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CHRISTIANS WHO DO NOT KNOW
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
STUDY BY Pastor Isaac E. Kusuma
The word Christian or Christians originated with the Catholics. Protestants still cling on to it. In reality, no one in the first century was called a Christian. This word is only written three times in the Catholic and Protestant Bibles: (1) Acts 11:26 (2) Acts 26:27,28 (3) 1 Peter 4:16.
The word Christian is derived from Christ. The Hebrews (Israelites and Jews) knew Him only as Messiah . The all looked forward towards the coming of the Messiah , not Christ. Messiah is not Christ. Christ is not Messiah . If we study Daniel 9:25, “the Anointed One, the Prince” is explained in the footnote as Messiah . Thus it is written that Messiah means the Anointed One. Messiah is a Hebrew word. In Hebrew, Messiah was called as Elohim (Exodus 5:3; 7:16; 9:4,13).
The Law and the Prophets were all written in Hebrew language. Now the whole earth had one language and one speech (Genesis 11:1).Therefore it is proved that Yahwah, the Creator, spoke in Hebrew. That Yahwah Messiah told His name in Hebrew, when He encountered Saul on the way to Damascus, is proved by the following references: Acts 9:4; 22:7; and 26:14. Acts 22:2 proves that when Saul talked in Hebrew, all the Israelites listened to him silently.
Because all the disciples who followed Messiah were Hebrew, they knew Him only as Messiah and not as Christ. But John 4:25 states that “Messiah who is called Christ.” The words “who is called Christ” have been added. The word “Christ” has been used to omit the word or title “Messiah .” We can definitely say that He is the “Messiah ” and not the “Messiah who is called Christ.”
The word Christians came from
the added words “who is called Christ.”
Likewise let us see other added words: “Saul who also is called Paul” (Acts 13:9). The words “who also is called Paul” have been added. To omit the Hebrew word/name “Saul,” “who also is called Paul” was added to change it to Paul.
Messiah called him, “Saul! Saul!” Read the following texts: Acts 9:4,11; 22:7; 26:14. Even after being baptized by Ananias and starting his gospel work, he was still called as Saul (Acts 9:11,17,22,24; 11:25,30; 12:25; 13:1,2,7). Only in Acts 13:9 was the actual name of Saul omitted and the name Paul was written. Likewise, the actual title or name, Messiah , was removed and replaced with Christ. His disciples only said, “We have found the Messiah ” but never said that they had found Christ (John 1:41).
The word Messiah means “Anointed One” (John 1:42). In John 1:42, the phrase “Anointed One” has a footnote saying that in the original language it is Christ. The Bible Society people should tell us what the original language was of “in the original language it is Christ.” Please find out “the original language” and tell me. I desperately want to know where the language came from, whose language this was, and what its script was. Every Christian who is called a Christian should know this “original language.”
Bible was not written in what they call “the original language.” The Bible was written in Hebrew. Since all of Messiah’s disciples wereHebrews, the books Matthew through Revelation were written in Hebrew. We see many Hebrew words. For example: Messiah , hallelujah, amen, rabbi, rabboni, Golgotha, Yepatha, thalithakumi, Eli Eli Lama Sabachtami, etc. How was the Bible written in Greek and notHebrew when all the places and events that were written were related to the land of Israel? Weren’t all the writers of the books of the New Testament, His disciples? Think about it!
The Bible was originally for the Jews (Romans 3:1-3).
Messiah the Saviour is a Jew (John 4:9).
Salvation came from the Jews to the gentiles (John 4:22).
The New Testament is for both Israelites and Jews (Jeremiah 31:31; Hebrew 8:8).
The Messiah came for the Jews (Matthew 10:5,6).
The promises, testaments and hopes were all for the Jews (Ephesians 2:12; Romans 9:4).
Elohim in the world is a Jew (Ephesians 2:12).
The bread was only for the Jewish children (Matthew 15:26).
The Messiah was the king of the Jews (Matthew 2:2).
The Messiah came to His own people (John 1:11).
The people who looked forward to the Messiah’s coming were Jews (John 4:25).
They knew that the Messiah would be born in their country (Matthew 2:4).
The Jews knew Him only as Messiah (John 1:41-42).
All His disciples were Jews (Matthew 10:2-4).
He came to save the lost sheep of Israel (Matthew 10:6).
The feast was readied for the Jews (Matthew 22:1-10).
The Passover was celebrated with them (Matthew 26:17-29).
The betrayer was also of His people (Matthew 26:14-26).
The people who killed Him were also of His people (11:26,59).
The whole history was of the Jews ; All these incidents happened in
Israel; the language spoken was Hebrew.
PLEASE NOTE
They only said Yahwah Messiah was the king of the Jews (Matthew 2:2) but did not say that He was the founder of Christianity or a New Way.
They called Him, Son of Man, Son of Elohim, Son of Joseph, Sovereign Son and Beloved Son, but they did not call Him the God of Christians or the Second in the Trinity. They called Him Nazarene (Matthew 2:23), but they never called Him Jesus Christ. Pilot asked Him if He was the king of the Jews (Matthew 27:11), but did not ask Him if He was the founder of Christianity. The people and disciples called Him Rabbi and Rabboni but they did not call Him a Christian Teacher. They said that they had found the person written about in the Law by Moses and the Prophets(John 1:45), but they never said that He was the God of Mala and Madiga or the God of the Americans.
John only said that He was the lamb of Elohim that takes away the sins of the world, but he never said that He would take away the sins of the Christians.
LET US STUDY THE WORD, ‘CHRIST’
The word Christ came from the word Cristos. Cristos means sun god. The Romans were Sun worshippers. Sun worshippers — Sunday worshippers. They changed That Messiah to Christ and became supposed-Christians. They were totally pagan. They had all pagan rituals. They were great idol worshippers. The Jews were different from these people. If the Jews were Sabbath-keepers, the Romans were Sun-worshippers and that is why they worship on Sunday (Sun’s day) or the first day of the week. Even though they knew the Living Elohim, they followed pagan rituals like idol worship, idol-related days, Christmas, Lent, birthdays, death-days, thus establishing anti-Jewish doctrines and became Christians. That this why they say that Catholics and Protestants are the two strong arms of Christianity. The Catholics elevate Peter and say that he is their first pope. In reality that is a lie. Peter’s actual name is “kepha” which means “a stone” (John 1:42). He is a Jew. Protestants are those who came out of Catholics. But before all of them were the Jews who believed in the That Messiah and were the true believers. They are believers of the true assembly. They are neither Catholics nor Protestants. They are Messianic Jews ( Jewswho believe in the That Messiah ).
Acts 11:26. The disciples were called “Jews who believed in the Messiah” in Antioch. The following Bibles all say this: The Scriptures, Complete Jewish Bible, Restoration of Original Sacred name New Testament, The Sacred Scriptures, Jewish New Testament, and Restoration Scriptures.
Acts 26:28. Because king Agrippa was a Jew, he told Saul, “How easily you are making me into a Jew who believes in the Messiah.”
1 Peter 4:16. Because this letter is written by him, Peter wrote, “If anyone suffers as a person of Messiah , let him not be ashamed, but let him by that name glorify Elohim in this matter.”
The translators who translate the Scripture into Telugu with many translation errors and The Bible Society people who publish it with these errors keep silent when they are confronted in many situations since they have no answer. This deceit is prevalent in 150 countries. The Christians of the world are being deceived by this scam. I am not writing this information for those who are in the truth, but rather to awaken the people who are stuck in traditions and rituals.
The 120 people who gathered in the upper room on Pentecost day were all Jews (Acts1:11,13,15).
The 3000 people who were saved by Peter were all Jews (Acts 2:5-7, 14-37).
Peter preached to the Israelites (Acts 3:12).
The 5000 men who believed were all Jews (Acts 4:4).
Ananias and Sapphira were Jews (Acts 5:1-5).
The people to whom Peter and John spoke, were all Israelites (Acts 5:35).
Hebrew- and Greek-speaking Jews were Israelites (Acts 6:1).
The people who debated with Stephen were Jews (Acts 6:8-15; 7:2).
The young Saul was also a Jew (Acts 6:58).
Saul was destroying the Jews who believed in the Messiah (Acts 8:3; 9:1-2).
The disciples first proclaimed the gospel in Israel and then spread it to all other countries (Matthew 28:16-20; Acts 1:8; 8:1-5,14; 9:31; 10:46; 13:46-48).
After Saul was changed by Messiah , his main and only teaching was that “Yahwah is Messiah .” Before that Saul never accepted that Yahwah was the Messiah . However, after he changed, he proclaimed that Yahwah is the Son of Elohim (Acts 9:21) and that He is the Messiah (Acts 9:22; 17:3; 18:5). Even the Apollo, the Jew preached that Yahwah is the Messiah (Acts 18:28). The same Saul who tormented the Jews who believed that Yahwah is the Messiah , became a strong witness after believing the very same truth. That is why two strong groups were formed among the Jews.
1. The Jews who did not believe that Yahwah was the Messiah | 2. The Jews who believed that Yahwah was the Messiah |
These Jews insisted that circumcision was compulsory (Acts 15:1,5,24) and were confusing the gentiles with this. They preached the controversial gospel of being circumcised (Galatians 1:6). They insisted that you had to gain righteousness through circumcision according to the Law(Galatians 6:12-13; Philippians 3:2). | They were warned not to burden the gentiles with the yoke of circumcision (Acts 15:10; 19:20,28,29). They were taught that they had no connection with circumcision. They were taught to stop unholy idol worship, adultery and shedding of blood by murder (Acts 15:20,28,29). |
Rejecting the Messiah who had already come, they were still sacrificing animals and waiting for the Messiah to come. | Having found the Messiah , they recognized the times and worshipped the Messiah in spirit and truth. They were saved by His blood (John 1:45; 4:46). |
Faithful to the letter, they were circumcised of the flesh (Romans 2:29). | Spiritually faithful. They were circumcised of the heart (Romans 2: 29). |
They knew the law but did not walk according to it (Romans 2:13; Acts 7:53). | They were justified by keeping the law(Romans 2: 13). |
They were ready to ask for signs and wondersMatthew 12:38,40; 1 Corinthians 1:22; Luke 23:8). | Because He is the Word, they gave importance to the Word (2 Peter 1:19). |
They were the enemies who would not even kiss Him while accepting the Father (Psalm 2:12; 1 John 2:22). | They believed that the Son Himself was God(John 14:8-10). They stand true to His teachings (3 John 1:9). |
Stubborn people who were hardened of the heart (Acts 19:9). | Obedient people who accept Yahwah (Acts 17:4). |
Hurdle stones for the saved people(1Thessalonians 2:16). | Servants of the Sovereign Elohim who proclaim the path of salvation (Acts 16:17). |
People who kill the lamb, sprinkle the blood on the doorposts and keep the Passover feast(Leviticus 23:5-8). | Those who accept that the Messiah is the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. They are those who eat the bread and drink the wine (1 Corinthians 5:7,8). |
They offer sacrifices and keep the feasts(Leviticus 23). | They praise Yahwah Messiah and keep the feasts (Acts 2:1). |
Pretending to follow the Moral Law, they live in opposition to the Law (Acts 7:53; 23:2-5). | They live according to the Moral Law and are justified as righteous (Luke 1:5; Acts 24:14,15; 25:8). |
They follow the Sabbath but are stubborn about the truth. They have lots of bad thoughts on the Sabbath (Acts 13:48,50; 14:2,5; 17:5,13). | They are the Jews and Gentiles believe in theMessiah and follow the Sabbath, walking in the path of truth (Acts 13:42,44). They don’t know about Sunday worship. Even the Bible Society has accepted that the word ‘Sunday’ is not in the Bible. |
They only believe from Genesis to Malachi; following the feasts and sacrifices that are written in them. | They believe from Genesis to Revelation; believe and follow the feasts mentioned in them praising the Messiah . They don’t know or keep Christmas, Lent, Good Friday and Easter Sunday that are added by Catholics. |
The strongest disciple among Yahwah Messiah’s disciples who wrote the most books in the New Testament is Saul. He was a great speaker and a wise man. He was an orthodox Pharisee who learned the law at the feet of Gamaliel. His books were the details of his four trips. This was true of the other disciples, too.
No one ever called Apostle Saul a Christian leader. Just as Yahwah Messiah was never called the founder of Christianity,Saul, too, was not called a Christian. What he was called can be seen in the Word:
For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes (Acts 24:5).
Cladius Lysias called Saul a Roman (Acts 23:26,27). Saul, too, states that he is a Roman (Acts 22:28; 16:37-40).
The Romans called Saul a Jew (Acts 16:20,21).
Saul agrees that he is a Pharisee and a descendent of Pharisees (Acts 23:6; 26:5).
Saul accepts that he was a Jew born in Tarsus of Cilicia (Acts 22:3; 21:39).
In Romans 11:1, Saul says that he, too, is an Israelite, born to the family of Abraham in the tribe of Benjamin. Saul states that Jews are his blood relations (Romans 11:14).
Neither in the Bible nor in the letters he wrote, did he ever claim to be a Christian. Saul did not know the terms: Christ or Christian.
Look at the Muslims. Every Muslim in any part of the world calls his God as Allah. They do not change their God’s name from one language to another when praying to Him. Likewise look at the Hindus. Wherever they are (even in USA) or whatever language they use, the Hindus still use the same names for their gods. The common sense that these people have seems to be lacking in the Christians. How or why is His name changing with every language? Are there any Christians who wonder why is this happening? Preachers of today are the type who stay in denominations, praise people, try to please denominational leaders and live a servile life. Are there any preachers who give ear to the truth anymore? I have been musing over this for a long time and have realized there aren’t any preachers who care about the truth. There are neither radio speakers nor TV speakers who know how to even say His name. There is no one who even tells His real and pure name to anyone. If anyone were to correct these preachers, they turn around try to spoil the names of those who tell the truth. Instead of leading them in the path of truth, these preachers write and publish books that cover the truth. For example:
In the 147th page of Addanki Ranjit Ophir’s book, “Simhanadam” there is a sub-heading called, “Should we call Him Jesus Christ?” In this, Ophir is twisting the truth and presenting falsehoods to the people. This ‘prophet’ does not know what the doctrines of Jezebel are.
There is another name called “madness” to truth (Mark 3:21; Acts 12:15, 26:24; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 2 Corinthians 11:23). UnfortunatelyAddanki probably does not know this.
Satan chooses those who are intelligent to mislead many good people. Likewise, Addanki is misleading many good people with his book.
