Let's be honest. We all accept the dates that fit our view of prophecy best. None of us do the actual research into ancient history. We trust the scholars, who largely disagree about everything.
Instead of basing my calculations on speculations about dates, I focus on the wording of the prophecy, and the 69th week ends with Christ's "Triumphant entry into Jerusalem" on a Donkey sometime between 30-33AD:
4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
5 "Tell the daughter of Zion,`Behold, your King is coming to you, Lowly, and sitting on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey.'"
6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.
7 They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them.
8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David!`Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!' Hosanna in the highest!" (Matt. 21:4-9 NKJ)
From BlueletterBible.org
- Artaxerxes made a decree giving Nehemiah permission, safe passage and supplies to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and the walls in 445 B.C. (Nehemiah 2:1-8).
ii. Only the last of these four decrees was a
command to restore and build Jerusalem. The first three each focused on the
temple, not on
the street or on
the wall.
b.
Until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks: Gabriel’s message to Daniel was simple and striking. 483 years — that is, 69 units of seven years — would pass from the time of the command recorded in
Nehemiah 2:1-8 until the appearance of
Messiah the Prince.
...
iii. Some say the 483 years were completed at the triumphal entry of Jesus (if dated at A.D. 32). Sir Robert Anderson’s significant work
The Coming Prince followed this argument in great detail.
- Anderson, using a 360-day year (which Israel used in Daniel’s day), calculated 173,880 days from the decree to the triumphal entry, fulfilling the prophecy to the day. “It is customary for the Jews to have twelve months of 360 days each and then to insert a thirteenth month occasionally when necessary to correct the calendar.” (Walvoord)
- The year A.D. 32 (based on Luke 3:1) for Jesus’ death is controversial (most chronologists favor A.D. 30 or 33). But recent attempts have made some case for the date: “A recent article attempts to give credence to the date of A.D. 32; cf. R.E. Showers, Grace Journal, XI (Winter, 1970), pp. 30ff. The evidence presented is worthy of notice.” (Wood)
- “No one today is able dogmatically to declare that Sir Robert Anderson’s computations are impossible.” (Walvoord)
David Guzik :: Study Guide for Daniel 9
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That means Christ was crucified in the 70th week. I interpret Dan. 9:24 as completely fulfilled at that time:
24 "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in everlasting righteousness, To seal up vision and prophecy, And to anoint the Most Holy. (Dan. 9:24 NKJ)
Like many others, you propose a gap between the 69th and 70th week. The premise is "transgression was not finished" in the 1st century and won't be until the coming of the millennial reign of Christ. But what is forgotten, neither is "transgression finished" at the start of that kingdom:
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. (Rev. 20:7-9 NKJ)
Therefore, the "gap" theory has no support.
Classic Christianity from the days of the first writings on Daniel 9:24 put the "end of transgression" with Christ's ransom sacrifice. That's when God stopped holding our transgressions against us.
So Daniel 9:27 and John's Revelation has another "week" not part of the Seventy Weeks. Then a gap is "natural, organic. The "He" in Daniel 9:27 is the "Desolator", the antichrist denying the Father and the Son.
The Two Phases of The Antichrist: Man of Sin and Son of Destruction Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin (266 ἁμαρτία hamartia), the son of destruction (684 ἀπώλεια apoleia), (2 Thess. 2:3 BBE) "Man of sin"
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Adonikam is his name (Rev. 13:8; Ezr. 2:13; Neh. 7:18)
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six (Rev. 13:18 KJV) Many insist we use Gematria (substituting letters for numbers) to solve the riddle of 666 meaning, although they cannot...
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He appears "after the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" [= The Gap]
24 "And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Lk. 21:24 NKJ)
27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate." (Dan. 9:27 NKJ)
That's why Paul gives him two names in 2 Thess. 2:3-4. He first appears as the "rider on the white horse" (Rev. 6:2) false Christ, but 3.5 years later disavows all religion declaring himself the "seed of Satan" (Son of Destruction) and destroys the Religious Harlot Babylon ending all worship to all that is called God.
3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
(2 Thess. 2:3-4 NKJ)
You posted your view, I posted mine. Readers can decide which fits the Bible best.
When the First Seal is opened (Rev. 6:2) the First Half of End-Time "Week" of 7 Years (= 84 months; 2,520 days) begins: A disclaimer: I am a Cessationist, a believer in the sufficiency of Scripture (sola scriptura). Not one word of this is "thus saith the Lord prophecy". I pray its correct so...
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