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Most Bible chronologists start off counting the first year of the world as the "zeroth" year, or trying to count Adam as 1 year old right when he is created. They synchronize the age-one year of Adam with the first year of the world. This error translates into a date for Noah's flood as anno 1656, which is published just about everywhere. Many chronologists recognize that this assumption requires a zero year for the first twelve months of Adam's life before he was age one. This results in counting years of the world {0, 1, 2, ...} and so on. A few chronologists are careful enough to list "0" as the first year of their chronologies. Others are not, leaving the reader to conclude that a "0" year is needed for the first 12 months of Adam's life, and the world. The first step in solving biblical chronology is not to make this mistake in the first place. The years of the world are properly {1, 2, 3, ...}, and Adam's years pair with it like this {1:0, 2:1, 3:2}. The result is that the flood is in anno 1657. This is more simply demonstrated in the first PowerPoint.

This little correction has some astonishing results. It is one of the keys to unlocking the Rosetta Stone of biblical chronology. It is not the only key, but deciphering the code requires all the keys. If one is missing the solution will be totally missed. The signal will be lost in the noise. The Rosetta Stone was a stone inscribed in Egyptian hieroglyphics, translated into Demotic and classical Greek. The translations enabled the Frenchman Champollion to crack the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone of biblical chronology is the ancient septennial cycle that God commanded Israel to observe. If the cycle can be synchronized and lined up then the code is solved.

To say the least, Israel did not observe the septennial cycle the way God wanted it to be observed. Also, no one is going to find statements to the effect that the seventh year is here or it is there in the Bible. That's because scholars are not looking in the right places. They have no idea where to look. If one counts correctly {1, 2, ...6, 7, ...} then one has a better chance. Divide the year number by 7 evenly to determine the septennial year.

Seven Years of Abundance and Seven Years of Famine

Often one will have two pieces of information that are separated. No one associates separated pieces of information. But if you put them together, then it becomes obvious that they go together as soon as you consider it. When the miscount of the first year of the world is corrected, the seven years of abundance and seven years of famine that Egypt experienced under the guiding hand of Joseph snap into synchronicity with the year count from creation. The reader can verify the correctness of this by reading the online chronology book. The year count to the death of Joseph is the same as in James Ussher's chronology plus one year: 2370 years.

The Sojourning of Israel

Most Bible chronologies crash between the death of Joseph and the Exodus. This is because they are only dealing with partial or errant information. However, God did not mean to leave a hole in biblical chronology. All the data is there. And the Jewish chronologists had the correct solution over 1800 years ago. Allow me to prove it and then bring in the septennial Rosetta Stone to confirm it. Genesis 15:13 says that the 400 years apply to Abraham's "seed". "Seed" means his offspring, who is Isaac. The 400 years date from Isaac's birth to the Exodus. That's the solution given in the Jewish chronological annuals Seder Olam. Only this solution works with the prophecy of Gen. 15:16, "But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again" (KJV). The generations in Egypt were 1) Jacob, 2) Levi, 3) Jochebed, 4) Moses. Moses' mother was the daughter of Levi (Num. 26:59). The 430 years from Exodus 12:40 dates back to Abraham's leaving Ur of the Chaldees. This is confirmed in Gal. 3:16-17. Acts 7:2-3 says God's promise began with the call from Ur, not Charran. This also proves that Abraham left Charran at age 75 when Terah died at age 205. So if we are to take the Bible at literal face value, then we will find that the Exodus was in the year anno 2509.

If we take anno 2509 and add 40 years to it for the wanderings in the wilderness, then we end up with 2549 as the year that Israel crossed the Jordan and entered the land of Israel. This is when Israel began to count the septennial cycle. Dividing 2549/7 = 364 remainder 1. The remainder of 1 means that it is the beginning of the first year of the septennial cycle. If you look of Deut. 31:10 and Joshua 8:34, you will see that it was also the end of the seventh year. So the septennial Rosetta Stone works exactly. Further, if we take this year and divide it by 49, we find that 2549/49 = 52 remainder 1. So it is the first year of counting Israel's Jubilee cycle also (see Leviticus 25:8-10). PowerPoint

The 480th Year of 1 Kings 6:1

The solution to this text has been known for over a hundred years, yet most chronologists cannot reconcile themselves to considering these years as the sum of just the years when Israel was independent of foreign oppressors. The text actually says, "And it was in the 480th year of the Exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt" (1 Kings 6:1). "Exodus" is a synonym for the "Passover", an annual feast that was not nationally kept when they were under oppression by foreign nations. The 480th year, is therefore, an enumeration of Israel's independence days, a fact which can be proven by demonstrating that all the other years add up to more than 480 years. Every chronologist that tries to include the years of oppression in the 480 figure ends up creating a royal mess out of the chronology of the book of Judges.

The reason that God left such interpretive riddles was to obscure the true solution. Yet the puzzle is not so hard that it cannot be solved. Further, if God had made the Bible code plain to every curious reader just passing by, they would have taken note that it was an irrefutable argument for the divine inspiration of the Scripture, and in their rebelliousness destroyed it. Better to let the Scripture permeate the world first, and then to provide the keys in the end of days.

Filling in the Gaps

Using Caleb's age at several points, the length of the conquest is solved for 7 years. Using Judges 11:26, the gap between the end of the conquest and the first oppression is solved for 14 years. Summing up all the independent periods in Judges gives the figure of 450 confirmed by Acts 13:20. From 450 take away 134 years for oppressions. This gives 316 years to be included in the 480 years, and leaves 480-316 = 164 to be accounted for in the wilderness (40), conquest (7), 14 year period, Samuel?, Saul (40), David (40), and Solomon (4). So Samuel = 19. In 1907 Willis Judson Beecher (The Dated Events of the Old Testament) calculated the correct B.C. date for the first year of Eli's judgeship at 1181 B.C. It is remarkable that he correctly calculated Samuel's judgeship at 19 years after failing with 1Kings 6:1.

After arranging all the above internals, we find that King Saul's 2nd year is anno 3039. According to 1Samuel 13:1-3, Saul "hath blown with a trumpet through all the land" a phrase alluding to Lev. 25:9, "ye shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land", a divinely inspired hint in the text that the Jubilee year fell in the 2nd year of Saul. So we check anno 3039 for this case: 3039/49 = 62 remainder 1. It is indeed the Jubilee and the 1st year of the next cycle. So once again the septennial Rosetta Stone shows that we have done the chronology correctly.

The rest of the chronology was already worked out by David Cooper, George Smith, and Martin Anstey up to the deportation of Judah in 597 B.C. It is all in the book and charts, so I will not give an account of it here, except to note that the 3rd year of Jehoshaphat is at the end of the septennial cycle 920/919 B.C. when he ordered that the Law be read to the people (2Chron. 17:7) as required by Deut. 31:10, and to point out that Hezekiah's 15th and 16th years are a seventh year and a Jubilee year, alluded to in Isaiah 37:30, "eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye". This text matches the legislation of the fallow land (Lev. 25:5). These years were 711-709 B.C. The Jubilee was in anno 3431. Let's check this 3431/49 = 70 remainder 1. 70 is a very special number of Jubilees, so it is no wonder that God alluded to it in his orders to Hezekiah. So we have seen that the septennial Rosetta Stone works out perfectly.

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