Luke Dateline Meters

Luke sends 'Theophilus' the Gospel at 4164 vernal, March-April ad 58, Lord age 61 (last birthday, Bible standard) = 4164.5 Adamic. (Whether it's a real name or just a God-lover nickname like 'Dear Valued Customer', you decide.)  Ironic: Luke formulates a Gospel writing date in the first dateline, as 56 years after Christ should have been born = 4106.  (Paul did that for Eph1:3-14; hence his meter = our bc/ad.  NOW I see why I could always 'match' our bc/ad by - or + 4106!)  So to 'cover' all fiscals but start at the time of his story, Luke inserts .5 and 1 at endpoints, just as Church is 'inserted' at Pentecost.  start 4106 sacred (vernal equinox) = 4106.5 Adamic;  so + 56 = 4162.5 Adamic +1 (plays on Noahic/Pentecostal 57 years, spans fiscal 'bridge') = 4163.5  +.5 = 4164 vernal, ties to Ziv 4101 when Luke's Gospel opens.  Get the pun on 63?

Why 'spread' both fiscals?  The Lord's Birth was potential; could occur in any month, so long as the deadline was met.  Luke employs a '57^th year' accounting; calling the spread, '56' (57^th year begins on 56^th birthday).  So 4107.5 + 57 = 4164.5, when he actually writes.  Else the math (and split 56 shown below), wouldn't be so cute.

56 = Time in Jeopardy, the most prominent Bible meter, due to its Time out of Sync origin.  First re Noah, who enters boat on 57^th day after his birthday, Gen 7:11 (Greek is right, Hebrew wrong;  so his birthday = 1^st day Passover, and entry =Pentecost).  He leaves boat 57^th day after his birthday, Gen 8:14.  Total time in boat?  364 days (= Moses' Psalm 90 +14, Isaiah's 2^nd ellipsis, = Daniel 9 and Paul's Eph 1:3-14 meter 'divisions', = John's Revelation).  Switching fiscals, nattily stresses Church as Time Bridge = theme of Ephesians, released in tandem. (2 Tim and John, also straddle fiscals.)  Church exists, because Time is Out of Sync;  she is 'sent' to redeem it (Col 4:5, Eph 5:16), to answer the Lord's John 17 prayer, 'filling all in all', Eph1:10, 15-23, all of its Chapter 2.  Cute.

Next, Abraham's too-early maturation due to Noah's 490 ending at vernal equinox so really 53.5 = 54.  Next, 54+3 (really 53.5+3.5), due to David's too-late crowning.  Mosaic Law thus prophetically memorialized Christ's schedule, 50+7 (new day begins at sundown).  Finally, as missed-sabbatical Time In Jeopardy prophesied since Psalm 90:16-17, 49+7, metrically in Daniel's prayer & God's reply, Dan9.  Writers 'tag' 56, or add 1 or even 2 (Luke adds 1.5; Daniel and John add 2).

Luke makes 56 his theme:  how God uses Church to reconcile Time.  Magnificat meter raised the issue: how god reconciles time in christ, 231 = God's meter in Dan 9:24-27; so Mary subtracts 14 to = 217, 'cliffhanger' like Ps90:17's 56 meter; she ends with Christ age 56, 40 years left on countdown to Millennium; Zecharias, continues her timeline another 84 years (plays on Ps90:1-4):  Israel's Time can be halted; yes will still complete. (From Moses forward, all dateline meters account backward, but also forward as Years-From-The-Millennium, originally scheduled for Adamic 4200: literally, Rosh HaShanah begins 4201, so it's '4200' during the first two quarters of 'our' year 4200, three quarters of the sacred year 4200.)  So Luke crafts his Gospel's outline/flow, on Magnificat meter benchmarks.  Luke thus splits the 56 in a Janus-style 28, mimics Isa53:9 & 11 (9, rebuild walls of Stone & Wood, (Neh6:15);  v.11, flayed with stone-and-bone then Hangs On Wood).

o    Aft, 4136.04 vernal start, His actual Death on Passover = 4136.54 Adamic, when Matthew wrote his Gospel.  (For Luke's textual interleave with Matthew,  see my Synoptics videos .) +28 = 4164.54 Adamic.

o    Fore, latest Trib start,  4200 - 7 = 4193 - 28 = 4165 = 4164.5 sacred, cute (so no double counting).

