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Anno Mundi, the Creation of the world. Many time calculations are made and it is not easy to ascertain which one is the correct one. Therefore I made one too of which the data can be verified until king Salomon. In the image below I marked the verse numbers where you can find the information and you can check if this information is correct. By the way 'Anno Mundi' in my calculation is in my calculation not the Creation of the world, but the Creation starting from the creation of Adam, so: 'Anno Adam'.

From Adam until Salomon it is rather easy to make the addition sum. We have to work with the Hebrew scriptures, for some Greek translations contain errors. We have to observe that none of the bible writers ever made an addition sum of the life span of the biblical persons. But the moments of birth and death are mentioned emphatically. So we can calculate that there are 2964 years from Adam till the death of Salomon. From that time it is more difficult, for the bible text is less clear and there is a gab of a few hundred years between the books Chronicles/Malachi and Matthew. So I took from the Encarta Encyclopedia the years from the death of Salomon (932 BC) until the year 0, assuming that this is correct. For the year 0 we find 2964+932=3896. Then we meet another problem: Jesus is not born in the year 0. This is minimal 4 and maximal 7 years before 0. One of the calendar compilers did make a mistake. It is common excepted that Jesus is born in -4 B.C. That brings the date of birth of Jesus in approximately 3892 Anno Adam. I emphasize approximately, because the bible tells that Seth is  born in the 130th year of life from Adam, but doesn't tell if that was in the beginning of the end of that year. If all the children were born at the end of a year of life, time stretches. However when all the children were born in the beginning of a year of life, time shrinks. But on the average over all the generations it will be approximately right. All this points out that the transition from the sixth to the seventh millennium is in approximately 2108. But also here some marginal notes can be placed. The bible tells that man is created in the sixth day of Creation. Of all days of Creation the bible says: there was an evening and there was a morning, day one, a second day, a third day.....etc. In this way all the days of Creation become locked up. Only for the seventh it's is not said. This day becomes not locked up. Because man is created in the sixth day and this day is locked up, we have to live now in the seventh day. The 'fall' of Adam and Eve plays probably in the transition time of the sixth and the Seventh Day of Creation. The circle of time of the Seventh Day can be divided in the same way as the big Creation cycle. In this small cycle we usually take 1000 years for one day, for that is stated in several bible texts (Ps.90:4, 2Peter 3:8)

2Peter 3:8: But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Because God works with the pattern of 6 Days of Creation and 1 Day of Rest (I gave some text examples in chapter 4), it can be of great importance to establish when the transition from the sixth to the seventh millennium is. Than there will come a kingdom of peace for a thousand years (Rev.20:4) This is in accordance with the 6-1 pattern, after which the 7th day can be closed. Than comes the 8th day. In that day God will come to live with his people the day (Rev.21:3) We might say that this transition of the sixth to the seventh millennium is in 2108, but we have to consider some other facts. Adam is created in the sixth day of the great Creation Cycle. In that day Adam is placed in the Garden of Eden (Gen.2:8). Eve lives there too. After they ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, they become expelled from the Garden of Eden (Gen.3:23-24) This is a very dramatic moment and although the bible is not clear about it, I think this is the transition to the Seventh Day of Creation of the great Creation Cycle. Then starts the small cycle of 7x thousand years. The bible doesn't tell how long Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden, but that number of years we should add to  2108 to reach the seventh millennium. The bible does not tell that Cain and Abel lived in the Garden of Eden. and they were grown-up when Cain killed Abel.  Seth was appointed to replace Abel. Adam was 130 years when Seth was born. According to the Jewish calendar is 2240 the transition to the seventh millennium, but i think that also there is a calculation error. From this very moment, Jewish year 5767 (2007) there are 233 years to go. If Adam was 65 when Cain was born (the bible doesn't tell how old he really was) than there should be added maximal 65 years to 2108. But it can also be less for the bible does not tell how long Adam and Eve were out of the Garden of Eden when Cain, Abel or Seth were born. So 'Anno Exit Garden of Eden' can not be calculated exact from the data in the bible......Moreover Jesus tells us by mouth of Matthew and Mark that there will come a tribulation, so big that there wasn't one before ever sins the beginning of creation and never will be. And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved (Matth.24:21-22 and Mar.13:19-20) So time will be shortened and therefore we don't know when the 6000 years will end. And we already don't know when they are beginning. So it becomes guessing. More important is: we're asked to be ready, Mark 13:37: "And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch". But how are we ready? I think by excepting  His Truth, His Right and His Love in our life. Not because we have to, but because we will realize that it is the only way. Than you're already in His Kingdom, the Kingdom that still has to come.