Biblical calendar base 7
Today is Good Friday, when I was contemplating on the subject of Good Friday and Easter this morning, beside thanks; the idea of Biblical calendar flew into my mind.
Most our memorial dates are marked by “a day within a month”. Good Friday and Easter are special in a way that they are marked by “a day within a week” of the month of April. Period cycle of the Bible viewpoint goes by weeks (unit of 7 days) - this 7 days cycle can be seen as the Biblical calendar. I think that begins with God used 7 days to create the universe.
Year and day marking is planetary reference base - the earth going around the sun once defines a year; and the earth self-rotated once defines a day. However, there is no planetary marking for a week. The base of a week is the reference to the creation of the universe. Following that, Bible loves to use this 7-days cycle to mark Biblical importance day (to do with man and God relationship) – Passover, good Friday & Easter.
Then I think of mathematics. People like to use base 10 for ease of arithmetic, I guess because most of us have 10 fingers by nature. Computers usually use base 2 (even base 16 is categorized into 2 bytes, and bytes disintegrate into bits) to perform its calculation because of its on-bit and off-bit nature. God uses base 7 to mark his relationship with man because of His character of life (7 days of creation) and relationship (Passover, Good Friday, Easter)?
Most our memorial dates are marked by “a day within a month”. Good Friday and Easter are special in a way that they are marked by “a day within a week” of the month of April. Period cycle of the Bible viewpoint goes by weeks (unit of 7 days) - this 7 days cycle can be seen as the Biblical calendar. I think that begins with God used 7 days to create the universe.
Year and day marking is planetary reference base - the earth going around the sun once defines a year; and the earth self-rotated once defines a day. However, there is no planetary marking for a week. The base of a week is the reference to the creation of the universe. Following that, Bible loves to use this 7-days cycle to mark Biblical importance day (to do with man and God relationship) – Passover, good Friday & Easter.
Then I think of mathematics. People like to use base 10 for ease of arithmetic, I guess because most of us have 10 fingers by nature. Computers usually use base 2 (even base 16 is categorized into 2 bytes, and bytes disintegrate into bits) to perform its calculation because of its on-bit and off-bit nature. God uses base 7 to mark his relationship with man because of His character of life (7 days of creation) and relationship (Passover, Good Friday, Easter)?
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