Donna asked about Dan 9:24 .  Let's take a look

 

שָׁבֻעִים שִׁבְעִים נֶחְתַּךְ עַל-עַמְּךָ וְעַל-עִיר קָדְשֶׁךָ,  לְכַלֵּא הַפֶּשַׁע  ולחתם (וּלְהָתֵם) חטאות (חַטָּאת)  וּלְכַפֵּר עָו‍ֹן , וּלְהָבִיא, צֶדֶק עֹלָמִים;  וְלַחְתֹּם חָזוֹן וְנָבִיא,  וְלִמְשֹׁחַ קֹדֶשׁ קָדָשִׁים.

24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sin, and to forgive iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal vision and prophet, and to anoint the most holy place.

First off, these 70 "SEVENs" are decreed about "thy people and upon the holy city", but Revelation is directed at a wider audience, for G-d told John, "Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. " (Rev 10:11).

 

At the time G-d said the above, Israel was in exile FOR THEIR SINS.  So when He says "finish transgression", he means "finish the [national] transgressions [of Israel]", because that context was established in the phrase preceding it.  Of course, G-d plan to bring in "everlasting righteousness" was the death / resurrection of Messiah, whom also the Gentiles rest their hope.  And this was mentioned in Dan 9 as part of how that happened.  But the fact that the 70 weeks are all about dealing with the sins, iniquity, transgressions of Israel is evidenced from numerous places in the context, not only the statment below, but we see this in the overall ocntext as well....

• "we have sinned, and have dealt iniquitously, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled...," (Dan 9:5)
• "Unto Thee, O Lord, belongeth righteousness, but unto us confusion of face..." (Dan 9:7)
• "Yea, all Israel have transgressed Thy law..." (Dan 9:11)
• "And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel..." (Dan 9:20)
• "...the man Gabriel ... approached close to me... " (Dan 9:21)

But  there's nothing stated that the 70 weeks are to deal with the sins of "many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. "   That's what the book of Revelation was for. 

 

Now while there can be some ambiguity in what is meant by "seal vision" or "anoint" or some of the other issues raised, we can't take what we READ INTO this verse and place that above the PLAIN LANGUAGE of other verses.  And if Revelation gives us a timeline that clearly exceeds 7 years, then we have to understand the less clear passages by the clearer passages.  And if we have over 90 months in the 3 woes...

• Woe 1: (Rev 8:13-9:11) Rev 9:10 says at least 5 months.
• Woe 2: (Rev 9:13-11:13) 1/3 of mankind destroyed, the 7 thunders, and 42 months of the two witnesses.
• Woe 3:  (Rev 11:15 onward) Final 42 months before Messiah returns.

which we're told MUST come in sequence, we can't dismiss the plain language of this text because in favor of what tradition has READ INTO Dan 9.

 

Keep in mind that one must realize that the Church is not Israel.  Replacement theology is responsible for the idea that everything must fit into a 7 year timeline, because theologians have been so sold on their own theology that ISrael was done away with and replaced by the Church that this is at the heart of how they have interpretted Dan 9 as applying to everyone when it does not and only applies to Israel.