 What is Daniel's 70-week prophecy, and just as important, why did he give a 70-week prophecy? Hey, smart Christians, there is a prophecy that's given by Daniel. Actually, it's given to Daniel by the angel, and it kind of causes a little bit of confusion. Some people understand it, but I think a lot of people don't understand it, what it means, and then also why was this prophecy given. And so, before we go into what it is and why it is, let's just first look at the actual passage itself. In Daniel 9-24, this is Daniel. He is waiting for Israel to come back into the land after their 70-year exile, and we'll talk about the 70-year exile just a little bit, but he says, as he's praying, he's waiting for word to come back and answer to his prayer, and the angel comes back and gives him the prayer. And what is the answer to his prayer? It's in Daniel 9-24. He says, 70 weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish. Now, I won't go into the other parts just yet, but I want you to notice something. 70 weeks, well, what do you mean 70 weeks? Well, the term week, let's go back to it. The word week doesn't mean a week like we think of it. The word week here in the Hebrew is the word for sevens. So, it is 77s. Now, who has this been decreed to? Who was this for? He says decreed for your people, the people of yours. Who's Daniel's people? Daniel's people is Israel, and we know he's speaking specifically of Israel because he says, your people and your holy city, that is Jerusalem. So, this is being pretty specific. So, what's happening here and why is Daniel leaving praying and then why 70 weeks? Well, to get a good understanding, we've got to go back a lot further in the very beginning when Israel as a nation is being formed and when the law is given. If we go to Leviticus 25, which is one of the complementary books that's telling us more detail about the law, there is something that God tells Israel what to do. And of course, remember, God says that if you obey me, then I'll bless you. I want you to have this land, but if you're not going to obey me, then there's going to be consequences. And remember, the law that they're under, the covenant, it's a conditional covenant. If you do this, if you do well, I bless you. If you disobey, then you'll be punished. And so, one of the stipulations in this law we find in Leviticus 25, verse 2, he says, Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a Sabbath to the Lord. Here it is. He says six years you shall sow your field and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crops. But during the seventh year, the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. And so every seven years on the seventh year, the land gets a rest. However, we're going to find out that Israel did not obey this. And again, if you do not obey the Lord, well, then God is going to render consequences for that. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so much just the land issue. It wasn't the fact that they disobeyed him and that they disobeyed God in a lot of areas. They disobeyed him in just sin. They're like a faith, but also their idolatry. And that is them having other gods. And so if we go to dude, Rodney 3216, look what he says. They made him, that is God, jealous that they is Israel, made him jealous with strange gods. With abominations, they provoked him in anger. They sacrificed the demons who were not God, to gods whom they have not known, new gods who came lately, whom your father did not dread. Now, this office is going to be a problem and God is not going to be satisfied. However, we've got a problem. One, God has made a promise to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob. Now that promise was not a conditional promise. That covenant was an unconditional covenant. And so God is going to remember his unconditional promise to Abraham and his descendants, which includes these disobedient. Matter of fact, it is these disobedient people, but there's also something else in that promise as well. That is that through him, all the nations of the world will be blessed. The reason why I bring that up is because he's going to fulfill both aspects of that, meaning the people who are his people, they're going to be blessed in this land, even though they are disobedient right now. And then the other part of Genesis 12, 3, all the nations of the world shall be blessed. So he's going to fulfill that, even though it looks like that because we're not talking about these Gentiles, that that part is not going to take place. It is in fact thought about. I want people to understand this Gentiles, though we don't have a large record of the Gentile movements and actions and so forth in the Bible. It's not that the Gentile believers are an afterthought or a parentheses as someone will call it or plan B. No, God has always had in mind a future for the Gentiles, who are believers, as well as the future for Israel, who happened to be believers. And how do we know that? Well, continuing in Deuteronomy 32, if we drop down just a little bit to 21, he says, they have made me jealous with what is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their idols. So what does God say? I will make them jealous with those who are not a people. I would provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. So God has stated that he is going to now. We don't know all of this at this point in time through progressive revelations. We read the scriptures more. We're going to see more and more of God bringing up these Gentile peoples, not knowing specifically who I'm going to call a people who are not my people to be my people. Those who are not loved, I'll call them beloved. And so this is why they made him