I am still learning about all this stuff, but from my understanding at no time in bible prophecy has a length of time been chopped into two separate things.
It isn't 69 + 1 for later, it is 70.
The 70th week has been and gone, the daily sacrifices were stopped (made obsolete by the blood of Christ) the week was cut in half (3.5 days = 3.5 year ministry)
Why would Gabriel be giving Daniel a Messianic prophecy and then suddenly jump to talking about AntiChrist without making it clear he has changed subject?
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease he = Jesus Christ, whose blood was poured out for the sins of the world 3.5 years into his ministry (halfway through the 'week')
Where in scripture does this idea of a seven year trib come from?
If it is only from Daniel 9 then I'm not sure I believe it is even going to be 7 years.
First, we need to understand that, although most of our English translations say seventy weeks, the Hebrew word translated weeks was
shabuwa' (word number 7620 in Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary) This word was used in the Old Testament for both a period of seven days and a period of seven years. Only the context could show whether days of years was meant. An in this case, the context clearly shows that the meaning could not even possibly been days. So it is not simply interpretation to take seventy weeks as meaning 490 years. This is a fully legitimate significance of the Hebrew words used here.
Daniel was told, "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times." (Daniel 9:26) Here we have sixty-nine weeks, or 483 years, from the going forth of the commandment to Messiah the Prince. Some claim that there is historical evidence that the triumphal entry occurred exactly 483 years, to the day, after the signing of this order. I cannot personally testify as to the accuracy of this claim. But history indeed confirms that it occurred at approximately that time.
But now the Divinely inspired account contains a break. We read, "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined." (Daniel 9:25-26)
Two things were to happen after the sixty-two week second part of this account. And we know that both of them indeed happened exactly as explicitly stated. “Messiah” would “be cut off,” and “the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.” Messiah was indeed cut off, and the city and the sanctuary were indeed destroyed. We know from history that these two events did not happen within a seven year period. Most historians feel that our calendar is in error, and the actual date of Jesus’ birth was 4 BC. Since Jesus lived thirty-three years, that puts his death in 29 A.D. But the city was not destroyed until 70 A.D., forty-one years after that. So even if there are small errors in the accepted dates of history, we absolutely know that “the city and the sanctuary” were not destroyed in the same week (seven year period) that our Lord was crucified. But we need to notice that both of these events are presented before the last week is even mentioned. So here we see an absolutely undeniable break in the scriptural account of the seventy weeks.
But the last week is treated differently. It does not even say that this is the seventieth week. The only reason we know that it is the seventieth week is because all the rest of the weeks had already been used up. So this week had to be the seventieth one. We read, "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." (Daniel 9:27)
Now many imagine that this verse speaks of the cross. They want to interpret the word “for” in this verse as “in,” and claim that this was speaking of Jesus confirming God’s covenant with us “in” the seventieth week, and claim that Jesus was crucified at the middle of the seventieth week. But even if history were wrong by so many years, this interpretation does violence to the structure of the prophecy. For the last week is not even mentioned until after the two events that were to take place after the sixty-ninth week.
But an end time covenant that will not be fulfilled is clearly mentioned in other Old Testament prophecies. One of these is Isaiah 28:14-18, where we read, “Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.”
Again, in Isaiah 57:7-9 we read, “Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.”
So we see that the scriptures indeed clearly foretell a future covenant that God will not allow to be fulfilled. Daniel 9:27 is only one of several places where this covenant in mentioned.
But the seventieth week does not depend only upon Daniel 9. Daniel 9:27 mentions a great upheaval in the midst of the seventieth week. This divides the week into two half-weeks these half-weeks are repeatedly mentioned in scripture.
The first way these half-weeks are mentioned is the term "time, times, and half a time" (three and a half years, half of seven years.) The first place is in Daniel 7:25, where we read “a time and times and half a time” We find the expression “a time, times, and half a time” again in Daniel 12:7. And the third place is Revelation 12:14, where we again read “a time, times and half a time.”
Then, we read about periods of forty-two months (again, three and a half years, half of seven years.) We fond these in Revelation 13:5 and again in Revelation 11:2.
Finally, we find it as 1260 days (forty-two Jewish months, which were 30 days long, again three and a half years, half of seven years.) We find the time stated this way in revelation 11:3 and again in Revelation 12:6.
In showing where the scriptures mention these two half-weeks I have not made ant distinction between those that speak of the first half of the week and those that speak of the last half. That is another subject and its discussion belongs in another place. The point has only been to show how many times these periods of half a week are mentioned in the prophecies of the Bible.
So we see that the coming seven year period is actually mentioned many times in the Bible, and described in many ways.