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In Daniel 9:24, Israel is given 490 years of opportunity through the yearly sin sacrifice to truly confess of their sin of idolatrous worship before the coming of their Messiah whose purpose was to change the process by which redemption would then come by. This verse can be broken into two parts.
The first section is the requirement for Israel to repent of their continual idolatrous worship and to then put away that sin of idolatrous behaviour before the end of the second age of their existence such that the iniquities of the fathers of the first two ages of Israel would not be visited upon the fathers' children and the children's children during the third and the fourth age of the existence of the nation of Israel. (Ex. 20:4-6) The nation was given 490 yearly opportunities to repent of their sin through their offering of their individual and corporate sin offerings. Because the nation of Israel would not repent of their sin, the visitation of their iniquities began at the very beginning of their third age of existence and would continue until the completion of the fourth age of their existence which is due to end in our immediate future from now, i.e. within about 25 years years time. The time count for the 490 years began from when the temple was repaired and sacrifices could once more be performed on the Temple's altar, with the last year of the time span being the year before Christ was born. Christ was born at the very beginning of third age of the existence of Israel, which corresponds to beginning of the fifth age for the existence of mankind.
The second portion of this single verse prophecy, speaks about the change to the process of how their sin will be forgiven after the cross through the single sacrifice of their Messiah on the Cross. The same forgiveness process is also available for the Gentiles who repent of their sins, since the time of the cross.
Shalom
Since there is slightly under 2 years left of those 490. This generation can still be the one that repents.
Jesus Christ is defined as the 70th week. Gabriel only gave them 483 years, until Messiah. After 483 years, Messiah would be cut off. 7 weeks, and 62 weeks. That is 69 weeks or 483 years.
The Atonement on the Cross was the physical means and physical point in time for the eradication of sin, and the end of transgression, and the other 4 points. Yet there was a gap for the fulness of the Gentiles to be included into the complete 490 years. It is not complete until this event:
5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel (Gabriel), when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (Gabriel): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel (Gabriel), and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they (Gabriel and 6 other angels with Trumpets) shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
Gabriel is the Archangel from Daniel 9. He brings the Trump of God at the 6th Seal and sounds it. Then after the 7th Seal is opened. The 6 angels sound. Gabriel is the final and most important sounding. There are also 7 Thunders between the 6 Trumpets and the final sounding.
Christ (Messiah as the Lamb) has now come in the 6th Seal as Prince with a throne. The throne is set up by Christ (Matthew 25:31). During the sounding of the 7th sounding, is when the week of desolation is allowed. God stops the celebration:
"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."
Revelation 13 is a tragedy, but Satan cannot do anything outside of the will of God concerning the earth, the vinyard. Satan is given 42 months until the 7 vials are poured out, and Armageddon ends all wickedness of Adam's flesh and blood.
Only then will the 7th Trumpet stop. The 70 weeks complete.
Daniel prophecied by word from Gabriel, both the fulness of the Gentiles: Messiah cut off, but not for Himself. And then again Satan's 42 months of desolation that God allows on the desolate. Those in the vineyard after the final harvest. They are controlled by the desolator, Satan.
I know the NT does not name Gabriel as the particular archangel. It did happen at the birth:
26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Also to Zacharias:
19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
Why would Gabriel not be the one at the Second Coming?