Solar and Lunar Calendars: 360-days in a year

The lunar calendar was commonly used in ancient times. However, the ancients had to add an extra (intercalary) month every once and a while to adjust to the position of the sun since the lunar calendar lagged behind approximately 11 days per solar year, (365 - 354 = 11 days). The Jewish calendar today is a luni-solar one based on 28-year-solar and 19-year-lunar cycles. This complex calendar system adds a second 12^th month every two or three years (called "Second Adar"); thus there are 13 months in a modern Jewish calendar year every second or third year, (i.e., 384 days).

The Islamic religious calendar does not adjust to the sun at all. It has a fixed 12-month lunar-year. Hence, it lags behind our solar year about 11 days in a year with the effect that every few decades it lags behind an entire year!

God has merged the three major calendar systems into one complex clock, with the 360-prophetic year as the average year of the lunar and the solar.

Nevertheless, the solar has the driving lead, since all other calendars in one way or another find their bearing and orientation by it.

All three calendars---(the solar, prophetic, and lunar)---inter-work with astounding precision. Moreover, the 360 year and the lunar year operate with and without the intercalary months added. Likewise, the leap days of the 365-solar are optionally counted. Hence there are four radically different calendars; the major adjusted ones being led by the solar, and the minor unadjusted solar, lunar, and prophetic.

Here is an imaginary example of all this. Notice the relationship between the three adjusted calendars to one another, and notice these three, in turn, in relationship to the 1260,000 days, or 3,500 years of the unadjusted-prophetic.

For illustrative purposes ONLY

Suppose that God marks out the date of the coming rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem (prophesied of in the Bible, Dan. 9:27) by tying-in this great event with several related events in past history. Let us say that Nisan 1, AD 2006 is the date God chooses for this rebuilding. He chooses this date...

because of it's relationship to when the tabernacle was set up, i.e., New Year's day, Nisan 1, 1445 BC, (i.e., one year after the exodus);
1445 BC + 1150 x 3 years = Nisan 1, AD 2006;
and because it is 1260,000 days and a few months.
because of it's relationship to Artaxerxes' decree to rebuild Jerusalem's walls in 445 BC;
445 BC + 490 x 5 years (or, 49 x 50 years) = Nisan 1, 2006 BC, (see Dan. 9:25-27).
because of it's relationship to the completion of the second temple in spr., 516 (515?) BC;
515 BC + 1260 x 2 years = Spr., 2006 BC.
Plus other like reasons., (i.e., see AD 536, as mirror of BC 536, and 490 x 3).

Nisan 1, AD 2006, of the Three Adjusted Calendars

ADJUSTED LUNAR:
by virtue of it being 1150 x 3 years after the tabernacle; (1445 BC - 1150 x 3 = AD 2006, see the 2300 of Dan. 8:14).

ADJUSTED SOLAR:
Nisan 1st occurs around mid March to April. The symbolic solar equivalent of this date would therefore be either March 1, or April 1.

ADJUSTED PROPHETIC:
1150 x 3 years of the adjusted prophetic cal. = 1260,090 days. This would mean that the prophetic New Year would fall on about Adar 27th in AD 2006 (i.e., about 3 days before the lunar Nisan 1st).

Make-Believe Scenario

Let us say that 1260,000 days after the tabernacle was set up in Nisan 1, 1445 BC (i.e., 1260 x 1000 days, or 3,500 yrs of unadjusted prophetic), it is announced to the world that construction of the temple will begin "in a few months," it is slated to start March 1st, 2006 BC.
However, for some reason this is put on hold for a few weeks until Adar 27th, when it is suddenly announced that construction will commence in a few days, that is on Nisan 1st (of the Jewish/lunar cal.)
Now, if an enthusiast exclaims, "Look! Temple construction has begun on the very same anniversary of when the tabernacle was set up in the days of Moses!"
Many would object and say, "That's no coincidence! That day was likely chosen on purpose by those in charge of it's construction."

However, the bible numbers would tell quite another story, wouldn't they?

Make-Believe Scenario
Based on Past Observations

This has been a imaginary scenario for the purpose of explaining the reason why there are several calendar systems. However, it is logically possible based upon my own personal observation of other events in the news over the past ten years, such events as Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. Nevertheless, I am in no way predicting the future. I wrote this off the top of my head. Hundreds of similar scenario's could have been devised. The purpose of the bible numbers is not to predict the future but to know that GOD IS IN CONTROL.

Conclusion

Thus, the three adjusted calendars work together to mark exact days within a particular year, with their unadjusted counterparts also at work, but as it were, in the background behind the scenes.

When considered independently of one another, these three adjusted calendars increase the ambiguity threefold for when a particular anniversary event might be marked. However, when considered together they actually narrow down the possibilities, (as I have shown in the above scenario); they in fact establish the matter by "two or three witnesses."

Furthermore, God also uses a great host of other methods to narrow down the possibilities, say for instance if the temple took 1150, or 1260 days to complete. See "The Writing on the Wall".)

The purpose of the book "The Writing on the Wall" is to demonstrate the complexity of 'God's clock', without getting bogged down in the minor details. For this reason, "The Writing on the Wall" clings mostly to the simple solar (and adjusted calendars); it is territory with which we are all familiar, (or can be familiarized with), and so can more easily be grasped.