I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting pissed off with people
cross-posting irrelevant babble to what are generally practical ng's. The
only link I can see with misc.rural is the amount of bullshit in the
posting.
Min_Thumps wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>
>By popular request...
> 'Lord of the Sabbath'
>
> The "Seventy Weeks" prophecy found at Daniel 9:24-27
> is proven historically accurate-to-the-day 483 years
> after the date that the priestly scribe Ezra had gone
> forth with Artaxerxes' imperial edict to restore and
> build, which proves Gabriel's prophecy--and therefore
> the Book of Daniel--is irrefutably genuine, and which
> also proves that *Jesus the Nazarene* is the One and
> Only Messiah of the Old Covenant Scriptures(TaNaKh).
> All detractors and proponents alike may now consider
> themselves hereby properly edified, knowing now with
> certainty that Jesus the Christ is your Lord and King.
> Readers are advised to stop right here, dust off your
> Bible and read every "red letter" command of our King.
>
> The FACT that The King of kings Jesus Christ did quote
> Daniel as "the prophet"[ref. Mat 24:15; Mark 13:14] is
> the Supreme Authority endorsing Daniel's autograph as
> genuine, thus the balance of this article is provided
> merely as a FREE public service, as a matter of record.
> Please copy, quote and distribute this article freely.
> Also, enjoy edifying those secular "skeptic" types who
> casually laud their science as "debunking" historicity
> of the Hebrew Canon's Old and New Covenant Scriptures,
> when in fact all extant evidence always favors and oft
> proves the Scriptures historical, since they are true.
> Such views may seem "extreme" to the uninitiated, i.e.,
> to those not yet (re)born of the Holy Spirit, but the
> evidence of Scriptural historicity is incontrovertible:
> EVERY golden word of Lord King Jesus Christ is THE LAW.
> And while the secular crowd will engage in trite cavil
> (like they always do)in vain attempts to discredit the
> Bible and its message, the gospel of Christ crucified,
> such inevitably has the very reverse effect of drawing
> much-appreciated scrutiny to these ancient Scriptures,
> since in every single case the evidence weighs heavily
> in the gravity of its merit, with the Scriptures fully
> intact, and humiliated skeptics running home to mamma!
>
> Stay tuned for accompanying attachments and the latest
> updates which I'll post periodically to the newsgroups
> for each reader's convenience and continued edification.
> Oh yes, and if you'd like a name for future reference,
> do feel free to quote me as "Ma'aminei YHSH ha-Notsri",
> meaning I AM among those who confess Jesus the Nazarene
> is the Christ: Son of the Living God. Or just quote me
> as "anonymous author" if you prefer. God is my Judge.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Before proceeding, please note the following:
>
> -All planetary positions have been recalculated using the
> high-precision(untruncated) VSOP87 theory of Bretagnon
> and Francou, with all lunar positions recalculated using
> revised(untruncated) ELP-2000/82 lunar theory of Chapront-
> Touzé and Chapront. Dynamical time, ecliptic obliquity,
> nutation, precession and aberration calculations made
> using high-precision algorithms and coefficient tables
> to significant figures indicated, yielding an accuracy
> for geocentric positions within +/- several arcseconds.
>
> -Location data preset to Jerusalem 31:46:48 N x 35:13:12 E
> for all astronomical calculations presented hereinbelow,
> with local times in Jerusalem Standard Time(GMT +2:00).
> Be certain to remember that each day in the Hebrew/Jewish
> calendar begins at sundown the day *before*, and ends at
> sundown that same day; e.g., the Julian calendar date of
> Thursday, September 19, 457 BC is counted as the Hebrew
> calendar date of 1 Tishri 3305, but the Hebrew calendar
> reckons the Julian Thursday as beginning at sundown the
> previous day, or Wednesday evening of the Julian calendar.
> This Old Covenant "sundown-to-sundown" application of the
> Scriptures is found starting in the Torah[Law of Moses],
> at the Book of Genesis ch 1 vs 5: "And God called the
> light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the
> evening and the morning were the first day." With the
> evening counted from sundown to sunrise, and the morning
> counted from sunrise to sunset, the Hebrew calendar is
> always (-/+) six hours *ahead* of the Julian calendar in
> terms of what day of the week it is, a fact which proves
> helpful in identifying ancient lunisolar calendar dates,
> which lunisolar calendar dates were established based on
> *strictly-observed* ancient sacred Torah calendar rules.
> By contrast with the ancient Mayan calendar, which dates
> to at least 355 BC and is the most accurate calendar in
> existence---predicting a near-perfect conjunction of our
> winter solstice Sun with the galactic & ecliptic plane's
> intercept point[Mayan Sacred Tree]at the end of the Mayan
> Long Count, which is the Mayan calendar date 13.0.0.0.0 or
> December 21, 2012, which cycle started with the "birth of
> Venus" August 13, 3114 BC, likewise counted as 13.0.0.0.0
> over FIVE THOUSAND years earlier!---the lunisolar calendar
> of Moses was rather crude, but was effective for counting
> the days, months and years of the lunisolar cycle, and for
> observing Old Covenant Holy Days so utterly crucial to the
> ancient Hebrew existence prior to our Lord's crucifixion:
>
> "And God said, Let there be lights in the
> firmament of the heaven to divide the day
> from the night; and let them be for signs,
> and for seasons, and for days, and years."
> --Gen 1:14 KJV
>
> And, while it isn't likely that Moses actually invented the
> Hebrew lunisolar calendar--as surely it is far older than
> merely 3400 years,--we do know from reading the Scriptures
> that Moses had introduced it and used it in his lifetime,
> and it has been in use continually by the Jewish people,
> and probably dates to long-forgotten antediluvian times.
>
> * * *
>
> 'Lord of the Sabbath'
>
>* The "going forth of the commandment[Artaxerxes I/Longimanus]
> to restore and to build Jerusalem..."[ref. Dan 9:25]:
> Julian Day: 1554766
> Julian calendar: Thursday, September 19, 457 BC
> Jewish calendar: 1 Tishri 3305
> New Moon: Sep 19, 457 BC @ 12:29:51 AM JST
> Julian date: 1554765.43740; Lunation: -29415
> Moon's distance: 382409k(60.0 ER); Subtends: 0.5208°
> Right ascension: 11:29:55.68; Declination: 08:34:36
> Azimuth: -161.396; Altitude: -47.914
> Rising: 5:33:02 AM JST; JD 1554765.64794
> Setting: 6:24:44 PM JST; JD 1554766.18384
> Notes: ref. Ezra 7:9 "...1st day of the 1st month"
> 7:6-26; ibid, levitical rule restored. This
> was the decree which established the people,
> government, laws(including taxation), and:
> "...set up the walls thereof, and joined
> the foundations"[ref. Ezra 4:12], and Ezra
> had restored temple service in Jerusalem.