jealous. And so this is how God is going to move towards one fulfilling his promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for the land of Israel for his people. And how is he going to bring them back? While at the same time punishing them, well, he's going to make them jealous by bringing in these Gentiles who will make the Jews jealous and ultimately bring them back. And that's really part of why this 70 weeks of prophesy. But we still haven't gotten to the whole fulfillment or understanding, a full understanding of why they are exiled out of this land. Now, while they're being exiled, it's clear in 2 Chronicles 36 21, he says the reason for this is to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of his desolation, it kept Sabbath until 70 years were completed. So how many times did Israel violate this Sabbath 70 times? So what does God do because you violated this seven year rest? You violated it 70 times. Jeremiah is prophesying to them that you will be put out of the land for 70 years. There's going to be this exile for seven years. Now, he's going to deal with the countries that you've been exiled to, but he's dealing with you also by putting you out of the land and then giving the land its rest. Now, it's also important to remember that prior to Daniel receiving this prayer, we need to look at something else, something very important that Jeremiah states. Now, remember, this is this is just before the exile and he's making a statement. Remember also in Deuteronomy, God states that even before they went into the land in Deuteronomy 30 verse 6, he says that I'm going to end up circumcising your heart. But prior to that, he also says that you are going to be in a foreign land. I'm going to bring you back into the land and then circumcise your heart because the issue that God has within, like with us, is sin and that's because of our heart. So God is going to, at some point in time in the future, he is going to deal with their heart. He's also going to deal with our hearts as well. So anyone that's going to be a child of God in the future, anyone that's going to follow his, anyone that's going to be his part of his flock, he will have to have done something with their heart. But what happens significantly, I might add, in Jeremiah, he gives a prophecy about Israel and what God is going to do. While they're in the exile or going into the exile, I should say, he gives something, he gives a prophecy that's going to override, I should say, or replace the old covenant. In Jeremiah 31, 31, he says, Behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not like the covenant which I've made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant, which they wrote, although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord, but this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord. What he says, I will put my law within them and on their heart. I will write it and I will be their guide and they shall be my people. Now, this is a disobedient nation. This hasn't happened yet at the time of this writing, but God is saying what he is going to do. Keeping in mind, he's already stated that he's going to do so in Deuteronomy and other places, that he is going to circumcise their heart. He's going, which means he's going to put his spirit in their heart, just like with ours as well, but put his spirit in their heart and give them a new disposition. And he says, as he says in Ezekiel 11 and 36, that he will cause the people to follow him, to walk after him and to keep his statues. That's after he puts his spirit in their heart. As he says, sprinkle their heart with water and put the spirit in. So this is this understanding of this being born again process that Jesus brings up in John 3. But going back to Jeremiah, he says, I'll put my law within them and on their heart and I will write it and they will, and I will be their guide and they shall be my people. They will not teach again each man, his neighbor, and each man, his brother saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest of them, the clear as the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember no more. So he is making a bold declaration, a prophecy that I will forgive their sin and I will never remember it anymore. I will forgive their iniquity and those sins that they've done before me, I will never remember them again. Now there's something else vitally important that stated because sometimes we tend to forget to read this passage and take note of what else he says. He says, Thus says the Lord in verse 35, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars by night, who stirs up the sea so that so that its waves roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. So he's speaking of these these objects, the sun for light by day, the moon and the stars for light by night, the sea and its waves. He says these fixed orders, look what he says in verse 36. If this fixed order departs from me declares the Lord, then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever. That those things have not happened nor will they happen. That fixed order will not cease to be or depart from him. So what he's really saying is Israel will never cease to be a nation before the Lord. Never. They will always be a nation before the Lord. Why is that important? Because he's going to afflict Israel. Now if we go further, if we go back a little further, he gives another prophecy about Israel. This is just before he gives this prophecy about this new covenant that he's going to establish with Israel. Before that he says there's going to be a problem. Now this is not in the same order, but he's giving the bad news first, but he's also going to give the good news