“Times” of Adam (1st Trimester)

  The “Times of Adam” covers the first trimester of God’s plan… the “planting season”.  The basic unit of “Time” on God’s calendar is one H-day or 1,000 G-years and hence “Times” covers 2,000 G-yrs. of His plan. It covers the time from the creation of Adam to the promise given to Abraham that he would be the father of the Jewish nation. This part of human history is not well documented and is considered ancient history. The Bible is one of the few sources that cover this period in history.

 

    The Bible gives an accounting of the genealogy of Adam through God’s promise to Abraham, which ends this period. We will use this accounting of time to come to the first revelation or key to unlocking God’s overall plan for man. This time period was the one God revealed to me and drove me to write this book. By proving this was the first part of His plan (after creation) we will be able to infer what the other parts of the plan look like and then prove them as well. Building one piece at a time and then connecting them piece-by-piece.

 

    Mathematics will be heavily used during this trimester to prove points because few can argue with the truth of numbers. Since little is known of this time period except what the Bible reveals, we will use scripture itself to prove the accuracy of this time interval.

 

    This period will be divided up into two pieces which will be covered individually in the next two sections and when put together, will make up the first trimester of God’s plan. This trimester is split at the great flood with the details before the flood analyzed in the next chapter and the timeframe after the flood covered in the following chapter after that. We will show the beauty of God’s plan and prove that the genealogies listed in the Genesis account add up to the exact time of the first trimester we calculated using God’s calendar … two H-days or 60 S-days. These two H-days are from God’s viewpoint and will need to be converted into years on earth to make the comparison. There are many ways to do this conversion and come to the same answer. I believe the simplest is this:

 

         2 H-days    =   60 S-days   =  2,000 G-years     so

 

         2,000 G-years  x  365.25 days  =  2,029 yrs. & 2 months

                 360 G-days

 

or      2,029.1666 years from our perspective!

 

    These 2,029.1666 years cover the length of the first trimester in God’s plan, the “Times of Adam”, and we know that by symmetry and previous work that it also is the length of time for the other two trimesters of His plan! Now let’s begin our work on the first part of the plan to prove, using the Bible, that there was in fact 2,029 years and two months during this Age.

The Great Flood

  Most scholars discount the truth of a worldwide flood. They use modern science to refute the flood account in the Bible. However, the Bible is God’s word and it is one hundred percent true. Everyone perished except Noah and his family. Noah and seven others... eight in all!

 

    The Bible gives a detailed account of the genealogy of Adam through the promise of Abraham that he would be the father of the Jewish nation. We will use the Genesis accounts to come to the first revelation or key to unlocking God’s overall plan: the first trimester of His plan. Let’s look at it in detail from the creation of Adam to the flood. Table 8-1 on the next page shows the details of the genealogy of the ten generations before the flood as provided in Genesis. As you will see, man lived a long time and was supposed to live forever until sin entered the world. God said”

 

“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.”

Genesis 1:17

 

    This is the KJV translation. Newer translations omit this day reference believing that since Adam did not die that very day, these earlier translations must be in error. But we know this is just another indirect reference that one H-day equals 1,000 G-years and the “day” mentioned is from God’s perspective. We see in Table 8-1 that every man before the flood lived nearly 1,000 years before he died and therefore died “within one day”… a day in heaven.  Conversely, we can also infer from Genesis that if sin had not entered the world, man would have lived forever and time would not have come into existence. You see, most people believe eternity is a long, long time. But it can also be looked at as “no” time - the absence of time. Sin started the “biological” clock. Let’s look at the biblical details of this era.

Table 8-1

Name

(Age at Death)

Age listed in the Bible at male heir’s birth

Earliest Date (if Heir is born on the day after his father’s birthday)

Latest Date (if Heir born the day before his father’s next birthday)

Date range of birth from the creation of Adam.

Adam         (930)

130

130

131

0

Seth            (912)

105

235

237

130 to 131

Enosh         (905)

90

325

328

235 to 237

Kenan         (910)

70

395

399

325 to 328

Mahalalel   (895)

65

460

465

395 to 399

Jared          (962)

162

622

628

460 to 465

Enoch          (365)

65

687

694

622 to 628

Methuselah (969)

187

874

882

687 to 694

Lamech       (777)

182

1,056

1,065

874 to 882

Noah (Note 1)   (950)

600

1,656

1,666

1,056 to 1,065

Flood

 

 

 

1,656 to 1,666

 Note 1: Noah’s age at the time of the flood, not his child’s age.

