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Distant from Daniel's day, but not ours. The 70 Weeks are connected to and cut off from the 2,300 Days, both beginning with Artaxerxes' 457 B.C. decree. Jesus fulfilled the 70 Weeks, the end of which seeing the Gospel being carried to the Gentiles.Daniel 8:23-26
This prophecy tells of events to happen in the distant future.
The 2,300 Days were also fulfilled by Jesus - the antitypical "Day of Atonement" where our High Priest Jesus began cleansing the Heavenly Sanctuary in the Most Holy Place at "the time of the end" which is synonymous with the "Judgment".
It is by this prophecy that Christians worldwide began preaching in the middle of the 19th century that Jesus was soon to return (ignorant of the Heavenly Sanctuary, they thought the Earth was the subject of "unto two thousand three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed" and it was concluded that Jesus was coming back soon to cleanse the Earth with fire at His Second Coming). The entire Christian world laughed and mocked and insisted that His return would not be until after the One Thousand Years Of Peace, and idea many assumed true due to the severe drop off in the 1,000+ years Papal persecution of the faithful and the relative "peace" that the church had begun to enjoy. It wasn't until the preaching of the young Billy Graham that people began jumping on the bandwagon, but sadly they are today just as those doubters were back then...they refused to accept Jesus' soon return then, and people refuse to accept the Papacy is the Antichrist now, preferring to preach and teach Jesuit ideas about a future Antichrist.