(7 weeks, 62 weeks, 1 week)
At the end of that 62 weeks - we have the full 69 weeks. And only AFTER that is the Messiah cut off.
I agree:
Daniel 9:24-27
King James Version (KJV)
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.
In view is Messiah being cut off and with this the 69 Weeks come to a close, which leaves the Seventieth Week.
It does not say He is cut off within the 70th Week.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
And this is without question a reference to His Sacrifice of Himself.
Bob...that is when we start the Seventieth Week.
He is not cut off in the 70th Week.
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,
Many view this as Christ because of the reference to the cessation of sacrifice and offering.
That didn't happen when Christ was crucified.
And again, if you try to make the covenant in view that is confirmed to be the New Covenant, again, your timeline is thrown into disarray because we still have to begin the 70th Week...at that time.
Nothing fits, Bob.
The best you can do in trying to make the "he" Christ is to say He confirmed the Covenant of Law at the beginning of His Ministry, then made the Covenant obsolete by His death.
Where is the other 3 1/2 years, Bob.
There is no contiguous fulfillment, because Christ did not bring the Seventieth Week to a close 3 1/2 years later, after His death.
The Tribulation ends with Christ's Return, and the establishment of the Kingdom.
Heb 10
4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And Christ established the New Covenant with His death. This is when Christ is cut off, and it has to be between the 69 Weeks and the 70th Week, it does not happen in the Middle.
So you need to reconcile Messiah being cut off and your timeline of events in regards to the prophecy of Daniel.
Daniel makes it clear that there is a 3 1/2 year period from the time the Abomination of Desolation takes place, as does Christ in Matthew 24.
You have that coinciding with Christ's death and it will never work.
Okay, thanks for the response, that is all the time I have, and have not decided if I will return after I get back from vacation. Have a lot of other projects to tend too and this is the busy season for me with work.
So until next we meet...
God bless.