Since Christ died at sacred year's start, Luke must be writing near vernal equinox, to play on Gospel opening last week of Ziv, Course of Abiyah when Gavriel visits Zecharias.  Luke's text plays on six months too: Luke 1:26 (official double-article 6^th month on autumnal/civil = Adar) & Luke 1:36 (counting back to 6^th month on vernal/sacred, Elul).  Kill me now.

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Review

Originally, 54 is the number of years early that Abraham supermatured (see GeneYrs.xls at yow 2046: 2100 deadline for 'Age of Desolation' aka 'Times of the Gentiles' – 53.5 = 2046, the year of Abraham's supermaturity).  The 3 (really 3.5), is the number of years' net delay due to David being crowned late over all Israel, owing to her civil war, and/or delay in Temple Construction Start, 1Kings 6:1.  Sum becomes 57 (since you can't split a syllable) in the meters.  It's rounded to 58 in Dan9:11-12, to stress reimbursement out of sync.  So NT writers sometimes repeat that 58 meter, too.  Point is, 56, 57, 58 all signify Time In Jeopardy,  Out Of Sync.

56 = days between 50+7, Passover start to Pentecost end (Numb28:26 says begin count at sundown on last day of Passover week, unless the new day is a sabbath, in which case begin counting after that sabbath ends, hence sometimes it's 57, not 56 between).  Theme?  Christ's Death HARVESTS.

49+7, is due to Israel's missed sabbaticals from Rehoboam forward (430/7=49).  But due to that, another 7 years are due as new sabbatical years; so 49+7, two of four reconciling accounting pieces God uses in Dan9:24-27.  Note the other two, 364+70=62 weeks, include an extra seven for that reason (63+7=70);  Israel is 14 short, not 7 (490 years allotted to Temple, but it dies 126 years later, and takes 140 years to rebuild including Jerusalem's walls, so 70+49+7 was back-time credit; but she runs 14 years' late, to restore).  So that last week is only made up if Messiah lives out his full 40 years.  But He didn't.  So Time is Out of Sync when Luke writes, by 14 years.

Matthew does the same calculation, 'tagging' Malachi, so we know Matthew wrote in 30 ad.  His meters were 427 (years-from-Malachi, tagging the last Bible book to say Matthew's writing the next Bible book); and 476,  years-from-Nehemiah-rebuilding only the walls (Neh 6:15); and, the 476 remains 14 years short of 490 (but also 14 years into the last historical 70-year voting period prior to Christ, when Nehemiah went to Jerusalem), for that reason.

So when Christ actually dies, 14 years are out of sync.  So Matthew cues off Isaiah 52:13-14, crafts his genealogy in sets of legitimate heirs as 42's (David's first 42 years of life, in Isaiah 52:13-14).  Matthew's 427 meter = 490-49-14.  Clever.

Christ was supposed to die 37 ad on the Dan9 timeline;  a fact 'scholars' miss, as they shoehorn Dan9:26's 483 years as if lunar, to get rid of the obvious 'discrepancy'. Bible only uses birthdays, hence solar accounting.  Daniel talks in Nov. 538 bc just after Babylon taken by Cyrus (via Gobyras).  586 -70 -70 = 446 which scholars routinely call 444, when Nehemiah returns;  they mistake his return as a human king's decree; but God Decrees in Daniel 9:24, citing what Daniel had just been reading (per Dan 9:2, in Jer. 25:11f; 29:10).  Bible never records any decree about rebuilding Temple, except Cyrus in 538 bc to show Isaiah 45 was fulfilled. (2 Chr. 36:22f; Ezr. 1:1f, 7ff; 3:7; 4:3, 5; 5:13f, 17; 6:3, 14; Isa. 44:28; 45:1f, 13; 48:14f; Dan. 1:20f; 6:28; 10:1; 11:1). and Darius 'the Great', grand nephew(?) of Cyrus, in 522 (Ezr. 4:5, 24; 5:5ff; 6:1, 6, 12ff; Neh. 12:22; Dan. 5:31; 6:1, 6, 9, 25, 28; 9:1; 11:1; Hag. 1:1, 15; 2:1, 10f; Zech. 1:1, 7; 7:1).  Ooops.  

