Daniel has the best definition as to God's
plan for the nation of Israel.

"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy
people and upon thy holy city, to finish
the transgression, and to make an end of
sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the most Holy. 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; the street shall be built again,
and the wall, even in troublous times,"
Daniel 9:24-25