Earnest N re Man’s calendar

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2013/ernestn101.htm

Thanks for offering your thoughts. You got me thinking in terms of the big picture where time is concerned. I somewhat understand what you are saying. I just could not completely “get it”. So, I will try to ask good questions from my partial understanding.

You wrote:

“To get to the point I am going to tell you there is a 17 year error on our calendar. It was impossible for Jerusalem to be given back in 1967 unless our calendar was wrong in view of how Lord works thru scriptures.. Only time land is returned to the previous owner is on a “Jubilee“. The corrected year was 1950 when Jerusalem was returned. Those who understand time his return will also be on a Jubilee year. This is how a Holy a perfect God works.”

Also, you wrote:

“Those who have studied time understand the Lord Jesus should have returned in 2000 years at the end of 6000 years. The Daniel prophecy of 7 X 7 is nearing completion for only 62 X 7 is accounted for at the death of the Lord.”

I gather you are trying to exactly reconcile to the number of the year 2000, then plus 50 years? To call the difference between the year 2000 and another an “error” seems to go a bit far. Perhaps you are meaning this a bit lightheartedly? I’m not sure what you mean by “study time”. Studying prophecy should connect to the Bible and the information in it. I’m not aware of a reference to an even number of years, although dispensations/ages have been considered to be 2000 years plus a few. Also 1948 years is a pattern in biblical history. The “creation calendar” reflects this notion. That calendar uses Hebraic ques and is in the year 5999 right now.

It seems that you are assuming that the year count started exactly at zero upon Christ’s birth. I have seen very few who have counted this way. This has been usually considered from 5 B.C. to 1B.C. Also, the Crucifixion was around 33 A.D. range, give or take. In either case, the 2000 years does not match the year 2000 exactly. The year 2017 does include the “17” years, so I see that and the offset of the years. It could work out that year as you say.

I have seen various accounts of rabbinical thought that the ages are in the 2006 to 2009 year range.

I will add a parallel thought. Jesus would have been Bar mitzvah’ed after his 14^th birthday. My choice for his birth year is 1B.C. This relates because as a “man” he was qualified to read scripture aloud in meetings among other things. If his birth was in 1 B.C. his 14^th birthday would have been in 2013, since there is no “zero” year between B.C. and A.D. That is 2000 years this year! Of course, I don’t expect the Millennial Kingdom to begin this year, but other things could start.