By: Karen Engle, ICEJ USA Managing Editor
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The Biblical Calendar and Bible Interpretation
Knowing God’s calendar is certainly not a salvation issue. However, it’s what I call a “Bible interpretation aid.” Understanding God’s method of timekeeping can help bring a deeper understanding of not only what day or month He told Israel to celebrate a certain feast or when an event happened, but it illuminates the majesty of His Word. When we understand days, months, and years according to God’s calendaring system, we start to see the exactness of days and times He caused—and still causes—things to happen. And that matters when it comes to Bible prophecy.
Let’s return to that first Passover. Recall that the month the children of Israel came out of Egypt was the first month of the year, and on the tenth of the first month, they were to take an unblemished lamb into their home “until the fourteenth day of the same month,” at which time they were to kill the lamb at twilight (Exodus 12:1–6). This might seem like trivial information—until we consider that when Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey and was declared the King of Israel, it was the season of Passover. John 12:1 says that six days before Passover, which would have been Nisan 9, Jesus had been in Bethany with Martha and Mary. “The next day” (v. 12) the blameless Lamb of God chosen before the foundation of the world to take away our sins entered Jerusalem on the tenth of Nisan, the first month.
Five days later before sundown on the fourteenth, the Lamb of God was slain. God revealed way back in Exodus the day and month Jesus would be crucified through the shadow of the first Passover.
There are many other examples of specific dates in Scripture, and understanding God’s calendar helps make sense of those dates. Consider just one more, Ezekiel 24:1–2:
In the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me (Ezekiel) saying, “Son of man, write down the name of the day, this very day—the king of Babylon started his siege against Jerusalem this very day.”
Understanding God’s calendar helps us know Babylon’s siege against Jerusalem started in the winter on the tenth day of the tenth month of Tebet.
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