Of course, you can't subtract the 483 from either of those kings, and get even to ad, let alone to Christ's death.  Scholars fancy a decree was issued by another, much later Darius during Nehemiah.  But Bible only recorded decrees from the first two, not from the Darius of Nehemiah!  Even so:  446 – 483 = 37 ad, not 30.  But look: if I pretend 483 as lunar years, 483 * 360 / 365.25 = 476 solar, aha!  So that extra seven goes undetected.  Even my fellow Dispies, make this mistake!!

Bible to the rescue: Matthew clearly and simply shows all the right chronology, via his 2^nd dateline, a solar 476 meter -- it also ties back to Nehemiah in the right year (446, not 444) – stressing that, Christ died seven years too early.  So there are two sevens left to play, just as you'd know from the Daniel 9 meter (and explicit text, if you used the 'normal' way to measure Time, solar).  It's a pointed 'discrepancy' Bible means to stress as the raison d' etre, for Church.  (Sigh: well-meaning but incompetent people attempt to 'fix' the Bible in teaching, translation, or dates.  Yet isn't the Gospel jarring?  Isn't the CROSS, jarring???  Why? So we will ask why; not, cover up!  Billions of dollars wasted, millions of folks' faith lost, ouai: for we don't ask why God says such jarring stuff?!)

Next, Luke's 56 plays on Mary's Magnificat, in Luke 1:46-55;  she ended her meter at Christ 'age' 56 because that left 40 years on the clock to the Millennium.  So this is a cute way to remind 'Theophilus' how to track Luke's Gospel outline.  For his Gospel outline is based on Mary's meter.  So was Ephesians: 56 for the same reason;  Ephesians, like Luke's Gospel, is designed to show how the Magnificat prophecy, gets fulfilled.  Luke thus uses meter in Magnificat and Zecharias' reply, both of which he quotes and everyone long knew, to craft the outline of his Gospel.  Once you see that structure, you're no longer vexed at seemingly arcane data like the fact Anna was 84 (that benchmarks Sulla in Mary's meter, an important turning point in Israel's being set free by a later Caesar).  James tagged Luke 1:78-79 for his 2^nd  dateline, Zecharias' elongation prophecy re Millennium, which added 84 years to Mary's timeline. 

The 63 is bald:  Hi, I write 63 years after the opening event in the Gospel.  Which was 5 BC, since 4163 – 63 = 4101 sacred year, month of Ziv aka Iyyar, last week of that month = Abijah per 1 Chron 24, when Gavriel visits Zecharias;  four months later in Elul (Luke 1:36 'the sixth month' play on Luke 1:26's using official Greek OT chronicler's two-article style, so you know Gavriel visits Mary in Adar) – Elizabet(h) is pregnant!  Yeah, and nine months after that is sacred year 4102 Sivan, aka Pentecost.  Heh.  And six months after that is 4103 Adamic end first quarter, Chanukah.  Can't miss it.  Wow, centuries of debates over when Jesus is born, all resolved by a clever '63' plus Luke 1:26 definite articles in the Chronicles and Kings official-date styles in LXX.  (Wow, and I too missed that '63' for over a year, too slipshod in doing my meter!  Ouch.)

Our copy of Luke's Gospel has two ways of phrasing its dateline of 4164 aka 58 ad, March-April: 1^st,  a cover letter to 'Theophilus', 56 years after Christ should have been born under the initial Abrahamic schedule, Luke 1:1-2.

2^nd dateline, end verse 2 is 63, with the same cutely bald meaning here in verse 5:  63 years after 4101 sacred aka vernal equinox fiscal, aka Iyyar/Ziv 5 BC, last week – which of course, is when the story opens!  (4101 Elul when she gets pregnant + 9 months equals 4102 John's (Pentecost) Sivan birth, + six months = 4103 Lord's Birth on Chanukah due to Adamic autumnal equinox fiscal.  Cute:  due to Sanhedrin wrongly adopting a solilunar year, and not intercalating except every three years or so: the two holidays then likely 'balanced' against each other!) 