in just a little bit, the new covenant. But this bad news that he states, he says the word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, this is 30 verse 1, saying, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, write all the words which I have spoken in a book. For behold, days are coming declares the Lord. When I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah, the Lord says I will also bring them back to the land that I gave their forefathers and they shall possess it. Look what he says. Now these are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. So it's concerning who? Israel and Judah. Don't miss that. This is for specifically Israel and Judah. And we have it broken up that way because you've got the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom, but really we're speaking of all of Israel. Okay. Verse 5, For thus says the Lord, I have heard a sound of terror, of dread, and there is no place. Ask now and see if a male can give birth. Why do I see every man with his hands on his loins as a woman and childbirth? And why have they all faces turned pale? So this is going to be a horrific time where the men are going to be bent over in pain. Verse 7, he says, For last, alas for that day is great. There is none like it. And it is the time of Jacob's distress or Jacob's trouble. But he, that is Jacob, which is Israel, Israel will be saved from it. So they're going to have this problem, this trouble, but they are going to be saved from it. All of this is going to piece together, especially when we consider what Daniel's prophecy is this 70 weeks. So now let's go back to Daniel, chapter 9, verse 24. And let's read the passage again and see if these 70 weeks make sense. Now remember, they were exiled for how many years? 70 years. Why? Because they violated the Sabbath 70 times of the 800 plus years or about they were in the land. They did not obey for 490 years. That's 70 of those Sabbaths. However, God is not through with them. So as Daniel is praying and he's waiting for a response and he gets the response about his prayer, Daniel tells him about this decree for his people, which is Israel. That's why he says it was decreed for your people and your holy city that is Jerusalem. And look what it says, to finish the transgression. So these 70 weeks, these 77s are to do this. By the way, before I continue, the 77s, remember, they violated the sevens 70 times. God has, as some might say, a sense of humor. So since you violated my Sabbaths, which is a seven, you violated 70 times, I'm going to decree 77s for you. The difference is it won't be 70 of, it won't be seven days, it will be seven years. That's what these sevens are. And so Israel, you're going to have a problem. As a matter of fact, you hear this brought up again, when Jesus is asked by Jews, if my brother sins, how many times shall I forgive him? And what does Jesus say? 70 times 70. He is trying to remind them of what is going on. As a matter of fact, he is in the midst of the first half. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, not the first half, but he is in the midst of the 69th of those sevens. But before I get ahead of myself, let's finish reading. He says, the purpose of these 77s that were decreed is to one, finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecies, and to anoint the most holy place. And this word most holy place, the word place is not there. It could be the holy place or it could be the holy one. That part isn't all that important just yet, but I want to focus on what he says is going to happen. He is going to, the point of this is to finish the transgression. All of Israel's transgressions will be through at this time. At the end of these 77s, it's going to wrap up all of this stuff, not before, not during, but at the end of it. Also to make an end or to put an end to sin. There will be no more sin on Israel's part after this and to make atonement for iniquity. But I thought atonement has already been made. Yes, if we're speaking about the old covenant atonement, but they're going to have to have their sins atoned for. It's made available even now for them. However, Israel has rejected it by and large. There are some Jews that have not, but by and large, Israel has turned their back on her Messiah and we're going to read further why that's happening. And so it's not a problem. It's not something that anyone should be alarmed about, but it was prophesied that they're going to do so and we're going to see why they do so in a second. But to make atonement for iniquity, that is Israel's iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness for iniquity. In other words, Israel is going to be saved to bring in everlasting righteousness. If you have everlasting righteousness, you're in right standing in an everlasting way. That means you are saved also to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So all of these prophecies are going to be fulfilled. So he says verse 25. