MOSES:  120 DAYS

     THE MAIN VERSES IN VIEW FOR THIS SUBMISSION ARE EXODUS 24:28, EXODUS 34:28, DEUTERONOMY 9:9-29, AND DEUTERONOMY 10:10.

     IT CAN BE PROVED THAT MOSES IN THESE 120 DAYS ATE NO BREAD AND DRANK NO WATER, THAT THERE WERE THREE SETS OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, THE LAST SET (THE 2^ND  TIME ON MOUNT SINAI) BECOMING THE SEASON OF REPENTANCE (TESHUVAH), CONCLUDING ON TISHRI 10 WITH YOM KIPPUR!

     IN EXODUS 19:1, THE MONTH OF SIVAN (THE 3^RD MONTH) BEGINS THE SAME DAY THEY CAME INTO THE WILDERNESS OF SINAI.  IN EXODUS 19:11, ON THE 3^RD DAY (OF THE 3^RD MONTH) THE LORD CAME DOWN IN THE SIGHT OF ALL THE PEOPLE ON MOUNT SINAI.  FROM EXODUS 19:16 TO EXODUS 24:15 WERE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND LOTS OF LAWS – ALL ON THAT 3^RD DAY OF THE 3^RD MONTH!  NOTE CAREFULLY EXODUS 24:16 DECLARING THE FOLLOWING 6 DAYS AND THE 7^TH DAY.  THE 7^TH DAY IS SIVAN 10, WHEN MOSES WENT INTO THE MIDST OF THE CLOUD AND GAT (KJV) HIM UP INTO THE MOUNT (EXODUS 24:18).  THE EVENING OF THAT DAY, SIVAN 10, SIGNALS THE START OF SIVAN 11, THE BEGINNING OF THE 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS.  REMEMBER, SIVAN 11 IS DAY ONE OF THE 120 DAYS.

     DEUTERONOMY 9:9-11 NOTES THE FIRST SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS ON MOUNT SINAI.  IN DEUTERONOMY 9:10, THE LORD TELLS MOSES TO GET DOWN QUICKLY FROM THE MOUNT.  THIS STARTS THE SECOND SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN, WHEN MOSES INTERCEDES WITH THE LORD DUE TO THE GOLDEN CALF TRANSGRESSION.  AGAIN, NO BREAD AND NO WATER FOR MOSES.  IN THE 2^ND SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, DESCRIBED IN MORE DETAIL FROM EXODUS 24 TO EXODUS 34, AND IN THE REST OF DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 9, MOSES IS AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AT THE BASE OF MOUNT SINAI INTERCEDING FOR THEM (EXODUS 34:30 STATES MOSES SOUGHT TO MAKE AN ATONEMENT FOR THEIR SIN).

     THE 3^RD SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS IS NOTED IN EXODUS 34:28 (AGAIN, NO BREAD & NO WATER FOR MOSES) AND DEUTERONOMY 10:10.  EXODUS 34:29-35 IS DAY 40 OF THE LAST 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS WITH MOSES’ SHINING FACE ON TISHRI 10, THE DAY OF YOM KIPPUR.  THE REST OF EXODUS CONCLUDES WITH THE BUILDING OF THE TABERNACLE, LEADING TO THE FIRST FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

     THE 12 MONTHS IN MOSES’ TIME WERE EACH 30 DAYS LONG, WITH A 360 DAY YEAR.  THIS WAS BEFORE JOSHUA’S DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL & HEZEKIAH’S SUNDIAL ADDED TO THE 360 DAYS.  SIVAN, AV, ELUL, AND TISHRI WERE EACH MONTHS OF 30 DAYS.  THE 1^ST SET OF 40 DAYS & 40 NIGHTS WAS FROM SIVAN 11 TO SIVAN 30 (20 DAYS) AND FROM TAMMUZ 1 TO TAMMUZ 20 (20 DAYS).  THE 2^ND SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, THAT MOSES SPENT AT THE BASE OF MOUNT SINAI INTERCEDING FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, STARTED ON TAMMUZ 21 (THE LORD HAD MOSES COME DOWN FROM THE MOUNT QUICKLY), WENT TO TAMMUZ 30 (10 DAYS) AND WENT FROM AV 1 TO AV 30 (30 DAYS).  THE 3^RD SET OF 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS STARTED ON ELUL 1, WENT TO ELUL 30 (30 DAYS) AND WENT TO CONCLUSION ON TISHRI 10 (10 DAYS).  (20 + 20)  +  (10 + 30)  +  (30 + 10) IS 120 DAYS.  THE LAST SET OF 40 DAYS IS TESHUVAH, THE SEASON OF REPENTANCE.  JESUS WAS BAPTIZED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST ON ELUL 1 (1^ST DAY OF TESHUVAH – REPENTANCE) AND CONCLUDED HIS 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS (WITHOUT BREAD AND WITHOUT WATER) ON DAY 40, TISHRI 10 – YOM KIPPUR.  HOW APPROPRIATE HE WAS BAPTIZED ON THE 1^ST DAY OF THE 40 DAY SEASON OF REPENTANCE (TESHUVAH), WHEN THE MESSAGE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS “…REPENT YE:  FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND”
(MATTHEW 3:2).