Luke thus writes in the 28^th year after Matthew 1.  56/2, get it? Cute way to tag Matthew; as well as by means of, the surgical 'wrap-to-Matthew' nature of the text itself, demonstrated in the Synoptics videos.  Magnificat ends at 40 years prior to the Millennium, at the Lord's age 56.  That her speech would be Canon, everyone long knew. (Most NT meters I've seen, tag Magnificat.)  Magnificat tacked on 73 years from the endpoint in Dan9's meter (which ended at 238 BC Rise of Rome), to continue that timeline, down to Christ's birth.

Next, 91, is a killer.  It 'tags' Isaiah 53's palindromic use of 56 (as two 28's) and 35, to parallel Temple Down and Rebuilt, now the underlying rhetorical framework of Luke's Gospel: how the 'new' prophetical, antiphonal dialogue between Magnificat and Zecharias' reply, gets done.. via Church.  Additionally, the 91 tags Paul's 'Year of Church' (playing on Noah's Year in the Boat) meter framework in Ephesians 1:3-14. (For more on the '91', see the Luke Revisited and Jim videos in the vimeo lukemeter channel.)  For Church, is the extra 'seven' of history (Moses used 84 in Psalm 90:1-4, so Church wasn't on the original schedule).

Luke's 140 is also a killer.  Luke primarily tags Paul's Eph 1:6, which prophetically covers Bar Kochba rebellion; for Luke's theme is Why Transition to Church.  See: an already-known story is retold, to stress current application of that same story in the time written;  so he must set a linking theme.  So you'll closely follow what he writes, not gloss over history too long familiar.  For past, is prologue.

So he also tags Psalm 90:17 to show hands established to carry Jewish history to Messiah's Birth: Zakar-Yah, God-Remembers and Eli-sheba, God-Promises or God is Rest.  For these folks are 'firstfruits': a paltry 'handful' waved before the Lord, harvested.  Then you count 49!  So oh how apt, God sends Gavriel to herald a boy who'll be born on Pentecost!  to sterile Elishabet.  Cute play on Isaiah 54:1, sterile bearing kids:  wa ts'hali lo hala!  Ki rabbim beni shomema, me beni baulah, amar YeHWaH!  For Moses in Psalm 90, left 140 years on Israel's 490 clock: 70+70 for rebuilding Temple (586-516) and Jerusalem (516-446) so Time May Continue (even before there was a 1^st Temple).  Here vindicated, in two sets of hands.  So God gives those hands, a Time's Up! herald for The Succeeding Hand in Isa 53:10b: Messiah Who becomes Our Firstfruits (Exo 23:16, 19, 34:22, 26, Lev 2:12, 23:10, 17, 20, Num 18:12-13, 28:26, Deut 18:4, 2 Ki 4:42, 2 Chr 31:5, Neh 10:35, 12:44, 13:31, Ps 105:36, Ezek 44:30, Rom 8:23, 1 Co. 15:20, 23, 16:15, Jas 1:18, 3:17, Rev. 14:4).  First Fruits is, of course, the proper name for the Day He Rose; but we call it East-Star aka Dawn Star aka Morning Star, aka Easter.

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140 also benchmarks 4243, the 100^th anniversary of the Lord's Davidic-scheduled Death, due to  Zecharias' metered speech.  Starting at gar enopion kuriou in Luke 1:76, Zecharias counts to 43 after the Millennium: gar marks the Davidic deadline for the Lord's scheduled Death (clever, since Christ was scheduled hence before the Father, and John already would be).  Zecharias mimics Mary's style; for she stopped her count at 40 before the Mill; so he continues prophecy to the start of 44 syllables = years after it.

Luke thus reconciles Bible's timeline shifts on both Abraham and David, and for the actual year Christ died:  2090 years after Abraham matured, vs. the original 2100.  (Abraham matured back in Abib/Nisan, 2046 from Adam's Fall.)

