Immanuel Velikovsky, a phenomenal Jewish scholar and historian, and friend of Albert Einstein,<\/span> wrote dramatically of this period, when\u00a0Israel\u00a0came out of\u00a0Egypt, and stood before God Himself atMount Sinai:<\/p>\n\u201cThe Talmud and Midrashim describe the Mountain of the Law-giving<\/p>\n
as quaking so greatly that it appeared as if it were lifted up and shaken<\/p>\n
above the heads of the people; and the people felt as if they were no<\/p>\n
longer standing securely on the ground, but were held up by some<\/p>\n
invisible force [cf. Ginzberg,\u00a0Legends, <\/em>II, 92, 95]\u201d (Worlds in Collision,<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em>p.95).<\/p>\nJoshua10:11 wrote\u00a0At that same time, \u201cthe sun stood still, and the moon stopped,, till the people had revenge upon their enemies\u201d (verse 13).
\u201cIn the tomb of Senmut, the architect of Queen Hatshepsut, a panel on the ceiling shows the celestial sphere with the signs of the Zodiac and other constellations in \u2018a reversed orientation\u2019 of the southern sky,\u201d says Immanuel Velikovsky (p.108)<\/p>\n
httpvhd:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jiFD8pM4Mcs<\/p>\n
At that very time, according to the book of Exodus, God instituted a NEW calendar for His people! We read in Exodus 12, when God instituted the Passover celebration for His people:\u00a0\u00a0\u2018Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the\u00a0land\u00a0of\u00a0Egypt, saying, \u2018This month shall be your beginning of months<\/em>; it shall be the\u00a0first month of the year<\/em> to you\u201d (Exo.12:1-2).<\/p>\nPrior to that time, from the time of Adam and Eve and Creation, the years had been counted from fall to fall reckoning.\u00a0\u00a0But now God introduced a NEW calendar!\u00a0\u00a0In this calendar, each month began with a new moon, and the year began in the SPRING!\u00a0\u00a0Being a luni-solar calendar, since the new moon appears every 29.5 days, the months varied between 29 and 30 days, to adjust for the fraction of a day.\u00a0\u00a0The 12 month year varied from a minimum of 354 days, to a maximum of 385 days \u2013 as in a leap year when an extra month had to be inserted (seven years during every 19-year time cycle, to make the total lunar years equal to the solar years in every 19 years).<\/p>\n
Judging from the evidence, this change was necessitated due to the\u00a0change in the earth\u2019s orbit around the sun at the time of the Exodus! <\/em>The earth \u201cfell down,\u201d i.e. its orbit changed, and hasn\u2019t changed back to the original orbit since that time!<\/p>\nThe length of the year changed from 360 days, to the modern calendar\u2019s 365.25 days, in a solar year.\u00a0\u00a0Apparently the orbit of the moon also changed, from a 30 day orbit to one of 29.5 days.\u00a0\u00a0All this caused a need to change the calendar!<\/p>\n
\u201cNumerous evidences are preserved which prove that prior to the year of 365 \u00bc days, the year was only 360 days long\u201d .\u00a0\u00a0In ancient\u00a0India, \u201cThe texts of the\u00a0Veda<\/em> period know a year of only 360 days.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Passages in which this length of year are clearly stated are found in all the Brahmanas.\u00a0\u00a0Those texts nowhere mention an intercalary period of five extra days which are currently part of the solar year. \u00a0This Hindu year of 360 days is divided into twelve months of thirty days each.\u00a0\u00a0The texts describe the moon as crescent for fifteen days and waning for another fifteen days; they also say that the sun moved for six months or 180 days to the north and for the same number of days to the south\u201d .<\/p>\n
In their astronomical works, the Brahmans used \u201cvery ingenious geometric methods,\u201d Velikovsky states, and so their apparent \u201cfailure\u201d to discern that the year of 360 days was 5 \u00bc days too short seemed baffling to western historians.\u00a0\u00a0Their perplexity fails to account for the fact that the terrestrial year may have once been 360 days.<\/p>\n
In the ancient Persian calendar, \u201cThe ancient Persian year was composed of 360 days or twelve months of thirty days each.\u00a0\u00a0In the seventh century [B.C.] five\u00a0Gatha <\/em>days were added to the calendar,\u201d Velikovsky continues (p.332).<\/p>\nThe old Babylonian year was also 360 days.\u00a0\u00a0Ctesias wrote that the walls of\u00a0Babylon\u00a0were 360 furlongs in compass, \u201cas many as there had been days in the year\u201d (quoted on page 333).\u00a0\u00a0The Babylonians divided the heavens into 36 decans, a decan being the space the sun moved relative to the fixed stars in a 10-day period.\u00a0\u00a036 decans in a year would make a year of 360 days \u2013 no more, no less.<\/p>\n
