When was Jesus Christ born? September 29, 2 B.C.

September 29, 2 B.C. is without a doubt, the correct date of the Birth of Jesus Christ, confirmed by all of the information below, some new, that I have pulled together, particularly from the books of Luke, Daniel, and Revelation as well as the free Stellarium Astronomy software among several other historical sources.  To get started, Jewish tradition implies that Jesus started his 3.5-year Ministry on his 30th birthday based on Levitical Rabbinical tradition (Numbers 4:3).  Jesus was 33.5 years old at Crucifixion by many traditional accounts.  The calculated crucifixion date from the previous blog post related to Daniel’s 70-Weeks Prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27) with historical and astronomical information regarding various constraints, confirms the time frame.  I declare that this is the most compelling case on the Internet for the Birth of Christ date because of the 2 new ways I have found to verify it.  Comment below if you disagree by the end of this blog post.  Read on!

Here are the Top 10 Reasons Why Jesus’ Birthday was September 29, 2 B.C.

• 1. Derived from His 33 A.D. Crucifixion and Palm Sunday Dates, as  calculated from the 70-Weeks Prophecy.
• 2. Aligned with the 2 B.C. Feast of Trumpets – Jewish New Year’s Day.
• 3. NEW! Confirmed by Revelation 12:1 and Stellarium Software.
• 4. Verified by Saint Irenaeus, 2^nd Century Church Theologian & by Eusebius, 4^th Century Church Bishop, Scholar, & Historian.
• 5. Verified by Tiberius Caesar’s’ Reign.
• 6. Verified by Josephus, 1^st Century Jewish Rabbi, Scholar, & Historian.
• 7. Verified by Sir Isaac Newton, 17^th Century Scientist, Scholar, & Historian.
• 8. Perfectly Aligned with the 3 B.C. Winter Solstice & Summer Solstice – John the Baptist.
• 9. NEW! Perfectly Aligned with Mary’s Birth Date, as calculated from the 70-Weeks Prophecy.
• 10. Jesus’ Birth and Death Dates Align with a New Moon and an Eclipsed Full Moon.

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Daniel 9:27 “And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;”

April 3, 33 AD – Crucifixion of Christ

Jesus was Baptized by John the Baptist

Jesus was baptized on his 30th Birthday by John the Baptist, according to Levitical Rabbinical Tradition, which is considered the official start to His Ministry.  One could consider either Palm Sunday or the Crucifixion as the end of Jesus’ 3.5-year Ministry.

• March 29, 33 AD (Palm Sunday) – 3.5 years = September 29, 29 AD
• April 3, 33 AD (Crucifixion) – 3.5 years = October 3, 29 AD

Subtract 30 years from either of these 2 dates and Jesus was born on either September 29, 2 BC or October 3, 2 BC.

30 AD or 34 AD Crucifixion Dates Do Not Meet Scriptural Requirements

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September 29, 2 BC, ROSH HASHANAH – The Birth of Jesus Christ

Revelation 12:1 and the Stellarium’s computer representation of the stars and planets around Virgo (based on Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion) on September 29th, 2 BC just after 12:00 am local time shows the moon moving into position under the feet of the constellation Virgo but not yet above the horizon in Jerusalem.  According to the Gospels, specifically Luke, Jesus was born at night.  At approximately 7:45 am, the assemblage of all Biblical referenced celestial bodies and Virgo would have been above the horizon in Jerusalem; however, Jupiter and Virgo would not have been visible anyway to the naked eye with the sun shining so close to them during the daytime.

In the graphic above, you can see that the sun is directly next to, almost touching, the base of Virgo’s clothes with the Moon on the same lateral plane as the base of her feet and Jupiter (i.e. ‘crown of twelve stars’ [12 symbolizes God’s rule, authority, and power], the king planet of 12 significant objects that orbit the sun, i.e. eight planets plus the four dwarf planets; Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris) is lateral to the crown of  Virgo’s head, all in their intended places on the right date.

