Daniel 9:27 Seventy sevens are decreed FOR YOUR PEOPLE & YOUR HOLY CITY.
What are the seventy sevens in Daniel 9:24-27?
The ministry of Jesus from the start until His ascension was 3 1/2 years.
How long was Jesus' ministry?
That leaves 3 1/2 years for the times predicted in the prophets like Daniel & reiterated in the book of Revelations. You will only find a 3 1/2 year time period mentioned in Daniel & Revelation & other OT prophets, not 7 years.
Times, Time, and Half a Time.
times, time & 1/2 a time (Dan 7:25; 12:7; Rev 12:14) = 1260 days (Rev 11:3; 12:6) = 42 months (Rev 11:2; 13:5-7) = all the same time period.
The temple & its utensils need to be rebuilt & the Sanhedrin re-established & the sacrificial system re-instituted. Guess what? This is already happening behind the scenes.
Billy Crone: The Third Temple and the Antichrist - The Prophecy Watchers
The Apostle Paul mentions that Christ will not return UNTIL 2 key things happen: the great falling away & the appearance of the man of sin, the final antichrist.
I Thess 2:1-12 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
by our gathering together unto him,
2That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3Let no man deceive you by any means.
For
that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth
will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Also the two candlesticks, the two witnesses that God has appointed will stand in Jerusalem during this time, prophesying & warning all.
Rev 11:1-12 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod & the angel stood, saying, Rise & measure the temple of God & the altar & them that worship therein.
2But the court which is without the temple leave out & *MEASURE IT NOT; FOR IT IS GIVEN UNTO THE GENTILES & the holy city shall they tread under foot forty
and two months.
[*Dome of the Rock is on the court of the Gentiles]
3And I will give
power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred
and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
4These are the two olive trees & the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
5And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth & devoureth their enemies.
And if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy & have power over waters to turn them to blood & to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
7And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, & shall overcome them & kill them.
8And their dead bodies
shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom & Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
9And they of the people & kindreds & tongues & nations shall see their dead bodies three days & an half & shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
10And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them & make merry & shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
11And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them & they stood upon their feet & great fear fell upon them which saw them.
12And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud & their enemies beheld them.
There are 3.5 years of tribulation at the end of which Christ returns and pours out 30 days of the vials of wrath followed by 45 days of preparation for the Holy City to be established.
Daniel said so--
Dan 12:9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Dan 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
Dan 12:11 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.
Dan 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Dan 12:13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
There is only 3.5 years of Tribulation.