said, "If not, please let there be given to your servant two mule loads of earth, for from now on your servant will not offer burnt offering or sacrifice to any god but the LORD. 2 Kings 5:17 ESV
Why did Naaman want dirt? Naaman's request reflects a belief that Israel's territory belonged to Yahweh, while other nations were under the dominion of other, lesser gods. Naaman now believes in Yahweh and wants holy ground (dirt from Israel) with him so that he can have Yahweh with him while outside Israel. He thought that if he took a piece of Israel back with him to Syria, he could worship the God of Israel.
So, the Land represented the presence of Yahweh. With that in mind, let's look at what happened in the early Church. As the Gospels end, Yeshua has been rejected by the Jewish leadership, they have put Him to death. They killed their Messiah, so now what was to happen to all the promises made to Israel? Does God stop with Israel and turn to the Church as the Dispensationalists teach? No! Physical, national Israel was a type that found its fulfillment in Christ. The shadow is gone; the reality is here. Thus, the nation Israel and the Jewish people have no special significance in God's plan or purpose. It is all about Yeshua and those who trust Him. Believers, we are true Israel and inheritors of all of God's promises. The Church is the Kingdom of God.
With that said, look at Acts 4.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Yeshua, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. Acts 4:32-35 ESV
We see in this text that believing Israelites (those who had trusted Christ) were selling their land. We can see the spiritual lessons here, but we have to understand the culture to get the whole picture. There is an Old Covenant violation in this verse. Do you know what it is? Israelites were not allowed to "permanently" sell their land because it was not really theirs but God's.
"The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. Leviticus 25:23 ESV
The land was not supposed to be sold to strangers at all. When land was sold, it was to be sold on the basis of the Year of Jubilee, and, ideally, it was to be sold only to a family member (Leviticus 25). The "land" belonged to Yahweh, who let the Israelites use it as long as they were obedient to Him.
When you father children and children's children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed. Deuteronomy 4:25-26 ESV
The land was Yahweh's, and He let Israel dwell in it as long as they lived in obedience to the Mosaic covenant. So even if the people of modern-day Israel were ethnic descendants of Israel, they would not have a right to the Land because they do not follow the Mosaic covenant. We see the significance of the land in Jeremiah 32. Just prior to the Babylonian captivity, Yahweh told Jeremiah:
Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle will come to you and say, "Buy my field that is at Anathoth, for the right of redemption by purchase is yours." Jeremiah 32:7 ESV
Why was Jeremiah to buy land when Judah was about to be destroyed and taken into captivity by Babylon? Jeremiah tells us in verses 14-15.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time." For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land." Jeremiah 32:14-15 ESV
Jeremiah was to buy land because God was going to bring Judah back into her land after the Babylonian captivity.
In the Book of Acts, we see a very similar situation. Yeshua had taught His disciples that Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed within their generation.
Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Matthew 24:34 ESV
Part of the "all things" that was to take place before that generation passed was the destruction of the Jewish Temple.
Yeshua left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, "You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down." Matthew 24:1-2 ESV
The disciples of Yeshua knew that Jerusalem and Judea were going to be destroyed! They knew that the Romans were going to desolate their city and lay their land waste. But this had happened before. Jerusalem was desolated in 586 B. C., and the Jews did not sell their land at that time. Jeremiah even bought land. So why sell it now?
In Jeremiah, we find the promise of restoration to the land, but in the New Testament we do not have the promise of Israel ever being promised to return to the land! The type of "the Land" was now being fulfilled in the anti-type, the Lord Yeshua the Christ. He is our inheritance. The land no longer had spiritual value, so the believers were free to sell it.
The selling their land, therefore, reflected their understanding that the old was passing away, and the New Covenant was about to be consummated. They were moving on with Christ to the New Jerusalem of the New Covenant. In contrast to this, Ananias, and Sapphira were hanging on to the old and thus received judgment. This pictures the judgment that was soon to come upon all who clung to the earthly Jerusalem.
The type of the land has been fulfilled by the Lord Yeshua. Land does not matter at all anymore. God's kingdom is spiritual, not physical. Whatever happens in Israel today has nothing to do with Bible prophecy. Yahweh ended the physical nation Israel and their Law, the Old Covenant, in AD 70 when He destroyed their Temple and city. Judaism under the Old Covenant has not been biblically observed since.
Today believers and only believers are the Israel of God. We have inherited all the promises through faith in Yeshua the Christ, who is true Israel.