Re: Gerry Almond (20 Dec
2011) "I Believe the Time Has Come NOW!!! Hanukkah
is it." and Christmas Eve
Bride Rapture Watch
First, let me encourage everyone to look
forward to a Christmas Eve Rapture. Now, going on:
I decided to verify the numbers using the
following calendar converter program as "Gospel":
April 7, 30 AD
Since this date could be referring to Julian and
not our present Gregorian extrapolated backward, I'll
assume this is Julian which is equivalent to April 5, 30
AD Gregorian. This is also Nisan 16, 3790, a
Friday, and Modified Julian day count -667889.
Now I personally think Jesus Christ was dead
for 3 1/2 days before being resurrected by God the Father
on Sunday morning before daybreak, being in the grave
for 3 days and 3 nights. This would take us
back to Wednesday, Nisan 14, 3790, April 5, 30 AD Julian,
April 3, 30 AD Gregorian, and Modified Julian Day count
-667891 using the calendar converter. Now Jesus
Christ died the afternoon before Passover and Passover is
Nisan 15, so that fits. Also, there is recorded at
the British Museum a communication sent from Pilate to
Caesar reporting the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth
dated April 6, Julian, although no year was reported on
the note. If this note is genuine it also
serves another witness. But for now, grant me the
liberty to adjust the date by two days to April 5, 30
AD Julian.
Subtracting 888 x 14 = 12,432 days = 34.533
360-day years and 34.038 solar years or 34 years 14 days
we have:
-667891 - 12432 = -680323
Now putting this number into the calendar
converter it yields:
March 22, 5 BC Julian, March 20 5 BC Gregorian,
Nisan 14, 3756. It can be confusing into thinking
the calendar converter is giving 4 BC because the
Gregorian shows up first on the list as March 20
-4. However, the -4 is extrapolating backward
Gregorian which didn't exist so their convention in this
program is to have a 0 year in Gregorian. So,
-4 equals 5 BC. If one looks at the Julian date one
sees March 22, -5 which converts directly to the date of 5
BC.
Going on.
Wow! That gave Nisan 14 exactly, which
means if this is what happened, it was exactly 34
Hebrew years from His conception to His death.
Okay, had I not subtracted the 2 days I would be
at March 24, 5 BC Julian, not March 20/21st, 4 BC.
So, from using the online calendar converter I get an
extra year and 3-4 extra days. I like 5 BC better
anyway because of the majority concensus that Herod the
Great died late March, early April of 4 BC.
Now, regarding when the Spring equinox occurred
in 5 BC. According to:
So, we are off a few day, but close. We
could get closer if the 12,432 days defined from
conception to resurrection.
Going on. Adding 280 days brings us to:
-680323 + 280 days = -680043
This is December 27th Julian, December 25th
Gregorian, 5 BC, Teveth 27, 3757. While this hits
our Gregorian Christmas of December 25th, it misses
Hanukkah by 1 month too late in this particular
year. I suppose one could argue that the Hebrew
calendar is now calculated while back in 5 BC it was based
on Abib observance so could have had a late Spring.
But then, back then, Hanukkah was a recognized
Festival of Lights Holy day but December 25th was not
Christmas.
Gerry you state:
Gematria backs
up what the early fathers of the faith believed. THIS ALSO
BACKS UP THE THESIS THAT HANUKKAH REPLACED TABERNACLES
INASMUCH AS IT CONTAINED THE BIRTH DAY OF JESUS CHRIST.
I couldn't agree more that Hanukkah must have
contained the birth day of Jesus Christ, specifically,
exactly in the midst of the 8 days of Hanukkah, or
exactly where the Servant candle is situated between
the 8 other candles on the Menorah. Or exactly
situated in time at the evening or sunset of the 4th day
of Hanukkah of the 8 days of Hannukah.
We arrive at exactly that date from taking that
the Times of the Gentiles were 2 of the Lord's days or
2,000 360-day man years.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand
years, and a thousand years as one day. II
Peter 3:8
Counting back from 6/7/1967 when Jerusalem was no
longer trodden down and under the control of the
Gentiles, we arrive at:
6/7/1967 = 39,648 Modified Julian Day Count
2,000 x 360 = 720,000 days
39,648 - 720,000 = -680,352 Modified Julian Day
Count
Just for the fun of it, this would give when
finding the difference with -667,891 for His death, we
have 12,461 = 17 x 733 which admittedly doesn't
look as interesting as 14 x 888 (888 standing for
Jesus in Greek) = 12,432. It is what it
is.
Now let us add 280 days to arrive at birth which
would be:
-680,352 + 280 = -680,072 Modified Julian Day
Count
This is Kislev 28, 3757. In other words the
4th day of Hanukkah, right in the midst of the 8 days of
Hannukah. Hit it on the head!
Fast forward exactly 2015 Hebrew years to Kislev
28, 5772. That day is December 24, 2011, Christmas
Eve! Sunset on December 24th, 2011 would be exactly
in the middle of the 8 day Hanukkah
celebration. The convergence of signs.
The Bride Rapture? We do not have long to wait to
find out!
(Some of these calculations are repeats from the
post in November, "Rightly Dividing Daniel's 70 weeks"
which I apologize for the small print. I still
haven't been able to figure out what happened to the
text.):
But one the conclusions as contained in this
post is:
Now
Hanukkah is an 8 day event, celebrating 8 days that
oil for the temple that was only enough to last for
one day, lasted. The 9 fingered Menorah is used
to count off each day with the center candle, the
servant candle, used to light each day. The
first day is Kislev 25. The fourth day is Kislev
28. With Jesus born the fourth day, the Jews
would have come to the position of the servant candle
on the fourth day, the date of His birth. Jesus
IS the servant candle. Jesus was BORN in the
midst of Hanukkah. Hallelujah!
I have been diligently editing that post so it is
more readibly which took a lot longer than I expected,
converting it to html. Anyway, the link below
should help in that regard:
Shalom,
Ted Porter