The Crucifixion Was Not on Friday - Church of God Faithful Flock

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Crucifixion</strong> <strong>Was</strong> <strong>Not</strong> on Friday 35
moon may occur at any time during the month. Most people
today probably don’t even know when a new moon appears!
What’s the Average length of a Month?
Even though some months according to the Sacred or
Hebrew Calendar have 29 days and others 30 days, the AVERAGE
length of a month from one new moon to another is equal to 29
days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3% seconds. You can find this
information in the 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
article “Calendar.” Or go to almost any book on the subject
of the Hebrew Calendar.
If these figures seem new to you reread this booklet when
you’ve finished.
This divinely appointed average length of the month is the
mathematical basis of the Sacred Calendar! Don’t forget it.
Memorize it! Say to yourself that “a sacred month averages 29
days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3% seconds!”
Actually an “hour,” according to God‘s Calendar is not
divided into 60 minutes or into 3600 seconds. <strong>The</strong> ancient
Babylonians originated this idea. God originally divided the
hour into 1080 “parts.” Since there are 1080 “parts” in an
hour, then a part is equivalent to 3% seconds.
It does not really matter whether you say an hour has 3600
“seconds” or 1080 “parts.” Or whether you say a month
averages “29 days 12 hours 44 minutes and 3% seconds” or “29
days 12 hours and 793 parts.” This latter is the way the latest
edition of the Britannica records it. Jews would write it this
way also.
Either way of expressing it means the same thing. For
“793 parts” equal “44 minutes and 3% seconds.” (Since a
“part” equals 3% seconds, 793 X 3% seconds = 2643% seconds
- or 44 minutes and 3% seconds.)
Since most of you are familiar with minutes and seconds,
we shall write in abbreviated form for simplicity that, FOR
RELIGIOUS PURPOSES, a month according to the Hebrew Calendar
averages 29d 12h 44m and 3 % from ~ one new moon to another.
But this is not the only difference between the Hebrew
Calendar and the Roman Calendar.