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1 | meaning behind "Forty Days" theory? | Bible general Archive 2 | South Nazman | 121502 | ||
What is the meaning behind the "Forty Days" theory if there is any? If you would please, show me in the Bible where it is. Thank you and God Bless S. Nazman |
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2 | meaning behind "Forty Days" theory? | Bible general Archive 2 | Emmaus | 121503 | ||
South Nazman, Could you please clarify what you mean by the "Forty Days" theory. Emmaus |
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3 | 40 Days | Bible general Archive 2 | South Nazman | 121507 | ||
God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period, whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes he took 40 days. Noah's life was transformed by 40 days of rain; Jesus was empowered by 40 days in the wilderness. I'm just wondering why God used 40 days. |
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4 | 40 Days | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 121532 | ||
It is not just 40 days. It is the number 40 that seems to be significant. 40 days of rain, Israelites in the wilderness 40 years, 40 years of king Saul, 40 days of Jesus in the wilderness, 40 years of Christ living on earth. You will notice that after all these 40's there is deliverence or the fulfillment of promise. Noah is delivered (the rain stopped), the Israelites go into the promised land, King David begins to reign, Jesus is ministered to, we are delivered from the bondage of sin. There are many other examples. It seemsthe the number 40 is a number of deliverence. |
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5 | 40 Days | Bible general Archive 2 | BradK | 121536 | ||
following him How do you arrive at "40 years of Christ living on earth?" Just curious as to your scriptural basis, if any. Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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6 | 40 Days | Bible general Archive 2 | following him | 121550 | ||
Luke 3:23 states that Jesus was about thirty when He started His ministry. We often take that to mean He was thirty years old. We know the He died in the year 33 AD so that makes Him 33 Years old when He was crucified. But the word thirty in Luke 3:23 actually mean the decade of thiry in other would it realy means He was somewhere in His thirties when He started. The Jews in John 8:57 may be supporting this when instead of saying you are not yet 40 they say you are not yet 50. These guys were adversaries and I can't imagin them giving Jesus the benifit of the doubt. John 8:57 is a weak example though to support Jesus as being 40. Lets go to the history books. We often assume that Christ was born in the year 1 AD; but Herod the great who was the particular Herod involved in the execution (murder) of the children in Bethleham, died in the year 4 1/2 BC. When looking for the child he assertained from the magi that the child was already about two years old. This is supported also by the meaning of the word child in Matt 2. Also the only census to take place near the time Christ was born took place in 7 BC. This was when Christ was born in a manger while his parents were registering for the census. If you count from 7 BC to 33 AD (do not count the year 0 there was no such year) you get 40 years. | ||||||
7 | 40 Days | Bible general Archive 2 | Wlerin | 121572 | ||
What source is there for AD 33? Most sources say AD 29, but that might be based on the assumption that Christ was 33 at his death, and born in 4 BC. ...apparently, according to "The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels", if 14 Nisan is taken as the date of His crucifixion (assuming that it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, which is what John records) then the possible dates are April 7 AD 30, or April 3 AD 33. Apparently, the AD 33 date is corroborated by "Pilate's changing policies toward the Jews after AD 32". Also, according to the same work, the start of John's ministry in Luke 3:1-3, in the fifteenth year of Tiberius, must have been in AD 29. Since Christ's own ministry began afterwards, AD 30 is not a likely year (at least two Passovers are recorded, the other two in John 2:13 and 6:4, the latter at the feeding of the five thousand. There are also chronological statements in John 4:35, and in 5:1 that seem to necessitate a third passover between these two.) Also, as to His birth, note that He is in both calendars (East and West) held to have been born in winter. He must have been born before 4 BC, when the death of Herod the Great occurred, but as for the specific date of a census, I can find no reference. There were, however, two confluences of planets in the years 7/6 BC, and 5/4 BC, though whether these are related at all to the Star is unknown (and, as the Dictionary pointed out, for the Star to stand over the stable would require something more than natural). Now that I have totally exhausted that work... nothing else I have looked at even tries to describe the reasoning behind the dates, but (usually) gives it as AD 29, which, as pointed out concerning John the Baptist, is impossible. Most of this came from the work quoted. Sorry, I hadn't planned to give so much info, but ye got me curious, and once I found it I had to share. |
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