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Creation Calendar
The midnight reckoning for the identification of which day it is just kind of snuck up on me. I first saw it from a logical standpoint and presented it at the Feast because it seemed to be the cutoff that best fit the lunar phases. I then shifted the location to Jerusalem and applied my local midnight cutoff to that one point. Now the question becomes "Where does East meet West?" Yesterday I found one of my old bookmarks with some arguments for the closing of evening ("second evening") to be midnight. Maybe there is significance in the midnight reference of the activity of the death angel.
This morning I thought of Psalm 19 and how it relates to day and night and
midnight.
Psa 19:1 <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> The heavens declare the
glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
Psa 19:2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge.
Psa 19:3 [There is] no speech nor language, [where] their voice is not
heard.
Psa 19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to
the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
Psa 19:5 Which [is] as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, [and]
rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.
Psa 19:6 His going forth [is] from the end of the heaven, and his circuit
unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
In verse 2 from "day unto day" and "night unto night" shows the day
(light)/night (dark) division. Midnight is not specifically mentioned, but
as I meditated on the course of the sun "from one end of the heaven...unto
the ends of it," I picture that the sun is already moving at sunrise and
still moving at sunset. Maybe the lap change happens at midnight.