CHAPTER
THREE
TIME UNITS IN GOD’S CALENDAR
In the same
way that the Gregorian year is made up of different time units like the months,
weeks and days, God’s calendar is also made up of different time units which
are however totally different from those of the Gregorian calendar. The
following are the time units which make up God’s calendar.
THE DAY
The ‘day’ is
the smallest time unit in God’s calendar although it is further subdivided into
hours, minutes and even seconds. However, the purpose of this book is to look
at the bigger picture. From God’s perspective, the day is that period of time
which falls between two sunsets. In other words, a day starts and ends at
sunset. This is unlike the Gregorian calendar which reckons the day to start
and end at mid-night.
One wonders
what planetary motion is there at midnight to quality as the beginning of the
day. One also wonders what sign there is on the Sun at that time to suggest the
beginning of the day. The devil can really play around with our wisdom and
surprisingly he succeeds greatly in getting our support. According to the
Gregorian calendar, any successive 24 hours can be referred to as a day but not
so from God’s perspective.
A day according to God must always synchronize
at sunset. Any period of 24 hours cannot qualify to be called a day according
to God’s manner of reckoning time unless it synchronizes at sunset. However,
any section of the day however small is considered to be a full day by God.
That means that if God sends you for an assignment a few minutes before sunset,
you will be considered to have been sent out for a full day and you will
actually receive the same wages as those who had started earlier. Can you
remember the eleventh hour workers? That is why we say our God is a God of the
eleventh hour.
That is also
the reason why we say Jesus stayed in the tomb for three days despite the fact
that he was buried on Friday evening. The few hours of Friday are reckoned as a
full day. At least on Saturday Sabbath he spent the whole day and then we have
the night part of Sunday before resurrecting on Sunday morning. Jesus actually
spent 40 hours in the tomb which is barely two days according to the Gregorian
reckoning but according to God it is a record three days.
God did not
give particular name to any of the days. The days were only named from number 1
to 7. There was no day number 8. Day number 8 again became day number 1 so that
we have the world history unfolding in recurring periods of seven days each which
are called weeks. Therefore from the perspective of the week, the days are
known only from number 1 to number 7. All the seven days from number 1 to
number 7 must run parallel or synchronize with their respective and
corresponding days in the week of creation. We will look at other details when
we are discussing the week of seven days as a special time unit in God’s
calendar.
However,
from the perspective of the month, the days are numbered in ascending order from
number 1 up to the last day of the month which is the day before New Moon day
or lunar conjunction.
Therefore
each day is numbered from the perspective of the week as well as from the
perspective of the month using different methods. A day can be the first day of
the week but the 17th in the month. Sometimes there can be
coincidences and accidents so that the first day of the week (Sunday) can also
become the first day of the month. However their numbering is totally NOT
related. Therefore each day can be identified or numbered either from the
perspective of the week or from the perspective of the month. These are two
parallel formulae and methods of reckoning the days.
You will
notice that the week of seven days is not determined by any planetary motion
but it only exists in the mind and law of God. Don’t forget the first day was
created three days before the Sun and the Moon were created. Therefore the
seven days of the week are not determined by either the Sun or the Moon. In
other words, if we want to identify the 7th day of the week, I cannot
read either the Sun or the Moon but I will only find it in the Law of God.
However if I want to identify the 7th day of the month, then I have
got to be guided by the Moon.
Out of all
the seven days of the week, God singled out one and set it apart and blessed
it. This is the seventh day of the week which falls on Saturdays. It is a day
of rest called The Holy Sabbath Day. The Bible classifies the Sabbath day as a
special feast among many other feasts (Leviticus 23 & Exodus 23). This
Sabbath is the one which serves to identify God’s people who have been called
to receive the Kingdom. It is a special sign for God’s people.
The week of
seven days as we shall see is further used as a template or model to design
other bigger time units in God’s calendar.
THE MONTH
The month is
a very important unit of time in God’s calendar. A Month is the length of time
it takes the Moon to make one rotation around the earth. It is naturally
obvious that the rotation must start at a particular established place since
our God is a God of order and for Him synchrony is a big issue because things
cannot start and end randomly and haphazardly in a disorderly manner. The
rotation must ordinarily start at point zero.
