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Interesting that Grant Jeffrey came to the same conclusion:

“God appeared to Ezekiel in a vision and gave him a prophecy that Israel would be punished for 430 years (Ezek. 4:3-6). . .

” But in the spring of 536 BC, they were allowed to return to Jerusalem by the Persian King Cyrus, after the Persians overthrew the Babylonians. Subtracting the 70 years from the 430, we are left with 360 years of further punishment.

“Israel did not repent of its sins after 70 years, and most of the nation did not return to Israel. The majority stayed as colonists in what is now Iraq-Iran. 360 years later the Jews still did not fully return to Israel, and nothing significant happened. Why were the Jews still being punished by God 360 years after the Babylonian captivity ended?

“The answer is in the book of Leviticus. Four times in this book, in chapter 26, God tells Israel, that if she did not repent, she would be punished seven times more for her sins.

“Now take the 360 years and multiply it by 7, and you get 2,520 Biblical years. A Biblical year is 360 days. . . The Jewish year of Biblical times was lunar-solar and had only 360 days. Therefore the end of the punishment and restoration to Israel would be accomplished in 2,520 years of 360 days each. (snip) Converting this figure into our calendar year of 365.25 days . . . we reach a total of 2,438.8 calendar years.

“Therefore, the end of Israel’s worldwide captivity would occur after a total of 2,438.8 years had elapsed from the spring of 536 BC. Keep in mind there is only one year between 1 BC and AD 1. Now add the 2,438.8 years to 536 BC, and we come to the spring of 1948. In the spring of 1948, on May 14th, an event took place that shocked the world. The Jews proclaimed the independence of the reborn state of Israel. The Jewish people celebrated the end of their worldwide dispersion and captivity at the exact time prophesied thousands of years earlier by the prophet Ezekiel.”

(”Armageddon, Appointment With Destiny”, by Grand Jeffrey)