“Considering the timeline of Daniel’s 70 Weeks”
Your timeline is all wrong. You are not counting correctly. And the two messiahs mentioned in Daniel are NOT the same person. One is good and one is bad (cut-off) Only bad people are cut-off. There have been hundreds of messiahs, some good, some bad.
“Your timeline is all wrong. You are not counting correctly. And the two messiahs mentioned in Daniel are NOT the same person. One is good and one is bad (cut-off) Only bad people are cut-off. There have been hundreds of messiahs, some good, some bad.”
So you assert, but I do not see that in the reading of the passage. As for “cut off,” the word Karath having a special meaning of “bad people cut off,” there is no evidence for that. The word is used in such disparate thing as cutting branches, cutting fruit, cutting things, cutting people off from the living, and so on and so forth. I do not think that fruit, branches, etc are all inherently evil. In Isaiah 53, that one is also “cut off from the land of the living” though the scripture says he was cut off for the iniquity of others. That word, though, is a different word also translated as “cut off.”
...and if God's Plan provides a Perfect Sacrifice for all human sin so that all men through faith may be redeemed, might not the good Messiah, also be the same one who is 'cut-off' in judgment, having those sins imputed upon Him judicially?