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and reveal Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there will be 70, I'm sorry, there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. So listen to this point for a second. There will be seven weeks and then 62 weeks. Well, seven times or seven plus 62 is 69. So he says from the time of the decree, there will be that amount of time. Now this, these two, the seven and the 69 or 62 happen to go back to back. Okay. But they don't necessarily have to be. He is just decreeing that there will be 77s. So as we look at it, there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks. So there's a division. Something happens in the first seven and then something happens in the next 62. It will be built again with plaza and moat and even in times of distress. So what will be built? Well, to restore and reveal. We're speaking of the wallets. If we look from that point in time, all the way from this moment, from this decree counting 69 weeks, so 69 times sevens or seven years, that's 483 years. In exactly 483 years, Jesus is going to be put on the cross. He's going to make his triumphant entry. Hosanna, the whole nine yards go before Pilate and Caiaphas and so forth and then be crucified. All of this is going to happen. But however, let's look at the timing some more. Then after 62 weeks, so which is after the 69th week, then he'll be crucified, not during the 69th week. So after the 69 weeks happen, after the first 69 weeks, even in looking at how it's written in the Hebrew, if we go over here, it is this wa, which is the an. So there is a stop between the 69th week and then what's going to happen after. So what's going to happen after the 69th week? Not in the 70th week or the 70th seven, but after the 69th seven. Then after the 62 weeks or the 69th seven, the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing and the people of the Prince who is to come will destroy the city. That's also going to happen after the 69th week and destroy the city and sanctuary. So the temple is going to be destroyed after that also. So the Messiah is going to be killed and also after that the temple will be destroyed and its end will come with the flood and even the even to the end, there will be war. Desolations are determined and he will make here's going to happen. We have not gotten to the 70th seven just yet. We're going to see what happens in the 77th because they're going to be those are going to want to say that after the 69th week comes the last seven. It does not because there's some things are going to have to happen in that once those sevens are up. Remember in order for this prophecy to be fulfilled once those sevens are up all of those things that that were stated the reason why will have to take place to put it into sin to bring an everlasting righteousness for Israel. That did not happen after and some would say after destruction of the temple. That has not happened yet and so that could not have been the 70th seven. As a matter of fact we're going to read what Daniel's told that is going to happen in these in the last seven. But continuing verse 27 in that seven what's going to happen he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week. So that one seven during that one seven that last week that's remaining this lawless ban is going to make a covenant with who with Israel in the during the seven weeks this last week I'm sorry that's what's going to happen but in the middle of the week in the middle of that seven three and a half years into it he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offerings and on the wing of abomination will come one who makes desolate even until a complete destruction one that is decreed is poured out on one who makes desolate. So this is a horrible prophecy but there is a reason for this prophecy. As a matter of fact Daniel goes into a little bit more detail in Daniel 12 5 he says then I Daniel look and I behold two others were standing one on this bank of the river and the other on the bank of the other side of the river and one said to the man dressed in linen who was above the waters of the river how long will it be until the end of these wonders. I heard the man dressed in linen who was above the waters of the river as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it would be for a time times and half a time and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people all these events will be completed so what is a time times and half a time that is three and a half years that goes back to what Daniel was prophesying or being prophesied to in Daniel 9 so in the very middle this great part of this tribulation is going to happen this great distress this great trouble that was prophesied by Jeremiah is going to happen in the middle of this last seven in the middle of it which he's saying here is three and a half years and at the end of that then all the things that were prophesied for or decreed for in these seventy sevens are going to be complete this is specifically for Israel think about it this way for the first sixty nine sevens this was all Israel the church was not contemplated in the first sixty nine seven the last seven also is not for the church the church is not supposed to go through this why because God is not coming to punish the church even if there are Jews inside the church anyone that has placed their faith in Christ is part of the church be they Jew or Gentile only Israel can be Israel are you with me if a Jewish person is saved yes he's part of Israel but he's not a part of the Israel that's contemplated for this destruction for this trouble for these harsh times so what is going to be happening here and there's a reason why this is brought up as a matter of fact to make sure that we understand that this is not or that the church is not an afterthought Jesus makes this statement by the way it's pretty interesting statement he says in Matthew 2145 when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard this parable they understood what he was speaking I'm sorry I'm in the wrong little verse 43 therefore I say to you the king of God will be taken away from you these unrighteous unruly Jews the king of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing fruit of it that is people that are productive people that are in God God's people and he who falls on this stone will be broken into pieces but on who on whomever it falls it will