Could the prophet Elijah have altered history if he had NOT RAN AWAY from Queen Jezebel and her armies?
Yes, history would be different . . . of course.
But, all along, Jesus has been meant to be the One who would do things right. So, failures by Elijah and King David can help to bring out how only God's own Son ever could be the only One who would do things really right and make things really right.
And Jesus does this in us, not merely by having outward buildings put up.
And the writer of Hebrews says we Jesus people "have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat." (in Hebrews 13:10)
So, changing history, by politically reuniting the land of Israel, I consider, would not have brought the kingdom which "does not come with observation." (Luke 17:20-21) We need the kingdom which is God's own realm of how He is in love and what He experiences and enjoys in His realm of existence > His kingdom which we grow in sharing with Him in His own love "in our hearts" (Romans 5:5).
And our Apostle Paul talks about how we in Jesus are "rooted and grounded in love" (in Ephesians 3:17). So, our soil of our identity is not with some part of this earth, but we are in God's own love in sharing with Jesus, experiencing this more and more as we love the way Jesus has loved >
"And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma." (Ephesians 5:2)
And, before this scripture, Paul also says > "forgiving one another, even as God", in Ephesians 4:31-32.
So, this is where we are feeding on and benefitting from all God means by His promises. Does this mean that the real promised land is the good soil of God's love . . . in our nature . . . curing us more and more to be like Jesus and to forgive "even as God" in us shares this with us??? Whoever and whatever is the true Israel, then, mainly we need to be rooted in God's own love so we are becoming like Jesus and loving and forgiving in sharing with Him. This prepares us for whatever God knows is really going to happen in history.
There is history, though, and I hear a lot about what will happen historically with Jews, but what goes on outwardly is not God's priority, is it? So, what needs to be the priority of our attention, then? We can be busy with changing politics and geography, but are we mainly busy with seeking first (Matthew 6:33) how God has us become in His love, how we become like Jesus?
I see a lot of TV ministry with attention to history making, but not at least as much attention to seeking how we become like Jesus and how He in us has us loving any and all people. Or, there is a lot of attention to how to get myself blessed, but not much about caring as much about others as I care about my own self.
If Jews want what is their land, they need to be busy with loving any and all others as their own selves, not only concerned about their own identity. I mean, if Jesus means to love our neighbor as ourselves . . . by caring as much about others as ourselves . . . like Jesus was caring about us as Himself by leaving Heaven and coming to His cross for us . . . we need to feed on this example.
But instead, it appears that an amount of ministry focuses on getting and holding on to our own little heavens or a piece of land. So, even if some number of people are numbly doing this, I need to not be merely busy with pointing at how others are misleading themselves, but I need to submit to God for how He knows I myself need real correction > Hebrews 12:4-11 < this is about how God Himself is able to change us, not only our own willing and disciplining our own selves. We grow in God's love, with His almighty self control and His wisdom to guide where our attention belongs.