What if the date is not referencing his birth, but the point when he became flesh-in other words, his conception? If his conception was in the winter of 5 BC, it would place his birth nine months later in the fall of 4 BC, wouldn't it?" "You've got a valid point there," Zane replied thoughtfully. "Let's look at this another way, from a big-picture perspective. Seventy 'weeks' times a thirteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the conception or birth of Jesus the Messiah in 4–5 BC. Sixty-nine 'weeks' times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the start of his ministry in 27 AD. The total seventy weeks times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time takes us to 35.67 AD, sometime after the call of the apostle Paul. The last recorded apostle who was personally called by Jesus.
( William Struse )
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