Do you have a passage you are referencing to say that Dan's people would be Jews exclusively? I'm not sure what you are referencing to begin with, but as I said before, "elect", or "God's chosen", or "holy people" is not exclusive to OT Jews and is not inclusive of any modern antiChrist Jews destined not to accept Christ.
Whenever I speak of the Jews or Israel as it relates to the prophecy (blessing or punishment) I'm
never referring - in any way - to the modern folks who call themselves "jews" or "jewish", UNLESS I also mention Edom, Edomites, or Esau.
Please see my latest post to you in the other thread.
When I reference "Daniel's people [Jews]", I'm specifically repeating the context provided by the particular scripture being referenced, not reading anything into the current text. If we go back a few chapters we read daniel's prayer to the Almighty to see who it includes.
Daniel 9:1-7
In the first year of Darius son of Xerxes[a] (a Mede by descent), who was made ruler over the Babylonian kingdom— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the Scriptures, according to the word of the Lord given to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
4 I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed:
“Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned and done wrong. We have been wicked and have rebelled; we have turned away from your commands and laws. 6 We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
7 “Lord, you are righteous, but this day we are covered with shame—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered us because of our unfaithfulness to you.
I conclude the following from the text:
- People of Judah = I can conclude none other than "Judahites" aka Jews
- Inhabitants of Jerusalem = This is mentioned as distinct from the "People of Judah", the stranger that grafted themselves to Israel through the kingdom of Judah.
- All Israel = From the context, I must conclude both houses, but particularly the northern house called Israel and Ephraim since Daniel already mentioned Judah (the southern house).
- We = all those who agreed to abide by the law of God and who lived in the land.
---
From this point, Gabriel is dispatched to explain what will happen to daniel's people:
Daniel 9:20-24(partial)
While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill— 21 while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. 22 He instructed me and said to me, “Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. 23 As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city...
I conclude the following from the text:
- my people Israel = Daniel's people, which I must conclude includes "the Jews, "the stranger that grafted themselves to Israel", and "the northern house"
- Your people = the same people Daniel is referencing
- Your holy city = Jerusalem
---
Aside: "Holy" is translated from "Kodesh" and simply means "set apart unto God"; what/who He chose for a specific purpose. It does not necessarily connote
purity,
righteousness, or
goodness even though the person or thing set apart unto God is intended for His righteousness and goodness.
So it's valid to read Jerusalem described as the "holy" city ("set apart") but be filled with violence and be targeted for destruction, or have the temple labeled as "holy" but be full of corruption, or call the children of Israel "the holy people" while also prophesying their punishment. They are "set apart" for a specific job/purpose/task but fell into sin and needed redemption.
Daniel's people were "set apart" to take the knowledge of the Living God to the nations. That is the job specifically given to them - Israel - and no other nation of people. Thus, Daniel's people - specifically Israel - are called "the holy people", "God's chosen", and "God's elected representatives" or "
the elect".
Further, the firstborns of all creatures are "set apart unto God" and so are called "holy ones". This is why Christ/Messiah was referred to as "
that holy one" in the gospels when Gabriel was prophesying Him to Mary.
Even when we say God is "holy" it still simply means He's "set apart" from everyone else...but He's particularly "set apart"
because of His absolute purity, righteousness, and goodness as compared to our corruption.
The faulty notion that "holy" means "
intrinsically pure, right, and good" comes from Roman Catholic tradition, not from the scriptures or ancient Hebrew mindset.
---
When we read the prophecy of the time of trouble (Daniel 12) it is a prophecy specifically for the punishment of daniel's people because of their sin. The context begins in verse one:
Daniel 12:1
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
I conclude the following from the text:
- Michael is the specific "Prince" (i.e. Principality) over the people of Israel, just like we read earlier in Daniel 10 that there's a Prince over Persia. Each nation/ethnos of people has a spiritual Principality over them (
Ephesians 6:12)
- Thy people = Daniel's people as referenced earlier, which includes the Jews, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the northern house.
- Time of trouble = There is a similar reference we have of this and it's "Jacob's trouble" (
Jer 30:7, 10 - As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! see also.
Luke 21:24)
Daniel 12:2-4
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
I conclude the following from the text:
- Them & They = Daniel's people, not
ALL of them but many of them...particularly the wise.
Daniel 12:5-7
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.
6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
I conclude the following from the text:
- He shall have Accomplished = When The Almighty ("
He that lives forever and ever") has completed the punishment
- To scatter the power = The punishment is the scattering
- The holy people = The "set apart" people = Daniel's people, as they are the ones being punished