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*Paul* said:Dan 9v24: 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.
These are not weekly weeks but weeks of years of seventy sevens. Each week = 7 years that is what the term week means here. The hebrew word is Heptad and can mean an earthly week or a period of seven years.
The Hebrew word is actually "shabuwa" but you are correct, it can mean a period of seven days or seven years.
Dan 9v25: 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.
The command to rebuild Jerusalam (not the temple but Jeruslem) is here:
Neh 2v1-8: And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.
And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah;
And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.
Dan 9v26: 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.
The threescore and two weeks are after the first seven weeks so should be added together to equal 69 weeks when Messiah comes. (another tpoic but if HE didn't come then then HE never came and if you are still looking for Him you missed Him)
The twentieth year of Artaxerxes Longimanus is 445bc. If we count 69 weeks of years (483 years in a 360 day hebrew calender cycle) or 69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days till the messiah should come. This takes you to palm Sunday the day Jesus was publicly presented as Messiah by riding in to Jerusalem as foretold Messiah would in Zecheriah. (Remember 1 bc to 1 ad is only 1 year) Then Messiah is killed but not for Himself (for the sins of the world) leaving 7 years outstanding.
more about these extant 7 years to folloe
OK. that was talking about the first appearance of Christ right? I still do not see where you are getting 7 years for the tribulation at the last days. Did I miss it?