I always ask proponents of the "gap" theory to try this: Go to work and take your lunch hour at 12:00 but instead of coming back at 1, don't come back until 2. When the boss says, "Where the flip you been? You only get one hour for lunch and were supposed to be back at 1:00!" just tell him, "Boss, didn't you know? There's a "one hour gap" between 12:59 and 1:00, so I've only been gone an hour!
"Seventy Weeks are determine..." not "seventy weeks plus 2,000 years". It's a Numerically Specific Time Prophecy which starts in 457 B.C. and ends 490 years later in 34 A.D.
"Seventy Weeks are determine..." not "seventy weeks plus 2,000 years". It's a Numerically Specific Time Prophecy which starts in 457 B.C. and ends 490 years later in 34 A.D.
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Hello Phoneman 777:
-445 B.C. is the rightful date to start counting the 69 weeks (490 years) up to the “cutting off” of Messiah.
(Please read the last paragraph within the following link:
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/1827-artaxerxes-i )
(And the contents of this one as well:
https://jewishroots.net/library/prophecy/daniel/daniel-9-24-27/royal-decree.html )
-By Messiah having been “cut off”, it’s speaking of when Messiah was impaled.
Dan 9:26 - “After the sixty-two weeks, Messiah will be cut off, having nothing to show for; then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; and desolation is predetermined.”
-The prophecy that the prince who is to come would destroy the city and the sanctuary is something that’s also been fulfilled (siege and destruction of Jerusalem, from 67-70 A.D. by the ancient Roman beast)
-In verse 27, though, “the prince who is to come” being alluded by Daniel is, yes, the same Beast but in its “renewed” form. I think you remember it’s the same as the one whose head had been fatally wounded, but then was healed: that’s the future Beast entering into agreement with Israel for 7 years (the one week pending as seen in Daniel 9:27 below,) but then breaking it in the middle by desecrating the holy place with its/his image:
Dan 9:27 - He/The Beast will make a firm treaty with many for one week, but in the middle of the week The Beast will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offerings, the Beast coming on the wings of Idolatry is the one who causes terror; until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on this one who causes terror.
Just in the way Antiochus Epiphanes IV did when out of rage (by not being able to domain Egypt) went against Jerusalem and installed an idol image to be worshiped in the temple. So, this is a type; a clue our Lord Himself gave so that it would be written:
[Dan 11:31 NASB20] 31 "Forces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.
[Mat 24:15 NASB20] 15 [Jesus said] "Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place--let the reader understand—
So, I would say, again, that the 69th prophetic week concerning Israel is still pending. All this gap, from Pentecost up till now, is considered the Church Age or The Times of the Gentiles; which, by the way, it could extend more, but that only God knows.