Randy,

 

For some years now [about 17 years] I have been studying the chronology of Scripture.

After reading Genesis 6:3 "And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,

for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."  I looked around

and couldn't find very many people living to be 120 years so with further reading I realized

after studying the Jubilee years that God was referring to 120 Jubilees of time.  Then I

wondered when did God start counting those 6,000 years.  I've found that this Bible is

the biggest puzzle book of all time.

 

Well, I did a quick count from Adam down through the divided kingdom of Judah.  There

were questions concerning the 480 years from the Exodus to the foundation of the 1st

temple and the age of Jehoiachin when he became king.  The first I realized you didn't

count the heathen years of judging and thus eliminated the extra years.  I've recently cleared

up the second one by taking each scripture that mentions a year of a king, even secular, and

got a few surprises to my chronology.  Read the Book of Enoch, 2 Esdras that prophesies

to the end of time and have come up with a date and year on God's years.  Amazing! Now

to match it up with the BC/AD year.  Studying James Ussher's years correllating the Roman

years, Julian Period years, the Olympiads as well as the BC/AD years, I do believe that

the Mayan calendar is correct.  Now one study Enoch 's book regarding the years of the

calendar. 

 

Remember, he [Enoch] was the 7th from Adam and came before the Flood of Noah.

You say, what does that have to do with anything?  Much.  God stretched out the heavens

at the time of the Flood and increased the year by one full day.  In the time of Hezekiah

when he was sick unto death God gave him a sign that he would heal him by taking the

shadow of the Dial of Ahaz backwards by 10 degrees and that was stretching the length

of the day by another quarter of a day making the length of the year 365.25 days.

Isaiah 40:22 " It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof

are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them

out as a tent to dwell in:" [I think that this is the verse that proves the earth is not flat ;o).]

 

Strange as it may seem Enoch said that there should always be a 364-day year.  How can

that be?  By always starting at the spring equinox.  He said that otherwise they would be

celebrating their feast days on the wrong day.  He had 4 weeks for 13 months in the year.

Those other days were non days. 

 

Quite interesting when they were considering changing our year to a 13-month year of

28 days each back in 2000, if I remember correctly, starting on July 25 with a non day.

Today is July 28 and I think the star Sirius arose with the Sun this morning.  Did the

Nile Rrver also rise and flood Egypt ? or can it with the Aswan Dam in place?

 

That chronology and the Scripture took me all the way to the end of the fourth king of

Persia: his name was Artaxerxes.  >From the end of his kingdom to the birth of Jesus

was exactly 490 years. My 1869 Family Bible and the one I use today gives the chronology

of the life of Jesus by James Ussher and he says that Jesus was born 4 years before

the AD years and that would be 4 BC: 4000 being 1 AD. The prophet Haggai gives us

a date for his first coming.

 

Haggai 2:18-19 "Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day

of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's [2nd] temple was laid,

consider it. [19] Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the

pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. "

 

So who is the seed?  It is Jesus, the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God couldn't

allow Hezekiah to die for he was only 14 years of age and did not have an heir until he

was 42 and he lived to be 54 after a reign of 29 years. [14+11=25+17=42+12=54]

2 Kings 18:13 " Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of

Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." 

 

Of course, Ahaz was still king but was of no use because he was evil and all his gold

could not purchase any help from his neighbors against his enemies.

 

Now Ezra, who was there at the time of their laying the foundation of the second temple

in the second year of coming from Babylon to Jerusalem, wrote the extra biblical book

called:2 Esdras in which he prophesied the 13 thousand years of time.  This was the

7 days of Creation and now the 6,000 years of time since.  I believe he prophesied this

in the 30th year mentioned in Eze 1:1

 

Ezekiel 1:1 [568 BC/3432 AM] "Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth

month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar,

that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." 

 

The remaining time of Esdras was 2500 year added to 3432 is 5932/1932.  Now add

80 years to that.

 

David said in Psalm 90:10 " The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if

by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for

it is soon cut off, and we fly away." 

 

This definitely caught my eye as this month is my 80th birthday year.  I'm a 7-11-32 child

of the King of Kings.  It took me a long time to think maybe the Mayan's were on to something. 

God only gave me a smidgen of a piece of the puzzle each day.  Had to study to show myself

approved and keep my nose to the grind.  It was an exciting journey and it continues. 

 

Dec 21 could be Tevet 7 the the third day Tevet 10.

 

Many things happened on Tevet 10: beginning with Nebuchadnezzar's seige on Jerusalem

for 3 years beginning with Jehoiakim's reign then 8 more years he took Jehoiachin to Babylon.

He was in jail for 37 years until the first year of Evil-Merodach. 

 

Some say follow the money but I say follow the kings and their years of reign even the secular.

It's all in the Book. 

 

This is why I am looking for Jesus' soon return.  Thanks for asking.

 

May God Bless us All this year, jfh