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The Seventy Weeks of Daniel prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) concerns the Jews, i.e., Daniel's <span style="color:darkred">"people"</span style="color:darkred"> (9:24). It is not a myth that God has chosen Israel for Himself. <span style="color:darkred">"For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth"</span style="color:darkred"> (Deuteronomy 7:6). 

Israel is presently blinded by unbelief. <span style="color:darkred">"Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in"</span style="color:darkred"> (Romans 11:25). </span style="color:darkred">"Because of unbelief they were broken off"</span style="color:darkred"> (Dan 11:20); but, <span style="color:darkred">"if they abide not still in unbelief, </span style="color:darkred"> [they] <span style="color:darkred">shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again"</span style="color:darkred"> (11:23).

The Church presently abides as the people of God only because Israel was cast off by God for unbelief. <span style="color:darkred">"For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead" </span style="color:darkred"> (Romans 11:15). 

This is only a temporary situation, since Israel will soon be restored to faith and favor at the LORD Jesus Christ's Second Coming. "25 <span style="color:darkred">For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. </span style="color:darkred">26 <span style="color:darkred">And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: </span style="color:darkred"> 27 <span style="color:darkred">For this is My Covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins" </span style="color:darkred"> (11:25-27).

Because God set His affection upon Israel, Satan has sought to exterminate Israel. <span style="color:darkred">"They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance"</span style="color:darkred"> (Psalm 83:4). Though the LORD has allowed Israel to be afflicted, it is that they may learn to seek Him. <span style="color:darkred">"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Thy Statutes"</span style="color:darkred"> (Psa 119:71). God's anger against Israel's rejection of Himself will not be but for a short time longer. <span style="color:darkred">"In a little wrath I hid My face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer"</span style="color:darkred"> (Isaiah 54:8). 


[[Upon Thy Holy City: Jerusalem]]

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