Zecharias thus tagged the Lord's Dan9:26 scheduled Death of the 69^th week at age 40 = 'our' 37 ad. (= 1000 years after David died at age 77.  Count the solar years in Daniel 9:24-27, then compare with the bald math in 1Kings 6:1 showing David died at age 77, not 70.)  For when Zecharias talked, Christ hadn't yet been born; so maybe He'd live the full 40 years.  But when Luke writes, the Lord had already died at age 33.  So instead of the scheduled Davidic death deadline of 4143 vs. the original Abrahamic deadline of 2046 + 2100 = 4146, Christ died in 4136.  (Adjustments are covered in JohnDatelineMeters.)

(Mary ended her meter at 217, Christ age 56, last-birthday; Zecharias takes the meter to 301. Psalm 90:13, how long?  Well, 301-217 = 84, as Moses voted YES during the historical 70-year voting period preceding the Exodus, so as his 81^st birthday present God granted the Exodus.  So, in his 81^st year to beget Exodus, he was returned, 40+40 (left Egypt at 40, then returned); next, 14 years are subtracted from Mary's 217 based on Davidic deadline of start 4143 for Christ's death: sum is 95, then +1 to count that year.  So add 4143 = start of 4240.  So Luke, writing in 4164, also adds 81, = 4245 sacred end, hence start 4246 Adamic.  Cute.)

'140' also tags Temple Down Decree in Isaiah 53.  Isaiah 53:2, covered in this video, marks Manasseh's capture in 649 bc (details are in the Daniel Chronology Footnote E); as a result Manasseh repented, cleaned the Temple; yet as 2 Kings 21:11ff, 23:26ff, 24:3-4, Jer 15:4 show, God nonetheless decreed Temple fall due to Manasseh --- and by extension, Israel's apostasy (2 Kings 21:9).

1^st Temple falls at syllable 203 = 586 bc in Isaiah 53:4's God, Violated!  in literal English.  Now you know the origin of God's twinned, equidistant Decree of 70 (x 2) years in Jeremiah 25:11-12, 29:10, in the meter and numbers of Daniel 9.  (Those verses are the Decree To Rebuild, not some human king's.  GOD decrees in Daniel 9:24, not any human!  Took months of tailchasing why scholar numbers never balance, before I realized that I too should heed BIBLE TEXT rather than Mr./Dr. Respectable's errant opinion, about that verse!)

Bible writers use meter as 'time bookends'; hence they furnish doctrine in the text, with trenchant historical or prophetic underframes, supplied by the meter.  So notice: Luke used '56', to show why Church; given that '56' in meter, was always about Israel's apostasy (14 short), reason for her Diaspora and 1^st Temple fall (49 + 7 sabbatical years' due ON the 49, generates the second seven).  This meter was made famous in Psalm 90:16-17 (which closes at '56' and stops at the then-future point of Nehemiah's arrival to rebuild the walls; but the entire Psalm is full of palindromic 56's).  Isaiah 53 played off this same meter three times, with two 56's and a pair of 28's.

So Luke now closes the equidistance bookend with '140' tag (70 x 2), to stress his theme, Transition To Church Age;  thus he deftly parallels the reason for upcoming fall of 2^nd Temple in 70 ad, by tagging Manasseh via Isaiah's prophetical meter timeline; and thereby, all related Bible verses.

Okay, but what does the 140's placement, have to do with Zecharias and Elisabet?  For the 140 is 'matched' to the text of Luke 1:7, Elisabet is sterile, and both of them were advanced in years (Zecharias was likely age 58, so Elisabet though always sterile anyway, had to be in menopause).  Since they are of Aaron, they represent Israel, right?  So get this meaning:   Israel too, is advanced in years and sterile.  That's Mark's Gospel theme: his oft-repeated keyword euthus, is absent from Chapters 12 and 13, which cover the Lord's Last visit To Jerusalem (euthus last occurs in 11:3, resurfaces at 14:43);  due to, cursing the fig tree (=Israel, in both Chapter 11 and in OT).  So God Remembers Zecharias and God gives His Promise to Elisabet, so she must Rest in confinement; for Israel, is advanced in years and sterile; so Israel, needs to be re-seeded with Herald and Heir.  Thus God establishes the work of their hands as Moses had prayed in Psalm 90:17, and God-Son agreed to Succeed by Taking On Hands, Isaiah 53:10b.  Because, the 490 must complete:  in Him.