scatter him like dust remember Jesus is a stumbling stone a stumbling blood he is the the corner of the foundation of what of the church that Jews and Gentiles will will take part in this church but these Jews will not as a matter of fact remember this is also where Jesus is given this parable about the marriage feast this is where he says he goes out and he's called certain people but they refuse and so what does he do he goes out and gets good and bad that is Jew and Gentile and brings me which is where he says many are called but few are chosen this is piggybacking off of that so those unrighteous Jews who didn't want to have anything with Messiah that's fine and we're going to see this going forward Israel according to the prophecy they're going to turn their back on their Messiah but God is going to do two things one he's going to bring in Gentiles why well one he's already decided to do so in in his prophecy or in his covenant that he made with Abraham the Abrahamic covenant part of the prophecy involved the Gentiles we don't think about it that time but it does so part of the prophecy involves the Gentiles who are going to be blessed as a result of this lineage but he's also going to bless his people however his people Israel they are going to go through some tough times not all Israel there are some Jews that are going to make it in before this who have placed their faith in Christ remember the first people in the church were Jews on their Pentecost the first to place their faith in Christ and be saved and have the Holy Spirit in them they were Jews the 12 apostles plus the people who also converted or placed their faith in Christ at that time so he's going to take as Jesus said in math in John 10 he's going to take of two flocks and make them one he'll be the shepherd over two flocks make the two flocks into one flock Jew and Gentile amen so continuing Jesus makes this statement and then Paul also makes a statement before I get to what he's going to say about Israel Paul also makes a statement about the Gentiles in Ephesians 3 remember Paul is and he's a Jewish apostle but he's an apostle to who to the Gentiles and so he makes his statement in Ephesians 3 1 he says for this reason I Paul the prison of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles if indeed you have heard of the stewardship and this word stewardship this word according to me on is where we get the the word dispensation it's actually a translation of the Greek to the Latin which which makes the word despot despotio and so that's where we in our English term is dispensation arrives from that but that's the word right there at this stewardship this and economy really just literally means the house rules it's how we divide things up and so if indeed you have heard of the stewardship or the dispensation of God's grace which was given to me for you by that that by revelation there was made known to me the mystery as I wrote before in brief by referring to this when you read you could understand my insight into the mystery of Christ which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men meaning of Israel as it is now been revealed to his holy apostle and prophets in the spirit to be specific that the Gentiles are fellow heirs I'm sorry our fellow heirs and fellow members of the body what body the church and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel of which I was made a minister according to the gift of God's grace which was given to me according to the working of his power so he's saying this mystery we didn't know or previously generations didn't know they didn't expect it but it's always been the case but now it's being fully revealed that Gentiles are also to be partakers of this body which which is fulfillment of what he said with Abraham in Genesis 12 2 through 3 so that part is important Paul is bringing this up so now what does Paul say about Israel Israel is turning their back on remember in Romans 9 Paul says I wish that I could be a curse for my fellow kids my countrymen that is Israel those of the flesh so he wished he could be a curse crucified or what have you for the sake of Israel because they have turned their back they're not coming to Christ some are but not all but Israel is going to be saved as God has stated because just like others they there will be those that will also be elect as well as a matter of fact we read this passage in in Romans 11 for Romans 9 through through 10 and 11 those chapters he's speaking of Israel specifically about him wanting them to come to Christ because they're not by and large but look what he says he says but what is the divine response to him I have kept I'm sorry let's let's go forward a little earlier to kind of keep it in context verse 1 of chapter 11 he says I say then God has not rejected his people has he meaning Israel may it never be for I too am in Israelite so he's saying and all Jews have been rejected a lot of us have made it in but the problem is the concern is most of us aren't coming in he says I too am in Israelite a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin but I'm sorry God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew or do you not know what the scripture says in this passage about Elijah how we please with God listen to this against Israel Lord they have killed your prophets they have torn down your altars and I alone am left and they are seeking my life here's where I wanted to pick back up because it's very interesting what he says and this relates to Israel's future about Israel those who again the nation is not turning towards Christ like they should and so look what the response but what is the divine response to him I have kept for myself 7000 