Antichrists and Satan were around for a long time. Abominations and desolations have occurred in the past and will so in the future. Pharoah was an abomination, Antiochus Epiphanes, Herod, Nero, Titus, the list goes on. There is no question that the evils we have seen in the past will revisit the earth in like manner.
You are are derailing the OP, I know, you can't resist, but I'll take the challenge.
So here is my rebuttal against the Gap Theory and
Daniel 9:24-27
"Seventy weeks are determined ...
>God ordains a specific time frame, a prophecy announcing the arrival of Christ, the Savior, the Messiah, whom since the beginning was promised. God is sovereign, He knows the future. Did something happen that changed His mind, something He did not expect - forcing His Hand to change plans and extend, (put a gap in) the last week of the prophecy for 2000 years? I don't think so! He knew exactly what was going to happen! The Messiah came in the last week. The week wasn't completed - didn't have to be. It was accurately stated that He would be cut off<
...concerning thy people and concerning thy holy city
>This was a message TO the Israelites and Jerusalem - not to the world! <
...to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins,
>For those who believed it was finished, their eternity was sealed in Christ. When Jesus said, "It is finished", that is what He meant. In heaven, outside of time, death was defeated for all time. On earth, death was defeated for believers in their time.<
... and to make reconciliation for iniquity,
> The Law was fulfilled. A way for Man was then made available to be reconciled to God.<
... and to bring in everlasting righteousness,
>Jesus is righteous. He brought his righteousness and imputed it to believers.<
... and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy,
> "in order to" or "to begin to" seal up prophecy. The disciples began that process. The New Testament was written, finished and sealed up.
... Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks and threescore and two weeks; the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublesome times.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself; and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end thereof shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined...
>That's ALL Historical. Jesus showed up after the 69 weeks were complete and His ministry started in the 70th week. The people of the prince who shall come were Romans who did destroy the city and sanctuary! that was an allusion to a future, and separate time, 70 AD, not that is was part of the 70 weeks. The 70 weeks was just a Messianic Prophecy of His First Coming.<
... 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...
<Jesus brought a New Covenant. He confirmed it throughout His 3 1/2 year ministry, death and resurrection. He put an end to sacrifice. He was the final sacrifice. The Jews may have blindly continued, but to God, His Church, it was over.<
...And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”
>The overspreading of abominations upon the Jews and Jerusalem began and continued throughout history. They are the desolate, who will be enlightened at the consummation. This was an allusion to the end times, their future sufferings within the Church Age, not that it was part of some "gap theory". <
now why is that ? well it's because they lack faith in Christ Jesus. little faith does not cut it, but only the faith that can move mountains is worthy of Jesus Christ and that's a fact. One is with him or against him !
