Messiah Cut Off

Hello All,
Daniel 9:24 was my "verse of the day" today on my Google page, so I thought maybe the LORD wanted me to share with you the meaning of the "Seventy Weeks of Daniel". I think all I can handle today will be the first 69 weeks... stay tuned for that "last week"! ;-) Here is my short and to the point version.
Blessings to You, Bee

P.S. There are a few different variations of these calculations but suffice it to say, all are very close to the date that Messiah was "cut off" or crucified, "but not for himself", it was for us. Jesus Christ died for our sins as the perfect Passover sacrifice according to the Scriptures!

Isaiah 53:5,6
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Daniel Chapter 9

24 “ Seventy weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
To make reconciliation for iniquity,
To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
And to anoint the Most Holy.
25 “ Know therefore and understand,
That from the going forth of the command
To restore and build Jerusalem
Until Messiah the Prince,
There shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks;
The street shall be built again, and the wall,
Even in troublesome times.
26 “ And after the sixty-two weeks
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself"..........

First of all, to understand this prophecy we need to note these are 70 "weeks of years". The length of a "prophetic year" being only 360 days instead of 365! These 70 weeks will begin with the decree to rebuild and restore Jerusalem completely ("with streets", not just the wall.) We know this date from the documentation of the decree in Nehemiah 2:1 "And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes," Most historians know when this twentieth year was and understand this date to be around March 5th 444 BC. Keep this date in mind.

Now let's work the numbers... and let's use "days" right now instead of years because of the difference in the length of the year.
7 weeks of years = 17,640 days (or 49 "prophetic years")
62 weeks of years = 156,240 days (or 434 "prophetic years")
Let's add these, the total so far is 69 weeks which is = 173,880 days (or 483 "prophetic years")

Now let's add those 173,880 days to the date 444 BC and what do we come up with? First we need to convert those days into OUR calendar years to get our present day date.
173,880 days divided by 365 = 476.38 modern day years, (I will round it down.)
444 BC + 476 years minus the 0 year for the BC/AD shift and you get ...
33 AD The same year our Lord was crucified, or very close to it!

Some have figured the exact "days" and have come up with the calculation from March 5th,444 BC add 173,880 days and you will get to Nisan 10 or March 30, 33 AD which according to Luke 19:29-40 is the day Messiah entered Jerusalem on a donkey and all were singing Hosanna to the Son of David! Just a few days later Messiah was crucified.

Zechariah 9:9
“ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you;
He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.