Message-Id: <19990309212310.6041.qmail@nym.alias.net> From: remailer@funlaw.com Date: 9 Mar 1999 21:31:04 -0000 Subject: u-8533yc222.5 Newsgroups: alt.music.techno,rec.models.rc.water,comp.parallel.pvm, comp.sys.sgi.misc Followup-To: alt.music.techno,rec.models.rc.water,comp.parallel.pvm, comp.sys.sgi.misc,alt.prophecies.nostradamus,alt.prophecies.cayce, alt.messianic Comments: This message did not originate from the above address. It was automatically remailed by one or more anonymous mail services. This service is free. Please report problems or inappropriate use to the address below. Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net Organization: mail2news@nym.alias.net Xref: ukc alt.music.techno:85769 rec.models.rc.water:18388 comp.parallel.pvm:8090 comp.sys.sgi.misc:42497 This article is posted in four parts due to message-size restrictions imposed by some remailers and newsservers. Please read all four parts carefully before responding.... -------------------------------------------------------------- '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 forward with Artaxerxes' imperial edict to restore and build Jerusalem, which proves Gabriel's prophecy--and the Book of Daniel--entirely accurate, and therefore genuine. This evidence further proves Jesus the Nazarene called the Christ is the One and Only Messiah of the Old Covenant Scriptures, the Hebrew 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 if you haven't already. The fact that The King of kings quoted Daniel as "the prophet"[ref. Mat 24:15; Mark 13:14] is cited as the supreme authority endorsing Daniel's autograph, thus the balance of this article is presented for the record. And, while the secular crowd will resort to cavil in futile attempts to discredit the Bible and its profound message, the gospel of Christ crucified, such inevitably has the reverse effect of drawing much-appreciated scrutiny to these ancient Scriptures, since the evidence weighs heavily in the gravity of its merit and the Scriptures remain intact, fully intact. All planetary positions have been (re)calculated using the high-precision(untruncated) VSOP87[Variations Seculaires des Orbites Planetaires] theory of Bretagnon and Francou, with all lunar positions (re)calculated using the revised (untruncated) ELP-2000/82 lunar theory of Chapront-Touze and J. Chapront [Bureau des Longitudes]. Dynamical time, ecliptic obliquity, nutation, precession and aberration calculations made using high-precision algorithms and very high-precision coefficient tables to significant figures indicated, yielding accuracy for geocentric positions comfortably within +/- several arcseconds for all dates calculated. There are several excellent software programs available for checking these calculations, such as 'Guide' or 'SkyMap'. For example, even using the low-precision (abridged) mode, Guide's accuracy for all planetary positions from 0[1 BC] through 1000 AD yields the following "errors" in arcseconds[an arcsecond is one-sixtieth of an arcminute]: POSITION ERRORS FOR 0-1000 AD Planet Longitude Latitude RMS Max RMS Max Mercury 0.52 2.48 0.39 1.87 Venus 0.43 1.27 0.25 1.03 Earth 0.16 0.52 0.08 0.28 Mars 0.63 2.46 0.38 1.29 Jupiter 0.61 2.45 0.33 0.98 Saturn 0.72 2.55 0.42 2.03 Uranus 0.63 1.97 0.29 0.82 Neptune 0.41 1.13 0.25 0.64 Thus, Mercury might've been out at most 3.1 *arcseconds*(in abridged mode) at the time Herod died in late January of 1 BC (with all lunar positions still within +/- about 100 meters). Obviously, even "lo"-precision accuracy is well in excess of any minimum accuracy required for us to accurately determine ancient lunisolar calendar dates within +/- one calendar day, but by using the high-precision algorithms/coefficient tables, the reader is assured that all astronomical data presented is as accurate as can possibly be, and no more. Location data is preset to Jerusalem, Israel 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 ancient Hebrew calendar reckons the Julian Thursday as beginning at sundown the previous day, or Wednesday evening on the Julian calendar. This Old Covenant "sundown-to-sundown" convention 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 and 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 somewhat crude, but was very effective for counting days, months and years of the lunisolar cycle, and for observing Old Covenant Holy Days so 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 