Exactly. He constantly and continually spews his views around this forum. It's all so easy to disprove Scripturally. But he has no interest in accepting correction.
That is so untrue. The entire point is the setting apart of time period for the rest of history. It is absolutely a sequence of events.
All Dan 9 is specifically about Jewish history. The Seventy Sevens (itself a symbolic number) is strictly about what lies ahead for Daniel's people and the holy city (v.24). It's all been fulfilled in 70 A.D.
Again. Untrue. The list given by Gabriel has not been completed. Has Messiah Jesus been made the official and reigning king of Israel? No. So prophecy has yet to be fulfilled.
Amen to that! HE IS THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS!
Agreed. Zealotry and its role in first-century Israel's end times is often ignored or not even recognized.
Also agreed. Christ was the "messenger of the covenant" (Malachi 3:1) who confirmed that New covenant with many during His earthly ministry which took place in the 70th week.
Obviously not at all what is being referred to by Gabriel in the prophecy. It's spiritualizing like this that keeps most people ignorant of what God is really doing throughout history.
God has already done it since the prophecy pertains to Israel and Jerusalem and was fulfilled in 70 A.D.. And it's certainly not "spiritualizing" by stating the biblical fact that Jesus Christ is King right now and is ruling right now at the right hand of his Father in heaven in his inaugurated kingdom.
The prophecy was NOT fulfilled in 70 AD. Far from it. There are 3 groups of weeks AND 2 gaps. Those 2 gaps are also groups of 7 weeks of years long. It is a pattern; a blueprint; a mathematical formula for the specific time carved out dealing with Jerusalem and the temple. That is what Gabriel specifically states is what the prophecy is about.
And your views are not according to established historical facts.
The six terms of Daniel 9:24 took place by the time Christ's crucifixion death and resurrection had taken place.
This view is not according to a proper understanding of the Hebrew text. You can NOT get an accurate interpretation by reading English translations. Translators always include their personal biases. As to "gaps". Usually only a single gap is recognized. The true interpretation that was discovered only recently recognizes that there are actually 2 gaps - both gaps being groups of 7 weeks of years. That is finally the proper interpretation that has been made known.
I read multiple translations, and favor the literal translations such as the YLT. And I use the Septuagint most often, and try as far as possible to defer to the original languages' intent. And nowhere is a gap referred to in scripture for this 70-week period. Gaps are a convenient tool for anybody to insert their own private interpretations into the events this 70-week prophecy predicted for ethnic Israel's latter days as a people and the end of the physical temple's existence in AD 70. "Gaps" are not a "proper interpretation" if scripture does not say anything about them.
It's exactly like the parables of Jesus. Only the seekers of truth will understand them.
This "implication" is imaginary. A prophesied 70 week time period with "implied" time gaps in between is a useless tool to measure time with. It turns the 70-week prophecy into an elastic yardstick which becomes a pointless exercise with no practical benefit. Anybody can make the prophecy mean anything whatever by this means. Not a good procedure.
That would be true IF...the gaps were arbitrary. But the way God planned it out, the 3 specific groups of years are groups of 7 years (weeks). AND the 2 gaps in between are ALSO groups of 7 years (weeks). This is exact. A pattern. A blue print. It can not be faked. It works out EXACTLY. It is historically accurate. It is proof that this is the proper interpretation.
