What is Time? Part 3
Greetings in Christ Jesus,
Sunday December 18, 2016
The article this morning is specifically geared toward those
who claim to be a part of the Body of Christ and yet choose to argue over days
and times which cause splits and divisions in the body.
So on this day; Sunday December 18, 2016 according to my
original tradition it is the 6th Sunday of Advent. On the western calendar
(i.e. Roman) this day is the 4th Sunday of Advent.
On the Eastern Orthodox New
Calendar today is the 26th Sunday after Pentecost, but according to the Eastern
Orthodox Old Calendar it is December 5th, 2016 and the 26th Sunday after
Pentecost. On a timeline of days and years, what day is it really? According to the Hebrew Calendar Sunday, 18
December 2016 is 18th of
Kislev, 5777
Time; Centuries, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes,
and seconds. We think that we have it all figured out don’t we? So why are
there contradictions in the church calendar?
It is in fact impossible to know what the date actually is
using any calendar. But those who choose to believe that every minute or moment
(which can be much longer than a minute of time) should be accounted for as to
doing God’s work on earth, should in fact be a little more concerned for the
accuracy of time for the dates of holy days and times. However in many cases
tradition is what is held as important which alludes to power and control at
times.
Before anyone attacks me for that comment about tradition or
on the other hand chooses to applaud it believing that I am against tradition
let me assure both sides; I am not against orthodox or truthful tradition in
any way but I am against tradition for the sake of tradition that is used to
attack others as heretics and not being Christian simply because that
particular tradition is not necessary to salvation or to the survival of a
Christian community. Tradition has its place especially where moral teaching is
concerned and the teaching and understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus the
Christ.
However, tradition is not the topic of this paper, the
dating of traditions and holy days is the topic. I will only say this on
tradition; the celebrating of the resurrection and the birth of our Lord and
Savior Jesus the Christ is a tradition, it is purely a Christian tradition and
it has been much maligned by those who claim to be a part of the body and yet
attack it ferociously. The wolves are alive and well in the church and have
convinced many to follow their lead in the attack by showing the supposed error
in the ways of the church and accusing the church of following Lucifer when all
the while their own error, pride, arrogance, lies, and corruption go unhindered
and totally ignored by those who follow them and declare these two holy days as
pagan.
Now let’s get back to time itself.
Our Creator is outside of time, time exists solely for us,
God created the sun and the moon which means that it was not in existence and
that it was obviously not necessary since it did not exist. We only know time
because we have a sun and a moon. Calendars and the tracking of time go back
many centuries. The first recorded calendars that we are aware of date to
the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in
the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars.
The way of counting time as in days and years has changed
over time, the first calendars were considered to be lunisolar whose date
indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year.
This lunar calendar compensates by adding an extra month as needed to realign
the months with the seasons. An example is the Hebrew calendar which uses
a 19-year cycle. Some calendars had ten months, today’s modern civil
calendar; the Gregorian calendar, is strictly a solar calendar with twelve
months.
Man began counting time starting with significant events in
their history, the Roman calendar started with the founding of Rome. Months
were determined by the first sighting of the new moon which was then the new
month. Months, later became a fixed number of days which also varied. Each
culture created its own calendar and as cultures and society changed so did the
calendar. So how do we know anything as far as time goes? How can we know how
old man is or how old the earth is? Man has attempted to use what is called
‘The Bible’ and the story of creation and the generations of man to make this
determination but with creationists and scientists we have a very large problem
with this concept.
In another story in reference to Hezekiah the sun moved
backwards 10 degrees which would lengthen the day. Has the sun standing still
and also moving backwards played any role in the calculation of time?
Genesis 1:1 In the
beginning God created the heaven and the Earth. 2 And the Earth was without
form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters.
In a translation in the Hebrew this same verse says; 1. in
beginning he-created Elohim the heavens and the earth. 2. And the earth she-became chaos and vacancy and darkness over
surfaces-of abyss and spirit of-Elohim vibrating over surfaces-of the waters.
How does the statement; the earth she became chaos and vacancy change not just time itself but our
prejudiced and speculative version of time in creation? How are we to
understand time when we were not around in the beginning? According to this
translation above, the earth may well have existed for quite a long time and
the war in the heavens destroyed it. The story in Genesis could very well be an
after destruction re-creation of the heavens and the earth. How long was the
war going on? We know that there was a war because the scriptures tell us it
was so. When did time actually begin? What day is it really? What time is it?
We say every minute counts as a minute to honor Jesus the Christ but where did
the minute come from? Is it a Christian invention to honor God?
The modern convention is to divide it into 24 hours, an hour
into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. The division into 60 originated
from the ancient Babylonians (1900 B.C.–1650 B.C.), who attributed mystical
significance to multiples of 12, and especially to the multiple of 12 times 5,
which equals 60. The Babylonians divided the portion that was lit by the Sun
into 12 parts, and the dark interval into 12 more, yielding 24 divisions now
called hours.
