| Research Summation Antediluvian Calendar continues | | | | Protestantism were fueled by the Gregorian Calendar |
| the testimony conclusion section of my first work, | | | | modification. Apparitions of the Virgin Mary, the |
| Calendars of Creation. Sixteen years ago, I began this | | | | inquisition and the turmoil in Europe caused by |
| section to explain why I chose my personal quest, | | | | Protestantism all were manifestations of the Holy Spirit |
| ancient calendar research of the Holy Bible. I divide | | | | pouring out to past and future. The calendar change |
| Research Summation into four articles with updates | | | | again punctured the outer insulation offered by the |
| that reflect later findings. Ancient people had good | | | | solar calendar and the eternal realm of God |
| reason to worship God and time as one. | | | | responded. Further proclaimed in the Gregorian |
| Research Summation Antediluvian Calendar | | | | Calendar was a Leap Day alteration. The previous |
| Clark Nelson | | | | Julian Calendar included a Leap Day addition every |
| 1466 wds | | | | four years. The vernal spring, celestial equinox was |
| Article URL: | | | | slipping into summer. The Leap Day addition modified |
| Research Summation Antediluvian Calendar | | | | the end of February. The Gregorian Calendar |
| The Jewish Calendar measures time since the | | | | adjustment stipulated that Leap Day additions would |
| beginning of recorded chronology. Basic Antediluvian | | | | be omitted in those centurial years not evenly divisible |
| Calendar concepts of 19 or 20-year-lunar/solar-cycles | | | | by 400-years. The year 1600 included a normal Leap |
| succeed to branch many times over literally thousands | | | | Day. The years 1700, 1800 and 1900 skipped the Leap |
| of years. Minor changes, modifications and | | | | Day inclusion that further corrected the gradual drift of |
| intercalations have caused slight variations in the | | | | the equinox date into summer. Our revised Gregorian |
| Jewish lunar/solar calendar since the earliest days of | | | | Calendar incorporated a provision to add Leap Day in |
| Creation. Original applications of the antediluvian first | | | | the year 2000. |
| calendar focus upon heavenly transitions of light and | | | | Superimposing the Gregorian Calendar over past |
| darkness. Daylight and nighttime, lunar phases, | | | | calendars, striking contrasts can be drawn. Day and |
| planetary visibility and starlight position all mark the cusp | | | | night, count as one day from the beginning until now. |
| points of change for early time. Authentic celestial | | | | Judaism observes the Sabbath on Saturday and |
| cycles do not perfectly align to satisfy calendar | | | | Christians recognize a Sunday Sabbath. Five days |
| increments. Beyond one single year, the 19-year-l | | | | remain in the week for work, business and commerce. |
| s-cycle was the most important cyclic pattern known | | | | Sun Kingdoms Calendars include many cultural |
| to archeo-astronomy. People are compelled to adjust | | | | variations of the representative |
| calendars using approximations. Diligent observation | | | | 260-day-Tzolken-sacred-year. We evenly disperse |
| and proper documentation agree that 19-year-l | | | | 260-days separately in the modern calendar year. Five |
| s-cycles afforded by the Jewish Calendar are the | | | | business days multiply in 52-weeks for 260-days. Our |
| consistent standard for early reckoning. | | | | secular calendar applies 260-days for modern |
| Substantial calendar foundations submitted by the | | | | government and commercial matters, excluding |
| Patriarchal ages of Genesis 5 provide remnant traces | | | | holidays. Saturday and Sunday of each week multiply |
| that identify with other ancient l/s systems. | | | | for 104-days in 52-weeks. Compared to the |
| Mesoamerican and Egyptian calendars lend insight | | | | 364-day-Ethiopic-calendar, 104-days nearly equal the |
| relating important natural events with time. Diffused in | | | | remaining 105-days left every year. Twelve months |
| mythology, these accounts enable the groundwork for | | | | averaged at 30-days each still provide 360-days. |
| all later time. Surviving records indicate a preferred | | | | Although a separate 360-day length of year is not |
| style for logging nocturnal phenomena. Dynastic order | | | | present in the Gregorian solar calendar, science and |
| sustains the lineage by passing the inheritance blessing | | | | technology perpetuate the 360-degree circle. Our last |
| from father to first-born son. A 364-day-Ethiopic-year | | | | week of the year, between Christmas and New |
| and 8-year Venusian cycles are taken aside from the | | | | Years is a reserved holiday week. Countless |
| traditional Jewish Calendar to elaborate the calendar | | | | anniversaries recognize every conceivable subject in |
| theme. Intercalations and other correction methods are | | | | substitution for ancient numerical matching themes. |
| necessary given the human factor. Inherently attached | | | | Pharaonic Egypt inserted Leap Days every four years. |
| to Bible time reckoning is the supernatural, spiritual | | | | We continue this trait in the Gregorian Calendar. The |
| component. Gaps and seams of time begin to widen | | | | Antediluvian Calendar incorporates 400-year-l/s-cycles |
| with increasing measurement errors. Modern time and | | | | I synonymously refer to as Mayan Baktun cycles. Our |
| our ensuing chronology rest in many ways, upon ideal | | | | modern Gregorian version follows a 400-year pattern |
| calculations. Ancient projections toward the future and | | | | that omits three of four Leap Days during centurial |
| our current time meet with modern discrepancies that | | | | years. Time itself has not changed, only the methods |
