There are seven days in a week, an unbroken cycle since the seven days of creation, and a remembrance of it; Gen 2vs2-3:
“And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.”
This rhythm resonated around the world transcending all cultures almost unquestioned. There seems very little natural evidence for the origin of this seven day culture apart from the Scriptures. Yet it is also so deeply wired into our beings that no culture can depart from it, regardless of what they believe. The sun rises and sets, rises and sets again, naturally making a day. The moon waxes and wanes, and naturally marks out a month. The sun’s elliptic swings its arc across the celestial sky changing seasons from spring, to summer, to autumn, to winter and back to spring, naturally marking out a year. Yet the seven day cycle transcends all that, overlapping the celestial rhythms seemingly independent of them, yet so naturally that an unspoken, unheard cycle within a cycle rings out a melodic rhythm of harmony, glorifying the Creators joy in Perfection.
Four cycles of seven, plus a day, mark out a cycle of the moon. Twelve of these cycles mark out a year, or;
Seven days, times seven, times seven, plus seven days, plus seven days, plus seven days, plus seven days, plus one day,
Equal 365 days, equals one year, or; Seven cubed, plus three times seven, plus one day, equals one year.
There are seven extra set apart days, sacred ‘Shabbats’ in addition to the weekly Shabbats, (sometimes their appointed calendar date may fall on a weekly Shabbat). These are; Pessach, the last day of Ha’Matzot, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkoth and Shemini Atzeret.
There is a festival of Shabbats or Shavuots (weeks). Seven weekly cycles of seven daily cycles, plus one day, counting to fifty days.
Lev 23vs15,16: “And from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven complete Sabbaths. Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to YHVH.”
The Scriptures speak of a seven year cycle; Lev25vs3-4a:
“Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit, but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to YHVH…”
Then further, a seven times seven cycle; Lev 25vs8-10a:
“And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. You shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement cause a ram’s horn to pass through all your land. And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Jubilee…”
The prophet Daniel speaks of seventy weeks in Dan 9vs24:
“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sin, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-Apart.”
The rare Hebrew word used here; “Shavuim”, spelt: Shin, Vet, Ayin, Yod, Final Mem, is usually translated as ‘weeks’ as it seems to imply this, although it is better translated as “sevens” (as in the NIV). Another alternative is “seven’ed”.
Dewy Bruton in his presentation titled; “Daniels Timeline”, suggests that this word “Shavuim” is a plural for ‘Shavuot’ (the Festival of Weeks), as the suffix “-im” implies plural in Hebrew. He goes on to suggest that this could then be interpreted to read seventy Shavuots, and therefore, seventy years. This “ seventy-sevens” spans an important length of history.
We also see a connection in the time frame of about six thousand years since Adam to the return to the Land of Israel, and one thousand years of the reign of the Messiah! Six thousand years of strife, and one thousand years of rest.
Think about this six times,
And think again!
Shalom and welcome to this presentation of what is a very ancient calendar system
