God created a playing field, Paradise, and two players in his image (with a body, a soul and spirit), Adam and Eve to play - or actually just to live in this field and manage it. Then Satan came and turned their lives into a competitive game/struggle by giving them a choice to live according to God's rules or to do their own thing. And they fell for it, causing God to have to evict them from this pleasant field to take up the challenge to play in a rough field that they needed to tame while all along fighting against their inclination not to do the right thing. Those who opted in principle not to make a commitment to play according to God's rules became Satan's players, opposing God's players. And this on a playing field that God had to share with Satan.

(The football game has the same "components" as God himself, a Body (field), Yeshua; a Soul, the Father, the thinking, feeling One, the heart; The Referee, Whistle blower, the Spirit. This game with its three components plus God's players and His ball represents the Kingdom of God.)

The ball represents the TRUTH, that which is in agreement with God's perfect rules for living and acquiring eternal life, as against Satan's lies. Actually, there are two balls in this game since the truth and the lie cannot exist side be side like in the YingYang concept or "Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security!" In other words, the players on both sides have a ball they need to get into the other side's goal post and one that they need to prevent from getting into their own goal post. Until one of the sides wins, both balls will remain in the playing field. God's players should play to win, although in love and according to his laws, while Satan's team plays dirty and anything goes for the sake of winning, including playing the man and not necessarily the ball. For that reason his players all leave the playing field with red cards, while God's players retire with honors. Some are carried off on stretchers, of whom some don't survive and join the martyrs who are waiting under God's throne.

Soon the situation became so bad that God only had eight players left, Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives. Consequently he had to destroy Satan's whole team in the flood and start all over again with players from Noah's family's offspring . Satan, nevertheless, managed to establish himself firmly in Babylon, that became the breeding ground for demon worship and a one world system of rule for mankind. God foiled his one-world aspirations by dividing the people into groups speaking different languages that caused them to migrate over the world and set up independent nations speaking different languages. Satan kept on developing his evil doctrines in Babylon and disseminating them over the earth - actually, the different language groups already took these doctrines with them when they dispersed over the earth. And Satan is, of course, still in our day trying to set up his one-world system.

God all along had a perfect means of salvation built into himself in that he had a Body who could become human, with flesh and blood, that could be sacrificed to establish salvation by his unblemished blood - since salvation is only by blood. However, he didn't have a playing field of his own with players set aside for his purposes. That is, to practice his rules under more favorable conditions with help from him - as well as to provide a mother from among them to give birth to his Son as a Son of man -- to be sacrificed for the sins of mankind. One who was one of them. For this purpose he took Abram and Sarah from Babylon to go and establish a new nation (players) on a playing field that he promised would eternally be theirs - as well as his own personal inheritance. He built an assurance of victory into them by promising that their nation would exist eternally - contrary to other nations that come and go. His honor is therefore tied up with his ability to preserve this nation, the Hebrews, eternally.

The match became limited to Canaan, renamed Israel, the home stadium, from where it spread on a limited scale to some other nations like Ethiopia. It became a very boring football match in which the balls were kicked this way and that way for thousands of years. At one time so many of God's players, the Israelites had walked over to the opposition that God exiled the whole nation, Judah and Israel, back to Babylon, allowing his home field to become desolate with only a small number of Israelites left in it. It is actually a notable fact that his inheritance becomes desolate when the Hebrews don't live in it. We see it even in our day in areas occupied by the Arabs. The "Greenline" got its name from everything being green up to the area that was under Jordanian occupation. The settlers in Gaza even produced masses of vegetables on sand dunes that the Arabs said were cursed.

Satan was actually awarded a penalty goal when Adam and Eve chose to do things their own way. He was therefore one point up on God. To catch up, God needed to wait for about 4,000 years after the fall of the first Adam for the right scenario to develop, namely the rise of the Roman Empire, for his Son to be birthed in Betlechem. Then God could score that most classical goal by the death and resurrection of Yeshua. It cancelled Satan's penalty goal in paradise, but it didn't disqualify him from the game. He could keep on playing. The Jews were not disqualified either from their role of being the source of the Gospel and of re-establishing the home stadium in preparation for the return of Messiah - to score his second and final goal in the game and thereby bar Satan from further participation in the game - for a thousand years.

