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The 14,000 Days Hidden in the Torah
Parallel Generations (Moses, Jesus' 1st Coming, Jesus' 2nd Coming)

(an overview of Charlie Garrett's Research)

In 2004, I found another web site that showed a different method of uncovering 14,000 days hidden in the biblical texts at the time of Moses. The method used was unique compared to methods that I use. In the early days of my research related to the 14,000 days, I had also discovered there was a parallel 14,000 day generation hidden at the time the Jewish people came out of Egypt. Both Charlie's method and the method I use are based on the following Scriptures.

"Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them. The LORD's hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp" (Deuteronomy 2:14-15).

On this page, I will discuss the method I used and compare it to Charlie's method.

Time from Kadesh Barnea to the Zered Valley

My original method counted time from the date on which the curse was pronounced on the generation of Jewish people that refused to enter the promised land by way of battle. Based on the verses in Deuteronomy 2:14-15, the time began at Kadesh Barnea and ended 38 years later in the Zered valley, where the last man died from that generation. A careful review of the Scriptures in the Torah supports (inconclusively) that there are approximately 14,000 days hidden in the early biblical texts.

Since I could not explicitly pin down exactly 14,000 days, I chose to not investigate further. However, Charlie Garrett made a discovery in 2004 that supports it is possible to isolate exactly 14,000 days hidden in these biblical texts. Charlie's approach requires that we use the 360 days per year calculation. Here is the overview of Charlie's work, which is fascinating.

Time from Leaving Sinai to Entering the Promised Land

Charlie and I have had some interesting e-mail exchanges. Because there is a difference in the two methods used, I had to question Charlie's approach. Charlie sent back an excellent answer as to why he had used the method that he did. The beginning of the generation is based on the day on which the Jewish people left Mount Sinai, where Moses had received the Ten Commandments. Charlie's reason for using this date is based on the following verses.

"The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: "How long will this wicked community grumble against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. So tell them, `As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: In this desert your bodies will fall--every one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has grumbled against me. Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun" (Numbers 14:26-30). So the generation of people who died in the desert was those aged 20 or more that were counted in the census, which was taken at Mount Sinai. The order to take the census began on the 1st day of the 2nd month that the Jewish people had left Egypt (Numbers 1:1-3). It is doubtful that the census was done on that very day. The census would most likely have taken many days or a few weeks. Upon completion of the census, the glory of God lifted from Mount Sinai and led the people to Kadesh Barnea. Charlie uses the starting point for that generation as the day that the people left Mount Sinai. This occurred 20 days after the day that God gave the order to take the census.

"On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle of the Testimony. Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran. They set out, this first time, at the LORD's command through Moses" (Numbers 10:11-13). Based on using the 360 days per year calculation, Charlie concludes (and you will too if you use the 360 day method) that exactly 395 days had passed from the day the Jewish people left Egypt to the very day that they left Mount Sinai. This becomes important for later calculations that reveal it was exactly 14,000 days from the day that they left Mount Sinai to the day that the Israeli's crossed the Jordan river and entered the Promised Land. If you want to review the calculation for the 395 days, click here.

Date that Joshua Entered the Promised Land

The END of the generation is based on the day on which the Jewish people entered into the Promised Land. Charlie's reason for using this date is based on the following verses.

"On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan" (Joshua 4:19-20). The Scriptures above reveal that it was the 10th day of the 1st month. It was also the 40th year as revealed by the following Scriptures, which shows that Moses was alive in the 40th year.

"In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them" (Deuteronomy 1:3). Based on the above set of Scriptures, a full 40 years had passed and it was the 10th day of the 1st month since the Jewish people had left Egypt. The entire generation of fighting men had perished in the desert. Only Joshua and Caleb entered the promised land. By using the 360 days per year calculation, we arrive at the following number of days since the Jewish people had left Egypt.

We get 14,400 days by multiplying 40 years times 360 days per year.

Now we must add another 10 days based on the Scripture in Joshua 4:19-20. It was the 10th day of the month. Therefore, we now have 14,400 plus 10 to equal 14,410 days.

Now we must make a correction for the 15 days based on the Scripture in Numbers 33:3 since the Jewish people left Egypt on the 15th day of the month. Therefore, we now have 14,410 minus 15 to equal 14,395 days. The time of 14,395 days is counted from the day that the Jewish people left Egypt to the day they entered promised land.

14,000 Day Generation at the Time of Moses

The previous two sections have calculated the time spans as taken from the date that the Jewish people left Egypt. We have calculated that there are 395 days from leaving Egypt to the day that the Jewish people left Mount Sinai. And we have calculated there are 14,395 days from leaving Egypt to the day that the Jewish people entered the Promised Land. By subtracting 395 days from 14,395 days, we learn there are exactly 14,000 days from the date that the Jewish people left Mount Sinai to the day they entered the promised land.

It is important to understand that using this method to attain 14,000 days as the length of the generation that died in the desert requires that we must use the 360 days per year. The number 360 comes only from specific Bible verses, which can be reviewed by clicking here.
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