The Time Keepers: The Great Celestial Clock: The true, constant and reliable clock is not on your wall, watch, or by your bed. It’s not the numerous calendars that civilizations have employed throughout history; the true keeper of time is the great celestial clock that God created on the fourth day of creation. “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: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was] good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.” (Genesis 1:14-19) The sun and the moon were created to “divide day from night” and to be for “signs, seasons, days and for years. The sun and the moon were created to be the great celestial clock in which we measure time and was created and instituted by God. Days: The most fundamental unit of time is a day. A solar day is a single rotation of earth in relation to the sun. In our observance, this is the time it takes the sun to go from one point in the sky to the same point the next day. This takes place in exactly 24 hours and is called a ”day.” “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:3-5) Weeks: How many of these days do we string together to make a week? Why do we count off seven days, then, and call them a week? The Hebrew word translated “week” is shabua, and it signifies completeness, or perfection. The week was also introduced to us early in Genesis (2:3) “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.” The word translated “rested” here is from the Hebrew root word shabath,– the Sabbath. That God uses a seven-day week is clear throughout the Bible (Lev. 23:15). The 7 day week is universal in reality and acceptance by all people, with only minuscule exception. The 7 day rhythm of 24 hours was instituted by God in the beginning and we read about in the very first chapter of Genesis.. Months: A true month from a Biblical perspective is the measurement between moons. In Hebrew, the word translated “month” is, chodesh, which means “the new moon; by implication, a month.” There are over 200 references to, “chodesh,” in the Bible. For example, God told Israel: “Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.”(Deuteronomy 16:1) “He appointed the moon for seasons [Literal Hebrew means set times]; the sun knoweth his going down.” (Psalm 104:19). The evening when the first sliver of a new moon is seen marks the beginning of a month and continues until the next sliver of the new moon is seen. This is called a lunar month. The lunar cycle is approximately 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 3 1/3 seconds (actually 2.841 seconds by current measurement). Therefore, twelve lunar months are 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes and 40 seconds, which falls short of a solar year by almost eleven days (10 days, 21 hours and 6 seconds). This difference will play an important role in the calendar calculations. Calendars based on lunar cycles alternate between 39 and 30 months to maintain an average of 29.5days. The ancient Chinese, Babylonians, Greeks and Jews used this type of calendars and had to add a 13th month Years: This unit of measurement is the one that is needed to accurately study the history of time and the one that is used to indicate to us the Biblical Timeline of History. A year is determined by the time it takes the earth to make a full orbit around the sun. A true year is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds long, written as a rounded, decimal figure, 365.24 days in length. Notice that a year is not exactly 365 days in length. There is almost a quarter of an extra day. In order to keep our present Gregorian calendar, instituted from the Julian calendar in 1524, in line with earth’s orbit around the sun, we add an extra day every four years, so every four years our calendar is 366 days long and we call this the leap year. We have to do this or we would get an extra quarter of a day ahead of the celestial clock every year. However, there is not exactly a quarter of an extra day each year. There almost is a quarter: 0.24 this means that every four years when we add an extra day, we are over compensating. We are adding a full day when there is only 0.96 of a day extra that we are compensating. To compensate for our overcompensating, we do not add the extra day every 100 years even though when following the pattern that 100 year should be counted as a leap year. Then every 400 year we ignore this rule and still add the extra day. 1600 was chosen as the first 100th year that would include a leap year and 2000 being the last. All this keeps our Gregorian calendar in line with the celestial clock over long periods of time. This information is confusing and tedious, however we must keep in mind that the celestial clock never changes and man has had to devise calendars that would fit as close as possible to the celestial clock. Our calendar is amazingly accurate. In any given year, our calendar is never off the celestial for no more than 18 hours. And that would be the worst case scenario. On the grand scale over thousands of years, it is hard to imagine, yet true, which our calendar has never been off more than 18 hours off the celestial clock God created in the beginning. This is vitally important and we will see why.
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 15:25:18 +0000
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