Historians realize that at first the Babylonians recognized a year of 360 days, \u201cand the division of a circle into 360 degrees must have indicated the path traversed by the sun each day in its assumed circling of the earth\u201d (Cantor,\u00a0Vorlesungen uber Geschichte der Mathematik, <\/em>I, 92, )<\/p>\n
The ancient Assyrians also had a 360 day year with each month containing 30 days.\u00a0\u00a0Assyrian documents refer to months of 30 days each, only, and count the months from the moon\u2019s crescent to crescent.\u00a0\u00a0These facts all puzzle astronomers who cannot understand why all these ancient civilizations were so consistently erroneous in their calculation of the months and the year.<\/p>\n
The ancient Mayansalso had a year of 360 days, in remote antiquity.\u00a0\u00a0The Mexicans, at the time of the conquest, called a thirty-day period a moon, even though they knew that the moon\u2019s synodical period is 29.5209 days.\u00a0\u00a0Their calculations were even more accurate than the Gregorian calendar. \u00a0\u201cObviously, they adhered to an old tradition dating from the time when the year had twelve months of thirty days each, 360 days in all\u201d (p.339).<\/span><\/p>\nThe ancient\u00a0China\u00a0the people had a year divided into twelve months of 30 days each, comprising a 360 day year. \u00a0\u201cA relic of the system of 360 days is the still persisting division of the sphere into 360 degrees; each degree represented the diurnal advance of the earth on its orbit, or that portion of the zodiac which was passed over from one night to the next.\u00a0\u00a0After 360 changes the stellar sky returned to the same position for the observer on the earth\u201d .\u00a0\u00a0After the year changed from 360 days to 365 \u00bc, the Chinese added 5 \u00bc days to their year Like that of the the Enochaian Ethiopian Caledar of today 5 and 6 days each lip year. \u00a0Suffice it to say, the 360 day year is well attested to in ancient history.<\/p>\n
Why did the world and the Jews use solar months instead of lunar months prior to the Exodus?\u00a0\u00a0Hints that this was so are indicated in the books of Jubilees and Enoch, extra-canonica<\/span>l ancient Jewish literature.<\/p>\nAs Dr. Velikovsky demonstrates, great changes occurred in the cosmos at the time of the Exodus, which necessitated a change.\u00a0\u00a0If the original solar calendar was a 360-day calendar, with 30 day lunar months, then it would be true that \u201cAdam [also] used lunar months <\/em>and that this continued throughout the time of the patriarchs,\u201d as Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer says.\u00a0\u00a0Declares aish.com, \u201cHowever, as we have shown, there are many sources that say that\u00a0solar months were used before the Exodus\u201d <\/strong><\/em>(ibid.<\/em>).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0How could this have been true if the solar year differed from the lunar year?\u00a0\u00a0Such a practice would have caused disruption in the months and annual holy days.\u00a0\u00a0The book of Jubilees shows that the annual holy days, which depend on the new moons, were observed during the times of Noah, Abraham, and the patriarchs!As many Scriptural commentators have pointed out years ago, a \u201ctime\u201d equals a \u201cyear\u201d in prophetic fulfillment.\u00a0\u00a0In the book of Revelation, we find \u201cthe woman\u201d \u2013 a reference to the Church of God \u2013 is to be protected \u201cin the wilderness\u201d for \u201c1260 days\u201d (Rev.12:6).\u00a0\u00a0Later on in the same chapter, we read that the woman is to be protected in the wilderness for \u201ca time, times, and half a time\u201d \u2013 three and one half \u201ctimes\u201d (Rev.12:14).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thus 1260 days equals 3 \u00bd times<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0Simple division shows us that dividing 1260 days by 3 \u00bd<\/span>, gives us 360 days in a \u201ctime.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0This implies that a \u201cyear\u201d in prophecy calculations refers to a period of 360 days \u2013 yet the real year today is 365.25 days in length.\u00a0\u00a0Why this anomaly?\u00a0\u00a0This seems very strange.\u00a0\u00a0What mystery lies at the root of this question?<\/p>\nWhy, then, does the Bible use the 360-day calendar, where 1260 days equals 3 \u00bd years (Rev.12:6, 14), which also equals 42 months (Rev.13:5)?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Bible speaks of no other year existing before the 360 day calendar of the Flood (derived from 5 months equaling 150 days, or 30 days per month, as in the 360-day year).<\/p>\n
