The 2300 day prophecy, 70-week prophecy, and Jesus' death dates are the lynchpins in determining when this prophecy was fulfilled. Of course Daniel 8:14 is the main text, but Daniel 9:23-27 is very important too. --------------------- The Historical Basis, Involvements, and Validity of the October 22, 1844, Position (May 23, 1939) The personnel of the committee as appointed, was as follows: L.E. Froom, chairman, L.H. Wood, W.H. Teesdale, M.E. Kern, A.W. Werline, M.L. Andreasen, F.C. Gilbert. Later, Miss Grace Amadon was requested to join as a collaborator. The Karaite reckoning in reference to the Hebrew calendar constituted the basis for the true beginning of the Jewish sacred year. These 3 celestial bodies -- sun, moon, and earth -- are the 3 determining factors in luni-solar calculation of time. ...latter rain of March. New moon begins new month, usually counted from 2nd or horned crescent, i.e., an older shape of moon, not 1st phasis. Barley harvest moon always begins year. Barley ripe in April. 19-year cycle has 7 leap years and comprises exactly 235 lunations. Variable translation period (conjunction to phasis), 1 to 4 days. April conjunction in 1844, occurred on April 17 11:49am (Boston Civil Time). Months of feast period (7 months from Nisan to Tisri), invariably alternate 30 and 29 days. (Adjustment of any variation in length of year made in last 5 months.) So the very integrity of this movement (SDA) is tied up with the verity of the October 22 position. The Karaite calendar is deliberately adopted by the Millerite leaders, as it is based upon the conforms to the Biblical demand of a "barley-harvest new moon" for the first Jewush month, Nisan, and its Passover. -------Lev 23 used as proof for Karaite calendar ----- As a related part of the 7th month movement position, Snow, Storrs, and Litch adjust the beginning of the 1335-year period from 508 to 509 A.D., in order to bring its close into harmony with the now generally accepted ending of the 2300 years in 1844, which is recognized as the gran, synchronous ending of all these interrelated prophetic periods. This adjustment to 509 is specifically accepted as an integral part of the general 7th month movement position, and appears in all the leading papers, the Advent Herald, and Midnight Cry for instance, stating, editorially: "We refer the reader to Br. Snow's arguement. One thing, however, is evident; all those periods must terminate together, none of them are yet terminated, and the longer periods we should expect, would point to the termination of the shorter ones. We are therefore fully justified in expecting (in) the present Autumn the termination of all the prophetice periods." The famous and effective 1843 cloth chart...which incorporated the 2520, 2300, and 1335 years, with their respective beginning dates, as all terminating in the "year 1843," -- were not used in the relatively bried great 7th month movement, as they were made BEFORE the correction and shift from the 1843 to the 1844 terminal as the end-date of all the outline periods involved. (By Snow) "But according to the Caraite reckoning, the Passover occurred on that day in A.D. 31. Therefore, that was the year of the crucifixion. The covenant was CONFIRMED half a week by Christ, and the other half by his apostles." The computed Rabbinical Jewish calendar of the 4th century onward, does NOT observe its New-Moon festivals on a Sunday, Wenesday, or Friday, or its Pascha (Passover) on a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. These "illicit days" are exempted according to the rules adu and badu. ... The Pascha always taking place at the time of the first full moon after the vernal equinox, before the harvest is ripe in Judea. As the true "first month" began with the appearance of the new moon in April, 1844, so the true "seventh month" in that year must begin with the appearance of the corresponding new moon AFTER its change on the evening of October 11, the new moon becoming visible on the 13th, as every current calendar informed them. Therefore, they declared, the 10th day of the 7th month would fall upon October 22, New England-time reckoning. From spring conjunction or moled (Jewish term for "mean conjunction"), to the fall conjunction, there are always exactly 177 days. Josiah Litch wrote in 1873: "The adoption of the year-day theory, as it is called, has been the great stumbling-block in the way of a correct interpretation of prophecy for these hundreds of years, and should be utterly repudiated by all lovers of the simple truth... The three periods of Daniel 12 are not symbols, but plain literal statements of times, and we have no authority for making them anything else." The Passover -- which, it should be particularly noted, both Christians and Jews were celebrating, even for a hundred years after the Apostles. They started the new month with the first appearance of the new moon after conjunction. The presence of the moon in the western sky at sunset was called the phasis, and marked the following day as the first of the new month. The Greeks started their month from the conjunction itself. But it is noticeable that in the results given, though many moons have been observed, a translation period extending to the 3rd or 4th day after conjunction is seldom seen. Usually the results are from 1 to 2 days -- and thus are contrary to the testimony of Hevelius, Geminus, Scaliger, and Hales. The phasis often appears in the modern Jewish calendar even on the day of conjunction. Questions have already arisen as to the validity of these visibility tests. The full moon must be placed on Nisan 13. note ---- from conjunction to sighting (phasis) of the moon is called "translation" and it's usually 2 or 3 days, but sometimes 1 or 4. ---------------------- The translation period of the moon leading to Nisan 1, in the year 31 A.D., was 3d3h33m. note --- As the conjunction was on April 10th, this means the new year 31AD started on April 14th, which puts the Passover on Friday, April 27th.