scientists and astronomers using the latest computer modelling and mapping technology to map star patterns, planetary movements and alignments, along with some ancient texts dating back to the time of Christs Birth taken from all the major civilizations that fall along the same latitude is Judea, have concluded that in all probability Jesus Christ was born on December 25th, 6BC. Well none of the above studies the scriptures.
Okay here is a raw exerpt from one of my writings...it is about the physical
The seasons and the lunar period set by G-d in Genesis have not changed so there is still a relative consistency with G-d’s plan of time. All of the changes in the calendar were done so man would find it impossible when reading the scriptures to appreciate the time elements in the scriptures. That is why I believe that Yeshua say “these are the signs” and states “that only the father knows the exact times”.
The religious calendar was still in use at the time of the New Testament. In Luke 1:5 when he tells us that Zechariah was of the
priestly division of Abijah, he has given us the first but small time clue.
In 1Chronicles 24:10, we learn that this meant that Zechariah’s family had their appointed ministry in the eighth position. There were 24 divisions. This means that they could have served one month shifts every other year, two week shifts once each year, or one week intervals twice a year.
According to Dead Sea scrolls* the two week rotation was being used in New Testament times. To be away from the family for a month would have posed a hardship on most families at the time. The two-week interval would be most efficient way of working the schedule in an agricultural society.. There is no mention in either the New or Old Testament books of the Bible of anyone ever repeating their cycle as would be required in the one week shift.
If Nissan one is the start of the calendar, then Zechariah would have temple duty after the seventh family’s two week tour was completed and this would have occurred approximately from the 3rd of Tammuz through the 16th. He would not have had sex until after his tenure was completed.
No other biblical conception was the father afflicted, so I really believe that because he lost his speech, he most likely he quickly obeyed the word of G-d quickly upon getting home. John the Baptist his son could have been
conceived on the 17th of Tammuz. Since his message would be repent and prepare for the Lord, this is fitting for it had become
a day of national fasting for the people of Israel.*
Since G-d determined the gestational length of man to be approximately 280 days then John the Baptist’s “EDC” (Expected date of confinement) would have fallen approximately around the time from the
10th of Nissan through the 14th. Since John’s life symbolized Elija’s life and Gabriel links the birth of John to Elijah in his conversation in the Temple with s Zechariah, it would be fitting by G-ds standard for John the Baptist who was to prepare the way for the Lord, to come into this world at the time when many Jews are setting a table place for Elijah.
If John were born on Passover, he would be circumcised on the eight day of unleavened bread. Two festivals have an eight-day holy period associated with them: Passover and the feast of Tabernacles. Even John’s circumcision would have been consecrated.
If John were conceived in the middle of Tammuz, then
he would be six months along in his gestation in the middle of the month of Tabeth. According to Luke1: 24, Elizabeth stayed in seclusion for the first five months. I found that seclusion in the early part of her pregnancy very interesting. I wanted to know how did Zechariah communicate what happened with the angel to his wife. If he wrote it, how did she read it since women were not educated during those times? I can only imagine him doing gestures and her trying to quess the answer like in the game of Charades.
If she were advanced in years and menopausal, then there would be no cessation of periods to raise her suspicions. Sure there would be nausea and breast tenderness but it would take till she felt fetal movement to know for sure. All the other symptoms of pregnancy can occur with other illnesses except for the unique distinguished feeling of a fetal kick and fetal movement. So I was naturally curious and wondered why did she stay in seclusion before she would even know she was pregnant or even showing.
According to Luke 1:26,
the angel Gabriel visited Mary during Elizabeth’s six month of pregnancy and he tells Mary exactly how far along her cousin is her pregnancy.
Six months occurs between the 24 to the 26th week of modern obstetric calculation. Setting the time of Yeshua’s conception at time during Elizabeth’s pregnancy six month stage would mean that
Yeshua was conceived sometime in the Month Tabeth. I believe the day was around or actually on the Festival lights or the Feast of Dedication. This is around the time of Channuka.
