DANIEL: 7 SEVENS, 62 SEVENS, AND 1 SEVEN!

MY UNDERSTANDING OF GOD'S PLAN FOR ISRAEL:  490 YEARS

Daniel 9:24 - "Seventy weeks (seventy sevens) are determined upon thy people (Israel) and upon thy holy city (Jerusalem), 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 (Israel's Messiah)."

NOTES ON VERSE 24 

1)  The word "weeks" is translated from the Hebrew שָׁבוּעַ (shabuwa'), which means "periods of seven days or years, a heptad of seven years":  hence 490 years. 
2)  We know that it is referring to years due to verse 27 saying that the event that marks the middle of the seven years is:  "a time, times, and half a time" (Dan. 7:25; 12:7; Rev. 12:14); "1260 days" (Rev. 11:3; 12:6); "42 months" (Rev. 11:2; 13:5).  Thus, a prophetic year is 360 days.
3)  For Israel, transgression, sin, reconciliation, righteousness, and prophecy will no longer be an issue once their Messiah begins His 1000 year reign (Rev. 20).  That is because midway through the heptad of years, the Tribulation (a.k.a. "Daniel's Seventieth Week" or "the Time of Jacob's Trouble") Israel's eyes are opened and they will all be saved by faith in Jesus - Rom. 11:25-26)!  In other words, I believe that Israel will not officially anoint their Messiah until they are saved and come out of hiding at the end of the Tribulation; that is, when Messiah begins His Millennial Kingdom.

THE REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE AND THE CITY:  49 YEARS

Daniel 9:25 - "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 (the seven sevens), and threescore and two weeks (the sixty-two sevens):  the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times."

NOTES ON VERSE 25

1)  The command to restore and rebuild was issued by Artaxerxes in 444 B.C. (Neh. 2:5-8).
2)  It took 49 years for Israel to complete the task.
3)  After the 434 years (the sixty-two sevens) following the rebuilding, Israel rejects her Messiah and He is Crucified (see verse 26).

THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL'S MESSIAH:  434 YEARS

Daniel 9:26 - "And after threescore and two weeks (the sixty-two sevens) 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.

NOTES ON VERSE 26

1)  Jesus died for our sins, as He Himself had never sinned (1 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 4:15).

2)  Rome destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D. 70.

3)  The Seventy Weeks of Daniel pause after sixty-nine weeks.  Between the sixty-ninth week and the seventieth week, Israel will scattered throughout the world, and the Lord will focus upon the Church (Acts 1:1 - Rev. 3:22), in what is known as the Church Age.  The Church Age will end with the removal of the Church via the Rapture (Jn. 14:1-3; 1 Cor. 15:50-54; 1 Th. 4:13-18; Rev. 4:1).

DANIEL'S SEVENTIETH WEEK:  THE TRIBULATION

Daniel 9:27 - "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."

NOTES ON VERSE 27

1)  "The Prince" who will come to power, will be a descendent of Rome (see verse 26).
2)  "The covenant" will be a peace agreement that he will promise to protect Israel; perhaps even build their Temple:  the last seven years of the prophecy.  
3)  "And in the midst of the week" (3 1/2 years, 42 months, 1260 days) he will enter the Temple and declare himself to be god (Mt. 24:15; Rev. 13:5-6).
4)  Notice that nothing is mentioned of Israel's Messiah Second Coming and the establishment of His Millennial Kingdom.  I believe the anointing of their Messiah by Israel occurs after His Second Coming, and at the beginning of His 1000 year reign on earth (Rev. 20).

THE TRIBULATION IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 6 - 18.

THE SECOND COMING IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 19.

THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 20.