Western civilization uses a calendar that dates from the First Advent of Christ. To us, it is the year A.D. 2005. The term A.D. is an acronym for Anno Domini, Latin for, "in the year of the Lord." That is, approximately 2,005 years ago, Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

In 1658, Bishop James Ussher set the date for the birth of Christ at 4 B.C., claiming that our calendar was in error by four years. Since he had no political authority to push the calendar back four years, he had to leave it at 1653 (the publishing date for The Annals of the World), but claimed, nevertheless, that we were as much as four years off.

According to Ussher, Adam was created on Friday, six days after the new moon of September/October in 4004 B.C., giving added importance to the birth of Christ being exactly 4,000 years after Adam. Today in A.D. 2005, it is generally believed among Christians that Adam was created around 6,009 years ago and that Jesus was born about 2,009 years ago.

However, the Jewish calendar says that this year is 5765 A.M. The term A.M. is an acronym for Anno Mundi, Latin for "from the creation of the world." — claiming that Adam was created only 5,765 years ago. When comparing the Jewish calendar to our modern calendar, we are faced with 240 missing years.

Which calendar is closest to being right? Certainly not the Jewish calendar. Here’s why. According to Jewish sources, their messiah should come at the close of 6,000 years and establish the long-awaited "messianic kingdom" that should last throughout the "great Sabbath" — or seventh millennium. If the Messiah doesn’t show up for another 240 years, most of the human race probably won’t be alive to welcome Him. In October 2000, the human population reached six billion, up from three billion in 1960.

The population doubled in forty years. The previous doubling took 80 years; and before that, it took 200 years for the world’s population to double. In other words, population growth has reached the proverbial "exponential curve." However, if the United Nations is successful in keeping the rate of population growth stable at every forty years, then in another 240 years, there should be over 400 billion people on this planet!

Obviously, that’s too many. There would not be enough air to breathe, not enough water to drink, and not enough food to eat to keep people alive. The Jewish calendar could not possibly be correct.

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