From our
human perspective, the Sun, earth and the Moon must be on a straight line at
the time that the Moon starts its journey around the earth. The only way we can
know that the three are on a straight line is when there is totally no crescent
on the Moon. The appearance of the crescent is a sign that the journey has
started. When the three are a on a straight line we say we have the conjunction
of the Moon or there is a lunar conjunction. The day of the conjunction is
called New Moon Day. It does not matter what time the conjunction occurs but
the day on which it happens is the first day of the month even if the conjunction
is only a few minutes before the sunset. The last day of the month is the day
before the next lunar conjunction.
God did not
give names to the months but He numbered them just like the days of the week
from number one onwards. In one year there are either twelve or thirteen months
depending on the movement of the Moon. There is no regularity in the length of
the months. A month can be 28 days this year, 29 days in the next, 30 days in
the next and even 31 in the next. The seventh month is the shortest ranging
from 22 to 26 days. These irregularities are caused by many factors including
latitudes and longitudes and also the fact that the world is not evenly
circular like a football.
THE YEAR
The year
according to God is made up of either twelve or thirteen months depending on
several factors which affect the movement of the Moon like the longitudes and
latitudes among others.
However God further subdivides the year into
two. We have the first seven months which make up the famous religious part of
the year. The remaining part is what we call the civilian part. That’s why you hear of terminologies such as
the religious as well as the civil year. They both make up one entire year
according to planetary motion.
Since the
moons are irregular from one year to another, the year can be anything between
354 and 385 days.
THE WEEK OF 7 YEARS
In order to
symbolically provide us with further details pertaining to the general Plan of
Salvation, God in His wisdom designed another time unit which is made up of
seven consecutive years. This time unit is modeled after the template of the
seven day week so that we have year No. 1 to year No.7 the same way that we
have day one to day seven in the week of seven days.
The years
were not given specific names but were only named in ascending order from
number one to number seven just like the seven days of the week. The seventh
and final year is also a Sabbatical for the land the same way that the seventh
day is a Sabbath day.
God designed
a maximum of seven sets of weeks of seven years each to make up a full Jubilee
calendar of 49 years. The 7 sets of weeks were not given any special names but
were also only numbered in ascending order from number one to number seven
after the model of the week of seven days.
The first
week of seven years in the Jubilee cycle must always synchronize and run
parallel with the first week of seven years from the exodus the same way that
the week of seven days of today must synchronize and run parallel with the
first week of creation. Therefore according to God, it is not just any set of
seven years which qualify to be called a week of seven years unless they
synchronize with their corresponding and relevant weeks in the first Jubilee
cycle from the exodus which was running from 1437 BC to 1389 BC.
God always
has a special agenda set out for every week of seven years according to the Plan
of Salvation. Such an agenda is fulfilled in a systematic manner and must be finished
by the Friday year since the seventh year is the year of accountability
(judgment). It is in the seventh year that God looks at the work of the last
six years to see if it is good the way He judged His own work in the seventh
day and blessed that day.
Therefore
the seventh day and seventh year are judgment times. We either get blessings
after passing the test or we get curses if we fail the test. Demands for the
observance of the Sabbatical year were as noble and serious as that of the
seventh day Sabbath.
THE 49-YR LONG JUBILEE CALENDAR
This is the
second largest unit of time in God’s original Salvation Calendar. It is made up
of seven weeks of seven years each. Those sets of seven years each follow each
other from week number one to week number seven in ascending order from week
number one to week number seven.
This means that
the Jubilee Calendar is made of a total of 49 years. Therefore this time period
of 49 years is also modeled after the template of the week of seven days. This
means that whatever is true of the week of seven days is also true of the week
of 49 years and is also true of the week of seven years which is designed after
the same model and template.
This means
that the final or seventh week of seven years is also Sabbatical in nature from
the perspective of God’s agenda for any Jubilee period of 49 years. In fact
even the sixth week of seven years in the jubilee calendar is preparatory in
nature just like the sixth day of the week is referred to as preparation day.
God has a special
agenda for any Jubilee period of 49 years which He accomplishes in a systematic
manner from the first week of seven year to the other until the final seventh
or Sabbatical week when God’s main agenda is to demand accountability in as far
as God agenda for that Jubilee period is concerned.
It is not
any group of 49 years which qualifies to be called a week of 49 years unless
all the 49 years of the Jubilee calendar perfectly synchronizes or runs parallel with the first
49 years from the exodus. This period is called a Jubilee period because the 50th
Jubilee year or the first year of the next Jubilee cycle is set apart for the
celebrations of having completed the entire Jubilee calendar or probation
period of 49 years.