Since this Bible reference was written by John well after Jesus was on Earth, the celestial event was not visible because of the shining sun in such close proximity to Jupiter and Virgo nor known to those on Earth at that time in Jerusalem from future Scripture unwritten yet, it clearly must have been intended for those of us in the future who could calculate the orbits in reverse direction with software to these dates and location to determine the birth date in the past for a future purpose closer to the End Times.  That being said, to me, Christ’s Birthdate confirms Daniel’s 70-Week’s Prophecy dating methodology (and vice-versa), which in turn confirms the calculations and types of historical and astronomical intersections also found in the decoding of Daniel’s 2300 Evenings and Mornings Prophecy.

In the chapter before Revelation 12:1, respectively Revelation 1:19, the Lord says to John, ” ¹⁹ Now write down all you have seen [past]—all that is [present] and all that will be [future].”  Revelation 12:1 is clearly referencing a major event in the past from the time this was written by John on the island of Patmos.

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2nd Century Saint Irenaeus and 4th Century Eusebius writes of the Birth of Jesus Christ

Irenaeus, born about a century after Jesus, notes that Jesus was born in the 41st year of the reign of Augustus. Since Augustus began his reign in the autumn of 43 BC, this appears to substantiate the birth of Jesus as the autumn of 2 BC.

Eusebius (264-340 AD), the “Father of Church History,” ascribes it to the 42nd year of the reign of Augustus and the 28th from the subjection of Egypt on the death of Anthony and Cleopatra. The 42nd year of Augustus ran from the autumn of 2 BC to the autumn of 1 BC. The subjugation of Egypt into the Roman Empire occurred in the autumn of 30 BC. The 28th year extended from the autumn of 3 BC to the autumn of 2 BC. The only date that would meet both of these constraints would be the autumn of 2 BC.

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Counting the Ordinal Years of the Reign of Tiberius Caesar

Many scholars, including Sir Isaac Newton, narrowed several possible crucifixion dates down to two; the most common one of all is April 3, 33 A.D.  It is the only Newtonian crucifixion date of his two finalists that occurred during a lunar eclipse (confirmed by NASA’s lunar eclipse charts but ironically not by Newton) and where Passover was the day before the Sabbath, both described in Scripture (i.e., Acts 2:14) on the Day of Pentecost – I dated May 23, 33 A.D.

According to Newton, Early Church scholar, Eusebius, discovered four successive Passovers in the Gospel of John and set forth an opinion that Jesus preached for three and a half years and so died in the 19^th year of Tiberius.  Tiberius reigned from August 8, 14 A.D. to March 16, 37 A.D. or 22 years and 7 months.  Luke 3:1-3 says, “In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar…the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. ³ He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.”  The 15^thyear of Tiberius lasted from Aug 8, 28 A.D. to Aug 7, 29 A.D.  Jesus would have been baptized on his 30^th birthday on September 29, 29 A.D., which would have occurred during the 16^th year of the reign of Tiberius.  Add three and a half years (i.e. 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th or 4 years counted ordinally) to reach Palm Sunday, March 29, 33 A.D., and Christ would have been Crucified on April 3, 33 A.D., which occurred during the 19^thyear of Tiberius Caesar.  The 19^th year lasted from August 8, 32 A.D.to August 7, 33 A.D., therefore, April 3, 33 A.D. falls within this year, perfectly.  A 33 A.D. Crucifixion year means that Jesus was born in 2 B.C.

