>
> No, not the newsmagazine! According to James Ussher, Anglican Archbishop
> of Armagh, in his *Annals of the Old Testament* (1650)...
>
> 'In the beginning God created the Heavens and Earth, which beginning of
> time was in that night preceding the XXIII day of October ... in the
> year 4004 before the first of our Era, commonly called Christian.'
>
> Let the REAL millenial feasts (and apocalypses?) begin! :-)
>
> George
Hummm. Does the creation date as calculated in the 1600s need to be
adjusted from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar? So the big day would
have been about 11 days ago (or am I adjusting in the wrong direction?)?
Probably much better if it has, indeed, slipped by us unaware.... One of
my students in class today was under the impression that noon was the
ominous/glorious time to enter into the millennial rest. Let's see -- how
many hours would Eden time be ahead of whatever time we find ourselves on
(still Eastern Daylight Savings here)?
Bob
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