Thanks for the detailed explanation. time, the passage of time, time travel, have always fascinated me.
We used to have a museum locally, the Time Museum, which quite literally, was world class.
A local industrialist collected timepieces-watches, clocks, even an atomic clock, and it was quite a collection.
Alas, there wasn’t enough interest in it to keep the doors open and the lights on. The local astronomy enthusiasts, myself included, weren’t enough to keep it open.
Here’s a link: https://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/timemus.htm
All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.
But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.
This reminds me of another long-standing mystery, a subject of much commentary.
Genesis 49
1. And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben...
(Reuben means "see a son")
But then he goes on to give blessings seemingly unrelated to the stated purpose. There are several opinions; e.g. that Jacob knew that the time was very long and he changed his mind so as not to demoralize his sons, or that God removed the knowledge from him so Jacob wouldn't be able to say, or that Jacob encoded the time within the wording of the blessings.
Here's one example of the thought that goes into these matters:
In fact, Jacob never revealed to his sons when the final redemption would take place. According to the Midrash, this secret the time of redemption was hidden from Jacob. The Midrash uses the following parable to explain what transpired between Jacob and his sons at Jacobs death bed.
The Parable of the Devoted Servant
https://www.ravkooktorah.org/VAYEHI64.htm
What I haven't seen proposed, is that these first verses actually make plain sense -- that they *are* the revelation of the big mystery.
Yeah but why spoil the surprise? ;)
More fun:
That gal sure gets around.
From (I had linked this thread in my first comment, before this post appeared)...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4076086/posts?page=22#22
Where she goes, nobody knows. Wife of Zephyrus, the personification of the west wind:
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Looking up!
For those who don't know:
This grand garden statue of Flora mysteriously appeared for a time in a Maine field. Location: MarsHill, facing south in the direction of Mountain Road and the Big Rock. The field is north of the "Y" (where Mountain road meets Knoxford Rd.)
This is the place of first light in the summer in the lower 48.
(It's the place of First Wind as well. It's on the Wiki link. And the address of the Big Rock is 37 Graves. What are the odds?)
Time for a mighty rescue (mayday):
The earliest known May celebrations appeared with the Floralia, festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, held from 27 April 3 May during the Roman Republic era, and the Maiouma or Maiuma, a festival celebrating Dionysus and Aphrodite held every three years during the month of May.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
The first light of DAY...
Their solution was a double 'yud'. So, for example, the American state of Maine is spelled 'mem-yud-yud-nun'.
And wouldn't you know it...
Maine [מיין] also spells m'yayin, "from wine", and wine is the code for secret:
"When wine enters, secrets are revealed". (Eruvin 65a)
Wine [in Hebrew "yayin"] comes from a hidden place; therefore its numerical value is 70, which is the same as the word "secret" [in Hebrew, "sod"]. (Chidushei Aggadah, Sanhedrin)
https://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/652345/jewish/Purim-and-the-Secret-of-Wine.htm
The ancient "hidden place" is the north. Here's a simple list (in English and Hebrew) of related words.
Place of the or rishon, first light. north is the location of the sky where the sun doesn't travel, so who'd look up there? Ingenious!
nth: denoting an unspecified member of a series of numbers or enumerated items.
On day one, day one was not the first in a series of days, it was the one and only
Full circle. It's the art and science of the Spirit. It can even make a missing statue sing (unlike the idols of stone that are dead).
Time for a mighty rescue: free the mind. Where we're going we don't need roads. :)
Yes, God is light, but “darkness was upon the face of the deep” until He created light, then three days later He created the source of light.. What is the difference between “created” and “made”?
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Some things were created and other things were made. Look at Genesis 1. Three times God created but since God is light, light was neither created nor made. Since God is omnipresent, darkness did not exist.
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Peace and light existed but Darkness and evil did not exist.