What about the second of the five points mentioned above? What is the Biblical basis for considering the seventy weeks to be part of the 2300 days? QSEW 14.5
This comes from a careful comparison of Daniel 8 with Daniel 9. Note the logic of this position: QSEW 14.6
(a) Daniel 8:16—Gabriel was told to explain the vision of Daniel 8:1-14. QSEW 14.7
(b) Daniel 8:17-25—Gabriel explained all but the 2300 days. QSEW 15.1
(c) Daniel 8:26, 27—Daniel did not understand the “vision of the evening and the morning” (the 2300 days), though it astonished him. QSEW 15.2
(d) Daniel 9:1-20—Twelve years later Daniel was engaged in earnest prayer and Bible study. QSEW 15.3
(e) Daniel 9:21 Gabriel, the messenger of the previous vision, returned. QSEW 15.4
(f) Daniel 9:22 Gabriel said he would give Daniel understanding. QSEW 15.5
(g) Daniel 9:23 Gabriel reminded Daniel of the previous vision. This must have been the vision of Daniel 8, for there is no record of any other prior appearance of Gabriel. QSEW 15.6
(h) Daniel 9:24—Gabriel’s explanation was clearly of a time prophecy. QSEW 15.7