Dear brother Addanki, could I ask you this question? Should we call you only as Addanki Ranjit Ophir? (What is your name in Greek and Hebrew?) If you were called by any name, would you respond? If so, why do you only write this particular name? I have read all your books. There is only gossip but no material (truth) in them. I thought to send money for all your books. I will change your name and send the money to your house by money order. Can you cash it? Will the postman give it to you?
There is no word like “Simhanadam” because a lion only roars. Actually the title should have been “Simhagarjhana.” We should only say “Sarpanadam.” If we draw the image of a lion and blow a snake-charmers flute, it will not be right.
Mr. Ranjit you all are definitely apostles (Satan, too, was an apostle sent to Job). But you do not know the teachings of an apostle. When the Saviour was a Jew born in Judah, you should have had the common sense to know that His name would be Jewish. Yet you give Him the name of a Greek goddess (Iesus Cristos). You need to learn a lot more. Don’t be self-satisfied seeing the people who have lesser knowledge than you. Don’t forget to look at the many people who have more knowledge than you, the Hebrew word states, “Isa 43:10 Ye are my witnesses, saith Yahwah , and my servant whom Ihave chosen: that ye may know and believe ME, and understand that I am HE: before ME there was no God formed, neither shall there be after ME.
Isa 43:11 I, even I, am Yahwah ; and beside ME there is no SAVIOUR.”
Yahwah is SAVIOUR.’ When the Catholic Bibles have Lord in them, how is it that the Protestant Bibles have Jehovahinstead? Can you give me the reason why this is so? Isn’t that the very same Bible that Martin Luther brought out to everyone? Think about it! (I will write about all your mistakes little by little in detail).
It has been proved that the apostles were all Jews and the language they spoke was Hebrew. Messiah told HIS own NAME in Hebrewto Apostle Saul (Acts 26:14). Now let us consider the gospel that Apostle Saul taught the Jews:
Jews who did not believe the Messiah | Jews who believed the Messiah |
The Jews were those who were happy to see Peter caught when James was killed (Acts 12:1-3). | The Assembly of Jews who were praying for Peter (Acts 12:5,12). |
A sorcerer and false prophet on the island of Paphos was a Jew by the name of Bar-Joshua (Acts 13:6). | Sergius Paulus, a proconsul, who believed in the Messiah (Acts 13:7). |
The synagogue of Antioch in the city of Pisidia (Acts 13:14).
When the Jews saw the multitudes and were filled with envy; and contradicting and blaspheming, they opposed the things spoken by Saul (Acts 13:45,46). But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and chief men of the city, raised up persecution against Saul and Barnabas, and expelled them from their region(Acts 13:50). |
Many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Saul and Barnabas (Acts 13:43).
The gentiles + as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed (Acts 13:48). |
The unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren (Acts 14:2).
Some were on the side of the Jews (Acts 14:4). And when a violent attempt was made by both the gentiles and Jews, with their rulers to abuse and stone them (Acts 14:5). |
When they taught in the synagogue at Iconium,many Jews and Greeks believed (Acts 14:1).
Some of them sided with the Jews (Acts 14:4). |
Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Saul and dragged him out of the city supposing him to be dead (Acts 14:19). | When the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe…and he made many disciples (Acts 14:20-21). |
They had a great dispute and argument regarding circumcision (Acts 15:1,5). | A decision was made that gentiles were not required to be circumcised (Act 15:10,19,28). |
When they were teaching that Yahwahwas the Messiah in the Jewish synagogue at Thessalonica…but the Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, took some evil men from the market place, and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar and attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the people (Acts 17:5). | And some of them were persuaded; and a great multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, joined Saul and Silas(Acts 17:4). Jason, also, was one of the disciples who followed Saul. |
But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Sauland Berea, they came there also and stirred up the crowds (Acts 17:13). | Because they searched the scriptures…many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men(Acts 17:11-12). |
When he was teaching in the Jewish synagogue at Athens, some argued, called him a babbler, and said that he is a proclaimer of foreign gods. They talked of variously and some of them even mocked him (Acts 17:17-19,32). | Some men joined him and believed (Acts 17:34).
Among them were Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them. |
There were some men in the Jewish synagogue at Corinth who argued, blasphemed and opposed him (Acts 18:6). | Many of them heard and believed (Acts 18:8).
There were many multitudes (Acts 18:10). |
Felix heard of the Messiahand was afraid. He hoped that he would receive money from Saul. Therefore he sent for Saul more often and conversed with him, but because he wanted to be called a good person by the Jews, left Saulbound (Acts 24:24-27). | But Saul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city (Acts 29:39).
I am indeed a Jew born in Tarsus of Cilicia(Acts 22:3). |
The Jews from Asia (Acts 21:27,28,30). | These men (Saul & Silas) were Jews (Acts 16:20). |
These Jews were yelling to kill Saul and not let him live, tearing their upper clothes and throwing dust up into the air (Acts 22:22). | A Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria came to Ephesus (Acts 18:24).
What is His teaching? Who is He? If we consider these questions, it is proved through the scriptures that Yahwah is theMessiah. For he vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the scriptures that Yahwahis the Messiah(Acts 18:28). |
The Jews accused him through an orator(Acts 22:30: 24:1,2). | |
The Jews who wanted to tear Saul apart into pieces (Acts 23:10). | Like him, a multitude of Jews who believe theMessiah were in the city of Corinth (Acts 18:10).
There are thousands of Jews who believe theMessiah in Jerusalem (Acts 21:20). |
The forty Jews who vowed not to eat or drink till they killed Saul (Acts 23:12-15,20,21). | |
The high priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by him to strike Him on the mouth (Acts 23:2). | The twelve disciples chosen by the Messiahwere all Jews who believed in the Messiah. |
In every synagogue there are Jews who believe in Him (Acts 22:19; 26:11). Stephen is also a Jew who believed in the Messiah(Acts 22:20). Ananias, who baptised Saul, was a Jew who believed in the Messiah (Acts 22:12). They all were called Messianicsor Nazarenes, but not Christians. Therefore you, who are called Christians, should first know how the name Christian came about. There are no Christians in the Scriptures. All were Jews who believed in Messiah.
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First of all, I don’t believe that Historical evidence trumps Scripture but the doctrines that I believe the Scripture teaches are supported by Historical evidence, which includes the Sacred Name, Lunar Sabbaths, and when a day begins etc. this lets us know that we are not observing some new wieekly Sabbath that cannot be traced back to the time of the Temple.We can CONCLUSIVELY prove from many Snd of doctrine, like the traditional wcriptures that our Savior and His Apostles observed the SAME weekly Sabbath as did the Jews of his day and we can CONCLUSIVELY prove from the HISTRICAL evidence that the Jews of His day kept “LUNAR” Sabbaths.
This Historical evidence is recorded in the book of Philo the Jew who lived at the same time our Saviour did. Seehttp://lunarsabbath.info/_wsn/page3.html
One of the major objections to Lunar Sabbaths is that people believe that the Jews have always kept up with the weekly Sabbath from creation to now, but is this true?
No! this statement is not true according to scripture and even the Jews themselves. The Scripture clearly teaches in Laminations 2:6 that YHWH Himself caused the Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and even Daniels prophesy teaches us they would think change times and laws and the Sabbath they are keeping today is what It was changed to and therefore cannot be the correct Sabbath.
The Jews themselves claim that the weekly Sabbath is OBSCURE and they do not know where it originated but some say that it was by the phases of the moon and others by the seven planets. Can you are imagine the Jews admitting this?
This admission is found in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia under the article Sabbath and was written by a well-respected Rabbi by the name of Max Joseph. Most Jews do not have this knowledge and simply follow tradition, same as most Christians, they do not study the Scripture for themselves and they follow the traditions of men and make the Commandments of none effect.
They do claim that the blessings which the world possesses in its weekly day of rest and observance is owed exclusively to Israel even though they do not know where it came from. The same author in another article under CALENDAR acknowledges that the Sabbaths were ORIGINALLY by the phases of the moon and therefore it is obvious that he was not one of those who believed it was by the seven planets.
Someone might ask, why would a Hebrew scholar like Max Joseph who knew and publicly acknowledge that the Sabbaths were originally by the phases of the moon and then continue keeping the traditional Saturday Sabbath, not knowing where it originated?
I have asked myself this same question Concerning the True Name of the Creator. Most scholars agree that it was originally YHWH but they continue using the traditional name J-sus not realizing the Importance of using the Name that He gave to Himself, this also amazes me but it is true. It goes back to vain warship, not doing what the Commandments says. He teaches us that the Scribes and Pharisees were sitting in Moses seat and whatever they say is right but they would not do it. The Jews admit that the Sabbaths were originally by the phases of the Moon but will not keep them that way.
These articles are found in the 1943 Universal Jewish Encyclopedias called the war encyclopedias and every one knows that when there is a major crisis and people think that the world is coming to an end etc, they repent of their sins and tend to be as honest as possible, which could have been the case here with Max Joseph. At any rate when people use the argument that the Jews kept with it, we see that the Jews admit that they do not know where the weekly Sabbath that they are keeping originated and at the same time admit that it was originally by the phases of the moon.
These two articles can be verified in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, volume five, edited by Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Inc., New York, 1941, article “Holydays,” page 410. And the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, volume nine, edited by Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., New York, 1943, Oracle “Sabbath,” page 295.
Brother Arnold
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LUNAR SABBATHS CONFIRMED BY JEWS
I realize that some people are not going to believe lunar Sabbaths, no matter what Historical evidence you give them or what scriptural proof you present, they are going to remain in a state of denial and reject the word of YHWH to the very end holding their traditions but here is more evidence from the Jewish people themselves, in addition to the evidence already given, that the Jewish people knew that the weekly seventh day that they are now keeping is not right and that the weeks and the seventh day of the weeks were originally by the phases of the moon.
In the 1943 Universal Jewish Encyclopedia volume 10 page 482 edited by Isaac Landman under the article “week”, written by Simon Cohen, Director of Research, it says,
“WEEK (in Hebrew shabua). The idea of the week, as a subdivision of the month, seems to have arisen in Babylonia, where each lunar month was divided into four parts, corresponding to the four phases of the moon. The first week of each month began with the new moon, so that, as the lunar month was one or two days more than four periods of seven days, these additional days were not reckoned at all. Every seventh day (sabbatum) was regarded as an unlucky day. This method of reckoning time spread westward through Syria and Palestine, and was adopted by the Israelites, probably after they settled in Palestine. With the development of the importance of the Sabbath as a day of consecration and emphasis laid upon the significant number seven, the week became more and more divorced from its lunar connection, so that by the time of the second Temple it was merely a period of seven days and no longer depended on the new moon. From Judaism the week passed over to Christianity, and through the influence of the later was generally adopted throughout the Roman empire; Islam also made use of the week for its Sabbath days.
Jews never had any special names for the days of the week, usually denoting them by ordinal numerals: first, second, third and so on.”
Although the Historical research is undeniable and is in PERFET harmony with scripture and other Historians and Scholars who have discovered the same, I disagree with his statement that it was probably adopted by the Israelites, after they settled in Palestine. I believe the Babylonians receives it from their father Adam and it was handed down from there. The scripture also teaches Lunar Sabbaths but at least he recognizes they were keeping Lunar Weeks with a Lunar Sabbath at the end of each, (which began somewhere) up unto the second Temple, probably because of the writings of Philo, Clemet of Alexandra, etc. and who knows what all evidence and books that this Director of Research had at his disposal. At any rate his research is sound and it proves the Jews were at some point keeping Lunar weeks and went FROM the LUNAR week to the traditional week they observe today which is a 1-7 continuous cycle paying no attention to the moon.
This also supports Rabbi Max Joseph’s article under Sabbath where he admits the Sabbath is obscure and they don’t know exactly where it came in, of course he had also the knowledge that it was originally by the phases of the moon, same as this author. These other two articles by Max Josephs can be verified in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, volume five, edited by Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia Inc., New York, 1941, article “Holydays,” page 410. And the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, volume nine, edited by Isaac Landman, The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., New York, 1943, Oracle “Sabbath,” page 295.
We see that the Rabbis and Director of Research, Jewish scholars, were aware that the weeks and the Sabbath they are now keeping were not the original, as far back as 1943, and I know of another 1905 Jewish Encyclopedia that acknowledges it which I will obtain later.
If they can admit it then why can’t we?
If the Jewish Director of Research, Simon Cohen researched the seven-day week all the way back to the Babylonians and acknowledges that the Israelites received it from them, the rest would be easy because where does he think the Babylonians received it from? Where did the Babylonians get the concept of a week and the keeping of a seventh day of the week from in the first place? We know the Babylonians were direct descendents of Noah who was a direct descendent of Adam who was the created son of YHWH.
The Babylonians and Abraham who were taught by Noah and his son Shem who lived in and around the Metropolitan city Babylon. Abraham knew about the true calendar because they received it from Adam and his descendents who received it from YHWH.
If you study the above carefully you will see that the Jewish author of this article would have to believe the Hebrew children were actually Keeping Lunar Sabbaths every seventh day of the Lunar Week up until the second Temple where the Julius Caesar calendar that was introduced in 46 B.C. began to phase its way in . Of course this calendar was not readily accepted by the Jewish people and that is why you read in the Dead Sea Scrolls where they were showing where the Sabbaths and new moons would fall throughout the year on this new commercial calendar. Time and time again you see in the Dead Sea Scrolls where the scribe were saying things like the new moon is going to fall here and the Sabbath is going to fall here or a certain feast day here and that because the Sabbaths and new moons and feast days did not have a part of that Roman calendar and they were showing where they would fall throughout the year. Else they would not have to say that it falls here or there if it was already there.
Side Note! Remember these Scholars are Saturday Sabbath keepers and have no bones to pick, they are just stating facts. It does not matter to them how much Historical proof is presented or how many scriptures there are that conclusively prove that the early Israelites kept Lunar Sabbaths, they are NOT going to change, they are going to stay with the traditional Sabbath knowing that it does NOT square with scripture or History. How about YOU, will you also deny the Word of YHWH and follow these BLIND leaders, no matter what the evidence shows? The choice is YOURS.
