Daniel 9:20-27 There are some very interesting things going on in here.
Gabriel Brings an Answer
20 While I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and [
o]presenting my plea before the Lord my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, 21 while I was still speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision [
p]previously, [
q]came to me [
r]in
my extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering. 22 And he instructed
me and talked with me and said, “Daniel, I have come now to give you insight with understanding. 23 At the beginning of your pleas the [
s]command was issued, and I have come to tell
you, because you are [
t]highly esteemed; so pay attention to the message and gain understanding of the vision.
Seventy Weeks and the Messiah
24 “Seventy [
u]weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to [
v]finish the wrongdoing, to [
w]make an end of sin, to make atonement for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and [
x]prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. 25 So you are to know and understand
that from the issuing of a [
y]decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, until [
z]Messiah the Prince,
there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again,
with [
aa]streets and moat, even in times of distress. 26 Then after the sixty-two weeks, the [
ab]Messiah will be cut off and have [
ac]nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And [
ad]its end
will come with a flood; even to the end [
ae]there will be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he will confirm a covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of [
af]abominations
will come the one who [
ag]makes desolate, until a complete destruction, one that is [
ah]decreed, gushes forth on the one who [
ai]makes desolate.”