> The Jubilee Year[ref. 'eleutherian liberty']
> was observed every 50th year following the
> 7th Sabbatic Year[Lev 25:11], making two
> Sabbatic Years consecutive, hence Gabriel's
> distinction of "seven sevens" and "sixty-
> two sevens" is readily understood, joined
> seamlessly together at the *next* Jubilee
> Year! Jubilee was a VERY special time, a
> time for rest *from* selfish pursuits, but
> instead, for forgiveness and emancipation,
> for sharing and reconciliation, and above
> all, a time for ATONEMENT OF SIN[ref. Lev
> 16:29-34;23:27-32;25:8-9;ibid]!!! Gabriel
> was reminding each one of us of *what* is
> acceptable to God, with atonement of sin
> exemplifying YHWH's New Covenant[ref. Jer
> 31:31-34] preaching "the Acceptable Year
> of the LORD"[ref. Luke 4:14-22;Isa 61:1-2],
> for there is none other scripturally-valid
> explanation for how and why Gabriel's first
> "seven weeks" were joined contiguously(no
> interruption) to the next sixty-two weeks.
> Also, 1 Tishri could not fall on Sun, Wed
> or Fri, thus was occasionally delayed for
> one day, or at most, delayed for two days,
> but was not delayed in 3305/457 BC, also a
> *Jubilee Year* by Josephus' chronology. The
> Achaemenid king Artaxerxes[Artakhshathra]
> began his first civil year 1 Tishri 3298 by
> the *Hebrew* calendar, which was Thu Sept 7,
> 464 BC, since his first year of reign didn't
> start until 1 Tishri(civil new year) by the
> Hebrew calendar reckoning, since Artaxerxes
> was "king" from mid-August of 465 BC, but his
> observed ascension lasted about eight months,
> until 1 Nisanu, near the vernal equinox of the
> "new year" by the *Babylonian* civil calendar.
> It is revealing in Ezra 7:8 where he states:
> "And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month,
> which was in the seventh year of the king",
> not the fifth month *of* the king's seventh
> year, but was the eleventh month from Nisanu.
> It is clear that the king's first year of
> reign didn't begin until 1 Nisan(u) 3297 in
> Ezra's consideration, since those previous
> 8 months of the king's "ascension" failed to
> fulfil one Hebrew calendar year, being only
> half the calendar year, thus was not included
> in Ezra's estimation for the king's *seventh*
> [Hebrew]year. In other words, only the second-
> half of Artaxerxes' seventh year fell in the
> Hebrew civil year 3305, beginning in the fall
> of 457 BC on 1 Tishri, or Thu, Sep 19, 457 BC.
> Not to belabor this point ad nauseum, but it
> is important that the reader should understand
> how Artaxerxes' seventh year was determined
> with certainty by Ezra, and according to the
> *Hebrew Calendar*, leaving Assyriologists et
> al to debate "finer points" of such matters.
> But, had Ezra counted the king's "seventh year"
> as 1 Tishri 3304, then that day was Saturday,
> September 2, 458 BC, Julian Day 1554383(molad
> was Sep 1 @ 2:16:55 AM JST[JD 1554381.51175]).
> I'll refer back to these dates later in this
> article confirming 1 Tishri 3305[457 BC] as
> Ezra's assessment for Artaxerxes' 7th year.
>
>* Jesus born in Bethlehem w/"his star[rising]in the east":
> Julian Day: 1720551
> Julian calendar: Monday, August 12, 3 BC
> Jewish calendar: 1 Elul 3758(1 Tishri was Tue, Sept 10)
> Sunrise: 4:58:37 AM JST; JD 1720550.62404
> Sunset: 6:24:06 PM JST; JD 1720551.18340
> New Moon: Aug 11, 3 BC @ 1:27:52 AM JST;
> Julian date: 1720549.47769; Lunation: -23801
> Moon's distance: 396824k(62.2 ER); Subtends: 0.5019°
> Right ascension: 09:10:16.17; Declination: 16:29:42
> Azimuth: 21:07:02; Altitude: -39:38:16
> Rising: 5:10:35 AM JST; JD 1720549.63235
> Setting: 6:43:37 PM JST; JD 1720550.19696
> Notes: This Jupiter-Venus conjunction in Leo was
> 4.2 arcminutes in separation. The wise men
> (Magi) saw *his* star [at its]rising, thus
> their own witness to this conjunction was
> judicially construed as Messiah's actual
> date and approximate time of birth. See
> attachment for a detailed analysis of this
> dating for Jesus' date of birth, including
> all planetary positions for 4 AM JST.
>
>* Wise men(Magi) visit Herod(morning)/10-month old Jesus(sunset):
> Julian Day: 1720860
> Julian calendar: Tuesday, June 17, 2 BC
> Jewish calendar: 15/16 Tammuz 3759
> New Moon: Jun 2, 2 BC @ 5:06:01 PM JST
> Julian date: 1720845.12918; Lunation: -23791
> Moon's distance: 365584k(57.3 ER); Subtends: 0.5448°
> Right ascension: 04:27:36.87; Declination: 25:51:18
> Azimuth: 109.326; Altitude: 18.806
> Rising: 3:55:25 AM JST; JD 1720844.58015
> Setting: 6:46:25 PM JST; JD 1720845.19890
> Notes: Near-perfect Jupiter-Venus conjunction in Leo,
> a mere 6 arcseconds from concentricity. When
> Venus is sufficiently elongated from the Sun,
> and the sky is crystal-clear, Venus can barely
> be seen with the naked eye in broad daylight.
> This *brilliant* conjunction was significantly
> brighter than Venus alone, thus was certainly
> visible in broad daylight in a clear sky, and
> we know that the sky was clear by the Magi's
> own testimony. Also, Herod "the Great" died
> after the "blood red" full lunar eclipse of
> Sat, January 10, 1 BC, not 4 BC, which was
> the commonly supposed year for Herod's death
> based on the historian Josephus' writings.
> However, scientific and historical evidences
> have refuted this inaccurate reckoning. See
> attachment for detailed analysis of Herod's
> "blood red" eclipse and related historical
> evidences proving 1 BC to be the actual year
> of Herod's death and burial before Passover.
>
>* Caesar Augustus died:
> Julian Day: 1726402
> Julian calendar: Sunday, August 19, 14 AD
> Jewish calendar: 5 Elul 3774
> Notes: Tiberius was already supreme military governor
> of the Roman Empire proper and its provinces
> since 12 AD, and was co-princeps(effectively,
> co-Caesar) with Caesar Augustus by 13 AD, but
> Sept 17, 14 AD is the commonly referenced date
> of profane history, since this was Tiberius'
> ceremonial inaugural after Augustus' death,
> bestowing on him the sole title of Imperator.
> See Jesus' baptism notes below for a concise
> commentary on Tiberius Caesar's "15th" year.
>
>* Tiberius Caesar ceremonially inaugurated Imperator:
> Julian Day: 1726431
> Julian calendar: Monday, September 17, 14 AD
> Jewish calendar: 5 Tishri 3775
> New Moon: Sep 13, l4 AD @ 5:38:10 AM JST
> Julian date: 1726426.65150; Lunation: -23602
> Moon's distance: 398527k(62.5 ER); Subtends: 0.4997°
> Right ascension: 11:15:26.60; Declination: 06:23:06
> Azimuth: -95.158; Altitude: 3.807
> Rising: 5:21:25 AM JST; JD 1726426.63987
> Setting: 6:03:01 PM JST; JD 1726427.16876
> Notes: Compare Jesus' baptism date[Luke 3:1,23].