THE 490-YEAR PROBATION PERIOD.
The largest
and final unit of time in God’s Calendar of Salvation is made up of ten
consecutive jubilee calendars of 49 years each. This means it is 490 years
long.
Just like
any other unit of time, the end of one 490-yr probation marks the beginning of
another. This means the history of salvation which runs parallel with the
history of the world is made up of recurring periods of 490 years each.
This period
of 490 years probation period is automatically made up of 70 consecutive weeks
of seven years each. The seventy weeks of seven years each which God gave
Israel through Daniel in Daniel 9:24 is a perfect model on how God carries out
His business during every other 490- year long probation period.
It is not
every group of 490 years which qualifies to be called a probation period from
God’s perspective. All the 490 years must perfectly synchronize and run
parallel with the first 490 years since the exodus which run from the year 1437
BC to 948 BC. The other 490-yr probation periods are 947 BC to 458 BC, 457 BC
to 33AD, 34 AD to 523 AD, 524 AD to 1013, 1014 to 1503, 1504 to 1993 in that
order from Mt. Sinai.
The final
week of seven years at the end of each 490-year probation period is very
important because that is when God comes down to demand accountability from His
Church for that period. Therefore the 70th week is a special moment. The 70th
week of Israel as described in Dan 9:24-27 is a perfect model of how God
behaves in every 70th week. God treats every 70th week
the same way He treated the famous 70th week of Israel.
It is also
important to point out that the 70th week is a high Sabbath because
it is a Sabbatical week for the final 10th jubilee calendar and also
a Sabbatical to close down the 490 year long probation period. The following
are the 70th weeks since the exodus in their chronological order,
954 BC to 948 BC, 464 BC to 458 BC, 27 AD to 33 AD, 517 AD to 523 AD, 1007 to
1013, 1497 to 1503 and 1987 to 1993. The
490-year long probation period is the longest probation period in God’s Calendar
Of Salvation.
It
automatically follows that the week prior to the 70th one must be
preparatory in nature just as Friday is a day of preparation in readiness for
the Sabbath. All the principles which govern the operation of the seven-day
week are applicable in any other time unit which is modeled after its template.
This means the 69th week is a ‘Friday’ or sixth week of preparation.
God prepares for the Judgment as the Church prepares to be judged.
God always
has a special agenda for His Church during every probation period. He demands
accountability during the final week of seven years in a systematic manner.
THE WEEK OF SEVEN DAYS
The week of
seven days is a peculiar unit in God’s Calendar Of Salvation since it is the
only one which does not rely on planetary motion to be reckoned. One must as a
matter of rule and necessity read the Sun, the Moon and the Stars to reckon all
the other time units but not the week of seven days.
The week of
seven days only exists in the mind and in the Law of God. It is the model and
template that God uses to design many other units of time in God’s Calendar Of
Salvation. That’s why all other units of time which are designed after the
model of the seven-day week are also called ‘weeks’ in God’s language of
reckoning time.
Therefore
the week of seven days exists side by side alongside other time units in God’s
Calendar of Salvation. They interlock in a marvelous way despite the fact that
the week of seven days is determined by the Word of God as is reflected from
His Law and the other units of time are determined by planetary motion involving
the Sun, Moon and the Stars.
Kindly be
reminded that the week of seven days started three days before the instruments
of the Sun, Moon and the Stars were created and therefore there was no Moon or
Sun to mark the start of the week of creation. The first day according to the Moon
was the 4th day of creation when the Moon was created. During the seventh day
which God blessed, the Moon was suggesting it was day number four having been
created in the middle of the week on ‘Wednesday’ which is the fourth day.
Therefore,
the Sun and the Moon do not help us in any way to determine or reckon any of
the days of the week. The Sun only helps in managing the individual days. The Moon
only helps us to identify the days of the month which is a totally different
matter from identifying the days of week. The first day of the week does not
have to be the first day of the month and vice versa.
HOW TO WRITE GOD’S DATE
Therefore, if
we are to write a full date according to God’s Calendar of Salvation, all the
six time units must be mentioned. The only unit of time left out is the week of
seven days.
The date
should therefore take this shape; Day/ Month/Year/Week of Seven Years/Week of
49 yrs/ 490 Probation Period. If for instance the first day of the first month
of the year 2015 will be on 20th March 2015, then this is how we
write it according to God’s Calendar, 1/1/1/4/71/8.
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