DANIEL 9:24

Q: Why doesn't the spectacular fact that this verse predicted to the day when Jesus entered

 Jerusalem convince more people of the truth of the Bible?

Payne’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy, pp. 384-385 shows that there have been several other

 accepted ways to understand this prophecy that differ completely in regard to the proper starting event,

 the method of assigning “weeks,” and nature of the actual fulfillment. There are several problems with the

 method usually employed to come up with this understanding. The main one is that a 360-day year is

 needed for the dates to come out right. Although Jews used a 30-day month in their calendar, their 

calendar year was, of course, 365 1/4 days just like ours. They added make-up days periodically so that

 their winter months didn’t slowly turn into summer months, etc.  Commentators have noted that it is

 highly unlikely that such a calculation (360 days = one year) was intended.