time not lost

It takes the earth exactly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 47.8 seconds to go around the sun.

But there’s no way to put that in a calendar, so our calendar is constantly being updated. That’s why we have a “leap year.” In 1582, they discovered that the year was a little longer than 365 days, and so the astronomers added 10 days to bring the month up to date, but the weekly cycle was not altered.  They made Thursday the 4^th to be followed by Friday the 15^th.  The calendar was update without altering the weekly cycle in any way.

And now our leap year updates the calendar every four years {and has for centuries}, but the days of the week have never been changed.  It’s exciting to know that not even a minute of time has been lost track of! Praise God!

There have been many ancient calendars. The first modern calendar, similar to ours, was put into use in 45 B.C. (before Christ) by Julius Caesar.  The names of the days as we have them now were also used then.

Since the Babylonians worshipped the planets, many anciently began to call the days of the week by the names of those planets.   The Hebrews and the Bible writers never did this.  This is why, even though the names of the days as we have them {Sunday, Monday etc.} existed around the time of Christ, the bible writers never referred to the  days by these names, since they were of Pagan origin.

The old Mithra religion from the time of Babylon and Persia led to the naming of the days after the planets. Zoroaster popularized the god Mithra {in Persia} about 630 B.C. Since Mithra was supposedly a god of great courage, the Roman soldiers became worshippers of it.  In their travels they carried the idea of naming the days of the week after the planets, {among the Teutonic tribes} of Germany.  The Teutonns substituted a fw of their own gods instead of planets for the names of days. (this was before the time of Christ).  The names stuck, and we’ve had them ever since.

Below is a list of the Teutonic gods and the days of our week.

Sun                  -           Sunday

Moon               -           Monday

Tiu                   -           Tuesday

Wooden          -           Wednesday

Thor                 -           Thursday

Frigg                -           Friday

Seturn              -           Saturday

Though the calendar is constantly being updated to compensate for the 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 47.8 seconds in the year, yet, the week of seven days has never been altered.

Historians writing around, and even before the time of Christ, have referred  to “the day of the Sun” and “the day of Saturn”.

Dr. W. W. Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton, California assures us:  

“The week of seven days has been in use ever since the days of Moses, and we have no reason for supposing that any irregularities have existed in the  succession of the weeks and their days from that time to the present.”  D. W. cross, Your amazing Calendar, (Taunton:1972) pp. 6,7.

Time can be traced to the very second by the positions of the stars! I wrote to the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the Department of Astronomy. I received a courteous letter.  The letter informed me tat from the positions of the stars,  every moment of time has been kept track of since before 500 B.C.

Dr. J.B. Dimbleby, premier chronologist to the British Chronological and Astronomical Association, after years of careful calculations asserts: “If men refused to observe weeks, and the line of time was forgotten the day of the week could be recovered by observing when the transits of the planets, or eclipses if the sun and Moon, occurred.  These great sentinels of the sky keep seven days with scientific accuracy, thundering out the seven days inscribed on the inspired page.”  -All Past Time, p.10

It’s interesting to note how Dr. G.E. Hale, noted astronomer for whom the great “Palomar Telescope”  has been named, expressed the same truth in five forceful words: “no time has been lost.”

taken from National Sunday Law Jan Macussen