This brings up another question I have...
In the things you list in the 70 weeks is that their iniquity would be finished. I take that to mean that they would be in captivity under Babylon,M.Persia,Greece and then Rome and then that would be finished at the conclusion of 70 weeks. We know that Rome was the government over them in the first century.
In Jeremiah 29:5 and Isaiah 65:21 they are told to build houses and settle down because they were going into captivity. Now in Daniel 70 weeks are determined to end transgression,sin...
So Rome is over them when Jesus came and when Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 were written why are they still suppose to honor the authority of Rome as ordained by God?
You need to go all the way back to lev 26. The final punishment for there sin is total destruction of the city and temple (accomplished by Syria (Israel) Babylon (Judah) and Rome (AD 70, and that they would be scattered throughout ALL the nations, (Actually only accomplished by rome AD 70)
Jeremiah said they would be in captivity from babylon for 70 years (They still had a presence and even a king in Israel, Their king was eventually killed bit they were still in their land, only as prisoners) Daniels prayer was that the 70 years was over, and Israel was still in sin, Accordingn to lev 26, he was praying for his people.
Lev 26:
But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt—
42 then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will remember the land.
This was daniels prayer. As we see from Daniel 9,
Dan 9:
Then I set my face toward the Lord God
to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. 4 And I prayed to the Lord my God, and
made confession, and said, “O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, 5
we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. 6 Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. 7 O Lord, righteousness
belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as
it is this day—
to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
8 “O Lord,
to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9 To the Lord our God
belong mercy and forgiveness,
though we have rebelled against Him. 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. 11 Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. 12 And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.
13 “As
it is written in the Law of Moses,
all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. 14 Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the Lord our God
is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as
it is this day—
we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
This is the context of Daniel’s prayer and of Gabriel’s Answer
Daniel was praying for God to be mercyful, and not forget his covenant.
Dan 9: 16 “O Lord,
according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us. 17 Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake [
a]
cause Your face to shine on [b]Your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations, and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear!
O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
The 70 weak prophesy was Gods answer to daniel.
Although Daniel will never see it, The city will be rebuilt, The people will live in the land, The messiah will come, The messiah will be killed. The temple will be destroyed again, and it will remain desolate for many years while wars and desolations continue, A future prince will confirm a covenant, He will break that covenant in the middle of the week, by commiting an abomination of desolation. But he will only be aloud to rule for a time, At the end of this period. Your people will repent. The iniquity will have been completed. Their sins will have been forgotten (again see lev 26) Prophesy concerning Israel will be complete. And what God promised to the fathers will have been completely fulfilled (all covenants)
Then we can look at other prophecies concerning these times (How Messiah will be presented to Isreal as king, what happens after tha abomination of desolation, the gentile beast system,and Gods retoration of Israel after she repents) and we get a clear picture of gods plan through the ages past present and future.