Hi Stan B
A LOT of people are satisfied with their "comfort zone". It doesn't make it correct, -- but they are "satisfied".
Now to be CORRECT, one might ask a SIMPLE question:
What Scriptural precedent or Society purchases a pair of shoes for "seven and sixty-two" dollars?
Sixty-nine? -- Certainly! Four score and ten; a mile and a quarter; a dozen and a half? -- Yep! But there is NO Scriptural precedent or any Society which accounts numbers typical of "seven and sixty-two".
Sir Isaac Newton’s DANIEL AND THE APOCALYPSE
by Sir William Whitla, London, 1922, Chapt. X, p. 281
Daniel and the Apocalypse
We avoid also the doing violence to the language of Daniel, by taking the seven weeks and sixty two weeks for one number. Had that been Daniel’s meaning, he would have said sixty and nine weeks, and not seven weeks and sixty two weeks, a way of numbering used by no nation.
Now the RSV and a handful of other translations get it right, but I'll bet your translation has a False "JESUS FULFILLMENT" agenda in which Scripture is twisted to achieve their "FULFILLMENT".
Dan. 9:25 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time. 26 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing ...
... for what you see in TRUTH is
TWO anointed ones/
messiahs (small "a"/"m") versus the ONE Jesus.
But don't worry about the
TRUTH, because it's more important to be "
satisfied" ...
Bobby Jo
PS
It's not just the "
seven and sixty-two", it's a HOST of departures (maybe a dozen) from Scripture and History.