perfect example - 70 weeks = 490 days. if this passage is to be taken literally, we should be calculating a 490 day period. do you believe this passage is talking about 490 days or is the 70 weeks a type or shadow of a different time period?
OK, looks like I will have to read over this thread. Hopefully it won't have ballooned to 300 acrimonious posts by the time I get to it.
In the explanation I tend to follow, Daniel's seventy sevens begins at the end of a (round) 70 years of exile, and represents (with some corroboration from intertestamental Jewish texts, though I'd have to dig through my references for it. I remember seeing it noted in Beale, The Temple and the Church's Mission) ten jubilees. An ideal time, ending in the coming of Messiah and the consummation of all things.
The dispys are, as usual, wildly wrong on account of bad starting assumptions.
i pinged you because i know you have an interest in “dispys”. the thread probably won’t go much further as mr smvoice promised proof of his assertions, but none were forthcoming and i think he left the thread.
btw - i agree, i believe these are years as well.