I am familiar with the 70 week prophecy and how it turned out to be a count down to the coming of Jesus. Sir Isaac Newton got it as well in his commentaries....although I do not consider myself as good a student of prophecy as Newton. But he, at least at his time, considered there were still unanswered riddles in it. And certainly for the people who lived between 500BC and when Christ was born the prophecy may not have been plain. And I would venture to guess most saved Christians on this Earth probably don't realize the answer to this prophecy, It was not directed at the common man, but to the wise. And I am not myself wise enough to get all the prophecies in the Bible.
I actually think that thinking one can clearly understand all of prophecy clearly may have been the problem the guy in the article had. I must confess it is certainly not all plain in meaning to me...but where I am uncertain, I will admit I am uncertain and not preach a guess as if it were God's word....like the nuts that keep being wrong about the end of the world.
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Obviously you are not familiar with the fact that there were three layers to the 70 week declaration, one of which was that Yeshua’s ministry would be exactly 70 weeks in duration.
Every prophecy is directed to “the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” Perhaps they are all wise men ????
No one ‘gets’ a prophecy that they don’t have the patience to prayerfully study.
Many of those that identify as “Christians” are simply not Yeshua’s sheep, as evidenced by his words.
The “end of the world” is a millennium away.
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