Daniel - Charting the 70th Week

October 25, 29 AD (Tishrei 28): Real-Year Midpoint of Daniel's 70th Week

Daniel's 490-Year Prophecy was investigated to search for potential Hebrew-Calendar alignments between the events of this Prophecy and the Hebrew Holy Days, as described in Leviticus 23. The legitimacy of this presupposition would be determined by the precision of any alignments that might be found, and the degree of similarity between these and the alignments previously discovered within Revelation. Upon studying these things it is apparent that:

Such alignments do in fact exist.
They exactly replicate the time-interval alignments previously found within Revelation.
Because Daniel's 70th Week begins six months earlier in the calendar year, the aligned Holy Days are in an order that is inverse to those of Revelation.
Counting biblically - including both the first day and the last day - moving back in time 3.5 actual years - 1278 Days - from this Real-Year Midpoint brings us to . . .

October 7, 29 AD (Tishrei 10): Jesus is Baptized and Anointed, Marking the Start of His Ministry

This is in the middle of the Tishrei (Fall) Holy Days, on the very Day of Yom Kippur - the Day of Atonement.
On THE Old Covenant DAY celebrating Messiah's future triumph, paying sin's death penalty for all of mankind and thus providing a Way for us to be Redeemed.
As with Revelation's Timeline there is now a 19 Day Interval which marks the beginning of a secondary confirmation of this Seven-Year Timeline.
The two periods together - John's Ministry immediately followed by Jesus' Ministry - occur for a total of 2520 Days (1260 Days + 1260 Days) - Seven Prophetic Years.
Moving forward in time 1260 Days from October 7, 29 AD (or 2520 Days from April 27, 26 AD) brings us to . . .

April 27, 26 AD (Nisan 21): John the Baptist's Ministry Begins

This is the exact day of the last Holy Day of the Nisan (Spring) Holy Days of Unleavened Bread - the Final Feast and Sabbath of Passover Week.
Being as pious as John was, including limiting what he ate, it is very appropriate that his ministry began on a Feast Day which limited what could be eaten.
The time of John's ministry correlates with the first 3.5 years of Revelation described as "Forty-Two Months", each with 30 prophetic days.
Forty-two prophetic months is to be understood as 3.5 Prophetic Years of 360 days each, which equates to 1260 Days.
Thus, John's independent ministry until Messiah's arrival, was set to extend for 1260 days.
Moving forward in time 1260 Days from April 27, 26 AD brings us to . . .

March 20, 33 AD (Nisan 1): JESUS REDEEMER - All of Mankind Will Now Have the Opportunity of Redemption

This marks the culmination of Messiah Jesus' First Advent when He fulfilled His Earthly Mission at His Final Passover.
This is exactly the first Holy Day of the Nisan Holy Days - Rosh Chodesh - The Holy New Year.
This event removes Sin's Previously Unassailable hold over Mankind and so brings an End to Great Hopelessness.
This year's Nisan Holy Days, beginning on Friday and with First Fruits on Nisan 17, is an uncommon configuration. It is the only configuration which will allow Messiah to be in the grave for three days and three nights (as He said He would be), and then arise on the First Day of the Week as the First Fruits Offering, the Holy Day which occurs with a possible time-variation on the Hebrew calendar of six weeks or more.

March 24, 30 AD (Nisan 1): The Time of Collaboration Ends

This is the very Day of Rosh Chodesh, the 1st Day of the Nisan (Spring) Holy Days.
This secondary alignment within the Seven Years gives us further confirmation of the presence and validity of the full Seven-Year Alignment.
John and his ministry now begin to "decrease" (John 3:30 - soon after Passover) and he will soon be arrested, and then martyred.
This year's Nisan Holy Days exactly replicate Jesus' Passion in 33 AD. That this uncommon configuration would occur in both 30 AD at Jesus' First Passover, and so soon again in 33 AD at His Last Passover, reconfirms that God is designing these alignments.
Moving forward in time 1260 Days from October 25, 29 AD, brings us to . . .

April 7, 33 AD (Nisan 19): JESUS' ASCENSION TO THE FATHER

The Time Intervals show us that Jesus' Initial Ascension to the Father took place two days after His Resurrection as the First Fruits, and two days prior to Nisan's Final Feast.
Thoughtfully read Luke 24, which details from Jesus' Resurrection to His Ascension, to see that the latter was at least one day, and very possibly two days, after First Fruits.
Jesus returned victorious to the Father on the second day after First Fruits, Nisan 19. This corresponds perfectly with Revelation's Tishrei 19.
Messiah Jesus' Earthly Mission is now complete and, entering His Father's presence, He has anointed Heaven's Golden Altar with His Victory over Sin and Death.

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The Timeline of Daniel's 70th Week

   After discovering and documenting Revelation's extraordinary Seven-Year Timeline, I subsequently began to study the Book of Daniel and his 490-Year Prophecy (aka Daniel's 70-Week Prophecy), which states that it extends "until Messiah the Prince." As we saw earlier, many modern exegetes want to separate this prophecy's last week of years from the 69 weeks leading up to it, with intention to seek the fulfillment of these seven years during the End Time. To repeat, this only causes *much exegetical harm of all sorts.