My own belief is that the 360 day year is the \u201coriginal\u201d year, which existed from Adam to the Flood and possibly to the Exodus, when God instituted a NEW calendar (Exo.12:1), due to phenomenal changes in the earth\u2019s orbit caused by the awesome plagues which fell upon Egypt at the Exodus \u2013 when many miracles\u00a0occurred, and God Himself came down to Mount Sinai.\u00a0\u00a0This original calendar will be re-instituted when the Messiah returns and \u201crestores all things.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The knowledge of this original 360-day \u201cyear\u201d was preserved and used in the prophetic writings, as a reminder that it is important and ought to be remembered.\u00a0\u00a0So we use it as the \u201cidealized\u201d year when calculating prophecies, and ignore the fractions and complexities of the temporary \u201cpresent\u201d Roman calendar.<\/p>\n
A \u201cprophetic year\u201d contains 360 days, apparently based on the fact that the original \u201cyear\u201d was 360 days in length.\u00a0\u00a0Evidence that the year was once 360 days in length is found in many places, as we have seen.<\/p>\n
The Mayan Calendar<\/span><\/p>\nLike the ancient calender of Noah\u2019s time, the Mayan calendar also has 360 days in a year.\u00a0\u00a0It also dates to a time before the Noachian deluge.<\/p>\n
According to the Mayan calendar, we are now living in the Mayan \u201cend times.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The Great Cycle of the Mayan Long Count calendar ends at the winter solstice in 2012 A.D., less than eight years from now.<\/p>\n
In Mayan mythology, the winter solstice sun corresponds to the deity known as One Hunahpu, or \u201cFirst Father.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The dark rift of the Milky Way, in Mayan cosmology, is known as the \u201cBlack Road,\u201d the mouth of the Cosmic Monster, and the birth canal of the Cosmic Mother.<\/p>\n
The Mayan calendar has a Great Cycle, ending 13 \u201cbactuns\u201d or a period of 5,125 years.\u00a0\u00a0To the ancient Mayans, this conjunction of the sun and Milky Way center or mid-point will occur on the winter solstice, December 21, in 2012 A.D. This date represents a major transition point,\u00a0the creation of a new World Age.<\/em><\/p>\nThe Mayan Long Count calendar is strikingly different from the Roman calendar, or any other for that matter.\u00a0\u00a0A \u201cmonth\u201d is 20 days, and\u00a018 months is a year of 360 days<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0Twenty 360 day years comprise a \u201ckatun,\u201d and a \u201cbaktun\u201d is 20 katun, equaling 144,000 days.<\/p>\nThe number 144,000 is very interesting, as it is the number of the \u201cfirstfruits\u201d redeemed to God at the coming of the Messiah (Rev.14:1-4).<\/p>\n
Authorities agree that the Mayan Long Count calendar began\u00a0August 11, 3114 B.C.\u00a0(Gregorian calendar).\u00a0\u00a0Why it begins at this date is anybody\u2019s guess.\u00a0\u00a0This would have been during the life of the prophet Enoch, who was born in 3545 B.C. He lived for 365 years before he \u201cwas taken,\u201d in 3180 B.C.\u00a0\u00a0Methuselah was born in 3480 B.C. and lived for 969 years.\u00a0\u00a0So the Mayan calendar begins 76 years after Enoch disappeared (was taken to a place of safety from his many enemies), and 376 years after Methuselah was born.<\/p>\n
The present Great Age of the Mayas, the fifth, is believed to have been initiated by the famous Quetzalcoatl in 3,113 B.C.\u00a0\u00a0Who was this figure?\u00a0\u00a0Could it have been no less than Enoch the prophet, himself?<\/p>\n
Quetzalcoatl was the \u201cplumed serpent\u201d of the Aztec mythology, the \u201cgod\u201d of learning and of the priesthood.\u00a0\u00a0He was an ancient ruler who was subsequently deified and identified with the planet Venus \u2013 the morning and evening star \u2013 and as a \u201cgod\u201d of vegetation.\u00a0\u00a0He was a benign figure, a teacher, and his name became the title for Mexican high priests.\u00a0\u00a0The name became frequent in early Mexican history, like Roosevelt or Adams.\u00a0\u00a0There are many traditions about his arrival, and departure. He taught the way of peace.\u00a0\u00a0He was noted as \u201cthe bringer of civilization and good ways of life, who was frequently locked in conflict with gods of evil\u201d (The Indian Heritage of America, <\/em>Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., p.201).\u00a0\u00a0Aztec legends say he sailed across the sea, but would one day return.<\/p>\nThe patriarch Enoch was also a priestly figure before the Flood, and a man of vast learning and understanding.<\/p>\n
Immanuel Velikovsky points out that during the time of Quetzalcoatl, according to ancient Mexican records, many people died, that \u201cthe sun refused to show itself and during four days the world was deprived of light\u201d (quoting Brasseur; see\u00a0Worlds in Collision, <\/em>page 157).\u00a0\u00a0At that time, according to legends from Polynesian peoples, \u201cthe earth was battered by countless fragments,\u201d says Velikovsky (p.160).<\/p>\nDuring that time the sequence of seasons and the duration of days and nights became disarranged.<\/p>\n
