When we think of the scripture verse that says: “… as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:), it will become even more significant to us, in the sense of a rediscovery of God’s calendar. Because God does have a calendar; God does have a mechanism for keeping time in the heavens.
In the previous article, we stated that there are a total of nine Sabbath days in relation to the Flood account of Genesis 7 and 8 that can be confirmed. There we confirmed the first five Sabbath days. In this article, we are going to give evidence for the last four Sabbath days that can be ascertained as to their dates in the account of the Flood.
We have already established one particular cycle in the heavens – the 7-year Solar Cycle that consists of 7 Lunar years + 77 days, that keeps track of the Sabbaths, and we can trace them all the way to the Book of Acts, chapter 20.
In essence, we can trace the seven-day cycle from Creation all the way to the Book of Acts. Having that, we can know for sure that the Sabbath that is being kept now is truly God’s seventh-day Sabbath.
As we recognize the fact that we are sealed by the Sabbath, it becomes quite amazing when we see all these Sabbaths, associated with the Flood. And this becomes even more significant when we remember that Jesus pointed His disciples back to the Flood account in Matthew 24 when he talked about the end-times right before His Second Coming.
First of all, we are going to do a quick review of the Solar Cycle that we discovered in the previous articles. It will be of high significance for us as we trace the Sabbaths.

We are at the first month of Creation and it is easy to see that the Sabbath would have fallen on the 7th day, and then after that on the 14th, the 21st, and the 28th day of the month. The Lunar month is 29 ½ days in length. Thus the first month is 30 days, the second is 29 days, and the different months alternate. Adding up the 12 months, we receive a 354-day Lunar year. And thus we are able to trace the Sabbaths through this method.
Every seven days (or every knot of 7 days) lock up a Sabbath. This table can be run through seven successive lunar years, and when we come to the end of the seventh Lunar year, we cannot count any further because the cycle repeats, starting all over again. This is why what we see here is called the “Antediluvian Solar Cycle” – because of its repetitive nature.
At the same time, there is also a Solar year that is taking place. A Solar year is 365.2422 days. If we want to bring all these years together (the seven years of the cycle) so that the months will stay in alignment with the Solar year, we will have to add some days at the end of the seventh Lunar year, so that we can bring the two sets of years together, and it is here that we add 77 days. This addition of the intercalary days brings everything back in alignment. When we are dealing with the Flood account, we are in the fifth year of this cycle.
Now we want to begin to trace the dates that we are given in the Flood account. The table below will help us get a notion of the time when the different events occurred. We are going to examine it day by day, in relation to the Flood.
As we begin, we must realize that we are in the 1st month of the 5th year of this cycle. This month started on a Tuesday, and the first Sabbath of it fell on the 5th day of the month. Tuesday was the New Lunar Year’s Day because the new Lunar year had just started.
The Solar year was a period not divided into days and would begin this year (5th year of the Solar Cycle) on the 17th day of the second month. This is significant. What was the 17th day of the second month? The starting date of the Flood.
We know that a Lunar year is 354 days, but the Solar year is 365 days. So every year the Lunar cycle is coming up 11 days short of the Solar year. And this difference increases every year. Therefore, by the time we get to the end, in the 7th year of the cycle, 77 days have been lost in the difference between the Lunar and the Solar. This is quite fascinating.
What happens is that when a new 7-year Solar cycle begins, the new Lunar year and the new Lunar year begin at the same time. But as we progress through each ear, the Solar year begins 11 days in advance of the Lunar.
On this chart, we have the starting dates of the 7-year Solar cycle when the Flood occurred. We can see the difference in the starting dates for the new year as we progress through the cycle:

In the first year of that cycle (1652 AM) the Lunar and the Solar year began on the same day – the 1st day of the 1st month.
Here we see that 1656 AM when the Flood occurred was the fifth year of the 7-year Solar Cycle. We see that the Flood occurred exactly on the day when the Solar New Year was celebrated.
This fact ought to make us think because the earth’s inhabitants were celebrating when the Flood came. This day was also a Sabbath. People “did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage” (Matthew 24:38) – it was a festive time.
The Lord had given them a witness seven days prior because Noah and all the animals entered the ark and were sealed inside the ark. Seven days later, on the Solar New Year, while they were engaged in their festivities, the Flood began.
And the same statement was made about the end times. Jesus compared them to the days of Noah (Matt. 24:37-29). The Apostle Paul tells us: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them…” (1 Thess. 5:3).
It would suggest that right before the Coming of Christ there would be a general consensus in the world that all is well and everything will continue as it has always been. That’s how the Antediluvians were thinking in their time.
Now we are going to read through Genesis chapters 7 and 8 and trace the dates associated with the Flood. Starting from verse 1 of Chapter 7, we read:
“And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation… For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” Gen. 7:1-4.
Noah and his family, and the animals, all entered the ark seven days before the Flood began. This happened on the 10th day of the 2nd month, which is a Sabbath because a little later we are told what day it was when the Flood began.
The Flood Period – 1 year and 2 months – 1656-7 AM

