In this post we look at the 1335 days of Daniel 12: 12Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh (nāga') to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Scripture translates the word nāga' as touch 92 times and as came 18 times; so we might read Daniel 12:12 as referring to he who touches the 1335 days. This word touch many times results in becoming spiritually clean or unclean; or even dying as in Genesis 26:11 and Exodus 19:12. So we expect something dramatic after the 1335 days—except we still haven't identified the pronoun, he, and what 1335 days Daniel 12:12 refer to.
We might suspect Daniel 12:12 refers to the end of the world. After the elect have waiteth for Christ to return we would consider them Blessed, as they enter heaven. But we must let the Bible tell us who is Blessed according to Corollary 3c: Only Scripture can define its own vocabulary (see June 11).
13Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to ever- lasting (Psalms 41:13). And we must let the Bible tell us who he is that waiteth.
18… therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you (Isaiah 30).
Evidently Christ had to wait. Only in 4…the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son… (Galatians 4), to go to the cross and demonstrate payment for sin so that He could have mercy upon you.
The 1335 days of Daniel 12:12 is 3.66 years. From January 21 we know Christ's ministry lasted about 3½ years. If we ask who the Bible is about, but note that days don't occur in eternity, then Daniel 12:12 would refer to Christ. We can rule out any reference to man on the last day. The 1335 days should give us the date of Christ's Baptism.
We already know from January 12 that Christ's ministry ended at Pente- cost, May 22, 33 (6 Sivan 3793). To make sense of these 1335 days of Daniel 12:12 we can guess the day of Christ's baptism, i.e., when His min- istry began in the fall of 29 A.D. Then we can note the days between our choice and May 22, 33 to see if we get 1335.
Late September/October comes in the 7th Jewish month of Tishri. Before we can pick a date intelligently we have to understand that God didn't im- pose ceremonial laws on the Israelites just so they'd have something to do. According to Colossians 2:16, every feast day, animal sacrifice, offer- ing and holyday pointed to Christ and a significant event in the N.T: 16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17Which are a sha- dow (a sign) of things (Christ) to come…
We find these special days in the book of Numbers. In Numbers 29: 1…in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trum- pets (not trumpets but ram's horn or shôpār) unto you. 1 Tishri offers one possibility. It is the feast of Jubilee.
On December 21 we saw that the day of atonement falls on the 10th of Tishri and points to Christ's birth: 7And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein (Numbers 29).
We also have the 15th of Tishri that begins the feast of tabernacles (booths, i.e., the law of God) and points to the Rapture of the elect on the last day: 12And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days (Numbers 29).
The language of Exodus 23 shows that the feast of tabernacles (see also Ezra 3:1-7) points to the end of the world: 16And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Actually Tishri, the 7th month, doesn't come at the end of the year; but God uses that language to point to the Rapture, when the final harvest (of the elect) has been brought into the new Jeru- salem (Revelation 3:12, 21:2).
Since the Rapture and feast of tabernacles doesn't point to Christ's bap- tism, nor does the Day of Atonement, and we don't know yet what the O.T.'s 1st day of Tishri points to in the N.T., the latter option seems the best bet.
We go to our calendar converter and plug in 1 Tishri, 3790 to get,
1 Tishrei 3790 corresponds to 25 September, 29 in Gregorian calendar/ Tuesday
When we go to another web site that calculates the time between dates, i.e, "Duration calculation results," plug in 9/25/29 to 5/21/33 and click the box labeled, "Include end date in calculation (1 day is added)," we get,
From and including: Sunday, September 25, 0029 (Julian calendar)
To and including: Thursday, May 21, 0033 (Julian calendar)
It is 1335 days from the start date to the end date, end date included
Or 3 years, 7 months, 27 days including the end date
So Daniel 12:12 gives us 1335 days for Christ's ministry—500 years be- fore Christ's birth. (Of course our atheist friends argue that Daniel 12:12 was written after A.D. 33.) On the Gregorian timeline May 21, 33 falls on the Saturday before the first Pentecostal Sunday, and September 25, 29 lands on a Tuesday; but since a day remains 24 hours on any calendar, the discrepancy here doesn't matter.
We had good reason for choosing 1 Tishri 3790 and had already deter- mined the date May 21, 33 from Daniel 9:24-27 (see January 12) before consulting Daniel 12:12. So we've proven agreement between those verses.
For anyone who doesn't trust the computation, we can write it out:
6 days in September of A.D. 29 (inclusive)
31 days in October of 29
30 days in November of 29
31 days in December of 29
1095 = 3 x 365 days in 30, 31, 32
1 day extra for 32, a leap year
31 days in January of 33
28 days in February of 33
31 days in March of 33 (for a subtotal of 1284 days)
30 days in April of 33
21 days in May of 33
1335 Total
From Christ's baptism to March 31, 33 is 1284 days. If we go to our cal- endar converter, click the radio button, "Show Calendar," and plug in March for year 0033 we see that Palm Sunday began on March 27. Four more days brings up March 31. From September 25, 29 to March 27, 33 (inclusive) totals 1280 (= 1284 – 4) days. Five more days from Palm Sunday to and including Friday and the cross totals 1285 days.
Nisan 10, 3793 began on what we consider Sunday evening, March 27, 33, around 6 P.M., Israeli time. Though Palm Sunday falls on Nisan 9, Mark 11:9-11 connects March 27 (Nisan 9) with Nisan 10: 11And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
The ending of festivities of Palm Sunday and eventide connects to Nisan 10 and the selection of the sacrificial lamb. In Exodus 12, God tells Moses, 3…In the tenth day of this month they shall take…a lamb… (Christ). God commands Moses, 6…ye shall keep it (the lamb) up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and… shall kill it in the evening. Christ, as the Passover lamb of Exodus 12:3, went to the cross on Friday, 3793 Nisan 14 (April 1), the same day God commanded Moses in Exodus 12:6 to kill it (the lamb) in the evening. So the Passover points to the crucifixion.
Leviticus 23:15 concerns Pentecost: 15And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 16Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Adding 50 days (of Leviticus 23:16) to 1285 gives us the 1335 days. If we begin counting 50 days after the Sabbath, i.e., April 2, we get 28 (= 30 – 2) days in April and 22 (= 50 – 28) days in May. So 50 (= 28 + 22) days lands on May 22 (Pentecost), and agrees with Leviticus 23:16.
Seven sabbaths from April 2 totals 4 in April (the 9th, 16th, 23rd 30th) and 3 (the 7th, 14th, 21st) in May, which puts us on May 21, 33 and totals 7 Sabbaths (4 + 3) in agreement with Leviticus 23:15.
We conclude the baptism of Christ occurred on 25 September 0029, i.e., 1 Tishri 3790.
On January 28 we look at the 1290 days of Daniel 12:11.