The Flood:  A Paradigmal Calendar of Time?

 

 

Endnotes

 

a.  Between age 70 and 77, King David designed the priestly courses listed here in 1Chron24;  the names are meant to be meaningful and prophetic for that week of Israel's history, as well as represent the priestly family who has the job of serving for that course.  Meaning names and 'map' are here: HebCal.htm .  Name Meanings come directly from BibleWorks' lexicons, or are estimated based on them.

 

b. God 'mirrors' Time to REDEEM, so mirroring patterns are important.  They also help to validate the text/interpretation.  If a pattern of mirroring is seen, you're likely looking at the right text, i.e., here I use LXX  instead of  BHS;  the mirroring would not be visible, from the latter.  So that underscores the likelihood that LXX is the correct text here, for the same reason that BHS not the LXX, is right in Genesis 5 (BHS shows 490 mirroring in Genesis 5 between Seth and Enoch, Shem and Isaac; LXX can't).  Main page on God's 'mirroring' Time, w/all related links, worksheets, and videos is Mirroring.htm .

Palindromes emphasize what's BETWEEN the bookends.  I don't wholly know why it's done here.  I do know you can prove it in Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53.

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Psalm 90's 'map':

Isaiah 53's 'map':

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Methodology Notes

 

1.  Noah's Flood Timing sets a precedence.  I back into it from knowing the Mosaic calendar.  So this is an educated guess about how God makes Flood timing, precendental.  Conventional ancient Judaism believed Noah's birthday was the vernal equinox.  Since the 57 days is stressed in Hebrew meter (especially Psalm 90's), I bet Noah's birthday was Passover, instead.  Click here for Jack Lewis' book on Genesis mss variations + ancient interps.

 

The mirroring convergences (yellow-highlights) demonstrate formulaic patterns used  in Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9 and Paul's Eph1:3-14 meters (especially for datelines).  These are:

 

Grand Convergence, 57 fronting and backing a  divisible-by-seven period:

(308 days) 44 sevens, + 16 sevens (114 days-2) = 60 sevens

 

 

 

NESTED Convergence, 47 fronting and backing a divisible-by-seven subset period:

 (203 days) 29 sevens + 13 sevens (94 days-3) = 42 sevens

 

 

 

Nested Trinity Sevens

 

 

Also, a '61'= 8 sevens (+5) mirroring nexus  'hub' to both

The Lamb Set Aside Date, and 1Chron24 'year' of 360 days

(excluding the intercalation for Adar)

 

 

 

 

Methodology Notes, continued

 

1.  Noah's Flood Timing sets a precedence, continued

 

The 57 front-and-back denotes PREPARE FOR AN ENDING.  Mosaic law stresses that number, as does Hebrew meter, which is also used with Greek words in the NT (i.e., Eph1:3-14).  So here, preparation before going into the Ark, and preparation before disembarking.  In Mosaic Law, the last 57 years of pre-Millennial history (after which begins THE Day of THE Lord) was depicted by Jubilee (for Harvesting the Gentiles), and Trib.  Strong implication that the Trib was to begin on a Nisan 1.  I don't know if that intent remains, given how Church's 'Rapture' is unpredictable.

 

The 47 front-and-back denotes judgment testing followed by building or enduring.  Signifies back-up warning, for those who fail to prepare during the '57'.  (It's not hard to imagine that during the 47 days, many still survived;  some might have believed in God, moments before they died.)  The 47 can play within the 57, or follow it.  When playing 'within', it NESTS (i.e., first David crowned during the '57' ending the third 1050 from Adam's fall; Church Age inserted during the '57' after the Last David's death, preceding the fourth 1050 from Adam's fall).

 

Here, seven-year periods are often nested inside a 40, so it could play as 33+7+7 to reimburse the first seven.  There are repeated examples; perhaps most relevant, is David's Rule paired with Solomon's 7 years' unrest following David's retirement (1Kings1-2).  Earlier,  Joseph's time (33+7+7+33=80, his years of rule, with the fat and lean 7's, in the middle).  Christ was to live 40 years but died 7 years early, so the extra seven remaining 'played' between 64-70AD, inside that back-ended '40'. The remaining 7, is the Tribulation.  (The hasty writer of Hebrews seemed to expect the Trib to begin when the Temple was to go down, a foreknown thing since Israel delayed entering the Land for 40 years, and she was under siege when he wrote, in the Year of the Four Emperors.  Paul also benchmarked it , in his meter of Eph1:3-14.)

 

Trinity sevens seem to denote nested forays, hence building amidst attack or opposition.  This is the second most-prominent number stressed in Psalm 90 (and in Eph1:3-14).  The 21's notably play in Israel's history.  Three sevens for Jacob.  Three sevens to build First Temple including Solomon's own building. (He delayed Temple dedication, 1Kings 6 compared to 1Kings 8 and companion passages in Chronicles -- one wonders why.)  Three sevens to build second Temple after returning to the Land (well-known opposition, see Haggai, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, etc).

