Okay, so I guess you do want to discuss it. That's your choice.
No, He was cut off halfway into the 70th week. It very clearly indicates that He would be cut off AFTER the 69th week, so I have no idea how you conclude that He was cut off in the middle of the 69th week.
Daniel 9:26 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. 26 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.
Notice that there is first a 7 week time period and then after that a 62 week time period. Then it says AFTER the 62 weeks (which follow the first 7 weeks, so it's saying AFTER the 69th week) shall Messiah be cut off. It couldn't be more clear.
I believe the end of transgression has to do with Jesus putting an end to the penalty of transgressions and sins with His death and resurrection.
Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
Romans 4:6 However, to the one who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness. 6 David says the same thing when he speaks of the blessedness of the one to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. 8 Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord will never count against them.”
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
1 John 3:5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.
In the Hebrew they count the themselves within the day, it's a different time reckoning. In our culture if we say "3 days from now" we mean the next morning counts as day 1, then day 2, then day 3. Hebrew reckoning when they say "3 days from now" would count that current day as day 1, even if it's right before sunset (where the Hebrew day ends and a new one begins), the next day is the 2nd day, the way they reckon time also involves the start of a day, rather than the end of a day. If we say after the 3rd day, then that means it happens the 4th day out.if I say on Monday that I'm going to do something after 3 days, that means I'll be doing it on Friday. Because I won't be counting Monday, the count starts the next day, and "after" means at the conclusion of the 3rd day, meaning at the end of 3 days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I'll do it on Friday.
Hebrew Reckoning, I'd be counting Monday as the first day, and I'd be doing it after the start of the 3rd day, not after the conclusion of the 3rd day. So I'd actually be doing what I said I'd do after 3 days, on Wednesday, not Friday. It'd be sometime on that Wednesday.
By that same reckoning, what happened with Jesus happened after the start of the 69th week. Not after the end of the 69th week.
With that in mind.. Hosea 6:2 suddenly makes sense in more ways than one.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Of course, it makes sense in the sense that Jesus was raised up on the 3rd day.
But the second meaning, can be using Israel as a country to be a second fulfillment. It was destroyed, and about 1900 years later, it was revived (seeing 1 day is to 1000 years (2 Peter 3:8). So by their reckoning after the start of the 2nd day, Israel was revived (close to the third day, and within a generation that shall not pass), and on the third day after the return of Christ, they will be raised up and live in His sight.
By our western reckoning. That prophecy could have nothing to do with Israel at all, because Israel was resurrected before 2000 years after it was destroyed, so the timing would be completely off, and the revival of israel and the raising up to live in God's sight would both have to take place after 2070, but before 3070.
To show this reckoning in action.... Jesus said He'd be resurrected after 3 days (Mark 8:31). Jesus was Crucified on Friday, He was resurrected on Sunday.
That shows that the "After" means after the start, and also that the first day, is the day He was crucified itself on that day. Not our western reckoning that would count Saturday as the first day, and Jesus would have risen on Tuesday.
