The Cross at the Center of Time

Book 1 · Eighteen chapters

This book begins with the different Passover dates in the Gospels and follows their calendars, numbers, and heavenly witnesses toward Christ’s Cross. I approach the earthly events with the heavenly world in view. The chapters build on one another; begin with Chapter 1, or choose a chapter below.

Start reading: Chapter 1

Chapters 1–7 — Calendars and foundations

  1. The Apparent Passover Contradiction
  2. Four Clocks Striking the Same Hour
  3. Genesis 1:5 and the Architecture of Time
  4. AD 33 and the Two Passover Dates
  5. The 360-Day Framework
  6. Jubilees and the Calendar of the Altar
  7. Two Calendars and the Rhythm of Seven

Chapters 8–15 — The measures gathered around Christ

  1. 153 Fish and the Measure of Forgiveness
  2. Lazarus and the Conquest of Death
  3. Measuring the Passion Week
  4. Measuring the Temple and the Altar
  5. Daniel and the Festival Year
  6. Jonah and Daniel at the Empty Tomb
  7. Moses, Joshua, and Aaron Fulfilled in Christ
  8. From Circumcision to the Cross

Chapters 16–18 — The heavenly witness and the whole argument

  1. The Heavens and the Ascended Lamb
  2. John and the Hour of Fulfillment
  3. The Cross at the Center of All Time

Read alongside Book 2

Book 2: Celestial Signs of the First Advent begins with Christ’s birth and follows the heavenly witness through Israel’s history and the Gospel’s movement among the nations. The two books share a concern to see the events of earth in the light of Christ’s heavenly authority.

Companion study for both books

The Birth and Cross of Christ in Symbolic Time connects the calendar and celestial themes of both books with the larger biblical chronology through day–year comparisons. It can be read alongside either book.

Archive: Cross at the Center of Time — earlier draft.