There is not one shred of evidence supporting the new-age, dispensational "stopped-clock" theory. It can only be derived by spiritualizing the scriptures.
Only seventy weeks (490 years) were determined: not thousands of years. The seventy weeks were fulfilled three and one-half years after Christ was crucified. In fact, the scripture plainly states that Christ arrived at the end of the 69th week. Since his ministry lasted one-half week (3.5 years,) that would leave only one-half week (3.5 years) to fulfil the prophecy. The only part left to be fulfilled within the seventy weeks was the remaining 3.5 years of confirmation of the covenant, which his disciples fulfilled for him (while seeking the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and prior to beginning their ministries to the Samaritans and Gentiles.)
The punishment phase (the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman armies of Titus) was not part of the seventy weeks. Only the six items in 9:24 required fulfillment within the seventy weeks!
>>>Daniel 12:11 also refers to the abomination in the temple where the AC demands worship of himself instead of God.<<<
That prophesy was fulfilled by Antiochus IV around 145 BC. Jamieson, Fausset & Brown explained it this way:
"As to this epoch, which probably is prophetically germinant and manifold; the profanation of the temple by Antiochus: (in the month Ijar of the year 145 B. C., till the restoration of the worship by Judas Maccabeus on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month (Chisleu) of 148 B. C., according to the Seleucid era, 1290 days; forty-five days more elapsed before Antiochus’ death in the month Shebat of 148 B. C., so ending the Jews’ calamities;" [Commentary, Old Testament Vol II - Proverbs to Malachi]
Note the remarkable exactness of the fulfilled dates! The prophecy states:
"And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days." (Dan 12:11-12 KJV)
Amazing! The daily sacrifice was restored on day 1290, and the tyrant, Antiochus IV, died on day 1335.
Josephus also wrote about the reign of Antiochus:
"AT the same time that Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes, had a quarrel with the sixth Ptolemy about his right to the whole country of Syria, a great sedition fell among the men of power in Judea, and they had a contention about obtaining the government; while each of those that were of dignity could not endure to be subject to their equals. However, Onias, one of the high priests, got the better, and cast the sons of Tobias out of the city; who fled to Antiochus, and besought him to make use of them for his leaders, and to make an expedition into Judea. The king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy. He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months. But Onias, the high priest, fled to Ptolemy, and received a place from him in the Nomus of Heliopolis, where he built a city resembling Jerusalem, and a temple that was like its temple concerning which we shall speak more in its proper place hereafter." [Josephus, Wars of the Jews I.1.1]
Matthew Henry wrote:
"The event fixed from which the time of the trouble is to be dated, from the taking away of the daily sacrifice by Antiochus, and the setting up of the image of Jupiter upon the altar, which was the abomination of desolation." [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)]
Anyway, the so-called "Anti-Christ" in Daniel 12 died about 145 BC. When Jesus spoke of the Abomination of Desolation in Matthew 24 and Mark 13, he was referring to Antiochus IV. The disciples could not possibly know what the Dan 9:27 abominations were referring to at that time since they were not fulfilled until AD 70.
Philip
If you’re not willing to read and actually study scripture then there’s not point in us even discussing this.
When did Damascus cease to become a city and get obliterated?
Has an A/C and his false prophet ever demanded worship and kill everybody he possibly could who doesn’t take his mark worldwide?
Has the 2 million man army written about in Revelation 9:16 ever come to take on Israel?
There’s not one shred of evidence that these have come to pass. Your theories are flawed. Antiochus IV was never even close to what the real deal will ever be—not even by a long shot.