God's Plan for the Ages

GOD'S PLAN FOR THE AGES was established right at the start of the Bible in creation week - "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years" (2 Peter 3:8) ...

• Follow the 7000 years of God's plan of redemption!
• Watch God's Plan for the Ages unfold in the chronologies and calendars of the Bible!
• Understand the miraculous way in which God has planned and ordered time and events!

Chronologies

God measures time in CHRONOLOGIES ...

• Chronologies are selective records of time that God counts, or reckons.
• There are also periods that God doesn't reckon!
• You need to combine the two sets of records - reckoned and unreckoned - to get a continuous record of time.
• In some reckoned periods, God adds an extra JUBILEE year every 49 years!

Calendars

Chronologies use different CALENDARS at each stage of God's Plan ...

• LUNAR - months start at a new moon and the year has 12 lunar months. The calendar drifts from the solar seasons by 11 days each year.
• LUNISOLAR - months still start at a new moon and the year normally has 12 months, but an extra month is added every two or three years to keep in line with the solar seasons.
• SOLAR - the year has 365 days extended by a day in leap years to keep in line with the solar seasons. Month lengths vary and so months are unlikely to start at a new moon.

The Bible uses a Lunar Calendar until the Flood, a LuniSolar Calendar from the Flood until Jesus, then a Solar Calendar!

The Bible only uses consecutive 30-day months in two periods of judgement on the whole earth - the first 150 days of the flood and the tribulation. Interesting that the Babylonians should adopt this system after the episode of the Tower of Babel (Babylon)!

Bible Events

Find out the likely dates of hundreds of BIBLE EVENTS in the calendars of the Bible and the calendars we use today, such as ...

• the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus!
• creation week!
• the fall of man!
• the flood!
• the Exodus!
• the start of Daniel's "seventy weeks"!
• the start and end of the "seven times of the Gentiles"!

Bible events are displayed in TIMELINES that allow you to see the dates of events and explanations at the click of a mouse.

TUTORIALS will ...

• Show you how to use the site.
• Help you understand the principles of Bible Chronology.
• Work through the Bible to cast fresh light on the meaning of key passages.