Dougg
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There is no reason to mention 62 weeks, in verses 25 and 26, unless the 7 weeks is for the rebuilding of Jerusalem.


There is a very good reason for mentioning the 7 weeks and the 62 weeks -- the first 7 have to do with the first messiah.

The second messiah who is cut off is at the end of the next 62 weeks.

As Shmelke and Chaim have pointed out -- there is nothing about the Temple being rebuilt within 7 weeks (Daniel speaks of the word to rebuild going forth, not the timeframe it will take to rebuild).

Daniel 9:25 says:

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Seventy septets have been decreed upon your people and upon your holy city to terminate transgression, to end sin, to wipe away inequity, to bring everlasting righteousness, to confirm the visions and prophets, and to anoint the Holy of Holies


We Jews had 70 shavuim to get our act together -- to end our evil ways, to bring a righteous government back into power, etc. We didn't do it. This is one statement.

Then Daniel speaks of what will happen within those 70 septets. He separates them into 2 timeframes.

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Know and comprehend: From the emergence of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem until an anointed prince will be seven septets; and for sixty two septets it will be rebuilt, street and moat, but in troubled times.


From the WORD to restore it (which Cyrus gave) until an anointed prince will be 7 shavuim. Cyrus was most certainly an anointed prince. J-sus was neither anointed nor a prince.

Then for 62 shavuim Jerusalem will be rebuilt. Get your act together in that time.

This isn't just a semantic argument of yours, Dougg -- that it is one timeframe not two. It is a linguistic one. You are completely ignoring the punctuation which clearly breaks it into two separate timeframes.

There is an etnacta in Daniel 9:25. The etnacta is like a period or semi-colon in English -- it SEPARATES the two thoughts. The first KJV translators got it right, but later ones removed it. So don't trust a Jewish translation go and look for the 1611 version of KJV and see it for yourself.

from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed prince will be seven weeks [PERIOD, SEMI-COLON -- STOP]; and for sixty-two weeks it shall be rebuilt

Now read Daniel 9:26

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Then, after the sixty two septets, an anointed one will be cut off and will exist no longer; the people of a prince will come, and will destroy the city and the Sanctuary; but its end will be like a flood. Then, until the end of war, desolation is decreed.


Dougg, here Daniel says that after the second time period -- the 62 shavuim -- an anointed one will be cut off. This is NOT the same anointed prince of line 25.

Then it says the people of a prince will come (the Romans) who will destroy the city and the Temple.

Then, until the end of war (universal peace) desolation is decreed.

Is there an end to war, Dougg? Is there universal peace?

Nope, not one false messiah -- two messiahs long gone.