"...why Jesus rose on the third day..." "...and rested on the seventh day."
The first riddle, which I'll call "the riddle of Jesus resurrection," has troubled theologians for, well, twenty centuries. Bible prophecy says Jesus would rise on the third day but the cave was vacant only two days later. This is the greater of the two riddles.
As if a proof of one's resolution of the greater riddle, why Jesus "rested" on the seventh day is what I'd consider the confirming riddle. A research librarian once had an epiphany in corresponding with me when he remarked that it was God that rested on the seventh day (Genesis), not Jesus. Despite my theologic ignorance, I'd already connected that dot. This second riddle, we'll call it 'Jesus' seventh day rest,' could be as simple as WD Gann wasn't much more astute in his Bible studies than myself. I don't think so; not even remotely. Rather, I'll give Mr. Gann, the benefit of the doubt that he knew Jesus walked the earth for 40 days before his ascension and then rested at the side of God. No, Mr. Gann did not make a Sunday school mistake, literally or symbolically.
Again, I won't address this "confirming riddle" because.... I don't have that entire answer as yet. But, if we can solve the first riddle, the riddle of Jesus resurrection on the third day, then the solution of the second riddle by the same math, "Jesus' seventh day rest," will confirm the solution of the former riddle.
Two riddles, the first of which I'll consider here and the second of which I hope will provide confirmation of that first solution. Here's the development of the first riddle.
Parse the first riddle by understanding its theologic framing. As an unwritten book, I had to study. Here's a capsulation I favored having read several:
Jesus committed his Spirt to God at 3pm on Friday but the day of his resurrection according to scripture on the third day was not Sunday when he was resurrected. The above gives a plausible solution in how Jews counted days, but I do not find Robert Gordon's seven days to have any relation to inclusively counting endpoints of his journey as full days or counting backwards. There's got to be something else, something mathematic, that unites Jesus' three days and Robert's seven days. Hmmm 37, how Pythagorean, how Masonic, how geometric.
Back to TTTTA's Foreword inserted above... if we know why Jesus rose on the third day, we will understand Robert Gordon's seven days. There must be something in the inscrutable mis-numbered Chapter XXXIX / Chapter 34 that is a clue. Hmmm, chapter XXXIX is 39 reduced to 12 and further reduced to 3 and actual chapter number 34 reduced to 7....again 37.
Got to think like Mr. Gann...all the answers are in plain sight we must only 'observe.'
Yup. Pages 400 and 401, includes the semi sensical references to 1) rising to a height of 60 miles or more and 2) anchoring 100 feet above the street. Why these details; most will say just trying to take up space? I compute them as 100 / 60 = 1.6666. That ratio is the clue.
In Robert Gordon's seven days our hero circumnavigated the earth in seven days and returned to where he started (NYC), traveling 33543 miles (blue arrow below) as the crow flies (direct route) or 18261 miles east/west (red arrow below) and 18495 miles north/south (yellow arrow below) if one dissembles the miles into spherical "right angles." Yes, I know right angles (east/west as a right angle relative to north/south) in the third dimension aren't the same as in two dimensions, but bear with me. Interestingly, one can measure north/south distances from the equator, where time is measured, and you get 47117 north/south miles divided by 1.6666 or 28272 north/south miles (green arrow).
You can compute every mileage I quoted above using the haversine formula or Internet available GPS calculators and the mileage differences between haversine and online calculators are to the second decimal as I recall. Here's the spreadsheet derivations of all those mileages numbers I developed two years ago:
You can see where and recompute the 'how' I generated all those mileages, and, yet one more; that found in the very far right column under the column heading "Planar Pythagorean hypotenuse."
