Bible TimeTools
Looking at just about any interesting problem requires specialized tooling. In the case of Bible Time, the tooling is mostly software. This tab provides a full range of software tooling for understanding time as described in the Bible.
Specifications Documents the calendar assumptions used by these tools. The Bible Calendar is fully documented, other western calendars are too.
Notes There are issues for converting time from "recorded time" in various historical documents to dates on today's calendar systems. Those issues introduce problems that must be dealt with using tolerance and error analysis.
Time Calculators This is where it gets fun. Web pages are provided for looking up dates in various ways and converting time in various ways. Especially fun is the Birthday Calculator where you can find your Biblical age.
Reports There are a host of specific questions about time that is best solved using the underlying tooling provided here. Those questions are about various things, including scripture passages, and general questions. Each report provides a study in some question about time.
Full Article Index
What follows here is a full index to all articles under this tab. Read them through in order by following the “next” links the top or bottom border of each page.
Modern Gregorian Calendar Introduction
The modern calendar in use throughout most of the world today is the Gregorian calendar, named after the Pope who introduced it in 1585. It was not adopted in the United States until an act of the English Parliament made it law throughout the English Empire in 1752. Since that time most other countries have adopted the Gregorian calendar.
Julian Calendar Specification
The Julian name for calendar structure is ambiguous. Technically is applies to the Roman calendar introduced in 45 BC. The name is popularly applied to the Christian Era calendar with New Years on March 25.
Roman Calendar Introduction
At the founding of the city of Rome the calendar had a 10 month calendar with 304 days per year. It underwent successive revisions until 5 AD when it stabelized around a structure that remained in use in some places into the 1900s.
Bible Calendar
The Bible was written using a specific calendar. That calendar is not used anywhere in the world today. Its structure defines how God counts days, months, years and larger quantities of time. When God says 1000 years are as a day, he means 1000 years on this calendar.
Day of Week
The day of the week has been stable across the entire era. Validation that the calculations are done correctly rests in part on finding events that fell on known days. A good example is the ancient fall of Jerusalem.
Day Numbers
After the invention of the computer it became important to number days by individual numbers. Astronomers use Julian Day Numbers. This website uses AA Numbers. Both show up in all date reports. What are they, how do they count?
Report Format -- Key to full date reports.
Throughout the articles on the Bible Time website a standard format of date report is used. That format usually contains 9 fields, though a short form is also used with 5 fields. The values of those fields are different ways that the individual day in question is known. This article explains the meaning of each field.
Warnings on Zero
Ancients had no zero digit. They counted time using strictly 1 based counting numbers. Modern Astronomers have introduced a year zero between 1 BC and 1 AD that historians would not have acknowledged. This introduces errors.
Date Drift
By changing to a new calendar Pope Gregory began a process that has obscured when events in history actually happened. This is known as "drift" error.
Stable Era
The calendar stability that we are familiary with today does not go back indefinitely into the past. Before 5 AD it was very unstable. Use of historical dates from before this point has problems.
Tolerance
Use of precise dates in otherwise imprecise periods of history is one clue that someone is cooking the books. What tolerance should be applied to events?
Measuring Days
Issues on measuring days when a day is given prophetically.
Gregorian Calendar
This page provides a cross-calendar tool for querying modern dates. These dates are also called "New Style" or NS dates for short.
Julian Calendar
Query dates when you already know an "Old Style" Julian date.
Bible Calendar Calculator
Query dates when you already know a Bible date.
Day By Number -- AA Number
Use this page to look up a day by AA day number.
Day By Number -- JD Number
Use this page to look up a day by JD day number.
Days In Years
This form displays how many days are possible when a certain number of Biblical years are known. The number of days in a year average 364.8 days/year. But, exact years are never this length. This variance is because of leap year constraints.
Bible Birthday Calculator
Modern Birthday calculations are determined by using the date of someone's birth and watching for the recurrence of that date each year. The modern system does not work well for leap day births, but since leap days do not occur very often the leaps are ignored. On the Bible's calendar, Birthdays should be calculated differently. Life is a form of covenant between God and each person, so "Bond-Man" calculation is implied. This page provides an interactive birthday calculator as well as some thoughts on the significance of the system.
Research Report on Second Samuel 24, David’s Evil Census
In Second Samuel chapter 24 the Lord’s anger against Israel and Judah causes the Lord to incite David against Israel and Judah by causing David to conduct a census. This brought the country under wrath as the king was not to do this without collecting a tax. This chapter contains a set of numbers that predict a series of events in the future history of the world. We look at the math here.
Calendar Synchronization
There are various times when the 30 day Bible calendar has month and day numbers that are the same as a current Gregorian Calendar.
Creation Week Math
There are a variety of ways that the creation week chronology can be charted. This article explores one such way. Where each "day" or age, in the creation story is a year of days where each day is 1000 years.
Report on when the Kings of ancient Israel Reigned
The kings of ancient Judah were under David’s covenant. Covenants are usually measured with their own calendar, starting at the day the covenant starts. It may be that the king’s reigns are given as covenant time, rather than calendar time. This report indicates this is quite possible with Judah’s kings but not with Israel’s. The math for Judah’s kings works out correctly to the day across more than 400 years.
