God's Calendar Vs. Man's Calendar

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The text discusses the biblical perspective on time, highlighting the confusion caused by various calendars and emphasizing God as the ultimate authority on time. It explains the biblical definitions of a day, week, month, and year, contrasting them with the Roman calendar and pointing to historical evidence supporting the accuracy of the biblical calendar.

Insights

  • The biblical perspective emphasizes God as the ultimate authority on time, with human calendars causing confusion due to deviation from His calendar.
  • The accuracy of the biblical calendar, aligning with historical evidence and supported by astronomical insights, offers a unique and potentially transformative understanding of timekeeping, promising a restored perfect calendar in the future.

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  • How does the Bible define a day?

    A day in the Bible is a 24-hour period starting and ending at sunset, unlike the Roman calendar's midnight to midnight reckoning.

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Biblical Calendar: God's Timekeeping System

  • The biblical perspective on the beginning of a day, week, month, and year is discussed, highlighting the confusion caused by various calendars like the Roman, Chinese, Islamic, and Hebrew.
  • God is presented as the ultimate authority on time, with humans having deviated from His calendar, leading to the current confusion.
  • The biblical definition of a day is a 24-hour period starting and ending at sunset, as opposed to the Roman calendar's midnight to midnight reckoning.
  • The week, defined by God, starts at creation from Sunday to Saturday, with the true biblical Sabbath beginning at sunset on Friday.
  • A month, according to the Bible, is from one new moon to another, with the month starting at sunset after the astronomical new moon.
  • The year in God's sacred calendar starts and ends on the new moon after the spring equinox, contrary to the Gregorian calendar starting on January 1.
  • Historical evidence from Babylonian and Persian calendars supports the accuracy of the biblical calendar, aligning with the calendar prescription based on Genesis 1:14.
  • The imperfections in our current calendar system are attributed to astronomical disturbances recorded in the Bible, with the promise of a restored perfect calendar when Christ returns.
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