Many of my Religious Intellectual Friends believe that Jesus was born on April 6th.
Interesting. And what are their reasons for choosing that date?
It was when Jesus was cutoff that’s important, not when he was born,
This is just my conjecture on his birth, but April 6th is interesting because I firmly believe its the day he fulfilled part of Daniel Chapter 9 in the year 32 AD, see Sir Robert Anderson’s book “The Coming Prince” written over a century ago detailing this,
From the Decree of Artaxerxes until Messiah shows up its 483 years per Daniel Chapter 9, or being exactly 173,880 days counting to April 6th 32 AD, (though he was cutoff at 434 years, leaving 56 years remaining for the future, and thats a whole separate discussion.) However April 6th is the day Israel should have recognized their Messiah would appear and they did not. Jesus said they ‘knew not the time of their visitation’ and their house is left desolate, see Luke 19:44, the Temple was destroyed and the Diaspora came as a result,
As to a time for Jesus to be born, we know it was 6 months after John the Baptist, and we know the 24 courses of Priests that David established and the order from Josephus. Also we know that Johns father Zacharias was serving as a priest in the Temple when the angel appeared to him announcing Johns birth. John began ‘in the wilderness’ in the 15th year of Tiberius(28 AD) Jesus began his work sometime after Johns being ‘about thirty’ years of age, and I believe Herod died in 1 BC with an eclipse, not 4 BC as commonly conjectured,
With the normal gestation period of humans being 280 days or (7 x 40 says) That would have required Jesus as being born in late September to very early October of 2 BC. I suspect on the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot. John (the apostle) says ‘he tabernacled among us,’
With March 14, 445 BC as the starting point of the 490 years (or 70 Sevens) determined per Daniel Chapter 9, its 69 sevens (x360 day years) or 173, 880 days exactly counting to April 6th, 32 AD, while September 27, 2 BC is precisely 11, 880 days to the very same day, or 33 years exactly.
March 14th, 445 BC —483 years—> April 6th,32 AD
September 27, 2 BC —33 years—> April 6th,32 AD
Meaning if correct, I believe Jesus turned 33 years of age the very same day/week that he completed his work as the passover Lamb of God on the cross, and while I have zero interest in Babylonian heathen festivals, it would have been (interestingly enough) on or about December 25th of 3 BC that he would have been conceived by the Holy Spirit,