"The Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks" (Dan. 9.25). We agree after these 69 sevens Jesus arrives on the scene with His triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Monday Nisan 10, March 28, 33 AD (Gregorian). He was captured by the Romans on Thursday Nisan 13, March 31, 33 AD. These 4 days from Monday to Thursday are the crucial 4 day inspection of the Lamb emphasized.

"After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off" (v.26). We can agree this is Jesus' death on the cross that takes place before the last seven. Each 7 is 2,520 days each (7 x 360). Incidentally, a person who does not recognize this number used as God's basic prophetic working unit, that person also objects to the types that led up to it and the fact that 2,520 is very uniquely identified as the smallest number divisible by 2 to 10, and every 7 out of 19 years there are 2,520 days from Feast of Trumpets to Tisha B'Av which does have to do with adding in Adar II every few years.

"The people [Romans in 70 AD] of the prince [future Antichrist] that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary [occurred in 70 AD]; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined [more will follow after that to the end]. And he [Antichrist] shall confirm the covenant [peace treaty - lexicon says "treaty, agreement, or alliance of friendship; constitution, ordinance, monarch to subjects"] with many for one week [Daniel's final seven]: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [this is not Jesus for Jesus didn't kill Himself], and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate [Jesus does not make desolate], even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolator [Antichrist]" (vv.26,27).

Understand why Rev. 13.18 exists to identify the Antichrist as Nero resurrected for Neron Kaiser in Greek = 666. So when he is reanimated out of the pit when Satan is given the keys to the pit (Rev. 9.1) he will unleash his Antichrist who can never die, for we are appointed once to die.

The grave mistake is to split up the first half of the 7 years with second half of the 7 years by over 2000 years. That is so ad hoc, we must rebuke it. All sevens once they begin have no break within them: they continue for a full 2,520 days as all 69 sevens did. Let us remain consistent as God is consistent.

Verse 25 and the first half of 26 are talking about Jesus. Then the second half of verse 26 and verse 27 talk about the Antichrist. Verse 27 does not then go back to talking about Jesus. Verses 25 to 27 are not taking turns back and forth talking about Jesus and Antichrist. First Jesus is discussed. Then Antichrist is brought into view. God is not putting us in a position of a guessing game, trying to figure who is who. Satan is the author of confusion. Many would have us believe that after the Antichrist is discussed in the second half of verse 26 then Jesus is mentioned in the first half of 27 to then going back to talking about Antichrist in the second half of 27. There is no reason for us to do this. So let's not do it!

What are the dangerous consequences of doing this? When a 7 year treaty is brought forward in the public eye the deniers will find themselves rationalizing it is not the 7 year treaty because they reject any such notion to begin with; thus, they will be swept up by this time period even deceiving others along with them that this is not what we are to be watchful for. Let's recognize how Scripture fits perfectly with the 7 year Tribulation and peace treaty. The first 4 trumpets in Rev. 8 are the first half of the Tribulation. Then Rev. 9 to 11 are the last 3 trumpets or 3 woes that last 42 months. The first half the earth is hurt primarily. In the 2nd half 1/3 of people will die. When these characteristics reveal themselves and the 3rd Temple is completed in the first half of the Tribulation, will those naysayers try to explain this away somehow as well? They will accuse the brethren day and night (Rev. 12.10) who were raptured on Feast of Trumpets "before the throne" (Rev. 7.9) according to readiness (Matt. 24.40-42, Luke 21.36, Rev. 3.10) before the 7 years begins with its 1st trumpet (8.7)?