Cute, huh.  When Moses wrote Psalm 90, he left 140 years in ellipsis because Israel's vote-short 56, would cause the remaining 14 to be 'held' until Messiah arrives.  So Moses did that, 'moving' the 14 into the first four verses of Psalm 90.  Now, here in Luke, Messiah IS arriving, 7 Years Ensconced In His Lifetime: so to reduce the 14, back to that lone 7 Tribulation long since memorialized by Passover = Passion Week God gave in Daniel 9:27. The '0' got cut off, with 14 not 140 remaining.  So Luke cagily restores that '0', to remind readers why the 14 is in ellipsis, when the story opens with  God Remembers (aka Zecharias) and God Promises (aka Elizabeth) – Israel needs to bear kids, but isn't.  So now you know why Mark's first dateline = 14, playing on the cover letter 56 meter in Luke.

So that's why Luke uses 140.  He must establish the precis of Israel being sterile, so a sterile priestly-aka-representatives-of-Israel couple get the herald of Messiah, to fulfill Isaiah 53:2's wa ka shoresh, m'eretz tsiyyah: He sprang up in the parched Promised Land, hence Isaiah 54:1's theme of sterile bearing kids.  We Church are grafted-in 'kids', ya'arik yamim in Isaiah 53:10, only because they were sterile.  Had the fig tree borne fruit when the Lord visited, we'd not be here; and the Mill would have begun back in ad 94...

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So, as Paul noted in Romans 9-11, Israel's loss is our gain; so we Church are to return the favor, Bridge Time back to her; so her complement of believers (Ephesians 2) can be completed (Hebrews 11:39-40, without us they will not be completed).  See: once that 7 against Temple plays, the overlapping transitional end of the 'age of Israel' completes. Church might mature meanwhile, so Rapture might happen too; ergo, Luke, Ephesians and James, are written (or disseminated) in the same year, probably as a result of Paul's arrest.  Which arrest, would be a trigger.  For depending on how you count upcoming years, 7 + 7 = 14 remain.  Of course, 10 years later Paul dies, which triggers the Year of the Four Emperors.  With the result that, Peter Jude Mark Hebrews all come out, to update the Eph1:3-14' timeline.

Luke's 140 astonishingly tacks onto Matthew's own 4136 Gospel dateline, to connect Daniel and Isaiah.  Astonishing, as that's also how Daniel himself connected to Isaiah, at Daniel 9 syllable 182, Isaiah syllable 133 (see the 'Chrono Chart' section of that Daniel link).  Next: Matthew's datelines were 427 and 476; those formulas were simple years-from the year he writes;  those years were 397/6 bc (427-30 in our math), tagging the last prior Bible book (Malachi); and 446 bc, when Nehemiah rebuilt the walls (Neh 6:15).  Doctrinal theme? end-Malachi is fulfilled in John the Baptist and in Christ Himself, so now Temple Time is up (versus Jerusalem Temple yet under renovation by Herod, since 16-18 years prior to Christ's own Birth).  So Luke handily piggybacks the 140 on Matthew's meter, to advertise the following trenchant dates: 427 + 140 -30 (ad) = 537 bc start, when Daniel was praying, 49^th year of Temple Down;  and, 476 + 140 -30 (ad) = 586 bc, Temple Down!  Could you ask for more proof, Matthew is 1^st Gospel?  Balancing Dates, Theme and Text?!

For Dan9:7:11-12 meters 58+58 re Manasseh (play on his age and his being 'late'), the proximate juridical cause for the 140 'time cost' to rebuild;  Mary's Magnificat (Luke 1:51d at her syllable 133, see context), spoken in Adar, 5 BC, 'mapped' from first Chanukah (defiled Temple rededicated theme), to parallel the indictment.  Notice how the extra seven (140-133) here, is an incisive way to piggyback on both Mary and Daniel: that extra seven had to be spent rebuilding Temple, so now must be 'reimbursed' by Temple takedown. For the Lord died 7 years early, and the extra seven was allotted for building Him; since as a result of Israel's rejection He 'left the building', then Church has to be built;  so the Building can be taken down.

