I think Daniel 9 gives the answer:
Dan 9:24-27
24 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.
25 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.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
KJV
There is "one week" remaining for Israel ("thy people") and Jerusalem ("thy holy city").
The Body of Christ (the promises for which are revealed in a "mystery", Eph. 3) has no part in this prophecy. It will be raptured before Daniel's 70th week.
Daniel's 70th week is the seven-year tribulation period. "Troublous times" may refer to this. Notice that something happens in "the midst of THE week"; nevertheless, it is "one week". The church has no part in it.
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