Brother Arnold http://lunarsabbath.info/index.html
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Spherical Geometry & 19.5 Degrees throughout the solar system
19.5 degrees north and south are the latitudes On Earth: On Mars: the “vast” Olympus Mons shield cone volcano is at 19.5 degrees. Based on Richard Dannelley’s book, Sedona: Beyond the Vortex andBruce Rawles Why ’19.5 degrees’ is Significant 19.5 degrees is the angle that’s been found by researchers (Richard C. Hoagland, Stanley McDaniel, Erol Torun, Horace W. Crater, etc.) to be repeatedly encoded in the structures of Cydonia. It is viewed as a definite ‘signal in the noise’ – some kind of a ‘message’ left there by some intelligence. 19.5 is called t, the ‘tetrahedral constant’, because of its significance in tetrahedral geometry (a tetrahedron is a pyramid shape composed of four equilateral triangular sides): the apexes of a tetrahedron when placed within a circumscribing sphere, one of the tetrahedron’s apexes touching the north pole, the other three apexes touch the surface of the sphere at 19.5 degrees south latitude. Why this number would be important to the builders of the Martian structures is not clear (though Hoagland is theorizing that it has to do with what he calls “hyperdimensional physics”). Nile Time-Map & tetrahedral geometry — 19.5 degrees http://prophetic.simplenet.com/elysium/nile-timemap.htm The emphasis on 19.5 degrees is not confined to the Martian structures. It has been found to be associated with various ancient structures here on earth – Giza pyramids, Avebury (the largest stone circle in the world, near Stonehenge), Pyramids of the Sun and Moon at Teotihuacan, etc. It is also worth noting that the Egyptian hieroglyph for Sirius, the brightest star in the sky which was extremely important to ancient Egyptians, is an equilateral triangle which can be viewed as a 2-dimensional representation of a tetrahedron; and in the Egyptian translation, it means a doorway… a sort of ‘stargate’. Curiously, it has also been observed that 19.5 degrees is closely linked, for some reason, with the NASA space missions (for example, Mars Pathfinder landed at 19.5 degrees lat. of Mars on July 4, ’97). In fact, not only did Pathfinder landed at 19.5 N, the longitude of the landing site was approximately 33 W – which is the very number of the longitude of the apex of the Great Bend of the Nile (33 E)! Now, this strongly insists on the relevance of the Nile numbers, and someone behind the scenes is well aware of it. As we move on, the number, 19.5, will also be very important in my Nile Time-map theory. Perhaps, as the Nile-Mars connection bridged by ’19.5′ appears to suggest, Mars was somehow involved during the ‘Prometheus / Pandora period’. |
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Created by pastorbuddy on 3/12/2009
January 2004
My 11:11 Story
I have always been one to experience what are referred to as “coincidences” and I never gave them much thought other than being neat occurrences. Never did it even cross my mind that they were anything more than just chance happenings. Even when I started to see 11:11 an unusual number of times on digital clocks did it enter my mind that it actually meant anything.
I’m not sure exactly when I started to notice 11:11 but I know it was a few years before December of 1998. I was noticing it so often that I decided it must be my lucky number. I believe it was in 1997 that they were selling tickets to a Dream Home lottery in the building where I worked so I decided I would wait until November 11 (11/11) at 11:11 to buy my ticket. I did not win, but this just shows you that this numberwas having an affect on my life.
Around the end of November 1998 I started working on my diagram of The Mind. It was on the morning of December 12, 1998 as I was just looking at my diagram that it suddenly dawned on me that I had drawn The Mind of God and The Way. That moment changed my life. It was then that I also realized that all the strange coincidences that I had been experiencing, especially of late, were not coincidences at all. I realized at that moment that this was possibly God’s way of revealing Himself to me and of communicating with me.
About a week later as I was getting ready to go to bed, I was sitting on the edge of my bed wondering and worrying about what was going on with all of this and I just happened to look at the alarm clock. It read 11:11. I realized then that the 11:11 had something to do with what was happening with me.
It was the Christmas season and both my mother and my grandmother were spending Christmas with my family. My grandmother was a religious person so I asked her if she knew if 11:11 meant anything in the Bible. She said no. My mother was very involved in the spiritual community so I asked her if she knew if 11:11 had any meaning that she was aware of. She also said no.
So I decided to ask God what it meant. (I also asked God if He would do something to prove to my husband that what was happening with me was not just my imagination as I would need his support in order to continue on this new road I suddenly found myself on.)
A couple of weeks later on January 11 (111), 1999 I got an answer.
We were busy getting ready for school and work and we had the radio on the station that broadcast school closures and school bus delays. Suddenly my husband called out to me and said, “Juli, you’d better come listen to this.” I came over to the radio and the speaker said, “For all of you out there who are wondering what 11:11 means…” My knees almost buckled out from underneath me. I couldn’t believe it. It scared me because then I knew I was right about coincidence not being just coincidence and then I knew that God was really real and what was happening to me and what I had figured out were all somehow involved.
[For verification purposes, the radio station was CFPL 98 AM in London, Ontario and the speaker was Peter Garland. This program was broadcast on January 11, 1999 at 7:55 am and again at 5:55 pm. (I had to work late that evening and I heard it again when I was driving home.) I do not remember exactly what Peter Garland said as I was in a bit of a state of shock but I remember it was alien and mothership related.]
I then started to notice 11:11 in more places than on just digital clocks. I would see it as the ‘Time Sent’ on emails at work; on cash registers, on receipts, and on packages of meat at the grocery store, on license plates, on phone numbers… anywhere there were numbers. Sometimes they were obvious, sometimes hidden. Here is an example… my May 13, 1999 Statement of Earnings showed that I had 83.36 hours of vacation earned. I wanted to see how many days that worked out to be so I divided 83.36 by my 7.5 hour work day and it came out to 11.11. I was literally being inundated with 11:11 and other amazing coincidences everywhere I turned.
I decided to look at these coincidences from another perspective. I decided to look at them as clues to a mystery.
For example, shortly after this all started I happened to turn on the radio and they were talking about a program that was going to be on television that evening about the Pyramids. I decided that because I had turned the radio on at that exact moment that I must be supposed to watch that program. (In searching the Internet, I believe this program must have been “Opening The Lost Tombs” which was a 2-hour live broadcast on FOX on March 2, 1999.)
The next morning at work I was greeted with, “Did you watch that show on television last night about the Pyramids?” I couldn’t believe it. I had completely forgotten all about it. But I decided that what was happening must have some connection to the pyramids so I decided to start researching this. I had always been interested in the pyramids and more than 20 years ago in 1977 during the summer before I started Grade 12 I had even been to the pyramids of Teotihuacan just outside Mexico City and been fascinated by the Aztec Calendar – Sun Stone at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. I already had a very interesting book called ‘Mysteries of the Mexican Pyramids’ by Peter Tompkins that I had purchased after my trip to Mexico because I had found it all so amazing, but I decided to go to the bookstore to see what I could find on the Egyptian pyramids.
There were so many to choose from. I did not know which one to pick. I came home with ‘The Message of The Sphinx’ by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. Little did I know how important this book would be to me. It was definitely no coincidence that I chose (?) this book.
I did not read this book right away as I was busy trying to write my paper as I thought it was important that I put what I had figured out in writing. I did not have a website at the time so I just typed it on paper. (This is true. The first time I finished writing my paper I read it over and I said to God, “I hope this is good enough. Did I say what you wanted me to say?” It was late. I shut down the computer and went to heat up my wheat bag and get ready for bed. As I reached to open the door of the microwave I saw the time on the clock. It was 11:11. From that point on, 11:11 has also been a message of affirmation or confirmation to me.)
When I finished my paper I wanted to write a References page so I decided to look at other books to get the proper format. I picked up ‘The Message of The Sphinx’. As I leafed towards the end of the book, something caught my eye.
There on page 235 I saw the numbers 11:11! I almost dropped the book.
I will include the passage because it is so interesting:
We note in passing that if the Horus-King could have been provided with the ‘special number’ 111.111, and had used it in the way described above, it would have led him back to (72 x 111.111 years =) 7,999.99 years before the specified ‘ground zero’, i.e. to almost exactly 8000 years before 2500 BC – in short, to 10,500 BC.
We know this seems like wishful numerology of the worst sort – i.e. ‘factoring in’ an arbitrary value to a set of calculations so as to procure spurious ‘corroboration’ for a specific desired date (in this case the date of 10,500 BC, twelve and a half thousand years before the present, that we have already highlighted in Chapter 3 in connection with the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza.) The problem, however, is that the number 111.111 may well not be an arbitrary value. At any rate, it has long been recognized that the main numerical factor in the design o f the Great Pyramid, and indeed of the Giza necropolis as a whole, is the prime number 11 – a prime number being one that is only divisible by itself to produce the whole number 1. Thus 11 divided by 11, i.e. the ratio 11:11, produces the whole number 1 (while 11 divided by anything else, i.e. any other ratio, would, of necessity, generate a fraction).
What is intriguing is the way that the architecture of the Great Pyramid responds to the number 11 when it is divided, or multiplied, by other whole numbers. The reader will recall, for example, that its side length of just over 755 feet is equivalent to 440 Egyptian royal cubits – i.e. 11 times 40 cubits. In addition, its height-to-base ratio is 7:11. The slope ratio of its sides is 14:11 (tan 51 degrees 50′). And the slope ratio of the southern shaft of the King’s Chamber – the shaft that was targeted on Orion’s belt in 2500 BC – is 11:11 (tan 45 degrees). (* See Note at end.)
Arguably, therefore, the ratio 11:11, which integrates with our ‘special number’ 111.111, could be considered as a sort of mathematical key, or ‘stargate’ to Orion’s belt. Moreover, as we shall see, a movement of 111.111 degrees ‘backwards along the ecliptic from ‘ground zero’ at the Hyades-Taurus, the head of the celestial bull, would place the vernal point ‘underneath’ the cosmic lion.
Is it not precisely such a location, underneath the Great Sphinx, that the Horus-King is urged to investigate as he stands between its paws ‘with his mouth equipped’ and faces the questions of the Akhus whose initiations have led him this far? Indeed, does it not seem probable that the ‘quest journey’ devised by the ‘Followers of Horus’ was carefully structured so as to sharpen the mind of the initiate by requiring him to piece together all the clues himself until he finally arrived at the realization that somewhere underneath the Great Sphinx was something (written or pictorial records, artefacts, maps, astronomical charts) that touched on ‘the knowledge of a divine origin’, that was of immense importance, and that had been concealed there since the ‘First Time’?
In considering such questions, we are reminded of the Hermetic doctrines which transmit a tradition of the wisdom god Thoth who was said to have ‘succeeded in understanding the mysteries of the heavens [and to have] revealed them by inscribing them in sacred books which he then hid here on earth, intending that they should be searched for by future generations but found only by the fully worthy’. Do the ‘sacred books of Thoth’ or their equivalent, still lie in the bedrock beneath the Great Sphinx of Giza, and do the ‘fully worthy’ still seek them there?
I then realized the immense importance and scope of the 11:11.
Later that summer of 1999 I was reading the newspaper and saw that a total solar eclipse was going to occur on August 11th. When I read that it was going to occur at 11:11 across a path of 111 kilometers I became very worried that something was going to happen. I remember my son had been invited to a friend’s cottage and I was very reluctant to let him go. Fortunately nothing did happen, but it made me realize that more clues/information could be found in the heavens. Shortly after, during a shopping trip to Costco, I was drawn to a table of computer programs they had for sale just inside the entrance. There on the top was an astronomy computer program. I thought this might be a very useful research tool, and I was right.
Also that summer I decided to stop working and dedicate my time to this. It had really taken over my life and I knew it had to be my priority. I learned how to build a website and recreated my paper online which I have updated and added to many times since I first wrote it.
I later thought to research the 11:11 online and found some information (although no one knew the meaning of 11:11) including an online group that had been created to discuss the phenomenon, which I joined on February 1, 2000. (There are many sites and discussion groups out there now.) This showed me that a growing number of other people were also experiencing this phenomenon.
I continued my research and around November of 2000, with the help of the many coincidences/clues I was given, I believe I found what the 11:11 is mainly about and which also answers the mystery/key referred to above in “The Message of The Sphinx’. (I did attempt to discuss these findings with Robert Bauval but he was not interested.) These discoveries can be found in Chapter 13 – 11:11 and in Chapter 14 – ORION. (Note: In the above passage it states, “the ratio 11:11, which integrates with our ‘special number’ 111.111, could be considered as a sort of mathematical key…” and coincidentally when I figured this information out I was living at 44 Ikey Street.)
I also found that the 11:11 had many connections to me personally. I had already discovered many interesting things about my birth date (I am still debating whether to add that information or not), but using www.timeanddate.com I found that I could quite possibly have been conceived on 11/11 at 11:11 (in Halifax, Nova Scotia at 44°N). I was born August 14, 1960 (LEO) at 9:12 am Atlantic Daylight Time (8:12 Atlantic Standard Time, 12:12 Universal Time). 40 weeks prior to this date is November 8, 1959, only three days before November 11. Using the time and date calculator, I found that from November 11, 1959 at 11:11 am to August 14, 1960 at 8:12 AST is 6645 hours and coincidentally I was born at 66°W 45°N. It is also interesting that in the above passage of ‘The Message of The Sphinx’ it says that 11:11 is tan 45 degrees and I was born at 45°N. 66+45 also = 111.
This gives a brief summary of how 11:11 started with me. There is so much more to all of this that I could not possibly write here. It has been over 5 years now since December 12, 1998 and everyday something happens. I try to document and save as much evidence as possible.
December 12, 2006
Today is my 8th anniversary. Over the last few days, there has been a rare planetary alignment with an 11:11 connection to me (see Chapter 13 - 11:11).
Back to Chapter 13 – 11:11
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Equinox Light Show At THE PATHFINDER – AN ANCIENT AMERICAN CALENDAR By Carl Lehrburger |
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for newly published Ancient American magazine articles on The Pathfinder by Carl Lehrburger, see these .pdf files: 2006, ‘Pathfinder Petroglyphs and Possible Associations with Native American Mythology’ Part Two, Issue 66, 10:15-19download .pdf 1.8 MB, 5 pages watch a 3 minute feature on The Pathfinder by selecting either an MPEG-4 pop-up player or Google video. |
Traveling through Southeast Colorado, one expects to see flat grasslands and prairie terrain. But the Purgatoire River flowing east from the Rocky Mountains has created an expansive valley traversed by a profusion of canyons and sub-canyons. These canyons contain ancient records of earlier inhabitants carved into the rock. Petroglyphs at hundreds of different sites can be found in a 10,000 square mile area south of the Arkansas River and more are being discovered every year.
