Regarding the section in my April 8th post, "To TJ - The End of Age, 2000 Year Question - 4/8/2006 - 6/16/2006 (Part 2)"http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/apr2006/tedp48-2.htm
Birthdate of Jesus Christ
What is amazing is that we could actually backcalculate the time of conception for Jesus Christ coming into this world, leaving His heavenly throne to take on a fleshly body, to become the Son of Man with all His authority. We will notice that God appears to have two timetables for measuring years, one made up of 360 days as used throughout the Bible and especially Revelation which we often call the "prophetic" year, and the solar year. If we subtract 2000 (or 2002 just in case) prophetic years from 6/7/1967 we may just get the conception date of Christ. Taking 2000 prophetic years, (720,000 days) from 6/7/1967 (Modified Julian 39648) brings us to Feb 20, -4 Gregorian or Feb 22, 5 BC Julian, Adar 14. Or taking 2002 prophetic years, (720,720 days) from 6/7/1967 brings us to Mar 2, -6 Gregorian or Mar 4, 7 BC Julian, Veador (Adar II) 3. Adding 40 weeks for gestation brings us to either Nov 26, -4 Gregorian or Nov 28, 5 BC Julian, Kislev 28 or Dec 7, -4 Gregorian or Dec 9, 7 BC Julian, Kislev 18. While both of these dates are before Herod's death, generally accepted as being in the Spring of 4 BC, there is more meaning to the Light of the World being born into this World on the 4th day (4 being for flesh) of the Festival of Dedication, the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah IV, first started in commemoration of victory in 165 BC, exactly 40 x 4 years later in 5 BC. This would also be much closer to Herod's death as one would expect God's judgment to come swiftly upon Herod after murdering the male children 2 years old and younger in Bethlehem.---------------------------
I found one small typo which could be confusing which happened when I copied and pasted the gestation number section and then converted it to 2002 years. Dec 7 is of -6 Gregorian, not -4 Gregorian. To make it more clear I've taken out the references to the 2002 year option below:
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Birthdate of Jesus Christ
What is amazing is that we could actually backcalculate the time of conception for Jesus Christ coming into this world, leaving His heavenly throne to take on a fleshly body, to become the Son of Man with all His authority. We will notice that God appears to have two timetables for measuring years, one made up of 360 days as used throughout the Bible and especially Revelation which we often call the "prophetic" year, and the solar year. If we subtract 2000 prophetic years from 6/7/1967 we may just get the conception date of Christ. Taking 2000 prophetic years, (720,000 days) from 6/7/1967 brings us to Feb 20, -4 Gregorian which is Feb 22, 5 BC Julian, Adar 14, Hebrew. Adding 40 weeks for gestation brings us to Nov 26, -4 Gregorian which is Nov 28, 5 BC Julian, Kislev 28 Hebrew. Note that this is just before Herod's death, generally accepted as being in the Spring of 4 BC. Also note that this would mean the Light of the World was born into this World on the 4th day (4 being for flesh) of the Festival of Dedication, the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah IV. Hanukkah was started in commemoration of victory in 165 BC. Exactly 40 x 4 years later would be 5 BC. This is also very close to Herod's death as one would expect God's judgment to come swiftly upon Herod after murdering the male children 2 years old and younger in Bethlehem.------------------------------------------------
Also note that if Jesus came the Middle (Midst) of Hanukkah would this be an image of Jesus in the midst, such as with Daniel's three friends in the fiery furnace or the light in the midst of the 7 stemmed Menorah?Also, it was pointed out to me the following verse:
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, Galations 4:4
This sounds like confirmation that Jesus was born into this world exactly when the fullness of time had come in the pregnancy. Jesus did not arrive premature! Glory to God! He was in the womb the full 40 weeks, or 40 times 7 days (Remember from the book "Arithmetic of God" that 40 stands for trials and tribulations and 7 stands for completion.)
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When later I was quickly duplicating these calculations above using Excel to enter the date 6/7/3967, (entered in cell a1 to represent 6/7/1967), and then from this cell subtracting 2000 * 360 days, and then adding 40 * 7 days in another cell, (=a1-2000*360+40*7), I ended up on Tevet 1, in 5 BC instead of Kislev 28, in 5 BC. Reverting back to using a calendar program where Modified Julian days were available such as:
http://www.calendarhome.com/converter/
I then entered 6/7/1967 (Gregorian), found the Modified Julian day number of 39648. Then subtracting from this number the same 2000 * 360 and adding 40 * 7 resulted in the number -680072. Entering this in the Modified Julian day number spot resulted in the date Kislev 28, 5 BC.
Shalom,
Ted Porter
porter@endofage.com