Second, Daniel uses the technique of progressive prediction, sometimes called prophetic telescoping. In other words, in the same prophetic discourse, he leaps from one prophecy to another without noting or regarding gaps of time between them. This is the device employed, for instance, in Daniel’s prophecy of the Seventy Weeks (9:24–27). I believe (along with many others) that after a predictive unit focusing on events associated with the first sixty-nine weeks, Daniel presents an indeterminate temporal