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Created 5925_[(*??*)] 02 09 2029 [2013-05-20]

Updated 5925_[(*??*)] 02 14 2029 [2013-05-25]

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Thanks Tim,

My focus is your Power Point table "From Creation to Abraham" listing the first twenty generations, including also your footnotes #401-403 as published in "The Time of the End."

As best I can tell all the numbers in the 2nd and 3rd columns of that table all deviates from the exact numbers recorded in Genesis 5 and 11. This would make some sense to me provided the author of Genesis was using the same birthday based reckoning as most of us who live in the Western world today are accustomed to when reckoning each our age at any one point of time. That is, for the purpose of reckoning each our age, we are reckoning calendar years beginning, not with January 1, but with each our birthday, that is, beginning with anyone of 366 days if we are using the Gregorian calendar.

I do not find any Bible instructions to the effect of ever using a reckoning of time based upon anyone's birthday. On the contrary, I do find three KJV passages using the word "birthday", one in reference to Pharaoh celebrating his own birthday by hanging his own chief baker, the other two passages in reference to Herod celebrating his own birthday by beheading John the Baptist. In addition, I find Job cursing his own birthday. Cf. Gen 40:20; Job 3; Matt 14:6; and Mark 6:21. Adding to that the rather severe warnings of Rev 22:18-19, and the words of our Savior per Matt 5:18 and Luke 16:17, I fail to see any Biblical support for your method of reckoning the Anno Mundo years as listed in the 4th and last column of your table.

I find your way of calculating Terah's age at the time of Abram's birth interesting. It builds, however, on the assumption that Abram's leaving Haran for Canaan (Gen 12:4) coincided with the year of Terah's death (Gen 11:32.) At the surface, this might seem to hold true considering the context of those two verses and the words and the pronouns used in Acts 7:4. Unfortunately, upon considering the much more detailed account of the events pertaining to Terah, Haran, and Abram as given to us in a reference given to us by the Bible itself (Joshua 10:13; 2 Sam 1:18,) it becomes obvious that 1) Abram left Haran for Canaan on more than one occasion, at age 50 and 75, that 2) Acts 7:4 could be alternately understood in terms of the body of Terah having been transferred from its tomb in Haran unto Canaan, that 3) Terah was 38 years old when giving birth to Haran and Nahor, and that 4) Terah was indeed 70 years old when Abram was born (cf. Book of Jasher 7:22; 9:4-6; 12:16; 13:5, 26; 22:33-34.) As best I can tell, it follows that your calculations, per your footnote #403, re Terah's age at the birth of Abram introduces an added 60 years over and above that which is given to us per the Bible record.

What you seem to be missing is that the Biblical-Hebrew calendar (not the calendar of the Jews referenced frequently by John) and reckoning builds upon very simple and very exact rules including: 1) Accession reckoning where the initiating event, birth, death, etc. is always reckoned as within the accession year, i.e. calendar year #0, 2) years reckoned in the Bible are (almost) always in reference to calendar years beginning after the Feast of Ingathering in the fall (the rare exceptions are in reference to the Persian or Babylonian calendar,) 3) the reckoning used is always in reference to the beginnings of years, months, days, etc., never in reference to the end of those same periods (that is, in contradistinction from such reckoning as is common in our day and age.) Accordingly, the year of the birth of Seth coincided with Adam's 130th year, and the 800th year thereafter was identically one and the same year as Adam's 930th year.

Please do not take me wrong! I find your objectives, as I have read them, and all the work you are doing in pursuit of the truth, and in pursuit of an ever better understanding of the records given us in the Bible, most laudable indeed! Let's keep walking onwards ever onwards, hand in hand with our Father in heaven, and with our Savior and Redeemer, and, soon enough, He will lead each One among His Sons and Daughters through the gates of the New Jerusalem, into Heaven, God's Kingdom...

Praise the Lord of Hosts!

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