The diversity of rock art styles in the Purgatoire Valley of southeastern Colorado indicate that many different peoples inhabited this land at different times. Many different styles of petroglyphs, or rock carvings, are found in the area, including abstract, representational, calendrical, parallel lines, and what may be epigraphic inscriptions in Old World scripts. Petroglyphs were created by pecking or abrading images into flat rock surfaces with worked stone, bone, or antler. Rock art styles found in Southeast Colorado include 100 year old cowboy pictures and writing, 400-year-old Plains Indian petroglyphs, a 1,000-year-old pictorial style, and a 4,000-year-old abstract style. Modern-day graffiti also is present at many sites. The proximity of the area to Folsom, New Mexico means that even earlier inhabitants of North America, creators of the famous “Folsom points” more than 8,000 years ago may have also used the Purgatoire River valleys as hunting grounds. The inscribed images left in rock by these ancients are not limited to the numerous examples of rock art and petroglyphs, but include working calenders. Calendrical functions of the rock art have been discovered in the last several decades on both sides of the Rocky Mountains: at many Anasazi sites in the four-corners region West of the Rockies and in Southeast Colorado South of the Arkansas River. A relatively new field of academic study, archaeoastronomy, investigates how the ancients applied astronomy in their lives, as well as in their art and architecture. The most famous and significant archaeo-astronomical site includes Stonehenge in England, Chichen Itza’ in southern Mexico, and Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico USA. Because of the Earth’s seasonal movement, a shadow cast by the sun on a petroglyph moves measurably everyday of the year, except near the times of the solstices. The term solstice refers to the most northerly and southerly horizon positions of the sun in June and December. The secrets of these monumental sites were unraveled by understanding that the stones are aligned with the sun on these important days of the year. Who could have imaged that Southeast Colorado is dotted with ancient calendars etched in stone? Dozens of these sites provide compelling evidence that the early inhabitants of this region possessed the knowledge to recognize the equinoxes and other calendrical events. Over the years, I have made regular pilgrimages to La Junta, Colorado to work with Bill McGlone, a pioneer in discovering and interpreting archaeological sites in Southeast Colorado. Bill’s books on the subject include Petroglyphs of Southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle, Archaeoastronomy of Southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle, and Ancient American Inscriptions: Plow Marks or History?, Bill attracted a band of explorers, ranchers, and amateur archeologists, usually around the time of the equinox, to assist in checking astronomical alignments at newly identifed petroglyph sites. New sites are being discovered every year that have astronomical significance. Most petroglyph sites do not have this calendrical intention associated with them, but over two dozen sites have been located that indicate an intentional solar alignment on an important celestial day. Equinox sunrise is an event recorded by these ancient peoples, but we also see equinox sunset and solstice sunrise and sunset sites. Equinox occurs twice a year in March and September when night and day are equal and the sun rises and sets due East and West. Ancient cultures around the world used different techniques to establish their calendar sites to determine the precise time of the equinox, presumably for both crop planting and ritual purposes. In Southeast Colorado, as in early Mexico, Europe and Asia, sky watching, recording, and evaluation was a pre-occupation. The most common type of ancient calendar discovered by McGlone involves a shadow hitting a specific symbol or target engraved on a rock face. We accept these sites as calendars partly because the suns shadow fits the target area only on a specific day. Because intent is such an important issue and may be complex it is not discussed here. For a more thorogh examination of this issue, see Archaeoastronomy of Southeast Colorado and the Oklahoma Panhandle or Ancient American Inscriptions: Plow Marks or History?. Intentional interplay between the light and shadow can be also observed on common modern sundials. The edge of the shadow cast by a gnomen onto a sundial face will establish the time of day. In the case of the ancient calendars, the edge of a shadow or a beam of light will enter or hit a target on a specific day of the year and at a specific time of day as indexed by the petroglyph featues or the position of the sun (i.e. moment of sunrise or sunset or sun). I observed such an alignment on the spring equinox at the Pathfinder site, a spectacular and newly discovered pristine petroplyph complex with astronomic significance. The Pathfinder is located high above the Purgatoire River valley South of La Junta, Colorado. It was orginally discovered in 1996. Pathfinder is formed by two huge boulders that have fallen into a tent-like cave structure high above the Purgatoire River valley. McGlone and a colleague recognized that Pathfinder had the potential for being a calendar site because it receives direct sunlight at the moment of first light on Pathfinders’s rock face, a distinct shadow is cast from an adjacent rock onto a prominent and unique target-like petroglyph indicating the potential for marking time. Pathfinder is a 40 X 12 foot slab of sandstone rock with a flat, East facing surface covered with petroglyphs. A large boulder to the East leans onto the southern half of the Pathfinder, creating a cave. The extended northern part of the Pathfinder panel is exposed to the direct sunlight at sunrise with a distinct shadow cast by the adjoining boulder. Approaching Pathfinder, visitors encounter what has been termed the howling dog petroglyph. It can also be called the 8-Dog petroglyph because it has eight dots on its body. It has an interesting stream of symbolic figures emanating from its mouth, including pecked footsteps which climb the vertical Pathfinder rock face toward the sky. It is surrounded by animals and symbols, making a complex and stunning panel. To the South of 8-Dog, more petroglyphs are distinguishable. Most notable is a large wing-like or sail-like image with horizontal lines. This is the equinox Target for the shadow created by the adjacent boulder to the East. The Target and the 8-Dog glyphs are the largest and most prominent petroglyphs on Pathfinder. Below the Target are a series of petroglyphs including a human figure, abstract and representational animal glyphs. At sunrise on the day of the equinox, the 8-Dog glyph is illuminated by the first light. The shadow created by the adjacent boulder emerges at dawn and begins to engulf the Target. As the shadow fills the Pathfinder Target, the edge of the shadow closely fits the outer edge of the target petroglyph. As the sun rises, the shadow edge moves down and fits the northern outline of the Target. Although the shadow does not fit the notch at the top of the Target, the fit of the shadow on the edge of the rest of the Target demonstrates that this is an equinox calendar. The shadow casting rock may have been worn down in the area which casts the shadow onto the Target that has less than an exact fit. Just below and to the right of the Target their appears to be a human-like figure lying down. The sun’s shadow splits this glyph, leaving the head of the pecked character in sunlight. Can this be part of the ancients’ solar mythology pecked into stone? Other examples have been found in the region where pecked sun symbols emerge into shadows or into the light on the equinox, most notably at the Anubis Cave (see Ancient American Inscriptions: Plow Marks or History?). Moving to the South of Pathfinder from the 8-Dog petroglyph panel and the Target panel, one enters the cave-like crevice created by the large boulder and Pathfinder. Because of the confined space, it is difficult to make out the petroglyphs from this point on. After many trips to the site and after studying details of photographs, three more large petroglyph panels are apparent. They all include horseshoe images and animals. At least two different styles of snakes, a moutain goat and different types of birds can be clearly distinguished. Near the bottom edge of Pathfinder deeper into the cave, where one must lie on the ground to see the glyphs, a goddess-like looking figure with a snake or river descending from her legs is distinguishable. Above this petroglyph figure the panel has unfortunately been damaged over time as a result of water running down the rock face and all the petroglyphs are no longer clearly seen.A large buffalo-like animal is central and stands above the figure at the bottom. Crawling along the bottom toward the South I finally reach the Southern most edge of Pathfinder, where a 13 inch hunter-like figure can be observed. He is very worn and appears quite old and is the first glyph one sees looking out from of the Pathfinder cave toward the Purgatoire Valley to the North. Is there really a goddess reaching for a tree-like petroglyph pecked into the rock, or merely a “turkey foot” as one observer remarked? The representational glyphs appear newer than the more abstract motifs. Does Pathfinder tell one story or many stories of several peoples from different times? Only with more study will we be able to answer these questions for sure. It was only after several trips and careful study of many photographs that Pathfinder’s images became clearer. Because of the cave-like conditions for much of the rock face, it is not possible to observe or photograph Pathfinder in its entirety while on site. Only by drawing details of the photos taken of specific glyphs, recreating the major petroglyph panels and then piecing the recreated panels together was it possible to get a more complete picture of what is there. What emerges is a series of five connected panels of petroglyphs. Each series is unique yet there are shared characters and symbols. At least two different styles of petroglyphs can be seen: earlier abstract characters and figures and later representational petroglyphs. There are also unique sequences of parallel lines, many worn and almost unrecognizable abstract pecked lines could not be seen well enough to distinguish or to draw. Although most of the animals and human-like figures may be recognizable, many of the symbols and the story Pathfinder’s creators preserved in stone will likely remain enigmatic to modern observers. However elusive these petroglyphs may be, the recognition that the Pathfinder Target seves a calendrical function is a major step toward understanding both the Pathfinder and the ancients who created it. We modern people may never know or understand what what the creators of Pathfinder’s fantastic images had in mind. But we do now know that they used their knowledge of the suns apparent movement in the sky to compute and record the equinoxes and possibly other regular calendrical events at Pathfinder. In this manner, they practices and celebrated along with other ancient people from around the world a common science and religion: observing and celebrating the seasons, marked by the equinoxes and the solstices. Pathfinder teaches us that there are great discoveries still to be made in the most unsuspecting places. As the secrets of Pathfinder and other archaeoastronomical sites found throughout the American Southwest come to light, we learn more about the richness of our land and our history, and gain a greater respect for those who came before us. Carl Lehrburger is a Boulder, Colorado-based entrepreneur and explorer. He is Chairman of PureVision Technology, Inc. (www.purevisiontechnology.com), a research and development company pioneering waste recovery technologies. All photos and drawings by author. You can contact Carl at [email protected] ©2007 TransVision
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1. Some years ago, sceptic Joe Nickell from CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal) proposed that the Oak Island Money Pit started out as a natural sink hole, which are apparently common in that part of Nova Scotia, and a Masonic legend somehow attached itself to that natural sink hole to create the start of what is now called the Oak Island Money Pit legend. A link to Joe Nickell’s article, from the March/April 2000 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, is here.
2. I myself am an Oak Island sceptic, and I am also a Freemason, but I was initially unimpressed by the Nickell theory, thinking it farfetched and contrived.
3. However, Kel Hancock and Richard Joltes recently discovered a very similar Money Pit legend from Jollicure in another part of Nova Scotia, particulars being found elsewhere on this site.
The very similar Jollicure Money Pit Legend caused me to re-evaluate my earlier dismissive view of Nickell’s theory, and as a result I wrote a brief article published at the Oak Island Treasure website in which I decided the Nickell theory may well be correct, although I felt the
ritual of the Masonic Degree known as the Royal Arch of Enoch, being the 13th Degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (known as the “Rose Croix” in the United Kingdom and Australasia) was a more likely source of the Oak Island legend than the ritual of the Holy Royal Arch Degree suggested by Nickell. A link to that brief article is here, and which also contains a brief explanation of how masons use their rituals and their significance in what happens in Masonic Lodges.
4. Since then, I have carried out further research into possible Masonic origins for the Oak Island Money Pit Legend, and have discovered the following:
4(a) The Masonic legend which forms the basis of the Masonic Holy Royal Arch Degree has changed over time.
4(b) At the present day, the Holy Royal Arch Degree is based around the building of the second temple at Jerusalem around 500BC. In its present form, the Holy Royal Arch Degree has only limited similarity to the Oak Island legend as noted in my abovementioned previous article.
4(c) However, when the Holy Royal Arch Degree was founded about 1740, it appears it was based on the legend of Enoch, one of the legendary patriarchs from the Book of Genesis who predated the flood. See for example Mackey’s History of Freemasonry, Chapter 48, where he says:
“It is very probable that the Legend of Enoch which was embodied in Ramsay’s Ecossais, and which was afterward adopted in the Degree of Knights of the Ninth Arch, was at first used by the ceceders in conferring their Fourth Degree. But it was afterward changed for the very different legend which is still taught in the English Royal Arch”.
(When Mackey refers to the “Fourth Degree”, he is in fact meaning the degree now known as the Holy Royal Arch). A link to Mackey’s tome on the History of Freemasonry is here.
4(d) Some time between the birth of the Holy Arch Royal Degree (about 1740) and around 1800, the legend at the basis of that degree was changed from the Enoch legend to the legend of building the second Jerusalem temple at the time of the Jews returning from their captivity in Babylon, and that legend (of building the second temple) remains the basis of the present Holy Royal Arch Degree.
4(e) But, the Enoch legend remained the basis of some Holy Royal Arch rituals, as worked in some Royal Arch Chapters, as late as the early 1800s; see for example the paper of Piers Vaughan entitled Early Rituals of the Holy Royal Arch where he says:
2.3 STORIES
One of the most fascinating differences in early rituals are the different settings for the ritual story. While some most certainly focused on the building of the Second Temple, at least one is set in the time of King Solomon, and involves the building of the secret vault and the discovery of the vault of Enoch. We mentioned earlier that the story of the Ark of Noah is one of the oldest of all Masonic devices. The story of Enoch is intimately intertwined with this story, leading us to suspect that the Enochian slant also reflects an early version of the myth.
In the Finch manuscript of circa 1800 we find the most fully developed version of this particular story. Enoch is take to heaven and is shown the triangular plate bearing the name of God, then a vision of an underground vault with nine arches one upon another, within which is a white marble pedestal.
God commands him to build this, as well as two pillars of brass and brick, containing all the knowledge of mankind (later seen in the Second Degree lecture, this time pertaining to the pillars at the entrance to the Temple of Solomon). This he does. In this version we are then transported forward to the time of King Solomon, who is commanded to build not only a Temple but also an underground corridor, and he is promised that on completing the Temple the true name of God revealed to Moses would be restored. According to the text, next to Mount Moriah was another Mount called Mount Calvary (sic), which the workmen were excavating in order to lay foundations for another building.
They come across the ruins of a more ancient building, upon vertical arches. Solomon tells his three principal architects to investigate, which they do, lifting each keystone by its ring, and in the ninth arch they discover the pedestal and the triangular plate.
This story also introduces us to the mysterious names of the three architects or sojourners: Stolkyn, Jacobert and Giblim. This extraordinary development is, perhaps, the strongest hint that the Degree is indeed descended from the French system, as we will see in the conclusion. Most of the other Rituals studied are rather more familiar, dealing with the rebuilding of the Temple by Zerubbabal, Jeshua and Haggai. The use of three sojourners is common to all, as is the idea of descending into a place of darkness, there finding something bright which in many rituals shines with its own light. In most cases, too, the pedestal is a double cube -more of an altar – which means its surface is square, bearing a circle which contains a triangle (of gold): a device familiar to Masons in the Hermetic degrees. Sometimes the language is quite fun. For example, in the Bristol rite the sojourners angrily reply to Zerubbabel’s taunt that they may be “of the lineage of that set of traitors who fell away during the siege and went over to the enemy”, that: “we are not, Most Excellent, of that timorous race of parasites who…fell away and deserted their trust.”
Nevertheless, given that the earliest rituals focus on the period from Enoch, the Flood, and the Building of the First Temple, there is reason to suppose that the action was moved to the Second Temple to continue the biblical tradition, and to move away from apocryphal stories. After all, there is no reference in the Old Testament to finding a secret vault containing a pedestal or sacred delta in the books of Ezra, Haggai or Nehemiah.
