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A synopsis of Bible time
buildontherock
2023-09-25

I have put together this brief to link various articles that I have written devoted to elements of Bible time.

God's view of time is encapsulated in Psalm 90.

Psalms Chapter 90 [KJV] Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 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. 11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. 14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children. 17 And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

From time to Time

I have presented my understanding of  time from various perspectives as outlined in the various articles below:

Chronology

Sometimes people approach Biblical matters as though there is no credible timing associated with the Bible. From what I have experienced that is simply not true.

Jewish Calendar

In the Gregorian year 2008 it is 5767-5768 in the Jewish calendar calculated by adding up the ages of people in the Bible back to the time of creation. 5767 began in the fall of 2007. In the Jewish calendar a day is determined by the rotation of the Earth about its axis; a month by the revolution of the moon about the Earth and a year by the revolution of the Earth about the sun. These three act independently of each other. On average, the moon revolves around the Earth in about 29½ days, that is, about 12.4 lunar months each year.

Passover and Shavuot linked

If you were God and you wanted to establish a momentous event, would you leave it to speculation and human interpretation or would you align it with some irrefutable event? I would do the later and I believe that God would too, so therefore we should look for that irrefutable event in establishing the first Month, Nisan, just as there was a cataclysmic event to establish Passover and Shavuot.

Passover to Shavuot

What happened to Israel is a synopsis of what our lives are like. In this article I want to summarize what I believe are the most pertinent concerns. God said that the things that happened to Israel are written as examples for us.

Outcasts - from rags to riches

The focus of this series is the Fall/Autumn festivals in God's calendar. The Fall festivals begin with the Feast of Trumpets. The whole period is called the period of ingathering and equated with the Feast of Tabernacles in the Bible. Every kingdom needs these things.

Creation - an overview of the issues

This article sets out to bring together the various perspectives that I addressed the topic of creation from in my studies. I provide links to each item so that they may be examined in greater detail.