Aug 8, 14 A.D.	Aug 7, 15 A.D.	1st year
Aug 8, 15 A.D.	Aug 7, 16 A.D.	2nd year
Aug 8, 16 A.D.	Aug 7, 17 A.D.	3rd year
Aug 8, 17 A.D.	Aug 7, 18 A.D.	4th year
Aug 8, 18 A.D.	Aug 7, 19 A.D.	5th year
Aug 8, 19 A.D.	Aug 7, 20 A.D.	6th year
Aug 8, 20 A.D.	Aug 7, 21 A.D.	7th year
Aug 8, 21 A.D.	Aug 7, 22 A.D.	8th year
Aug 8, 22 A.D.	Aug 7, 23 A.D.	9th year
Aug 8, 23 A.D.	Aug 7, 24 A.D.	10th year
Aug 8, 24 A.D.	Aug 7, 25 A.D.	11th year
Aug 8, 25 A.D.	Aug 7, 26 A.D.	12th year
Aug 8, 26 A.D.	Aug 7, 27 A.D.	13th year
Aug 8, 27 A.D.	Aug 7, 28 A.D.	14th year
Aug 8, 28 A.D.	Aug 7, 29 A.D.	15th year
Aug 8, 29 A.D.	Aug 7, 30 A.D.	16th year
Aug 8, 30 A.D.	Aug 7, 31 A.D.	17th year
Aug 8, 31 A.D.	Aug 7, 32 A.D.	18th year
Aug 8, 32 A.D.	Aug 7, 33 A.D.	19th year

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Sir Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733), Chapter XI, Of the times of the birth and passion of Christ.

While Newton mistakenly concludes that the Crucifixion alternatively took place in 34 A.D. due to the timing of Sabbatical years and a Springtime corn harvest a few Passovers before the Crucifixion, he was the first person to accurately calculate that April 3, 33 A.D. was the other possible Crucifixion date.  Most modern Bible scholars today have narrowed down to 2 potential Crucifixion dates, Wednesday, April 5 (or 7), 30 A.D. (which doesn’t fall on the right day of the week) and Friday, April 3, 33 A.D.  In 1983, Humphrey and Waddington, 2 Oxford professors, were the first to assert the theory that the lunar eclipse in Acts 2:20 and the Crucifixion occurred on the same day, Good Friday, April 3, 33 A.D.

“THE times of the Birth and Passion of Christ, with such niceties, being not material to religion were little regarded by the Christians of the first age. They who began first to celebrate them, placed them in the cardinal periods of the year; as the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, on the 25th of March, which when Julius Caesar corrected the Calendar was the Vernal Equinox; the feast of John Baptist on the 24th of June, which was the Summer Solstice; the feast of St. Michael on Sept. 29, which was the Autumnal Equinox, and the birth of Christ on the Winter Solstice, December 25, with the feasts of St. Stephen, St. John and the Innocents, as near it as they could place them. And because the Solstice in time removed from the 25th of December to the 24th, the 23d, the 22d, and so on backward, hence some in the following centuries placed the birth of Christ on December 23, and at length on December 20.” – Newton

I find this Newtonian passage interesting as it correlates with dates for the same people that I have been calculating birth and conception dates for in my various blog posts.  For instance, Mary was born on December 11, 17 BC and was likely conceived on or about the Vernal Equinox but possibly as far back as March 5, 17 BC.  John the Baptist was definitely conceived on the Summer Solstice, June 25, 3 BC because the Immaculate Conception occurred on the Winter Solstice, December 23, 3 BC (i.e. six months apart as the Scripture says in Luke 1:26-27 & 39-41) and Jesus was born on the Feast of Trumpets, September 29, 2 BC.  Newton’s 33 A.D. Crucifixion date also confirms that Jesus was born in 2 B.C. 

While I worked completely independent of Newton’s mentioned dates, they are amazingly similar, even with the small differences noted (birth vs. conception events on a date).  However with absolute certainty, I stand on the shoulders of the “giant” Sir Isaac Newton on a broader scale in my eschatological and biblical reckoning enterprises, pragmatically and inspirationally speaking.

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December 23, 3 BC, WINTER SOLSTICE – Immaculate Conception of Jesus Christ

It is also remarkable that the amount of time between the Winter Solstice of 3 BC and the Birth of Christ on September 29, 2 BC, is exactly 40 weeks apart, which is the average gestation period for a human being.  The number 40 is biblically symbolic, meaning trials, testing, and tribulation.  Jesus certainly experienced all three during his life on Earth, fulfilling hundreds of prophecies to save us all from eternal tribulation.  The date calculator below confirms the span of time between the two of the three most prolific dates in Christianity, unknown explicitly to virtually everyone to date.  This further suggests the planned perfection of the advent of Christ.

