THE '405-YR' TOTAL CHRONOLOGICAL MARGIN

REVEALS DESIGN

120, AND 1,200-YR PATTERN

We start with this one pattern before we show how the total NT variant of 405 is significant in and of itself.

First we take a look at the 1,200 yrs from the flood to the exodus and then explain how the '405' relates to it.

If we subtract the full 405-yr margin, the product of NT revelation, then the date of the flood is 2241 or 2243 BC (i.e., 2646/8 + 405 yrs). Since "400 yrs," (the round number in Gen 15:13, for their time in Egypt), composes the last 400-yr segment of the 1,200 yrs from the flood unto the exodus, the loss of the NT "405" helps divide the 1,200 into three equal parts, (as 1,200 or 800 yrs from the flood). Likewise, scripture divides Moses' life into three even periods of 40 yrs. Furthermore, the 40-yr loss (of the LXX 1Kg 1:6 variant), can align the 1,200 yrs from the flood as either unto when Moses was 120 yrs old, or, as 800 yrs unto when he was 80 yrs old. (Note the '120-yr period unto the flood,' of Gen 6:3, also.)

First, a look at the '405' (of the three NT variants), and '4,050' (of Bible numbers, which we explain shortly), using the LXX-exodus of 1406 BC, along with the 'traditional' date of MT-1446 BC.

Furthermore, the Bible breaks down this same span of 405 yrs, (from the exodus to Isaac's birth), into the same segments of time as the three NT variants did, (i.e., 215, 60, 130 yrs, and LXX -40, too), even though they are not directly related to one another other than by this pattern.

{We will quote directly from a typical computation of the chronology of the patriarchs (taken from 'The Expositor's Bible Commentary') in order to assure the reader that the connecting of the three NT variants with actual periods of time of the same duration, (i.e., during the patriarchs), is not contrived but matter-of-factly taken from the Bible. We use LXX-dates for this pattern though the commentary is using the MT. This in no way contradicts the quote itself.}

Ponder closely:

Thus, the 405 less at the flood (= 2241 BC), with its three-part breakdown, is likewise 4,050 yrs to each of the dates in the above chart. Furthermore, 4,050, plus 405 = 4,455, (i.e., as from the max flood to Isaac's mirrored birth, LXX), even so, 405 (of the three major variants), plus the minor variant of -40 of 1Kg 6:1, equals 445, (or, one-tenth of the previous total). Add to this the extra half-yr-New-Yr switch possible for when Isaac entered Egypt (as being 130.5 yrs old), and we have a total of 445.5 yrs, (or exactly one-tenth of above total variants). Therefore, the total yrs from the max flood to Isaac's birth (MT & LXX) of 4,050, with its additional 405 (as above), agrees with the total variants in use to create this effect in the first place (i.e., 405, with LXX -40). This, along with the fact that each individual part (i.e., 215, 130, 60, 40), are also being advanced to significant events in the mirror of the lives of the patriarchs, is strong evidence that it was designed this way.

Furthermore, 1Kg 1:6 (of our LXX -40), states that the temple was built either 3½ or 4 yrs after king David's 40.5-yr reign (2Sam 5:5). Hence, we have both one-tenth and one-hundredth of 4,050 and 4,455 yrs as well.[4]

The 405(0) pattern is still more intricate; Ezekiel's '430' combines with 2300, 490, 1260 of Daniel (the total of 4,050), as well.

Ezekiel (4:5-6) is told to lay on his side 390 days for Israel and another 40 for Judah, for a total of 430 days that symbolized yrs (i.e., the same length of time spent in Egypt). In like manner, after 390 yrs in Egypt, Moses tried unsuccessfully to rescue his brethren from Pharaoh but had to flee and wait another 40 yrs. Consider the symmetry of the following:

The above chart shows that the approximate 5-yr gap between the traditional and actual birth of Christ symbolize a mere half-yr when viewed on a times-10 level. This agrees with the half-yr gap between Christ and his forerunner, John the Baptist (or, certainly unto the 'magnificat', Luke 1:26,37,56). This half-yr combines with the 2 or 3 yrs that Herod inquired of the Magi concerning when the Christ was born, to create the "time, times, and half a time," in reverse order, (see Rev. 12 in comparison with Matthew's birth narrative, and with Dan 9-12). "Two yrs old and under," Matt 2:16, in the original Greek may read as 3 yrs old less a day, or as 2 full yrs. The ambiguity of the text is purposeful because it is the inspired Word of God.

Therefore, the "time, times, and half-time" (3½ yrs), concur not only with the first (i.e., at the general time of His birth), and last 3½ yrs of His life, but also with the whole of His life but on this times-10 level. The effect of this 5-yr gap just explained, when viewed in connection with the (NT) 405-yr chronological gap, underscores the purpose and design of the 405 gap, ---it gives a floating variance of '40,' except on a times ten level, as does the 1Kg 1:6 LXX-variant of a literal 40 yrs.

Lamech's father lived the longest of any man in the world. He died in the same yr of the flood. Perhaps he died in the flood, but more likely, the month before it. (Or, a ½-yrs before it?) If he died before it, which is most likely since he is of the godly seed, then his death was a portent of catastrophe just as Lamech's was. This would then agree with Isaiah the prophet and Jesus the Messiah:

"Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant. The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come." (Isa. 56:12 - 57:1)

"Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled… For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (Mt. 24:37, 38, 39)