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ABOUT BIBLE TIMELINES (2021)
by Jacques Gauvin 2013 (revised 16 March, 20 September 2017, April 11, 2020, March 3, 2021)
This March 3, 2021's revision adjusts for the likelihood that the years of the fathers when their children were born were not exact. So I have added half a year to those numbers and a ± 0.5 yr error factor.
I have seen a number of Bible timelines. Some can be viewed on the internet. I even have some hard copies in my possession. They all have one thing in common, they contain errors. There are other Timelines that do not even use the Bible as a source of information.
I recently did a study and determined some of the key dates in Biblical history. My findings have been verified by a few Bible students but most published Timelines disagree. I cannot tell you why they contain error but I will say that it appears to be deliberate in some cases.
The following figures are subject to a little error since the Bible only reveals the age of the fathers in years and not in days, months and years. If we were able to take into consideration the months and days we might derive slightly different sums.
Adam was created. (Genesis 1:26,27 and 2:7)
1561 ±5 yrs SA (Since Adam) Shem was born. (Genesis 5 and 11:10)
1661.5 ±5.5 yrs SA the flood came. (Genesis 7:6, 11)
1955.5 ±9.5 yrs SA Abram (Abraham) was born. (Genesis 11:10-26) The exact age of Terah when Abraham was born is not given. This allows for a little leeway of perhaps a year or two in the dates. I used 70 as the age of Terah when Abraham was born.
2036 ±10 yrs SA Abraham is 80 years old, + up to 5 years, or not, let the reader understand, when God made a covenant with him. (Genesis 15:18 and Galatians 3:17)
2055 ±10 yrs SA Abraham is 99 years old and God makes a covenant with him. (Gen. 17)
2056 ±10 yrs SA Isaac is born, one year later. (Gen. 17:21, 21:5)
2116 ±10.5 yrs Jacob is born. (Gen. 25:26)
2246 ±11 yrs SA Jacob and company arrive in Egypt. (Gen. 47:5,9)
2263 ±11 yrs SA Jacob dies at the age of 147. (Gen. 47:28)
{2676 ± 11 yrs SA Israel leaves Egypt after a 430 year stay. (Exodus 12:40-41) This may be inappropriate use of the 430 year period. (2246 + 430 = 2676)}
2466 ± 10 yrs SA Israel leaves Egypt. (Galatians 3:17, Genesis 15:18 and Exodus 12:40-41) (2036 + 430 = 2466)
2946 ± 10 yrs SA 480 years after leaving Egypt, Solomon begins the construction of the Temple. (1 Kings 6:1)
The plus or minus, ± 10 yrs, figure represents the error limits or range of possibility. The date, 2946 SA, represents the probability and is very likely accurate.
According to some Timelines the dates given for Solomon beginning to build the Temple are years 1015 BC, 967 BC, 966 BC, 961 BC, 960 BC, 916 BC.
Dates derived for the Reign of Solomon are 1019-979 BC, 971-930 BC, 970-931 BC, 920-880 BC according to other sources.
These dates are apparently derived by scholars. So you can see that scholars disagree with each other quite a bit. For my exercise I chose the year 965 BC as the year that Solomon began to build the Temple. This is 50 years away from the earliest date and 50 years away from the latest date that the scholars determined.
Using this date we can determine the date of the creation of Adam as 3911 BC (± 60 yrs or ± 10 yrs if the year 965 BC is accurate). (965 + 2946 = 3911)
6000 SA computes to the year 2090 AD ± 60 years, since there is no year zero (6000 – 3911 BC + 1 = 2090 AD).
Pardon my human condition of limited knowledge but the best I can estimate is that we are in the year 5930 +/- 60 years Since Adam was created, as of 3 March 2021 AD. (3911 BC + 2021 AD - 1 - 1 = 5930 SA, 5931 SA after Trumpets)
This means that we may be as little as 9 years from the year 6000 (5931 + 60 + 9) or as many as 129 years away from the year 6000 (5931 - 60 + 129).
6000 SA = 2090 AD +/- 60 yrs, between 2030 AD and 2150 AD, 9 years away to 129 years away. The nearer date seems more likely to me as I view prophesy developing. Therefore 2021 AD corresponds to 5931 ± 60 yrs SA as of the Day of Trumpets.
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The significance of the year 6000 is that it would mark the end of the sixth day of man's rule on earth and the beginning of the seventh day of Christ's rule in God's seven day plan considering a thousand years for one day. (See Psalm 90:4, 2Peter 3:8 and Revelation 20:2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7). This may just be a general guide but at the same time it is a stated Biblical concept.
Making the beginning of the building of the Temple in the year 963 BC
and Adam would have been created in 3909 BC.
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