What Year are We in According to the 360 Calendar?
Before the main article, first,
"A Few Technical Notes!"
1. New-years day of Nisan (Abib) 1st (morning) of the 360 calendar landed on April 9, 1446 BC (Gregorian calendar, but which was April 22 Julian). (April 9th on the conventional Jewish calendar that year was about Nisan 11.) The Julian day # is 1193382. (That day, therefore, symbolized as AD 1 as explained later.) (Note: after writing this is was realized that 30 days earlier, that is, March 10, 1446 BC, is the primary date for when the New Year began even though April 9th is indeed aligned with the the Creation. Please see, "How to find any date on the 360-calendar" for details and important table of dates explained.)
2. The 4000-year cycles began in 4006 BC at the Creation and again when they entered Egypt in 1446 BC. (Nisan 1 on the 360 calendar in 4006 BC falls on, or about, the spring equinox, March 21 Gregorian, which is April 22 Julian, which happens to be Nisan 1 on the regular Jewish calendar {as well as the 360 calendar}, which makes it a new moon! {Julian #258342.} The new moon, the spring equinox, and the start of the 360 calendar are therefore perfectly aligned with this Creation date to signal 'a new beginning'. However, it is my personal view that this date is merely symbolic for the Creation, and that the actual Creation date may be something else.)
Note that both Creation ( 4006 BC) and the Exodus (1446 BC, see note #1) run along the same 40-year cycles.The first 4000-year cycle ends at about the time of the conception of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ in 6 BC, (Julian #1719312, March 21 Gregorian, 23rd Julian). There are 64 generations/cycles of 40 years that pass between the Creation and the Exodus, and once again, 64 is a square-root figure, that is, 8 x 8, (or 8 x 8 x 8 x 5 years = 2560 years). Fittingly, the number "eight" in the bible symbolizes "a new beginning", with 2560 years being about how many days there are in a seven-year period, hence memorializing the Creation that took place in "seven days" --- a year for each day.
Observe that an overlap of one month (30 days), therefore, occurs between the years 6 BC and AD 2555 (2560 years). This is because the 4000-calendar from the Exodus will not complete its first cycle until AD 2555 thereby being ahead of the Creation-calendar by one leap-month all during this 2560-year span. This means that currently, and for the next 560 years, there is a one-month gap between the two calendars.
The creation date is not based upon biblical chronology, although it is certainly in the right ballpark. The creation date of 4006 BC is mainly based upon the deduction that a calendar from creation should both weave into the time of the exodus and the birth of Christ, and this one does both exceedingly well. However, the exodus date is the only calendar date that is clearly established by the bible itself. The creation date is only inferred, although strongly so. (For more about this, and why the exodus date, see, "below email response".)
Concerning the 3840-year cycles, I have come to favor the 4000-year cycles for its simplicity over the 3840-cycles, and simplicity is important for a calendar. After that are the 100,000-year cycles. Thus, 40 and 4000 and 100,000-year cycles. Beyond that I may have gone too far. I may yet put all other information on this website in archive. I am not as convinced of the 3840 cycles as I once was. It works just like I said, but it lacks simplicity, something I underestimated for significance. Also, when the calendar gets into cycles that run into the trillions of years, the symmetry exhibited might largely be due to the quirks of numbers. Numbers can do strange things by their very nature!
The following was written in response to a serious of questions asked by email.
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My reply to someone's email...
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Greetings!
