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360-calendar Compared with Other Calendars

Throughout history, man has sought to make sense of the motions of the sun and the moon in their perceived orbits, (though of course we realize now that the earth rotates around the sun). Man has long sought to create a calendar that would perfectly keep in tune with the sun and/or the moon. Why, for instance, are there 365.2422 days in a solar year (called a mean/average tropical year), and why are there 29.53059 days in a lunar cycle? If God created them both, surely there must be a rhyme and reason for their exact orbits. After all, the bible declares:

"And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years," (Gen. 1:14).

 

"The heavens declare the glory of God..." (Ps. 19:1)

Those scientists that reject the fact that God made the sun and moon do not expect, nor look for intelligent order in the universe. But what if there is? What if there is a rhyme and reason for the motions of the heavenly bodies? And what if it can be shown that these rhythms are explained fully in that ancient text, the Bible? It would mean that the God of the Bible is the Creator of both heaven and earth. And what if every stroke of God's master clock points in some way or another to His Son "by whom all things were made" (Col. 1:16, John 1:1-3)? Thus, the study of the calendar of the prophets is an important revelation of the glory of God, and to convince men of their obligation to seek Him, and to encourage those that have found Him.

We will deal with the solar calendar in two parts and answer the question: How does the 360-calendar relate to the rhythm of the sun? Then, in the third section of our study, we will look into the lunar calendar of 29.53059 days and answer the question: How does the 360-calendar relate to the rhythm of the moon? It will be shown that both sun and moon work harmoniously as two separate witnesses to glorify Christ. They work together as if one calendar. 

 

Other calendars:

It should be noted that the lunar-solar calendar employed by Israel today, though given by God, is not the prophetic calendar. The lunar-solar calendar of Jews today is a slight revision of that calendar used by Moses when they fled Egypt.

Today, most of modern society uses what is called the Gregorian calendar (AD 1580), which is an update of the Julian calendar of 46 BC. The calendar system we use today has 365 days in a year with an extra day (a "leap-day") added every fourth year. This was the calendar originally commissioned by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. Pope Gregory fine tuned it in AD 1580 so that every century that is divisible by 400 is a leap year with the normal leap day at all other centuries, divisible by 100, omitted. Hence, the calendar that we use today is based upon 4 and 400-year cycles, (with talk of a 4000-year correction as well, in the year AD 4000.) 

As we shall see, the prophetic calendar is similar to this in that it too is based upon 40 and 4000-year cycles. It makes sense that time should be thus divided up into multiples of four, (i.e., 4, 40, 400, 4000), just as there are four seasons in a year (Gen. 8:22).]