The message of the Bible has an explicitly eschatological thrust centered on the future redemption of Israel. There is simply no way around it. This message was not only handed down to the Jewish people; it hinges on their own redemption. That is, “if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?” (Romans 11:15) 

Christian history has generally been very averse to this basic view of the Scriptures; preferring instead to spiritualize the thrust of the Bible’s message. That is, it was speaking symbolically of spiritual realities, not of natural realities. Various movements across church history have only needed a decade or two of prosperity before the message of the Bible is reinterpreted. Yet, history has a way of scrutinizing truth claims. When we lose our way, God often grants evidence that history is indeed being driven by a divine agenda. -Bill Scofield, The Biblical Narrative and the Inconvenient Existence of Israel