While it isn't likely that Moses actually invented the sacred 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, but probably dates to long-forgotten antediluvian times *much* older than Noah. The Julian, or old civil calendar was invented by the Greek scholar and Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes in 44 BC at the behest of Gaius Julius Caesar, although not made operational until 2 AD under emperor Augustus. Subsequent revisions to this Julian calendar evolved into its modern-day corollary, the Gregorian, but both are solar calendars only, ignoring the lunar months altogether. Sosigenes had estimated the length of the solar year to be 365 days and 6 hours. Those extra 6 hours per year were to be collectively added as one extra 24-hour day every 4th year, making a 366-day "leap year"[cognate to Old Norse hlaupa, to leap]. Sosigenes' calendar was started on a leap year retroactive to 45 BC, but the early leap years were inserted more often than they should've been, once every three years through the 9 BC. This was corrected by ignoring leap year's in 5 BC, 1 BC and 4 AD[ref. Macrobius, Saturnalia I,14,14]. So, from 5 AD onward, the Julian calendar proceeded according to specification---until it was discovered that the true solar year is about 11 minutes and 14 seconds shorter than Sosigenes had calculated, with a tropical year today calculated at 365.242199 days in length. This modest error compounded over time, adding 7 extra days per millennium, but the Vernal, or spring equinox was useful as the benchmark for crudely "recalibrating" the calendar dates every few hundred years, thus assuring its continued (relative)accuracy over time. However, by 1545, the spring equinox--which the Roman Catholic Church had used for determining Easter[Ishtar]--had "moved" entirely *ten days* ahead of its proper date, rather, the date had "skipped" ten days beyond the actual equinox. So, in December of that year, the Council of Trent authorized Pope Paul III to take action, but it wasn't until the election of Pope Gregory XIII(Ugo Buoncompagni, 1502-1585) in 1572 that a formal proposal was finally solicited from Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius(1537-1612), which he'd compiled based on suggestions of the astronomer and physician Luigi Lilio (?- 1576), but most especially, he'd based his findings on the meticulous research of the 7th century Anglo-Saxon monk, scholar, historian and theologian, the venerable St. Bede (673-735). This proposal/papal bull officially appeared in February 1582, but the British didn't adopt this Gregorian version until March 25, 1752. This calendar is today known as the International Standard Gregorian Calendar, and is the most popular calendar in the world. But there's one more calendar you should familiarize yourself with before proceeding with this article: the Julian(French "Julien") dating system commonly used by astronomers must NOT be confused with the Julian calendar, but was named for the classical scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger(1484-1558) by his son Joseph Justis Scaliger(1540-1609), a prolific writer whose works were published posthumously in 1610. Among his crowning achieve- ments was a scientific study of previous calendars entitled 'Opus de emendatione tempore', dated 1583, one year after the "Gregorian" was introduced. The first Julian Day of the Julian Period--or Scaliger Cycle of 7980 years--was assigned by Scaliger as day ZERO(0), starting precisely at 12:00:00 AM GMT January 1, 4713 BC of the proleptic Julian calendar(invented by Sosigenes). Astronomical calculations presented herein are based on Scaliger's Julian dating system, but are exactly 12 hours LATER plus one calendar year LATER than this for all "BC" calendar dates, since astronomers include the year "zero" which is 1 BC, e.g. "-4712-01-01" = 12 PM GMT January 1, 4713 BC. Thusly, Julian dates are calculated adding the number of days from -4712-01-01 plus any mathematical fraction of that day counting from noon, plus or minus. This is because Scaliger had originally designated 12 AM GMT as xx.00, but it is convention for all astronomical calculations to recognize xx.00 as 12 *PM*(noon) GMT beginning a Julian day, with xx.25 as 6 PM GMT, xx.50 as 12 AM, etc, since astronomers most often work at night. By contrast, the chronological dating used by historians is rendered as a simple