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In my chronology blog posts of 2016 & 2018 (links below), I reckoned year 2018 as the 6000th year from creation. Obviously I was wrong since we're still here in 2021 (though I did state back then it may be +/- 3 years since we don't know for sure what Jesus' birth year/date is) ... especially since I believe we cannot end the year 6000 without the resurrection of the dead in Christ to be immediately followed by the rapture of the church (wise virgins of Matthew 25:1-13 KJV). That being said, I'll try to summarize how I figured out we're NOT quite there as of 2018 and how it is that I was wrong by about 3 years (having to do with Jesus' birth year) and/or 7 years (having to do with Adam & Eve's fall into sin). Here we go!
If I'm right about creation year being 3982BC, then 3982BC + 2021AD = 6003 years since creation to this year ...however... we are going by 1AD as the pivotal year and if that should have been -3BC (which is equivalent to -2BC Stellarium, etc) then subtracting those 3 years (using -3BC instead of 1AD) brings us to 6000 years from creation this year. BUT, consider this ...
God would not punish mankind for Adam & Eve's sinless years, which according to the book of Jubilees, chapter 3, they were in the Garden of Eden for 7 full years without sin ... they sinned in the 2nd month of the 8th year from creation.
Jubilees 3:15-35 ===> "And in the first week of the first jubilee, [1-7 A.M.] Adam and his wife were in the garden of Eden for seven years tilling and keeping it, and we gave him work and we instructed him to do everything that is suitable for tillage.
And he tilled (the garden), and was naked and knew it not, and was not ashamed, and he protected the garden from the birds and beasts and cattle, and gathered its fruit, and eat, and put aside the residue for himself and for his wife [and put aside that which was being kept].
And after the completion of the seven years, which he had completed there, seven years exactly, [8 A.M.] and in the second month, on the seventeenth day (of the month), the serpent came and approached the woman, and the serpent said to the woman, 'Hath God commanded you, saying, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?'
And she said to it, 'Of all the fruit of the trees of the garden God hath said unto us, Eat; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God hath said unto us, Ye shall not eat thereof, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'
And the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die: for God doth know that on the day ye shall eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as gods, and ye will know good and evil.
And the woman saw the tree that it was agreeable and pleasant to the eye, and that its fruit was good for food, and she took thereof and eat.
And when she had first covered her shame with figleaves, she gave thereof to Adam and he eat, and his eyes were opened, and he saw that he was naked.
And he took figleaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron for himself, and ,covered his shame.
And God cursed the serpent, and was wroth with it for ever . . .
And He was wroth with the woman, because she harkened to the voice of the serpent, and did eat; and He said unto her: 'I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy pains: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy return shall be unto thy husband, and he will rule over thee.'
And to Adam also he said, ' Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat thereof, cursed be the ground for thy sake: thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat thy bread in the sweat of thy face, till thou returnest to the earth from whence thou wast taken; for earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return.'
And He made for them coats of skin, and clothed them, and sent them forth from the Garden of Eden.
And on that day on which Adam went forth from the Garden, he offered as a sweet savour an offering, frankincense, galbanum, and stacte, and spices in the morning with the rising of the sun from the day when he covered his shame.
And on that day was closed the mouth of all beasts, and of cattle, and of birds, and of whatever walks, and of whatever moves, so that they could no longer speak: for they had all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue.
And He sent out of the Garden of Eden all flesh that was in the Garden of Eden, and all flesh was scattered according to its kinds, and according to its types unto the places which had been created for them.
And to Adam alone did He give (the wherewithal) to cover his shame, of all the beasts and cattle.
On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets as touching all those who know the judgment of the law, that they should cover their shame, and should not uncover themselves as the Gentiles uncover themselves.
And on the new moon of the fourth month, Adam and his wife went forth from the Garden of Eden, and they dwelt in the land of Elda in the land of their creation.
And Adam called the name of his wife Eve.
And they had no son till the first jubilee, [8 A.M.] and after this he knew her.
Now he tilled the land as he had been instructed in the Garden of Eden." http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/jubilees/3.htm
So, 3982BC and excluding the next 7 years brings us to 3975BC and 3975BC + 2021AD = 5996 years from their fall to this year ...but wait, there's more! 5996 years minus that 3 years (-3BC instead of 1AD) brings us down to 5993 years from their sin to this year. That leaves 7 years from their sin not yet accounted for, and that would be the tribulation period from 2021 to 2028.
So, in short:
3982BC was the year of creation
3975BC was the year of Adam & Eve's fall into sin
3982BC + 2021AD = 6003 years - 3 (BC instead of 1AD) = year 6000 (for 2021). And simultaneously
3975BC + 2021AD = 5996 years - 3 (BC instead of 1AD) = year 5993 (for 2021) + 7 years of tribulation = 6000 years from Adam & Eve's fall into sin to Jesus' second coming (in 2028AD). I hope that makes sense!
And yes, I could still be wrong *again* because we don't have a solid date on Jesus' birth year. I'm trying to figure it all out just like many of you are! I can always fall back on the fact that I'm only human, and that things are only revealed in their appointed time so I work with the information I have at the time of writing these posts. I believe the stated years to be accurate but could be +/- a year because one Jewish year spans parts of two of our Gregorian years. For instance, our current Gregorian year is 2021, the Jewish/Hebrew year right now is 5781 (years from creation), but they roll into 5782 on the evening (sunset) of Sep 6, 2021, which is YOM TERUAH, the day of the TRUMPETING BLASTS (otherwise know as Rosh Hashanna or their New Year on 29 Elul, 5781 - 1 Tishrei, 5782 ... could THIS be THE DAY of the "last trump"?). I know for a fact their years are WRONG by 221-222 years, it's closer to 6000 years from creation, not 5781/5782 years! Just sayin' ...
As I like to say, here's to hoping the rapture is sooner than later!
My links to previous chronologies ...
04/10/16 ~ *The MATH* 3982 BC/AM to 2018 AD
https://thelambswife.blogspot.com/2016/04/041016-math-3982-bcam-to-2018-ad.html
02/20/18 ~ My REVISED Biblical Chronology
https://thelambswife.blogspot.com/2018/02/022018-my-revised-biblical-chronology.html
Thanks for reading ;o}
