The fact is that we cannot use a Gentile calendar. "Elias (Elijah) was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months."ģ½ years is the same as 42 months, is the same as 1260 days.) (To get a clue who one of these prophets is, see James 5:17. MALACHI 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not This once again implies that each month is 30 days, and a year is 360 days. Ħ These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues.įorty and two months is 1260 days. Revelation 11:1 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.Ģ But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.ģ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days. The prophetic calendar in the Bible works in the same way. So we have absolutely no idea what month the starting day is. Even though it looks like this must be the 17th of February to the 17th of July (which also happens to be 150 days), the Biblical year starts somewhere in our month of March (at barley harvest time) when the Jewish year starts.)īut, read carefully, it is the "600th year of Noah's life" which is dated from his unknown birthday. (Please note that the Biblical calendar is not the same as our calendar. This implies that a biblical month has 30 days, and a Biblical year has 360 days. The time period from the 17th day of the 2nd month, to the 17th day of the 7th month (a period of exactly 5 months), is 150 days. Genesis 8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.Ĥ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
JEWISH CALENDAR YEAR NOW WINDOWS
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.ġ2 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.Ģ4 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
We thus ask the question, "Does the Bible use the same calendar as we do?" The logical answer is, "It is likely that the Biblical calendar is not the same as our current calendar". Many changes were still made to the calendar as late as the 16 th century AD. Take a look at the history of our modern calendar. The Muslims are using a lunar calendar dating from an event in the life of Mohammed. The Jews use a lunar calendar, with an extra month slipped in every few years to sort things out again (much like we do with leap years). But, was it always like this? Many other nations and cultures have used different calendars from the one we commonly use. We think of a year as having 365.24 days. In this study, we will see that the Biblical year has 360 days (having 12 months of 30 days each).
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