Crucifixion Was Not on Friday (1968)_b.pdf - Herbert W. Armstrong

38 The <strong>Crucifixion</strong> <strong>Was</strong> <strong>Not</strong> on Friday
of the Britannica gives this very answer in the article "Calendar,"
page 1000! Verify it yourself. This figure is the- average
length of a 19-year cycle.
<strong>Not</strong>ice that the length of 19 Julian years is slightly longer
than the same number of years according to God's Calendar.
Both have the same number of whole days, but not the same
number of hours. Now we want to find how much longer the
Julian Calendar is than the Hebrew Calendar in 19 years.
Just subtract the length of one from the other!
Roman Julian Calendar:
6939d 18h
Hebrew Calendar:
-6939d -16h
-33m
-3~s
ad 1h 26m 56%s
(This answer is derived by changing the hours into minutes
and the minutes into seconds.)
So the Julian Calendar is 1 hour, 26 minutes and 56%
seconds longer than a 19-year cycle. This answer will make
it exceedingly simple in determining the Passover date in 31
A.D. If we can determine when the Passover was in 1931 A.D.,
then all we need to do is multiply the length of a 19-year cycle
by 100 - since there are exactly 19 centuries between 31 A.D.
and 1931. That's simple enough, isn't it?
Where to
Begin?
We could commence our calculation anywhere. But as
most of you have access to a Public Library, we shall use the
11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for our starting
point. The newer editions of the Britannica fail to include the
following information! That's why you ought to use the 11th
edition to verify this proof.
In the Britannica, article "Calendar," we find that the
Jewish scholar Lindo calculated the precise moment of the
new moon for October in the year 1845. That year began a
19-year cycle, which makes it easy for us to work from. In
the Hebrew Calendar we need to find the moment the new
moon of the seventh month of the sacred year occurs. This