Author's Note: Today marks ten years since my father passed away. At the time of his death, the state of the world was very turbulent, but now that turbulence has grown a lot worse.
In Ecclesiastes 7:1, it was stated that the day of death is better than the day of birth because in two major instances of birthdays being mentioned in the Bible, they both mentioned somebody dying in a very horrible way, namely the Pharaoh's chief baker and John the Baptist. Therefore, remembering death anniversaries make more sense. In fact, a few European countries in recent years celebrated the lives of a few emperors of the Holy Roman Empire on the death anniversaries of these people. However, these Europeans do not know that these emperors had to cause so much suffering just to shape Europe to what it is today.
Speaking of Rome, the Roman Empire used to observe the Anno Mundi Calendar until Julius Caesar made the Romans ditch the Anno Mundi Calendar in favour of the Julian Calendar, believing that it will make death anniversaries easier to remember, and it did when he was assassinated on the 15th of March, 44 BC. Several centuries later, the Julian Calendar was reworked, resulting in the creation of the Gregorian Calendar. Both the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, however, are not approved by God because they do not follow the Anno Mundi Calendar, which explicitly states that the year begins on the first day of spring, while these two man-made calendars force humanity to start the new year in the middle of winter. In other words, Rome had indeed made a huge mistake in its bid to rule the world.
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