Eternally Grateful
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Nope it is all about Israel, her city and her temple.I agree. This had to do with Israel. At that time, only that nation was the people of God. Later, in the NT, what applied to Israel came to apply to other nations, as well.
that is what Daniel prayed for. He confessed his sins and the sins of his people, who had not yet repented. And his prayer was for God to remember the people, the city the temple and the promises
Dan 9 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
13 “As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
here Daniel is confessing the truth, Isreal the city and the sanctuary are scattered in all the nations and its city and sanctuary lie desolate, this was Gods promise in Lev 26. If you study it look to the final form of discipline God will enact if Israel fails to repent,
it’s all about Lev 26 and Gods judgment on the nation. If they do not obey,
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me, 28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins. 29 You shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters. 30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you. 31 I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the fragrance of your sweet aromas. 32 I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. 33 I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you; your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Which is exactly what happened, it happened to Daniel, and it happened again as prophets told us in 70 Ad and continues today
he goes on to prove this,
16 “O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. 17 Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
Again, Daniel is doing what was required by knowing Lev 26.
Lev 26: 40 ‘But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt—
42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.
preterists want to remove Israel from the equation and take everything promised to them and take them and apply them to the church, that’s why it is popularly called replacement theology,
God made a promise to Israel, through Abraham Isaac and Jacob, he called this promise an eternal promise, well eternity has not occurred yet, so it is still binding,
he also made a promise of what he would do if they would disobey him in the law given to Moses, in a form of 7 cycles of discipline on the nation, final cycle being total destruction of the city and sanctuary and scattering them amount the gentile nations, but even then, as told in other prophets, he promises when they repent, he will restore them and bring them back into the land, even punishing the nations who treated them badly.
I will stop here because adding all these passages to show my point will make this to long, I will respond to the rest when I get a brake at work