Follow this link to Vaughan’s paper:
4(f) Eventually the Enochian version of the Holy Royal Arch Degree became the 13th Degree of the Masonic Degree system known as the Scottish Rite in North America and known as the Rose Croix elsewhere, and the 13th Degree remains based on the legend of Enoch to this day.
5. The Oak Island legend probably began, in something vaguely approaching its modern form, in the period 1800-1850, when the Holy Royal Arch Degree was in many Royal Arch Chapters in the world still based on the legend of Enoch, i.e. when the Holy Royal Arch Degree in many Chapters still resembled what is now the 13th Degree of the Scottish Rite rather than the modern Holy Royal Arch Degree.
6. Therefore Nickell is very likely correct when he identifies the Holy Royal Arch Degree as the source of today’s Oak Island Money Pit legend, although the Holy Royal Arch Degree at the relevant time was in many Royal Arch Chapters more akin to what is now the 13th Degree of the Scottish Rite. In other words, it turns out that both Nickell and myself were correct when he identified the Holy Royal Arch Degree as the source of the Oak Island Money Pit legend and I identified the 13th Degree of the Scottish Rite as its source.
7. An old ritual of the 13th Degree, likely similar to the Holy Royal Arch Degree rituals in many Royal Arch Chapters in the early 1800s, is available on the web at this link. I would also refer to the various links to Masonic legendary material in my previous article referred to above.
8. We are now in a position to see just how many elements of the Masonic Holy Royal Arch Degree (in its old version which is now the 13th Degree of the Scottish Rite) and other Masonic motifs and legends have been incorporated in the Oak Island legend:
8(a) The Three Sojourners
In the Masonic legend, the Vault of Enoch is discovered and excavated by three sojourners called Stolkyn, Jacobert, and Giblim. In the Oak Island legend, the Money Pit is discovered and excavated by three fellows called McInnis, Smith and Vaughan.
8(b) Surface Temple
In the Masonic legend, the remains of Enoch’s temple are discovered at the surface, being a roofless temple of large unhewn stones. In the Oak Island legend, McInnes, Smith & Vaughan discover a layer of flagstones only two feet below the surface when they start excavating the pit.
8(c) Nine Successive Vaults
In the Masonic legend, the three sojourners find the roofs of nine successive vaults, vertically aligned down into the earth. In the Oak Island legend, McInnes, Smith and Vaughan and then later the Onslow Syndicate find nine successive layers of oak logs at 10 feet intervals going down into the earth.
8(d) The Porphyry Stone
In the Masonic legend, Enoch concealed the secret name of God, known as the “Grand Secret” “engraven on a white oriental porphyry stone, in the bowels of the earth”. See the Royal Masonic Cyclopedia quoted at the following links:
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/masons/mrituals.html
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/enoch.html
In the Oak Island legend, the inscribed stone found at about the 90 foot depth in the Oak Island Money Pit is often suggested to have been porphyry; see for example:
8(e) The Translation of the Characters on the Porphyry Stone
The Masonic legend includes the following from Mackey’s The History of Freemasonry cited above:
“The legend proceeds to inform us that after Enoch had finished the construction of the nine vaults, fearing that the principles of the arts and sciences which he had assiduously cultivated would be lost in a universal deluge of which he had received a prophetic vision, he erected above ground two pillars, one of marble, to withstand the destructive influences of fire, and one of brass, to resist the action of water. On the pillar of brass he engraved the history of the creation, the principles of the arts and sciences, and the doctrines of speculative masonry as they were then practised; and on the pillar of marble he enscribed in hieroglyphic characters the information that near the spot where they stood a precious treasure was deposited in a subterranean vault.” (Emphasis added).
See Chapter 41 of Mackey’s The History of Freemasonry. According to the Oak Island legend, the most common translation of the inscribed stone message reads “40 feet below two million pounds are buried”. Incidentally, on the assumption the inscribed stone from the Oak Island Money Pit records a message in Spanish, it can be translated as “At 80, Guide maize or millet into the estuary or stream”, which alludes to the well known Masonic symbolism of “An ear of corn near a fall of water” which any Freemason will recognise. For a link to this so-called Spanish translation of the inscribed stone, see this article (which incidentally also points out that the nine log platforms of the Oak Island Money Pit correspond to the nine vaults of Enoch).
8(f) The Discovery of the Treasure
In the modern version of the Masonic Holy Royal Arch Degree, three sojourners discover the hidden treasure vault under the remains of King Solomon’s former temple when their crowbar accidentally strikes a rock and makes a hollow sound, revealing the existence of the vault underneath. In the Oak Island legend, the diggers of the Onslow Syndicate sink a crowbar into the mud at the bottom of the money pit, and strike a flat wooden surface which they interpreted to be the lid of a treasure chest.
8(g) The Treasure
In both the Enochian and the modern versions of the Holy Royal Arch Degree, the treasure in the hidden vault consists of a plate of gold on which the long lost secret name of God is engraved. In the Enochian version of the legend, the gold pate was also encrusted with jewels.
The Oak Island legend assumes that a very valuable treasure is buried in the money pit, although is not specific as to the nature of the treasure as it has not yet been recovered.
8(h) The Flood Channels
An English translation of the Apocryphal Book of Enoch includes the following passages:
I have been unable to find any Royal Arch Degree rituals which incorporate the above allusions to “flood channels”, but given that the legend of Enoch is very important to Freemasons, and given that Masonic ritual changes over time (as explained in my earlier article), it would not be beyond the bounds of possibility that some versions of the Holy Royal Arch Degree at certain periods have incorporated the above allusions to “flood channels”. Certainly the above allusions to “water channels” correspond to the Oak Island and Jollicure Money Pit legends including the tale that they both filled with water, and in the case of the Oak Island Money Pit legend the source of the water was artificially dug flood tunnels linking the money pit to the sea.
8(i) Animals Sinking
Also from the Book of Enoch:
“89.5 And all the bulls of that enclosure, were gathered together, until I saw how they sank, and were swallowed up and destroyed, in that water”.
This passage corresponds to Sophia Sellar’s oxen sinking into the cave-in pit and to the blacksmith’s cow sinking into the Jollicure Money Pit. For a link to the relevant passages of the Book of Enoch, refer to the following: http://exodus2006.com/5enoch.htm
8(j) Equilateral Triangle
The equilateral triangle is probably the most important symbol of the Holy Royal Arch Degree, both in its Enochian version and in its modern version. The secret name of God was inscribed on an equilateral triangle on the gold plate in the hidden vault in the legend at the heart of the Royal Arch Degree. This corresponds to the famous equilateral stone triangle which was formerly on the south shore of Oak Island, but which was unfortunately destroyed during Dunfield Senior’s excavations in the mid 1960s.
8(k) The Letter “G”
The letter “G” has always been important in Masonic symbolism, standing for the Grand Geometrician of the Universe or God. Nickell’s article cited above refers to the discovery near the cave-in pit on Oak Island in 1967 of a granite bolder with the letter “G” clearly chiselled on its surface.
8(l) Masonic Symbols on Rock
Nickell’s article also refers to an inscribed stone discovered by Gilbert Hedden at Joudrey’s Cove on Oak Island in 1936, featuring a number of symbols which are clearly Masonic including a point within a circle, which any Mason would recognise.
8(m) Links of Chain from Epaulette
At formal meetings in Masonic Lodges, the Masons still wear “aprons” loosely modelled on the aprons of working stone masons in the Middle Ages. Those aprons, in many degrees, often include metal epaulettes attached to the aprons; those epaulettes are often of either gold or a metal resembling gold, e.g. brass. It is not without significance that the three links of chain reportedly recovered by the Truro Syndicate in 1849 by drilling in the Oak Island Money Pit with a pod auger resembled”links forced from an epaulette”.
8(n) Piece of Parchment and the Cement Vault
As is well known, the Blair Syndicate of the 1890s drilled deep into the money pit and purportedly discovered a cement vault at approximately 150 feet depth, from which their drill extracted a piece of parchment containing the letters “VI” or “RI”. The piece of parchment actually does exist, although its provenance is not recorded in a manner which would be satisfactory to an archaeologist. It needs to be noted that in the modern versions of the Holy Royal Arch Degree (i.e. in use from say about 1800), the treasures concealed in the hidden vault included a parchment containing the original text of the Book of Genesis and which is discovered by the three sojourners when they enter the long lost vault.
8(o) The Iron Ring
The Enochian version of the Holy Royal Arch Degree refers to Enoch covering the top most entrance into the system of nine vertically aligned vaults into the ground, with a large stone with a large iron ring to assist its removal when required. The Oak Island legend records that an iron ring was found embedded in a rock at Smiths Cove, probably in the 1795-1804 timeframe.
9. The parallels between Masonic symbolism (particularly as encapsulated in the 13th Degree, which was formerly the basis of the Holy Royal Arch Degree) and the Oak Island Money Pit legend as it has come down to us are striking. In my view, there are just simply too
many parallels for it to be a coincidence. The clincher to my way of thinking is the porphyry stone with hieroglyphic characters on it and purportedly found at about 90 feet down in the money pit by the Onslow Syndicate in the early 1800s; this is a classic example of Masonic
symbolism, especially the translation which alludes to the traditional Masonic motif of “an ear of corn near to a fall of water”. The reason why the porphyry stone with hieroglyphic characters is classic Masonic symbolism is that the porphyry stone features prominently in the Masonic side degree known as the Royal Ark Marriners, and stones engraved with non English characters feature in a number of Masonic degrees including the Mark Master Masons degree.
10. In fact, it would not be exaggerating too much to say that the whole Oak Island Money Pit legend is a Masonic pun.
11. It is almost as if a group of Mahone Bay Masons have been “laughing up their sleeves” at the rest of the world for several generations.
12. It now seems that a number of independent elements have converged together to form the Oak Island Money Pit legend as it now exists, including:
12(a) The recent discovery of John Bartram and others that digging for Captain Kydd’s treasure was a well established confidence game/trick in North Eastern United States in the early 1800s, and was practised as a means of earning a livelihood by Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith and others at that time, and thanks to John Bartram we now know there is a link between Joseph Smith’s family and the Oak Island Money Pit in the form of one of his wives, Fanny Young (who also happened to be a sister of Mormon Church President Brigham Young) visiting Oak Island about 1850 to divine for treasure.
12(b) If there was any kind of genuine “hole” at the money pit site originally, then it may have been nothing more than a natural sink hole, which we know are common in that part of Nova Scotia, or possibly the remains of an early settler’s attempt to dig a water well; and whether the original “hole” was a natural sink hole or the remains of a well there is the speculative possibility it may have been used by early Oak Island land owner Casper Wollenhaupt as a saw pit for pit sawing lumber on the island, it being known that Casper Wollenhaupt had a contract to build a ship or ships in the early 1790s.
12(c) As the Oak Island Money Pit legend evolved, it acquired extensive amounts of Masonic symbolism, particularly drawn from the Enochian version of the Holy Royal Arch Degree of Freemasonry.
13. Where we have got to so far:
13(a) The flood tunnel or tunnels have now been conclusively shown (at least to my satisfaction) to be purely mythical.
13(b) There almost certainly was never a real treasure in the Oak Island Money Pit. The legend has incorporated a vast treasure at the bottom of the money pit as a result of early 1800s treasure digging swindlers, who were active at that time in that part of the world, and we now know thanks to John Bartram that there is a connection between those treasure hunting swindlers and Oak Island.
13(c) The Oak Island legend has also undoubtedly incorporated a vast lost treasure as a result of the incorporation of Masonic legendary material which revolves around the discovery of a lost vault which has a very valuable treasure in it.
14. Although this website has only been going a short while, I think we can justifiably say it has made giant strides towards solving the Oak Island mystery. I would go so far as to say it is virtually solved.
Note: All material on these pages is © 2005 Dennis J King. Posted here by permission. All rights reserved. Short excerpts may be used as long as proper credit is given and advance permission is obtained.
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THE FIRST 69 WEEKS OF THE
SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL.
173,880 DAYS LAID OUT ACROSS
THE SOLAR AND LUNAR CYCLES
BETWEEN THE NISAN MOON OF
NEHEMIAH IN 445 B.C. AND THE
NISAN MOON OF PALM SUNDAY,
PASSION WEEK, IN 32 A.D..
A study by Gavin Finley MBBS
As we have seen in our previous discussions the seventy weeks, (or sevens), of Daniel are made up of seventy “sevens” of years or 490 years. These 490 ‘years’ are 490 parcels of time. Now for that all important question. How many days are in each of these ‘years’?Let us not immediately assume that these ‘years’ are earthly years of 365.2422 days. This is where many have gone wrong in their calculations of the 70 weeks of Daniel. Remember that these ‘seventy weeks (sevens) of years’ are issued to us from the throne of God.
Fortunately we are not left to guess or to argue about this. We have an authoritative scripturally well founded answer to that all important question. This is undoubtedly what Sir Robert Anderson noticed as he studied and read his Bible.
Tucked away in the book of Revelation there is a “Rosetta Stone” for biblical or prophetic time. It is given to us in the context of that very important prophecy of ‘the woman and the dragon’. This prophecy concerns of the final 3.5 years of this age. The length of this very important time period and also the purpose for this time period is given to us twice in Revelation chapter 12. This passage of scripture gives us the timespan of the exile and nurturing, (or feeding), of ‘the woman’. This wonderful information was brought to Daniel, (and us), by the angel of God’s Word, the angel Gabriel. In verse 6 the time period for the exile and nurturing of the woman, a picture of God’s Elect, is given to us in terms of days. And in verse 14 the very same time period is given to us in terms of ‘times’ or years. This is our ‘Rosetta stone’ for calibrating the biblical years of the 70 Weeks of Daniel in terms of days.
Revelation chapter 12 provides us with some very important information concerning the last half of the 70th week of Daniel. This is the final 3.5 years of this age. It involves the exile and spiritual nurturing of the people of God. The period of time is given as 1260 days and also as 3.5 years.
This is John’s vision of the dragon and the woman. The ‘woman’ here is a picture of God’s covenant people. John saw her being threatened by the Dragon. God gives her the wings of a great eagle. She is airlifted, possibly from some country, (or countries), with an eagle in their heraldry. ‘The woman’ then flies off to a place of safety where she is fed/nurtured/taken care of for 1260 days/3.5 years.
