The problem is that JESUS Utilized half of the last Week already.
So let's look at verse 26 carefully:
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:...
From 453 BC to 30 AD was exactly 483 years. Christ died (was "cut off") on the 14th of Nisan, 30 AD. So that is one part of this verse and it signals the end of the first 69 weeks (483 years). It is generally stated that the decree of Cyrus was in 536 BC (according to the chronology of Ptolemy). But Chronologer Martin Anstey proved that Ptolemy was in error by 83 years. So 536- 83 = 453 +30 = 483 years/7 = 69 weeks of years.
...and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. This is the second part of that verse and here is what it says:
1. "The prince that shall come" is the Antichrist
2. His people shall destroy Jerusalem and the temple
3. The result of this sacrilege will be be a flood of desolations or divine judgments.
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