32 A.D. WAS THE CRUCIFIXION YEAR

32 A.D., AN EMBOLISMAL

YEAR, IS THE ONLY YEAR

THAT HAS A LATE NISAN

MOON TO ALLOW THE

173,880 DAYS TO

CONNECT THE NISAN

MOON OF NEHEMIAH WITH

THE NISAN MOON OF THE

CRUCIFIXION YEAR.

From the chart above we can see that our 173,880 day timespan is nearly a month longer than the 476 years as measured from equinox to equinox. This is a very long timespan and it must begin in the Passover month of Nisan in Nehemiah’s time and terminate in the month of Nisan in the crucifixion year. We can see that only a late Nisan in the year of the cross as provided by an embolismal year, (a year in which an extra month of Adar has been inserted), will accommodate this extra length. Passover, being pushed up later up into the year allows for this extra length of 24 days over the year.

Here are the facts of the matter. Only the yeear 32 A.D fits the bill. Timespans terminating in 30 A.D., 31 A.D., 33 A.D. or 34 A.D. just won’t cut it. Timespans ending in 31 A.D. and 33 A.D. land in Nisan months that occur too early in the year to fit the 173,880 days. And these timelines actually begin in embolismal years. So they start late. These make for Nisan to Nisan timelines that are too short. They are lot long enough to fit in the required number of days for the 69 weeks(sevens) of years. Timespans other than the timespan which terminates in 32 A.D. simply cannot accommodate this long 173,880 day period which overflows 25 days beyond the 476 years.

We can see that only the timespan #2, beginning in the year 445 B.C. and terminating in 32 A.D. will fit. This is the timespan advanced by Sir Robert Anderson in his classic work, ‘The Coming Prince’. Only this timeline will succeed in connecting into two Nisan moons, the beginning Nisan moon being the one for Nehemiah and the ending Nisan moon being the one for the Passover of our Lord’s crucifixion.

Here are the details. A true and correct timespan of the Seventy Weeks of Daniel will lay out the first 69 weeks according to the scriptures. The 69 weeks (or sevens) are 69 x 360 = 173,880 days. The timespan of 173,880 days must link the Nisan moon of Nehemiah chapter 2 to the Nisan moon of Palm Sunday in the Passover of the crucifixion year. This timespan of 173,880 days is 476 years plus an extra 25 days.

These extra 25 days over the year make for a rather stretchy task. We must fit this long timeline between the Nisan months of year ‘A’ with the Nisan month of year ‘B’. Year ‘B’ simply must therefore be a late Passover Nisan moon to make that long and lanky timeline fit.

As can be seen from the diagram above only 32 A.D. was such a year with a late Passover. It was an embolismal year in which an extra month of Adar was inserted in the spring. This happens seven times every 19 years in a cadence know as the metatonic cycle. So the Passover month of Nisan was a late one for 32 A.D.. That is why it fits.

When attempts are made to terminate the 173,880 day timespan into the adjoining years 30 A.D. or 31 A.D or 33 A.D. or 34 A.D., the years before and after 32 A.D. these timelines just will not do. Only when the terminus of the 173,880 day timeline is placed to terminate in 32 A.D. will the 173,880 days fit into two Nisan moons 476 years apart.

The reason the timeline terminating in 32 A.D. fits the requirement is simple. 32 A.D. was an embolismal year. The 2-3 years before and after 32 A.D. were not. The Passover month therefore came late in 32 A.D. thus allowing the extra days to be fitted in.

Both the beginning and the end of the timespan must abut into Nisan months. The Holy Scriptures absolutely and unequivocally require that the 69 weeks, or 173,880 days, fit neatly between the edict of Nehemiah, (which we are told in Nehemiah chapter 2 was in the month of Nisan), and Palm Sunday, (which was also in the Passover month of Nisan, Nisan 10). If we are running a timeline 25 days over the 476 years then our Paschal Nisan connection, (Palm Sunday), simply must be a late Nisan. It must have been an embolismal year.

Did 32 A.D. see a Hebrew calendar with an extra month of Adar inserted in the early spring and pushing the month of Nisan further up in the year? Was 32 A.D. an embolismal year?
It certainly was!

THE 444 B.C. TO 33 A.D.

TIMELINE OF DR.

