If I ask someone what time it is they usually look at their watch and read out what it says. But is the watch properly set to the correct time? I know that if the sun is at it's highest spot in the sky it must be noon but who decided that the day should be divided into units of six? Why not another number. This system was handed down to us from the Babylonian astrologers and adopted by all the great civilization and finally used by us. Nothing wrong with that as long as it is set correctly. Now if I ask you what year it is you will invariably tell me that it is 2003 AD. How do you know? Because everybody believes it? And what is this AD this that seems to be so central to determine the place of events in time.
Now let us go back to the sun and we see that it still shows the right time like clock work. Astronomers can calculate the time of the next eclipse and the one after that and backwards as far as a million years. So the records on the Babylonian tablets that ptolemeus used to calibrate our time should be a precise enough system. Unfortunately the dates of birth and the dates of successions of kings are also recorded and these historical records do not fit what the time is set at and there are discrepancies between scientific time and historical time.
How do we find out what time it really is so that we can set our Babylonian clock to the correct time. We must rely on the bible. According to the sabbatical principle, there are six days in a week and on the seventh is a day of rest. There are also six years of work and on the seventh year there is a sabbatical year. It is allotted to man to rule this earth for six thousand years and then the kingdom of God is established for one thousand years. Get the idea. Now this is where it becomes interesting. Ask any Jew when was the last sabbatical year and he will tell you that it was 2002.
You can trace back all the way to Moses the sabbatical years and all you need is to have a historical reference related to one such sabbatical year and look at the sky and the whole world can know what time it really is or when a thing actually happened in the past. Why would we want to study the past? Because it bears on our future. Remember the sabbatical principle? Jesus was talking to his disciples and said the fields are white, ripe for the harvest but the laborers are few. This was because it was a sabbatical year and no work was allowed to plant or harvest fields except the poor were allowed to harvest whatever grew there from fallen seeds from the previous years.
This historical reference allows us to understand what year these events took place. The same year was the year that Jesus started his ministry because no man can become a priest until he reaches the age of thirty. On his thirtieth birthday he went up to the temple in Nazareth and made his announcement that God had sent him to set the captives at liberty , heal the sick and preach the good news of the kingdom. When he closed the book he said " this day these scriptures are fulfilled. This day was the feast of trumpets. We also know from the bible that he was born in the early hours of the day.
Why you say is this important? Well do you remember that everybody in the world sets their time frame on the day that Jesus was born. So from the time of the first Adam to Jesus was exactly four thousand years. Then after that another two thousand make six thousand. So exactly two thousand years after the birth of Jesus we enter into the millennium Sabbath of the kingdom of God. So if Jesus was born on September eleventh, early morning on Wednesday 3 BC. What time is it now?
Gleaned from the research of the late professor Martin.
