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By the way, Jo...

In regards to this section of Daniel...

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.

25 “Know therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and the wall, Even in troublesome times.

26 “And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself; And the people of the prince who is to come Shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood, And till the end of the war desolations are determined.

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.”

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The first overriding fact is that Daniel is told that “Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city.” [of course, the “weeks”, for those who don’t know is a “set” of “7”, and since it’s years that we’re talking about it’s a set of 70-7’s of years. Now, there’s a reason for that set of 7 years, because Israel violated the command to have one out of those 7 years to be a “sabbath year” and thus God “judged” them. So, that’s the “connection” with the “7’s”...

Next, the angel tells Daniel of the time period, at which the Messiah will be cut off. The angel describes it as 7-7’s and 62-7’s. Now, the angel has some significance in outlining that — 69-7’s — in terms of first the period of time of 7-7’s and then the period of time after that of 62-7’s. I’m not sure why the angel gave that break in the period of 69-7’s — but he did.

So, what the angel says next is that the Messiah is cut off after the 62-7’s. That’s real easy for people to understand, in a very normal and ordinary way.

Time period one — 7-7’s
Time period two — 62-7’s

Total time — 69-7’s

So, the angel is saying “after Time period two” (which is the 62-7’s) the Messiah will be cut off. In other words, after the total elapsed time of 69-7’s the Messiah will be cut off.

As I said, there is some significance to splitting up the over-all time period into 7-7’s and 62-7’s, making a total of 69-7’s — but I don’t know what that significance is...