As a Jew this is hard for me to explain
I’m 70 living in 2019ad. For those who didn’t know-------
“ad” means; The years “After Jesus’s death”.,.i.e. (ad)
2,019 years ago;.,.,,.,, Jesus walked the streets of Jerusalem
And He knew “Jerusalem” was not the “Promised Land”
Now over 2,000 years later I have found it.
The “
Promised Land “ turns out to be-----
No,
It's not--
the Palestinian Land
now called “Israel”
But
The
“United States of America”
.,.,aka.,.,
USA
The United States
And as an American, I consider a Jewish American to be just “an American” or a “Jewish American”.
But more importantly; I as an American; I view a Jew as a Jewish person. I view Jews who live in or born in “Israel” as Israelite’s; not a “Jew”, although they are from the same family.
there is a difference
No harm intended or implied
If I have offended, you
Please forgive me

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Ok?
Hi
watchingfromafar
Thank you for sharing your way of clarifying this.
I have Jewish Christian friends with an outreach ministry nonprofit
who call it the SPIRITUAL ISRAEL meaning the Kingdom of God
that includes ALL children of God as the body or Bride of Christ.
You are right, we should make a distinction between the
Political realm of Physical Israel and the Jews living there
similar to the Catholics at Vatican City which is a different level.
I think there is both the LITERAL physical Israel as the Holy City
and Center. And the SPIRITUAL abstract/collective level
where all believers become grafted on as diverse Branches
to the central TREE (where Yeshua is the Tree of Life).
All those branches can have different denominational names
and still be one with the FAMILY all joined together through Christ
as the trunk of the tree.
People should have clear names for the different tribes.
Or it does get too confusing which lineage people mean!
There is also a lineage of the Jews from Spain who crossed
over to Mexico and may have mixed with the Mayan and
Native descendants in America. So the couple I know where
the wife is connected with the Perez lineage from Spain with
some Mayan or Native mixed in, and her husband who is
Jewish and both are Christian believers but adhere to the
traditional Jewish Torah, temples, elders and cultural heritage
welcome all believers that God has called from diverse backgrounds.
We each keep our family and spiritual lineage, while becoming
one Israel joined in Christ to God and each other as all his children.
I don't think there is any issue, but I agree with you
that it helps to use terms consistently for which tribe you mean!