Posted on 08/11/2014 7:54:35 PM PDT by Jeremiah Jr
The Age of the Universe The '6' Days of Creation
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Hashem as the waters cover the seabed.
Habakkuk 2, 14 & Isaiah 11, 9
In the six hundredth year of the sixth [millennium], the gateways of heavenly wisdom and the fountains of lower wisdom will be opened, and the world will be uplifted to prepare for the ascension of the seventh [millennium]...
Zohar I, 117a
The formula for calculating the age of the universe was written by Moses and it's recorded in Tehillim 90.
Tehillim Chapter 90 JPS
90:1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. L-rd, Thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.
90:3 Thou turnest man to contrition; and sayest: 'Return, ye children of men.'
90:4 For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
90:5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting...
Basically the formula is 1 day = 1000 years and 1000 years = 1 day.
As a matter of fact in the 13th century Rabbi Isaac of Acco published his calculations based on Tehillim 90. I'm following his footsteps in that respect but I am substituting lunar year numbers for the solar year numbers used in his calculations.
Rabbi Isaac estimated the age of the universe to be 15,340,500,000 years old.
Note: The parameters of this formula differ from cosmology. Cosmology measures from the big bang to the current time, my calculations measure from the Tzimtzum to the 6th millennium.
See notes:
The Lunar Year
The length of the lunar year is 354.37 days.
Why the lunar year? The Hebrew word for year is shanah, and the gemetria (Hebrew math) of shanah is 355.
Shin = 300
Nun = 50
Hei =5
In order no less
The Calculations
1 day = 1000 years
1000 years = 1 day
354.37 x 1000 = 354370 (one year, of days)
354370 x 7000 = 2480590000 (one week, of days)
2480590000 x 6 = 14883540000 (6 millennium)
14,883,540,000 (from the Tzimtzum to the 6th millennium)
Amazingly I've recently discovered that these results have a mathematical seal.
The key is in 'reducing the numbers.'
Ironically one reduces numbers by adding them together until you arrive at a single digit.
Example: 12345 1+2+3+4+5 = 15, 1+5 = 6
Now on to the results.
14,883,540,000 1+4+8+8+3+5+4 = 33. 3+3 = 6 days! (millennium)
So does this formula work with 5 millennium? Let's shorten this process up...
2480590000 x 5 = 12402950000
1+2+4+0+2+9+5 = 23, 2+3 = 5 days.
4 Millennium?
2480590000 x 4 = 9922360000
9+9+2+2+3+6 = 31, 3+1 = 4 days.
3 Millennium?
2480590000 x 3 = 7441770000
7+4+4+1+7+7 = 30, 3 + 0 = 3 days.
2 Millennium?
2480590000 x 2 = 4961180000
4+9+6+1+1+8 = 29, 2 + 9 =11, 1+1 = 2 days.
1 Millennium?
2480590000 x 1 = 2480590000
2+4+8+0+5+9 = 28, 2 + 8= 10, 1+0 = 1 day.
7 to round out the week! Why stop now?
2480590000 x 7 = 17364130000
1+7+3+6+4+1+3 = 25, 2 + 5 = 7 days!
The seven days of creation!
It works with 8 and 9 millennium as well.
I have no doubt the sages were aware of the lunar year numbers. Why they did not employ them you'd have to ask them. Perhaps Daniel 12, 4 was their motive.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.'
Seal the book, to the time of the end...
Mordechai ben Avram
Notes:
(1) "… According to the master Kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac of Acco, when counting the years of these cycles, one must not use an ordinary physical year, but rather, a divine year (Otzar Chaim 86b). The Midrash says that each divine day is a thousand years, basing this on the verse, "A thousand years in Your sight are as but yesterday", Psalm 90:4 (Bereshit Rabbah 8:2, Zohar 2: 145b, Sanhedrin 97a). Since each year contains 365.25 days, a divine year would be 365,250 years long. According to this, each cycle of seven thousand divine years would consist of 2,556,750,000 earthly years. This figure of 2.5 billion years is very close to the scientific estimate as to the length of time that life has existed on earth. If we assume that the seventh cycle began with the Biblical account of creation, then this would have occurred when the universe was 15,340,500,000 years old. This is very close to the scientific estimate that the expansion of the universe began some 15 billion years ago." - Taken from Sefer Yetzirah, commentary by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, published by Weiser- 1997, page 186.
http://www.headcoverings-by-devorah.com/AgeOfUniverse.htm
A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phase. Because there are about twelve lunations (synodic months) in a solar year, this period (354.37 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar
Tzimtzum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum
The 'Big Bang Theory' is less than one hundred years old but the story is in Kabbalah and is called 'The Shattering of the Vessels'
The seventh millennium is our Sabbath rest!
I am a student of the Bible, but I cannot make sense of this.
What?
I am a student of the Bible, but I cannot make sense of this.
Day-O. Is a day-e-yay-o!
Daylight come and me wanna go home!
I am going to need a more powerful Calculator Ping!
This is hardly the first attempt to get Jewish mysticism and Christian faith to mix.
Whatever good might come of such attempts, the Savior shouldn’t be upstaged by this all.
Beware the deadly black tarantula.
1+2+3+4+5+6+7 = 28 2+8 = 10 28 - 10 = 18
18 / 3 = 6 28 - 6 = 22 22 * 3 =66
66 + 600 = 666!
We are doomed!
There are Christian old earth creationists such as Hugh Ross with a day-age theory. (http://www.reasons.org)
We need to be very careful, however, in too easily assuming that the creation has gone on according to the same principles of physics from the beginning. This may sharply limit the ability of science to frame in the manner of the creation. The young earth scientific creationists and the old earth creationists may be flirting with the same kind of errors, but from different viewpoints.
42!
And how about those Dodgers...
Looks like this kind of stuff:
http://kabbalastrology.wordpress.com
Good luck with that calculator thing.
A big problem with such theories is that they tend to upstage the gospel. John 3:16 does not go away or lose its meaning as a result of any details we may get about events that don’t impact us here and now.
1405006117752879898543142606244511569936384000000000
It’s a simple math trick, the kind that “human calculator” types use to impress people. Any base number that you can reduce to 1 by this method (adding the digits), when you multiply it, the result will reduce to whatever number you multiplied it by. You could substitute just about any number for the number he is using for a “millenium”, as long as it reduced to one, and it would have the same “mathematical seal” that he is talking about here.
So, as you can surmise, a “seal” that can confirm an infinite number of solutions as the correct one is mathematically worthless.
I got a ticket to ride ...
And this also, improbably, attributes the theory to the prophet Daniel. While Daniel prophesied in mysterious numeric puzzles, even he didn’t get anywhere close to this wild.
You are calculating all of this without time. The only point in time before matter exists is G-d’s time- which you don’t know two squirts about.
Time is anything between infinity to the snap of an electron depending on where you are and who you are. Don’t bother straining yourself over the math. The is no static time cycle in the observable Universe before it was even created.
Just stop and understand that from His point of view, it was a day- Not from the point of view of a planet, that didn’t even exist yet, spinning around a Sun, that also didn’t even exist yet. It’s pointless. You might as well ask a fish to calculate the veolicity of nuclear reaction in another Universe from a fish bowl. You simply can’t. You ain’t him.
Excuse me, where did the 600 come from?
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