Thanks for putting in the detail. Rather than going through, step-by-step, what reference(s) were you using to develop that portion of the timeline? Just the Masoretic text of the Bible, or other sources as well?
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You are correct that the Jubilee year begins on the 10th day of the 7th month, but that's what the additional year at the end was intended to include. So the count began in the 7th month of the first year, when Joshua and the children of Israel crossed over the Jordan River. The point was that the count goes to 49, and begins again. Not 50.
Interestingly, 48.5 solar years and 50 lunar years are approximately the same length - 17717 days, so whether it's 49 (48.5, actually) or 50 depends on your definition of a "year".
Just any English translation of the Scriptures, I think, will lead you to those numbers.
Incorrect.
If we add 49 to 49 of anything, we get 98 of them. If we add 50 to 50 of anything, we get 100 of them. The distance between these two calculation methods only grows with each passing Jubilee. Leviticus 25 instructed the counting of 49 years, and the 50th year was the Jubilee. But the count was reset to 1 for that same 50th year.
Consider the week, the Shemitah cycle of 7-years, and every one of their uses in the feasts of the Lord and the jubilees. In no case were the Jews instructed to adjust the cycles of 7.
49 of what year? 50 of what year? You've been talking to yourself the whole time, you've never addressed the issue of a biblical year's definition. I'm not talking about the length of a cycle, but the length of a YEAR. A prophetic year is 360 days, a Jewish liturgical year is about 354 days, a solar year is 365 days, by which length do you count?
I agree as far as finding the numbers. Those would most likely remain the same between versions, translations, whatever.
Although, there are many many places where the verbiage of the text would make a difference. I use the King James Bible, and have found it most satisfying regardless of the subject of research.
I believe that you gave 1656 for the Flood.
Were you saying that the age of the earth was 1656 when the Flood occurred,
or that the Flood occurred in the year 1656?
Can you explain how it would possibly be the year 1656. Wasn't that about when Columbus was sailing the ocean blue? The flood was well over by then... I think.
How are you so unaware of the underlying problem - by what length of year do you count? You guys do have realized that today's Gregarian calendar didn't exist at the biblical time, the 49 years counted in Lev. 25 are not the same, right?
Friend, a year has always been and will always be, until the Lord rolls up the heavens like a scroll, the time it takes for the earth to complete one full journey around the sun. It doesn't matter how the days of the year are allotted. You see, when the Lord made the heavens and the earth and all that is in them, He said that they would be for signs for seasons and times. The length of a year has always been intended to be measured by the journey around the sun.
So, to make it more simple, there had been 1,656 journeys around the sun when the flood came upon the eaerth.
And a day has always and forever been the time it takes for the earth to make one full rotation upon its axis. When we use the signs that God has given us to mark days and years and seasons, we'll never go wrong.
When calculating the number of years, the number of days in a year is inconsequential.
Consider Noah. Scripture tells us that he lived 600 years before the Flood, 350 years after the flood, and that all the days of Noah's life were 950 years (Genesis 7:6, 9:28-29).
You likely believe, as most of us do, that there was a change in the number of days in a year, due to the Flood. That being the case, you can see from scripture that it is inconsequential when the calculation is at the year level.
Your calculation is irrelevant if you can't invariably define the number of days in a year. It is absolutely consequential. It is as consequential as measuring the length of an object with a ruler, and the length of unit on this ruler is wrong.
And no, I don't believe the Flood changed the number of days, there's neither scriptural, historic nor scientific proof for that. The only change took place in Exodus 12:1-2 where a new calendar was issued by God.
Then how many days is in one such journey? 360? 354? Or 365? If you insist it's a solar cycle, i.e. journey around the sun, then I stand correct in my post 263 that the length of a jubilee cycle is 48.5 SOLAR years since it starts on the 10th day of the seventh month, so the year before that is only half as long as a regular year; and if you convert that to lunar year, it'll be 50. If you count by "journey around the sun", then a jubilee cycle is 48.5 years, not 49 whole years. A jubilee year is not 1.5 times long, there's no proof for that. You do go wrong when you deliberately ignore this fact.
Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. (Lev. 25:9)
Consider studying the scriptures pertaining to that subject:
https://7049biblicaltimelineresearch.org > Articles > Beginning of the Year According to Scripture
Here're the divisions of God's 7000 year timeline: 2000 years from the creation to the covenant with Abraham, 2000 year from there to the baptism of Christ, 2000 years from there to Christ's return, 1000 years millennial kingdom.
As a disclaimer, this is just a general framework, it's NOT date setting. No one knows the day or the hour as no one knows which day, month or year it is on God's calendar which God issued in Ex. 12:1-2.
I recommend that the next time you read scripture from Genesis to the Revelation, open an excel file (or something like that) and keep track of the times and dates for yourself. Don't apply input from anything other than the scripture. I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised, and that your faith will grow from spending time in detailed searching of God's word.
Hi Carry_Your_Name
Today, we have created a calendar that is as close to accurate as can be in keeping track of the days as the earth travels around the sun adding another year to history. But even our calendar has 'leap year' adjustments to, every once in a while, adjust the days so that man's reckoning of days fits the year that God has established.
Now, the issue you bring up of the 360-day year of the Jewish Calendar is how a lot of prophecies are adjusted because yes, when God first established the Jewish year, He divided the year into 12 months of 30 days. But that has nothing to do with the natural phenomenon of how long it takes the earth to go around the sun and thus a year passes. We all know that if you count years with only 360 days, you will, in a matter of a few years, be planting your summer crops in the middle of winter. That's because the truth is that a year is actually 365.25 days and not 360 days.
So yes, when you are working out prophetic events and the timing thereof, found in the Scriptures it is good to use the 360-day year. But that really doesn't change that the actual time it takes for the earth to get back to the same place on its journey around the sun takes 365.25 days.
You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Notice that the Scriptures do not say that the Jubilee year 'starts' at the sound of the Trumpets on the 10th day of the seventh month. It's possible that this practice was to herald that the Jubiliee year was coming. That everyone should prepare for the return of property and freeing of slaves and allowing the land to lay fallow for the next year that would begin in 5 months. Because the Scriptures say that after the sounding of the trumpet 'you shall make the fiftieth year holy,...
I mean, let's face it, even God knew, by His own establishment of the year, that when He said that on the seventh month they were to sound the trumpet to herald the Jubilee year, that there were still 5 more months, that He had ordained to finish off the year in which the trumpet was sounding.
How many times does the earth rotate on its axis as it travels around the sun. That's how many days there are. You keep allowing how man has divided time to distort your understanding of the simple terms of 'day' and 'year'. According to studies on the matter, the earth rotates 365.25 times during its trip around the sun. This is why all calendars, yes even the Jewish one, had adjustments to bring 'man's' method of counting in line with 'God's' reckoning of seasons and times.
Today, we have created a calendar that is as close to accurate as can be in keeping track of the days as the earth travels around the sun adding another year to history. But even our calendar has 'leap year' adjustments to, every once in a while, adjust the days so that man's reckoning of days fits the year that God has established.
Now, the issue you bring up of the 360-day year of the Jewish Calendar is how a lot of prophecies are adjusted because yes, when God first established the Jewish year, He divided the year into 12 months of 30 days. But that has nothing to do with the natural phenomenon of how long it takes the earth to go around the sun and thus a year passes. We all know that if you count years with only 360 days, you will, in a matter of a few years, be planting your summer crops in the middle of winter. That's because the truth is that a year is actually 365.25 days and not 360 days.
So yes, when you are working out prophetic events and the timing thereof, found in the Scriptures it is good to use the 360-day year. But that really doesn't change that the actual time it takes for the earth to get back to the same place on its journey around the sun takes 365.25 days.
You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines. For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You shall eat of its increase out of the field. In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property.
Notice that the Scriptures do not say that the Jubilee year 'starts' at the sound of the Trumpets on the 10th day of the seventh month. It's possible that this practice was to herald that the Jubiliee year was coming. That everyone should prepare for the return of property and freeing of slaves and allowing the land to lay fallow for the next year that would begin in 5 months. Because the Scriptures say that after the sounding of the trumpet 'you shall make the fiftieth year holy,...
I mean, let's face it, even God knew, by His own establishment of the year, that when He said that on the seventh month they were to sound the trumpet to herald the Jubilee year, that there were still 5 more months, that He had ordained to finish off the year in which the trumpet was sounding.