men who have not bowed the need of Baal in the same way there also there has also come to be at present time a remnant of who of Jews according to God's gracious choice this word for choice we'll get the word election but if it is by grace it is no longer on the basis of work otherwise grace is no longer grace so what does he do remember the Gentiles even those that would like to say that the church has replaced Israel that's not correct but those Gentiles they were chosen by God so too will be those Jews who will be saved also so what does he say what then what Israel is seeking it is now obtained but those who were chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened what he says just as it is written God gave Israel God gave them a spirit of stupor God caused them to have eyes not to see and ears not to hear down to this very day so Israel is rejecting their Messiah why God has given them a spirit of stupor this is what another reason why we should say that the church has not replaced Israel because that wouldn't make any sense knowing that he has given them a spirit of stupor there's another pastor need to look at this is also in chapter 11 going down to 25 concerning Israel look what Paul says for I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mystery so that you will not be wise in your own estimation look what he says and this is about this 70 weeks still that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until how long is this partial hardening going to be until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and so all Israel will be saved just as it is written so what's going to happen Israel has this partial hardening in between this 69th week and the 70th week this last seven there is a partial hardening which is why in the Hebrew it's written with a with a break literally in the Hebrew writing there is a break between the 69th and the 70th which is why it says and the why or the or the va dependable how you want to pronounce it in Hebrew but there's a break so there's a period of time that Israel has been hardened well what's happening at that time well one Jesus will be crucified in that period between the 69th and the 70th according to Daniel 9 and then also the temple will be destroyed but even more to that even longer period of time this hardening period will take place until the fullness of the Gentiles has come once that is through then God will deal with Israel well what did God say is going to happen in order to deal with Israel and when he said according to Daniel 9 and 12 in the last seven the last seven year period the 70th week when that ever whenever that happens we don't know when it's going to be but that last seven the 70th week the 70th seven that was decreed for Israel all of those things in Daniel chapter 9 will be fulfilled Israel will come back they will go through this horrific time this last three and a half years this time times and a half a time all of that is going to take place for this covenant between them and the and the lawless one when that's broken and he is is uh there's all this abominable things to Israel and and to the the next temple at this point in time Israel is going to be persecuted hated amongst all nations then God is going to bring Israel back into the fold God is going to do for them what he promised he promised to save Israel to save the nation not because of their special but because he made a promise as we keep hearing throughout the Old Testament not because of you but because of the promise that I made with your fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob so God had made it makes an unconditional covenant with them even though Israel breaks the conditional covenant but because of the previous covenant with Israel as well as with Gentiles first three of chapter 12 of Genesis God is going to fulfill all of these things and that's when he's going to make the two flocks of two people those Jewish believers and those Gentile believers taking them and making them one with one shepherd so the point the purpose of these 70 weeks remember he said he's going to cause these Gentiles also to make these Jews jealous so the point of this is to bring everybody together presently the dominant group of the body are the Gentiles but God has not forgotten about his Jews his nation that he promised that one specific nation that there will be people from that nation to come in is every single Jewish person is every single person in Israel going to be saved no first of all everybody that's in Israel isn't even an ethnic Jew that aside those that are truly Israel and we don't have to fight over because nowadays we're fighting over who are the actual true Jews we don't have to worry about it God knows and so all of Israel those elect that Paul says God has reserved for himself and is going to choose elect Jews out of Israel to also come in and those is those Jews that's what he means when he says that all of Israel is not Israel but all of all of Israel will be saved but all of those that are in Israel they're not really Israel he knows who they are he knows who he saved who he has a remnant of he knows who he's chosen and those people are going to come in from the nation and that's what he's going to make the two to become one that's the purpose of the 70 weeks to make sure that every single prophecy every single vision that was given will come to pass and so my friends I know there was a lot of information I know we've covered a lot there's far more scripts we can cover as well but God knows what he's doing he is going to do exactly what he said he's going to do and in the end we will all whether we be Jew or Gentile we're going to glorify God as our father amen