HOEHNER FAILS

TO ACCOMMODATE THE

FULL 173,880 DAYS OF

THE 69 WEEKS

Let us look now at the third timespan offered by Dr. Harold Hoehner. He suggests that the 173,880 day timelime terminated in Nisan of 33 A.D.. But as we see from the graphic above, 33 A.D. was not an embolismal year. If the timespan terminated in 33 A.D. it would have terminated in a early Nisan moon. Therefore, going back 476 years and 25 days we push the beinning of the timespan to a day which is very early in the spring of 444 B.C.. As we can see it is over 15 days befor the spring equinox Such a timeline, beginning in 444 B.C. would come to full moon status in a very early springtime moon that would fall short. That moon would be too early to qualify as Nisan. It would actually be the 12th month, the month of Adar.

As we see in the diagram above, the new moon of this particular month would have occurred in the early hours of March 2nd. This particular moon would have become a full moon 14 days later on March 16. So this early springtime moon would have reached its fullness on March 16. Therefore it would have fallen short of the spring equinox ‘E’ (which is March 21), by 5 days. A shortfalling of this magnitude would clearly disqualify this moon as a candidate for the Nisan moon that year. It would therefore have been inserted as a 13th embolismal month in the Hebrew Calendar and so named as the second month of Adar or Adar 2.

So we must conclude that Professor Hoehner has failed to connect his 173,880 day timeline to the Nisan of Nehemiah. Instead he has connected it into the earlier month, the month of Adar 2. There is no way Nehemiah would have misjudged and called the month of Adar 2 the month of Nisan. He would surely have recognised that this moon beginning on March 2nd would have had to be declared the month of Adar 2 and not the month of Nisan. The rabbis, or any careful observer of the passages of the equinoxes and the new moons, would never have made a mistake of this gross a magnitude.

Here is another consideration. The Bible was written under the oversight of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit never makes mistakes. And there usno way the Holy Spirit would have allowed such a mistake in setting the Hebrew calendar to be written into the Holy Scriptures.

So the scriptures and the astronomical data have spoken. The timeline 444 B.C. to 33 A.D. for the 69 weeks of Daniel falls short. It just fails to fit the facts we see laid out for us in the Bible and in the astronomical courses of the sun and moon in the heavens.

As we have seen, 444 B.C. could not have been the year that Nehemiah went to the King. And 33 A.D. was not the year of the passion of Jesus. This timespan does not connect into both Nisan moons for the years in question. Clearly the timespan 444 B.C. to 33 A.D. is one year too late. Only the timeline 445 B.C. to 32 A.D. fits the facts.

This is also confirmed by other scriptural evidence. History gives us plenty of evidence that the ’20th year of Artaxerxes’ Longinus mentioned in Nehemiah 2 was in fact 445 B.C. And as we shall see below, the record of Dr. Luke in Luke 2 points clearly to Jesus ministry beginning in the fall of 28 A.D. His crucifixion would have occurred 3.5 years later during the Passover of 32 A.D..

FROM THE GOSPEL OF

LUKE WE HAVE FURTHER

EVIDENCE THAT THE

CRUCIFIXION YEAR WAS

32 A.D. LUKE RECORDS

THAT THE YEAR IN WHICH

JOHN THE BAPTIST BEGAN

HIS MINISTRY (AND THUS

THE YEAR WHEN JESUS

WAS BAPTISED AND

BEGAN HIS MINISTRY)

WAS THE 15TH YEAR OF

THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS

CAESAR.

To find out when Jesus began His ministry we need only look up two things. First we find out which year of the reign of Tiberius saw John the Baptist begin his ministry. That was the year Jesus was baptized and the year He began His ministry. From the passage below from Luke chapter 3 we see it was the 15th year of Tiberius’s reign when John the Baptist began his ministry, preaching and baptising in the Jordan valley. Here is our scripture.

The second thing we need to nail down is what year Tiberius began his reign. This is a well known, well established, and well documented year and season In fact we even knoe the actual Julian date. A quick check of Google or the encyclopedia tells us that the first year of Tiberius Caesar began on the 19th of August in 14 A.D. Here below, are just two of many available references giving the date for the commencement of Tiberius’s reign.
It was August 19, 14 A.D.

Reference #1 and Reference #2.

Since the first year of Tiberius was after August 19, 14 A.D. then the fifteenth year of Tiberius was 14 years later and began on August 19 of 14 + 14 = 28 A.D.. So Jesus began His ministry in 28 A.D. in the fall of the year. Since we know from the Gospel accounts that Jesus saw four Passovers during his ministry of 3.5 years then the first Passover was in the following spring of 29 A.D.. The second was 30 A.D., the third was 31 A.D., and the fourth and final Passover, the passover of His crucifixion, was 32 A.D.

This fits perfectly with the calculation of the first 69 weeks of the 70 weeks prophecy as laid out by Sir Robert Anderson. Jesus as ‘Messiah the Prince’ came into Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan in the spring of 32 A.D.