Higgenbotham wrote:I predict the generational panic will start tonight and tomorrow.
I don't believe the onset of this panic can be predicted but this is my best shot at picking the place where it looks most likely.
In confidence but not the crisis H
The following is the scheme
of the octaeteris: "The solar year has a length
of 365 & 1/4 days; 12 lunar months make 354 days. The difference, which is called the epact or epagomene, is 11 & 1/4 days. This is the epact
of the first year. Hence the epact
of the second year = 22 & 1/2 days;
of the third, 33 & 3/4. These 33 & 3/4 days make one lunar month
of 30 days, which is added to the third lunar year as an intercalary or thirteenth month (embolismos), and a remainder or epact
of 3 3/4 days. Hence the epact
of the fourth year =11 & 1/4 + 3 & 3/4=15 days; that
of the fifth year =26 & 1/4;
of the sixth, 37 & 1/2, which gives a second embolism
of 30 days with an epact
of 7 & 1/2. The epact, therefore,
of the seventh year is 18 & 3/4, and
of the eighth =18 & 3/4 + 11 & 1/4= just 30, which is the third embolism with no epact remaining."
Fun with numbers and 8 year cycles. I will seek the notation and recheck a thought map I had on a marker noted.
A exercise on my part but I cannot disavow your thought map. I submit your somewhat early only.
As for the early thought on Judges noted before consider. In punishment for their idolatry, God gave them up again and again, and "sold them into the hands
of their enemies." They became slaves to the king
of Mesopotamia for eight years, to the king
of Moab for eighteen years, to the king
of Canaan for twenty years, to the Midianites for seven years, and finally to the Philistines for forty years. But the sum
of 8 +18+ 20+ 7+ 40 years is 93 years, and if 93 years be deducted from 573 years, the result is 480 years. It is obvious, therefore, that the 480 years
of the book
of Kings from the Exodus to the temple is a mystic era formed by eliminating every period during which the people were cast off by God. I fear one thing only as Amos reminded me.
Also Luke told me - The kings
of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.