William Struse Quote
What if the date is not referencing his birth, but the point when he became flesh—in other words, his conception? If his conception was in the winter of 5 BC, it would place his birth nine months later in the fall of 4 BC, wouldn’t it? You’ve got a valid point there, Zane replied thoughtfully. Let’s look at this another way, from a big-picture perspective. Seventy ‘weeks’ times a thirteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the conception or birth of Jesus the Messiah in 4–5 BC. Sixty-nine ‘weeks’ times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the start of his ministry in 27 AD. The total seventy weeks times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time takes us to 35.67 AD, sometime after the call of the apostle Paul. The last recorded apostle who was personally called by Jesus.
What if the date is not referencing his birth, but the point when he became flesh—in other words, his conception? If his conception was in the winter of 5 BC, it would place his birth nine months later in the fall of 4 BC, wouldn’t it? You’ve got a valid point there, Zane replied thoughtfully. Let’s look at this another way, from a big-picture perspective. Seventy ‘weeks’ times a thirteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the conception or birth of Jesus the Messiah in 4–5 BC. Sixty-nine ‘weeks’ times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time marks the start of his ministry in 27 AD. The total seventy weeks times a fourteen-lunar-cycle period of time takes us to 35.67 AD, sometime after the call of the apostle Paul. The last recorded apostle who was personally called by Jesus.