   Taking the words in Daniel 9 at face value, the prophecy comes to an end with the Messiah, and the final week of the prophecy - the final seven years - can only be applied to the Messiah. As previously demonstrated, the 490 years of the prophecy began in 457 BC and ended in 33 AD. We will also add here that, because Messiah's mission on Earth ended (with His death and resurrection) at the Spring Holy Days in Nisan, these seven years run from Nisan, 26 AD to Nisan, 33 AD.

   Noticing what seemed to be similarities in timing patterns between John's seven-year account in Revelation and Daniel's description of the 70th Week of his prophecy, I began to wonder if the latter might also contain alignments with Hebrew Holy Days. Because Daniel's Week of Years must begin with the Spring Holy Days of Nisan, while Revelation's Seven Years begins with the Fall Holy Days of Tishrei, I knew that Daniel's alignments, if there were any to be found, would have to be with different Holy Days. I also thought that alignments with different Holy Days would mean different intervals of time between those alignments. I was wrong about this.

   Imagine my surprise when I placed the real-year (365 days / year) midpoint, 1278 days (3.5 years) to count back and mark their beginning at the Final Feast of Nisan in 26 AD (as in Revelation, except there the count extends back to the Final Feast of Tishrei), exactly two millennia prior to Revelation, and every one of Revelation's Holy Day-Alignment Intervals was repeated within Daniel's 70th Week - precisely! But with the opposite Holy Days of course.

   Lacking any better description, I call this an Inverse Alignment: Repeating the same time intervals, but aligning with the opposing sets of Holy Days! Spring Holy Days in place of Revelation's Autumn Holy Days ... and ... Autumn Holy Days in place of Revelation's Spring Holy Days! WHO could have designed such a Calendar!

Notes on Luke 24 regarding the timing of Jesus' Ascension to the Father

Jesus arose on the Day of First Fruits, Nisan 17, shortly before dawn:
          1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,
          3 but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus.

Later that day:
          13 And behold, on that very day two of them were going to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem.
               - The precise distance of 60 stadia is uncertain, but this measurement is based upon the length of a Roman Stadium and is close to 600 feet.
               - The distance the men walked was approximately 7 miles.

Evening initiates the next day, Nisan 18:
          29 And so they strongly urged Him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over."

Walking the 7 miles back to Jerusalem, this is well into Nisan 18:
          33 And they got up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,

Lengthy teaching well into the night of Nisan 18:
          44 Now He said to them, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all the things that are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets
          and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, "So it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise
          from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

This is at least well into Nisan 18, and could certainly be the next day, Nisan 19:
          50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.

Luke's narrative certainly allows for a Nisan 19 ascension, but a strict reading yields Nisan 18. As previously stated, because Hebrew and Gregorian time periods don't perfectly overlap, there will be occasions where we must allow for what might appear to some as a one-day (or a one-year) apparent discrepancy, which is not actually a discrepancy at all.

Notes comparing the Timelines of Noah's Flood and Jesus Messiah's First-Advent Mission

- Noah's Flood began with 40 days of the tumult of deluge and earthquakes with aquatic upheavals. - Genesis 7:12
- Jesus' Ministry began with 40 days of the tumult of extreme physical deprivation along with Satan's wilderness temptation. - Luke 4:1-2

- After the 40 days and until 150 days, Noah's Flood experienced calm seas. - Genesis 8:1-2
- After Jesus' Temptation there were, together with John the Baptist, 150 days of calmness with an absence of governmental persecution.

- "... [A]t the end of 150 days the water [of Noah's Flood] decreased." - Genesis 8:3
- After 150 Days of a calm co-ministry with Jesus Messiah, John the Baptist declares, "He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

- After the ark came to rest, it was "... at the end of forty days, that Noah ... sent out a raven..." which didn't return. - Genesis 8:6-7
- "[Jesus] presented Himself alive after His suffering ... appearing to them over a period of forty days..." before His public and final ascension into heaven. - Acts 1:3

Jesus Ascended to Heaven Twice

From the book of Acts, chapter one, we know that Jesus' public ascension into "a cloud" and then to heaven, took place 40 days after His resurrection. This is unequivocal.
A thoughtful reading of the book of Luke, chapter 24, confirms that Jesus had also ascended earlier, certainly within two days of His resurrection.

More information from the scriptures confirming Jesus' earlier ascension, comes to us from John, chapter 20, where he tells us:

   But Mary [Mary Magdalene, early on Sunday, the morning of Jesus' resurrection] was standing outside the tomb.... Jesus said to her, "Mary!" ... "Stop clinging to Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and My God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene came and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and that He had said these things to her.
   Now when it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were together due to fear of the Jews, Jesus ... showed them both His hands and His side. The disciples then rejoiced when they saw the Lord. ...
   But Thomas, one of the twelve, ... was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples were saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in His hands the imprint of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe."
   Eight days later His disciples were again inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came ... [and] said to Thomas, "Place your finger here, and see My hands; and take your hand and put it into My side; and do not continue in disbelief, but be a believer." - John 20:11-27

This passage makes evident the following:

There was some reason which we aren't aware of, for Mary not to make physical contact with Jesus prior to His ascension to the Father.
Approaching evening "on that day, the first day of the week", Jesus appeared to His disciples and showed them that it was Him. Physical contact is not mentioned.
Eight days later Jesus invites Thomas to make physical contact with his Savior, which he does.
According to Luke 24, the event of note that occurred during the period of time between Mary's and Thomas' experiences, was that Jesus had ascended to the Father.