> This inauguration date is historically
> irreconcilable with Luke's account as given
> in Luke 3:1, but is thirteen years + 1 day
> before Jesus' baptism date of Sep 18, 27 AD
> See baptism notes below for further details.
>
>* New Moon[Heb. Molad] coincident with Vernal Equinox:
> Julian Day: 1729173
> Julian calendar: Saturday, March 21, 22 AD
> Jewish calendar: 29 Adar 3782
> Sunrise: 5:47:43 AM JST; JD 1729172.65814
> Sunset: 5:47:01 PM JST; JD 1729173.15765
> New Moon: Mar 21, 22 AD @ 4:38:04 AM JST
> Julian date: 1729172.60977; Lunation: -23509
> Moon's distance: 390405k(61.2 ER); Subtends: 0.5101°
> Right ascension: 23:45:19.84; Declination: 01:57:30
> Azimuth: -99.950; Altitude: -12.000
> Moon rising: 5:38:09 AM JST; JD 1729172.65149
> Setting: 6:13:48 PM JST; JD 1729173.17625
> Notes: The present-day 19-year lunisolar cycle of the
> Jewish calendar adds the thirteenth intercalary,
> or leap month, V'Adar(AdarII) in the years 3, 6,
> 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19, making those 13-month years
> into "leap years" to maintain very close--but not
> perfect--synchronicity with the lunisolar cycle.
> Twelve lunar[synodic] months is about eleven days
> shorter than a solar year, hence the "luni-solar"
> calendar requires a leap year added every two to
> three years to make up for this annual eleven-day
> deficit. But these systematically inserted leap
> years end up with an extra two hours[2:06:28.022]
> left over every 19 solar years, not a significant
> error, but by the mid-second century AD this had
> accumulated for more than fifteen hundred years
> since the days of Moses, thus presented a serious
> dilemma for the lunisolar calendar. In 161 AD the
> Jewish Patriarch Simon III imposed a postponement
> of the intercalated year from the seventh to the
> eighth year, to prevent Pentecost from falling on
> Monday, June 23, 161 AD-into the summer solstice!
> This was accomplished using an interim transition
> cycle of leap years 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19.
> As a result, all leap years AFTER this adjustment
> were counted in the years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and
> 19, but all leap years PRIOR to Simon's calendar
> adjustment of 161 AD were counted in the years 2,
> 5, 7, 10, 13, 16 and 18, thusly these leap-months
> were inserted in those designated years after the
> twelfth month of Adar, according to the lunisolar
> Torah calendar. And while the religious months of
> the calendar were counted as in Torah, beginning
> in the spring on 1 Nisan, civil calendar months
> of the very same calendar were counted "fall-to-
> fall", so the first month in the civil year was
> the seventh month of the religious calendar! The
> rules for observing Holy Days enjoyed priority
> over most other decisions of the elders as to
> which days would begin any lunisolar calendar's
> months, which calendars were calculated thusly:
> Based on the repeating 19-year lunisolar cycle,
> in near-synchronicity with each month's molad
> the months were numbered 1-12, or 1-13 in leap
> years. The first month Abib / 'hodesh ha-aviv'
> only roughly coincided(i.e. +/- 50 days) with
> the barley being "in the ear" of old tradition,
> but the first month of the year according to the
> agricultural/liturgical 'shana' observance was
> 1 Ethanim(Tishri), Ezra's "1st day...1st month."
> The Babylonian Kraeling 6 and Elephantine papyri
> proved that the spring-to-spring Sumero-Babylonian
> civil calendar was *NOT* the same lunisolar civil
> calendar observed by captive Jews during the 70-
> years exile in Babylon(contrary to popular myth).
> The Jewish civil calendar was explicitly based on
> the fall-to-fall 'shana' reckoning, only names of
> selected Hebrew calendar months were adapted to
> their Babylonian captors' linguistic conventions.
> Not that this mattered much, since both versions
> were lunisolar, thus both were dependent on the
> same molads and equinoxes for functionality, but
> Jewish regnal/civil years always began 1 Tishri,
> which is near the FALL equinox, not the spring,
> and to this day, 1 Tishri remains the first day
> of the first month of the Jewish civil calendar,
> and Nisan is still the first month of the Jewish
> religious calendar. The main thing to understand
> is that Ezra's "first day of the first month" was
> Thursday, September 19, 457 BC, and the Jewish
> civil calendar always started on 1 Tishri, not
> 1 Nisan. Also, the molad was--albeit only rarely
> --allowed to occur very late in the day for that
> month's beginning date, but only in anticipation
> of Holy Days which were not conveniently delayed
> for whatever mitigating circumstances might have
> demanded. Maimonides wrote: "It is thus a Mosaic
> tradition from Sinai that in times when there was
> a (Palestinian)Synedrium[Sanhedrin], declaration
> of New Moon Days was based on visual observation
> [confirmed by court calculation], while in times
> when no Synedrium existed, this declaration was
> based on calculations such as we are using today
> and no attention was paid to observation of the
> new crescent. Rather, the day established by
> calculation might well coincide with the day in
> which the new moon became visible, but it might
> sometimes be the day before it or the day after
> it." "The court followed a tradition transmitted
> by the Sages from one generation to another on
> the authority of Moses...on the basis of cal-
> culation...." [ref. 'Code of Maimonides', Bk3
> Tr8, 'Sanctification of the New Moon' 5x2;18x7].
> Considering that the ancient calendar month was
> reckoned as 29 days, 12 hours and 793 parts, i.e.
> 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3-1/3 seconds,
> and that month-to-month observations served to
> confirm and calibrate these common calculations,
> Maimonides' speculation that that these ancient
> (common)Hebrews couldn't calculate within a day's
> accuracy for *any* molad is not being realistic.
> Any months which were begun an entire day before
> the calculated molad were started deliberately,
> but not for the lack of basic addition skills.
> These ancient Torah lunisolar calendar months
> are summarized below for your reference:
>
> Month#** Hebrew Name Days per Month
> 1(7) Abib/Nisan* 30
> 2(8) Zif/Iyyar 29
> 3(9) Sivan* 30
> 4(10) Tammuz 29
> 5(11) Ab/Av 30
> 6(12) Elul 29
> 7(1) Ethanim/Tishri* 30
> 8(2) Bul/Cheshvan 29/30
> 9(3) Kislev 30/29
> 10(4) Tebet 29
> 11(5) Shebat 30
> 12(6) Adar/AdarI 29/30(leap yr.)
> 13(") V'Adar/AdarII 29(intercalary)
> *months with holy days;
> **civil month #'s in parentheses
>
>* Jesus' 30th birthday:
> Julian day: 1731153
> Julian calendar: Friday, August 22, 27 AD
> Jewish calendar: 1 Elul 3787(1 Tishri 3788 was Sat, Sept 20)
> New Moon: Aug 20, 27 AD @ 3:04:10 PM JST
> Julian date: 1731151.04456; Lunation: -23442
> Moon's distance: 367010k(57.5 ER); Subtends: 0.5427°
> Right ascension: 09:51:3.82; Declination: 15:55:18
> Azimuth: 82.672; Altitude: 42.307
> Rising: 4:37:33 AM JST; JD 1731150.60941
> Setting: 6:30:38 PM JST; JD 1731151.18794
> Notes: Jewish calendar birthday; at age 30, Jesus
> eligible for priesthood and temple service.
