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 Nevertheless, does not natural Israel today merit some special favor?  In the period just prior to the Lord's day, when sincere Bible students were rediscovering many of the basic truths of God's Word, it was thought   that with the ending of the Gentile Times the Jews would again enjoy a privileged standing before God.  Thus, C.T. Russell's book The Time Is at Hand (Volume II of Studies in the Scriptures), published in  1989, applied Jeremiah 31:29-34 to the natural Jews, and commented:  "The world is witness to the fact that Israel's punishment under the dominion of  the Gentiles has been continuous  since B.C. [607], this it still continues, and that there is no reason to expect their national re-organization  sooner than A.D. 1914, the limit of their  'seven times'-2520 years."  It seemed that the Jews would then experience a national restoration, and this prospect apparently brightened in  1917, when the Balfour Declaration pledged British support for making Palestine a national home for the Jews. 

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