Report on Exodus Census Counts
The future history of the people of ancient Israel is occasionally seen chronologically in the counts found in the Bible. Once such place is the counts at the Exodus. These counts map to the number of days in 3500 years, a match to the 70 jubilees the world is now finishing. There are some detailed issues. This page explains and provides interactive tool for exploring.
Solomon’s temple Dedication
Solomon sacrificed a very large number of animals at his temple dedication. Those counts seem to point across the age. This report shows the math.
Hiram’s gift of 120 Talents of Gold to Solomon
Hiram gave Solomon 120 Talents of Gold. That gift points at the timing of the gift of gold in the New Testament, the gift of the Magi to Joseph and Mary. This report explores the math.
Elijah, Obadiah and the Bull on Mount Carmel
Elijah’s offering on mount Carmel suggests a chronological story. This article explores.
Research Report on 1 Kings 19
There are various counts of things buried in the Bible’s story. One such story is in 1 Kings 19, where God reserves 7000 for himself. One such placement is as 7000 modern days, as shown here. Note: 7000 Historical days is more likely than this rendering.
Research Report on 1 Kings 20
1 Kings 20 is another chapter with large counts given in the story. This report suggests a possible modern placement. Since being written my sense of the starting epochs has changed. Left here as an example of how this might be done.
Research Report on 1 Chronicles 9
This passage helps identify important points in world history. The three indicated here are the rise of the Christian Church at Rome, the Rise of Christianity in Russia and first war after Israel’s independence in 1956.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 2
The sacrifice given by Solomon at the dedication of the temple appears to indicate the length of time the temple would stand. Since the exact date of his dedication is unknown, we start at the end of Solomon’s temple and work backwards to suggest the dedication date. The math suggests this works.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 12
The wars between Israel, Judah, and surrounding peoples generate a form of census count that appears prophetic for events in future time. This page explores an Egyptian attack against Judah.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 13
The large counts of people found in the Bible are often prophetic for large intervals of time. This report looks at a time when the Northern Kingdom lost 500,000 men. The prophetic interval points at the early 400s when Rome was attacked.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 14
The large counts of people found in the Bible are often prophetic for large intervals of time. This report looks at a time when Judah defended itself from Ethiopians.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 17
The large counts of people found in the Bible are often prophetic for large intervals of time. This report looks at a time when Judah grew strong under the reign of Jehoshaphat.
Research Report on Second Chronicles 35
Josiah’s year 18 Passover animals suggest a prophetic offset to a full sacrifice. This report runs the math.
Revelation 7
Revelation Chapter 7 contains one of the most difficult passages in the Bible. Someone, or something, of a count of 144,000 are sealed. What does that mean? Something to do with time, of course. In this case 144,000 days. It also provides the foundation for finding each of the tribes named in the chapter. This report provides the dates indicated by the story.
Research Report on Ezekiel’s Dates
There are different ways to track the specific dates given by the prophet Ezekiel. One way is to assume they all offset from their historical period to the modern era. If so the stories indicate dates beginning in April, 2002. This report explains and reveals the modern dates indicated.
Fractal Math
Is history described with a fractal? Day-for-a-year repetition, seen now in the headlines and in ancient times with the life of Jesus, might be the evidence of fractal math behind the story. This article explores. This is a big report.
Introduction to Judean Kings Prophetic dates
Each of the ancient Judean Kings appears prophetic as an indicator for some event in the history of one of the ancient tribes. This article introduces the topic.
Research Report on King David’s Life
King David was exceptional in the story of the ancient Kings. He is the only king who reigned over all Israel who’s life length is given in the Bible. The other kings, who’s life length is given, reigned over Judah or Israel alone. David is prophetic for Jesus’ reign.
Jesus’ Ministry Year
The ratio of 30 historical years to 1 day is the ratio that reveals Jesus’s schedule across his ministry year. The schedule revealed by this ratio appeared to give the dates for the important events across Jesus’ year of ministry.
Psalms
This page is built on a hunch. Does the 150 psalms match the 144,000 at 1 psalm per thousand? The 144,000 have a 6,000 day "halo" that extends another 6000 days. This sums to 150,000 days and suggests strongly that Psalms is an overlay to the tribes, with a lot more coverage. This page explores the details, and gives enough evidence to support the thought.
Revelation 8
This report is based on the Revelation 7 report that establishes the dates for the seals of Revelation chapter 7.
Report on Israel as a person
Birthdays are interesting. If they are time as a "bond man" would could them, then the date of birth begins a new calendar. The following report does that for the nation of Israel.
Long Replay, later called Tier 3
At the time of Jesus’ Passion week he replayed, in quick order, the entire time of his ministry, That replay extended beyond his return such that he was able to make editorial about the timing of his return within that week.
Tier4 Dates
This article covers the math for a possible 4th tier. It is inconclusive and has not yet made it onto the charts.
Research Report on 12 Years
12989/1/1 counting forward at 12 days "on the ground" for 1 prophetic day.
Standard Prophetic Ratios
The Bible is written using a standard set of prophetic time ratios. Knowing those ratios is important because it allows readers to unpack the prophetic meaning of various passages in the bible. This article summarizes the ratios and provides links to supporting articles that define the various ratios.