Posted on 05/11/2025 11:57:32 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
NASA scientists have calculated the date a lunar eclipse occurred in A.D. 33 that may pinpoint the day of Jesus’ crucifixion.
In Genesis 1, we read that God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years.”
So it’s not surprising there would be a least one sign in the heavens to mark the death of Jesus as a sacrifice for the sins of the world.
The New York Post reported that NASA’s “astronomical models suggest that a lunar eclipse turned the moon red over Jerusalem on Friday, April 3, 33 AD — a date many scholars tie to Jesus’ death.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
About A.D. 52, Thallus wrote a history about the Middle East from the time of the Trojan War to the first century A.D.1 The work has been lost and the only record we have of his writings is through Julius Africanus (AD 221). Below Julius Africanus refers to Christ’s crucifixion and the darkness that covered the earth prior to his death.
Thallus Reference To Jesus Christ
“On the whole world there pressed a most fearful darkness; and the rocks were rent by an earthquake, and many places in Judea and other districts were thrown down. This darkness Thallus, in the 263 third book of his History, calls, as appears to me without reason, an eclipse of the sun. For the Hebrews celebrate the passover on the 14th day according to the moon, and the passion of our Savior fails on the day before the passover [see Phlegon]; but an eclipse of the sun takes place only when the moon comes under the sun. And it cannot happen at any other time but in the interval between the first day of the new moon and the last of the old, that is, at their junction: how then should an eclipse be supposed to happen when the moon is almost diametrically opposite the sun?” – Julius Africanus, Chronography, 18.1
Conclusion
This reference reveals several key things:
Darkness covered the earth at Christ’s death.
He understood that a solar eclipse could not explain the total darkness.
The time of the darkness agrees with Matthew 27:45.
An eclipse cannot account for the darkness – this was a miracle.
References:
1. F. F. Bruce. The New Testament Documents. W. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981. p. 116.
https://www.neverthirsty.org/about-christ/historical-quotes/thallus/
Understand that the days of the NEW MOON would NOT be Passover at all. The Moon would NOT be able to be eclipsed during a full moon.
(I did get that mixed up, sorry)
That article is wrong.
I’m typing without coffee...
Anyways, the Bible says:
Mat 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
That was not an eclipse of any kind, either solar or lunar.
Prove that it is not mass hysteria of all the witnesses. Darkness within, not halting of the universe.
Perhaps.
Luke wasn't there, was he?
33 AD was a 2nd Adar year of moon-months.
:^) It happens.
I’d love to have a source for the Sanhedrinn declaring an Adar Sheini for the Hebrew year 3793.
I think I was mistaken on this, and miscounted. It was actually (from sources) that the February/Adar I of 31 AD was succeeded by Adar II. not 30 AD. So therefore I would not be until about 34 AD tha would host the next intercalary month, eh?
My statement in Post #64 was incorrect, and I apologize for my carelessness. Thank you for catching this error right away, and your tact for not making this a big issue.
No problem. It’s not a simple thing at all.
The point is that the *calculation* of the years with ‘leap months’ wasn’t until quite a bit after the Temple was destroyed.
During the years talked about here, the Sanhedrin would have a choice of which years got the extra month, depending on weather. That 29-30 day uncertainty within any given year makes exact conversion to the Gregorian date uncertain without specific historical records.
I heard this decades ago.
:)
Everyone in Jerusalem would’ve seen it, that includes all the disciples and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Did I not say "mass hysteria" (a God-induced condition that He is well-able to induce, and has)?
I guess somehow I didn't make the possibility totally clear to you. Hm.
A couple of examples:
==========I trust that whether on Crucifixion Day God gave them blindness from high noon until mid-afternoon so they only perceived utter darkness, and could not perceive the horrible throes of pain from all His wounds, the extreme torture of smothering by hanging on tne cross, and the fires of Hades that He was exposed to while the breath of life yet remained in the raw steak-like flesh of His body.Genesis 19:10-11 (AV):
10But the men(the two angels) put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. 11And they(the angels) smote the men(perverts of Gomorrah) that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
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2 Kings 6:15-19 (AV; quotation marks added for better reading):
15And when the servant of the man of God(Elisha) was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host(Assyrian army) compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, "Alas, my master! how shall we do?"
16And he answered, "Fear not: for they(Heavenly angels) that be with us are more than they that be with them."
17And Elisha prayed, and said, "LORDיְהֹוָה, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see."
And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18And when they(the Assyrians) came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, "Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness."
And heJehovah smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
19And Elisha said unto them, "This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek."
But he led them to Samaria.==========
Or God could have actually created some kind if impenetrable heavenly envelope around the globe to shut out light beams for three hours.
I don't really know, but you might want to keep your mind open as to what or how God might have brought the darkness about, considering all the other unusual things He has accomplished, and still does.
Sincere regards to you. Be a Berean.
(And the Piobreachd O' Donal Dhu to you, Highlander!)
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