To God be the glory!
As I stated in My Perspective, Rûách @Élöhîm (Sprit of God) directed me to 
take the perspective of the Storyteller. I look at history as an interactive, dramatic production playing out on the stage of the earth in the theatre of the universe, written, produced, and directed by YHWH @Élöhîm with input by the characters.
All stories have a chronology internal to themselves, which may involve seconds to centuries to millennia. The events in the story should fit consistently within that internal chronology.
I’ve always been interested in the internal chronologies of imaginative world stories and seeing whether the author managed to have a consistent internal story chronology, especially for those stories occurring over several novels. J.R.R. Tolkien managed it with his “Tale of Years” in The Lord of the Rings but most authors’ chronologies get off at some point. Maintaining a consistent chronology for a story occurring over hundreds or thousands of years is exceedingly difficult.
The Bible, which is the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, tells the true Story of the Line of the Promise down through the millennia. Rûãch @Élöhîm inspired those whom He selected to record the Story of the Line of the Promise to include numerous time markers in The Bible, mostly in the form of life years and reign years.
Over the centuries, many Bible scholars have sought to fit these time markers into a timeline consistent with man’s historical timeline based on records outside of The Bible. That was not the tack Rûãch @Élöhîm directed me to take in developing an internal chronology of The Bible (ICB).
Instead, Rûãch @Élöhîm nudged me to stick with the internal chronology in His Story and not try to fit His time markers into man’s historical timeline. He included two summary year spans: 430 years from Abraham to the Exodus and 480 years from the Exodus to the founding of the Temple in the fourth year of Solomon.
What I found was the internal chronology in The Bible is consistent within its internal parameters, as long as one counts the way the Hebrew scribes counted. If I try to fit the time markers together as the western Greco-Roman world counts, they do not work.
Eventually, Rûãch @Élöhîm sent me to man’s records for synchronisms to define the 380 years from the founding of the Temple to its destruction. While I worked hard at fitting the reigns of the kings of Judah and Israel into the 380 years and thought I had found a solution, my chronology was not correct.
Rûãch @Élöhîm used a friend to direct me to Dr. Thiele’s The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, the accepted chronology for the kings of Judah and Israel, to correct my attempted Temple chronology. After the destruction of the Temple, I followed Rûãch @Élöhîm’s example in The Bible and used the reign years of the Gentile kings as time markers in the ICB.
With respect to synchronizing the ICB with the Western calendar, I identified the relevant Bible events and assigned the Western calendar dates to them in a separate column. Starting with the earliest synchronized event, the fifth year of Rechoboam, I assigned one Western calendar year to each ICB year in both time directions and let the years fall where they may within the life/reign year dates of Biblical events.
The ICB Menu link will take you to the menu of the charts and essays related to the ICB.
Grace and peace to you,
Dori
I think it’s important to state the premise underlying all my writings and the perspective I take in thinking about things and analyzing them. Readers may not agree with either the premise or the perspective, but at least you will know where I’m coming from and where my reasoning starts. Or, more accurately, where Rûãch @Élöhîm (Spirit of God) has shown me that my reasoning must start, especially as I’m depending on Him to guide my thoughts into the truth.
