Re:"444 - Totally different take."

 

Thanks Ed:

 

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/sep2007/edp97.htm

 

So October 11, 2007 is Rosh Hashana based on an up-to-date accurate astonomical accounting taking in the spring equinox and the new moon.  Interesting.

 

Just thought I'd add that a few days ago I'd been pondering how a "generation" looks like it must be 40 years and around 120 days based on the two counts from Passover to Av 9 using 30 AD to 70 AD and around 1491 BC to 1451 BC (the wilderness experience).  And I too had been trying to fit 444 to the count from June 7, 1967 and came up with 4 decades for 40 years and 4 months for 120 days.  Even though that was pushing me into October 2007 past the accepted Jewish Rosh Hashana.  Then I thought I must be reaching to convert 40 years to 4 decades just to get to the number 4, and gave up on that line of reasoning. 

 

But when you also brought up 4 decades, I thought I better take another look.

 

An interesting aside as to coming up with the added 7 days (including June 7th) past the 120 day count and landing on 4 calendar days past October 7, 2007.  It has been reported that the wilderness generation deaths stopped abruptly on Av 9 but it took them a week to notice and cross the river Jordan into the Promised Land.  Likewise, although the temple may have caught fire on Av 9 and been destroyed in 70 AD, it could have likely been right at an extra week before Christ's prophecy of not one stone being left upon another was fulfilled as gold seekers toppled the stones in search of their melted and then solidified hidden treasure after the fire had ceased.

 

So even though I don't in any way want to diminish the excitement and anticipation surrounding watching the Jewish recognized Feast of Trumpets, should September 11-14 pass without us, the spotless Bride, made spotless by the blood of the Lamb, being taken from this planet earth, I for one will be watching October 11th.

 

Shalom,