Kendigger
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For people who study the Old Testament, and its relationship to the history and archaeology of other cultures, I have seen that there is a wide variety of dates that are used for pivotal events such as the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. Although they tend to revolve around the period between 1460 – 1440 B.C., there is no consistency. Could it be that the God who created the entire universe leave such a thing to chance and speculation? I think not! There is an exact mathematical formula in the Bible that gives exact dates, without error, and although its been there all along, it seems everyone has missed it.
Dating the events in the Bible since the days of Bishop Ussher have used the approach of adding the dates specified in the Book of Genesis and later by the dates assigned for their life span and the age in which they had prodigy. So that Adam lived so long, until he had Seth, and then Seth lived so long until he had a child. The inherent problem with this is that you can never tell if the father was, say, 85 years old, if he was actually 85 years and 2 days, or 85 years and 355 days. This can through off the entire timeline by up to a year with every passing generation.
There is another timeline hidden in plain sight that solves this problem. It is unique in the Bible because it doesn’t use the lives of mere moral men, but instead uses the single-most important days in God’s plan of history to reveal the timeline. Specific events that are the important keystones in the history of the Bible. These all occurred on a single moment of time, without error or confusion. These key moments are as follows:
· * God promises Abram that He will give him a land, and he will be the father of many nations.
· * Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and soon afterward, God gives Moses the 10 commandments and then the rest of His law.
· * Solomon lays the cornerstone for the building of the Temple in Jerusalem.
· * The Temple is Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the people are forced into captivity.
These are all singular events, around which the entire Old Testament revolves. And God has set a timeline for these events, that supersedes the chronological schemes used by men for the last several hundred years.
Working backwards, it is known specifically through a number of ancient writings and astronomical events that the Temple of Solomon of destroyed in 586 B.C. Everyone accepts this date without question, because of the preponderance of evidence, and it is our starting point. The Temple was destroyed ultimately because the people of Israel had disobeyed God time and time again, falling away from God and preferring to worship whatever idols where common in their time.
II Chronicles 36:
13. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
The prophet Ezekiel tried one last time to warn the people of Israel that they had to turn back to God right then, or everything they had would be destroyed, and they would be taken away into captivity. Since they didn’t listen to their prophet, that is exactly what happened. Ezekiel writes that:
Exekiel 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Ezekiel 4:5 states the length of time from the foundation of the Temple to the destruction of the Temple, exactly 390 years. It was counted from the day the foundation stone was laid down to the day is was removed. It is punishable in God's eyes because, even given the great gift of god's presence in the Temple, the people never lived up to God's expectations and abandoned Him the and again to disobey and follow after their own lusts and idols.
With the destruction of the Temple in 586 B.C., we can go backwards to the foundation of the Temple exactly 390 years. That places the foundation of the Temple in the year 976 B.C. There can be no doubt. The laying of the cornerstone occurred during a great celebration given by King Solomon to celebrate it. This was detailed in I Kings 6:1:
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
So, this occurred in the 4th year of Solomon’s reign and 480 years after the Exodus. How much plainer can God be about the facts? The month of Zif was later renamed the month of Iyar, the second month in the ecclesiastical calendar of the Israelites. What else happened in the month of Zif or Iyar? Well, the giving of the law, the 10 commandments, when Moses was upon Mount Sinai. They left Egypt on the 14th of Nisan, and got to Mount Sinai about a month later.
Since it so plainly states that the foundation was laid exactly 480 years after the Exodus and the resulting giving of the Law, we can now push the calendar of God’s timeline back another 480 years, to 1456 B.C. This is the year of the Exodus, specifically occured on 14 Nisan 1456 B.C. Again, there is no room for error in God’s book.
Then, we also find another scripture that moves the clock even further back. This is found in Exodus 12:40-41, which plainly states the facts:
Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
It is started that the night of the Passover and the Exodus on 14 Nisan, 1456 B.C., was exactly 430 years of the sojourning of the children of Israel. When did this sojourning begin? It began the day that God’s angel appeared to Abram, and promised to him a land and a people. Furthermore, it states that t was the “selfsame day,” the anniversary of that event. So, we can therefore state unapologetically that that event occurred on 14 Nisan, 1886 B.C., exactly to the day.
It is noteworthy to point out that every single one of these events occurred on a single day, a single moment in time. Every other chronology has attempted to use the lifespans or reigns of men. God's timeline points to the most important days in history, with no room for error.
