With respect for the 70 weeks of Daniel, many make the common mistake of assuming 69 consecutive weeks of years until Messiah’s death, and using the decree of Artaxerxes as the starting point. Yet Gabriel gave Daniel to understand that there would be 7 sevens (49 yrs) and 62 sevens (434 yrs), and that after the 62 weeks Messiah would be cut off and have nothing. (Dan 9:25) In other words, there is some break between the first 49 years and the next 434 years. Then there is the final 1 week, or the final 7 years leading up to the return of the Lord, making for 490 years. (Dan 9:24-27)
The LORD Himself said in Is 44:28 that Cyrus would be His shepherd and anointed one to have His people rebuild the Temple and the city of Jerusalem. The decree mentioned in Daniel refers to the city; Cyrus is recorded to have given the decree, around 536BC to rebuild the Temple (Ezra 1:1-4). Yet in Ezra 4:11-16, the troublers of the returning Jews to do the work clearly wrote that the Jews were building the city. So, just as the Word of the LORD to Isaiah said, it is obvious that to return and rebuild the Temple included the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Otherwise, there would not have been the free access to worship at the Temple if the city were in ruins, or is the enemy controlled it. The returning Jews and Levites, etc,, were apparently giving more attention to building their own houses (in the city) than the House of God, so Zechariah and Haggai were sent to refocus their attention and efforts. Artaxerxes simply held by the initial decree of Cyrus so that the work could continue in the time of trouble.
It should also be evident from this that Yeshua not only died, but was also born more than 490 after the decrees, and that His death did not fulfill the 70 weeks of years: God’s purpose for this time-clock have not been realized, the antichrist has not yet come, and there are still wars until the end; whereas in the Millennial Kingdom wars will have ceased, and not even taught.
Yeshua died in 30 AD (which is 40 years before the Temple’s destruction; see corroborating evidence from a hostile third party, the Talmud, an unsympathetic source: http://www.windowview.org/hmny/pgs/talmuds.30ce.html). It is widely accepted that Messiah/Christ was 33 1/2 yrs old at His death. Having begun His 3 1/2 yr public ministry when He was about 30 years old, then He was born on the 24th of Chislev, 5 BC, by my reckoning (Hag 2:10-23), being necessary that He was born before King Herod died, whose death is historically recorded as being in 4 BC. https://streamsinthenegev.com/school-of-fish/conception-and-birth-of-john-the-baptiser-and-jesus-the-messiah/ The magi from the East could have seen His star up to a couple of years before they actually arrived in Bethlehem, Israel.