Daniel’s 70 Weeks (of years) Daniel 9:24-27

Dan 9:24-27

24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.

26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

This prophecy of Daniel was left unfinished by the span of one week (a week, in the context,
being equal to 7 years – see Gen. 29:28-30), or cut short at 69 weeks (vs. 25), or 483 years (69×7).
This would begin from the order to restore Jerusalem following the Babylonian captivity (Neh. 2:1-
8), to the “cutting off” of Messiah (first part of verse 26), which would be the crucifixion. The second
event of verse 26 is the most recent destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the “people of the
prince that shall come”, viz., the Romans. Since the total number of years in the prophecy is 490
(70×7), this leaves 7 years (one week) unfulfilled, described briefly in verse 27. The “he” in the
verse is the antichrist (the “prince” of verse 26), who confirms the covenant with Israel, then causes
the sacrifice to cease (in the Temple, which has obviously been rebuilt). Since there is no historical
evidence of anything like this occurring—the temple has never been rebuilt, and no covenant has
been made with Israel—it must yet be in the future. What has been going on in the meantime—what
has filled in the gap (now going on 2000 years) between the 69th and 70th weeks of the prophecy
(between verses 26 and 27)—is the parenthesis in the prophetic time line, viz., the grace dispensation.

This is depicted in the following graphic.