Hi Barraco
Seven weeks....................an anointed one a Prince ie:Joshua is made priest King by God
62 Weeks..................... this line of priest Kings rules Jerusalem but in troubled times.
One Week is separated out this is the 7 year Macabee War
. it is added into the 69 weeks to make 70 weeks and is the Start of MANY desolations and war that will end with the "HE" The king of the north
.The Prince of the people to come destroying the city and the sanctuary.
From the Decree of Cyrus in 538 BC - 490 years (70 weeks) = 48 BC...........In 48 BC the line of priest kings was cut off as The Romans make Herod King. This ends the 490 year rule of the priest Kings.
Look at the prophecy it is about Jerusalem.......... that is the question asked by Daniel. He wants to know when the Promise to Jacob will be fulfilled. The Jews are in captivity and think this promise is lost. Look what the Jews are saying.
Jer:3324: Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.25: Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;26: Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.
So Daniel asks on Behalf of his people.
[2] in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years which, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
This prophecy is about the Jews and Jerusalem not the time of the End.
Daniel thinks the 70 Years is the end of the punishment of the Jews ..............he wants to know when messiah will come and the Jews share of the promise to Jacob and David will be fulfilled.
The 70 years of Jeremiah is a year for each Jubilee missed ......................But Daniel has forgotten the SEVEN fold punishment of the curse of Leviticus 26:
Lev 26:27: And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me; 28: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
The curse demands a seven fold punishment if the Jews do not repent.............during the 70 Years.........the do not repent AS A PEOPLE...........and so the seven fold curse comes upon them...........70 x 7 = 490 years
It will be 490 years of more punishment......................490 years TO finish the Transgression and atone for the iniquity of the Jewish people and their city. At the end of the 490 years the promise to Jacob that Jesus will be born of his blood will be fulfilled.
[24] "Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy one.
That is why EVERYONE was waiting for their Messiah
..That is why Herod and the priests KNEW that Christ was coming because this 490 years had ended in 48 BC
Matt 2:3: When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. 4: And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.