Re-edit: 21-05-2026

To understand the Biblical time line we have to look at creation and the time that we are in now. 

One Day

In Genesis 2:17 God warned Adam that if he would eat from the Apple tree that God appointed not to eat from, in that day you will surely die. And after Adam and Eve sinned Adam was 970 years old and he died. It was not like that Adam was 970 years old when he sinned and brought death into paradise and he died the same day he ate the apple of the tree of good and evil.

We think he was about 33,5 years old. But that is an assumption because no-one really knows. Explanation why I think this could be follows below.

The point however is that one day for God is a thousand years - and Adam died in that day, and so did Eve. That one day is a thousand years is also confirmed in the new testament in 2 Peter 3:8.

7 days

This is kind of a repetition with the previous article but I'll put it here anyway because this is a very important reference. We know that the number 7 is completion in the Bible, and Christ is expected to come back at the 7th day. Prophet Hosea lived in the 4th divine day, around 7th century BC, and he said in Hosea 6:2:

Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
² After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.

So Hosea expects to die in the 4th day, sleeps two days, the 5th and 6th day, and in the 7th day he will be raised in the resurrection.

33,5 Years

In Luke 3:23 we read that Jesus was about thirty years of age when He started His ministry. The from the point on that God said: "You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”. The ministry of Jesus was from then on to the Cross which spanned 3,5 years. Also one has to be thirty by tradition to become a priest according to the old-testament writings that go back to Moses in Numbers 4:1-6. 

Christ's ministry was 3,5 years, that we know. So if Jesus Christ was really born in the year 0 of our Lord, when we started counting the Years from Christ. Then the maximum end date would be like the year 2033,5 when the 6000 years are up and the Day of the Lord comes. If the point is that Jesus would appear exactly after 4000 years, then Adam sinned against God at age 33,5. From that point on the fall began, and the clock was ticking - and the 7 day redemption plan started. 

When was Jesus born?

Nobody seems to know. We know the New Testament shows that Christ was born in a barn, and that there were travelers from the East, the magi (wisemen) to praise Him and to give gifts. But that trip from (probably somewhere near Babylon) could have taken a year. And when they arrived following the bright star, they came to a house, not a barn. This shows that the magi, non-Jews that knew this was a sign, came to visit from far, but the leading establishment of the Jews did not. But the Jews did tell the magi, that if the King should come, He'd be born in Bethlehem. (And still the Jewish establishment did not go...). The point is, if that trip would take year or so... then when magi arrived Jesus would be like 1 year old. And that would be his age at the time in which Joseph and Maria and Jesus had to flee to Egypt. But nobody knows how long this journey took. 

The fact that Jesus's birth celebrated in December is probably combined to a pagan habit  (something with trees) that was combined the light (Jesus). Nothing points to that this actually the case. But there is more.

This one is tricky because to pinpoint this you have dig into recorded history documents and the Bible. And it is not in the year 0 that Christ was born. That is for sure. The one and foremost argument that Jesus was older than 0 is because of horrid king Herod. Who died in 4 BC. And God called His Son from Egypt where they fled - read Matthew 2. 

If we put the events on the time of our Lord's birth:

• (The real Year zero) Birth of Jesus
• The trip of the Magi - estimated: one year?
• The magi tell Herod about the new King and visit the house of Joseph, Mary and Jesus
• Herod kills all male babies up to two years old, and Joseph, Mary and Jesus flee to Egypt. (for how long?) 
• Herod dies in 4 BC, Joseph, Mary and Jesus come back
• Year zero of the church

This could be a difference of 6 years or more... (Going back and forth from Egypt to Israel is no small trip either...)

The Timeline

The timeline could then look like this:

If Adam sinned when He was 33,5 and the fall of the Universe started and death entered paradise (and was no longer paradise) - then this could be the picture that would show the Biblical timeline. 4000 years later after the fall Christ was born and introduced the new covenant - and the Kingdom is here and now. 2000 years of the Church age follows and completion is at the day of the Lord. 

Note this does not portrait our calendar because this would suggest the day of the Lord is clearly a fixed point, and it would be, but we do not know what the real time line is. All we can say is that the calendar lags behind the real calendar for probably 5-6 years. 

So it is now 2026 (and in real time 2031-2032) using corrections and educated guesses (5-6 years), and this could mean that the Day of the Lord is somewhere in 2027-2028 either of which would correspond to 2033. Only time will tell. 

