Interesting mathematical patterns....
To
start with, let's just mention the numbers that are commonly
recognized as significant in the Bible and some that are significant,
but have somehow slipped through the cracks. Those commonly
recognized as significant are:
3, 7, 10,
and 12.
The ones that have slipped through the cracks are not only
numbers, but also some numeric attributes/functions. They are:
1, 2,
4, 6, 40, 44, half, double, and
reverse/mirror
(chiasm).
Virtually
all numbers of spiritual/prophetic significance are these numbers,
their multiples, or products of those descriptive functions.
If you say 'those numbers cover a lot of ground'.
You'd
be right, as the Bible is a book that covers a lot about life.
The symbolic attributes of these numbers/functions
are:
1
= Uniqueness, singularity, Holiness.
2 = Legal validation.
4 = Godly completeness.
6 = The dynamic part of a spiritual activity/event, good or
bad (example:
God worked 6 days; dynamic part, the 7th day the non-dynamic part,
completed the activity/event. Thus, 666 could mean the most intense
period of the active part of Satan's rulership. thus the person
carrying that name would be Satan's tool for the most intense
level/period of his work.)
7 = Completeness in the spiritual realm, good or
bad.
10=Completeness in
the earthly realm,
good or
bad.
40=Cleansing/purifying; prelude to a
corrective/restorative process. Preamble to any Major “Sea-Change”.
(often extended with another 4 to become 44)
Half = Can
refer either to a
bookended process. Or what half means; half.
Double =
Strong blessing or
curse.
Reverse/Mirror
= Many Biblical processes reverse/invert, sometimes over a long
period of time (chaism). Oftentimes as a function of Justice or
Parity.
Here's
something to consider; if you look up the flood account in Genesis
7:11 notice the starting date "the second month on the
seventeenth day of the month" and notice the ending date at
Genesis 8:14 " in the second month the twenty-seventh day of the
month". Now here's the point: it looks like the whole event
lasted one year and ten days. And using the standard lunar month of
30 days that would be true, but a lunar month isn't 30 days, it's
closer to 29 1/2 days. So 12 X 29.5= 354 . So adding 10 days would
not make it 370 days ( 12 X 30 + 10) It would make it 365 days ! Stop
and think, if you start counting on the 17th of the month and count
to the 27th inclusive,
it's
actually 11 days. (go ahead and count them, I'll wait right here 'til
you're done). So the flood event was actually exactly
one
year (Solar) and one year (Lunar) plus 11 days. So you could say that
the flood started on the same day both solar and lunar and continued
on until both the lunar and solar years were completed. So what is
the point? Well, none really, except that it might be a factor to
consider when calculating the beginning and ending of prophetic
events. (i.e. Jesus' ministry; if calculated at three prophetic years
of 360 days each, which is the bible standard, it is reconciled to
three solar years with the addition of 15 days {if you allow for the
baptism of Jesus on the day before Nisan 1, making Nisan 1
his
first whole day of ministry} thus making Nisan 14 the day that would
also complete three whole solar years as well}.
For those who feel
that Jesus' ministry was 3 1/2 years, please see the monograph "The
March of Time of the Time of March" on this website.
And please see/read updated info on the Length of Jesus's Ministry at Thought-Sherds 43, 44, 45, 46
Here's
a rather interesting mathematical pattern:
It actually begins
with one of the most mis-applied Scriptures in the Bible.
Namely,
Matthew 24:36, where it says 'No one knows the day or the Hour'.
Most
people feel that Jesus was saying that no one would know the 'day or
hour' when the End of this world would come. But that wasn't really
what he was referring to. He was apparently referring to the Exact
Point in time that he would come in full Kingly
Power
DURING the final End-Time Period !
NOT the
Beginning OR the End .
It is actually quite clear that certain
dates of the end-time process would be marked with Precisely markable
events, The Day and hour of which could be
known before or
sometimes after the fact, i.e. Matt 24:15
the 'Disgusting
Thing Standing in a Holy' place (Cestius Gallus standing in the
Temple in Cheshvan 5, 66 c.e.).
But would the End Day/Date, of the End-Time Process, be a Precisely markable/predictable event in advance ? In other words, Could you know the Day and hour it would End ?
Well,
If you were a Christian living in the First Century before the End of
the Jewish System of things, you would be very aware of Jesus'
Prophecy of Matthew the 24th Chapter. For Christians living in
Jerusalem it would be especially critical to pay attention to this
Prophecy, as Christians living in Jerusalem had a very narrow 'window
of opportunity' to escape Jerusalem after the 'Disgusting thing stood
in a Holy Place' (vs.15).
The Scripture seems to indicate that
the opportunity for escape was merely moments of time. That
'Moment of Time' occurred on Cheshvan 5, of 66 c.e. when on
the
sixth day of his siege, Cestius Gallus finally breached the Temple
wall. In the afternoon. And left almost immediately.
A
Christian that was paying attention would know that once 'The
Abomination of Desolation, stood in a Holy Place, as spoken of by
Daniel the Prophet' they needed to "Get out of Dodge"
(Jerusalem).....
But for how long ?
By simply turning to the Scripture in Daniel that Jesus was referring to, Daniel 12:11-12, they knew that they needed to stay out of Jerusalem for a minimum of 1335 Days.