> This is why John the Baptist asked of Jesus:
> "...I have need to be baptized of thee, and
> comest thou to me?"[Mat 3:14]. John did not
> yet recognize Jesus as Messiah, but he knew
> that his cousin, the astonishing carpenter's
> son Jesus, that He was thirty years old, and
> John knew this since he himself was thirty.
> That John didn't recognize Jesus as Messiah
> means that John didn't know about Jesus being
> conceived of God's Spirit in Mary, since had
> John actually known about this, then surely
> he would've known that Jesus was the promised
> Messiah of the Scriptures, with His virgin
> birth being scripturally *prerequisite* to
> His Messiahship, even though "virgin birth"
> mythologies had flourished in every culture
> throughout the world, every Jew *knew* that
> "salvation out of the Jews is"! Thereby we
> know that John, understandably, had supposed
> Jesus' father was Joseph, as did practically
> everyone else. Only a few knew at the time
> that Joseph was only lawfully Jesus' father
> according to the custom, since Joseph was
> the son-in-law of Mary's father, Heli, who
> had daughters of his own, but bore no sons
> of his own, thus Joseph was fully within his
> own legal rights to raise his "son" Jesus as
> his own son, since lawfully, Jesus *was* his
> own son, just as everyone had supposed. And
> under the law, Jesus was heir to the throne
> by His legal father and also by His mother,
> since under Jewish law, right to kingship
> could also pass to Mary's descendants.
>
>* Jesus baptized into YHWH's Ministry at the river Jordan exactly
>483 Hebrew lunisolar Calendar years to the very day from Ezra's
>"going forth" with Artaxerxes' imperial edict to restore Jerusalem.
>This same date was 4749 days or 13 regnal-tropical years + 1 day
>into the inaugural reign of Tiberius, but 15 years + 12 days[Luke
>3:1] into Tiberius' *governorship* by the Jewish civil calendar,
>which was 15 years + 1 day according to the Julian civil calendar:
> Julian day: 1731180
> Julian calendar: Thursday, September 18, 27 AD
> Jewish calendar: 1 Tishri 3788(Day of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah)
> New Moon: Sep 18, 27 AD @ 11:48:42 PM JST
> Julian date: 1731180.40882; Lunation: -23441
> Moon distance: 373484k(586 ER); Subtends: 0.5332°
> Right ascension: 11:40:20.13; Declination: 6:55:18
> Azimuth: -176.088; Altitude: -51.227
> Rising: 4:32:46 AM JST; JD 1731179.60609
> Setting: 5:45:00 PM JST; JD 1731180.15625
> Notes: Daniel's 7+62 sabbatic years fulfilled[Dan 9:25].
> The Hebrew Calendar year exceeds a tropical year
> by 6 minutes, 39.370 seconds; this amounts to one
> extra day per 216.34 tropical years, or 2.23 days
> over 483 tropical years. A tropical year is equal
> to 365.242199 days, so this baptism date of Jesus
> is precisely 483 tropical years + 2.02 days from
> Ezra's going forward with Artaxerxes' decree, a
> difference of only 2.23 from 2.02 = {-0.21} days,
> or just 5 hours shy of 483 Hebrew Calendar years!
> Who could ask for more? And who's to say these 5
> hours weren't accounted for by differences in the
> time of day Ezra left Babylon, and the time that
> Jesus entered the Jordan's waters to be baptised?
> But if we'd adopted Sept 2, 458 BC as Artaxerxes'
> seventh year as referenced before, then that date
> was exactly 483 tropical years + 4 hours to what
> is a popular but non-historical "alternate" for
> Jesus' Baptism date of 1 Tishri 3787, or Monday,
> Sep 2, 26 AD; Julian Day 1730799, with its molad
> occurring Sat, Aug 31, 26 AD @1:27:11 AM JST; JD
> 1730796.47721, but which is entirely one civil
> calendar year *prior* to the very earliest date
> historically-reconcilable with Tiberius' 15th
> year, thus is logically eliminated from further
> discussion, and 1 Tishri 3788 becomes the ONLY
> historical date reconcilable with both Ezra's
> account AND that related by Luke, to wit, Luke
> 3:1 reads "...in year but five and tenth of the
> *governorship* of Tiberius Caesar" [*emphasis
> added]. In the year 12 AD, Tiberius was made
> military governor(commander) over Caesar's vast
> armies and provinces by the ailing Augustus, at
> which time Augustus had compelled his estranged-
> widow Julia to marry Tiberius, thus historically
> qualifies as his 1st year of *governorship*, and
> by the year 13 AD, Tiberius Claudius Nero was
> known to the whole of the Roman empire and its
> provinces as supreme governor and co-regent with
> Augustus Caesar, since Tiberius was by that time
> Proconsular Imperium, wielding full tribunician
> power wholly co-extensive with that of Augustus,
> making Tiberius co-princeps with Caesar Augustus
> by 13 AD. When Augustus died that following year,
> Tiberius' sole Consulship was already intact and
> was wholly unassailable, with his continuation
> as Principate a foregone conclusion, thus his
> inauguration as Imperator was but an accolade.
> Luke's reckoning for his 15th year is confirmed
> in the fact that by 27 AD the weary Tiberius had
> retired permanently to seclusion on the island of
> Capri, leaving his notorious(traitorous) captain
> of the Praetorian Guard, the prefect Sejanus, to
> RULE in his place. So, with 27 AD established as
> Tiberius' "five and tenth year of governorship",
> then the year 12 AD must logically be construed
> as commencing Tiberius' first year by the Jewish
> civil calendar new year 1 Tishri 3773, which
> Julian calendar date was Monday, September 5,
> 12 AD, or Julian Day 1725689. Thusly, Luke had
> counted then-Caesar Tiberius' 15th regnal year
> from his provincial rule two years before Caesar
> Augustus had died. And Luke's added references to
> Pilate, Herod[Antipas], Philip, Lysanias, Annas
> and Caiaphas are entirely supportive of 12 AD as
> the year Luke had referenced, since in every case
> they are historically consistent with 27 AD. Luke
> stating that Jesus was "commencing as if of years
> thirty" refers to Jesus' entering the priesthood
> and temple service in the(His) body of Christ,
> doubtless retrospectively, in light of Jesus' own
> confession "Before Abraham was, I am"[John 8:58].
> That it wasn't Jesus' actual thirtieth birthday,
> vs. one synodic month afterwards seems frivolous.
> Luke was uncertain how to describe the age of the
> eternal Son of God, as surely anyone would find
> themselves awestruck in this regard, but Jesus
> *was* thirty years in the body, and this was the
> day of His commencement into YHWH's Ministry: He
> was indeed "commencing as if of years thirty".
