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Daniel 9:24-27 (JDV)

Daniel 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city – to bring the rebellion to an end, to put a stop to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in permanent righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holiest place.
Daniel 9:25 Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until an Anointed One, the ruler, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be rebuilt with a plaza and a moat but in difficult times.
Daniel 9:26 After those sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming ruler will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end, there will be war; desolations are decreed.
Daniel 9:27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week, he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator.”

The seventy weeks of years were fulfilled in history from 458 BC to 30 AD. We are not waiting for a phantom 70th week to be fulfilled after Christ’s return. We are now waiting for the one who put a stop to sacrifice and offering and will return to take his place as the permanent king.