According to Jehovah's timeline, what year are we living in?

[Alejandro]

For the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used in the Western world, we live in the year 2023. And the organization teaches us that we could add 2023 + 4026 years (since Adam's creation) to live in Jehovah's timeline.

[Brother_Bliss]

If scienctists are anywhere near correct, it's about the year 13 billion, lol

[New World Explorer]

Will the calendar get a reset after Armageddon? year 1...2 ...year 3...year 421... after Armageddon? 

Will the calendar be so important in a New World? (well I suppose it's useful for planning) 

 

[beejay]

Jehovah's point of view is different from ours

Ps 90:4  1000 years = 1 day

Gen 1  1 creative day = ?K years

Ps 90:2 everlasting to everlasting

Also varies see Insight "Day"

[New World Explorer]

49 minutes ago, beejay said:

Jehovah's point of view is different from ours

That’s way it will be interesting how calendar works in a New World. 
Perhaps completely new concepts will be introduced? 

[Michał]

I’d like to go back to lunar calendars: 12x 28 days + one extra

[Dages]

2 hours ago, New World Explorer said:

Will the calendar get a reset after Armageddon? year 1...2 ...year 3...year 421... after Armageddon? 

Will the calendar be so important in a New World? (well I suppose it's useful for planning) 

 

It will be usefull for the 1000 years count down  

[Parale]

4 hours ago, Dages said:

It will be usefull for the 1000 years count down

 

Oh cool, you think we'll countdown, like BCE?

 

Does kinda make sense though, and would help differentiate with our current years that count up....

[Sheep]

It says in the Insight book that the original Hebrew language doesn't have any verb tenses, such as past, present, or future tense. Insight comments that this may have been because of man's view of time in the earliest days of human history, when it didn't really matter whether an event happened, is happening, or will happen. When you have everlasting life in view, does time really matter? Once we have returned to human perfection and Adamic death will be no more, will our view of time change back to what it was in those days?

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001953#h=90-95

[Witness1970]

Anno Domini (AD) in the year of our Lord.  Supposedly counting from the birth of Christ, although he was actually born around October.

Anno Mundi = Counting from man's creation

We could start a count at Armageddon and go from there.

 

We could use tropical years of ≈ 365.24255 days which is approximately how long it takes for the Earth to make one trip around the sun.

We could use a sidereal year of 365.256363004 which is the time it takes the Earth to return to the same place in relation to the stars in the galaxy.

We could use a lunar month of 29.53059 days (29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes), which would occur 12.36827811432145 times in a tropical year of 365.24255 days.

We could use a calendar of 13 months of 28 days each which would equal 364 days, with adjustments made at appropriate times.

 

A galactic year (the time it takes the galaxy to go through one full rotation around the galactic center) is about 225 to 250 million years.

 

What does all of this mean?  Very little!

 

I actually like the idea of counting the 1,000 years, either up or down does not matter.

On 9/25/2023 at 12:58 PM, Sheep said:

It says in the Insight book that the original Hebrew language doesn't have any verb tenses, such as past, present, or future tense. Insight comments that this may have been because of man's view of time in the earliest days of human history, when it didn't really matter whether an event happened, is happening, or will happen. When you have everlasting life in view, does time really matter? Once we have returned to human perfection and Adamic death will be no more, will our view of time change back to what it was in those days?

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001953#h=90-95

There would be no need for us to keep records of a lot of things.  We will never be old enough to retire.  Who cares that you might have lived 1,284,196 years?  It just wouldn't matter.    

[davanz]

On 9/24/2023 at 2:33 AM, beejay said:

Jehovah's point of view is different from ours

Ps 90:4  1000 years = 1 day

This verse is for illustration purposes only, to emphasize our puniness compared to Jehovah. But it is interesting to do the math, and attempt to view things from His perspective. Hopefully to help us endure with patience. So, consider this.

 

If, to Jehovah, 1000 of our human years is just one day, then from his perspective:

 

He created man less than a week ago.

The man Jesus the Christ was on earth about two days ago.

1914 was little more than 2 1/2 hours ago.

[Dustparticle]

 

Let us stick around and wait for this.

 

 

 I’m right, the Gregorian calendar year differs 26 seconds from Solar year. If you add 26 seconds every day for 3,323 years, a day would be added and this would land on the year 4905 (if you add 3,323 years from the year 1582).

 

 What is odd and if I’m right, if the year 4904 is a leap year and if you have to add a day in the year of 4905, then you might have 2 leap years in a row. Be there to find out.