integer, e.g., anytime starting 12:00:00 AM GMT Thursday September 19, 457 BC through 11:59:59 PM GMT corresponds to Julian Day 1554766, but in astronomy terminology, that same Julian date, as reckoned in Jerusalem, would be JD 1554766.00000 *only* at 2:00:00 PM Jerusalem Standard Time, since Jerusalem time is at GMT +2:00. In other words, 12:00 PM(noon) in Jerusalem is only 10:00 *AM* in Greenwich, England, so 12:00 PM in Jerusalem on September 19, 457 BC corresponds to JD 1554765.91667, since 22/24's of 1 = 0.9166666666667, truncated to five decimal places(within one second accuracy) = 0.91667, which fraction is then added to the PREVIOUS Julian Day. Once you've familiarized yourself with Julian dating, I think you'll comprehend my research more thoroughly. But above all, please do read you Bible. That's the most important key to understanding this information. -------------------------------------------------------------- * The "going forth of the commandment[Artaxerxes I/Longimanus] to restore and to (re)build Jerusalem..."[ref. Dan 9:25]: Julian Day: 1554766 Julian calendar: Thursday, September 19, 457 BC Jewish calendar: 1 Tishri 3305 Sunrise: 5:23:35 AM JST; JD 1554765.64138 Sunset: 5:44:39 PM JST; JD 1554766.15601 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 degrees Right ascension: 11:29:55.68; Declination: 08:34:36 Azimuth: -161.396; Altitude: -47.914 Moon 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" [7:6-26ff], 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, a time for forgiveness and emancipation, for sharing and reconciliation, and 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 clearly 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. This is crucial to understanding the gospel of Christ crucified. Jesus taught us to ask God to "let go off[forgive]...the debts of us, as also we have let go off to[forgiven] the debtors of us"[ref. Mat 6:5-14]. We are to love and forgive our enemies, but not fight them. We are to return that which is NOT our own property: "give *you* back to Caesar...and to God"[ref. Mat 22:17-21]. So I'm proselytizing, but if you fail to comprehend the lucid wisdom of Gabriel's distinction and emphasis concerning the Jubilee- Acceptable Year of the Lord, then you've missed the point entirely, in which case I implore you to please stop right here, (re)read the book According to Matthew until you understand this, then continue reading from here. Next, 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) which was a Torah Jubilee Year[cf. Josephus' chronology]. Ezra reckoned the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes'[Artakhshathra] first regnal year as 1 Tishri 3298, the Hebrew civil calendar new year, which date fell on Thursday, September 7, 464 BC. Although Artaxerxes was king from mid-August of 465 BC (of Persian eponym, upon his father Xerxes' death), his ascension to the Persian throne lasted eight months, until 1 Nisanu(near the vernal equinox) beginning the following civil calendar new year according to the old Persian[Chaldean/Sumero-Babylonian] 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". This was NOT the fifth month of the king's seventh regnal year on the Persian calendar, but was counted as the eleventh month from Nisanu, hence the *fifth* month of the Hebrew civil calendar(counting from 1 Tishri). Additional historical sources which further establish Artaxerxes' first regnal year in 464 BC include the 'Canon of Ptolemy' and the 'Greek Olympiads'---add numerous allusions to Persian affairs by Greek historians---placing the seventh year of Artaxerxes squarely in 457 BC. This chronology is also referenced in Sir Isaac Newton's Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel[pp. 154-157ff]. It is clear from the historical records that the king's 1st year of reign didn't begin until 1 Nisan(u) 3297 from Ezra's standpoint, since those prior eight months of the king's ascension failed to fulfil *one* Hebrew calendar year, being little more than half the calendar year, thus were not included in Ezra's reckoning for the king's seventh[regnal] year. In other words, 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(like I haven't already), but it is very important that the reader should understand how Artaxerxes' seventh year was determined with certainty by Ezra according to the Hebrew civil calendar. But, had Ezra counted the king's seventh