Brother Rick:
Continuing on since my last post, I want you to prayerfully consider the possibility in your 6th. paragraph, that CHRIST is in fact the prince who is to come that confirms the covenant in Vs. 27. There is abundant Scriptural evidence that agrees with that statement. The context of the entire 9th. Chapter of Daniel is concerning the coming of a great anointed Messiah, that will add strength to the existing Abrahamic Covenant mentioned in Daniel 9:4 & 27! In Daniel 9:27, the word "confirm" (Strongs#1396) means "to strengthen", NOT "to make" or "to sign" as traditionally taught. NO where in Scripture does it say the antichrist confirms anything, however in Romans 15:8 the text declares: Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to CONFIRM the promises made unto the fathers. Then in Galatians 3:17 it says: And this I say, that the covenant, that was CONFIRMED before of God IN CHRIST, the law... Rick honestly, could it be any clearer? It even says in Isaiah 42:6 that: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, AND GIVE THEE FOR A COVENANT OF THE PEOPLE, for a light of the Gentiles.
Also in that 6th. paragraph, you were exactly correct when you said "The prince confirming the covenant is the same as the prince who is to come in verse 26", and that statement is 100% correct, because Jesus who was the one to come in vs. 26, is also the one who will confirm and strengthen the Abrahamic Covenant in Vs. 27 for 7 years. And when the Book of Daniel was written around 530 B.C., Jesus had not already come, but was to come 530-560 years later.
In the 7th paragraph Rick, you mentioned the final 7 years begin sometime during the first seal in Rev. 6:1. Rick, I'm sorry to say none of the seals have any type of "time stamp" associated with them.

I think I have said enough here, so as not to go beyond brotherly love and cause a rucas here on the FiveDives that John hates. I just want to say Rick, it's going to be a frieghtful day at the Judgement Seat of Christ for one of us. If it is me, I'm calling the antichrist Christ, and deceiving my family, and fellow brethren to do the same. However if it is you Rick, you are calling Christ the antichrist, and deceiving your family and brethren to do likewise. All I ask of you Rick and anyone else reading these posts is to be like Berians and study these things out in the Word of God, to see if these things be not so.