June 25, 3 BC, SUMMER SOLSTICE – Conception of John the Baptist

June 25, 3 BC – Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice

Tammuz 12, 3758, 14 hours, 303 parts

June 25, 3 B.C., 8:16 a.m.

John 3:27-30 “27 To this John replied, ‘A person can receive only what is given them from heaven.’ 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’ 29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. 30 He must become greater; I must become less.”

Much like an earthly day where the sunlight increases or becomes greater during the morning and sunlight decreases or becomes less during the evening, God’s Prophetic “evenings and mornings” day works in the same manner as a solar year with the Winter Solstice to Summer Solstice as the morning and the Summer Solstice to Winter Solstice as the evening described in Daniel’s 2300 day prophecy in Daniel 8:14, “He said to me, “It will take 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be reconsecrated.” Notice how in the verse that “evenings” comes before “mornings” rather than the reverse order as an earthly day. This is just like a Jewish day which begins at sundown so evening comes first.  Evening, Summer Solstice = John the Baptist; Morning, Winter Solstice = Jesus Christ.  John came before Jesus.  Also, John said, “He must become greater; I must become less.”

Luke 1:26-27 & 39-41 “26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. 39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.” [This happened after sunrise on the morning of the Winter Solstice, Dec 23rd, 3 BC.  The Immaculate Conception clearly took place the night before which was still the same Jewish day marked from sundown to sundown.]  This verse in Luke specifically shows the 6-month difference between John the Baptist and Jesus.  The two solstices are 6 months apart which means their conceptions were perfectly opposite in timing relative to the tropical year as well as symbolically speaking, one with sin – man, the other without sin – God, among many others.

March 29, 2 BC or April 1, 2 BC – Birth of John the Baptist 40 weeks 0 days later

The birth of John the Baptist was very likely 40 weeks 0 days later, April 1, 2 BC or was March 29, 2 B.C. Being 6 months before Jesus’ birth.  June 25, 3 BC – April 1, 2 BC.  40 symbolizes trial, testing, and tribulation.  The fact that the previous Winter Solstice in December of 3 B.C. is exactly 40 weeks and 0 days before September 29, 2 B.C. confirms the Birthdate of Jesus Christ as no other year can combine this calculation with the same duration between those 2 dates while intersecting the Winter Solstice and Feast of Trumpets simultaneously.

Again, the New Moon and Eclipsed Full Moon phases align perfectly with Jesus Christ’s dates of Birth and Death, like no other year combinations other than 2 B.C. and 33 A.D.

So, Why is Dec 25, 1 BC not the date of the Birth of Jesus Christ?

440 AD – The Church in Rome officially proclaimed December 25th as the birth of Christ to align it with the pagan holiday celebrating the pagan sun god to influence them to Christianity. Up to this time, several dates had been used as Christ’s birth date due to persecution. Easter was the primary Christian holiday for centuries and not His birth.

525 AD – Dionysius Exiguus, a 6th Century monk, is the inventor of the Anno Domini Era (i.e. AD) Calendar Renumbering centered on presumed Jesus’ conception or birth when updating the Easter Table for the Pope.  Dionysius had different reasons for a new calendar numbering starting point to get rid of previous calendars; To drop any pagan heritage and Diocletian era Christian persecution tainted calendars; To drop Anno Mundi era calendar counting methods which count years from creation that was nearing the feared end-of-world 6000 year millennium based on the 6th day of Creation in Genesis when man was created. Years were calculated with an inaccurate number of days in a year so the AM count wasn’t accurate. (16th-century mathematicians discovered the correct calculation of a tropical year, averaged to be 365.2422 days instead of 365.25 days, which caused a Gregorian calendar correction by the Pope to skip ahead by 11 days in the calendar from Oct 4 to Oct 15, 1582 AD in many European countries that accepted it.)  Dionysius realigned the new yearly count with an assumed end of the religious age marked by calculated conjunction of all planets (visible planets in the sky all appearing in a straight line) in May 2000 AD. This was the assumed NEW end-of-world timeframe when Christ would return by. Wrong again, we are still here!  He assumed the start of the 2000 year religious age with Dec 25, 1 AD using the ‘all planets conjunction’ as the anchor but decided to align instead with Jan 1, 1 AD so the incarnation date changed to Dec 25, 1 BC. Dionysius claimed to have calculated the birth of Christ from the beginning of Rome (i.e. 732 AUC) but offered no evidence on how this was calculated. Therefore, the birth of Christ was presumed to be Dec 25, 1 BC for all using the new calendar.

