Unusual Dates

Some point to dates on a calendar where the numbers form an interesting pattern and wonder if they mean anything.

Just remember: Our calendar is based on a misconception of when Christ was born, so those dates and number strings really mean nothing. (Not that odd dates or number strings mean anything anyway.)

And then there’s how it’s written. Some write it day/month/year, while others use month/day/year or even year/month/day.

To see what the date would be if our calendar started with the creation of man, just add 4,025 years and about 3 months to the current date.

Adam was created “in the year 4026 B.C.E. It was likely in the fall of the year, for mankind’s most ancient calendars began counting time in the autumn around October 1, or at the first new moon of the lunar civil year.” (it-1 Adam)

To see what the date would be if our calendar started with the true date of the birth of Christ, just add 1 year and about 3 months to the current date.

“Jesus evidently was born in the month of Ethanim (September-October) of the year 2 B.C.E.” (it-2 Jesus Christ p.56)

To see what the date would be if our calendar started with the beginning of the last days (aka: the end of the gentile times or “the appointed times of the nations”), just subtract 1,914 years, and about 9 months from the current date.

“On Friday morning, October 2, 1914, Charles Taze Russell,… strode into the dining room at Bethel in Brooklyn, New York. “Good morning, all,” he said cheerily. Then, before taking his seat, he joyfully announced: “The Gentile times have ended; their kings have had their day.’” (w07 11/1 p.24)

Now there’s an interesting pattern. All three begin around the first of October.