The most glaring of the many contrived, agenda driven ideas regarding hermeneutics is the insertion of a 2,000 year "gap" between the 69th and 70th Weeks of Daniel, and when we factor in the horrendous post-Reformation Bible versions, the problem gets worse.
Paul F. Knitter, a well respected authoritarian among top Evangelical seminaries, wrote "No Other Name?" in which this Humanist, pseudo-Christian argues that Jesus is not the only means by which a person can be "saved"...and proudly calls his ideas, "first rate creative theology" --- the 70 Weeks "gap theory" rates equally to it.
Can you see the 2,000 year span embedded within the Dan 9:26b prophecy?
Now Daniel 9:27 has no time stamp as to when it begins, however if we know who the insolent person/entity is that will make a solemn covenant with many is we can surmise that after the conclusion of the Dan 9:26b prophecy that a further 1,000 years must pass before the insolent person/entity can actually begin to enter into a solemn covenant with many?
The real issue that has been created is THE ASSUMPTION that all of the Daniel 7:24-27 prophecies are related with each other whereas I would perceive that there are five separate and independent prophecies found within these four verses.
As such, I would suggest that there is closer to 3,000 years between the start of the verse 26b prophecy and the verse 27 prophecy in these four verses.
So many people cannot see that the prophecy in verse 24 spans a greater time span that the 70 weeks of years, which was the time allotted to Jerusalem and Israel to stop their iniquities and to repent of their sins.
My consideration of this verse, would suggest that the 70 weeks of years ended when Christ was born, and that the fulfilment of the second half of this prophecy would be fulfilled around 33 years later.
I would also suggest that the verse 25 prophecy began up around 30 to 40 years after the start of the verse 24 prophecy.
The verse 26a prophecy we are told would occur after the conclusion of the verse 25 prophecy.
In the verse 26b prophecy we are not told when the prince would descend on Jerusalem to desolate and devastate the city such that it would remained devastated and desolated until the end of the war. The prophecy is silent as to which war was being referred to, but from other OT prophecies we know that Israel would be scattered for a period of around 2,000 plus years because of their idolatry before God would turn once more towards Israel.
The only war that I am aware of that could possible last for around 2,000 years is the battle in heaven against Satan before he is thrown out of heaven, and the continual trampling of God's sanctuary and earthly Hosts that still had around 2,000 years to go before the the 2,300 year duration of the trampling by the Gentiles would be completed.
When Satan is thrown out of heaven he is immediately captured and imprisoned in the Bottomless pit for 1,000 years, after which time the bottomless pit is unlocked and Satan is free to roam all over the face of the earth and enter into a solemn covenant with the people of the earth at that time.
40 or 50 years ago, this understanding was inconceivable, however with the number of unfolding End Time Prophecies being fulfilled before our very eyes, we do need to consider another paradigm which ticks more of the boxes than was ticked 40 to 50 years ago. We need to reconsider everything that we thought we knew about God's End Time strategies as to how they would unfold.
Shalom