Did Ancient Calendars & Clocks
Forecast Our Future?
Will the world really end on December 21, 2012 when the Mayan-Aztec calendar runs out?
This date looms more ominously with each passing year. While millions are curious, most don’t give it a thought. Yet, many other ancient calendars link at that date, and so does the Bible! At least that is what long time, hi-tech inventor Herbert Stollorz writes about.
Like most people from his generation, Mr. Stollorz grew up to rebel against his parents’ overly strict religious observance and spent most of his life working hard in pursuit of his business interests. Though he never lost respect for the Bible, he certainly did not think about Bible prophecy or anything else of similar mystery. Even in his retirement, Herbert developed some tens of acres into a small vineyard operation in northern California. He didn’t think much about the end purpose of life until he came pretty close to the end of his own.
Then he saw some TV specials on the Bible Code and started doing a little reading from his perspective of being an applied scientist with a number of patents based on principles derived from keen observation of how natural laws and patterns of interaction can be brought to bear on solving pragmatic problems that make money. Once started down this road, he began to seen similarities in the patterns of history and prophecy in many ancient cultures from around the world. Their common links are found in how they marked the passing of time with intricate calendars and clocks. He began to ask himself why.
- Why did ancient cultures invest so much time and money building great stone calendars and pyramids? The answer had to be more than crop planting times and astrological interests. The worldwide presence, monumental size and high level of accuracy of these great monuments and observatories seemed like application overkill just to know the day, hour and minute of a summer or winter solstice, spring or fall equinox.
- Why did, and how could, the ancient Mayans develop a calendar that precisely marked a precession of the earth’s polar axis through the northern skies that takes over 25,000 years to travel without telescopes and computers? Did the ancients see something different in the skies than we do today?
- Why do so many old clocks have more than one dial? Or, more than one face? Were they trying to follow different patterns of planetary, lunar and solar movements than we experience today? Why do peoples around the world look to astrological signs in the skies to predict the future? Is there something scientifically sound, some source of rational truth, at the core of this global belief pattern that can explain or base that universal fascination?
- And why do so many religions look forward to time cycles of great trial on earth followed by an idyllic age of peace? And why does the year 2012 come up in so many of these calendar–clock systems – including the Bible Codes? Why don’t the hallowed halls of academic science look into some of these seemingly universal traits of advanced ancient cultures?
- Finally, what role did asteroids place in the ancient history of our planet? Was it large enough to have potentially changed how the earth rotates and moves on its orbital journey around the sun?
Scientific evidence abounds that the earth has suffered from a number of significant asteroid strikes in the past. Just look at the moon’s surface for something a little easier to see! Could an ancient asteroid have hit the earth at such force and angle of impact to change how it spins on its axis? If so, such a strike could indeed provide answers to these mysterious questions of antiquity.
Can the Future be Forecasted like the Weather?
The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven.
But He replied to them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.'
“Do you know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times?” (Matthew 16:1-3)
Jesus compared the discernment of prophetic times with forecasting the weather. Weather forecasting is based on the forward extension of meteorological cycles according to scientific methodology. This is what the advanced ancient cultures universally tried to do with astrology, the signs in the sky. Most ancient priests and astrologers believed that the future could be forecasted similarly. That is one reason why they paid such close attention to the movements of heavenly bodies. Of course, the most critically pragmatic reason for determining the seasons related to the best time to plant and harvest the crops that fed everyone.
While many ancient religions saw the relationships of the gods mirrored in the movements of planets and stars, the Bible states that their use was for humans to mark the passage of time. Science now knows that time is a material property that is relative. Just as light bends, and its speed is slowing, so time can be compressed and expanded along various scales that are manifested in the cyclical relationships between various historic and prophetic events.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. (Genesis 1:14-15)
Ancient people marked the passage of time by days and months. A sequence of four seasons as delineated by a sequence of solstice-equinox-solstice-equinox made up a year. Herbert Stollorz hypothesis states that the structure of ancient calendar and clock systems evidences shorter seasons and years than we currently experience. In the pre-Flood world or Atlantis age a year was made up of four 13-day seasons. This fact is reflected in the inflated ages given to the biblical patriarchs and Sumerian king lists. For example, the Bible gives Methuselah’s age as 969 years. According to Stollorz’ hypothesis, he lived only about 138 of our modern years.
Similarly, the future can be forecast like the weather based on scientific patterns and principles, but it is still an interpretive art based on the skill of the forecaster. While not enough historic time had elapsed for the Israelite prophet Daniel to project forward with any degree of accuracy, we are able to do so now because civilization has marked another 2,500 years of history. We have reached the biblical end of days when the “wise will understand” the dates of the major events of future Bible Prophecy.
He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand. (Daniel 12:9-10).
The Apocalypse is a necessary judgment of human governments that universally practice injustice, war and economic oppression to one degree or another. The unfolding of the future does not depend on people believing that it will happen. Believers are not to try to make it happen or to engage in the violence of this age. They are to walk humbly, live in peace and work honestly with others as much as is possible. Most who call themselves Christian are not spiritually discerning the times being locked in the ignorance of their theological biases. They will be almost as surprised at what God will do as the rest of humanity.
A New Methodology
Unlike any other attempt to date the major events of the future as prophesied by the Bible, Herbert Stollorz’ methodology utilizes multiple cycles or gears and number systems based on different mathematical scales, the Jewish feast and fast days, chronological symmetry and the Hebrew Alphabet Number System. Not only does it cross-check internally, it also intersects with the prophecies and calendar systems of several other ancient cultures. Unlike any previous attempt to forecast the future, Herbert Stollorz counts the end from the beginning, the beginning from the end and both the beginning and the end from the middle.
One example is the 70 Weeks prophecy found in the ninth chapter of the book of Daniel. Most Christian scholars acknowledge that the first 69 weeks of that prophecy relate to the first appearance of Jesus, accurately predicting it using the “year for a day” principle. This means that one week equals 7 years with this base-7 system. Using a base-5 system in parallel, the second coming can be located within a window of 50 years or 1968-2018. The base-5 week is 50 years or one Jubilee long.
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