 

    Other items of interest: From a cursory look we see it is possible that the great flood was somewhere between 1,656 & 1,666 years from the creation of Adam and that the flood could have occurred in the year 1,666!  When searching all the dates’ possible, this number sticks out like a sore thumb (1,000 + 666)!  If you knew nothing else about the flood and someone asked you to pick from the range of years listed for the flood which year you thought this catastrophe occurred, which one would you pick?

 

    Jewish history lists the date of the great flood in the year 1,656 A.M. where A.M. stands for anno mundi (in the year of the world) since these calculations are from the beginning of Adam. So the dates in the table are all “A.M.” dates. We will later change the important dates to the calendar dating system we currently use. Now this is a simplistic view (which I usually aspire to since I believe the beauty of God’s plan is its simplicity), but for this to be totally accurate then each person would have had to been born (on average) within the first 36.5 days of his father’s birthday… that is highly unlikely. If you chose 1,666 as the date of the flood, then each successor would have had to been born (on average) within the last 36.5 days of his father’s birthday! This too is equally unlikely. But both dates are not excluded from God’s power.

 

    Let us use a numerology technique to try and narrow the possible dates down further. This technique reduces any number down to a basic number between two and ten that allows us to compare this reduced number to God’s special numbers shown in Table 8-3 and first mentioned on page 35. I believe God uses this technique along with other systems we will explore to pick (mark) special dates on His calendar, and when to implement epic events in human history such as punishments for failing to acknowledge him as God. We will see that the flood falls on just such a date.

                                  Table 8-2

Year

1st Reduction

1st Result

2nd Additional Reduction

2nd Result

Years of further interest

1,656

1+6+5+6

18

1+8

9

 

1,657

1+6+5+7

19

1+9

10

1,657

1,658

1+6+5+8

20

2+0

2

 

1,659

1+6+5+9

21

2+1

3

1,659

1,660

1+6+6+0

13

1+3

4

 

1,661

1+6+6+1

14

1+4

5

(Note 2)

1,662

1+6+6+2

15

1+5

6

1,662

1,663

1+6+6+3

16

1+6

7

1,663

1,664

1+6+6+4

17

1+7

8

 

1,665

1+6+6+5

18

1+8

9

 

1,666

1+6+6+6

19

1+9

10

1,666

Note 2: The year 1,661 is of some interest because on the 1st reduction the number 14 comes up which is also significant and it is squarely in the middle of the range of probabilities. There is symmetry in this number that the other numbers do not have as well. Since we have eleven data points (a large enough sample statistically), the tendency would be for the ages to move to the average of the dates. However, we would be circumventing the numerological technique and therefore this date was rejected.

Table 8-3

Special Number

Description

1

Universal number – Denotes wholeness, unity

3

The Trinity (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit)

6

Man’s Number – Day of his creation

7

Denotes perfection

10

(7+3) Completeness: The perfection of the trinity

 

    We see from viewing the tables, that the years 1,657, 1,659, 1,662, 1,663, & 1,666 are the most likely choices of the 11 we started from because the dates reduce down to one of the special numbers in Table 8-3. Now using the special numbers, ten being the most significant, with seven & three next, and six last, we can rank the dates as follows 1,657, 1,666, 1,663, 1,659, 1,662.

 

    Notice that the date 1,666 is still showing up as a possible choice. Now taking the two dates that correspond to the number ten (which is the strongest number from the table because it signifies completion which is what the flood was… an end to lawlessness) we get 1,657 and 1,666. Ten is also the number of generations from creation to the flood, which further supports the choice of ten as the strongest in this case. Using a statistical approach, we see the odds are better that the date closest to the average is more likely the correct answer than the date furthest from the average and therefore we conclude that the year 1,657 is the most likely choice as the year of the flood. This is not the actual date, but the number of “years from creation”. Just as the twentieth century was throughout the 1900’s A.D. and the twenty-first century started in the year 2000 A.D., the first day of creation was year one and the 366th day of creation was day one of year two when rendering dates. Realizing this fact, the 47 days and 1,657 years is really the “date” year 1658 A.M.! The Jews miss this point when they calculate the “date” year of the flood as 1656 A.M. by simply adding up all the ages between Adam and Noah. It really should be year 1657 A.M. using their logic and their calendar system.

