His Calendar
We use a calendar to track days, months, and years. W e use watches to keep track of hours, minutes, and seconds. It is fairly easy for us to be able to tell the time of day, but when it comes to knowing what year it is or even what month it is -- we have to ask by which calendar?. T hen we must decide when the calendars differ; which one is correct or are any of them correct and why does it matter?
There are about 40 different calendars used around the world today to track time, schedule religious festivals, and manage civil life. While the Gregorian calendar serves as the primary international standard for global business and politics, many cultures and nations maintain their own traditional timekeeping systems.
Currently, most of the world uses the Gregorian calendar for civil, business, and international purposes. Introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 as a refinement of the older Julian calendar, it is a solar calendar divided into 365 days with a leap year every four years. (Wikipedia)
Previously, the Julian calendar was proposed in 46 BC by (and takes its name from) Julius Caesar, as a reform of the earlier Roman calendar, which was largely a lunisolar one.[2] It took effect on 1 January 45 BC, by his edict. Caesar's calendar became the predominant calendar in the Roman Empire and subsequently most of the Western world for more than 1,600 years, until 1582.
There is a Hebrew calendar, an Islamic calendar, and a Chinese calendar, among many others.
The Manipulation of Centuries and Events in Our Past
By the Bible, we can learn of specific people, places, and things ... but when we look on our calendars to try to determine when those people, places, and things fit, we cannot know for sure. We certainly cannot trust human history when it comes to dates, and we cannot trust man-made calendars.
Hebrew History
God's plan required that He set apart a family of human beings that He could reveal Himself to; that would represent Him upon the earth; and would provide Him with a special people that He could bring a perfect deliverer through.
His choice as a man called Abram, whose name He later changed to Abraham.
Israel's Seven Holidays
God instructed the Israelites to observe seven special seasons or holy days. These were mostly days of feasting but one of them was a day of fasting (the day of atonement).
They began in the spring of each year and ended in the fall.
The Last Days
What is going to happen in "The Last Days"? This is a common and often captivating question.
- What does the Bible say about "the last days"?
- What does "the last days" mean?
One can organize what Christians believe about the last days primarily around the subject of what is called the millennium.
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