Bible Exposed - 5

In the last posting I said I would investigate how the Jewish believers had mathematically arranged their holy book The Torah, but I am afraid that subject must be left until later because I have uncovered amazing new advances on the "Christian" front. Indeed, these new ideas are so thought-provoking I am beginning to think I shall have to stop differentiating between the two sects and just call them Kabbalists.

Right, let's get down to the facts!

Without going into all the boring preliminary work let me just state baldly two facts which I have stumbled on :-

4004 x 365 - 490 = 4000 x 365.2425

4004 x 365 - 434 = 4000 x 365.2565

The removal of 490 days from the s0-called "Ussher cycle" reveals 4000 tropical years and, likewise, the removal of 434 days reveals 4000 "Sidreal" years.

The modern figures for these two cycles are 365.2422 and 365.2564.

If these figures were known to these people then the accuracies are extremely good. But how can we tell if the Kabbalists were actually aware of the two hidden "Sol" cycles? Well, let's just rearrange the two deductions in the following manner:-

490 days = 70 weeks

434 days = 62 weeks

Now do you recognise these numbers? Of course you do! I am sure you are conversant with The Old Testament - no? Well, let me refresh your memory with the rambling apocalyptic writings of the prophet Daniel - especially in chapter 9.

Verse 24 says "70 weeks are determined on the people and on the holy city .............. etc."

Verse 26 says "And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off ............ etc."

Now I do not profess to understand what the Angel Gabriel is trying to tell Daniel but I do believe that these two lengths of time, found so close together in one chapter, are very significant indeed.

You have your doubts? Well, just observe these verses found in the New Testament:-

Matthew 24v15 "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel, the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand)."

Mark13v14 "But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not (let him that readeth, understand)."

Mark 13v19 "For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be." (This verse has a direct reference in the margin to Daniel 9v26.)

"Let him who can understand?"

What are the conclusions we can draw from the above? Well:-

1. It is all a coincidence and all the numbers are just so much moonshine. This is the conclusion the believers are forced into accepting because the alternatives are just too devastating to consider, which are the Bible has underlying numerological theories. Shock, Horror! This is not God's work but the doings of men with their silly secrets which corrupt the holy writings! I believe in the safety-first principle. I do not like to be fooled. Religion is too important to be left entirely in the hands of a few men, therefore I say let's investigate everything with the object of uncovering any hidden systems. Better to be safe than sorry.

2. The book of Daniel is supposed to have been written about 160BC and we shall suppose the numbers were included in the original work. But how can they be? Such an assumption must mean that the Jewish writer of Daniel knew about the holy cycle of 4004 years and I was under the impression that this period of time was cooked up by Christian sages sometime in the sixteenth century. If this conclusion is correct, then the cycle must have been kept secret for over 2000 years from the trusting believers and also the originators of such calculations must have been the Jews or some other people who passed such knowledge onto the Jewish mathematicians at an earlier date.

3. The numbers were inserted by Jewish persons after Christianity became a Roman religion. But why? What's in it for them? For the Jewish people do not accept Christ at the Messiah. Therefore why bolster his claims?

4. The numbers were inserted by Christians after the death of Christ. This does not make sense because the numbers in Daniel are found in the Jewish Bible and why should the Jews copy the Christians?

If we ignore conclusion 1, then only conclusion 2 makes sense.

Right, enought of the accusations, let's back to the numbers.

The tropical year is defined as the time from equinox to equinox, or, if you prefer, solstice to solstice.

The sidral year is defined as the time for the earth to complete an orbit around the sun from a fixed position relative to the stars and then return.

If we are given the values for these two cycles then we can easily calculate the very large cycle of Precession (approximately 26,000 years). I shall leave the technical explantion of this cycle to the internet, on which it should be easy to search out. But I would like to emphasise that this cycle was clearly known to the Ancients and also they believed the star-studded sphere was considered to be the home of God and, because of the precessional cycle, the heavens appeared to be slowly revolving around the earth. Its importance must have been paramount in the minds of astronomers of yore because it is the ultimate and largest cycle to be found in their universe.

To calculate this cycle is simplicity itself. Thus:-

Divide (365.2565 x 365.2425)

by (365.2565 - 365.2425)

and the answer is 9529085.5 days

When I examined this cycle, as the Ancients must have done as well, I found little of interest except that when this answer is divided by the time of the orbit of Venus (224.7 days), this gives the result of:-

42408.04 orbits

This number factorises to 72 x 589.

Is this the 72 names of God, the Jewish Kabbalists claim to know? Or is it:-

"I am the Alpha and the Omega."

"I am the Bright and Morning Star."

Perhaps it is all One.

St. Luke 8v10 (speaking to the disciples) "and he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."