Jane A:
 
As I have stated, "words" have explicit and even sometime implicit meaning.  I must apologize for any confusion that came as a result of my typing.  I failed to put the word "and" in between "His people the Jews, "and' the Church."  My mistake of forgetting the missing word "and" could have been confusing.
 
I could use this (my) typo as a lesson example of how important grammar is and essential even in the Bible.  Biblical Hebrew and Greek are even more precise than English because they have fewer words than English.
 
Case in point:  Greek has at least five words that are translated "love" in English:  Agape, Phileo, Eros, Stergo, and Thelo.  There may even be a sixth but I forget, my Greek does not get used much in retirement.
 
God differentiates in the larger scope of His Word, three key groups of people:  1. Jews, 2. Gentiles, and 3. the Church.  This simply defines the three basic groups as the focus of His Word.
 
Most Christian scholars and interpreters have taken the "cutting off" of Messiah in Daniel 9:26 as a reference to Jesus Christ's death.
 
In 9:26, After the sixty-two sevens (of years), the Anointed One (the Messiah) would be cut off, executed because of the death penalty (cf. Isaiah 53:8).  "After" simply means some time after, and this allows for the three and one-half years of ministry before Jesus was crucified.  At this time, there would be "nothing to Him".  This can mean He would have no successor, or it could mean that He would be left alone.
 
The prophecy then jumps ahead to the people of "the prince who shall come" after the Messiah.  Since the people of this ruler to come would destroy the city of Jerusalem and the sanctuary (the Temple), the people must be the Romans who destroyed the city and Temple after a long, bitter siege, in 70 AD, when Titus invaded the land.  Titus did not want the Temple destroyed, but the Jew's fierce resistance angered the Roman soldiers, so they set it on fire.  The intensity of the fire caused the gold of the Temple's roof to melt down between the stones, which resulted in the soldiers prying the stones apart, and thus fulfilling the prophecy of Jesus in Matthew 24:2.  Jerusalem's end at that time did indeed come like an overflowing flood.  This would be followed by more war and more desolations or judgments of God, for they were determined.
 
Brother Greg's response to you also noted the importance of the grammatical rule concerning the "Antecedent" of "he" is "the prince who is to come" in 9:26.  The pronoun "he" requires the reader to go back to the previous verse to learn who "he" is.  Just thinking about my seminary days outlining Hebrew and Greek gives me a headache.  
 
Keep in mind that Titus made no covenant with Israel.  We have to ask the question then who is being referred to?  Apparently, a future ruler of the revived or reorganized Roman Empire, the "little" horn of Daniel 7, is in view.
 
This is preferable to taking the antecedent of "he" as Messiah, since Jesus did not do the things predicted of the prince here.  If the little horn of chapter 7 is in view here, as it seems preferable, and this means that the "seventieth" week does not follow the "sixty-ninth" week immediately.  Such a break in prophetic chronology has precedent in the predictions of Messiah's first and second advents (Isaiah 61:1-2).  Another piece of evidence that there was a 37-year gap, between Messiah's cutting off in 32/33 AD and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD..
 
Yet Daniel presented both of these events as after the sixty-ninth week and before the seventieth week.  Thus, there must be a break in the chronology after the sixty-ninth week.  This is referred to as the "Gap" theory or parenthesis (   ) period (which means we live in the (    ) period.   The "Septuagint" settles any confusion or discrepancy about the accuracy or reliability of Daniel.  This is another confirming bit of evidence of the Bible's accuracy, especially the book of Daniel.  It undermines any criticism of those saying Daniel was re-written back into the Bible, or that it was written much later than the 5th century BC, etc.    
 
This future ruler, according to Gabriel, will make a covenant with "the many" for one week of (seven) years.  "The many" evidently refers to Daniel's people in 9:24, ethnic Jews (confirmed in Daniel 11:39 and 12:2).  After three and one-half years, this antichrist will terminate the sacrifices and offerings that he permitted the Jews to offer, in a "third" Temple.  Their ability to offer these sacrifices indicates that they will be back in the land worshipping at a rebuilt temple.
 
Some posit a view there is no "third" Temple and that we are the Temple of God.  No argument here that we are the Temple of God, however, there will be a "third" physical Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.   Months ago I reported the fact that  60,000 tons of Bedford, Indiana limestone was moved by railroad gondola cars from Bedford/Madison, Indiana to Kearney, NJ for "export" to Israel by ship.  The stones were bought and paid for by the Freemasonic "Grand Orient Lodge" of Boston, Mass.  Almost daily, for several months, between 3 and 8 railroad gondola cars passed through Pitcairn Yard, east of Pittsburgh, PA, with cut stones of various sizes and weights.  The cars were placarded "for Kearny, NJ, export to Israel".  "Bedford Limestone" has been used for the exterior of most federal buildings in Washington, DC, and office buildings all over the country.  When my son was a little tyke we would drive from our apartment, a short drive away, down to the large freight classification yard at Pitcairn, PA and watch the trains come in and depart.  
 
Make no mistake about it, there will be a "third" physical Temple.  I can personally attest to the existence of stones cut for the new Temple.  I saw them with my own eyes.  At one time I had black and white as well as color photos of them that I had taken with my cameras.  I was a model railroader and railroad hobbyist for forty+ years.  I feel blessed and consider it somewhat providential that I was witness to this observation report about the stones and their destination.
 
Keep looking up ^.
 
Pastor Bob