>
>* Vernal(Spring) Equinox of 31 AD
> Julian day: 1732461
> Julian calendar: Thursday, March 22, 31 AD:
> Jewish calendar: 8 Abib/Nisan 3791
> Sunrise: 5:46:37 AM JST; JD 1732460.65737
> Sunset: 5:47:29 PM JST; JD 1732461.15797
> Notes: Hebrew calendar rules stipulated that Passover
> (14 Abib/Nisan) must occur no earlier than two
> days before the spring equinox, but also that
> Pentecost must occur before summer, and always
> on a Monday, on the 7th, 9th, 11th or 13th of
> the 3rd month(Sivan), leaving but one possible
> crucifixion date in 31 AD. Though the first full
> moon after the spring equinox of 31 AD occurred
> Monday, March 28th, the calendar correction made
> 130 years later by Simon III in 161 AD revealed
> that the "last supper" Passover was observed the
> evening before the SECOND full moon of Wednesday,
> April 25th, 31 AD. The Hebrew calendar year of
> Jesus' crucifixion/resurrection was a 385-day
> "perfect" leap year[Type 11, 4-7-P*]. In light
> of all other evidences examined, this fact proves
> beyond any shadow of a doubt that Jesus' "last
> supper" Passover took place on Tuesday evening,
> April 24, 31 AD between 6 PM and 12 AM Wednesday
> morning, very much according to traditional seder
> regulations[Heb. haggada], but this Passover was
> special indeed[ref. Mat 26:1-30; Mark 14:1-26;
> Luke 22:1-39; John 11:55-57]. I've charted the
> calendar year 3791(below), dating the historical
> "three days and three nights"[ref. Jonah 1:17,
> Mat 12:40] that Jesus' tortured body laid wrapped
> in a linen shroud, sealed in a nearby, newly-hewn
> stone sepulchre of one of our Lord's disciples,
> the wealthy intellectual, Joseph of Arimathaea
> [ref. Mat 27:57-60]. In the literal translation,
> verse 57 says "Of evening but having come to be",
> meaning that the High Sabbath of 15 Nisan, the
> first day of unfermented cakes[unleavened bread]
> was in effect! Remember, *this* was the body of
> the LORD of the Sabbath, thus giving Lord Jesus a
> proper burial on the High Sabbath was Lawful and
> perfectly appropriate, but Joseph et al performed
> this *work* in considerable haste for fear of the
> Jews(who'd condemned Jesus)[ref John 19:38], that
> they would've found Joseph et al *working* on the
> sabbath "unacceptable", and would've prohibited
> them from continuing and arrested them, too. We
> can reasonably conclude that they might've been
> crucified as well, had they been caught *working*
> on the High Sabbath under *these* circumstances!
> And so it was that Jesus' body was buried after
> even[6:07:37 PM JST] of 15 Nisan, and after three
> days was resurrected, after even[6:09:28 PM JST]
> of 18 Nisan[Apr 28, 31 AD], which from even till
> even the following day was counted as Sunday, the
> *first* day of the Hebrew Calendar week, which
> is precisely what the gospel accounts repeatedly
> indicate, "the FIRST day", not the seventh[ref.
> Mat 28:1; Mark 16:2,9; Luke 24:1; John 20:1,19].
> John 20:19 literally translated reads: "Being
> therefore of evening to the day that the one[day]
> of sabbaths, and of the doors having been locked
> where were the disciples through the fear of the
> Jews." Here's a prime example of where orthodox
> theologians and liberals alike are easily given
> to *misconstruing* these ancient texts in favor
> of whatever is convenient in lieu of expertise.
> John's gospel is "user-friendly" to the gentile
> audience as well as the Jew. Quoting Robertson's:
>
> "{When therefore it was evening on that day}
> (oushv oun oqiav th hmera ekeinei). Genitive
> absolute with oqia (oqiov, late), old word with
> wra(hour) understood and here for the time from
> six to nine(#6:16) and the locative case of time
> with hmera(day). John often uses this note of
> time (#1:39; 5:9; 11:53; 14:20; 16:23,26). The
> addition of th mia sabbatwn(see #20:1 for this
> use of mia like prwth) proves that John is using
> Roman time, not Jewish, for here evening follows
> day instead of preceding it..."
>
> So this was Sunday evening April 29, 31 AD, which
> was after even of *Monday* 19 Nisan by the Hebrew
> Calendar. See? Okay, now that we understand this
> sequence of events which were so faithfully and
> accurately recorded in the four gospel accounts,
> the obvious source of widespread confusion and
> uncertainty about whether Jesus was resurrected
> on the seventh day(Saturday) or on the first day
> (Sunday) is settled. The Bible tells us that He
> "was risen early the first day of the week"[ref.
> Mark 16:9]. The literal translation is likewise
> explicit about this "Having stood up but early to
> first[day] of sabbath[week]", thus is irrefutable
> that Jesus rose from the dead on the *first* day
> of the calendar week, which was Saturday evening
> by the Julian solar calendar, but this was in the
> evening[beginning] of SUNDAY by Jewish reckoning.
> Here's the calendar year 3791 for your reference:
>
> -------- HEBREW CALENDAR YEAR 3791 --------
>
> Tishri 3791
> molad: Sat, Sep 16, 30 AD @ 07:53:14 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732273.74530)
> S M T W T F S
> 1
> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
> 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
> 30
>
> Cheshvan 3791
> molad: Sun, Oct 15, 30 AD @ 05:29:00 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732303.14514)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
> 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
> 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
> 28 29 30
>
> Kislev 3791
> molad: Tue, Nov 14, 30 AD @ 03:10:11 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732332.54874)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
> 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
> 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
> 26 27 28 29 30
>
> Tebet 3791
> molad: Wed, Dec 13, 30 AD @ 01:23:46 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732361.97484)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2
> 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
> 24 25 26 27 28 29
>
> Shebat 3791
> molad: Fri, Jan 12, 31 AD @ 12:25:37 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732391.43446)
> S M T W T F S
> 1
> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
> 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
> 30
>
> Adar 3791
> molad: Sat, Feb 10, 31 AD @ 12:25:50 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732420.93461)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
> 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
> 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
> 28 29 30
>
> V'Adar 3791
> molad: Mon, Mar 12, 31 AD @ 01:32:07 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732450.48064)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
> 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
> 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
> 26 27 28 29
>
> Nisan 3791
> molad: Tue, Apr 10, 31 AD @ 3:45:14 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732480.07308)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3
> 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
> 11 12 13 14* 15 16 17
> 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
> 25 26 27 28 29 30
> *Full Moon: Wed, Apr 25
>
> Iyyar 3791
> molad: Thu, May 10, 31 AD @ 6:51:10 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732509.70220)
> S M T W T F S
> 1
> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
> 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
>
> Sivan 3791
> molad: Fri, Jun 08 31 AD @ 10:21:59 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732539.34860)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
> 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
> 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
> 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
> 29 30
>
> Tammuz 3791
> molad: Sun, Jul 08, 31 AD @ 01:40:50 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732568.98669)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4 5
> 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
> 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
> 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
> 27 28 29
>
> Av 3791
> molad: Tue, Aug 07, 31 AD @ 4:20:41 AM JST
> (Julian date 1732598.59770)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2 3 4
> 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
> 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
> 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
> 26 27 28 29 30
>
> Elul 3791
> molad: Wed, Sep 05, 31 AD @ 5:59:55 PM JST
> (Julian date 1732628.16661)
> S M T W T F S
> 1 2
> 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
> 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
> 24 25 26 27 28 29
>
>Continuing...
