Daniel's 70th week

[Esaias]

But this raises the question of the relation between AD 70 and the 70 Weeks. Why a 40 year or so delay between the end of the Seventy Weeks and the final destruction of the city and of Judea as an Israelite political entity?

If Jesus was crucified in 33 AD (I believe He was, see previous posts) then there was actually 37 years between His death and the destruction of the Temple. His death was on Passover of 33, and the destruction of Jerusalem was finished in the fall of 70. So it was 37 and a half years, or in the 38th year after the cross.

Apparently, the wilderness wanderings in Sinai actually took 38 years.

That being the case, it seems the 38 years appended to the end of the Seventy Weeks have some connection to the 38 years added to Israel's time since the Exodus. They weren't supposed to be in the wilderness that long at all, but it was a punishment added to them because of their unbelief.

I am willing to bet there is a connection here to a Divine adjustment of the Jubilee cycles, to bring Israel's jubilee years into alignment with the genuine intended jubilee years as counted from Creation.