The Patriarchal Calendar

Levi - 77 years in Egypt

How do we know that Levi was in Egypt for his last 77 years before dying?

Joseph

We know that Joseph was 30 years old when he stood before pharoah to decypher his dreams (Genesis 41:46). There were 7 years of plenty before his great tribulation began (Genesis 41). That brings his age to 37 (30+7=37). And Jacob and his family did not enter Egypt until after the first 2 years of the 7 year famine (Genesis 45:9-14). That brings his age to 39. So Joseph was 39 years old when his family entered Egypt.

Levi

We know Joseph was Levi's younger brother but the Bible does not outright declare how much younger. So lets do some investigative work.

Jacob (Levi's and Joseph's father)

Jacob remained with Laban for a total of 40 years.

* He served Laban 7 years for Leah

(Genesis 29:18 & 23-26)

* He served for Rachael for another 7 years

(Genesis 29:28-30)

* He then served Laban 20 years for hire

(Genesis 31:36-40)

* He then served Laban for 6 years for his herds

7+7+20+6=40

Jacob did not marry either wife until after his first 7 years of servitude were completed. Therefore he did not have any children before this time (Genesis 29:28-31).

If we figure that Leah became pregnant within the 8th year (first year of the second 7 years served for Rachael) she would have given birth to Rueben in the 9th year. Again, if we figure that Leah became pregnant every year after birth, we find that Levi was born in Jacob's 13th year. So, we can deduct 13 years off of the total 40 years that Jacob served Laban (40-13=27). That brings us down to 27 years that Levi was older than his younger brother Joseph.

Joseph was born right before the last 6 years of Jacob's service to Laban for his herds (Genesis 30:22 & 31:41). So, therefore we can reduce those 27 years down to 21 years (27-6=21). We now can truly consider that Levi was 21 years older than his younger brother Joseph.

Lets now go to when Joseph commanded his family to enter into Egypt. If Joseph was 39 years old at that time then Levi (being 21 years older) was 60 years old when he entered into Egypt. If he died at the age of 137 (Exodus 6:16) then that means he lived in Egypt for 77 years.

From all the logical circumstancial evidence, we have shown that Levi as a patriarch within God's calendar system was 77 years within Egypt completing and verifying the 430 years mentioned multiple times within the Bible.

JAMES USSHER

James Ussher served as an Irish archbishop in the 1600's. His famous life's work encompassed aligning Biblical and Jewish history with the rest of the world's history.

He did a fantastic job. In fact, some of the historical books and scrolls that he referenced no longer exist. Therefore there is historical knowledge contained within his book, "The Annals of the World", that is found nowhere else on earth. But his research is faulted from the start of Creation until the Israelites left Egypt in the year 1447BC. Everything after that date is on que. The incorrect dating and alignment research from before 1447BC is not necessarily his fault. The biblical generations scribed within the book of Genesis chapters 5 & 11 are an exact calendar system unlike ours today. We were not meant to understand it until these End Times.

Creation is not a mere 6,000+ years old as most churches teach but instead is more than doubled at 13,000+ years old!

James Ussher concluded that each generation named was the actual son of the previous patriarch.

Example:

Genesis 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

Genesis 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

Genesis 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

Genesis 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

EXACT DATING OF BIBLICAL OCCURRANCES

The Lord has now allowed us to understand the dates of people and events that occurred within the Old Testament. Below are a few examples.

