O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name” (Dan. 9:18–19). Yahweh is a God whose “steadfast love … never ceases” and whose “mercies never come to an end” (Lam. 3:22–23). Out of his boundless kindness, God promised that, in the latter days, “the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed” (Dan. 2:44) and that “one like a son of man” would receive “dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all