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Jan 4, 2022 · Question. What is the witching hour, and is it in the Bible? Answer. The witching hour, or the devil’s hour, is a term that became popular in 1835 to define the time late at night when the powers of darkness are believed to be the strongest.
Now, let’s look at how the Bible defines the basic units of time... The Day, the Week, the Month, and the Year. 1. Day. A day — as we know it from the Roman calendar reckoning of time — is a 24-hour period from midnight to midnight. But a DAY is defined by God is a 24-hour period starting and ending at sunset (or “evening”).
- Introduction
- Methods of Ancient Time Reckoning and Framework of The Crucifixion Day
- Proposed Views of Harmonization
- The Time of Jesus’s Death and Inerrancy
- Conclusion
The differences in the gospel record on the time of Jesus’ crucifixion have long been an enigma to Bible scholars. Mark 15:25 reads that Jesus was crucified at the third hour. Under a Jewish or common reckoning time system, which started the day at sunrise, Jesus was crucified at about nine in the morning. However, in the Gospel of John, John write...
In the modern age people reckon time in hours, minutes, and seconds with clocks, watches, or phones. But time reckoning in the ancient world was reckoned with hours of sunlight based on sundials. If a sundial was not available rough times were based on eyeing the sun or one’s own shadow or even just the shadow from a stick in the ground.4 Sundials ...
The proposed views of harmonization will be taken in the general order in which they developed over time.
The time of Jesus’ death has truly been a puzzle for anyone who has looked at this issue. All of the views for reconciliation have good arguments against them, but good arguments are not the same as decisive arguments. At least three resolutions (confusion of letters of gamma and digamma, Roman civil reckoning of John, and time approximation) in th...
In summary, inerrancy applies to the original autographs of the Bible, does not require “modern technical precision,” and is not negated by differences in parallel passages that have not been resolved. So, while the time of Jesus’ death as a case study does not prove the doctrine of inerrancy neither does it disprove it either. One area that could ...
The Bible does not clearly define day and night or their divisions, such as "evening, morning, and noonday" (Ps. 55:18), the watches of the night (Ex. 14:24; Judg. 7:19), midnight or half the night (Ex. 11:4; 12:29), and the notion of "hour" is not mentioned at all.
But while today is the kairos of salvation, it is also another kind of kairos, a time described as difficult ( 2 Tim. 3:1 ), as existing amidst days that are evil ( Eph. 5:17 ), and as a time of night. It is a time, however, when the night is almost gone and the day is near ( Rom. 13:11 ).
Selah. Richard T. Ritenbaugh. Time and Life. Ecclesiastes 1:3-11. Overall, how do we, as Christians, perceive time? Every day we are witnesses to its progression. Daylight comes and passes, and night arrives only to be followed by daylight again. We can look at a clock and see that its hands are moving. But how - in what manner - is time moving?
The fourth day unfolds to the eye the lamps of heaven, hanging in the expanse of the skies, and assigns to them the office of "shining upon the earth." A threefold function is thus attributed to the celestial orbs - to divide day from night, to define time and place, and to shine on the earth.
