1. The entire prophecy covers a period of seventy prophetic weeks (490 years). There is no example in Scripture of a stated time period starting, stopping, and then starting again. All biblical references to time are consecutive: 40 days and 40 nights (Gen. 7:4), 400 years in Egypt (Gen. 15:13), 70 years of captivity (Dan. 9:2). Logic requires that “seventy weeks” refers to seventy sequential weeks.
2. If the 70th week doesn’t immediately follow the 69th week, it cannot properly be called the 70th week.
3. No hint of a 2,000-year gap is found in the prophecy itself. There is no gap between the first seven weeks and the following 62 weeks, (Vs. 25), so why insert one between the 69th and 70th week?
4. Daniel 9:27 says nothing about a seven-year period of Tribulation, a future rebuilt Jewish temple, or any antichrist.
5. The stated focus of Daniel 9:24-27 is the Messiah, not the antichrist. (See “The Kingdom of God is at Hand” in
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