My Search for the Countdown to Christ’s Atonement

Christian Gedge said:

Thank you, Humble Penny. We share an interest in an important, but overlooked subject – the march of Old Testament chronology as it progressed toward Messiah’s new covenant. It began for me about fifteen years ago while struggling with Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 weeks. ‘The Atonement Clock’ was published in 2010 from out of that work. Here is a link and a brief overview.

• Jacob to Moses (1st 490-yr era)
• Shemitah and Jubilee
• Ancient Hebrew Calendar
• Judges timeline (2nd 490-yr era)
• Reigns of kings (3rd 490-yr era)
• Daniel’s 70 weeks (4th 490-yr era)
• NT atonement in book of Daniel
• Timeline of Jesus’ ministry
• Times of the Gentiles
• Future revival of the Jews

My second book, ‘Chronology of the Kingdom’ is really an expansion of the first. It is a series of high detail dates, timelines and synchronisms for academics who might want more citations, more proofs, and high-resolution charts of my chronology. Here is a link and a brief overview.

• Early judges
• The middle judges
• Late judges to Saul
• David and the calendar
• Division of the Kingdom
• Athaliah to Uzziah
• The fall of Samaria
• The fall of Jerusalem
• Babylonian Captivity
• The Persian era
• The Greek era
• Roman era till Herod

I might be letting myself in for more than I can chew. “Little by little” sounds good to me too.

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Christian Gedge said:

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Are you saying it too? I traced a pattern of 'sevens' from as far back as Bethel which continued through the history of Israel and culminated in the ministry of Jesus.

There are implications: The first is how Daniels 'weeks' do not stand alone. They are one and the same count as the Sabbatical years given to Moses in Leviticus 25. The second is that there was more than one 490-year span. Precise dates can be claimed.

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Humble Penny said:

While not the central theme in my work: I have recognized the Jubilee pattern being intertwined with the 7,000 Year timeline for the world to exist. I made this connection as I was tackling the 70 Weeks as I noticed that 490 Years = 10 Jubilees. However I took it a step further:

7,000 Years ÷ 50 Years = 140 Jubilees
7 Weeks × 7 Years = 49 Years
49 Years + 1 Year = 50 Years = 1 Jubilee

Otherwise my work focuses on proving that the reckoning according to the Septuagint matches Scripture and world history. And I show in my work that there are four main times God wants us to know:

1) 5470 AM (Christ's Birth)
2) 5500 AM (Christ's Death)
3) 6000 AM (Christ's Second Coming)
4) 7000 AM (Final Judgement)

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Christian Gedge said:

Thank you, Humble Penny. We share an interest in an important, but overlooked subject – the march of Old Testament chronology as it progressed toward Messiah’s new covenant. It began for me about fifteen years ago while struggling with Daniel’s prophecy of the 70 weeks. ‘The Atonement Clock’ was published in 2010 from out of that work. Here is a link and a brief overview.

• Jacob to Moses (1st 490-yr era)
• Shemitah and Jubilee
• Ancient Hebrew Calendar
• Judges timeline (2nd 490-yr era)
• Reigns of kings (3rd 490-yr era)
• Daniel’s 70 weeks (4th 490-yr era)
• NT atonement in book of Daniel
• Timeline of Jesus’ ministry
• Times of the Gentiles
• Future revival of the Jews

My second book, ‘Chronology of the Kingdom’ is really an expansion of the first. It is a series of high detail dates, timelines and synchronisms for academics who might want more citations, more proofs, and high-resolution charts of my chronology. Here is a link and a brief overview.

• Early judges
• The middle judges
• Late judges to Saul
• David and the calendar
• Division of the Kingdom
• Athaliah to Uzziah
• The fall of Samaria
• The fall of Jerusalem
• Babylonian Captivity
• The Persian era
• The Greek era
• Roman era till Herod

I might be letting myself in for more than I can chew. “Little by little” sounds good to me too.

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Christian Gedge said:

When you realise a Jubilee is 49 years, it hits between your eyes, doesn’t it?


You’ve got me scratching my head over these HP. Do you give BC and AD dates for his birth and death?

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Humble Penny said:

The overview and details arein the hyperlink I left in post #6 of this thread. As for the short answer:

5470 AM corresponds to 0 BC/1 AD
5500 AM corresponds to 30 AD

This may be checked against the reigns of Augustus Caesar, king Herod, and Tiberius Caesar and the Olympiads:

Legend Key
1 Olympiad = 4 Years

1st Year of Augustus to Christ's Death
184th Olympiad to 202nd Olympiad = 18 Olympiads/72 Years
18 Olympiads x 4 Years = 72 Years

In the Chronicon of Eusebius and Jerome we read that Chist was born in the 42nd Year of Augustus which is the 33rd Year of Herod, therefore Herod came into power in the 9th Year of Augustus. The Massacre of the Innocents then occured in the 44th Year of Augustus and the 35th Year of Herod: for the magi tricked Herod 2 Years after Jesus Christ was born which is what Matthew tells us about the timing of the Star's appearance.

So in the 57th Year of Augustus our Lord was in His 15th Year; and in the 15th Year of Tiberius our Lord was in His 30th Year. Phelgon in his Olympiads, and whose words are preserved by Jerome, tells us that the darkness over the land and the great earthquake which occured at the the death of Christ was in the 202nd Olympiad: this evidence makes it clear that Christ died in His 30th Year at the close of the 202nd Olympiad.

And to be sure this isn't wishful thinking we must count backwards from the death of our Lord to date the founding of Rome which Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Eusebius, and Jerome tell us occured in the 7th Olympiad:

Christ's Death to 1st Olympiad
202 Olympiads x 4 Years = 808 Years
30 AD - 808 Years = -778 BC

Christ's Death to Romulus
202 Olympiads - 7 Olympiads = 195 Olympiads
195 Olympiads x 4 Years = 780 Years
30 AD - 780 Years = -750 BC

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Christian Gedge said:

Oh my goodness! You have trod where angels fear to tread trying to reconcile the Septuagint with the Masoretic and then with Josephus too. And all the way back to Adam!

But I respect the enormous amount of work you have put into this. May I make a suggestion for you? There is a site called academia.edu where you can load up your blogs for peer review. It has been a very helpful platform for me.

As for my chronology, I only go back to the patriarchs. Any earlier than Abraham, I probably won’t be much use to you.

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Humble Penny said:

On a side note I was really intrigued by your work concerning the 3.5 Year of Daniel and how you managed to connect that to 600 Lunations in a Jubilee Cycle! You will really benefit from the small work I did concerning this:

Introduction to Enoch's Intercalary Lunar Months

My chart on post #7 of that thread will be of much use to you. And I found that this same intercalation of 1 Month every 3 Years was recognized by the community at Qumran who would sight what they called in Hebrew the OToT "signs" of the Moon which would occur every 3 Years.

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