Still Waiting for Daniel’s 70th Week?

Check your Bible and your calendar. The only “gap” in Daniel 9 is the one rattling around in modern prophecy teachers’ heads.

Read Daniel 9:24-27 Without Futurist Goggles

Seventy weeks were determined. Not 69 weeks plus a 2,000-year intermission for Israel, the UN, and a paperback Antichrist series. Gabriel didn’t say “pause until Hal Lindsey writes a best-seller.” He said: seventy weeks. Period.

Timeline Breakdown: No Space for a Gap

• 7 weeks (49 years): rebuilding Jerusalem

• 62 weeks (434 years): to the Messiah’s ministry

• 1 week (7 years): divided into Jesus’ ministry, crucifixion, and the apostles’ final preaching to Israel

Total: 70 weeks. 490 years. Not 490 years plus a never-ending prophecy delay.

Futurist Myth #1: The Missing 7 Years

Reality: Daniel 9:26-27 ties the final week to Jesus. Crucifixion in the middle. Covenant confirmed. Sacrifices ended. Apostles finished the week. Show me the gap. I’ll wait.

Futurist Myth #2: Antichrist’s Seven-Year Peace Treaty

Reality: There’s no Antichrist in Daniel 9. “He will confirm a covenant” refers to Messiah, not some slick-talking globalist with a microchip.

Proof From Josephus and the Early Church

• Josephus saw Jerusalem and the temple burn in AD 70. No prophetic pause.

• Eusebius said the destruction came as punishment for rejecting Christ. Early Christians didn’t waste time waiting for a “third temple.”

Crushing Objections One by One

• “But prophecy wasn’t fulfilled, evil still exists!”: Daniel promised reconciliation and righteousness through Christ, not a utopia.

• “But the temple must be rebuilt!”: Jesus ended sacrifices for good (Hebrews 9:12; 10:12).

• “But the 70th week is Antichrist’s peace treaty!”: Show me that in Daniel. It’s not there.

The Gap Theory: Pure Invention

Nobody before the modern prophecy industry taught a gap. The “gap” wasn’t taught by Jesus, the apostles, or the early church. It was first introduced in the 1500s by Jesuit writers, and later spread into Protestant prophecy charts in the 1800s. It’s a human invention, not divine revelation.

So Why Are People Still Waiting?

Because they were taught to. Because the prophecy industry keeps selling charts and novels. Because tradition is easier to repeat than to question.

The truth: the 70 weeks are finished. The Temple is gone. The Old Covenant is over. Jesus delivered on time.

Time to Rise and Shine

Still clinging to a 2,000-year gap? Put away the charts. Open Daniel 9. Test it yourself. Jesus finished the work, and that changes everything.

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