Jesus in John 10:22 at the
Feast of Dedication states that
“I and the father are one” At His human conception this was surely true. To those who wanted to stone him for saying this, it was an “inconceivable” statement (excuse the pun) for them to understand.
Since Yeshua was sent to earth as man to be the Light of the World this would have been fitting time for conception. It also adds more significance to the particular miracle of the temple light during the time of the Maccabbes and show that G-d instituted it in order to later serve as a marker for this more notable future event.
If Yeshua were conceived in Tabeth, then He would then have to be born in the same 280-day period that all humans do and that would occur in the month of Tischi. It is highly conceivable and fitting that the time was
Tischi 15 or the Feast of Tabernacles.
Why would G-d have Zechariah 14:16-17 prophecy that this particular Holy Festival would be celebrated by all people and for all times. There is not much significance placed on the Festival in the Tenach, when you compare all that is said about Passover and Yom Kippur in scriptures.
In John 1:14, he tells us that “
The Word became flesh and dwelt among us”. The word dwelt can also mean “tabernacled”. Micah 5:2 prophesies that out of Bethlehem, Ephratha will come one who will be a ruler over Israel and that Israel will be abandoned until the time when she is in labor gives birth.” That is how Jerusalem was before the Maccabean revolt and the rededication of the temple.
If one looks at the sequence of events that were occurring the New Testimate tells us that after the announcement of Gabriel that Mary then makes a trip from Nazareth to some unknown town in the hills of Judea to visit her cousin Elizabeth. At this time an interesting event is noted in the chronicles of Luke,
Elizabeth’s product of conception leaps for joy and acknowledges Mary’s product of conception.
I used the term products of conception in the above sentence because this is one of the especially nice euphemisms that the medical profession has chosen to describe the contents of a woman’s uterus during her pregnancy. From a gynecological position this would seem to be evidence from G-d that a human being is present from the time of conception and would seem to abrogate the Supreme Court’s present position that the lack of viability make the fetus a non entity.
It is also mentioned in John 1:6 that “a man was sent from G-d, his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning the light”. I think that the
“leap of joy” mentioned above is a the most perfect and the most simplistic and sweetest description of witnessing that you will find anywhere in the scriptures. A mother and her baby are the first to testify to the arrival of Yeshua. A mother and their parents’(Elizabeth and Zechariah) seed testify of a mother (Mary) and “her” Seed (Yeshua) as revealed way back in Genesis.
She also fulfills the prophesy made by Isaiah regarding “That the Lord Himself would give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and give birth to a son and He will be called Emmanuel” The name Emmanuel means “G-d is with us”, which is pretty good description of what G-d literally and actually did and it was not at all what any of the Rabbi would have believed could happen.
If the Jewish rabbi really believe that the word is not “virgin” but “young girl”, then what kind of sign would that have been to have a young girl give birth? Since the law required all young women to be virgins at the time of marriage. Regardless it must have seemed puzzling to the rabbi to imagine since any unmarried girl would have been stoned under the Law if she were found in such a condition.
I am still amazed to see how well Mary’s husband Joseph took all this. Here is a man who really was able to submit to G-d’s will and do his job wilth very little fanfare or recompense. Joseph does his job as an earthly father and does it all in the background.
We also see that G-d provided for many small details. We are told in Luke 1:56 that Mary stayed with Elizabeth for the last three months. I really believe that G-d used this time to familiarize and calm the fears of birthing for Mary. I think Mary attended Elizabeth’s birth and she was comforted with this knowledge and experience.
Mary would have been about 12 weeks pregnant at this time. I imagine that Joseph would be moving forward on their formal wedding arrangements because it would only be a matter of time before her pregnancy would be obvious to everyone. There is no description of Mary and Joseph having any family help at the time of the birth so this could have been a very scary event for the couple.
