First, Titus did not personally fulfill Daniel’s abomination of desolation, nor is any other AD 70 figure shown doing so. Jesus describes a specific abomination standing “in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15), and Paul likewise describes the final “man of sin” exalting himself in the temple of God (2 Thess. 2:3–4). Titus destroyed the Temple; that is not the same thing as fulfilling the specific personal desecration foretold by Daniel, Jesus, and Paul.The time of the gentiles refers to when the gentiles were allowed to trod the city of Jerusalem.... time, times, and half a time; or 1260 days, or 42 months, or 3-1/2 years.
The destruction of the temple confirms the change from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant.
Second, the 1,260 days belong to the final 3½-year period associated with that abomination, not simply to Gentile occupation of Jerusalem. Daniel 9:27 places the cessation of sacrifice and the abomination at the midpoint of the seventieth week. Daniel 12 connects the same crisis with “time, times, and half a time,” while Revelation gives the equivalent measures of 1,260 days, 42 months, and time, times, and half a time (Rev. 11:2–3; 12:6, 14; 13:5). Jesus then places the abomination immediately before the Great Tribulation and His visible return (Matt. 24:15–30). AD 70 did not culminate in the visible return of Christ.
Third, seventy continuous weeks cannot terminate in AD 70. The first sixty-nine weeks equal 483 prophetic years and reach Messiah. If the seventieth week followed continuously, it would end only seven years later—not roughly forty years later in AD 70. Therefore anyone insisting upon an uninterrupted seventy-week chronology cannot coherently relocate the final week, its midpoint abomination, or its 1,260-day second half to AD 70.
So AD 70 fails on all three counts: no identifiable fulfillment of the personal abomination of desolation, no matching 1,260-day terminal period, and no continuous seventy-week chronology that reaches AD 70.