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Is 2015 the year of Jubilee? Is it the 70th Jubilee? Will the planet be returned to its original Creator?
Is 2015 the year of Jubilee? Is it the 70th Jubilee? Will the planet be returned to its original Creator?
Fact one: Nation of Israel practices Shmita law. Beginning in 1951, agricultural land in Israel is required to remain untilled. Last year of Shmita was 2007. Next year of Shmita begins in Sept. 2014.
Fact two: Year of Jubilee happens in 50 year cycles, following the 7th year of Shmita. In Jubilee, all debts are supposed to be cancelled, all land is supposed to be returned to its original owner. Liberty is proclaimed throughout the land. (Interestingly, the Jubilee verse on liberty appears inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia) Unfortunately, the state of Israel has yet to recognize a year of Jubilee. Apparently, the wealthy Jews don’t want to let go of their financial grip on the poor Jews.
Fact three: 1916 was a year of Shmita. The FOLLOWING year, Jerusalem was liberated from the Turks.
Fact four: 1965 was a year of Shmita, 49 years after the 1916 Shmita. The FOLLOWING year, Jerusalem was re-liberated from the Arabs.
This would suggest that both 1916 and 1965 were 7th Shmitas, preceding a year of Jubilee. Liberation is the central theme of Jubilee. This would suggest that 2015 will be the next Jubilee.
Fact five: We are currently in the 70th Jubilee cycle since the very first Jubilee, which occurred when Joshua led the children of Israel into the promised land and liberated it from the Canaanites. The beginning of that liberation was heralded with the blowing of the Yobel rams horns. The word “Jubilee” comes from Yobel. At the blowing of the seventh trumpet, the walls of Jericho collapsed.
Fact six: The book of Revelation speaks of seven trumpets blown by angels, heralding the transfer of ownership of the whole planet Earth. “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of Christ” announces the angel.
I would suggest the book of Revelation describes a scenario in which the whole planet is liberated from the clutches of Satan and his antichrist. It is global liberation.
Fact seven: 70 is a prophetic number. Daniel the prophet spoke of 70 sevens that must be fulfilled in order for redemption to come. Jeremiah the prophet spoke of 70 years of judgment in which Israel would be enslaved to Babylon. The enslavement, by the way, occurred because Israel did not keep the statutes of the Jubilee. The noble class would not let the serfs go free. Therefore the nobles were enslaved to their worst enemy, Babylon.
I would suggest that the 70th Jubilee is extra significant in that the real estate of the whole planet will be returned to its original owner, the Creator. 2015 could be the year!
So what happens before then? Jesus said there would be a time of great tribulation worse than any other time in history. Don’t think Satan is going to be nice about giving back the planet to the Creator. This will be WW III.
Jesus referred to Daniel’s prophecies about this time. Daniel said this time would be for 1260 days, or 3 1/2 years. The book of Revelation concurs with this, referring to 42 months as the time of the great struggle.
IF (big if)….2015 is the year of Jubilee (beginning in September of that year), then the beginning of the great tribulation would be 1260 prior to that, which is the Passover season in April 2012.
What event kicks off the great tribulation. Jesus said it would be the “abomination that causes desolation.” Jerusalem is once again captured by the Arabs. Jesus says that those who live in Judea should run for the hills, get out as fast as possible.
Could the events in Egypt be the beginnings of a huge Arab uprising regionally, that results in the abomination?
Time will tell.
We can’t know the year of the jubilee until Jesus returns at its end – because no one has been tracking jubilees for centuries. Here is an excerpt from Antichrist 2016-2019:
“Scholars who want to keep track of jubilees believe the last reference to a jubilee year was made by the prophet Ezekiel, referring to approximately 574 B.C. If we count 17 jubilee cycles back from 574 BC, the first jubilee cycle would have started in 1406 B.C. If this was the year that the Israelites entered the Promised Land after the Exodus from Egypt, it also corresponds with Thiele’s (but not Ussher’s) date of 931/930 B.C. for the start of the divided kingdom into Israel and Judah – based on 1 Kings 6:1 “Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.” Since these two methods agree, they might lead us to correct dates for past jubilee years. But if the correct interpretation of Leviticus is that jubilees only matter when all twelve tribes live in Israel, then the jubilees have been irrelevant for thousands of years, and would only be relevant again after the Messiah “corrects everything” and ALL the tribes of Israel (not just the Jews of the former kingdom of Judah) are brought back to Israel.
Without the twelve tribes living in Israel, there is no biblical reason to keep track of jubilees. And without the Sanhedrin, who announced the jubilee by blowing the ram’s horn trumpet – no one exists to make the start of a jubilee cycle official. Just for the heck of it, however, these dates would imply a jubilee year (if it mattered, and if anyone had been counting) in 35 B.C., 15 A.D. (no year zero) and 64 A.D.
If the old count of jubilees did matter in regard to the Messiah, they certainly did not line up with Jesus Christ’s birth, crucifixion, or even the start of His ministry. The last jubilee would have been in 1975 – when nothing noteworthy happened in Israel – and the next jubilee would be in 2024. Misguided calculations have led to other dates, however, and there are many people who believe “2016 is EXACTLY the 120th Jubilee.” Such people are expecting the Second Coming in 2016, and if anyone with miraculous powers shows up in 2016 on global television broadcasts claiming to be the Messiah, many people will listen.”
Isaac Newton suggested looking for the Second Coming 49 years after the Temple Mount is restored under Jewish rule. That occurred the night of June 6-7, 1967. But I suspect it will be the Antichrist that gets our attention in June 2016. The Antichrist must show up first. 2 Thessalonians 2 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”
http://www.amazon.com/Antichrist-2016-2019-Mystery-Babylon-Caliphate/dp/1501025392
Why isn’t this a jubilee year?
“This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.” Isa 37:30
(or 2 Kings 19:29)
???
If so, then having one jubilee don’t we have them all?