Nothing in the passage you quote relates to the Rapture. It isn’t a Rapture passage.
The three verses Daniel 9:25 through 9:27 describe the 70 sevens for purposes described in Dan 9:24.
It is a Great Tribulation Passage directly contrasting the Messiah the Prince, with the prince which is to come which is the opposite of the Messiah the Prince.
It is very clear to any student of Scripture for the past 3000 years or so.
The Rapture passages are all NT passages. The Church Age wasn’t even discussed in the OT other than inference of a time where the Messiah would be cut off. Daniel is entirely focused upon the time of the Gentiles, which is partly why Gabriel is sent to let him understand what times have been carved out for Israel and Jerusalem regarding the Gentile interval/dispensation.
Go back and reread Daniel from scratch. It is very informative.
ABSOLUTELY INDEED.
“Nothing in the passage you quote relates to the Rapture. It isn’t a Rapture passage.”
Answer:
But the Dispensational Time divisions are based on cutting up these 70 Weeks. Therefore, without tampering with these 70 Weeks, the so-called pre-millenial rapture could never take place.
For example:
a) Dispensationalists stop the prophecy clock at the 69th Week. ...Why? ... So they can stick in a forced 2,000+ year ‘gap’ which is the precept for the ‘rapture’.
Take away this contrived ‘gap’ and you take away any possibility of a ‘rapture’.
b) Dispensationalists hang the 70th Week out like a carrot to be chased by a donkey in front of the wagon. Instead of 490 years (7 x 70), the timeline for this preophecy now over 2,400 years in the making.
Take a way the contrived ‘gap’ and you take away yhe possiblity of a future (to us) 70th Week. Hence again, there is no possiblity of a ‘rapture’.
This why the ‘system’ of cutting up the 70 weeks is essential to the Dispensationalist, if their ‘rapture’ is to be ‘worked out’.
Of course, anyone who looks at it will see that all of these ‘gaps’, and reversals, and eschatological gymnastics are unscriptural. They eminate from the cunning mind of man.
So this why a complete understanding of Daniel’s 70 weeks and Who the Person of the 70th Week is crucial to understand how Darby, Scofield, and other Dispensationalists undermined the Gospel.