Says Velikovsky, \u201cWhen Quetzal-cohuatl, the\u00a0lawgiver <\/em>of the Toltecs,\u00a0disappeared on the approach of a great catastrophe <\/em>and the Morning Star that bore the same name rose for the first time in the sky, the Toltecs \u2018regulated the reckoning of the days, the nights, and the hours according to the difference in time\u2019\u201d (p.177).\u00a0\u00a0Thus when the original Quetzal-cohuatl lived there was a great catastrophe on the earth.<\/p>\nCould this be why God \u201ctook\u201d Enoch, and he \u201cwas not found\u201d? (Gen.5:24).\u00a0\u00a0God \u201ctook\u201d him to a place of safety, to protect him from the oncoming cataclysm, which was brought about during his time by the wickedness of mankind!\u00a0\u00a0Likewise, God promises to protect His faithful servants during this present age who are zealous for Him and loyal to His truth (Rev.3:10; Luke 21:36; Rev.12:14-17).<\/p>\n
In Mayan chronology, 3,113 B.C. is written as 13.0.0.0.0.\u00a0\u00a0When the cycle or age is complete, in December 2012 A.D., the date will once again be written 13.0.0.0.0 \u2013 a complete cycle of 13 baktuns.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That date will also complete the end of a katun cycle (of 20 years).\u00a0\u00a0The last katun of this Age began in 1992 and will finish in 2012.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayan \u201cglyph\u201d of this katun is \u201cstorm\u201d followed by \u201csun\u201d \u2013 a period of darkness, followed by one of light.<\/p>\n
Note that in esoteric tradition, the number \u201c13\u201d represents Christ, the Messiah!\u00a0\u00a0There were twelve disciples; Jesus as the Christ was \u201c13.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0The number \u201c13\u201d also denotes superabundance \u2013 the \u201cbaker\u2019s dozen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Is there any significance to this?\u00a0\u00a0The Mayan calendar is obviously pre-Flood because it is based on a 360-day year which was pre-Flood.\u00a0\u00a0Enoch was a scribe of the Lord, who wrote the book of Enoch, which contains much celestial and calendrical material, as well as prophetic warnings and exhortations.\u00a0\u00a0It may well be that the Mayan calendar was originally inspired and contains material going back to the pre-Flood patriarchs.<\/p>\n
The Long Count calendar began in 3114 B.C. \u2013 during the time of Enoch \u2013 and its termination date is 2012 A.D., when the cycle will be completed, and a new cycle begins.\u00a0\u00a0This fact certainly seems to be significant when weighed with all the Biblical evidence regarding the prophecies of the \u201cEnd of Days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The origins of the Mayan calendar are obscured by the mists of time.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayas themselves were adept skywatchers.\u00a0\u00a0Their classical period is thought to be from 200-900 A.D.\u00a0\u00a0However, large ruins with Mayan features have been found dating back to before the time of Christ, before the present era began.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayans attributed the origin of their incredibly complex calendar system to a people who existed before them, whose origin was lost in the dim past.
Researchers believe that the Mayan calendar actually hinges upon its calculated end point.\u00a0\u00a0What is so important about the winter solstice of 2012?\u00a0\u00a0The Milky Way seems to have played an important part in Mayan mythology.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayan Sacred Tree appears to be the crossing point of the sun\u2019s path, the ecliptic, with the Milky Way.\u00a0\u00a0The conjunction of the sun with the Milky Way at the winter solstice in 2012 A.D. appears to have had apocalyptic significance.\u00a0\u00a0The crossing of the Milky Way with the ecliptic represents a doorway \u2013 pointing both to the sacred source and origin \u2013 the finishing of the old and the beginning of a new birth.\u00a0\u00a0Thus the world, in 2012, is pictured as being at a celestial \u201ccrossroads.\u201d
Students of the Mayan calendar see this as confirmation that we are indeed living in the twilight of this present age and approaching the beginning of a New Age \u2013 the end of one prophetic cycle and the beginning of a new cycle.\u00a0\u00a0The Mayans stated that \u201ctime would collapse\u201d at the end of their calendar cycle.<\/p>\n
The \u201ccollapsing of time\u201d is a mysterious phrase.\u00a0\u00a0How would time itself \u201ccollapse\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0This could refer to ANOTHER GREAT CHANGE IN THE CALENDAR ITSELF!<\/p>\n
httpvhd:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tCQ3uMo7A2w<\/p>\n
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