A Review of the 500 Year Ezekiel Solar Lunar Cycle
Here is reviewed Ezekiel’s 500 year solar lunar
cycle. Ezekiel (Ez4) laid in repentance for Israel’s
390Years of iniquity and yet another 40Years for
Judah’s guilt. Add in the 70Y punishment, & a 500Y
cycle emerges. The proposed name of this 500 year
solar lunar cycle is the Ezekiel Cycle. For the book
of Ezekiel directly detailed this 500Y cycle,
390+40+70=500, see Ez4:5-6;8:11;8:18.
A look at d’Berg’s formulation shows the systems of
The 500 year cycle (10 Jubilee cycle) is impressive
as it made from Ezekiel’s 390 and 40 years of non
Sabbath keeping, plus the 70 years of rest/
punishment for not keeping sabbath. The 10 Jubilee
cycle being called out thusly: ... to ful ll the word of
the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land
had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay
desolate she kept Sabbath, to ful ll seventy (70)
years. 2Chron36:21 (Lev25:4-11 de ned sabbath
years) (7Y/1Sabbath+1Y/7Sabbath)70Sabbath Y = 490+10 = 500Y.
were made, -1000Y, -500Y, +(500,1000,1500,&2k)Y.
The 18th century Swiss astronomer M. de
Cheseaux rst showed prophetic times of scripture
can also be Solar-Lunar cycles. He is otherwise
known for having observed and described the six-
tailed comet of the year 1744. (Ridgeway pp 64-74)
The account of De Cheseaux’s discovery was given
in "Memoires Posthumes de M. De Cheseaux" published
1754AD. Cheseaux’s showed:
standard deviation of just
315=1260/4 & 2300-1260=1040 (Daniel Cycle).
0.31d, or a highly
In the 1950’s a Dutch amateur astronomer, Van
d’Berg showed eclipse cycles to be whole number
combinations of the Saros (S=18.03Y) and Inex
(i=28.94504Y). For example the 19Y Metonic cycle is:
10i - 15S = 289.4504 - 270.45 = 19.0004 Years, Y.
make this comparison.
An initial check of a cycle may be made with the
spreadsheet math function, d(Y), for moduli or
remainder & Years for 1 day error=Y/d(Y).
conjunction and all lunar
• IF(MOD(Y×365.24219,M)>14.5,MOD(Y×365.24219,M)−M, MOD(Y×365.24219,M))
eclipses will happen upon
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The term M is days per lunar month, the phase or
synodic value is 29.53059 days, whilst the eclipse or
nodal period is 27.2122d, & anomalistic 27.554551d.
For the synodic cycle of 1040Y, it will take 13713Y
to accumulate one day of error. The 19Y cycle gains
one day of error in just 220Y. The 391Y cycle is
most persistent in both lunar and eclipse phases.
errors to be both linear and additive, table2.
The 500, 1500, and 6500 nodal year eclipse cycles
need 24040 years to accumulate a full day of error.
The 499.99Y synodic cycle accumulates one day of
error in 1825Y. The 500.03 year Anomalistic cycle
requires 1025Y to accumulate one full day of error.
The eclipse count between 01Aug26 & 06Aug27AD
(371days) was exceptionally high, 3 solar and 5
lunar, 8 in total. Six projections of this eclipse set
All evaluated years were found eclipse eclipse rich,
averaging 5 or more per year. The dates of new
moons (solar eclipse) and full moons (lunar eclipse)
were projected by JDo+(499.98925×365.24219)n,
with n varied from -(2,1) & +(1,2,3,4). The projected
date had a mean variance of 0.15days from true
lunar phase, with a
con dent prediction within
0.15+/-0.62days of the
lunar event. About 140
events were reviewed to
While all Solar eclipses will
happen upon a new moon
a full moon, not all full
moons are lunar eclipses,
nor are all new moons
solar eclipses.
Of these comparisons,
only about a half of these
evaluated new or full
moons were eclipses. In
summary the 500 year
Ezekiel cycle is enduringly e ective at predicting
both lunar phases and eclipse rich years. It is not as
e ective at predicting eclipse cycles as is the
Gratton Guiness 391Y cycle. Synetadaa
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