God’s Justice

  Now this is not definitive proof that this was the year of the flood, but another technique (completely independent and hidden within God’s plan) will corroborate this choice! We will calculate the year of the flood making a supposition that something this earth shattering would clearly be marked on God’s calendar. We will see that God uses specific criteria when He meters out punishment or blessings. Just as a parent might have rules for punishing or rewarding their children when they do something wrong or right, God has “rules” for measuring out punishments and blessings. The more severe the transgression is, the harsher or longer the punishment that is handed down. Look at the following passages from the Bible:

 

“You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.”

                                                                                                                                    Exodus 20:5-6

 

“But the LORD said to him, “Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over.”

                                                                                                                                    Genesis 4:15

 

 “ ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.”

                                                                                                                                    Leviticus 26:18

 

“ ‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.”

Leviticus 26:21

 

“You, O king, saw a messenger, a holy one, coming down from heaven and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump, bound with iron and bronze, in the grass of the field, while its roots remain in the ground. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven; let him live like the wild animals, until seven times pass by for him.’”

Daniel 4:23

 

“Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven [this is how long God waits before mankind’s final judgment].”                                                                                                                                                                            Matthew 18:21-22

 

“At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

 

“Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.”

 

At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.”

Isaiah 23:15-18

 

“This whole country will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. “But when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation, the land of the Babylonians, for their guilt,” declares the LORD, “and will make it desolate forever.”

                                                                                                                                    Jeremiah 25:11-12

 

“The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Exodus 32:33-34

 

“He brings the clouds [floods] to punish men, or to water his earth [rain] and show his love.”

                                                                                                                                    Job 37:13

 

    We see from all these verses that God uses specific guidelines when governing His people. These rules are used to reward, discipline, and even delay punishments to allow time for repentance or for the “right” time as God deems it. We see there are set times to deliver the punishments like in Exodus 32. There are examples of all these guidelines in the listed passages.

 

    We notice in Daniel 4:23 that when the punishment is for a person, God multiplies the specific judgment by seven. In this case the judgment was one year and the total sentence was seven years. Larger transgressions like those by whole nations, Tyre and Babylon, require tougher rulings. These are multiplied by a factor of ten. In these cases again the judgment was for a year and the penalty was seventy times longer. Even harsher punishments or longer waiting periods require greater penalties and times… like ten times seventy or 700 years as applied in Daniel’s prophecies, as we will see. These longer sentences would be used as a judgment for all of mankind’s transgressions or a waiting period until His punishment is rendered.

 

    In the case of the flood, God uses this type of “judicial law” system when he finally sends the rains and wipes the face of the earth clean. We’ll see what that verdict was at the end of the next chapter where it will make more sense after examining the rest of the genealogy through Abraham.

From Noah to The Promise

  Now let’s quickly look at the rest of the “Times” of Adam: From Noah (flood) to Abraham using the same methods from the previous section’s analysis. This will then complete the first trimester of the Lord’s plan. The dates are absolute and start from the flood. Later we will combine the dates to get the overall picture of the “Age of Lawlessness” as it also is known.  Table 9-1 lists the ten generations from the flood to the birth of Isaac and Table 9-2 is the reduction of those years.

Table 9-1

Name

Age listed in the Bible at male heir’s birth

Earliest Date (if Heir is born on the day after his father’s birthday)

Latest Date (if Heir born the day before his father’s next birthday)

Date range of birth counting from the Great Flood

Shem (Note 1)

2

2

3

0

Arphaxad

35

37

39

2 to 3

Shelah

30

67

70

37 to 39

Eber

34

101

105

67 to 70

Peleg

30

131

136

101 to 105

Reu

32

163

169

131 to 136

Serug

30

193

200

163 to 169

Nabor

29

222

230

193 to 200

Terah

70

292

301

222 to 230

Abraham

100

392

402

292 to 301

Isaac

 

 

 

392 to 402

Note 1. Shem’s heir Arphaxad was born two years after the beginning of the flood. Shem was 502 at the time.

 

Table 9-2

Year

1st Reduction

1st Result

2nd Additional Reduction

2nd Result

Years of further interest

392

3+9+2

14

1+4

5

 

393

3+9+3

15

1+5

6

 

394

3+9+4

16

1+6

7

394

395

3+9+5

17

1+7

8

 

396

3+9+6

18

1+8

9

 

397

3+9+7

19

1+9

10

397

398

3+9+8

20

2+0

2

 

399

3+9+9

21

2+1

3

399

400

4+0+0

4

 

4

 

401

4+0+1

5

 

5

 

402

4+0+2

6

 

6

402

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    You can see from the Table 9-2 that there is only one year with the special number ten… 397. What's more, it is exactly in the middle of the range, which gives it even better odds that this is the correct date using this method.