year as 1 Tishri 3304 as some secular scholars have argued(misconstruing the Egyptian papyri), then that day was Saturday, Sep 2, 458 BC, Julian Day 1554383(molad on Sep 1 @ 2:16:55 AM JST[JD 1554381.51175]). I'll refer back to these dates later in this article merely to confirm 1 Tishri 3305 [457 BC] as Ezra's historical assessment for Artaxerxes' 7th year, in order to allay any possible doubts about this date. One more thing, Elephantine was founded as a military colony in the 6th century BC in southern Egypt, on an island in the Nile near Aswan. Aramaic-speaking Jews constructed a temple there in 525 BC. About a century ago, numerous papyri were unearthed, many of which are dated(some double-dated) from 471 to 402 BC, dates which are useful for comparing these ancient Egyptian, Persian and Hebrew civil calendars, and also for establishing certain facts about them, including how that the Hebrew calendar observed the fall-to-fall civil[regnal] year, not the "vernal equinox" civil calendar of the Persians. The Elephantine Jews also used Babylonian month names as did Ezra, Nehemiah, et al, but in their Aramaic form. Notably, the KR6 papyrus has but one *year* listed: the 3rd year of Darius II. The Hebrew date is Tammuz 8, but the Egyptian is Pharmuthi 8. Because these dates fell on July 11th or 12th of that year, it must be from 420 BC, in the Egyptian year 4. The Aramaic AP25 and AP28 papyri agree, as does the Canon of Ptolemy, thus was also the Persian year 4. But, since Tammuz is several months *after* Nisan in the Hebrew Torah calendar, only the fall-to- fall shana reckoning reconciles the Hebrew calendar date with the year 420 BC as the *3rd*--not the 4th--year of Darius II, since Darius II's first year was 1 Nisan(u) of 423 BC, which, in turn, supports Ezra's reckoning for king Artaxerxes' first regnal year as 464 BC, NOT 465 BC. We'll refer to this later. * 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 degrees 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 Jesus' star[at its]rising, thus their own witness to this conjunction was judicially construed as our Messiah's actual date and approximate time of birth. Here's the Sun, Moon and Planetary positions for August 12, 3 BC 4:00 AM JST/5:00 AM Babylon: (Julian date: 1720550.58333) Sun: RA: 09:14:04.83; Dec: 16:12:36; AU: 1.007; Az:-117.638; Alt:-11.719 Moon: RA: 10:01:11.89; Dec: 10:56:54; ER: 62.8; Az:-121.209; Alt:-23.849 Mercury: RA: 08:50:22.83; Dec: 14:29:30; AU: 0.657; Az:-112.748; Alt: -8.198 Venus: RA: 07:49:27.22; Dec: 22:00:06; AU: 1.564; Az:-110.981; Alt: 7.990 Mars: RA: 18:19:06.16; Dec:-29:13:42; AU: 0.462; Az: 71.920; Alt:-29.383 Jupiter: RA: 07:50:32.92; Dec: 21:53:24; AU: 6.277; Az:-111.017; Alt: 7.714 Saturn: RA: 03:03:06.00; Dec: 15:16:24; AU: 8.954; Az: -56.608; Alt: 63.575 Uranus: RA: 23:28:52.40; Dec: -4:14:54; AU: 19.147;Az: 44.919; Alt: 43.502 Neptune: RA: 14:36:59.99; Dec: 13:38:06; AU: 30.376;Az: 137.174; Alt:-66.600 Pluto: RA: 09:14:06.18; Dec: 16.201; Quoting Isaiah: "...the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising...the dromedaries[young camels]of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD"[ref. Isa 60:3,6]. Isaiah is rightly known as the Messianic Prophet, since he knew that *only* out of Israel would come the One True Messiah for all the world's salvation [see also John 12:41]. Whether these passages from Isaiah are speaking specifically about the Magi responding to this "rising star" is best discerned by the astute reader, but the coincidence here is obvious at least. Notably, the magi first appear in history in the 7th century BC, in the Median empire[ref. Herodotus I;ci], and by the late 1st century BC they formed the upper house of the council of the Megistanes, whose duties included the election of the king of the Parthian empire [ref. Strabo,XI,ix,3]. These Magi[Gk. magoi] were adept judicial astrologers[astrologia judiciarias] from the Parthian empire, whose lands included those of Persia, Bactria, et al areas east of the Euphrates. They might not have all observed this first conjunction from the region of Babylon, but viewed it from several locations independently, some perhaps from 1000s of miles away? We do know that Gabriel had revealed the 70 Weeks prophecy to Daniel in Babylon, and that the very day Ezra had left Babylon with Artaxerxes' decree, that started the prophetic clock ticking down Gabriel's 7 + 62 contiguous