The timespan of the Great Tribulation has been given to us twice in precise units of time. This prophecy actually calibrates the last half of the 70th week. The time is dispensed to us in terms of days as well as in terms of years. Here in Revelation 12 we have in effect a “Rosetta Stone” for biblical time. So we can know for an absolute certainty just how many days are in each ‘year’ of all 70 of the 70 ‘weeks’ or 70 ‘sevens’ of Daniel. Here are the details.
The timespan for the final half of the 70th week is issued to us twice. In verse 6 the Holy Spirit tells us that the woman is nurtured/taken care of/fed for a period of 1260 days.
Now, let us look down 8 verses in the same chapter.
Lo and behold, what do we see?
Verse 14 is a restatement by the Holy Spirit of the very same reassuring information. But this time He issues the time to us using a different unit of time. A ‘time’ in scripture is a year. The Holy Spirit tells us that the woman is ‘nurtured’ or ‘taken care of’ for a “time, times, and half a time” or 3.5 years.This is some exceedingly helpful information! Now. If we divide these 1260 days by the 3.5 biblical years we get a biblical or prophetic year of precisely 360 days.
This is very important. It shows us without a shadow of a doubt that in that last ‘week’ or ‘seven years’ of the 70 weeks of Daniel God is issuing His holy biblical or prophetic ‘year’ as a ‘year’ made up of exactly 360 days. So much for the length of the biblical or prophetic year as we see it outlined in scripture for the last 3.5 years of the 70th week. Each year of the final seven years of this age is made up of 360 days. It is not the solar year we see down here in this damaged cosmos, the year of 365.2422 days. God’s word has spoken. So there should be no question about it.
Now we can turn our attention to laying out the timeline of the 69 weeks. Since we have a God who does things in perfect order and beauty we can be absolutely certain that God is totally consistent in His reckoning of all of the 70 weeks/sevens of years. As we have seen, God measures out the 70th week in terms of years made up of of 360 days. So we can be absolutely certain that He has done precisely the same for the previous 69 years that unfolded in times past.So we can discount all the chronologies men have put forward for the 70 Week prophecy that are calculated on the basis of solar years of 365.2422 days. Every single one of them will be wrong. This is where Sir Isaac Newton was sidelined as he attempted to calculate the 70 weeks back in the late 1600′s.
God reckons time according to the ideal of a holy and perfect solar system. In susch a solar system the planet earth would orbit around the sun in perfect circle and each cycle would last 360.0000000 days. In this perfect ideal solar system the moon circles around the earth in perfect holy months of 30.0000000 days and finishes the 12 revolutions precisely as the earth finishes its revolution around the sun. Each of the four seasons would be 90.000000 days. So here is what we have established so far. Any reckoning of the 70 Weeks of Daniel which does not follow this perfect pattern and does not consider prophetic/biblical time as a year of 360 days made up of 12 perfect months of 30 days is not going to work. It will be flawed from the start.
But, some will say, this reckoning of 360 days to a year does not agree with the earthly things we see around us? We see a year of 365.2433 days. And we see a lunar month of 29.530589 days. These are people with an earthbound mindset.God has given us a timeline of 69 weeks or sevens of years. We have to lay it out in history across nearly five centuries. Here is where we must decide. Do we measure out our biblical timelines with years based on what we see in the damaged and imperfect cosmos as we measure it out today? Or do we go with the measuring stick for prophetic time God has given to us in scripture? In laying out our timeline for the 69 weeks do we use the solar year our own human eyes see? Or do we use the year God has shown us that He Himself is using for the latter half of that final 70th week? In short, do we insist on using terrestial time? Or do we use the sacred heavenly time God uses?
Presented in this way the answer for an evangelical would seem obvious. But it is surprising how many liberal scholars find this to be a stumblingblock. Their earthy scientifically correct view of the year seems to be all that they can see. The biblical reckoning of time, (a year = 360 days), a leap of faith. It is too much of a stretch for them. It is very hard for earhly minded people to make the jump. What is going on here?
This may in fact be what God planned all along. This may be just another instance of how God guards His Word. We are in a spiritual war. Like all wars it is an information war. This information on the 70 Weeks of Daniel involves the end-time. The saints will need this information in times to come. But the less the enemy and his agents know the better.
Think of it. God’s Word has been hidden for a long time now. But as we come towards the end-time this information will be unsealed. God will make His message available to His saints. He speaks to them in biblical and devotional code. These are messages that only consecrated believers can “get”. Daniel was told to “seal up the prophecy until the time of the end. For many shall run to and fro and knowledge will increase”. (Dan.12:9) He was also told that “the wise would understand.” (Dan.12:10) So there is a reason for this information to be “sealed up”. God is getting His message out to His people when they need it, and especially as they approach the end time. He is also preventing His Word from getting into the hands of the wrong people. As they come up to the threshold of the end time drama the prophecies in Daniel will be unsealed. The information will then be opened up to the saints. This is just as Daniel prophesied.
So once we have calibrated our time units for the ‘years’ of the latter half of the 70th week we can now readily and easily calculate the number of days for the timespan of the former 69 weeks (or sevens) of years. This is quite simple really. Here are our calculations.7 weeks + 62 weeks = 69 weeks or 69 sevens of years.
69 x 7 = 483 biblical/holy years.
As we have established, each year is 360 days.
This ends up being
483 x 360 = 173,880 days (inclusive)
This is a time interval of 173,879 days between the beginning day #1 and the final day #173,880.
173,880 days
This, then, is the number which Sir Robert Anderson arrived at for the 69 weeks as set forth in his celebrated book, ‘The Coming Prince’. This book was first published in 1894. It is still available in good Christian bookstores.
The next step is to lay out our 173,880 days across the solar passage of years and determine how many earthly years this spans. Sir Robert Anderson used our present Gregorian calendar and its treatment of leap years to make his calculations of the 69 weeks/173,880 days. He wrote to the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich to determine when the new moons came through for the Passover month of Nisan for 445 B.C. and for 32 A.D. From knowledge of when the Nisan moon came through in the year of Nehemiah and the year of the passion of Christ he was then able to place his 173,880 days into the Gregorian calendar to arrive at his startling conclusion.
This is the approach using the solar cycles of years. An additional approach, and one used by this author, is to use the astronomical data for the monthly lunar cycles as well. As we shall outline further down in this article this comes to 5,888 moons plus 8 days. It is then a straightforward matter to connect the beginning and ending days of those 476 solar years plus 25 days or 5,888 moons plus 8 days into the Hebrew calendar for the years in question. The timeline can then be seen to fit perfectly between the Edict of Nehemiah and Palm Sunday at the beginning of Passion Week.
As we have determined above, the 69 weeks is a timespan of 173,880 days inclusive. This is 173,879 days for the difference between the first and last days of the 173,880 days. The true solar year astronomically is 365.242199 or 365.2422 days. How many years then is in this interval of 69 “weeks”/sevens/173,879 days? Let us pull out our calculators and see.
173,879 days divided by 365.2422 days
= 476.0649 years.
So the 69 weeks/sevens = 476 years plus a small fraction of a year.
That small fraction is 0.06492 of a year.
0.06492 x 365.2422 days per year = 23.7 days or 24 days.
So an accurate tally of years for the 69 week interval, the interval between day #1 and day #173,880 is 476 solar years plus 24 days.
Let us now lay out our 476 years and 24 days as a timeline. It must start from the date of an edict giving authority to ‘restore and build Jerusalem’. It must then run on without pause to end at a termination date auspicious as the day of “Messiah the Prince”.
As we determined in our earlier discussion of the various edicts in chapter 3 it was only the edict of Artaxerxes in His 20th year and delivered to Nehemiah in 445 B.C. that met the criteria called for to initiate Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 weeks. The month of Nisan in 445 B.C. would begin a timespan that would reach forward 476 solar years and 24 days. Finally, on the 173,880th day, the timeline would terminate on that epic day and year when Jesus presented Himself to His people politically as “Messiah the Prince”.
As we saw in part 3 of this study, the 457 B.C. date, as given by Sir Isaac Newton and many others even now, would be too early. This earlier edict of Cyrus not only fails to meet the requirements of a political restoration but it fails to connect on any auspicious days. And as we saw, these earlier edicts did not authorize or give any permission whatsoever for the Jewish nation to restore the gates and walls and thus grant political sovereignty to Jerusalem to resume its history as a sovereign, independent city-state.
In reaching forward the 476 years and 24 days we are not vague or sloppy in making the connection to the life of Jesus. The angel Gabriel told told Daniel, and us, that the terminus of the 69 week timeline would be “unto Messiah the Prince”. There must be a day in holy history that fits this. Is there? Let us take a look and see.
First, let us make one thing abundantly clear. We are looking for a day answerable to the prophecy “Messiah the Prince”. So we are not looking for the date of His birth nor His baptism. Yes, Jesus was born a king, just as the wise men from the east had stated. But Jesus did not present Himself to His people as “Messiah”, the anointed King of the Jews and High Priest of Israel when He was a baby. Nor was the day in which we saw “Messiah the Prince” the day when Jesus went to the Jordan River to be baptized by John. There was one day, and one day only, in which Jesus presented Himself to His people as “Messiah the Prince”. On this auspicious day Jesus entered Jerusalem in a very public and political way. He came in through the Eastern Gate as Messiah should. He presented Himself before the crowds, lowly, and riding upon a donkey. This was precisely as prophesied. – Zech 9:9
So we have 2 very specific dates to consider as markers on a time line pegging out the first 69 weeks of the 70 weeks of Daniel. The likely starting day has been given to us in Nehemiah 2 as being “in the month of Nisan” and “in the 20th year of Artaxerxes”.
Here are the facts. Artaxerxes Longinus began his reign in February of 464 B.C. 19 years later his 20th year would have begun in February of 445 B.C. So the 20th year of Artaxerxes Longinus is well established historically as beginning in the winter month of February in 445 B.C. Nehemiah went to the king with his request a month or so later. According to Nehemiah this was in the springtime month of Nisan. Nehemiah does not give us a specific date in Nisan. But we have good reason to look at the new moon of Nisan 1 or Nisan 2 for our starting date. Because the time of the new moon was generally the time when kings made their edicts and pronouncements from the throne.
And when is our finishing day? As we shall see the 173,880 day time line comes to its terminus on a very auspicious day in the Passover month of Nisan in 32 A.D., specifically Nisan 10 of that year. As we shall discover, it was 5,888 moons and 8 days later.
Brothers and sisters, we must be very careful here. Two appropriate and auspicious dates in holy history have been given to us. We must now connect the timespan faithfully and accurately. And we must do it within the accuracy expected for the sighting of the new moons. We are talking here of an accuracy of one or two days across 476 solar years. That is a “hole in one” or a bullseye hit on a target at an extreme range. Can we do it? Let us see.
Remember, we are dealing here with holy things. If we cannot do this accurately and the time line does not fit and fit accurately then we are finished. We may as well then wrap up the study, admit we are defeated, and go home. Because we are dealing here with the holy things of God. And “mucking around” with the numbers is out of the question for us. That is occultic manipulative behavior. It will not do. It is falling short of God’s glory. It is sin. If we present wrong information we as teachers will be severely punished. False teachers commit the sin of Jeroboam, leading God’s covenant people ointo error. Bible teachers who dare to teach falsehood will suffer great shame and reproach before the courts of heaven.
We serve a holy God. His very Presence strikes fear into all who get crosswise of Him. Any person who teaches Bible prophecy should be very very careful. If we present or teach something relating to the Holy One of Israel then it had better be right. Our calling and our discipline as Christian believers is to be diligent in the holy scriptures, led by the Spirit of God, and obedient to our calling in God. God has promised us He will lead us into all truth. This is not ‘relative truth’ or ‘courtroom truth’ or ‘town hall truth’. In this matter of the 70 weeks of Daniel we must have total and absolute truth within the limits God has given us. When the time line is placed and then offered up for the saints it must be mathematically and astronomically correct!
Teachers of Biblical truth have an awesome responsibility here. God punishes severely all those who place incorrect markers on the pathway. As we walk on into the future then we as pilgrims need a correct map. So we had best be led by His Holy Spirit in what we present. No other ‘spirit’, be it profane or religious, has any right to worm its way into any teaching that involves the Holy Bible. These are days of great deception. The religious spirits among us are the worst of all. So we had best make sure that all our conclusions are in alignment with the Holy Scriptures.
If we are wrong in what we say then we are presenting disinformation. We are misleading God’s elect people and sending them off down the wrong path. This is a very serious matter. If we go along with disseminating wrong information then we as teachers have ‘turned’. We have become ‘double agents’ operating on the side of the enemy. We have wittingly or unwittingly become agents for the dark side.
Back to our study. The date of ascension of Artaxerxes Longinus is well established by secular sources. It was in February of 464 B.C. that his predecessor was assassinated. The 20th year of Artaxerxes would therefore have begun 19 years later on February of 445 B.C.. Since Nehemiah tells us that he received the edict from the king in the springtime month of Nisan which follows this February of 445 B.C. we can know with certainty that the 20th year of Artaxerxes was in the year of 445 B.C.. Thus begins our timeline of 173,880 days, or
5888 moons and 8 days, or
476 solar years and 24 days.
In counting the years between a B.C. date and an A.D. date it is important to remember to subtract a year since there is no year zero. 445 B.C. is therefore -444 A.D. Remember it was the Arab mathematicians who gave us the concept and the number zero. Their heyday did not come until centuries later in the 700′s A.D.
If we lay out 476 years and 25 days from the springtime of 445 B.C. we come to the springtime of 32 A.D.. Was this an auspicious year? It certainly was! Not only have we tagged the crucifixion year but we have intercepted it in the springtime. We have landed our 173,880 days right in the very time period of the Passover in the year of 32 A.D.! This looks very promising.
Now let us line up year 1 of our timespan, (which is 445 B.C.), with year 476 (32 A.D.) at their spring equinoxes. (See the chart above.) This will mark out 476 solar years exactly. Those extra 24 days over the 476 solar years will make up the days we use to reach out from the equinox points into the adjoining Nisan months of 445 B.C. and 32 A.D.. With those extra 24 days we shall measure out the days from the spring equinox points to reach out to those two auspicious dates, the decree of Artaxerxes to Nehemiah in 445 B.C. and the Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem of Jesus at “Messiah the Prince” in 32 A.D.
We have just laid out our time-line of the 69 weeks in terms of the present Gregorian solar calendar. However, the beginning and ending points are given to us in terms of a Hebrew calendar. Nehemiah received the edict from King Artaxerxes “in the Hebrew month of Nisan”. – Neh. 2:1. And Jesus entered Jerusalem as “Messiah the Prince” during the Passover which was also during the month of Nisan. Since our present Gregorian calendar ignores the lunar passages we must connect our time-line to these Hebrew calendar dates by some other means.