| regress until early history. Calendar branching is often | | | | of calendar layers are different. The tree of |
| the catalyst to major civil upheavals. Religion and | | | | knowledge grows, the days and years change |
| governmental rule compromise to manage the social | | | | according to the calendar version and the domain of |
| climate. While other civilizations, kings and dynasties, | | | | humanity is forever. |
| and empires, rose and fell, the Jewish Calendar was | | | | All calendars support devotion to mainstay religious |
| consistent in basic format. Stretching into the past | | | | convictions and central doctrines prescribed by |
| perhaps a hundred thousand years, the separation | | | | worship. Dogmatic beliefs rigidly embed in the calendar |
| between day and night and the sacred seven-day | | | | as holidays and festival periods. Reserved times |
| week were co-eternal with God. Names for God and | | | | continue to defer ordinary work. Understanding ancient |
| the eternal Holy Spirit have undergone countless | | | | calendar systems and characteristics found in later |
| changes since the origins of humanity. | | | | calendars expand faith perspectives. Common thought |
| The Jewish antediluvian calendar version measured | | | | today reasons that measured time is always past |
| time when Adam walked the face of earth. When | | | | tense. Archaic calendars additionally held theology that |
| Noah built the Ark, the Jewish Calendar was in effect. | | | | influences the future through distant time projection. |
| When Pharaohs ruled Egypt and the pyramids were | | | | We observe holidays and anniversaries to remember |
| constructed, the Jewish Calendar was in use. When | | | | the past, whereas ancient people employed numerical |
| Moses parted the Red Sea, and the banner of God | | | | matching techniques to collapse the future and access |
| was brought forth, the Jewish Calendar was | | | | supernatural channels. They worked the fields and |
| continuous. Christ came between the Egyptian - | | | | waited patiently for crops to grow. Our remaining |
| Roman solar calendar change about 45 B.C.E. until A.D. | | | | calendar year transfers the need to circulate wealth. |
| and the Jewish lunar/solar calendar recorded New | | | | Society depends on national and local governments for |
| Testament events. When the First Council of Nicaea | | | | stability, commerce for financial operations and families |
| met in 325 A.D. to decide the fate of Christianity for | | | | to nurture the children. Diverse culture, ethnic |
| the empire of Constantine, the Jewish Calendar was in | | | | background and political structure blend simultaneously. |
| effect. Even today, the Jewish Calendar is current. | | | | The modern calendar must meet demands on a global |
| The intangible, omnipotent deity has existed since the | | | | scale. Religious trends maintain special variations of the |
| beginning. Be they people of any other calendar, lunar | | | | calendar year. The best example of differing calendar |
| solar or solar, or other branches, the Jewish Calendar | | | | systems that represent an international situation occurs |
| has surpassed and held Jewish people together. | | | | in the holiest of cities, Jerusalem. The front page of the |
| Consider one aspect in the hopes, spiritual aspirations | | | | Jerusalem Post International Edition newspaper |
| and destiny of humanity. The major precedent afflicting | | | | contains three dates of three calendars under the title. |
| people who have called forth Almighty power | | | | The western Gregorian Calendar date is given first, |
| respects the faith and religion behind Judaism. Other | | | | followed by the Jewish Calendar date and the |
| cultures have branched and veered away from the | | | | Mohammedan (Islamic) Calendar date. Three religions |
| Jewish Calendar. Pieces of the Jewish Calendar and | | | | and three separate versions of history combine every |
| the religion have transmuted to external concerns. The | | | | day. |
| sacred seven-day week is fundamental to Christianity, | | | | Revelation 3:12 |
| but early church fathers abandoned 19 or 20-year-l | | | | "... and the name of the city of my God, which is new |
| s-cycles. The Sun Kingdoms adapted the original | | | | Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from |
| Jewish lunar/solar version of calendar trunk line to their | | | | my God: ..." |
| civilization, but developed their own style of religion. | | | | Are you a pastor, educator or a student of the Holy |
| Other groups have used lunar/solar calendars, and | | | | Bible? seeks anointed people to review and contribute |
| have met difficulty and strife since their calendars | | | | to the Ages of Adam ministry. Ancient lunar/solar |
| were branches of the antediluvian Jewish lunar/solar | | | | calendars like the Jewish and Mayan calendars |
| calendar trunk line. Only Judaism fosters the pure | | | | provide the background to understanding early time. |
| Jewish Calendar. No other culture uses the Jewish | | | | Ancient calendars of the Holy Bible use differences |
| Calendar. | | | | between the moon and sun, numerical matching and a |
| Roman Catholicism coupled with the Julian Calendar | | | | 364-day calendar year to describe X-number of days |
| spread the word of Christianity throughout the world. In | | | | that match with X-number of years. Ages of Adam is |
| 1582, the Julian Calendar was modified by Pope | | | | a free read at |
| Gregory XIII. Calendar reckoning excluded ten days to | | | | Clark Nelson is webmaster for and author of Ages of |
| align the vernal equinox with Easter celebration. | | | | Adam and sequel, Holy of Holies. Contact for more |
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