Does Jesus break covenants? I mean, the verse says that this same person breaks the covenant half-way through. Israel doesn't break the covenant. The 70th week has a future fulfillment, which is something that even some of the ECF believed. However, they focused more on the wrath of God and the last 3 1/2 years.
Here is a quick look at how I see history. The Old Testament is the history of God's chosen people Israel, with the church being the hidden mystery of the Old Testament, revealed in the new. Following the rejection of Christ as Messiah and His gospel by the Jews (as spoken by Paul), we enter into the times of the Gentiles.
Then, following Paul's writings, we then go back to the Jews, after the times of the Gentiles is fulfilled, and God deals with the Jews again. The blindness is removed and all Israel is saved. This is in keeping with Zechariah 12, Jeremiah 31, and Isaiah. When Satan attempts to destroy Israel and the Jews, Christ returns, and Jesus is their salvation, and He destroys the armies that come against Jerusalem and saves His people. At that time, all those of Israel who are still alive, will recognize Him, and will mourn Him. And God will open rivers of repentance/forgiveness, and all will be saved.
We have this in Jeremiah 31:
"31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, but I was a husband to them,” declares Yahweh. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will cut with the house of Israel after those days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 And they will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares Yahweh, “
for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
35 Thus says Yahweh,
Who gives the sun for light by day
And the statutes for the moon and the stars for light by night,
Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar;
Yahweh of hosts is His name:
36 “If these statutes are removed
From before Me,” declares Yahweh,
“Then the seed of Israel also will cease
From being a nation before Me [
m]forever.”
37 Thus says Yahweh,
“If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also reject all the seed of Israel
For all that they have done,” declares Yahweh."
Has God rejected, or will God reject Israel? No. Has anyone taken their place? No. This makes it clear. Imagine what the above would mean if Satan actually managed to destroy Israel and the Jews. Satan would win the war. God will have failed to be faithful to His promises. Jesus' death would become meaningless. This is why the world is always going after the Jews.
Satan is constantly deceiving the world against the Jews. Hitler and Germany aren't the only ones deceived, but Hitler was the only one who was dead set on making a world absent of all Jews a reality. Germany managed to wipe out 1/2 of the Jewish population of Europe. (6 million+ Jews) Add to that those killed by Stalin among the 60+ million Russians he killed. Remember, Hitler's "Final Solution" was the death of all Jews.
To truly understand prophecy, one must understand history. I don't have a full understanding of that part of world history. What I wrote is an eye-opener for me from the research I am doing (again).