THE WITNESS OF THE LUNAR CYCLES: PLACING THE 69 WEEKS INTO A TIMELINE BETWEEN THE THE “COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM” AND “MESSIAH THE PRINCE”.
Our current solar calendar uses months that Julius Caesar shackled to the solar year. Our months no longer follow the passages of the moon. So we shall need to reconcile our current solar-only calendar to the solar/lunar Hebrew calendar in some way. We shall need the testimony of the moon as well as that of the sun. This is what God told us back at creation.
Our Creator was referring to the passages of the sun and moon.The best point to measure out the solar years and to connect into the Nisan moons of the Hebrew calendar is the spring equinox. The spring equinox on our Gregorian calendar occurs in March 21 or March 20th in a leap year. The first full moon that comes after the spring equinox is by definition the month of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. So to measure out our timespan of the 69 weeks into the Hebrew calendar dates we shall need to lay out the Nisan moons alongside the spring equinoxes of the years in question. To do this we shall need the date and time those Nisan new moons occurred for the years 445 B.C. and 32 A.D.. This was the approach used by Sir Robert Anderson. Back in 1877 he obtained this information from the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich Observatory. Here is the letter he received back from the A.R.
“SIR,
– I have had the moon’s place calculated from Largeteau’s Tables in Additions to the Connaisance des Tems 1846, by one of my assistants, and have no doubt of its correctness. The place being calculated for – 444, March 12d. 20h., French reckoning, or March 12d. 8h. P. M., it appears that the said time was short of New Moon by about 8h. 47m., and therefore the New Moon occurred at 4h. 47m. A. M., March 13th, Paris time.”
I am, etc.,
” (Signed,) G. B. AIRY.”
The new moon, therefore, occurred at Jerusalem on the 13th March, B. C. 445 (444 Astronomical) at 7h. 9m. A. M.
One online resource that gives some lunar data is the U.S. Naval Observatory. Unfortunately it does not go back further than the year 1700. I have used Sir Robert Anderson’s new moon data for 445 B.C. and 32 A.D. for this study. Armed with this lunar information we can then construct a combined Gregorian/Hebrew calendar on which to lay out the 69 weeks.What was the date of the edict? Here Sir Robert Anderson began with a good assumption. Since the traditional times for kings to issue edicts was at the time of the new moon then he considered that Nehemiah would have received the king’s decree on the first day of Nisan. He therefore laid out his timespan from the 1st of Nisan, (March 14th), of 445 B.C..
When did the 69 weeks end? The 69 weeks/476 solar years and 23.7 days/173,879 day span reaches out from day #1 and comes to a terminus on day #173,880, the day of “Messiah the Prince”. This was on the tenth day of Nisan four days before the day the Passover lambs were killed on Nisan 14. (Lev.23:5, Num.28:16) Working from the calendar and adding the appropriate leap years and leap century adjustments Sir Robert Anderson had determined that Palm Sunday, the tenth of Nisan, was April 6th of 32 A.D.. But when we look at the new moon data for the Nisan moon of 32 A.D. Nisan 10 would appear to be closer to April 9th. (see section 5 down below)
All this notwithstanding, Sir Robert Anderson’s remarkably accurate and faithful work, perhaps set back in time by no more than 2-3 days is recorded in his book, now available online, “The Coming Prince”. It is a landmark piece of scholarship still being published today long after the first edition came out in 1894. His book should put to rest any historicist or preterist notions that 70 weeks or 69.5 weeks have already been completed.
THE TESTIMONY OF THE NISAN MOONS OF 445 B.C. AND 32 A.D. AS THEY NOT ONLY SUPERIMPOSE THE HEBREW CALENDAR DATES FOR NISAN ONTO OUR GREGORIAN CALENDAR BUT ALSO AS THE PASSAGE OF THESE 5,888 MOONS PROVIDE AN ACCURATE MEASURING ROD FOR THE 69 WEEKS/173,880 DAYS.
Let us now consider the lunar cycles in more detail. What information can the moon provide us with apart from providing the Hebrew calendar connection points to the Gregorian calendar years of Nehemiah’s edict and “Messiah the Prince”? Well once we have identified our connection years on the Gregorian calendar we can then use the lunar cycles alone to provide us with a direct and accurate measure of the entire 69 weeks. This neatly by-passes all concerns about calendars, leap years and such. As far as I know this article is the first time a straight lunar measurement of the 69 weeks has been published. It had been ready and waiting to be done since the astronomical data is well known. Indeed the new moon times for the Nisan months in question, accurate right down to the minute, are sitting right there in Anderson’s 19th century book on pages 102 and 124. As we shall see, the testimony of the lunar cycles provides a wonderful confirmation of the solar/calendar measurements of the 69 weeks.
Sir Robert Anderson had obtained the Nisan new moon times for 445 B.C., the month of Nehemiah’s edict, and 32 A.D., the Passover month of Palm Sunday/Passion week. Nisan is by definition the first full moon after the spring equinox. These new moon times are as follows.
We are now able to start our work of laying out the moons as a second timeline for the 69 weeks.With the date and time of the new moon of Nehemiah’s Nisan moon fixed and the date and time of the new moon of Messiah the Prince similarly fixed in time then a certain perfect number of moons will fit precisely into that new moon to new moon time period. But exactly how many lunar cycles will that timespan accommodate? It will, of course, be an exact number of moons. That is the next thing we shall determine.
Let us first take our 69 week time span which is 173,879 days and ask ourselves how many moon cycles this timespan saw back in the 445 B.C. to 32 A.D. period. We know what the lunar cycle is today. It is a month of 29.530587 days. But is this the same lunar cycle seen during the time period of the 69 weeks two thousand years ago? The answer is no. And why not? Because the moon is slowing down with time and slowly moving away from the earth The lunar cycles are slowing down by one second every 36 years. How then can we find out what the lunar cycle length was back in the time of the 69 weeks? Well if it is slowing by one second every 36 years then the average lunar month for the time period of the 69 weeks back over two millennia ago will be the lunar cycle seen half way through the 445 B.C. and 32 A.D. timespan. This middle year would be 206 B.C.
This is 2206 years ago.
How many seconds faster was the lunar cycle back then than it is today in the year 2000? Let us find out.
There are 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400 seconds in a day.
61.3 seconds divided by 86,400 seconds = 0.000709 days
So the lunar cycle seen in the midst of the 69 weeks back in 206 B.C. was 0.000709 of a day faster than the lunar cycle as measured today.
So the average lunar cycle for the 69 weeks back during the years between 445 B.C. and 32 A.D was
This then is a pretty close calculation for determining the lunar cycle seen back in the time of the 69 weeks. With this pretty accurate figure for the lunar cycles back then we can plug it into our new moon to new moon interval between the Nisan moon of Nehemiah in 445 B.C. and the Nisan moon of Palm Sunday, 32 A.D. Then we can count the moons with full assurance that we are homing in to a very accurate figure.We do this by dividing our calculated lunar cycle into the time interval given to us by Sir Robert Anderson between the new moons listed above for Nisan of 445 B.C. (March 13 at 0709 hrs.) and Nisan of 32 A.D. (March 29 at 2257 hrs.). This new moon to new moon time interval is
Let us divide this accurate number of days (173,871.94) by our fairly accurate lunar cycle for the 69 weeks which we calculated above as close to 29.529878 days.
Aha! The answer comes to 5,888.0006 moons. This is very close. So we have now confirmed that 5,888 moons passed between the edict of Artaxerxes given to Nehemiah and the Passover of Palm Sunday. We can now be sure that if the Nisan moon of Nehemiah was moon #1 then the Nisan moon of “Messiah the Prince” was 5,888 moons later at Moon #5,889.
Now using our new moon to new moon span of 173,871.94 days we can fine-tune our calculated lunar cycle length for the 69 weeks. This will give us an exceedingly accurate lunar cycle for the 69 weeks. We do this by dividing the 173,871.94 days by this whole number 5,888 which is the exact number of moons for that new moon to new moon interval.
1. We now know the number of moons. There were 5,888 of them. 2. We now know with a high degree of accuracy what the lunar cycle was back in the time of the 69 weeks. It was 29.529881 days
With this accurate information we can now proceed to use the lunar cycles alone to measure out the 69 weeks/173,879 days between those two auspicious days reaching out and touching those Nisan moons 476 years apart.
Then we can lay it directly right onto the Hebrew calendar.
Let us now look again at the Nehemiah new moon to Messiah new moon timespan.
It is 173,871.94 days.
Let us now compare it to the 69 week timespan of 173,879 days.
So our 173,879 days for the 69 week interval is very close to 7 days over this new moon to new moon interval. So now, since our Nisan date for Nehemiah’s edict from Artaxerxes is 7 days earlier in the lunar cycle than the Palm Sunday lunar cycle then we can be fairly certain that the Hebrew calendar dates are also very close to 7 days apart. Since the Palm Sunday date was on the tenth of Nisan we can go back 5,888 moons and 7 days and say that Nehemiah probably got his edict from Artaxerxes on the 10 – 3 = 3rd day of the Nisan moon in 445 B.C. Which brings us to our next consideration.SETTING THE HEBREW CALENDAR
BY NEW MOON SIGHTINGS
As Sir Robert Anderson stated in the “Coming Prince” it cannot be assumed that the first day of the month was the day following the new moon. It is exceedingly difficult to see the thin sliver of the new moon with the unaided eye before it is 24 hours old. This is seen in the photos sent into the Islamic site moonsighting.com. The new moon may not have been sighted until it was over 36 hours old or even on the morning of the third day if the weather was overcast. This is why sightings of the new moon were reported in from widely separated parts of the country.
As we saw in section B the 69 weeks of years comprised 476 solar years plus 24 days.
So the Nisan date of the entry of “Messiah the Prince” into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday of 32 A.D was
476 years and 24 days further into the solar year than the Nisan date of Nehemiah when he received the edict of Artaxerxes in 445 B.C. This is a big stretch for a timespan connecting two Nisan moons. It would only have been possible if the terminus was allowed to move deeper into the year than usual such as happens in an embolismal year with a late Nisan moon or a late Passover. This is precisely what we saw in 32 A.D. Even with the early Nehemiah Nisan and a late Calvary Nisan the 476 years and 24 days only just manages to squeeze into the time-line. No other paired Nisan moons in the years before or after could come anywhere near accommodating these 173,880 days. This proves conclusively thatthe Passover of our Lord’s passion was 32 A.D. and not 33 A.D. as is commonly stated.
A.D. 32 was an embolismal year and saw a late Passover that year. An embolismal year has an extra month of Adar inserted early in the spring before the 1st month of the year, the month of Nisan. This puts the Passover later down the year. In the following years it drifts back 11.24 days each year until the next embolismal year. Why 11.24 days? Since the lunar cycles are very close to 29.5 days the Hebrews used a calendar of twelve lunar months of alternating 29 and 30 days. This made a calendar of 354 days. The solar/calendar year is 365.24 days or 11.24 days longer than the lunar calendar of 354 days of 12 lunar cycles. About every third year the month following the 12th month would fall short of the the spring equinox. Having failed to qualify as the Nisan moon it would then be inserted as a thirteenth month and considered a second month of Adar. This would be an embolismal year. Typically, in the springtime, and after the 12 months had passed the rabbis would determine whether the coming moon was going to fall short of the spring equinox as it came to its fullness.
This consideration of the embolismal year is very important. Those 24 extra days over and above the 476 years had to be crammed into the span of time that would connect two Nisan months 476 years apart. Not only that, the terminus was only going up ten days into the Nisan moon. So our investigations astronomically will lead us to the conclusion that no other nearby years, (not 31 A.D. and particularly 33 A.D.) could accommodate the 69 weeks. The time-line only fits in between an early Nisan moon at the start of the time-line, (which we saw in 445 B.C.), and a late Nisan moon for the terminus point, (which we saw in 32 A.D.). No other pair of Nisans spanning 476 years will accommodate those 173,879 days! This provides proof that 32 A.D. was in fact the year of the crucifixion. Only an extra-long Nisan to Nisan span will accommodate the 476 years and those 24 extra days.
32 A.D. was such a year! This makes for an amazing confirmation of the 69 week prophecy.
Now we are finally able to place our 69 ‘week’ span of 173,879 days. Messiah presented Himself as Messiah on just one day in history. This was Nisan 10, the so called “triumphant entry into Jerusalem”. Jesus entered the eastern gate passing on up into the city of shalom riding on a donkey. The crowds threw palm branches out be fore Him. Yet just 4 days later they would cry, “crucify him!”
Let us now consider this Nisan moon of 32 A.D. According to the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich in 1877 and the U.S. Naval Observatory today the new moon would have occurred on March 29 late at night. It occurred at 2257 hrs or 10:57 P.M.. There is no way the moon could have been seen on the following morning of March 30th when it was only 7 hours old and highly unlikely it was seen the following evening when it was only 19 hours old and before the new moon set with the sun. On the morning of March 31st, however, the new moon was over 30 hours old and was probably seen then thus marking March 31 as Nisan 1 on the Hebrew calendar. The Palm Sunday date of Nisan 10 would therefore have been nine days later on April 9th.
Sir Robert Anderson put the Nisan 10 date 3 days earlier than this. He put it at April 6. This author does not believe that this would have been possible in view of the new moon data we have just considered.
Be that as it may the difference is of no great consequence. Sir Robert showed us the length of the time-line 69 weeks of years, laid it out across 476 years of history and tagged and connected the Nisan moon of the Edict of Artaxerxes to Nehemiah with Palm Sunday on the tenth day of the Nisan moon of Calvary. God bless him for that! He showed us that the 69 week time-line fits the two events with amazing accuracy.
In looking at the placement of his 173,880 day time-line it seems that Sir Robert Anderson was insistent that the edict of Nehemiah must have been issued on Nisan 1. After assessing the lunar data this author favors the date Nisan 2 for the Edict. Traditionally the new moons were times when edicts were handed down by kings. This is not a big difference. With the vagaries of new moon sightings and Hebrew calendars our ability to lay out a time-line with an accuracy of 1-2 days is about as close as it is possible to get anyway.
Having established a well fixed terminus for the 173,880 days let us remember that this April 9 Palm Sunday date is 24 days further down the solar year than the day of Nehemiah’s edict 476 years and 24 days before. So if we back up 24 days from April 9 we shall get to our Gregorian calendar date in which Nehemiah went before the king and made his appeal to rebuild Jerusalem. April 9 minus 24 days = March 16 of 445 B.C.
