That makes no sense. Sorry. A 70 Week period is a *linear* 70 Week Period. Otherwise, it is 2 periods of 69 Weeks and 1 Week. Then, it would be a 69 Week period--not a 70 Week period.
I used to hold to a separation between the 69 Weeks and the 70th Week. I thought the 70th Week was reserved for the end of the age. Ultimately, I could not withstand the argument I'm now giving you.
And I also came to realize the Church Fathers saw it this way too. It convinced me that the 70th Week was fulfilled in the earthly ministry of Jesus, followed by the Roman Army's destruction of Jerusalem and the temple.
This is exactly what Jesus said in his Olivet Discourse. The Roman Army was described by him as an army encircling Jerusalem In his generation--see Luke 21.20. The Roman Army was the Abomination of Desolation.
1. Your arguments make no sense, especially since history does not agree
2. church fathers? When did John and Peter and James believe anything else? Even Paul knew when the time of the gentile was finished all Isreal would be saved
3. prophesy is linear, when you look at it straight up. Many times when you turn it sideways you see events are sequential in order. But their are valleys or gaps in between individual events of years. The best example being when Jesus read from a prophet and said today is that day, he stopped mid prophecy, the rest of that prophecy has yet to be fulfilled. Yet reading it, you would think it all happened at the same time
dan 9 is about Israel, Jerusalem and the temple. It’s not about the church, it’s not about the messiah, it’s about what Gabriel said it was about
dan 9 24 “Seventy [
t]weeks have been decreed
for your people and your holy city,
there is the opening statement, there is the context. It is ALL about those two items (you can add the temple since the temple is built, destroyed, then a new temple is defiled by an idol) to make it about anything else is to take the prophecy out of context
since NON of the things which are said about Daniels people and holy city have been fulfilled. Dan 9 is not fulfilled
thats ALL we need to know
we don’t twist it, add to it, make it about something other than Israel or Jerusalem or the temple, only because our belief system does not want it to be about those things,