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Posted on June 25, 2013April 2, 2021 by Margaret Hunter — 1 Comment

Good Friday

What is Good Friday? Was it really on Friday? Can we pinpoint a day and year? Why do we celebrate the birth of Christ? Because of his death and resurrection. Without the death and resurrection, the birth is meaningless.

What is Good Friday?

Good Friday recognizes the sacred day when Christ began the completion of the mission He came to fulfill – to die for us and to pay for our sins. It is observed, in the spring during the Easter season or Holy Week. It coincides with the Jewish Passover, the symbol of the promised Messiah and saving by blood.

Was it really on a Friday?

Traditional Christian denominations honor Friday as the day of Christ’s death. Some Baptist, Pentecostal, many Sabbatarian and non-denominational churches observe the Crucifixion on Wednesday to coincide with the Jewish sacrifice of the Passover Lamb. A Wednesday Crucifixion of Jesus Christ allows for Christ to be in the tomb (“heart of the earth”). For three days and three nights as he told the Pharisees he would be (Matthew 12:40), rather than two nights and a day if he had died on a Friday. There is some basis in this idea in the Gospel of John, which has Jesus crucified on a Thursday evening (14 Nisan on the Hebrew calendar) instead of the Friday morning found in the Synoptic Gospels. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday) More detailed calculations are found here http://www.xenos.org/classes/chronc.htm

Can we pinpoint a day and year?

According to Ussher’s chronology, the basis for the Amazing Bible Timeline, Christ was born in 4 BC. If his ministry began when he was “about 30” as Luke states rather than at exactly 30 he would have been 32 in 29 AD and died in 33 AD after his 3 year ministry. Paul mentions a moon of blood suggesting a lunar eclipse. According to astronomers, such an event occurred on Friday 3 April 33 AD.

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Herod the Great: How He Died and Where He Was Buried

What do we know about King Herod historically? Herod the Great known in the Bible as the monster who ordered the slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem, is a well-known figure in ancient historical records.

According to the Amazing Bible Timeline Herod was born in 74 BC, 24 years after Julius Caesar and during the same decade that Buddhism was introduced to China. “The Gospels tell us that Christ’s birth was shortly before Herod the Great died. Herod’s death can be fixed with certainty. Josephus records an eclipse of the moon just before Herod passed on. This occurred on March 12th or 13th in 4 B.C. Josephus also tells us that Herod expired just before Passover. This feast took place on April 11th, in the same year, 4 B.C. From other details supplied by Josephus, we can pinpoint Herod the Great’s demise as occurring between March 29th and April 4th in 4 B.C. It might sound strange to suggest that Jesus Christ was born no later than 4 B.C. since B.C. means ‘before Christ.’ But our modern calendar that splits time between B.C. and A.D. was not invented until A.D. 525. At that time, Pope John the First asked a monk named Dionysius to prepare a standardized calendar for the Western Church. Unfortunately, poor Dionysius missed the real B.C./A.D. division by at least four years! Now Matthew tells us that Herod killed Bethlehem’s babies two years old and under. The earliest Jesus could have been born, therefore, is 6 B.C. Through a variety of other time indicators, we can be relatively confident that the one called Messiah was born in either late 5 or early 4 B.C.” (from http://bible.org/article/birth-jesus-christ). In 2007, two different groups of scientists added information to the facts about his life. Where he was buried. How he died.

Where Herod the Great Was Buried

In May 2007, Ehud Netzer (of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem) announced to the world that after a lifetime’s search, he had uncovered the remains of Herod the Great’s tomb (BBC coverage; London Times story). The likely site of the tomb – Herodium – is a man-made fortress of immense scale with many buildings, monuments, trackways and open spaces. Herodium is located in the West Bank some eight miles from Jerusalem.

How Herod The Great Died

“Herod the Great expired from chronic kidney disease probably complicated by Fournier’s gangrene,” according to the medical investigative work of Jan Hirschmann, M.D., staff physician at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and professor of medicine at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. The texts that we depend on for a close description of Herod’s last days list several major features of the disease that caused his death—among them, intense itching, painful intestinal problems, breathlessness, convulsions in every limb, and gangrene of the genitalia,” says Hirschmann. (from a news release by the Veterans Administration at http://www.newswise.com/articles/what-killed-king-herod in January 2002)

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Saint Nicholas – the Saint Behind Santa Claus

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Saint Nicholas: The Real Saint Behind the Fake Santa Claus

Who is Santa Claus?

Saint Nicholas was the Bishop of Myra (the city now known as Demre, Turkey) born during the third century AD and died in 350 AD. According to the Amazing Bible Timeline during his lifetime the Goths first invaded Rome, the Transubstantiation mass was practiced, Constantine converted to Christianity, and the council of Nicea was held resulting in the Nicean creed.

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Nicholas lived his life as a faithful follower of Christ. Following in his footsteps, he constantly cared for the needy and worked for justice for his people in spite of persecution of Christians prior to Constantine’s conversion. He had a reputation for doing his good works secretly told in multiple stories. The most famous of these is the story of Saint Nicholas giving money to a poor man with three daughters who had no money for a dowry for them. In order to save them from spinsterhood or perhaps prostitution, Saint Nicholas secretly provided the money by either tossing a purse through an open window, or in one version, by dropping it down the chimney.

