I believe Dan. 9. Gabriel prophesies 70 sevens (further to the 70 years exile in Babylon) that detail the saving work of Messiah, and after 69 weeks, the baptismal anointing of the LORD Jesus Christ. Jesus finishes his saving work, ending sacrifice & offering in the middle of the 70th week. The 70 weeks (490 years) ended around AD 37.
He confirms the covenant, actually by making the New Covenant in his own blood, during that 70th week during the 3 1/2 years of his ministry & the 3 1/2 years of the Apostolic Gospel preaching. The 70th week ended with the martyrdom of Stephen when his accusers were declared "Uncircumcised." The Old Covenant explicitly ended. All that remained was for the destruction of city & sanctuary which took place as prophesised in AD 70 before "this generation" had passed.
24 “Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
25 “Know and understand this: From the time the word goes out to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One, the ruler, comes, there will be seven ‘sevens,’ and sixty-two ‘sevens.’ It will be rebuilt with streets and a trench, but in times of trouble. 26 After the sixty-two ‘sevens,’ the Anointed One will be put to death and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed. 27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
I am aware that precise translation & is difficult, but there is no scope for a 2,000 year gap in the 70 weeks. The details can be readily understood according to Jesus' Olivet prophecy.
No, I totally disagree. It says that Messiah would be cut off. So things are on hold. I am using KJV:
Daniel 9:24-27 (KJV) 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. 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. 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. 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.
You can see that transgression is not finished, sin is not ended, everlasting righteousness has not been brought in, etc. Messiah was cut off. There has never been 3 1/2 years of peace and safety in the history of the world and there is nothing like that now.