Another verse which has caused confusion is in Genesis
Genesis 12:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
The context of Chapter 12 is the future seed of Abraham. At that point, he was 100 years old, well past the time to become a parent. This was 30 years after the promise, so it was in 1856 B.C., or exactly 400 years before the Exodus. The promise to Abram is des cribbed in Genesis 12:
Genesis 12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
It needs to be specified that Abram was 70 when he received the promise, but 75 when he actually entered Canaan. This five-year difference is because Abram decided to take his pagan, elderly father with him, and it was five years until Terah died and Abram was finally allowed to enter the promised land with his family. Although he received the promise in 1886 B.C., and began to travel westward from Ur soon afterward, he didn’t actually leave in the eastern part of Mespotoptamia at Haran and entered into Canaan until 1881 B.C.
Thus, we have the key dates which are the markers or cornerstone of god’s timeline:
· * God promises Abram that He will give him a land, and he will be the father of many nations. 14 Nisan, 1886 B.C.
· * Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and soon afterward, God gives Moses the 10 commandments and then the rest of His law. 14 Nisan, 1456 B.C. for the Exodus.
· * Solomon lays the cornerstone for the building of the Temple in Jerusalem. 976 B.C.
· * The Temple is Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the people are forced into captivity. 586 B.C.
Virtually every other event in the Old Testament can be keyed with accuracy off this simple timeline. For example:
· * Abraham given promise in 1886 B.C. at age of 70, so his birth was in 1956 B.C.
· * Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born, so this was in 1786 B.C.
· * The record of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities of the Plain are placed biblically between the conception of Sarah and the birth of Isaac, so this also occurred in 1787 or 1786 B.C.
· * Moses was 80 when he Exodus happened, and wandered in the desert for 40 years, so he lived from 1536 to 1416 B.C. He was in the royal household until 1496 B.C., and lived with Jethro's clan from 1496 to 1456 B.C.
· * Joshua celebrated the Passover feast after mourning the death of Moses and right before entering Canaan, so this was in the spring of 1416 B.C., and then the destruction of Jericho and 'Ai occured soon after.
· * Solomon laid the Temple foundation in 976 B.C., in the fourth year of his reign, so his 40-year reign was from 980-940 B.C., and the 40-year reign of King David occurred in 1020 to 980 B.C.
It is so simple and exact that everyone has missed it for centuries. All the events in the Old Testament can be dated specifically within this timeline. And there are other date markers in the Old Testament that further confirm and crosscheck these dates, and there is also the mystery of the Jubilees, which will have to wait until another time.
Dating the events in the Bible since the days of Bishop Ussher have used the approach of adding the dates specified in the Book of Genesis and later by the dates assigned for their life span and the age in which they had prodigy. So that Adam lived so long, until he had Seth, and then Seth lived so long until he had a child. The inherent problem with this is that you can never tell if the father was, say, 85 years old, if he was actually 85 years and 2 days, or 85 years and 355 days. This can through off the entire timeline by up to a year with every passing generation.
There is another timeline hidden in plain sight that solves this problem. It is unique in the Bible because it doesn’t use the lives of mere moral men, but instead uses the single-most important days in God’s plan of history to reveal the timeline. Specific events that are the important keystones in the history of the Bible. These all occurred on a single moment of time, without error or confusion. These key moments are as follows:
· * God promises Abram that He will give him a land, and he will be the father of many nations.
· * Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and soon afterward, God gives Moses the 10 commandments and then the rest of His law.
· * Solomon lays the cornerstone for the building of the Temple in Jerusalem.
· * The Temple is Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the people are forced into captivity.
These are all singular events, around which the entire Old Testament revolves. And God has set a timeline for these events, that supersedes the chronological schemes used by men for the last several hundred years.
Working backwards, it is known specifically through a number of ancient writings and astronomical events that the Temple of Solomon of destroyed in 586 B.C. Everyone accepts this date without question, because of the preponderance of evidence, and it is our starting point. The Temple was destroyed ultimately because the people of Israel had disobeyed God time and time again, falling away from God and preferring to worship whatever idols where common in their time.
II Chronicles 36:
13. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
The prophet Ezekiel tried one last time to warn the people of Israel that they had to turn back to God right then, or everything they had would be destroyed, and they would be taken away into captivity. Since they didn’t listen to their prophet, that is exactly what happened. Ezekiel writes that:
Exekiel 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.
5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.
7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.
Ezekiel 4:5 states the length of time from the foundation of the Temple to the destruction of the Temple, exactly 390 years. It was counted from the day the foundation stone was laid down to the day is was removed. It is punishable in God's eyes because, even given the great gift of god's presence in the Temple, the people never lived up to God's expectations and abandoned Him the and again to disobey and follow after their own lusts and idols.
