“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.
My understanding doesn’t come from dispensationalists. It comes from directly reading Daniel and his report from Gabriel. Gabriel delivered the message of the division of the 70 sevens into three groups and indicated the Messiah would be cut off, to be followed by another.
Time is short. The Rapture is imminent.