> * Palm "Sunday", 1311 days(3 years + 7 months) after Jesus'
> baptism at the river Jordan, the LORD of the Sabbath rode humbly
> into Jerusalem[Zec 9:9] in "the midst" of Gabriel's seventieth
> sabbatic year(this was a leap year, hence 3.5 years + 1 month).
> If you count from the last day of Jesus' "40 days of temptation"
> up until the day of His resurrection(discovered Sunday) you get
> 1280 days, or exactly three and one-half solar calendar years:
> Julian day: 1732491
> Julian calendar: Saturday, April 21, 31 AD
> Jewish calendar: 10 Abib/Nisan 3791
> New Moon: Apr 10, 31 AD @ 3:45:14 PM JST
> Julian date: 1732480.07308; Lunation: -23397
> Moon distance: 394450k(61.8 ER); Subtends: 0.5049°
> Right ascension: 01:07:39.91; Declination: 4:56:12
> Azimuth: 78.114; Altitude: 27.308
> Rising: 5:20:20 AM JST; JD 1732479.63912
> Setting: 5:57:35 PM JST; JD 1732480.16499
> Notes: Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread was
> in practice one "eight-day feast" for which plans
> were made weeks, really months, in advance. There
> were two separate hagigah sacrifices. First, the
> pesah proper[paschal meal] on the eve of 14 Nisan
> and second pascha, the afternoon hagigah[festive
> offering] sacrifice on the afternoon of 14 Nisan,
> before the festivities of 15 Nisan, or first day
> of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. About two weeks
> before this contiguous eight-day feast, tithes
> were separated for the priesthood from the flocks
> of sheep. But the paschal lamb, the one "without
> blemish, a male of the first year" was selected
> on 10 Nisan[ref. Exo 12]. This was the Passover
> meal Jesus shared with His disciples the eve of
> His crucifixion. Notably, the second pascha was
> occurring at around the time Jesus died, between
> 3 and 5 PM that afternoon. From the King James:
> "Ye know that after two days is the feast of the
> passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be
> crucified. Then assembled together the chief
> priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the
> people, unto the palace of the high priest, who
> was called Caiaphas, and consulted that they
> might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him. But
> they said, Not on the feast day[15 Nisan], lest
> there be an uproar among the people."[Mat 26:2-5]
> Jesus was God's Lamb for both Passover offerings,
> and His sacrifice left all others of none effect:
> Jesus Himself had literally become the Passover.
>
>* Passover morning, and preparation day for the High Sabbath of
> the first day of unleavened bread; Jesus was crucified at 9 AM
> Wednesday morning[ref. Mark 15:25], and gave up the ghost shortly
> after 3 PM that afternoon[ref. Mat 27:45-50; Mark 15:33-37; Luke
> 23:44-46]. It was thusly that Gabriel's "Messiah the Prince" had
> been "cut off" literally in the "midst of the week"(Wednesday),
> in the midst of the seventieth sabbatic year[ref. Dan 9:24-27],
> just *exactly* as the prophecy had foretold 568 years before:
> Julian day: 1732495
> Julian calendar: Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD
>
> Jewish calendar: 14 Abib/Nisan 3791
> Sunrise: 5:02:49 AM JST; 1732494.62696
> Sunset: 6:07:37 PM JST; 1732495.17196
> Notes: Wednesday crucifixion proven, thus "Good Friday"
> is myth. Notably, even if Jesus' crucifixion had
> occurred in 30 AD (of the orthodox traditions),
> the Hebrew calendar year 3790 was *not* a leap
> year, a fact clearly demonstrated by the calendar
> evidence. The molad for Nisan 3790 was Wednesday,
> Mar 22, 30 AD @ 8:57:59 PM JST(JD 1732096.29027),
> placing 1 Nisan the next day, Thursday, Mar 23,
> 30 AD, thus 14 Nisan fell on Wednesday, April 5,
> 30 AD, therefore "Friday/30 AD" church traditions
> have been squarely refuted by the evidence, which
> selfsame evidence has proven Wednesday, April 25,
> 31 AD the actual date of our Lord's crucifixion,
> thus is accepted as proven fact. And for all you
> 33 AD crucifixion devotees out there, here, I'll
> save you the trouble! The molad for Nisan 3793
> was on Thursday, March 19, 33 AD @ 2:46:38 PM JST
> (JD 1733189.03238), placing 1 Nisan on Saturday,
> March 21, 33 AD, with 14 Nisan falling on Friday,
> April 3, 33 AD. There's your Easter[Ishtar]Friday
> for the crucifixion, but 33 AD doesn't hold up
> very well to being in the "midst" of Gabriel's
> 70th sabbatic year[5.5 of 7], nor is Friday near
> the "midst of the week" as Wednesday certainly
> is, but the final "nail in the coffin" for the
> Nicaean/Roman Catholic "Good Friday" mythologies
> is provided by the Scriptures, since from *after*
> 6 PM Friday evening[Mat 27:57-60, John 19:38-42]
> to after 6 PM Saturday evening[Mark 16:9] totals
> ONE DAY i.e. one morning and one evening ONLY, or
> perhaps a day and five-eighths at the outside if
> one presumes to count from 3 PM Friday afternoon
> to 6 AM Sunday morning(squeezing every last drop)
> still well-shy of even "two days and two nights",
> much less the *requisite* "three days and three
> nights in the heart of the earth"[Mat 12:40] our
> Lord Jesus had promised. "Friday" is invalidated,
> and there're plenty more chapters and verses to
> cite supporting Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD as the
> *historical* crucifixion date of our Lord Jesus,
> but I'll reserve these citations for follow-ups;
> the point is already proven *incontrovertibly*.
>
>* Date Jesus resurrected; scientifically-inexplicable image
> produced on 1st-century linen shroud by process unknown and
> unidentified. Turin shroud is proven authentic, see notes:
> Julian day: 1732498
> Julian calendar: Saturday Evening, April 28, 31 AD
> Jewish calendar: Sunday, 18 Nisan 3791(early in the evening)
> Sunrise: 4:59:26 AM JST; JD 1732497.62461
> Sunset: 6:09:28 PM JST; JD 1732498.17324
> Notes: This resurrection process impressed the shroud
> with the image of Lord Jesus' once-dead, tortured
> body, apparently resulting from bursts of radiant
> energy emitted during the miraculous resurrection
> process, an energy which apparently dispersed as
> this process neared completion, since there's no
> apparent movement visible in the shroud's image.
> Mary and Martha's brother Lazarus might have left
> some similar image in the swathing bands and face
> cloth he was wrapped in[ref. John 11:1-44,12:17]?
> Very notably, the clothes of persons who've died
> wearing them for any length of time after their
> death's have never *once* been shown to have any
> such image impressed into the clothing's fibers,
> thus proving the shroud's image is NOT a function
> of any process known to science, since the man in
> the shroud was very clearly a man who'd been dead
> i.e. clinically and biologically dead NOT living.
> Hence, the image shouldn't be there, but there it
> is nonetheless! This alone is compelling evidence
> for the shroud's authenticity but there's more...