That far right column takes the east west mileage and north south measured at the equator divided by 1.6666 mileages and applies the Pythagorean calculation of the hypotenuse of the 1X1 square. We know it won't work, whether we use north/south miles or north/south miles measured from the equator divided by 1.6666. It can't work because the 2d Pythagorean formula does not work, unmodified, in 3d spherical geometry. And it does not:
If Pythagoras' calculation of the hypotenuse of the 2 dimension right triangle worked in 3 dimension space, then the column headed Pythagorean theorem would equal the actual cumulative distance.
Pythagoras calculation does work when Robert completes his spacial circle of the trip. It does work with three qualifiers; 1) cumulative N/S mileage is measured relative to the equator, 2) cumulative N/S mileage is divided by 1.6666 and 3) the calculation occurs when Robert has completed his entire spherical route, having returned to NYC. The circle (sphere) is complete in NYC. Here it is:
Wait a minute... since we measured from the equator where time is established by the rotation of the sphere, have we built a formulaic bridge to the 4th dimension? I'll defer for now.
Maybe the riddle of Jesus posed in TTTTA might confirm Robert Gordon's experience. By most accounts I've read (not that it is settled theology), Jesus commended his spirit to God at 3pm on Friday, April 3rd, 0033AD (Isaac Newton's calculation favored by most, but not all, theologians as I understand). How was it he rose on Sunday, which is not the third day?
Let me repeat the notation that caught my eye from the first insert above:
Jesus rose 40 hours (per the above, not as if it is not debatable) after having being laid down which would have been in the early hours of Sunday. And, indeed, when the women bearing spices approached the cave in the 'very early morning' of the first day of the week (Sunday being the first day of the week), the great stone had been moved and the tomb was vacant. Okay, that's about 40 hours from 3PM on Friday to say 7AM on Sunday when the women arrived.
Here's some suggested math using Robert Gordon's experience. Using the milage reckoning between the latitude of Calvary and the equator and the number, 1.6666, I compute the time of Jesus resurrection to be Sunday, April 5 at 3:44am in the very earlier morning:
Symbolically, does the math suggest the "circle" of prophecy of the resurrection on the 3rd day complete according to the mathematics of Robert Gordon?
Easily, Jesus rose, according to the above mathematic logic found in Robert Gordon's seven days, at 3:44am and the tomb was vacant when the women arrived in the 'very early morning.'
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How do I prove this? Of course, theologically, I can't. Reading the TTTTA is hardly an experience these days having read it so many times. My reading the Bible, well, that is, to my dishonor, a deja vu experience. I remember, but only very distantly.
The theologic truth is not the point; the point is WD Gann's first riddle only just happens to be a theologic problem, also. Not coincidentally I expect, but that's someone else' essay. Perhaps Mr. Gann knew the correct answer to the theologic dilemma and, perhaps this math is that answer as well. But again, that doesn't matter. We (I) want to know the mathematics of the riddle. Is the answer to both the riddle and the theologic problem one and the same? I'll go with that as a resolution on faith as opposed to theology.
Again, how do I prove the mathematic synthesis of Jesus' rose on the third day?" Its the second riddle.
If the math of 3 days is correct, then we must be able to extrapolate the 40 days of the ascension using Robert Gordon's math and arrive at the "seventh day" when Jesus "rested." Framed correctly, we should be able to take the now understood Sunday April 5, 0033 at 3:44AM time of resurrection and add 40 days, as interpreted by Robert Gordon's math, to arrive at Saturday, then known as the seventh day of the week (according to the reckoning of Luke 24:1).
In the next essay I'll provide the mathematic link to the 40th day ascension occurring on, as WD Gann implies, Saturday, the seventh day; why "Jesus... rested on the seventh day." Its the confirming riddle and answer; one way or the other.
Lastly in this trilogy of essays, I'll revisit the work of a non de plume of WD Gann where first I perceived that 4th dimension spacetime can be predicted using Euclidian geometry and cartesian coordinates. Think about it, a system of geometry that we might find encoded in the chapter and line structure of WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air:" I refer that geometry as the "Map of Time."
Jim Ross
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