Building on the Foundation

A question I have wrestled with for a while, as many have in the Church of God, is the definition of “between the evenings.” Most of the arguments regarding “between the evenings” are based on historical records, which are then used to work backward into the Bible to arrive at a definition.  Some of the other writers on this blog have undertaken to write about this, and until now, I have largely remained silent on the topic simply because I have not studied it for myself.  I was one of those who took others' papers on the topic and relied on historical sources to define what “between the evenings” actually meant, so this is no judgment of those who do the same. The main question I wanted to examine is whether or not, by strictly using Scripture, it’s possible to define the term “between the evenings.” My conclusion is that it is indeed possible to define the terms solely based on Scripture, and it’s not even that complicated. I realize this post may be quite controversial...

  When was Creation? When was the Flood? When was the Exodus? When did King Solomon live? And where does the Bible tell us? Before we dive into these questions, the purpose of this post isn’t to put together a detailed timeline of Biblical events. That would require a far longer study. No, the purpose of this post is simply to give the reader a general idea of when key Biblical events took place. To answer these questions, we need to start with a date we already know and work from there. Unlike many researchers, and for reasons beyond the scope of this post, I reject many of the dates of Egyptian and Assyrian history. The later dates of Babylonian and Persian history are more firmly established. Based on analysis of Babylonian records, as well as details provided by Jewish records, it can be determined that King Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian army destroyed the Jerusalem temple in 587 BC. This spelled the end of the Kingdom of Judah. Of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, the Book of Je...