God sanctifies His name in the land of Israel for all the nations to see.

Ezekiel 36:23

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“And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the Lord,” says the Lord God, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.” Ezekiel 36:23

Sanctification is seen in two ways of how God interacts with the State of Israel. Firstly, He sanctifies His Holy Name by demonstrating to the world that He is the Living God, exercising His will over the land of Israel. He has the power to both desolate and repopulate the land according to His desire. Secondly, sanctification is manifested through His Holiness confronting the disbelief of the Jewish people and their rejection of Jesus Christ, who imparts the Holy Spirit for us to live by. It is evident to the world that, by God’s will, the Jewish people were reassembled in Israel in 1948, and it is apparent that God’s judgment upon Israel will persist. The nations are without excuse in recognizing that God is indeed Lord.

We can assess that God is Holy and sanctifies His name through the external judgment that befalls this world. He also sanctifies us internally through the Holy Spirit, which comes by the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ. The diagnosis is that sin is inherent in human nature, preventing anyone from standing before God’s Holiness. The hope is to accept Jesus Christ, who can stand before God and plead for our forgiveness, allowing God to bestow grace and mercy upon us as sinners. This is done by faith in Jesus Christ, whom God sent to atone for our sin and to declare us righteous. In God’s view, when He sees His Son in us, we are deemed righteous. The assurance of this plan’s success comes from experiencing justification “freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,” as stated in Romans 3:24.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1