The question we must ask ourselves now is what date on the Hebrew calendar is March 16? Well again we shall need to determine when the new moon for Nisan 445 B.C. came through. Sir Robert Anderson’s own data from the Astronomer Royal of Greenwich gives us a new moon time of 0709 hrs. or 7:09 a.m. on March 13. Nehemiah was at Susa in Persia and 700 miles to the east. This would give a new moon time for Susa about 45 minutes earlier than this Jerusalem time. Would the new moon have been seen the following morning when it was 24 hours old? It may well have been. Sir Robert Anderson tagged this March 14 date as Nisan 1. But it might well have been reckoned as Nisan 2. Again, this is not a big issue. A forty-eight hour window after a passage of 476 years is exceedingly good accuracy!
Sir Robert Anderson considered this first day of the month as the day of the edict. He considered Nisan 1 as the first day of the 70 weeks. But we are not compelled by scripture to link the edict to the very first day of the lunar month. Nehemiah merely states that it was “in the month of Nisan” that he set wine before the king. So the decree could have come a day or two later than Nisan 1 with no compromise to the scriptural requirement whatsoever. Anytime during those 29-30 days of Nisan would be just fine as a starting date for the 70 weeks of Daniel. All God was asking His people to do was tag the lunar cycles. He wanted them be watching for their Messiah on certain future moon which happened to be a certain future Passover.
The Pharisees were very intelligent and savvy men. They were scholars. They had a very good handle on the solar and lunar cycles. The metatonic cycle was discovered 400 years before by the Greeks in Athens. So it was well known. If the wise men from the east knew to look for the approximate time for the expected birth of Messiah over 30 years before why weren’t the Pharisees paying attention to the times as well? They surely must have known enough to calculate the date of the terminus of the 69 weeks. Were the Pharisees watching when Jesus came through the eastern Gate of Jerusalem in the Passover month of Nisan in 32 A.D.?
Apparently not.
Having made our connections to the solar calendar let us now see if the lunar cycles will give us a confirming measurement. They will provide a crosscheck in our endeavor to fix the beginning and ending days of the 69 weeks, i.e. day 1 and day 173,880.
As we have seen from our lunar calculations above, our 69 sevens of biblical 360 day years (or 173,879 days), equal 5,888 moons plus 7 days. Let us now lay them out on the Hebrew calendar. We soon find out that the 5,888 moons plus 7 days fits neatly between the Nisan moon of Nehemiah and the Nisan moon of Passion Week and the Palm Sunday entry of Jesus into Jerusalem as ‘Messiah the Prince’.
Sir Robert Anderson did not use the lunar cycles as a measuring stick. He did use the new moon dates to mark out the Hebrew months of Nisan to fix the dates for the edict of Artaxerxes given to Nehemiah and Palm Sunday.
This little exercise with the lunar cycles is well worthwhile. When we use the passages of the moon as a time measuring device it confirms the amazing accuracy of Sir Robert Anderson’s work.
Let us start with our Nisan 10, 32 A.D. date for Palm Sunday. As we have seen, this day, and this day alone, fulfills the prophecy and meets the criterion for the terminus day of the 69 weeks.
Now let us lay out our time-line from a terminus of Nisan 10, 32 A.D. and back up into history 5,888 moons and 7 days (or 173,879 days). (This is the number of moons in the interval between the beginning and ending days of the 69 weeks (173,880 days inclusive.) Backing up 5,888 moons we come to the 10th day of Nehemiah’s month of Nisan in 445 B.C. Now we back track those last 7 days and we get a date ofNisan 3, 445 B.C.
In the month of Nisan in 445 B.C. the true new moon was 7 a.m. on March 13. The thin crescent would have just become visible to the unaided eye the following morning, the morning of March 14. At that time the moon was 24 hours old. It is possible that the thin crescent of the new moon was not seen until the following day, March 15 in which case the date of Nehemiah’s receiving the edict (March 16) would have been considered Nisan 2 and not Nisan 3. Nisan 3 (or Nisan 2) would have been the Gregorian date of March 16 that year. March 16 is the date we had arrived at earlier for the edict of Artaxerxes to Nehemiah in 445 B.C. So here we see that both the solar cycles and the lunar cycles agree with each other to confirm the timespan for the 69 weeks.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
This is an amazing solution to the prophecy of the 69 weeks.
Sir Robert Anderson’s timeline for the 69 weeks/173,879 days was
This author’s timeline, using the astronomical data of the solar and the lunar cycles, was very close to that of Sir Robert Anderson.
This variance between the timeline of Sir Robert Anderson and the timeline of this author only amounts to 2-3 days. It is of no great significance. The conclusion is the same.
69 weeks connect the Nisan moon of Nehemiah to the Nisan moon of Palm Sunday and the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. No one has presented a timeline that fits the facts so well and with a timeline fitting the dates involved with such fine accuracy.
Dear saints, the 69 weeks have run their course!
And here, for all good men to take note of is one exceedingly important conclusion.
One ‘week’ of seven prophetic years remains to be fulfilled!!!
As we can see, the testimony of scripture (Dan.9:26) as well as the testimony of the sun and moon show us that these 69 weeks have run their course. But not the 70th week. No, not even the first half the 70th week! That fact is of critical importance. Today’s believers must make themselves aware of this. Preterist historicists and Partial preterists are everywhere. They, (and their religious arguments), are all over the religious landscape. Biblically sound doctrine, like truth, lies trampled in the street. Wisdom, as a woman, is lifting up her voice. (Prov.1) But few are listening. Even fewer are doing their homework and “proving all things” in the manner of good Bereans.A future 70th week, the final section of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel is up ahead. It will emerge into holy history in climactic fashion. This is exceedingly important. Future history will show that there are enormous devotional and church-state political and consequences to knowing, (or not knowing), that all of the 70th week is yet future.
A future 70th week is slated for our future. The witness of the saints is essential and will achieve a lot. The 5th seal is necessary before the 6th seal can be opened to reveal the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens. This may not be popular to the narcissistic Church in the west. But Chinese and Egyptian Christians over in places abroad understand it very well. It is Blood Covenant Christianity.
The facts of scripture are very clear. The Kingdom of God must be announced. The witness of Christ our Messiah must be given by His witnesses here on this earth. Holy history demands it. The angels are watching as the saints prepare for their final sprint to the finish line. – Heb.12:1 God has given us the signpost into the 70th week. It is the confirming of a seven year covenant with a coming global prince who is a false messiah. He will enter into covenant with many in the world, including Israel, the nations the established church. (Dan.9:27). Jesus Himself told us that this would happen. John 5:43
The signing of this earthy 7 year deal marks the beginnings of the apostasy, or ‘great falling away’ involving national Israel and the compromising world church. (2Thes.2:3) This is difficult for us to receive. But let no man or shady religious spirit lead the Body of Christ to believe otherwise.
This may all sound just too depressing. But it is not really. The trumpets will be sounding. And God’s people will trim the lamps of their spirit. They will procure the oil for the coming night They will make it their business to obtain a supply of spiritual energy from outside of themselves. This is the oil of anointing of the Holy Spirit. Even in the gathering gloom they will ‘rise and shine’. They will leave their places of ease to go out at midnight, even as a wedding party, to meet the Bridegroom. (Isa.60)
Here then, is the ‘rest of the story’. Our God is in control of holy history. He has determined and limited the time. And here is the good news. Messiah will come back personally to wrap up this evil age. (Isa.63) When those 70 weeks have run their course “the saints will possess the Kingdom”. (Dan 7:18 and 7:22) So we can be encouraged. As the 70th week opens up the true saints, as in times before, will cry out to God. And God will answer, as He always does. The saints will find the ancient paths. (Jer.6:16) This will bring in the Endtime Revival that Joel, Hosea, and Isaiah all saw. (Joel 2:28-32, Hos.6:2, Isa.60) God’s faithful elect, the ekklesia/congregation of God, are set to enter the most spellbinding days this world has ever seen. All of these awesome days of the future 70th week are up ahead of us and remain to be fulfilled.
As we have shown, the 69 weeks can be placed beautifully between the edict of Artaxerxes received by Nehemiah and the Palm Sunday entrance of Jesus as “Messiah the Prince”. No other timeline, (even if the author dared to present it astronomically), would even come close. None would achieve this amazing degree of accuracy. This is just one more of many instances where the Word of God has been proven proven infallible and true.
Grace and shalom to all who love His appearing.
Dear Gavin,
Thank you for your site. The 360 day solution does make the calculation work. However, I noticed something strange. On your chart, http://endtimepilgrim.org/69weeks.jpg you give April 9th as Psalm Sunday. However, April 9th, 32 was actually a Wednessday. The perpetual calenders I looked at say so. So, I want to ask, does that throw off your whole moon confirmation thing? I mean, as surely as the Bible is inerrent, Palm Sunday had to be a Sunday, right?
Also, you said that the moon loses a second every 36 years. Doesn’t that contradict the original 30 day plan idea?
Thank you,
Raymond
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Dear Raymond,
Thanks for your email and interest. I will try to answer your questions as best I can with the facts I have and what I have been able to piece together.
Firstly, you asked regarding April 9th being Palm Sunday since the perpetual calendars give April 9th as being a Wednesday. The information I have received is that we cannot be sure what the weekly cadence was as held by the rabbis in Jerusalem at that time. Perhaps this is not so. Perhaps as part of the Roman Empire the city state of Jerusalem held to the Roman weekly cadence. And then again, perhaps they didn’t. I don’t know.
I can say this. 32 A.D. is the only year that will fit as a terminus for the 69 weeks. With those 173,880 days we need an extra 24 days over and above the 476 years and so we need a late Nisan Passover for our terminus for the 69 weeks. If what you are reporting is correct, and April 9th, Palm Sunday was a Wednesday, and I have received emails from others confirming this, then the Hebrew weekly cadence we see for passion week of 32 A.D. must have been different from the Roman one. The Hebrew weekly cadence would is out of synch with the Roman week by 3 days. Knowing the Jews and the Romans had problems working together this would not be at all surprising. I have received no emails with proof that this was not the case.
It is strange you should mention this because it got me thinking. Sir Robert Anderson gives April 6th as Palm Sunday. I had wondered why he did this since the lunar cycles clearly indicates that the 10th day of the Nisan moon must have been 3 days later on April 9th. But he too must have believed that the Jews held to the perpetual calendar and the Roman week. He must have believed that April 9th was a Wednesday. That is why he squeezed it back to April 6th. It was because according to this reckoning this earlier date would have been the Roman Sunday. He was homing in on a date that satisfied the Roman weekly cadence and putting that ahead of his reckoning of the lunar cycles.
As for why I gave April 9th as Nisan 10 you will have seen in my article above that the astronomical new moon for the month of Nisan in 32 A.D. occurred in Jerusalem at 10:57 p.m. on the night of March 29th. The thin sliver of the new moon is not discernable to the naked eye under the best of conditions until it is at least 24 hours old, see the Islamic website moonsighting.com. Accordingly there is no way the rabbis could have received their confirmed sightings of the new moon on March 30th. It would have to have been the following morning, March 31st at dawn that they would have seen the new moon as the thin crescent rising up in the eastern sky. This would have pegged the new moon and Nisan 1 as March 31st of the year 32. Nisan 10, or Palm Sunday, would therefore have come 9 days later. Thus Palm Sunday, Nisan 10, would have to have been April 9th. It couldn’t be any earlier than that.
As for how the weekly cadence from the Julian calendar is reckoned to be three days earlier than the Hebrew weekly cadence as evidenced by the scriptures and the lunar data I do not know. But since the book of Genesis states that God gave us the sun and moon for times and seasons I will put the dependable cycles of the heavenly bodies ahead of Roman time. It could very well have been that the Jews had there own weekly cadence.
Historical records of times and calendar dates can get fouled up. As late as the Crimean war two armies were supposed to meet at a certain date. But since the Eastern Orthodox calendar disagreed with the Roman Catholic calendar there was a failed rendezvous. So my question is this, and let me be like A&E or Discovery Channel here and inject doubt. They usually inject doubt about God’s Holy Scriptures. But today let’s put the boot on the other foot. Lets insinuate some doubt and questionings about man’s historical records. Just how sure are we that we know for certain just what the weekly cadence was back in Jerusalem as held by the city elders in 32 A.D.? Can we be absolutely sure that the historical records we have can give us a sure fix on the cadence back then in Jerusalem?
As for what the weekly cadence was in relation to Passion week itself and the Hebrew lunar calendar there is no question that resurrection morning the third day after the crucifixion, was a Sunday, the first day of the week by Hebrew reckoning. In Matthew 28:1 the scriptures clearly state that Mary came with spices to the tomb at dawn on the first day of the week, a Sunday. This was three days after the Nisan 14 Passover, two days after the Nisan 15 Feast of Unleavened Bread proper, a high sabbath or holy day, and one day after the regular weekly sabbath, a Saturday. Palm Sunday was Nisan 10 and thus 7 days before Resurrection Sunday which came on Nisan 17. This date, Nisan the 17th is an auspicious day on the Hebrew calendar. On this very same day, the 17th day of the 7th month of the Hebrew civil year the Ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat. This was the day God delivered His people up from the waters of the Abyss and from the jaws of death.
Regarding your second question about the moon slowing down by a second every 36 years and how could this jive with the perfect heavenly prophetic 30 day lunar cycle as relayed to us in scripture well this is an easy question to answer. It doesn’t. The lunar cycle in this fallen earthly realm is a long way from a perfect 30.00000 days. It is 29.530589 days. And the new moon to new moon interval is slowing down and drifting out from the earth in its orbit. So it is slowing and drawing further and further from the perfect number all the time.
Holy time is issued in the mathematical perfection of God. When the time of a certain prophecy is dispensed from the courts of God up in the third heaven it is dispensed in the heavenly currency of a perfect 30 day month and a perfect 360 day year. If the Bible speaks of years and months then we must translate it into earthly terms of days just as we do the exchange of money from one currency to another when we move from one kingdom to another. Certainly God’s Kingdom is different from the kingdom of earth here below. And so is His calendar.
Here is an example. We have this spelled out for us clearly in the case of the later half of the 70th week. In the books of Daniel and the Book of Revelation this time interval is variously given to us as a time, ‘times and half a time’ (or 3.5 years) and also ’42 months’ and ’1260 days’. So when the Bible speaks of a month it means 30 days. We also see this in Genesis when the Bible tells us in no uncertain terms that the ark was on the waters for 150 days and that these 150 days spanned the period between the 17th day of the 2nd month and the 17th day of the 7th month or five months exactly. These five Biblical, holy, perfect, prophetic months were months of 150 divided by 5 = 30 days.
I hope this helps somewhat.
Yours in Christ,
Gavin Finley
http://endtimepilgrim.org
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