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You wrote: "Wow, Where does this leave the Jews of today? IMHO I get a feeling of anti semitism reading this."

Here we go again (excerpted from #241 above)

"How odd to think that Christians who believe that the Church is composed of “Jew and Greek” alike (Romans 10:12) are sometimes suspected of anti-Semitism by those who believe that in the future, earthly millennium the Jews will be rewarded with earth while pre-Rapture Christians will achieve heaven, the grand prize.

"Instead of being incarnational, history becomes fatalistic; instead of being sacramental, the material realm is cursed, even evil.

"This dualism is both startling and familiar, neo-Gnostic and Manichaean.

While fighting against the “New Age” movement and its dualistic errors, dispensationalists unwittingly embrace a similar error, pitting the spiritual against the physical and the heavenly against the earthly, as though they were never ___reconciled in the person of Jesus Christ___.

This was the comment that bothers me. IMHO When I read It I get the idea that they failed to accept Christ by I guess 73 AD so today they are no good. So with replacement theology, which came a bit later, we end up with what Martin Luther, who I BTW admire for many non Jewish issues, thought about the Jews and eventually Adolf Hitler.

The 70th week, or last 7-year period, transpired around the crucifixion of Jesus (ending around the time of Paul’s conversion), giving the Jews time to accept him as Messiah (during which the punishment for this rejection was determined). The war on the Jews from 66-73 AD (which some preterists argue is the 70th week, and may have allowed a 40 year gap, programmatic of the Exodus, for Jesus to still be accepted, between 30-70) need not be part of Daniel’s 70 and indeed likely is not