Ancient Arabic navigators measured the height of the Sun and
stars in the sky by holding their hand outstretched in front of their faces,
marking off the number of spans. An outstretched hand subtends an angle of about 15
degrees at eye level. With 360 degrees in a full circle, 360°divided by
15° equals 24 units, or 24 hours. Babylonian mathematicians also divided a
complete circle into 360 divisions, and each of these divisions into 60 parts.
Babylonian astronomers also chose the number 60 to subdivide each of the 24
divisions of a day to create minutes, and each of these minutes were divided
into 60 smaller parts called seconds.
So while many are so busy attacking the church for using
pagan days to celebrate Christian holy days and therefore use this sorry excuse
to destroy Christian witness from within the church we find that every second
of the day that they claim is dedicated to God is in fact derived from pagan
ideas and concepts determining time. Yet they have no problem using them for
personal pleasure, for moments of planning attack on the church, for moments of
actual attack on the church, and for profit making schemes all in the name of
Jesus but refuse to use a chosen day to celebrate a Christian event because of
and through prejudice and hate.
Let us take a look at the names of the months that we use
today;
·
January
31 days, named for Janus, two-headed god of doorways and gates
·
February 28/29 days, named for Februarius, the
month of expiation (making amends for guilt or wrong doing) februa was
the name of a purification feast held on the 15th of this
month.
·
March 31 days, named for Mars, god of war
·
April 30
days, derived from Latin verb meaning "to open"
·
May 31 days, named for Maia, goddess of Spring
and growth
·
June 30 days, named for Juno, goddess of wisdom
and marriage and childbirth
·
July 31 days, named for Julius Caesar
·
August 31 days, named for Augustus Caesar
·
September 30 days, named for 7 in Latin,
·
October 31 days, named for 8 in Latin
·
November 31 days, named for 9 in Latin
·
December 31 days, named for 10 in Latin
Let’s now take a look at the days of the week;
·
Wednesday,
Woden's day, Woden is the chief Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic god. Woden is the leader of the
Wild Hunt. Woden is from
wod "violently insane" + -
en "headship".
He is identified with the Norse Odin.
·
Thursday,
Thor's day, Thor is the Norse god of thunder. He is represented as riding a
chariot drawn by goats and wielding the hammer Miölnir. He is the defender of
the Aesir, destined to kill and be killed by the Midgard Serpent.
·
Friday, Freya's day, Freya (Fria) is the Teutonic goddess of
love, beauty, and fecundity (prolific procreation). She is identified with the
Norse god Freya. She is leader of the Valkyries and one of the Vanir. She
is confused in Germany with Frigg.
·
Saturday,
Saturn's day, Saturn is the Roman and Italic god of
agriculture and the consort of Ops. He is believed to have ruled the earth
during an age of happiness and virtue.
There are of course variations on
the translations and meanings of the days but
the point is this;
we have absolutely no idea how long this universe or this earth has existed,
people can scream bloody murder, utter threats, place lies all over social
media, attack specific Christian groups of specific Christians but this truth
will not change.
Pretty much every day name, every
month name, the counting of time even down to a second is from pagan sources.
These so called watch dogs of the true and pure faith have no problem using
them. Then we have those who attack the church for the choice of days for the
celebration of the Resurrection and the birth of our Lord Jesus as being pagan
days while calling themselves pure Christians because they know the truth and will not be fooled.
So here is the bottom line just in
case anyone has not yet understood the purpose of this study of time; there are
so many from within the church who attack the church for adopting pagan holidays
to use as Christian holy days claiming the church became pagan when all along all
names and dates on a calendar are derived from non Christian sources even to
the counting of seconds. However we need not worry about the dates chosen to
celebrate Christian holy days. Despite the pagan roots of names and times, who
in reality created time?
Almighty God created time and gave
it to us. The Messiah has been expected from the beginning. Lucifer controlled
the world until the coming of the Christ child, Jesus is His name and He
destroyed the control of the world that Lucifer had. Christians need to stop
their pantywaist crying and bellyaching about pagan days being used. It’s time
now to take back the days that have been stolen from the beginning.
Lucifer has controlled this place
from the beginning and controls many in the church, the wolves, the so-called
watch dogs. Lucifer has controlled the time here long enough.
You men had better grow a set and
stop being led by the nose by every wolf in the church who attacks holy days as
pagan. Take time back from Lucifer and stop allowing him to control you. Stand
up for Jesus and the church and stop crawling at the feet of the deceiver. Stop
listening to those who whine about everything that comes around the bend as
pagan unless it truly is.
As the Lord God told Joshua, stand up and be a man.
In Christ.
Member of the Autocephalous Orthodox Catholic Church of the
Americas
Many Blessings!
