I would take the King James Version over any of those any day. Notice it says he (Messiah the Prince) will CONFIRM a covenant with many.
The challenge that you are presenting me with, that I am just making this up, is true. Mine is a unpopular interpretation that I came up with myself. But others agree with me; I've seen them on this website. I realize there are far more people who are in line with what you are saying. But it just doesn't add up. I already told you why it doesn't add up: Daniel 9:24 says, "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." That means the whole seventy weeks. An antichrist couldn't accomplish any of that. Also, the subject doesn't change in Dan. 9:27.
If I find one discrepancy with your interpretation, the whole thing goes kaput. Which I just did. You are accusing me of making my interpretation up out of thin air but if you are fair, you will admit that whoever came up with your "agreement interpretation" did the same when they were first interpreting the Bible. And people gobbled it up like people gobble up evolutionary theory. They love explanations even if there are holes in it.
I will tell you why you should believe my timeline. Because it's consistent with scripture. With scripture, I am able to show that Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River in AD 26.
Luke 3:1–2 says, "Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness."
According to Suetonius, the declaration of Tiberius' "co-Princeps" took place in the year AD 11, after his return from Germania. Fifteen years after this is AD 26.
The gospel of John describes three Passovers from the beginning of Jesus' ministry. John 2:13, 6:4, and 11:55. It was at least three years, but probably more. Jesus was crucified in AD 30.
The place where I am getting 3 1/2 years is Daniel 9. God's prophecies have been proven to come true. Where the rest of the Bible provides close estimates, Daniel provides accuracy.
The council of Jerusalem took place in AD 50. Galatians 1:18 and and 2:1 say 17 years after Paul's conversion, he went to Jerusalem (for the council).
50 - 17 = 33.
The covenant that Jesus confirmed was becoming a light unto the gentiles, in which Paul had a hand.
The abomination of desolation may have happened already. If not, you are waiting for periods of 2,300 days (or years), 1,260 days (or years), 1,290 days (or years), and 1,335 days (or years). Which may or may not ever happen according to the way you are interpreting scripture.
We definitely know it hadn't happened by the time Jesus came. From Antiochus Epiphanes' sacrifice of a pig on the altar in 167 BC to the cleansing of the sanctuary in 164 BC was only 1,102 days. The Romans destroyed the Second Temple in AD 70.
"The city of
Aelia Capitolina was built in AD 130 by the Roman emperor
Hadrian, and occupied by a
Roman colony on the site of Jerusalem, which was still in ruins from the
First Jewish Revolt in AD 70.
"Hadrian had intended the construction of the new city as a gift to the Jews, but since he had constructed a giant statue of himself in front of the Temple of Jupiter and the Temple of Jupiter had a huge statue of Jupiter inside of it, there were on the Temple Mount now two enormous
graven images, which Jews considered idolatrous. It was also customary in
Roman rites to sacrifice a
pig in land purification ceremonies. In addition to this, Hadrian issued a decree prohibiting the practice of
circumcision. These three factors, the graven images, the sacrifice of pigs before the altar, and the prohibition of circumcision, are thought to have constituted for non-Hellenized Jews a new
abomination of desolation, and thus
Bar Kochba launched the
Third Jewish Revolt (Wikipedia)."
"In 610, the
Sassanid Empire drove the
Byzantine Empire out of the Middle East, giving the Jews control of Jerusalem for the first time in centuries. The Jews in Palestine were allowed to set up a vassal state under the Sassanid Empire called the
Sassanid Jewish Commonwealth which lasted for five years. Jewish rabbis ordered the restart of animal sacrifice for the first time since the time of Second Temple and started to reconstruct the Jewish Temple. Shortly before the Byzantines took the area back five years later in 615, the
Persians gave control to the Christian population, who tore down the partially built Jewish Temple edifice and turned it into a garbage dump, which is what it was when the
Rashidun Caliph Umar took the city in 637 (Wikipedia)."
The Dome of the Rock was built by the order of the
Umayyad caliph
Abd al-Malik. According to
al-Suyuti (1445–1505), its commencement year was 688.
