Dan 9
So everlasting righteousness was brought in thousands of years ago. Interesting./ I must have missed that.
We could get into the Hebrew meaning of the word (sevens) or etc. But one thing we can notice is that Jesus was not killed hundreds of days from Daniel's time either.
It was Gabriel, by the way, not Daniel that gave the 70 groups of seven. He had come from the throne of God to do so.
My belief in the 70 weeks
My research finds The standard teaching today on "Weeks/Years" is the brain child of Kabbalahist, Rosicrucian, Occultist (Sir Isaac Newton), Chapter 10 (Observation on the Prophecy of Daniel and the apocalypse of St. John) 1726, and carried forward mainly through Darby and Dispensationalism
Daniel 9:24-27, Seventy Literal Weeks Explained?
Daniel's 70 weeks are literal 7 day periods, or 490 literal days.
If Daniel meant 490 years he would have written
(Four Hundred Ninety Years)
Daniel had no restrictions in "Writing" exact numerology as seen below.
Daniel 6:1KJV
It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an
hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
Daniel 8:14KJV
And he said unto me, Unto
two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Daniel 12:11KJV
And from the time
that the daily
sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,
there shall be a
thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Below in Daniel 10:2-3 we see just another example of Daniel's literal weeks, as Daniel mourned and fasted for 3 literal weeks or 21 days.
Daniel 10:2-3KJV
2 In those days I Daniel was mourning
three full weeks.
3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till
three whole weeks were fulfilled.
Below in Daniel 9:24-27 we see 70 literal future weeks or 490 days.
When the call/commandment goes out in Jerusalem to build unto the Jewish Meshiach/Messiah that they wait for (They Denied Jesus Christ) this will start the 7 week period.
62 literal weeks will be in building, and Meshiach/Messiah will be cut off by the Antichrist who stops the building.
The 70th literal week will see the antichrist revealed in making a covenant, and in the middle of this literal week he proclaims to be Meshiach/Messiah God to the Jews, and Jesus returned to the apostate church, to start a Millennium on earth.
The 3.5 year tribulation starts at this time.
Daniel 9:27KJV
24
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.