Why is it that these last 7 years didn't follow along like the other years in this Daniel prophecy? Why are they separate?
Again brethren and non brethren.... notice how Bjorn, has asked a sincere question from his research.
It may be questioning but that is definitely allowable and definitely honourable.
But the first clue to getting prophecy is take the overall evuidence, that is repeated opver and over and over and over again and again as your basics, rather than one verse as your opinion or dogma.
For the Bible's truths, the very basics were set down by the Lord to give us a starting point and the future cohesively.... and all his prophets had to speak as one if they spoke via the Lord, and what you find out is that their prophecies do in fact melt together as they spoke their particular prophecy but it fits together with the whole.
Do not get caught up in a tree, when you first have to see the forest. Its exactly the same as other types of KNOWLEDGE, a truth is not segregated but integrated with all other truths and laws and principles. We have to go by the overwhelming preponderances of truths.
That being said... why was Daniel 9 split ? So the 62 weeks and seven weeks of the seventy weeks were separated from the LAST WEEK and the very consummation.
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/Daniel9.html
Well from the Daniel



Dan 9:26And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
WE know the Messiah was Jesus, and His birth time was prophesied as well as His death by Daniel's prophecy... exactly
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/TimeProphecy.html
As well as given by the distances inside Giza tunnels...another time prophecy
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/FloodUntilCrucifixion.html
Hence from the time of Jesus departure 30 AD to His Coming again 2016, means there has to be a preceeding time where the 'he' the prince of the people who killed jesus... the A.C. shall have to have seven years for his overspreading of abominations... and that time is the Last 7 Years.
IE Starting with the Covenant in 2009 to 2016, seven years will pass, and then and only then shall the Lord COME.
The best of times but the worst of times, depending on our alignment.
But check out these exact length of times in other prophetic books as well.
Revelation 12 where it states exactly 1260 days, time and times and half a time..., 42 months Revelation 11, the same lengths of time as spoken of by Daniel...exactly... exactly....
IE They confirm themselves and Jesus himself confirmed Daniel when Jesus was HERE.
Mathew 24
Good knowledgeable question Bjorn.
Did I answer it in part, and have you read Revelation time figures ?
For a help consider
http://www.geocities.com/davidjayjordan/Revelation.html
If you start reading a specific chapter...