In the year 70 CE, however, all but a hand full of the Hebrews had to flee from the home stadium and got dispersed into the nations (the Galut, Diaspora) - where God enabled them to maintain their Jewish identity by subjecting them to laws that they kept slavishly without questioning their legalistic nature. It took nearly 2000 years before the home playing field, Israel, was re-allocated to the home team. It cost God the lives of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust to create a psychological moment in the United Nations in which a fleeting sense of guilt caused the nations to vote in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in the British Mandate area west of the Jordan River. Although they had to share it with Satan's false claimant, Ismael's seed, it was a beginning towards restoring the home land to the format and size of that of king David's dynasty - in preparation for the ultimate David in his royal line to rule over Israel and the nations.

For 2,000 years the Kingdom of God had to function purely on the strength of the Gospel and God's grace without a home stadium. For most of this time the players (church) were kept in total ignorance of the rules of God's game and doctrinal truth due to the Babylonian practise by the dominating powerful Roman Catholic church to reveal knowledge to an enlightened few in leading positions. (They were vitually just playing with Satan's ball.) The Reformation opened the door for God to bring life into the church and to build a remnant of true believers from the nations who could be added to his Kingdom as members of the Commonwealth of Israel.

Ephesians 3:6 This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus.

Satan managed, however, to divert the majority of the church to Babylonian roots and gnosticism that rejected the Jewish roots of the Kingdom. They therefore belong to Satan's and not the God of Israel's Kingdom.

A huge sector of the Jews have also become rooted in the Babylonian model in their thinking and lifestyle and it is these Jews who were behind the re-establishment of Israel and they have mostly subsequently been its rulers. They for sure don't play in God's team, since their agenda is not to restore Israel to a powerful state worthy to be ruled by Yeshua's on his return, but to maintain a weakened multicultural state that will not be too strong to fit in a one world system. God nevertheless used them to re-establish his inheritance for him to resettle his faithful remnant - whom he will use to restore Israel to her former glory under king David. A land we see in Ezekiel 38 in which her people will live in safety and so wealthy that the nations, Gog and Magog and their allies will come to rob her of her wealth. God's hometeam will be so powerful that it will take an alliance of just about all the nations to take them on. It will only be Yeshua's return to fight for them, that will preserve them at that time.

How will Israel become that wealthy? It seems that it can only be as a result of the war of Isaiah 17 in which Damascus gets destroyed and Aroer (Jordan) gets emptied out of people, followed by the war in Isaiah 18/19 in which Egypt will be defeated.

It is important to note that the struggle for the Kingdom returned to Israel after her re-establishment. It probably set an approximate for the "fullness of the gentiles" to have come in. It make the Jews once again the main players in the game in the run up to Yeshua's return. How ironic, that they need to battle for the restoration of the dynasty of the the ultimate David, before they even know who he is. However, He will reveal himself to them in his time like Joseph did to his brothers. See "...And then all Israel will be saved." (Based on Romans 11:26)

What then about the gentiles in this time while Israel is being restored? They should preserve and separate themselves from the apostasy that has taken root in most churches and congregations and start acting in solidarity with the Commonwealth of Israel to which they belong.

Psalms 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and all that move in them 35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah. Then people will settle there and possess it 36 The children of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will dwell there
Rom 9:21-25 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25 As He says also in Hosea: "I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved." NKJV
Amos 9:11-12 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,And repair its damages;I will raise up its ruins,And rebuild it as in the days of old; 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom,And all the Gentiles who are called by My name," NKJV
Isa 56:8 For the Lord God who brings back the outcasts of Israel says, "I will bring others too besides my people Israel."  TLB
See Tribulation

Scripturally, the gentiles should also help to restore Israel, the home base of the Commonwealth of Israel, as well as help to re-settle the Jews in it:

Isaiah 14:2 Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD'S land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors
Isaiah 49:22 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "See, I will beckon to the Gentiles, I will lift up my banner to the peoples; they will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.
Isaiah 60:10 "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Though in anger I struck you, in favor I will show you compassion.
Isaiah 61:5 Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields and vineyards