Image via Wikipedia Much has been written on the prophetic text of the Babylonian exile of Judah in an attempt to answer the question, When are Daniel’s 70 Weeks Fulfilled? Perhaps no prophetic text suffers more at the hands of exegetes than does that of Daniel 9:24–27. Dispensationalist Thomas Ice and others in that movement argue for a literal interpretation of the 70 weeks. However, their literalizing of the text results in both a logical contradiction and abandonment of their premise by inserting a 2000 plus year gap. They insert thousands of “weeks” into the final week resulting in non-fulfillment of the prophecy. However, the prophecy contains a very ...