Biblical year is less than the solar year by 5.25 days

2.1. Dates In the Scriptures, dates are defined as mark the time at which events occur. The Bible expresses dates in relation to the lifetime of individuals, the period during which certain rulers were in office, or other notable events. It contains the only complete chronology reaching back to the time of Adam’s creation. Bible chronology also pinpointed in advance the time when certain important events in the fulfillment of God’s purpose would take place. The Gregorian calendar, which is popular in much of the world, did not come into use until 1582. In secular sources there is disagreement on dates given for events in ancient history. However, certain key dates, such as 539 B.C.E. for the fall of Babylon, and hence 537 B.C.E. for the Jews’ return from captivity, are well established.(Ezra 1:1-3). Using such dates as starting points, it is possible to express in terms of current calendars the dates for ancient Biblical events. For how long would such governments be permitted to exercise the control before Jehovah gave the Kingdom to Jesus Christ? Daniel 4:16 says “seven times” (“seven years,”. The Bible shows that in calculating prophetic time, a day is counted as a year.(Ezek. 4:6;Num. 14:34). How many “days,” are involved in a year? Revelation 11:2,3 clearly states that 42 months (3 ½ years) in that prophecy are counted as 1,260 days ( the number of months is multiplied by the number of days). Seven years would be twice that, or 2,520 days. Applying the “day for a year “ rule would result in 2,520 years. How, then, is the time calculated down to 1914? Counting 2,520 years from early October of 607 B.C.E.(the last vestige of Jewish sovereignty was gone) brings them to early of October 1914 C.E. as shown in Chart 2.1 If the Biblical ‘time’ or year is 12*30 days in which there are 360 days because each month has 30 days, what does December 31 imply? Besides, the Julian calendar which was made in 46 B.C.E. was based on the solar year of 365 ¼ days, and with 12 months in which there were 7 of 31 days, 4 of 30 days and 1 of 28 or 29 days. The current Gregorian calendar is also using the same of 12 months of the Julian calendar. The calculation of seven times uses two standard of time such as Biblical year of 360 days before 46 B.C.E. and solar year of 365 and 366 days since 46 B.C.E. Since the

(=365.25-360), the above calculation was over inflated by about 28.17 years from the rule of seven times. According to the Biblical year or rule of seven times, there are only 705,510 days since 46 B.C.E up to early of October 1914 (=1959.75*360). But according to the solar year, there are 715,798.6875 days (=1959.75*365.25). Thus, the comparison shows the Biblical year is less than the solar by 10,288.6875 days and their estimation is overestimated by 28.17 years (=10,288.6875/365.25).