7 days from the fall or from creation

The point is, God did not need a 7 day plan for redemption if Adam never sinned. Because it was paradise and he had no knowledge of evil or evil in him. This is why we think the 7 day plan did not start from creation, but from the fall of Adam and Eve bringing death into the world. 

Timeline Evaluation

The first main assumption, that really puts everything in doubt is... when did Adam and Eve sin for the first time. Also very disturbing is the Jewish calendar; their year is now 5786. Why is that so far off while they say their calendar starts at the day of creation? Because the prophetic signs and the Biblical time line suggest otherwise. I mean If it is to us 2026 + 5 + 4000 = 6031. There is a gap here of 245 years. So the Jews do not expect the day of the Lord not even in their lifetime. 

Is the Jewish calendar right, or purposely wrong? The Jewish Lunar calender is more accurate than our yearly calendar. But in counting the years from creation there seems to be a discrepancy in the distruction of the first Temple of God. The rabbinic tradition places this event in 422 BCE, and according to the Old Testament it is 587 BCE which is earlier creating a gap of roughly 165 years. And probably there are more differences. 

According to most sources we have already passed 6000 years, but it is still not the day of the Lord. That is why we think the years of Adam until he sinned are excluded here otherwise we'd be in the day of the Lord already. Meaning the 6000 year redemption plan was in effect at the point that Adam and Eve sinned. But when was that? 

If we do take in account that Adam was 33,5 years old when the fall started, then if we did the right calculations (with the 5-6 year correction) then we would now be in 2031/2032, but then we'd know in what year the day of the Lord would start. Because that would be in the corrected year 2033,5. And that is in our calendar 2027-2028. But then this does not make sense if the "covenant with many" (Daniel 9:27) is not already signed. And does also not make sence if it is already signed because the first 3,5 years should give Israel a sense of false security during the time of the covenant; meaning a period of peace. But Israel is now at war. So that does not add up as well.

Another interesting observation would be that Adam was not 33,5 years old when the fall came. What if He was 60 years old? We don't know, but it would suggest another timeline as the time line shifts forwards the older Adam is when he brought the fall. In this example there would be 26.5 years difference with 33,5 years. It would not violate the counting of the Lord's days. Then we would still have some more years to go. We assumed it be 4000 years to be between sin and the cross, but it doesn't have to be. So, if you look at like this, there is just no telling when it might be.

We could see what Adam's maximum age could have been, because the fall came before he and Eve had kids. But unfortunately Abel and Cain are not recorded. Only from the third son we know that Adam was 130 years old. Assuming that Abel and Cain were adults we could substract a minimum of 20 years, leaving us with a 110 years maximized timespace in which Adam and Eve could have started the fall. 

There is one other thing to consider, and that is the Day of the Lord. That supposed to start on the 7th day, when the ressurection of the saints will take place. And the 7th day is also the day of Wrath. We see in the Sixth seal that this is that day, and then I come up this picture:

There is another unknown here, if we do know when the anti-Christ will have the covenant signed, then whe can countdown of 3,5 years. That's nice. But then the Sixth Seal is still not in effect. Meaning that there is unknown time-span from the start of the Great Tribulation to the Sixth Seal. But the signs are really overwhelming - to know when the Sixth Seal is near. So if this is what the Bible says, then I'd hope that the Sixth Seal is very close to the event of breaking of the covenant. 

At any point in time you can conclude that there has to be at the very least 3,5 years between the covenant and the day of Wrath, but it may be more. And real Christians are saved from that day. So as long as there is no covenant we are more the 3,5 years from the day of Wrath.

Conclusion

We dont know:

• When Adam sinned. The older Adam was when it happened, the more in the future the time line goes as the plan of redemption starts with the fall. 
• When Jesus was born, the older Jesus was at 0 AD, the timelime will be moved closer to the near future.
• When we know the covenant is being signed we can count down 3,5 years to the Great Tribulation. But from the start of the Great Tribulation to the Sixth seal we do not know the timeline.

What I make of this, is that it is probable, looking at the current situation of Israel, that a covenant (Daniel 9:27) with many is not so close by. It makes the assumption crumble a bit looking at  the age of 33.5 years that Adam supposed to have sinned. We should expect to see the covenant with many to be there already. 

So we don't know and we can't know. So that is why Jesus our Lord said, it is not for you to know what the Father has planned. But He did tells us to be on the look out for the signs of the times. And we see them unfolding now. So keep on looking out for the signs that were given.

Amen.