 

    Now these numbers were calculated for ten generations to the birth of Isaac (being the 11th). However, Abraham was given a promise 25 years earlier than the birth of Isaac that he would become the “father” of the Jews. Abraham was seventy-five years old at the time and not 100 as shown in the genealogy Table 9-1. This event signaled the end of the “Times of Adam (Age of Lawlessness)” and the beginning of the “Times of the Jews (Age of Law)”… the transition to the second trimester of God’s plan.

 

    As a result, we need to subtract 25 years from our year (397) to get the correct number of years for this block of time. This gives us 372 years from the time of the flood to the end of the first trimester of “Times”: the end of the first Age of man.

 

    Using the time from the creation of Adam until the flood, of 1,657 years and adding the 372 years from the flood to the promise made to Abraham, gives us an absolute date of 2,030 A.M.  Therefore, the total years for the first trimester of history (the Age of Lawlessness, the planting season of God, the Times of Adam) are approximately 1,657 + 372 = 2,029 years since we cannot account for months, weeks, or days in this calculation because we do not have enough information.

 

    This is an extremely important number and the key to unlocking God’s overall plan. How can we determine these dates are accurate and not one of the other possible dates investigated? By independent verification using God’s verdict for mankind’s rebellion as mentioned in the “God’s Justice” section.

 

    It is shown in God’s Plan for mankind, there are 12,175 years on God’s calendar in 12 days in heaven (H-days). When we divide 12,175 by 12 we get 1,014.5833 years for every day in heaven. Since there are two H-days in the “Times of Adam”, we need to multiply this number by two. The result is 2,029.16667: 2,029 years and two months, effectively the same number of years we just calculated using Bible genealogy? So you can see both results, the one from the calendar and the one calculated using God’s word and numbers, are essentially identical. This is strong evidence that the premise of God’s season having 12,175 years in it is correct. Remember this, God has a plan and He is working and following His plan. There are no coincidences and even if this were one, the odds of this happening are infinitesimal... two months out of 2,029 years is an error of .0006845% ((0.1666 months/(2,029 x 12 month) x 100)!

 

    During this two month period from God’s calendar (2,029.1666 years) the flood took place. The Bible doesn’t tell us specifically what I am about to reveal, but God uses a specific verdict repeatedly for other offenses. We reviewed these judgments in the last chapter. The judgment assessed in this case was the flood (the foreshadow of Christ’s washing away the sins of the world), after a waiting period of repentance of seven ‘sevens’ or more accurately seven times seven S-days! (S-days are shown on one season of God’s calendar and are 12,175 years / 360-days). This was the time period for man’s rebellion to reach its full measure: from Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden of Eden until Noah entered the ark there was seven ‘sevens’ or 49 S-days!

 

    On the 49th day of this “two-month” period (60 S-days) of the first trimester of man, the punishment was completed, or rendered, or metered out. You choose the right term. What year was this? Well there are 2,029.16667 years in this two S-month period and so the 49th S-day of that period was 1,657.1527 (2,029.16667 x 49/60) years from the beginning of Adam. Or more accurately stated, the 55th day of the year 1,658 A.M.! The exact year that God indirectly tells us in the Bible when the flood occurred and it was the year we calculated above! Absolutely incredible.

 

    Moreover, the Bible states,

 

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life [1,657], on the seventeenth day of the second month [47th day of the year] – on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.”                                                                                                                                                                            Genesis 7:11-12

 

    God actually told Noah to “load” the ark on the 40th day and the rains came on the 47th day just as a side note. Comparing the Bible account with the date calculated by using the seven ‘sevens’ fulfillment date, renders an error of only eight days in 605,266 ((1,657 x 365.25) + 47) days. The percentage equivalent of .00132%… an infinitesimal error! For this method to be exactly right, God’s plan would have to be 12,174.823 years long instead of the 12,175 years we calculated earlier. Only a total of two months less over the entire plan! It gets better.

