Hello: I errored in Quoting Dan 9:26-27 and relating it to the 7th beast of of the 70th week. Dan 9:26 relates to the 6th head of the Beast in Revelations; but in Daniel It relates to the fourth, (Rome). Because the book of Daniel accounts for Ancient Babylon, Medo/Persia, Greece, and the Ancient Roman empire, but the Revelations is accounting for Egypt and Assyria; Taking us up to 6 heads, plus the seventh Head (with the wound that was healed) being the (revived Roman Empire of the Future).
Allow me to divide this passage for you, instead of three verses if this was divided, (God had no chapters and verses) then it should have been divided like this.....
Daniel 9:25 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:
The 69 Weeks is seen above, the coming ONE WEEK is described below, and it tells who this man will be, he will be the prince to come (in 2000 some odd years) who is of the people (Rome/Europeans) who destroyed the city of Jerusalem and its sanctuary/temple.
and the
people(Rome/Europeans) of the prince that shall come(2000 years later) shall destroy the city and the sanctuary (in 70 AD); and the
end thereof shall be with a flood(Army in 70 AD), and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And
he(prince who shall come 2000 years later) shall confirm the
covenant with many(NOT just Israel see the ENP I linked to at Wikipedia) for one week: and in the midst of the week
he shall cause(by the False Prophets hands) the
sacrifice and the oblation to cease(the Jewish High Priest False Prophet will FORBID Jesus Worship), and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
The 7 Heads should be divided like this, Egypt, Assyria, (from Daniel on) Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome, then the Beast to come is the MAN who heals the Wounded Figurative 7 Headed Beast by Conquering Israel and the whole Mediterranean Sea Region, of course there is n0 real 7 Headed Beast, tis is from God's eyes all of those nations who DOMINATED Israel and the Mediterranean Sea Region until God says Israel became as Dead Men's Bones, then Israel did nit exist fir 2000 years, thus they could not be dominated nor conquered, so the Beast WENT AWAY (was Wounded) and can only return (be healed) after Israel became a nation again thus they could get conquered again, thus they could again be DOMINATED, as soon as this ONE MAN is given total power by the 10 (Europe) kings which mean COMPLETE Europe, not just 10 kings. We call it the Revived Roman Empire, but it is really just ONE MAN who arises out of the 10 Horns/kings of Europe, who is given ALL POWER and thus he THE MAN is the last Beast. Read Revelation 19:20 and Dan. 7:11 both call this man THE BEAST that is cast into hellfire. Nations do not get cast into hellfire. Amen.
((((What I should of Quoted was Dan 7:25-27)))); which (firstly) was the Good News that God was having for Daniel, before He told the Bad: That is, that his people were going to be oppress by not only the Golden head, But also by the chest and arms: Medo-Persia, and then Greece, and then the Feet of iron and clay; which again is the sixth Head (Ancient Rome). The Seventh Head Is yet Future.
Technically the Iron & Clay is what we had for 2000 years it represents (THINK NOW) the 1500 or so years "(I say its really closer to 2000 years because when they divided the kingdom Europe lost much of the power they had, it as split asunder, but that's another discussion). So.....for 1500 or so years Rome was a Iron and Clay, they tried to reunite over and over but always failed. Charlemagne tried it via war, as did Napoleon and Hitler, AND they tried it through Royal Marriage, which is what the SEED OF MEN means in Dan. 2:43, they shall try to unite via Royal Marriage, but they (Europe/10 kings or COMPLETE Europe) will not cleave unto one another.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they
shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
In the very end when they do reunite (10 toes/10 horns) they are only then seen as Iron and Clay SEE BELOW:
41 And whereas thou sawest the
feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the
kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be
in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be
partly strong, and partly broken.
So, only the Feet nd Toes are made up of Clay & Iron, the Legs (Rome) was Iron alone. So, this is the 7th Head of he Beast, the 5th Beast of Daniel as seen in Dan. 7:23-25 (if one knows how to dig it out). The real reason Gid stated that it is PARTLY STRONG and then PARTLY BROKEN, which means WEAK, is because you have a DIVEDED Europe which reunites with 1500-2000 years of multiple kingdoms like Span, France, Germany, Italy and maybe even England wo are the STRONG PARTS, then you have Gibraltar, Malta, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Romania etc. etc. which are mixed in and weaklings, so its PARTLY STRONG and it is PARTLY WEAK, and unlike all the other kingdoms, the will deem it necessary to give all of their power over unto ONE MAN in order to make thigs run smoothly. We all know verses 26-27 are the VEY END. but in verses 23-25 we see how is DIVIDED over 2000 some odd years.
Dan. 7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall
be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the
whole earth(meaning the Whole Mediterranean Coastline), and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the
ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings(COMPLETE Europe not 10 nations) that shall arise: and
another shall rise after them; and
he shall be diverse from the first(Rome), and
he shall subdue three kings.
25 And
he shall speak great words
against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
So, as we see in Dan. 7:3, ALL THE BEASTS WERE DIFFERENT from each other, so the above in verse 24 is not speaking about the HE (Anti-Christ/Little Horn being different from the first as in Babylon (we know via verse 3 they were ALL DIFFERENT from each other), but verse 24 is saying HE (Little Horn Beast) will be different from the FIRST Roman Beast in that Rome was a Nation which had many Rulers over the Mediterranean Sea Region and ruled for many years, this LAST BEAST will be ONE MAN who only rules for a very short time (42 months) and unlike Rome, he will NEVER pass his kingdom on to another human being, he is cast straight into hellfire as THE BEAST.
Thus the difference is.....Rome was THE BEAST..........in the end times ONE MAN will be the Beast. (Thus 666 means one man is THE BEAST, the number simply says the last Beast is a MAN as in 666 is the number of man).