Israel rejected the messiah saint. There is no such thing as spiritual israel.
Israel is the physical....christians are the spiritual.
-The Physical Israel rejected Messiah, but the True Israel in Spirit and in Truth, accepted Messiah, the King of the Real Jews:
Matthew 3:9 And
think not to say within yourselves,
We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that
God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
-Just because they were descendents of Abraham, doesn't mean they were the True Israel, "His People":
Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and
I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say,
Thou art my God.
-"His People" is whosoever believes on Him, even the prostitutes and tax collectors, who
repented:
Matthew 21:31 Whether of them twain did the will of
his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That
the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.
-"His People" is a Spiritual people, "whosoever worketh righteousness", it has nothing to do with their lineage after the flesh:
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is
no respecter of persons:
35 But in
every nation he that feareth him, and
worketh righteousness,
is accepted with him.
`Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James and John his brother, brought them up on a high mountain by themselves, and was TRANSFIGURED before them. HIS FACE SHONE LIKE THE SUN, and His clothes became white as the LIGHT....` (Matt. 17: 1 & 2)
His transfiguration is not His second coming, it is not even a "coming", they went up a mountain:
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father
with his angels; and then he
shall reward every man according to his works.
28 Verily I say unto you, There be
some standing here, which
shall not taste of death, till
they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
He didn't "
reward every man according to his works" on that mountain, so the transfiguration is not the second coming.
how do you account for the 70th week which is to be the seven years?
I believe the 70th week is
49 years, or a jubilee, which is 7x7.
From the "commandment" unto Messiah the Prince are 69 weeks:
Daniel 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of
the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the
Messiah the Prince shall be
seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [...]
So, Messiah was
born at the 70th week. Making it impossible for the 70th week to be 7 years, hence why I believe it is 49 years. The only way to challenge this, is by saying:
Messiah was not Messiah until His baptism. But the angel Gabriel is already calling Him Messiah here in Daniel, way before His baptism, He was born Messiah, He didn't became One:
Matthew 2:4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them
where Christ should be born.
where are we now on God's prophetic time clock?
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and
bound him a thousand years,
3 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and
after that he must be loosed a little season.
-I believe we are in the "little season" after the Millenial Reign, before Gog and Magog surround the beloved city.
Revelation 20:7 And
when the thousand years are expired,
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to
gather them together
to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and
the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.