 

    All the prior calculations use the length of a year from man’s perspective of 365.25 days in a year. But this number is an approximation as well… although a very good approximation. When an even more accurate number of 365.2421199 days per year is used instead, we get:

 

12,174.73997 years in God’s plan versus 12,175 years,

2,029.1233 years instead of 2,029.16667 years per trimester

 

    Using these numbers translates as follows: (2,029.1233333 x 49/60) = 1,657.11736 or 1,657 years, 42 days and six hours. Now a difference of only four days, 18 hours and an even smaller error of .0007963%!

 

    Still not astonished? Then I will conclude with some last thoughts. Suppose each Seasonal day (S-day) was divided up into the equivalent of 24 hours just as our day is and each S-hour was the equivalent of 60 minutes just as our hour is, then there would be 1440 S-minutes in one S-day just as there is 1440 minutes in our day.

 

    We know that the 49th S-day translated into 1,657.1173616 years. What would the 50th S-day translate into? Well 50/60 x 2029.12333 = 1,690.9361 years which is a difference of 33.818722 years. This is the same calculation as taking 12,174.73997 total years and dividing by 360 S-days. Therefore, one S-day is 33.818722 man-years long or 33.818722 x 360 of our days long. When you run this day calculation a funny thing happens. You find out that one S-day is 12,175 man-days or more accurately 12,174.73997 man-days long. The same number as the total number of years in God’s plan!

 

Simply stated, “the number of days (man-days) in one S-day is identical to the number of years in God’s overall plan (one Season).”

 

    Let’s look back at the last difference we calculated for the flood of 4.75 days. This difference translates as follows:

 

4.7498 days x  ___1 S-day______ x  1440 S-min.  = .5617953 S-min.

                                                  12,174.73997 days         1 S day

 

or 33.7 S-seconds. Eerie… 33.33 to 33.5 was Jesus’ age when he was crucified & this number is made up of two threes and one seven. What were these calculations for? Just this…

 

    At the beginning of the fiftieth S-day in heaven, after waiting 49 S-days for rebellion to reach its full measure, at 33.7 S-seconds into that day, in the “Times of Adam”, God opened the floodgates and the rain began to fall for 40 days and 40 nights (4 S-minutes and 44 S-seconds using God’s time)! The earth date was the seventeenth day of the second month (Ziv) in the year 1,658 A.M. from creation and the Bible confirms this. In the Gregorian dating system from man’s perspective it was May 2, 2403 B.C. And you can see from these last calculations that there is really no error at all!

 

    Maybe you prefer this explanation. On the fourth man-day of creation, the 18th hour of that day (if the day started at 6 am when the sun came up, then the 18th hour would have been midnight exactly; and if it started at 6 pm sunset {Jewish calendar} it would have been high noon exactly), Adam and Eve ate from the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” and prompted God to send the flood exactly 49 S-days later in the first trimester of God’s plan for mankind.

 

    Now if this is not astounding enough for you, then I will leave you with these last thoughts of God’s use of numbers. We will show later, after detailing the second trimester of God’s plan, which ends with the birth of Jesus that this event occurred in 2 B.C. After determining that date, it was then possible to go backwards in time all the way to Adam’s creation and re-date important events using the current dating system. When I did this, I calculated the flood was in the year 2403B.C. and Adam and Eve’s creation was in the year 4060 B.C. (2,403 + 1,657).

 

    If you multiply 49 (seven ‘seven’s) by 49 (seven ‘seven’s) you get 2,401 years exactly! When you add these years to the birth date of Jesus you come up with the year of the flood! Furthermore, our 2,029 years we know are 2,000 G-years from God’s perspective and if we subtract 7x7x7 (343) we get 1,657 years exactly! Can these calculations all be coincidences?

 

    We will see later even more proof of God’s use of numbers with respect to the flood and Adam’s creation when we examine in detail God’s command to observe Sabbath and Jubilee years as outlined in the Book of Leviticus, chapter 25. However, a brief assessment is in order before we get to that detail because of its important use throughout God’s calendar. Every seven years (week of years) is a year of rest… a Sabbath year.  The Israelites were instructed to count off seven of these Sabbath years and proclaim the following year, the fiftieth year, a year of “Jubilee”.  In these years God instructed the Jews to do certain things and if they did, all would be well in their land.  The Israelites were guilty of not following these laws and this was the main reason for the fall of Judah and Jerusalem in 587 B.C.  These years of Sabbath and Jubilee are listed in Appendix D.

 

    These ‘sevens’… ‘weeks’… ‘heptades’… are “weeks of years” or Sabbath/Jubilee cycles and are another system God uses along with special numbers and seasonal days (S-days) to determine important dates and times on His calendar.