The mention of 4000 BC is the time that scientists say that the average solar year was 365.2425. However, plus or minus a few hundred years makes no significant difference to this figure, let alone a scant 33 years to Christ's death. So if you think that 3971 BC was the creation date then this makes no difference to the what scientists estimate the average solar year to be at that time. Personally, I base the creation date upon what most modern evangelical scholars pin the date of the exodus to be, which is c. 1446 BC. From this date we simply count back to creation using standard biblical chronology. In my work on the bible calendar at www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org/bible-chronology_1.html I show all 8 different possible creation dates that assume a 1446 BC exodus, which date for the exodus I firmly believe, as do many scholars.It would be reasonable to set a calendar to the death of Christ as you suggested, however, most of the world today uses one that begins at the birth of Christ, which is also a logical start. The birth of the first Adam to the birth of the second Adam, Jesus, who undoes the damage of the first. But at any rate, the 360 calendar begins at the exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC (so that the first 40-year cycle spans the wilderness wandering unto the entry into Canaan in 1406 BC) as explained at the website. The first 4000-year cycle (or 3840-year cycles) from the exodus would be AD 2555, which happens to be 365 x 7 years back to AD 1, the start of the Gentile calendar that is based upon a 365-day year. Interesting coincidence in that a seven-year period is a very important time frame in the bible.Earlier, I made reference at my site to the year 1845 BC for the start of the 4000 or 3840-year cycles, but I now realize that there was no biblical basis for that date. However, the exodus is used as the start of the date count in a number of verses in the bible, such as 1Kings 6:1, "In the 480th year from the exodus", which happens to be 12 cycles of forty-years. This, of course, is significant because the 4000-year cycle is based upon 100 forty-year cycles. It is not clear in my mind at this time whether there are both 3840 and 4000 year cycles from the exodus. I think so, but I am not certain. I have come to favor the 4000-year cycles for its simplicity over the 3840-cycles, and simplicity is important for a calendar. After that are the 100,000-year cycles. Thus, 40 and 4000 and 100,000-year cycles. Beyond that I may have gone too far. I may yet put all other information on this website in archive. I am not as convinced of the 3840 cycles as I once was. It works just like I said, but it lacks simplicity, something I underestimated for significance. Also, when the calendar gets into cycles that run into the trillions of years, the symmetry exhibited might largely be due to the quirks of numbers. Numbers can do strange things by their very nature!
In this website (see text quoted at the start of this page) I also mention that 4006 BC is the start of the 4000-year cycles from the creation. This date is not based upon biblical chronology, although it is certainly in the same ballpark. The creation date of 4006 BC is mainly based upon the deduction that a calendar from creation should both weave into the time of the exodus and the birth of Christ, and this one does both exceedingly well. However, the exodus date is the only calendar date that is clearly established by the bible itself. The creation date is only inferred, although strongly so.
Because the 4000-year cycles keep perfectly in synchronization with our modern calendar, the present year remains as AD 2008 according to the Gregorian and Julian calendar systems, but is the year "3454" as of April, 2008, as counting from the exodus. We are presently in the 3454th year from the exodus.
As for the date of Christ's death, most scholars prefer AD 30 and some AD 33. The AD 32 date that you mentioned is an older date popularized by Sir Robert Anderson back a couple of hundred years ago who worked out the "360 days x 490 years" from the decree to Nehemiah in 445 BC for the terminus a quem of the prophecy of Daniel 9. AD 30 is partly based upon the belief that Christ died on good Friday and rose on Sunday, which I also believe. If, however, this premise is rejected than AD 32 becomes a possibility if one excepts a Wednesday or Thursday crucifixion, which I personally reject for the same reasons why most scholars do.
Hope this helps, and may God give you understanding in your research into God's wonderful word!Dean
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----- Original Message -----From: ***To: <deantc@360calendar.com>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:40 AMSubject: Question about Calendar> Hi,
>
> I viewed your website on yesterday and I have a few questions that I
> hope you can answer for me. I also have a suggestion for you. I plan to
> revisit the site because there are a number of things that I just
> didn't understand.
>
> Question 1: In step 4, you mention, "As said, the 4000-year cycles
> cause the average solar year to work out to 365.2425 days, which is the
> same as our modern (Gregorian) calendar. Now it 'happens' that
> scientists estimate that the solar year was just that---365.24250 days
> around 4000 BC! (The average length of a solar year is shrinking
> extremely slowly.) Hence, the traditional year of creation just
> 'happens' to have had a solar year of of exactly 365.2425 days---which
> generates these great 4000-year cycles, the first of which just
> 'happens' to have occurred at the birth of Christ!"
>
> - Shouldn't this cycle have occurred at the crucifixion of Christ
> rather than at the birth of Christ? Read the following article about
> God's 7,000 year plan of redemption. The lamb in Exodus during the
> passover was slaughtered at the end of the 4th day. Check out:
> http://home.earthlink.net/~lionlamb/GodsMasterPlan.html
> and tell me what you think.
> - My theory is that at the very time of the death of Christ, exactly
> 4,000 years had passed from Adam. What do you think?
>
> Question 2: According to your calendar arrangements, what year would we
> be in now? Many people speculate that Christ was crucified around 32
> AD. Is that accurate according to your calendar systems? If we go by
> 360 years and then the leap years, would this still be considered 2008?
>
> - Let me know what you think. Thanks for your time.
>
