[guitarplayer1953]

And after threescore and two weeks 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.

Everyone attributes this to the antichrist my question is if he has destroyed the city and sanctuary how can he do scarifies and such for three and ahalf years into his perposed covenant?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

The Antichrist does not destroy any city or sanctuary. The Antichrist, as the passage there states, comes from the people who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple, which happened in 70AD. Those people were Romans. Jesus does not come from the people who destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple; Jesus is a Jew.

The Scripture there is stating that after 69 "sevens", or 483 years, had passed, the Messiah (Jesus) would be "cut off", or crucified, and after that the people from whom the Antichrist will come would destroy Jerusalem and the temple.

The Antichrist is the one who puts and end to sacrifices three and a half years into the Tribulation. He does not destroy a city and a sanctuary; he will come from the same people who destroyed the city and the sanctuary in 70AD.