With the destruction of the Temple in 586 B.C., we can go backwards to the foundation of the Temple exactly 390 years. That places the foundation of the Temple in the year 976 B.C. There can be no doubt. The laying of the cornerstone occurred during a great celebration given by King Solomon to celebrate it. This was detailed in I Kings 6:1:
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
So, this occurred in the 4th year of Solomon’s reign and 480 years after the Exodus. How much plainer can God be about the facts? The month of Zif was later renamed the month of Iyar, the second month in the ecclesiastical calendar of the Israelites. What else happened in the month of Zif or Iyar? Well, the giving of the law, the 10 commandments, when Moses was upon Mount Sinai. They left Egypt on the 14th of Nisan, and got to Mount Sinai about a month later.
Since it so plainly states that the foundation was laid exactly 480 years after the Exodus and the resulting giving of the Law, we can now push the calendar of God’s timeline back another 480 years, to 1456 B.C. This is the year of the Exodus, specifically occured on 14 Nisan 1456 B.C. Again, there is no room for error in God’s book.
Then, we also find another scripture that moves the clock even further back. This is found in Exodus 12:40-41, which plainly states the facts:
Exodus 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
It is started that the night of the Passover and the Exodus on 14 Nisan, 1456 B.C., was exactly 430 years of the sojourning of the children of Israel. When did this sojourning begin? It began the day that God’s angel appeared to Abram, and promised to him a land and a people. Furthermore, it states that t was the “selfsame day,” the anniversary of that event. So, we can therefore state unapologetically that that event occurred on 14 Nisan, 1886 B.C., exactly to the day.
It is noteworthy to point out that every single one of these events occurred on a single day, a single moment in time. Every other chronology has attempted to use the lifespans or reigns of men. God's timeline points to the most important days in history, with no room for error.
Another verse which has caused confusion is in Genesis
Genesis 12:13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
The context of Chapter 12 is the future seed of Abraham. At that point, he was 100 years old, well past the time to become a parent. This was 30 years after the promise, so it was in 1856 B.C., or exactly 400 years before the Exodus. The promise to Abram is des cribbed in Genesis 12:
Genesis 12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
4 So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
It needs to be specified that Abram was 70 when he received the promise, but 75 when he actually entered Canaan. This five-year difference is because Abram decided to take his pagan, elderly father with him, and it was five years until Terah died and Abram was finally allowed to enter the promised land with his family. Although he received the promise in 1886 B.C., and began to travel westward from Ur soon afterward, he didn’t actually leave in the eastern part of Mespotoptamia at Haran and entered into Canaan until 1881 B.C.
Thus, we have the key dates which are the markers or cornerstone of god’s timeline:
· * God promises Abram that He will give him a land, and he will be the father of many nations. 14 Nisan, 1886 B.C.
· * Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt, and soon afterward, God gives Moses the 10 commandments and then the rest of His law. 14 Nisan, 1456 B.C. for the Exodus.
· * Solomon lays the cornerstone for the building of the Temple in Jerusalem. 976 B.C.
· * The Temple is Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and the people are forced into captivity. 586 B.C.
Virtually every other event in the Old Testament can be keyed with accuracy off this simple timeline. For example:
· * Abraham given promise in 1886 B.C. at age of 70, so his birth was in 1956 B.C.
· * Abraham was 100 when Isaac was born, so this was in 1786 B.C.
· * The record of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other cities of the Plain are placed biblically between the conception of Sarah and the birth of Isaac, so this also occurred in 1787 or 1786 B.C.
· * Moses was 80 when he Exodus happened, and wandered in the desert for 40 years, so he lived from 1536 to 1416 B.C. He was in the royal household until 1496 B.C., and lived with Jethro's clan from 1496 to 1456 B.C.
· * Joshua celebrated the Passover feast after mourning the death of Moses and right before entering Canaan, so this was in the spring of 1416 B.C., and then the destruction of Jericho and 'Ai occured soon after.
· * Solomon laid the Temple foundation in 976 B.C., in the fourth year of his reign, so his 40-year reign was from 980-940 B.C., and the 40-year reign of King David occurred in 1020 to 980 B.C.
It is so simple and exact that everyone has missed it for centuries. All the events in the Old Testament can be dated specifically within this timeline. And there are other date markers in the Old Testament that further confirm and crosscheck these dates, and there is also the mystery of the Jubilees, which will have to wait until another time.