Closer to the time of birth, the month of Tischi, like Nissan has several very important feasts that I am sure would have been observed to the utmost by expectant parents knowing that they were bearing the son of G-d. They would probably celebrated the Feast of Trumpets on the 1st of Tischi and might have even gone to Jerusalem for the feast of “Day of Atonement “ or Yom Kippur on the 10th of Tischi in order to prepare themselves and repent before for the upcoming birth.
I believed that they arrived in Bethlehem for the Festival of Tabernacles. No doubt there were crowds in for this holiday as well as for the census. Mary and Joseph may have literally given birth in a temporary structure and had truly celebrated the Festival of “Booths” in a real way. The word “cave” or “stable” is never used in any of the Gospels. The term manger is used in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles as the place where food was kept within the “Booth".
This festival also has an eight-day celebration attached to it
. So Yeshua’s circumcision would also have occurred on a Holy day and a day of sacred assembly. The day Yeshua was identified as being Jewish.
On the 40th day after the birth according to Luke2:22 , the baby and mother went to the temple for purification and because they were poor, two doves were offered for Yeshua’s dedication. Much later in Yeshua’s infancy when they needed money for their escape to Egypt, the gold, frankincense and myrrh were provided by G-d to fund this travel venture. If these items were given to them at the time around the birth then Mary Joseph would have paid with a lamb and not two doves.
Two official witnesses are described in Luke that occurred at the time of purification and dedication of the firstborn. . Simeon, the priest is described as being righteous and devout. This was at the time that ‘Simeon the Just’ actually lived and was the ranking High Priest of the time. The aarean priests were ousted by the Romans and the duties given to Sadducee.
It is mentioned in Luke that Simeon was promised by G-d that he would live to see the Messiah. Even though it does not mention that he was the high priest, it shows that he recognized the baby as the Messiah and would therefore have been required to have reported it to the high priest in the temple. If he were the "tue" high priest himself it would not be required to report it.
It is strange that this high priest would say in Luke 2:31-32 “you have prepared in the sight of all people
a light for revelation to the Gentiles and the glory to your people Israel” because this statement can be interpreted from both a gentile and a Jewish perspective both then and now. Israel did not appreciate the fact that it all depended on how they themselves reacted to G-d.
Now here is a strange fact, the Jewish Talmud also has a strange entry regarding this particular high priest. It was written that the “servant light “ or “shamosh” of the menorah would no longer burn after Simeon the Just’s death (Yoma 43:3). Was it because the real light was already burning on earth? John speaks of Yeshua as the servants light in Revelation 21:23
The first official Jewish witness was a Levite and the second witness a prophetess named Anna who was from the tribe of Asher. She gave thanks and witnessed to everyone and anyone who would listen. An old has been priest and an old widow...perfect witnesses for God.
Yeshua did not enter this world without the world witnessing the event. Before His birth He had the prophets speak of Him. He had is parents Mary and Joseph at time of the announcement. He had Elizabeth and John in-utero before He was born. At His birth He had His parents Mary and Joseph, He had the heavenly witnesses, the angels. After His birth, He several unofficial witnesses the shepherds and then the two official temple witnesses. During his infancy he also had gentile witnesses, the Magi. So although He was born in poverty and obscurity G-d made sure that event was quiet but properly witnessed.
God also carefully arranged for the lineage of Yeshua. Since the temple is destroyed no one now can trace his or her roots back to King David. All through the Tenach the people of Israel have been sifted.
The lineage of Matthew is of Joseph and proves that he is from the house of David. It is Mary’s lineage that is most important because not only does she have the correct lineage but she also fulfills the Law for women to legally pass on the inheritance.
Mary’s line shows Nathan and not Solomon as the offspring that could legally inherit the throne. Out of Solomon’s line came Jehoiachin and he and his lineage was cursed and his offspring would not be entitled to the throne (Jer22: 24).
