The 4 lost years:

The intent of the world's current calendar is to number the years from the date of Jesus' birth (e.g. the year 2019 A.D. would represent 2019 years from the date of Jesus' birth). However, over the past two thousand years there have been a number of differing calendars (e.g. Roman, Jewish, etc.) and differing ways to count the number of days and months in the year (for example, the Jewish calendar has only 360 days).

In the last several hundred years as the world standardized on the definition of a year (e.g. 365 days, except leap year) and as these standards were applied historically, they found that there were approximately four years difference in this 2000-year timeframe. Although your calendar at the time you discovered this may have said it was 1940 A.D. (just to pick a date out of the air)...it was in fact 1943 years after the birth of Christ if you count years as we do today.

As you can imagine, it would be impossible to get everyone in the world to add four years to their current calendar to make up for the inconsistencies in prior year's calendars. So the current date remains the same and the references to the dates of events in history have for the most part been changed (e.g. Jesus' birth is now stated as being in ~4 B.C. instead of 0 A.D.)

If these calendar differences never existed, then Jesus would have been born in 0 A.D.; He would have been Baptized on 1 Sebat (~ our Jan) and began His ministry in 30 A.D.; He would have died on the cross in 31 A.D. on Nisan 14, the preparation day of Passover; ( ~ our April) and you would need to add ~3 1/2 years to today's year number.

For those who have an issue that the WORD actually SAYS that Jesus’ earthly ministry is 434 days instead of the generally accepted Nikolaotian fable of 3 years, check out the following:

http://home.earthlink.net/~bobseller1/id100.html

The above article proves, with actual verses from your very own KJV that Jesus’ flesh ministry was EXACTLY 434 days, EXACTLY as Daniel prophesied.

434 days is approximately 3 ˝ years… thus it’s later than you think.