“And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood… And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Gen. 7:5.
In the 2nd month, on the 17th day of the month (a Sabbath), the Flood began. Seven days prior, the family of Noah was sealed in the ark (a Sabbath). We notice that it was the beginning of the Solar year.
Jesus described in Matthew their festivities at that time – that they were eating and drinking. This is something that we should really think about, as Jesus referred to His Coming and the days of Noah as being connected.
“And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” Gen. 7:12.
These 40 days bring us to the 27th day of the 3rd month when the rain ended. Let us keep reading and this will make more sense.
“And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth. And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered… And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” Gen. 7:17-24.
The rain ended on the 27th day of the 3rd month. Then, from the end of this 40-day period, we are told that the waters prevailed for 150 days.
“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” Gen. 8:1-4.

Now we look for the 17th day of the 7th month and we find that it was a Sabbath. Therefore, the ark rested on a Sabbath day.
When we count 150 days from the 40 days that it rained, we also get to the 29th day of the 8th month – a Sabbath. This marks the end of a time period. Let us keep reading:
“And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.” Gen. 8:5.

On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains were seen. Though it is not a Sabbath day, this date helps us trace the next three Sabbath days that are given in the Flood account. This is amazing because when we count 40 days from this date, we see the first sending of a bird. We read:
“And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made…” Gen. 8:6.
Forty days from the date when the tops of the mountains were seen (1st day of the 10th month) bring us to a Sabbath day (the 11th day of the 11th month). Let us keep reading:
“And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark…” Gen. 8:7-10.
As we are told in verse 10, seven days after the first sending of a dove, a dove was sent out a second time, which again happened on a Sabbath day – the 18th day of the 11th month. Then we read, in verse 11:
“And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.” Gen. 8:11, 12.
Therefore, in another seven days, the dove was sent out again (as we see in verse 12), which is again a Sabbath day – the 25th day of the 11th month.
Until now, we have counted seven Sabbath days in the Flood account. This is not a coincidence. All of these days confirm that the 7-year Solar Cycle is true. If we keep reading, we will find the last two Sabbaths.
“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.” Gen. 8:13-15.

We are now in the 6th year of the Antediluvian Solar Cycle. That would be the Lunar New Year. The dates confirm that this is the way the Antediluvians kept their calendar. We are not explicitly told, until the Exodus, of the commandment to keep the Sabbath, but obviously, God’s interest is in the seventh-day Sabbath and the inhabitants of the earth would have been aware of it because their calendar confirms that they were keeping track of it.
“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.” Gen. 8:13.
The sixth year of the cycle began with a Sabbath when Noah removed the covering of the ark. This is the day when the waters were all dried up from off the face of the earth. And then, in verse 14 we are told:
“And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.” Gen. 8:14.
When we trace the 27th day of the 2nd month, we see the ninth Sabbath in the Flood account of Genesis 7 and 8.
We have ten dates associated with the Flood. One date is not a Sabbath – it’s the day when the tops of the mountains are seen, but the rest of them – a total of nine dates, are Sabbath days.
As we continue to read, we see that God told Noah to go forth from the ark, and this is the end of the Flood account. But the amazing thing in all of this is that as we trace the dates of the Flood we can see that Noah indeed remained in the ark for a full Solar year.
Remember that the Flood started on the 17th day of the 2nd month (the beginning of the Solar year). Noah came out of the ark on the 27th day of the 2nd month of 1657 – 365 days that Noah was in the ark. This is beyond coincidence.
The Flood account confirms God’s calendar. It also confirms that the 7-day weekly cycle has never been lost.
From the Flood, going forward, we can trace time in the Bible to this cycle. Using the Biblical keeping of time – all the five lines of astronomical time – we can confirm every date in the Bible, all the way up to Acts chapter 20. And then, from there, it’s easy to run time down to our own days. And that is the direction that we are going to take in our studies.
The Lunar years that constitute the Antediluvian Solar Cycle cannot be played with. Why? The Lunar month is divided into phases – starting with the new moon and then running through the days to the full moon, and then back to a new moon when the next month begins. It is a grand clock in the Firmament. Man cannot ascend to the moon and move it forward or backward.
The amazing thing is that when we consider the Antediluvian Solar Cycle (illustrated in the first chart in this article) if we count up the Sabbath days in this cycle, there are 354 Sabbaths that occur within the 7-year period. And when we add the 77 days that are necessary to bring the Lunar and the Solar year back into alignment and to start the cycle all over again, we add 11 Sabbath days, and that comes up to 365 Sabbath days, which is the same number as the days of the Solar year.
All this is beyond coincidence. All this confirms that God endorses the cycle of time that we are exploring. And this cycle keeps track of the Sabbaths and shows that the Sabbath has never been lost, since Creation.
The way that all of these dates are put together is so marvelous that we have to give credence to the facts that they supply. We cannot ignore this reality. The Flood account confirms that the Bible is an accurate timekeeper. It confirms that God’s approval is on the Sabbath and that He has placed a system of time through which it cannot be lost.
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