‘His’torical Timeline Summary

• March 5, 444 BC – Nehemiah Decree (476 Years 24 Days to Palm Sunday – 69 weeks of the 70 Weeks Prophecy)
• Dec 11, 17 BC 8:53 am IST = Birth of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ
• June 25, 3 BC – Summer Solstice – John the Baptist’s Conception (9 months 12 days to birth or 40 weeks and 6 days.)
• Sept, 3 BC – Jupiter came into conjunction with Regulus in the constellation Leo the Lion.
• Dec 23, 3 BC – Winter Solstice – Immaculate Conception (9 months 12 days to birth or 40 weeks and 6 days.)
• Feb, 2 BC – Jupiter came into conjunction with Regulus again.
• Feb 5, 2 BC – Roman Decree of Census and Oath of Allegiance in birth cities across Roman Empire.
• Feb 5 – Oct 3, 2 BC – Joseph and Mary traveled to Bethlehem sometime during this timeframe.
• April 1, 2 BC or March 29, 2 BC – Birth of John the Baptist (34 years before the crucifixion of Christ).
• May, 2 BC – Jupiter came into conjunction with Regulus again.
• June 17, 2 BC – Jupiter and Venus came into conjunction, touching, creating a very bright star! Go Magi!
• September 28, 2 BC – After sundown on Tishri 1 also on the New Moon, Joseph and Mary were turned away as there was no room in the Inn.
• September 29, 2 BC – Birth of Jesus Christ (33 years 6 months before Palm Sunday)
• Dec 25, 2 BC – Magi see Jupiter stop or hung over Bethlehem from Jerusalem marking the location of Jesus.
• Jan 6, 1 BC – Christian Holiday Epiphany (12 Days of [after] Christmas). Magi finds 3-month-old Jesus in Bethlehem.
• Dec 29, 1 BC – Passover, 1 AD – Timeframe that Herod most likely died.
• September 29, 29 AD – John the Baptist Baptizes Jesus, Beginning of His Ministry (Jesus’ 30th Birthday).
• March 29, 33 AD – Palm Sunday (End of Daniel’s 69th Prophetic Week, Beginning of Daniel’s 70th Literal Week).
• April 2, 33 AD – Last Supper Passover Feast begins after sundown.
• April 3, 33 AD – 6-hour Crucifixion of Christ during Passover with Lunar Eclipse (Red Moon best viewed from Israel).
• April 4, 33 AD – The Sabbath, The Holy Day, set aside from Week of Creation by God for this very special event!
• April 5, 33 AD – Resurrection Day!!! (Easter)
• May 23, 33 AD – Day of Pentecost, Feast of Weeks or First Fruits, Birthday of Ancient Israel. (50 days after the crucifixion).
• 440 AD – The Church in Rome officially proclaimed December 25th as the birth of Christ to win pagan converts.
• 525 AD – Anno Domini Calendar (i.e. BC/AD) invented, incorrectly dates Christ’s birth on Dec 25, 1 BC.
• 800 AD – The majority of the Western World adopts AD Calendar.
• Oct 4, 1582 AD – Pope decrees Gregorian Calendar correction and skips 10 days to Oct 15 based on a 365.2422-day tropical year.