Personally, I believe the abomination of desolation was the Dome of the Rock. 1,260 years after 688 is 1948, or the Israeli Declaration of Independence. 1,290 years from that starting point is 1978, or the Camp David Accords. 1,335 years later is 2023.
The 2,300 days has a different starting point. Chapter 8 of Daniel is all about the fighting between the ram and the goat. Alexander the Great is the little horn, and the four that grew up out of it were the Diadochi. The fighting between Alexander the Great and the two Medo-Persian kings began in 334 BC, or the Battle of the Granicus.
2,300 years after 334 BC was 1967, or the Six-Day War, when the Israelis took back Jerusalem. Whether they "cleansed the sanctuary" I do not know, nevertheless they recaptured their beloved city.
Regarding your seven years in Revelation, I disagree with you that the head's 42 months are in the future. Hitler's holocaust lasted exactly 42 months, from Nov. 1941 to May 1945.
Here's why the holocaust is a better fit:
The beast from the sea has seven heads and ten horns. According to Daniel 7:23, a beast is a kingdom. Daniel had a vision of four beasts, and they were each a consecutive kingdom that rose and fell. The fourth beast was the Roman empire, which began in 63 BC when Pompey the Great conquered Judea.
The Roman Empire divided into the East and the West in AD 395. The Eastern Roman Empire maintained control of Jerusalem until 637. The Western Roman Empire fell in AD 476, but was revived in 800 by Charlemagne. Christianity was the empire's official religion until its collapse in 1806.
The seven heads are seven mountains. Rome was built on seven hills.
Seven hills of Rome - Wikipedia
They were also seven kings (Rev. 17:10). The ten horns were also ten kings (Rev. 17:12). We're looking for a kingdom (beast) that has two sets of kings. The Holy Roman Empire's territory was comprised of Italy and Germany until its dissolution in 1806. The Triple Alliance during WWI and the Axis Powers during WWII were the revival of that empire for one hour (Rev. 17:12).
As the seven heads represent Rome, so there were also seven Italian kings from 1806 to 1946.
Seven Heads (Kings) (Rev. 13:1):
1. Victor Emmanuel I (1802–1821)
2. Charles Felix (1821–1831)
3. Charles Albert (1831–1849)
4. Victor Emmanuel II (1849–1878)
5. Umberto I (1878–1900)
6. Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)*
7. Umberto II (1946)**
* "ITALIAN KING WOUNDED BERLIN. Dec. 28. (Via Sayville by wireless.) King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has been wounded by an Austrian grenade and is now in the hospital, it is stated by the Overseas News agency. The agency attributes its information to a traveler who has just arrived from Italy. Terroristic and anti-government demonstrations are extending to an alarming extent in Italy, according to this traveller." Source: South Bend News-Times, Volume 32, Number 362, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 28 December 1915
** Reigned 34 days ("a little while")—Rev. 17:10.
There were also ten German rulers from 1806 to 1945.
Ten Horns (Kings) (Rev. 13:1):
1. Frederick William III (1797–1840)
2. Frederick William IV (1840–1861)
3. William I (1861–1888)
4. Frederick III (1888)
5. Wilhelm II (1888–1918)
6. Friedrich Ebert (1918–1925)
7. Hans Luther (1925)
8. Walter Simons (1925)
9. Paul von Hindenburg (1925–1934)
10. Adolf Hitler (1934–1945)*
* Whose holocaust last 42 months, from Nov. 1941 to May 1945—Rev. 13:5.
The beast from the earth will make an image in honor of this beast, the one who was wounded by the sword but yet lived. This is possible because "the beast which was and is not, is himself also an eighth and is
one of the seven, and he goes to destruction (Rev. 17:11)." The eighth king is the antichrist. He is one of the seven above. When he comes, the 5th trumpet of locusts will devour his people, those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. He will also kill the two witnesses. He will also set himself up in the temple and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God. I myself am fine just knowing these few predictions about the antichrist. I don't need a 7-year covenant that isn't found in scripture, because I believe that Jesus fulfilled the seventieth week of Daniel's seventy weeks prophecy.