(To be fair, this is where 'Replacement Theology' gets its steam.  But that steam is quickly turned to vanished vapor, when you read Ephesians and Hebrews, which make it quite clear that Church has its OWN 'covenant' based on Psalm 110 for a new grafted-in kingdom, to 'bridge' to the New Covenant so Israel too will still get her 'time' and promises to all those OT saints, fulfilled.  Pity the Replacement aka anti-semitic 'theologians' their convenient inability to take ALL Bible into account.  Israel's vested in CHRIST, and no one will replace her.  She turned down an extra 'covenant ' of Brideship, so we get that one.  Brideship is MATURATION and MARRIAGE conditional contract;  it was separate from the promises to Abraham and Moses and David.  Those who lump all these promises together as if one, well.. they will never mature.)

So when Luke writes, the 70+70 Daniel 9 accounting Isaiah 53 metered, is due; for Christ died end 61^st week.  So clock ticks equidistantly: 7 until 33 years equidistant from the Lord's age at death, as Paul mapped in Eph1:4's 66th syllable=year ad ;  including that seven, when Luke writes, it's still 28 years to the remaining seven.. the Tribulation (end 58 ad + 28 = end 86 ad = start 4194, first year of pre-Church, scheduled Trib).  Aft, it's also 28 years since the Lord actually died (58-30), again tagging Matthew.  In each case, minus a 'seven' (35 + 35 = 70).  Convergence.  Complicated.  Cute.

James too ended his dateline meter as 112 (= 56 + 56); plus, in ellipsis, the Lord's death 28 years prior. (James writes 28 years after the Lord died too, his first meter).  That's 140-142, depending on how you round the three interlocking fiscal years (autumnal, Roman calendar, or sacred; 140, if counting backward as did Luke) from Sulla's retirement (benchmark in Luke 1:49 Magnificat kai hagion to onoma autou, Mary still counting forward from initial Chanukah, when the most famous of past Roman civil wars ended, get Luke and James' pun on 140).  Paul used 140, in Eph 1:6, deftly prophesying yet another parallel 70 years after the 2^nd Temple falls: the Bar Kochba revolt in 'our' 132-135 ad, which resulted (by seventh year later!) in Jerusalem being razed, a pig temple standing on the ruins of the 2^nd Temple.

Today, that same spot is 'topped' by the Muslim 'Dome of the Rock'; for Muslims also claim that same Holy of Holies, as the 'rock' from which Muhammed allegedly 'ascended'.  Rather bald billboards, both Wailing Wall and Dumb Dome, Two Stone Witnesses until the human ones arrive in Rev 11 to proclaim Trib Started.  So oh lookie: we have a pair of mute heralds, yelling: Messiah Left The Building, Dan9:26c is 'on'!  Groundhog Day Time Bubble of Church. Matthew 24 is thus tagged via Luke 21, updating it for 'times' of the Gentiles!  Time, times, and half a time:  Time1, Adam to Abraham;  Time 2, now Church, which is really two times, the Harvesting of the Gentiles on the original pre-Church schedule, but now extended as Church (including the overlapping 40).  Then half a time, Trib.  (Folks construe 'time' as only one year, yet where is that the SOLE meaning, in Bible?  Sure, it's got a literal application, but Dan7:25 isn't only 3.5 years, but the entire Trib; nor is Dan12:7.  The Lord didn't mean only two years, when He spoke Luke 21:24;  He seems to tag Daniel 12:7.  Rev12:14 is 3.5 years.  Tell me: what in Bible isn't double- or even triple-entendre, layered meanings fitting like a well-constructed, brick building?)

For when Luke writes, everyone knew Temple would fall 40 years after Christ died.  Luke Paul James all write in the same year, and Paul even plotted it as a what-if, in a mid-Trib pattern like Daniel 9:27 (syllables equal ad years 66-73, Temple actually falling at hagious in Eph 1:4).  Mary's meter stopped at 40 years to Millennium, for that reason.  She tried to assess how Daniel 9:26-27, would 'play', if He was rejected.  As 1Peter 1:10-12 explains, OT prophets tried to ascertain that, too; so Zecharias prophesied through Adamic 4243, speaking Luke 1:78-79 on Pentecost 5/4 bc, re 2^nd Advent = scheduled Millennium + 43.  Zecharias' text had one use if Millennium occurred, but another if it didn't, as shown in the Jim7 and later videos.