God always looked on Israel in a peculiar aspect, as those over whom His Son was to reign. That thought was always as " salt" in the mind of God. That being ever the thought of God, all in them was to proclaim God. Their land was of God in all its circumstances, whether He made it a land of judgment, a land of blessing, or a land of glory, all was to speak for God on the earth. The question was not what they would be for heaven, but they were to be a praise of God on the earth.
When they rejected and put to death the One He sent them, He did not cast them off forever. That nation should, through His grace, be brought back, and that same Jesus whom they would not have then, should come in, in their extremity saying,. " Here I am, going to be your King."