Question:
Please explain by actual count the process of deducing from Genesis thirty days to a Jewish month.
Answer:
It will be quite easily seen if our inquirer turns to Genesis 7:11: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Genesis 8:4: “And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” From the second month, the seventeenth day, to the seventh month, the seventeenth day, was just five months; we are told in verse 24 of chapter 7, “…the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” Again in the third verse of chapter 8, “…the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated [decreased].” Thus the five months equaled one hundred fifty days or thirty days to the month. Also, compare Revelation 12:6 with 13:5; the former text gives 1,260 days to a period that the latter text gives as forty-two months, which makes thirty days to the month.
See also our post on “Prophetic Time.”
