PATU25  Is it really AD 2013? Epilogue
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-01-31

I'm having a brain fart here, and need your help -- if you want to give it.  At issue: we know from Bible that Christ died on what should have been Passover, 30 AD; which day of the week, was WEDNESDAY.  The only way Matthew 12:40-41 can come true is if Passover Week officially ran a) four days fast, b) from Saturday to Saturday that year.  Then true Passover would have been Wednesday, the day He was crucified;  yet because the priests set the official Jewish calendar four days fast (didn't intercalate that year), He'd be EATING the Passover (early), too.  The last day of Passover week is Firstfruits, Numbers 28:26.  So Christ is our Passover (His Death), and Firstfruits (His Resurrection).  Verses thus balance to titles.

So why can't we test how many years have passed since the Crucifixion?

We saw in the closing Episode 24 PATU, that Paul's timeline aligns with the Roman AUC:  but the Romans used two AUC dates. One presumed Rome was 750 years old at the time we call end 1BC, and another claimed age 753 for that same 1BC.  Paul seems to use the 753 AUC, as does John, in Rev 1:1.  That calendar was law in their day (put into law by Claudius).  For their dates tally to 'our' AD dates.  But they might also be reckoning by both calendars at once, as we are now, essentially treating Christ as born in what we'd call end 4BC, too.  That's the challenge.

So how to resolve it?  Tally how many years since the Crucifixion, for we know what day of the week that was.  So it seems we could look at eighths -- every eighth day is the same day of the week, as 8 days prior.  So if this year began the 6119th after Adam (remembering that it's Jewish time, so we are really at the end of the 6118th year) -- THIS year's anniversary of the Crucifixion -- defined as 14 days after the vernal equinox -- this year's anniversary, should be a Tuesday; NEXT year's anniversary should be Wednesday (1984+4136 from Adam = 6120, and 1984/8=248).

But the vernal equinox has a three day drift, plus we have leap years.  But wouldn't all that automatically resolve itself, so we could do the simple calculation above?  Or am I having a brain fart?  I do have brain farts with this calculation, and with 'should I buy decaf or regular'.  So if you want to help me out of my brain fart, I'd be grateful.  Thank you!

Download calendar here:  http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls .  Use View, Custom Views in Excel, and go to '20th century' versus 'Christ Unifies Time' for the video's comparison.

For the Bible timeline, see pages 134-135 of http://Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf or (if you have BibleWorks fonts), http://www.brainout.net/Eph1REPARSED.htm or http://www.brainout.net/Eph1REPARSED.doc .  Doc is better formatted, if you don't like pdf.