What did the Old Testament program prophesy after the Messiah's rejection?
According to the Old Testament program, after the Messiah was rejected and crucified, the next predicted event was the tribulation—the awful seven-year period spoken of in Daniel—followed by Christ’s return and the setting up of His kingdom. The Church Age was not mentioned in that program.
Les explains that the Old Testament program, as laid out in Psalms chapter 2, never gave the slightest hint of the 1900-and-some years of the Church Age. It foretold the coming of the nation of Israel on the scene by virtue of the Abrahamic covenant, how the Messiah came, was rejected and crucified, and then after that was to come the tribulation—that awful period of seven years spoken of in Daniel—and then Christ would return and set up His kingdom. Not a mention of the church is in that program whatsoever.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;