 

Nexus mirrors converging on the selfsame day seem to denote the end of one epoch and beginning of the next.  Jewish day begins in the evening (at sundown, technically), so Day 2 begins ON Day 1.  So here we have a '61' nexus, as it's Noah's Birthday, a solar-calendar anniversary 'keyed' with a lunar anniversary -- well, 'lunar' in the sense of  twelve 30-day months, the convention David adopted in 1Chron 24. (So presumably the last 4-6 days were tacked onto Adar, no Adar Sheni needed.  Israel followed Roman leap-year convention in Christ's day.  So notice: 24 courses = 24 hours per day. Each priest has equal time of 365.25 hours if he carefully relieved his predecessor at the right hour.)  But I don't know why God chose to use '61' as each 'bookend'.   The number 60 is 30 doubled.  30 is a savior-age number (Joseph as vizier, David as King, Christ announcing Himself as Messiah).  Beyond that, right now I don't know what importance for Israel/history, this nexus value, conveys.

 

2.  Jewish modern accounting for a year is wrong.  In Youtube, see 'sarshalomin' videos.  Many other Jews know the modern calendar is wrong.  Google on "Seder Olam Rabbah", a prophecy-accounting calendar; it cuts out years (i.e., under the Persians).  Current Jewish calendar claiming 2011=year 5771 of creation, seems based on the SOR.  By contrast, Mosaic law had 24 priestly courses (see my PassPlot.htm and HebCal.htm).  The last priestly course (Maaziah) could easily stay the extra days to intercalate; or,  the hour of relief could be adjusted per course, so all priests serve equal time (365.25 hours).  I would bet they did the latter.  In which case, the course name (and hence relevant prophecy) in the  chart's penultimate column, would change to the course for the following week.  To keep this chart simple, I instead let the last course 'run' the extra five days.

 

3.  It makes sense to start with Nisan.  If we do, we get Biblically significant dates tying to Genesis 7, especially when you consider the metaphorical importance of  Ark depicting salvation, water depicting Bible, being in Christ on the Cross (Romans 6), Temple Ark as an update on both Noah's ark and Moses' basket (when he floated to Pharaoh's daughter Hatshepsut, see Exodate.htm).  I cover the threaded Ark significance in LvS4a.htm. 

 

4.  All the deaths when Flood began, depict the later deaths of the firstborn of Egypt and other Exodus plagues, plus Passion Week, plus Pentecost, which is for 'harvesting the Gentiles'.  The 10 plagues in Egypt also lasted about a year.  The Flood people wouldn't all have died immediately.  They would swim, they would find debris and other things to cling onto, as the waters rose.  Surely some of them jerryrigged rafts.  But the flooding stayed too high for too long.  Lack of fresh water and food, exposure -- would have eventually killed them.  So both the Flood and the Exodus are the precedence for the Revelation plagues, and this precedence is intended -- how else can Trib people be sure GOD is doing it, if they don't have a Book showing the same judgments happened before, in the same rollout fashion?

 

5.  Flood lasts 365 days, when corrected to the LXX's 57th day entry.  Since 57 is such a prominent number in Hebrew meter; since Hebrew 'im' ending added to 'esher' would add the extra 10 days, it's not far-fetched to assume scribal omission in Hebrew, preserved in LXX.  Same for 11th month, because the missing word has a run-on sound (ashte asar vs. asar).  One can easily empathize with the surely-tired, scribe.

 

6. Notice that in any event, the precedence is SOLAR year, never lunar.  Noah's birthday requires a solar-year accounting.  So too, Israel's birthday, Exodus 12.  Here, the mindless practice of one 'scholar' deferring to another, is most obvious.  Oh, Israel uses a lunar calendar, the 'Church Fathers' ASSumed the OT calendar was lunar, Dear Dr. So-and-So calculated Daniel 9 using lunar.  Yeah: so we miss the EXTRA SEVEN YEARS to alert all preterists to the fact the Tribulation, is YET FUTURE.  We're so busy trying to be politically-correct, we STOPPED looking at the Bible.  

 

Truthful scholarship is vital; so it's imperative to scholarly integrity,  to STOP parrotting.  It's okay to make mistakes, even for centuries;  it's NOT okay, to cover them up.  There's no basis for lunar-year accounting anywhere in Bible.  Rather, as every scholar knows from the 'ancients', the Noahic calendar sets precedence for the Mosaic.  But oh, the politics...

 

7.  Of course, in the process we learn Noah's birthday.  That will prove important  for refining other Bible dates, i.e., Shem is born near the end of Noah's 500th year, so is a 501st day birthday present to Noah.  In turn, Arpachshad is born just before Shem turns 101, so is a 101st day birthday present to Shem. 

 

o  So the extra two years is thus accounted, with Genesis 11:10 measuring from when the INUNDATION (literal Hebrew) began. 

o  For the Hebrew of Genesis 11:10 says IN the second year after the Inundation.  Well, the 2nd year begins, piggybacked on the anniversary of the first year.  (On your first birthday, you are 'in' your second year.)  So just after the Flood ended, still in 1656 (very near the end, probably), Arpachshad was born.

o  So Shem's wife became pregnant while they were still in the boat. (So ignore the Noach portion of Midrash Rabbah on Genesis, claiming that sex was prohibited until Noah disembarked -- what a farcical claim,  given the import of procreation at that time).

o  So the Flood really started in 1655 from Adam's fall, during the last six months.  Here, 15 days into the last six months.

 

8.  Dates shown might be + or - 1.  Jewish day begins at sundown of the previous solar day.  Also, the accounting might stress a beginning or an ending (or both), which thus requires adding or subtracting 1 or sometimes even 2.  It depends on whether you are to count only one, or both endpoints.  Context should alert you.  It's not necessarily a rounding problem.  Oftentimes Scripture 'counts' one more or one less, to stress THAT day/year.