Only later in Haggai was the lineage of David re-installed when God gave the “signet ring” back to Zerubbabel an assured him that the Messiah would still come from the house of David. Zerubbabel by the way is in the bloodlines of both Mary (Luke3:27) and Joseph (Matt 1:12). Each line comes through different sons of Zerubbabel
Mary’s family tree, in addition also diverts form Solomon to Nathan and therefore retains this entitlement twofold both legal right and from the legal seed as in the Gen 49:10 promise “that the scepter shall not be taken away nor leader from his thigh until He shall come”. She also fulfills the Mosaic Law regarding inheritance by a woman. First a woman had to have no brothers and second she had to marry within the same family clan.
There is no mention of Mary having any living brothers or a father. It could have even been one of the reason why Joseph ‘being a righteous man’ did not even want to divorce her quietly even ‘before’ the angel of the Lord appeared in his dream. . She may have not had anywhere to go where a man in such a patriarchal society could have protected her. After his dream, she married a man from the same family line, so according to the very last chapter in Numbers (Nu 36:1-13) where the inheritance by women is outlined, Mary met the criteria of legal inheritance.
In addition in Zecharaih 12:12, he specifically mentions the names of certain clans, David, Nathan, Levi and Shemei. These are singled out as ones who will particularly weep “when they look upon the one they have pierced “and all of these names are in Mary’s bloodline. In addition, in Luke2:35, Simeon the Just also tells the mother child relationship would be like that a sword would “pierce” her own soul and seems to me also to refer back to the above cited in Zechariah12.
It is in Mary’s bloodline outlined in Luke 3:37 that goes back to “Adam who was the Son of God.” This also forms a complete circle and shows how Yeshua was as described in Rev. 22:16 both “the root and the offspring of David”.
Using the wheel and trying various scenarios, with so many fact fixing the various points of time it seems that everything works and fits with these dates. There also seems to be adequate confirmation in the scriptures themselves. It would also seem more plausible that an Almighty G-d would be so perfect in his plan and its implementation.
He knew the dates in Exodus and He wrote about many of the things that would occur. He also knew that Satan would do his best to destroy and divert G-d’s plan. Though cryptic, everything is there if one really studies the scriptures. Without the New Testament the state Israel is missing some of clues.
Satan has used the world and the church also to distort the facts but they are written and can be found. The early church changed the day of Sabbath and changed the holy days in order to placate the non-believing masses. They tried to manipulate the true story to give credence to their own belief system. They did all this for power. The more confused the masses are the easier they are to sway. However the truth shall prevail. In the final run, G-d’s time clock is still running and the world does not realize that the alarm is about to go off.
If you pick up any standard Obstetric book and look under labor and delivery, the following steps are described in the actual process of human birth. The human head has a particular shape and so does the mother pelvis. In order for the human head to tranvserse this passage way, the passanger also has to perform certain maneuvers in order to reduce its body mass to the smallest diameter in order to fit.
The first thing it must do is flex its head. This entails the chin bending forward to touch the neck area. The second is to rotate the head so the widest angle of the mother aligns with the widest area of the fetal head. The next is to descend and move down into the pelvis and the last move is to crown and elevate the head and be born and take our first breath and feel the full force of the earths gravity.
Being “born again” you see also entails these steps. The person must first repent and bow his head. In doing so he recognizes his sins so he can present them to Yeshua. The next step is to turn to Jeshua and make the changes necessary to remain in a proper relationship to G-d. The third is descent and the baptism and submersion into the death of Yeshua and realize that his blood was shed to atone for our sins. The last step is to emerge take our first breath of the Ruach Kodesh (Holy Spirit) and be ready to live your eternal life in and for the Messiah and the Glory of the Father.
This all may seem silly but reading this again make me want to sing (I cannot hold a tune) \never the less
Psa 150:1
Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Psa 150:2
Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
Psa 150:3
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Psa 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psa 150:5
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
Psa 150:6
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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