After his death, the local people revered his memory and began to tell of miracles. Sailors he had cared for began to spread stories of the miracles attributed to him. He became known as a saint long before canonization procedures were formalized by the Church in the tenth century AD.

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How Many Wise Men

What do we know about the three wise men in the Bible? The wise men from the east are mentioned in Matthew chapter 2.

It only says, “wise men from the east.” No number is given. Nor are they named. The idea of three came from the fact that three gifts are mentioned. There could have been more or less, but the Bible gives no number. Another fact: the wise men did not come at Jesus’ birth but came later, perhaps as much as two years later since Herod ordered the slaughter of all Jewish male babies age two or younger. Bible fiction (popular stories or songs) lead people to believe the fiction rather than the Bible. Think of the song “we three kings of orient are” or popular books, opera or made for television movies such as “The Fourth Wise Man” or “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” All show three or four wise men. Stories such as these go back as far as writings of the sixth century AD.

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Hazarmaveth, Biblical figure

The name Hazarmaveth came from Hebrew origin which means “dwelling of death”. Hazarmaveth is one of Joktan’s sons (Genesis 10:26 and 1 Chronicles 1:20 KJV).

He is mentioned third out of thirteen siblings. The Biblical Timeline Chart plots Hazarmaveth’s existence years after Peleg‘s birth, which was 2247.

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Sheleph, Biblical figure

Sheleph is one of the sons of Joktan mentioned after Almodad

Joktan,biblical_figure — Joktan was said to be the father of the Arabs

Joktan was said to be the father of the Arabs

(Genesis 10:26 and 1Chronicles 1:20 KJV). Based on Hebrew origin, the name Sheleph means “drawn out”.

According to the Biblical Timeline Chart, Sheleph was born shortly after his brother, Almodad, was born, which was years after Peleg’s birth (2247 BC).

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Joktan, Biblical figure

Joktan, the brother of Peleg, is one of the sons of Eber mentioned in the Bible (Genesis 10:25 KJV).

The name Joktan means “little” or “insignificant”. It is believed that Joktan is referred to as Qahtan in Arab tradition- wherein he was the progenitor of the Arab nation.

And unto Joktan were thirteen sons, namely, Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havillah, and Jobab (Genesis 10:26-29 KJV).

Supposing that Joktan and Peleg are not twins, the Biblical Timeline charts Joktan’s birth sometime after Peleg’s, which was 2247BC.

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Enoch: Son of Cain, Biblical figure

When Cain was banished from the garden he was tilling, he fled to the land of Nod (Genesis 4:16 KJV). There, Cain meet his wife and begat Enoch (from Hebrew origin that means “dedicated.”) In the land of Nod, Cain built a city and named it after his son, Enoch (Genesis 4:17 KJV).

Depiction of Cain establishing the city of Enoch, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Enoch, Father of Irad

Enoch, son of Cain, begat Irad (Genesis 4:18 KJV). Although the Bible gives no clue of Enoch’s birth and death date, we can assume that this happened after 4004 BC in our Biblical Timeline Chart.

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Almodad, Biblical figure

Almondad,Biblical_Figure — Almodad was believed to be the founder of Arabian Tribes

Almodad was believed to be the founder of Arabian Tribes

Almodad is one of the son’s of Joktan (Genesis 10:26 and 1 Chronicles 1:20 KJV). It is believed the he was the founder of the Arabian tribe.

According to Hebrew origin, the name Almodad means “immeasurable”. Almodad’s existence is sometime after the birth of Peleg, Joktan’s brother, which is at 2247 BC on the Biblical Timeline Chart.

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Posted on June 24, 2013October 4, 2017 by Margaret Hunter — 5 Comments

Bible Timeline: The Census When Jesus Was Born

Was there a census at the time of Christ’s birth?

Yes, there is a reference to a census at about the time of Christ’s birth that we show as 4BC on our Bible Timeline based on Ussher’s Chronology. Justin Martyr and Tertullian say that this census can be verified in the archives in Rome. Even though these archives no longer exist, the fact that these contemporaries appealed to them suggests that they did exist at the time. In the l00’s AD, these men and others had access to this information, and their writings could easily have been refuted if it were not so. ( http://www.xenos.org/classes/chronc.htm )In addition, there is actual mention of Jesus Christ from contemporary historians: The Roman historian Tacitus writing between 115-117 A.D. had this to say:
“They got their name from Christ, who was executed by sentence of the procurator Pontius the reign of Tiberius. That checked the pernicious superstition for a short time, but it broke out afresh-not only in Judea, where the plague first arose. But in Rome itself, where all the horrible and shameful things in the world collect and find a home.” From his Annals, xv. 44.
Here is a pagan historian, hostile to Christianity, who had access to records about what happened to Jesus Christ. The mention of Jesus can also be found in Jewish Rabbinical writings from what is known as the Tannaitic period, between 70-200 A.D. In Sanhedrin 43a it says:
“Jesus was hanged on Passover Eve. Forty days previously the Herald had cried, ‘He is being led out for stoning, because he has practiced sorcery and led Israel astray and enticed them into apostasy. Whoever has anything to say in his defence, let him come and declare it.’ As nothing was brought forward in his defence, he was hanged on Passover Eve.”That there is any mention of Jesus at all is unusual. As far as the Roman world was concerned, Jesus was a nobody who lived in an insignificant province, sentenced to death by a minor procurator.

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