Was that actually the Case ?
And
here's where we get to an "Interesting Mathematical Pattern".
Interestingly the Exact
day of
Cestius Gallus' standing in the Temple is a
Known Historical Date,
and the Exact
day that
the Temple burned down is a
Known Historical Date.
Cestius Gallus "Stood" in the Temple on Cheshvan 5,
of 66 c.e.
And the Temple was burned down during Titus' siege on
Ab (Av) 9, of 70 c.e.
Was that a literal
1335
Day period ?
Let's
take a closer look:
When
you calculate the length of these years, use Lunar months, as
observed,
i.e. 29.53
days
each. Not
29
days nor
29.5
nor
30
days each.
And
factor in that apparently no intercalary month was added during that
3+ year period. With the "new" standardized system (Hillel
II) intercalary months are inserted at regular intervals, however in
the first century they were still using an empirical method, that is
to say, as observed by the Priest in Jerusalem. However, even with
the 'modern' system there can be two years without a intercalary
month, so it would not be surprising that you could have a
three-plus-year period without a intercalary month, especially during
a protracted besieged-type event. Since the adding of the extra
intercalary month was based
on the observing the first "Green Shoots of Barley"
(which
is the definition of the Word "Abib", the name of the first
month of the year before they were held in Babylon) those in
Jerusalem were in no position to observe the "Green Shoots of
Barley" in the year 70.
Also,
the end date would be Tisha-B'Av, the date of the destruction of the
Temple, not thirty days after, as
most accounts suggest.
In
fact, Josephus himself (an eyewitness) indicates that Titus
considered the conquest complete after the Temple was razed. What
followed was what is in the nomenclature called "mopping-up
operations". So, although most assessments of the siege of
Jerusalem by Titus begin with Passover and end 30 days after Tisha
B'Av, Scripturally and actually it ended on Tisha B'Av, not 30 days
later.
From
Cheshvan 5, 66 c.e. (day Cestius Gallus stood in the Temple) until
Tisha B'av 70 c.e. (day the Temple was Burned down)
is
your basic 1335 day period.
If
you calculate it using Solar years it won't work, if you calculate it
using Lunar or Prophetic years it won't work, if you calculate it
using any length of month other
than an actual observed
(Synodic)
Lunar Month it
will not
work.
If
you use an actual observed
Lunar
Month i.e. 29.53 days it
works:
Cheshvan
5 (inclusive) 66 c.e. to end of month=
26. days
Then, Until the end of that year (66)
4 months @29.53 days each =
118.12 days
Next three years (12 mos. ea.) 36
months @29.53
days each =
1063.08 days
From
the beginning of 70 Until Tisha B'Av 70 c.e. 4 months @29.53 days
each =
118.12
days
plus
9
days (Tisha B'Av is Ab 9)
9. days
----------
1334.32 days
Noteworthy
the Scripture (Dan 12:12) says "Blessed is he who waits and
arrives at"
(ESV and others) the 1335th day, not
after,
thus 1334.32 days would end on
the
1335th day. Not before or after.
So,
in the First Century, (the
Prophetic pattern for our times,
hmmmm....)
it
really was 1335 days.
And so they did
know the
"day and the hour" it would end.
So,
if you were a Christian in the first Century,
if
you counted From the day it Began,
Cheshvan 5, 66 c.e., you
would know the exact
day it
would end.
Tisha
B'Av (Ab 9) 70 c.e.
So
too, in our times, when the Parallel
Pattern of
Daniel 12:11-12 begins, look for a 1335 day period as well. Likely
ending with the destruction of the Rebuilt Temple.
When
the Bible says that the Lord will come as a "Thief in the
Night", (1 Thess 5:1-4) Paul makes
a specific Point that
it would not come as "A Thief" to Alert Christians !! Note:
"But
you, brothers, are not
in
darkness so
that this day should surprise you
like
a thief."
vs
4. So, Christians will Know the Specific time period. Just not the
"Day and Hour" it does NOT say 'you
will not Know the month and year'
, just "Day and Hour". (compare Rev 9:15) Most people when
they say "No one knows the Day or the Hour" mean 'we just
can't have any idea', .....but that's not what the Bible really
says......
(The
Exact Day and Hour that the "Man of Lawlessness" will sit
in the Temple would
thus be November
24(25?), 2033,
about 3 pm Jerusalem time.
(subject
to revision! in
fact, this date was re-recalculated June 27, 2023) Counting backwards
1335 days from Tisha B'Av 2037
(I
used TimeAndDate.com's online date calculator)
Note:This
is the "Removal of the Daily Sacrifice",i.e the Man of
Lawlessness sitting in the Temple. 2 Thess 2:4, Dan 9:27,
11:31,
12:11,12 )
Consider
too, Christians will
already be in Heaven when the end comes !!
(hello
!) So,
how could the
End 'come
as a thief' to them? Their
Deliverence
comes
as a 'Thief'...
see matt 24: 36-44, where it clearly
is
talking about Christians being taken to Heaven, by surprise, NOT
the End of the World,
per se. The "End of the World" is a long complex process,
not a single event, as such. (see timeline)
mmmmm......
yah, a little different.......
Sorry,
that was a bit long, I hope it was clear enough.
Interesting,
Yes?