> The Turin shroud and Sudarium cloth are pages of
> "Scripture" penned in the precious blood of our
> Lord and Savior Jesus signed by the hand of God.
> Just as Scripture endures all scrutiny (written
> in the Spirit of Prophecy which is Jesus Christ),
> the shroud and face covering invite all manner of
> secular criticisms, yet the artifacts do prevail
> under the brightest of lights that the scientific
> inquiry has to offer! We know that the shroud and
> face covering are the genuine burial linen of our
> Lord Jesus since the evidence clearly proves it,
> not that any such evidence is "requisite" to the
> Christian faith, but neither does this imply that
> one should turn a blind eye to any such evidence,
> especially when the evidence is 100% conclusive.
> If this evidence sways a few "doubting Thomas's"
> out there, then we as Christians have done well:
> * Doctors of medicine and experts in the human
> anatomy including forensic pathologists/medical
> examiners/coroners/etc. have examined the image
> in the shroud and have concluded that this adult
> male in his 30s had suffered very severe beatings
> and crucifixion precisely as is described in the
> New Testament gospel accounts, and some of these
> medical professionals have admitted openly that
> this image could be of none other than the One,
> crucified Jesus[ref. Bucklin, M.D., J.D., et al].
> No doubt myriad's more would admit this, but such
> would jeopardize his or her own medical career's;
> * The shroud measures 4.6 x 1.1 meters, standard
> measurements of 8 x 2 Philatelic cubits in use in
> Palestine in the first century AD. It bears the
> front and back images of our Lord crucified in a
> manner identical to that which was testified to
> in the Scriptures, and is the most intensively
> scrutinized artifact in recorded history, with
> scientific testing proving time and again that
> the image was produced NOT by artistic methods,
> but by profound physical changes in the linen
> fibers themselves by process(es) unknown and to
> date unidentified. Physicist Osward Schewermann,
> who'd conducted experiments on the phenomenon of
> coronal discharge, i.e., discharge of radiation
> from a surface charged with static electricity,
> observed that flat objects like leaves discharge
> electrons from their edges when they touch cloth,
> forming well-defined lines which follow contours
> where the leaves and cloth make contact, but more
> diffused where the materials are close but do not
> actually touch, partially characteristic of the
> shroud's images, describing most images *but* the
> inexplicable image formed by the crucified body:
> THIS image no scientist in the world can explain;
> * The herringbone twill @ 3:1 weave is distinctly
> of *first-century* Syrian manufacture! These flax
> fibrils contain entwisted cotton fibrils from the
> very *same* loom, the cotton Gossypium herbaceum,
> a Middle East species not found in Europe;
> * The shroud contains myriad pollen grains from
> at least 58 species of plants, 17 indigenous to
> Europe(where it's been kept for the last seven
> centuries), but the majority are indigenous to
> the region of the Dead Sea and Turkey, including
> Artemisia herba-alba, Nyoscyamus aureus, and
> Onosma syriacum. Even the pollen of the wreath
> of thorns was found to be of local origin. The
> Zygophyllum dumosum is identified as the most
> significant plant imaged in the shroud, as it
> grows ONLY in Israel, Jordan, and Sinai. Winter
> leaves all reveal their previous year's petioles,
> proving the plants were picked in the springtime,
> as does the state of growth for every plant thus
> far identified. And some surprising images have
> been identified in the shroud, including a hammer
> and a nail, a broom, an ancient-style rope, even
> a sponge and reed[ref. Mark 15:36]! The gospels
> tell us that Joseph of Arimathaea and Nicodemus,
> with the assistance of Mary Magdalene and Mary
> mother of Joses, were the ones who'd prepared
> and wrapped Jesus' body, quickly gathering and
> arranging these flowers which are imaged in the
> shroud, preparing spices and ointments according
> to the Jewish custom[ref. Mat 27:57-60, Mark
> 15:42-47,16:1; Luke 23:50-55; John 19:38-42]
> as time permitted. This is clearly spelled out as
> Jewish custom[John 19:40], and it is clear from
> gospel accounts that flower arrangements evident
> in the shroud were not at first completed that
> dreadful early evening following the crucifixion,
> but were completed on Friday following the High
> Sabbath of 15 Nisan, and the final ointments etc.
> were to be applied Sunday, but of course, *that*
> preparation was not to be. Jesus was risen!
> * Blood was typed 'AB' in all testing performed,
> containing high levels of bilirubin consistent
> with the severe concussive injuries suffered by
> our Lord on that prophesied Passover morning.
> * C14 measurements of bacteria, fungi, and bio-
> plastic/biogenic varnish deposited as a result
> of the symbiosis between the two organisms had
> compromised the results of every C14 test done.
> These 1988 radiocarbon "dating" tests averaged
> the remnant C14 of the original linen with the
> microorganisms Lichenothelia and Rhodococcus
> AND the resultant calcium carbonate varnish.
> This bioplastic varnish was NOT removed by the
> cleaning procedures used in radiocarbon labs.
> These microorganisms are still present, living
> and multiplying on the linen shroud of Turin.
> [ref. Mattingly/Garza-Vermes].
> * The swath cloth[Sudarium of Oviedo; ref. John
> 20:6-7] shows an obvious and perfect match with
> the image and stains on the shroud in at least
> 120 points of coincidence, and the Sudarium is
> known to date at its very least back to 613 AD
> from Palestine, and 1075 AD in Spain, further
> proving the radiocarbon tests were compromised,
> and further proof that the shroud is genuine.
> * Particulate iron-oxide permeating the shroud
> was proven NOT to be some "artist's pigment",
> and likewise was proven NOT to be the cause of
> the image in the linen fibrils of the shroud
> regardless and irrespective of its origin(s).
> The "debunking" media hype ignores this and all
> other evidence which proves the shroud genuine.
> * Microspectrophotometric analysis of blood from
> the shroud found hemoglobin, but in its acid-
> methemoglobin form due to its great antiquity
> and denaturation. Additional tests identified
> the presence of porphyrin, albumin, bilirubin
> and protein. Also, when proteases were applied
> to a fibril containing the denaturated blood,
> the blood dissolved, but left an "imageless"
> fibril[ref. Heller/Adler]. This proves the
> image contemporaneous with the ancient blood
> by demonstrating that those fresh bloodstains
> were absorbed by the cloth before formation
> of the image contained in the linen fibrils.
> * In 1532 the chapel at Chambery caught fire,
> and the heat was so intense that part of the
> silver reliquary where the shroud was stored
> melted, dripping onto the folded shroud. The
> shroud was saved from the fire but the burns
> were significant, since the shroud had been
> exposed to intense heat at low oxygen levels.
> This may also have contributed to the faulty
> radiocarbon dating of the shroud, as might've
> centuries of tallow candle smoke and incense.
> * Iconography dating to the sixth century when
> superimposed on the shroud face shows at least
> 170 unique points of congruity with the image.
> This in itself has developed into a science,
> with the shroud's singularly distinctive face
> depicted everywhere in post- 6th century art.
