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From: CLARENCE HOGAN                                        Time: 01:19pm
\/To: JERRY HENSLEY                                       (Read 0 times)
Subj: SABBATH OBSERVANCE      1 [2/2]

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 JH> highest point; immediately after which it
 JH> then starts its decline, when it starts 
 JH> going down.ÿ
 Yep, according to man's doctrine and calculations!
 JH> I found it interesting to learn that the secular world also started
 JH> and  ended the day a 12 o'clock noon.  In the third edition of Van 
 JH> Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia I found (pp. 1691-92) under the 
 JH> heading "Time," the following:
 JH> "From the earliest recorded history the...sun has been adopted as 
 JH> clock for regulating human affairs, and the apparent [visible to
 JH> the eye; obvious] solar day is the interval of time between
 JH> successive passages of the true sun across a local meridian.  For
 JH> many centuries upper culmination, or apparent noon, marked the 
 JH> beginning of an apparent day and local apparent time was the hour
 JH> angle of the true sun.  In 1925, to bring the apparent day into
 JH> synchronism with that used in civil life, the beginning of the 
 JH> apparent day was transferred to lower culmination, or midnight,
 JH> and the local apparent time defined as the hour angle of the true
 JH> sun plus 12 hours... Prior to 1925 the mean solar day began at
 JH> upper culmination (mean noon) and the civil day began at 
 JH> midnight." 
 Yep, sounds about right for man's calculations, but just haven't
 spent any time on those calculations, for they are of no use to
 us in understanding The Scriptures, right?
 JH> In the New English Dictionary under the word "day," we are told: 
 JH> "The solar day is the fundamental unit of time...being determined
 JH> by observation of the sun, [day] is taken to begin with the 
 JH> passage of the mean sun over the meridian... at high noon...
 JH> while the civil day begins at midnight."  
 Yep, have heard of the solar day and all that, however it has
 nothing whatsoever to do with Biblical times calculations of
 time, for those people did not know of such things and could
 only go by what our Father had told them in His Word to them,
 right, and since The Bible was written with understanding, we
 must also use the same calculations in order to understand what
 The Word is saying to us of today, correct?
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