Greg, if you read the Context of Daniel chapter 9 if will help
you to understand that the Entire Prophecy is about ''Messiah
the Prince''.
To say that the Hebrew changes the subject to ''messiah the
anti-christ'' is frankly ridiculous.
The anti-christ has nothing to do with the criteria mentioned
about what the Messiah would accomplish in Daniel 9. ''To end
trangressions..... to complete prophecy....etc.''/
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. Now ask
yourself.....which one of these is about the
anti-christ??????
Read in Isaiah about how the Jews would ''no longer be MY
people'' and ''I will be found of a people that did not seek
me''.........meaning the Gentiles.
God uses the phrase ''Oh, Assyrian, the Rod of MY ANGER''.
These were Gentiles......
The 70th week began when Jesus started His ministry after
coming out of the wilderness. He said TODAY THIS IS FULFILLED
IN YOUR EARS''.....meaning that exact day! His first sermon!
IT WAS JESUS WHO WAS CRUCIFIED AFTER THE 69TH WEEK AND IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE 70TH WEEK.....thus there are 3.5 years
remaining.
Regarding Daniel 9:26 and the "people of the prince who is to
come''.....this is showing that when the Jews killed Jesus,
they were no longer his people.
Here is an alternate translation from my Oxford bible...center
column... of this section of Daniel 9:
''and the Jews, they shall no longer be his people''!!
AND ''the Prince's future people''.....that is the Messiah's
future people will be the ones who destroy the temple.
The sacrifices that continued after the Cross of Jesus were an
''abomination''. How clear!!
The temple was made desolate
because of the abominations that made it desolate.....animal
sacrifices that continued after the cross.
Jerusalem would be at war ever
since.
I personally believe it is
close to being offensive to Jesus to insert the anti-christ
into a prophecy that is about the Messiah.....the Prince who
was to come!
dp