Creation - 11,013BC

Adam is created on friday

Seth is born - 10,883BC

Enosh is born - 10,778BC

Kenan is born - 9873BC

Mahalaleel is born - 8963BC

Jared is born - 8068BC

Enoch is born - 7106BC

*Enoch is raptured - 6741BC

Methuselah is born - 6741BC

Lamech is born - 5772BC

Noah is born - 5590BC

*The Flood - 4990BC

Shem died 502 years after the Flood

and Arphaxad is born - 4488BC

Shelah is born - 4050BC

Eber is born - 3617BC

Peleg is born - 3153BC

Reu is born- 2914BC

Serug is born - 2675BC

Nahor is born - 2445BC

Terah is born - 2297BC

Abram is born to Terah - 2167BC

Abraham is circumcised - 2068BC

Isaac is born to Abraham - 2067BC

Jacob is born to Isaac - 2007BC

Joseph stands before pharoah - 1886BC

*Jacob's great tribulation begins - 1879BC

*Jacob is commanded to leave Canaan - 1877BC

*The Israelites leave Egypt - 1447BC

The Israelites enter the Promised Land - 1407BC

The first 50 year Jubilee - 1357BC

Saul is made king - 1047BC

David is made king - 1007BC

Solomon is made king - 971BC

The temple foundation is started - 967BC

Rehoboam is made king - 931BC

Israel is split into 2 nations - 931/930BC

Elijah kills the 2 captains with their 50 with fire - 853BC

*Elijah is raptured in a chariot of fire - 849BC

The 10 Tribes of Israel cease to exist - 709BC

*Judah's great tribulation begins - 609BC

*Judaens are commanded to leave Judah - 587BC

*Judah is freed from Babylon - 539BC

The Old Testament is finished - 391BC

John the Baptist is born - 8BC

Jesus Christ is born - 7BC

*Jesus Christ is Crucified - 33AD

The Romans destroy the Temple and Jerusalem - 70AD

Israel becomes a nation once again - 1948

*This Final Great Tribulation begins - 1988

*The Elect are commanded to leave the Church - 1994

*The Great Multitude are Raptured - 2025

THE EXODUS

The Israelites left Egypt in the year 1447BC.

This was a mass exodus, hence the name of the book.

THE TEMPLE BUILT

King Solomon began building the Temple in 967BC.

This occurred in the fourth year of his rule.

1Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

There are indeed 480 years between the Temple being built in 967BC and the Exodus from Egypt in 1447BC.

DANIEL'S 1290 "DAY" PROPHESY

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.

Daniel's prophesy declares that each time Satan is given the Promised Land to rule, the number 1290 will be in view. And indeed there are 1290 years between the time that Jacob and his family were commanded to come out of the land of Canaan until the Judaens were commanded to come out of the land of Judah.

1877BC - 587BC = 1290 years

We see the pattern continue between Judah's great tribulation and our Final Great tribulation. There are 2580 years (1290 x 2) between the time when the Judaens were commanded to leave Judah and the Elect were commanded to leave the Church.

587BC + 1994AD - 1 (no year 0) = 2580 (2 x 1290)

And again, from the time Jacob is commanded to come out of Canaan until the Elect are commanded to come out of the Church was 3870 years.

1877BC + 1994AD - 1 (no year 0) = 3870 years (3 x 1290)

GOD SEPARATES HIS PEOPLE

The nation of Israel

God separates his people in Israel - 37 years inclusive

The Temple

God separates his people whom worship in the Temple - 37 years after the Crucifixion

The Church

God separates his people whom worship in the Church - 37 years after this Final Great Tribulation began

It appears that Cainan had a son at 70 years old called Mahalaleel. Then Mahalaleel had a son at 65 years old called Jared. According to our current mode of understanding which includes James Ussher's, we would count Cainan's 70 years then add Mahalaleel's 65 years to see how much time has passed for an historical time scale and keep going through all the generations likewise. So theoretically, there were 135 years (70+65=135) that had elapsed between those two generations (the generation of Cainan and the generation of Mahalaleel). But we would be completely wrong. We are focusing on the wrong set of years.

The ancients used a patriarchal calendar system before Israel became a nation. Each patriarch was a calendar for his time period. For example, when the ancients talked about an occurrance happening, they would probably say something like, "It happened in the year 70 of Mahalaleel". We see a grand example of this in Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Noah was the patriarch of his time.

In the Patriarchal Calendar system the whole life of each patriarch is counted on the calendar. Because they are the calendar. We see a similarity within how the ancient egyptians also kept time except they utilized pharoahs instead as time pieces. Now lets look at the same verses but instead look at the patriarch's full lives.

Genesis 5:12 And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

Genesis 5:13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

Genesis 5:15 And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared:

Genesis 5:16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

Genesis 5:17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

If we add Cainan's life of 910 years with Mahalaleel's 895 years we get a total of 1,805 years. That's a huge difference from 135 years counted above. When Cainan died that ended his reign as a patriarch within the calendar system. The new patriarch that continued the calendar system without a break in time would be a baby within his lineage that was born at the time of Cainan's death. That baby happened to be Mahalaleel. When the verse states that Cainan begat Mahalaleel at a certain date it is declaring that someone within his lineage at that time was pivital in bearing Mahalaleel as the next patriarch. Cainan begat Mahalaleel insomuch that he was born later within his family tree.

The only times it refers to an actual son is when the phrase, "called his name" appears or the verse clearly shows an actual father/son relationship such as Noah and his son Shem.

Example:

Genesis 4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

Look at the verses to the right. Lamech had a son and "called his name" Noah. This was his actual son.

Now look at verse 32. Although the phrase, "called his name" is not written, we know that Shem, Ham and Japheph were his actual sons because they were living at the same time as their father Noah during the Ark.

For a deeper look at the generations of the ancients read Harold Camping's book, "Time Has An End". It can be freely downloaded on our main page.