Bachelor party
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English
Noun
bachelor party (plural bachelor parties)
Synonyms
- stag party (British)
See also
Douglas Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 15:10:35 +0000 (UTC), lsenders@hotmail.com wrote:
Only one point needs to be replied to:
>
> There was no 360 day year in Jewish tradition, or in the Hebrew
> calendar.
>
> Or, try searching Google using "Jewish calendar". There was no
> tradition of 360 day years in the Hebrew or Babylonian calendars.
>
Even today, I get a Jewish calendar sent to the house and it is 360
days. I don't know what your ploy is or what purpose you have is
trying to bam boozel the readership, but the 360 day tradition is even
recorded in the scriptures themselves, both in the Jewish testament and
in the NT.
Your conclusions can be refuted by the simple application of this
Scriptural test: "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if
the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the
Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously:
thou shalt not be afraid of him" (Deut. 18:22).
The 360 day years makes perfectly good sense for several reasons.
First, with modern astronomy one can reckon a year very precisely as
being "365.24219879 days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45.975
seconds." However, in ancient times various systems were used. It was
common during at least some parts of the histories of Egypt, India,
Assyria and Babylon, and Greece to have twelve thirty day months making
a total of 360 days for the year and then to have some system of
intercalating the other five days so that the year would come out
correctly. Although it may be strange to present-day thinking, it was
common in those days to think of a 360-day year.
Second, in conjunction with the prophetic literature of the Bible, the
360-day year is used. Daniel's 70th week is an excellent illustration
of this fact. A covenant will be confirmed for the seven years of the
70th week (Dan. 9:27) but it will be broken in the middle of the week.
In the last half of the week, or for three and one-half years, there
will be the terrible persecution. This matches with the persecution
mentioned in 7:24-25, which will last for "a time, times, and half a
time," or three and one-half years. This phrase is also mentioned in
12:7. However, it is not until one comes to the NT that the duration
of the year is known. John uses the same terminology of time, times,
and half a time in Rev 12:14. Speaking of the same situation within
the same chapter, John says that the persecution will be for 1,260 days
(12:6). John again uses this figure of 1,260 days in 11:3 and that
period is also listed as being 42 months in the previous verse ( 11:
2). Also the 42 month period is mentioned in 13:5, which speaks of the
same period of persecution. Thus the 42 months equals the 1,260 days,
and that equals the time, times, and half a time or three and one-half
years, which in turn equals the half week in Daniel 9:27. Hence the
month is 30 days and the year is 360 days.
Third, outside the prophetic literature the 360-day year is used one
other time in the Bible. Gen 7:11 states that the flood began on the
17th day of the second month. According to Gen 8:4 the flood ended on
the 17th day of the 7th month, exactly 5 months later. Gen 7:24 and
8:3 state that the duration of the flood was 150 days. Hence 5 months
equals 150 days or each month equals 30 days.
Therefore, in the light of these observations the prophetic year of 360
days should not be too surprising nor discounted so easily by you.
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