The Crucifixion Was Not on Friday - Church of God Faithful Flock
The Crucifixion Was Not on Friday - Church of God Faithful Flock
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36 <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Crucifixi<strong>on</strong></str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Was</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Not</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Friday</strong><br />
A 19-Year Time Cycle<br />
Every<strong>on</strong>e knows that there are always 12 m<strong>on</strong>ths in each<br />
Roman year. <str<strong>on</strong>g>Not</str<strong>on</strong>g> so according to the Sacred Calendar!<br />
<strong>God</strong> ordained that there should be sometimes 12 and sometimes<br />
13 m<strong>on</strong>ths in each year! This is due to the fact that<br />
there are sometimes 12 and sometimes 13 new mo<strong>on</strong>s in a year<br />
between <strong>on</strong>e spring equinox and the next spring equinox. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g><br />
spring equinox, remember, is that moment when the sun rises<br />
due east and sets due west. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> spring equinox marks the<br />
beginning <strong>of</strong> a new solar year. Every fourth solar year the<br />
Romans called a leap year, when they added a 29th day to<br />
February.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> Hebrew Calendar has an altogether different cycle!<br />
<strong>God</strong> ordained that His Calendar, which He gave to the Hebrews,<br />
should run <strong>on</strong> a 19-year cycle-not a 4-year cycle like<br />
the Romans had. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> 19-year cycle has amazing prophetic<br />
significance which we cannot discuss now! But let’s understand<br />
why the Sacred Calendar has a 19-year cycle.<br />
A year according to <strong>God</strong>’s Calendar is determined by both<br />
sun and mo<strong>on</strong>. It is a solar-lunar calendar, in which there<br />
are sometimes 12 and sometimes 13 m<strong>on</strong>ths. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> ancient Romans,<br />
however, forgot about the new mo<strong>on</strong>s. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g>y used <strong>on</strong>ly<br />
the sun to determine the year’s length. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir calendar, which<br />
the world still uses today, is <strong>on</strong>ly a solar calendar.<br />
We call a year with 13 m<strong>on</strong>ths a leap year. A 19-year<br />
cycle therefore has 12 comm<strong>on</strong> years (<strong>of</strong> 12 m<strong>on</strong>ths each) and<br />
7 leap years (<strong>of</strong> 13 m<strong>on</strong>ths each), or a grand total <strong>of</strong> 235<br />
m<strong>on</strong>ths (12 X 12 + 7 X 13 = 235). <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> 235 m<strong>on</strong>ths almost<br />
exactly equals 19 solar years! That’s why this period <strong>of</strong> times<br />
is called a 19-year cycle. At the end <strong>of</strong> every 19 years the earth,<br />
mo<strong>on</strong> and sun come almost into exact c<strong>on</strong>juncti<strong>on</strong>. That is,<br />
there are the same number <strong>of</strong> days in 19 solar years as there<br />
are in 235 m<strong>on</strong>ths.<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>Not</str<strong>on</strong>g>ice the Pro<strong>of</strong><br />
Although the average solar year according to the Julian<br />
Calendar <strong>of</strong> the Romans is 365% days l<strong>on</strong>g, the average 12-<br />
m<strong>on</strong>th solar-lunar year according to <strong>God</strong>’s calendar is about