Timtofly
Well-Known Member
All create a week other than what Gabriel proclaimed.I read scripture and pray on it many times. God would not have supplied incomplete information to Daniel via a messenger to get the reader to create an extra week or 7 years far flung in the future. And for this subject, the entire 490 years was completed by 70 AD.
I do not do creative scripture interpretations where ever possible, as many folks thrive on it in eschatological studies and in Christological studies etc...
Jesus Christ is the Prince. Jesus was Christ at the First Coming. Jesus will be Prince at the Second Coming. The 70th week will not be complete until the 7th Trumpet.
There is no 70th week without Jesus. The 70th week is not fully a past fulfillment nor fully a future fulfillment. It is simply the time spent by Jesus on this earth, and the Prince part is yet to come. Jesus was not the Prince of Israel in the first century. The fulness of the Gentiles had to be completed before this Prince part is fulfilled.
God Himself put a gap, if people want to see the fulness of the Gentiles as a gap. But the Atonement had to be accomplished before the iron rod rule of Prince could begin.