> An illustration of the entombed and enshrouded
> Jesus was found in a prayer book from Budapest
> called the "Pray Manuscript", depicting the "L"
> pattern of unique burn holes formed earlier in
> the shroud's long history, including the weave
> pattern in the shroud itself(!) This manuscript
> dates to 1192 with the shroud used as its model,
> absolutely proving the 1988 radiocarbon dating
> is hopelessly in error, thus has been discarded.
> * There's much more evidence for the shroud, and
> the long list of shroud evidence keeps growing.
>
>* Jesus' resurrection discovered Sunday morning at 5 AM[Mark 16:2]:
> Julian day: 1732471
> Julian calendar: Sunday, April 29, 31 AD
> Jewish calendar: 18 Nisan 3791
> Sunrise: 4:58:20 AM JST; JD 1732498.62384
> Sunset: 6:10:05 PM JST; JD 1732499.17367
> Notes: Jesus' prophecy "For as Jonas was three days and
> three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the
> Son of man be three days and three nights in the
> heart of the earth"[Mat 12:40{KJV}] tells us more
> than just the time He was in the tomb(in as much
> as such time can be counted by mortal men). This
> passage Jesus' had paraphrased is found at Jonah
> 1:17 "Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to
> swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of
> the fish three days and three nights." Aside from
> deferring Judgement on the repentant Ninevah for
> perhaps another day, Jonah's scroll seems notably
> incomplete, ending with 4:11 "And should not I
> spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more
> than sixscore thousand persons that cannot
> discern between their right hand and their left
> hand; and also much cattle?" This is the only
> book in the entire Bible--or even the apocrypha--
> which ends with a QUESTION. And what was Jonah's
> reply to God's question? Might he have answered
> in humility as one might expect, what might he
> have said--written--in response? At first glance,
> it would appear Jonah's autograph was written
> on two scrolls, with the latter forever lost to
> the sands of antiquity, effectively cut off right
> in the midst of his dialogue. The similarity to
> Gabriel's seventieth week is clear, and Jonah's
> answer to God was answered in his own heart, in
> spirit and in truth[John 4:23-24,14:16-21,ibid],
> i.e. in our "heart, soul and mind"[Mat 22:37-40].
> This is the doctrine of Lord Jesus in a nutshell
> [ref. Lev 19:18; Deu 6:5].
>
>* Daily sacrifice[Gk. endelecismdv] ceased, temple soon destroyed:
> Julian day: 1746832
> Julian calendar: Tuesday, July 17, 70 AD
> Jewish calendar: 20 Tammuz 3830
> New Moon: Jun 26, 70 AD @ 11:05:03 PM JST
> Julian date: 1746802.37851; Lunation: -22912
> Moon distance: 367927k(57.7 ER); Subtends 0.5413°
> Right ascension: 06:13:47.72; Declination: 28:39:06
> Azimuth: 170.909; Altitude: -28.956
> Rising: 3:34:07 AM JST; JD 1746801.56536
> Setting: 6:47:07 PM JST; JD 1746802.19939
> Notes: Excerpts from the Book of Daniel 9:27(KJV):
> "...and in the midst of the week he shall cause
> the sacrifice and the oblation to cease..." This
> *cause* was the Lamb of God's crucifixion nearly
> 40 years(14337 days, or 39 years + 93 days) prior
> to this date. "...and for the overspreading of
> abominations..." The Jewish hierarchy had flatly
> rejected their One True Lord and Rightful King,
> rendering the temple at Jerusalem the veritable
> "synagogue of Satan"[ref. Rev 2:9], kindling the
> Lord God's Almighty wrath, thus "...he shall
> make it desolate, even until the consummation,"
> was made manifest and the prophecy was fulfilled
> "...and the people of the prince that shall come
> shall destroy the city and the sanctuary..." The
> Prince that shall come was Jesus resurrected to
> eternal glory as King of kings and Lord of lords,
> so His people were the Roman soldiers under Titus
> since they'd taken it upon themselves to act as
> "a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth
> evil."[ref. Rom 13:4]. Not to infer "endorsement"
> of the Roman's murderous rampage on the city, as
> this passage from 'Toward Romans' admonishes us:
> "avenge not yourselves, but rather give place
> unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine;
> I will repay, saith the Lord". 24 days later, the
> temple was set ablaze by a Roman soldier. Within
> hours, the temple was destroyed, August 10, 70AD,
> which was on 15 Av(Ab) 3830, not 9 Av of talmudic
> tradition which had accorded "minor adjustments"
> thereto presumably in remembrance of the first
> temple's destruction. The new moon preceding the
> fire occurred July 26 70 AD @ 7:09:03 AM JST(JD
> 1746831.71462), with the full moon @ 6:54:42 PM
> JST August 10(JD 1746847.20466), and 1 Tishri of
> the following Hebrew calendar year 3831 fell on
> Monday, Sep 24, 70 AD, so August 10, 70 AD/15 Ab
> 3830 is definitely the correct date of the fire.
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>* Jerusalem destroyed(observed), the city was "razed flat":
> Julian day: 1746876
> Julian calendar: Saturday, September 8, 70 AD
> Jewish calendar: 14 Elul 3830
> New Moon: Aug 24, 70 AD @ 5:00:32 PM JST
> Julian date: 1746861.12537; Lunation: -22910
> Moon distance: 383547k(60.1 ER); Subtends 0.5193°
> Right ascension: 10:08:36.65; Declination: 14:28:24
> Azimuth: 96.911; Altitude: 16.773
> Rising: 4:37:40 AM JST; JD 1746860.60949
> Setting: 6:21:09 PM JST; JD 1746861.18135
> Notes: "desolate...consummation"[Dan 9:27] fulfilled.
> Titus spared only the western wall and the three
> towers, Hippicon, Phasaelus and Mariamme "..for
> their great beauty and strength...a monument to
> posterity to the magnificence of that city."
> [ref. Ussher's 4073bAM,4783JP,70AD#6978]
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> IN SUMMARY:
> -Jesus was born before sunrise Monday, August 12, 3 BC.
> -Jesus was visited by the Magi Tuesday, June 17, 2 BC.
> -Jesus was baptised on Thursday, September 18, 27 AD.
> -Jesus rode into Jerusalem Saturday, April 21, 31 AD.
> -Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, April 25, 31 AD at
> 9 AM, and died shortly after 3 PM that afternoon; His
> body was entombed after sunset the eve of the Sabbath.
> -Jesus was resurrected early Saturday evening, April 28,
> 31 AD. This fact was discovered at 5 AM Sunday morning.
> -Jesus was 11,944 days of age at His crucifixion. He'd
> lived 32 years/36 weeks/4 days. Now He lives forever.
>
> "...Undeserved kindness to *you* and peace from the(one) being
> and the(one) was and the(one) coming, and from the seven spirits
> which in sight of the throne of him, and from Jesus Christ, [he]
> the Witness the Faithful, the firstborn of the dead(ones) and The
> Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the(one) loving us and having
> loosed us out of the sins of us in the blood of him,--and he made
> us kingdom, priests to the God and to Father of him,--to him the
> glory and the might into the ages; amen. Look! He is coming with
> the clouds, and will see him every eye and whichever(ones) him
> stabbed out, and they will strike themselves upon him all the
> tribes of the earth. Yes, amen." --ref. Rev 1:4-7[WH-ITGS]
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