Jubilee

[visionary]

This ram's horn that was blown on the tenth day of the seventh month was also blown during a jubilee year. Jubilee points to the future perfect freedom. This Jubilee coming up will be the Jubilee of Jubilees or better known as the Millennium. Jubilee will start on the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, this Sept 22.

The Bible commands us to blow the trumpets on the Feast of Trumpets as a memorial, ten days to remember but what? It does not tell us why the trumpets need to be blown. Nothing, no explanation, no meanings divulged or even hinted at. Various attempts have been made to explain the festival. By searching through the Scriptures for references to trumpets blasts we find they were used for a variety of purposes.

Each purpose gives us a different reason to remember and highlights a unique aspect of the festival. Each remembrance is a key facet to this feast.

One of the first things would be for us to remember our sins and repent. God wants the people who seek after him daily and are delighted to know the way that God wants them to live and the way that things should be. These people who are willing to approach Him for all the truth will not forsake anything that is of God. They have found delight, truth, righteousness, justification, and sanctification in all of God's ordained ministries and services. It is our delight to seek God daily and know His ways, and do His ways as they are His righteousness and not turn our back on His Laws, for we know it is the sanctified way of approaching God.

There is also the aspect of the coming of the Day of Atonement and the need for repentance. Feast of Trumpets marks the beginning of a ten day countdown to the Day of Atonement. Because the Day of Atonement is judgment day, the trumpet is sounded as a reminder that judgment is very near and the time for repentance is short. Our God is gracious and merciful, full of forgiveness, very slow to anger, even repents Himself of the justice the sinner deserves if they would just tear open their heart and start a new life in Him.

Many have heard Joel 2:13 over and over again, but this time read it with the understanding the kingdom of heaven is truly at hand. We are at the door of eternity. We are soon to be at the end of this earth's history. We are soon to see Yeshua come in the clouds of glory with the entire Heavenly Host with Him.

Have you learned what Yeshua meant by learning the difference between mercy and sacrifice. Many have sacrificed their whole lives, living the cloistered life, the celibate life, and did all these works in the name of their religion but have never come to Yeshua, though they call out His name often. They sing His name, they pray His name, and they worship any image they have of what they think he looks like. They do not live the repentant life where in they are under the sanctifying influence of the Holy Spirit, and will follow Yeshua whereever He leads, even if it is away from what they thought was truth.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

This is why studying the Bible to see if it is so, and praying for godly direction for the believer to walk in is so important in your relationship with God and men.

Matthew 9:13 But go you and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

 

[psalms 91]

A very meaningful and prophetic time, I believe that we will see many things very soon

 

[visionary]

There is a lot of historical evidence which supports continuous 7 and 49 year cycles, including the prophecy of Daniel 9 (70 weeks prophecy). However, there is much disagreement on WHEN exactly these cycles take place.

I am still working on this after 30 years. The Lord stirred my heart a long time ago, to know the Jubilee. I studied the feasts, studied the history books, and religious book on the subject. But alas, while I think I am getting more confirmed in my own mind. I am still open to any presentations on the who, what, where, when, and why, someone else differs in what day is the Jubilee. My favorite at the moment is 2014 - Shmita and 2015 Yovel.

Genesis 5:5 says that Adam lived 930 years, then he died. What many people do not realize is that when anyone lives a certain amount of years and are said to have died at age X it does not necessarily mean that they died in the year X of their life. Adam did not live exactly 930 years, he lived 930 years plus some untold number of months. That means he died in the year 931 of the Creation Date.


931 ÷ 49 = 19 Jubilee Cycles

 

[visionary]

While I like the Jubilee to land on 2015, I have to give credit for those who calculate otherwise if there is sound logic to it. The only problem is that there is no historical document statement like the Temple destruction and shmita rest.

But thing about this, there is 10 Jubilee cycles to equal 490 years, and the prophecy of Daniel 9 puts the time that the "offering and oblation" would be caused to cease in the midst of that last week (the year 487). That places the crucifixion of Messiah in "the midst of the week," the seventh week of the 10th Jubilee cycle from the time of the decree of Artaxerxes being carried out by Ezra in Jerusalem. We have historical confirmation of the date that the prophecy began (457 BCE) and the date this final week began (27 CE). We can also be fairly certain of the date of the crucifixion based upon a Wednesday crucifixion in 31 CE (i.e., "the midst of the week").


(487 years after Exodus, in the midst of the last week of Jubilee Cycle 10 from decree of Artaxerxes)

483 + 3.5 = 486.5 Years

Threw this in because it is worth considering.. just to be fair.

 

[visionary]

Genesis 11:1 says Shem has a son at the age of 100, 2 years after the flood. 100 - 2 = 98. 98 ÷ 49 = 2 Jubilee Cycles
From the end of the flood to the birth of Isaac indicates a period of 392 years. 392 ÷ 49 = 8 Jubilee Cycles
From the start of the flood to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is 392 years. 392 ÷ 49 = 8 Jubilee Cycles

 

[visionary]

Scripture says plainly that there are 60 years between the birth of Isaac and the birth of his son Jacob (Genesis 25:6, 47:9). From the birth of Jacob to the 2nd year of the famine in Egypt is 130 years (Genesis 40:29-30 and 47:9), for a total of 190 years. The famine lasted 7 years, so you add 5 more years of famine to total 5 + 130 + 60 and you get 195. Since Isaac was born on a year of Jubilee, you would add 1 more year to allow for the year of Jubilee and it comes to a total of 196 years. Since this figure is divisible by 49, then it becomes abundantly clear that the 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine are in perfect alignment with the Sabbatical cycles.

60 + 130 = 190

190 + 5 = 195

195 + 1 = 196

196 ÷ 49 = 4 Jubilee Cycles

 

[visionary]

Exodus 12:40-41 states that the children of Israel "sojourned" for 430 years prior to the date of the Exodus. The 430 years would, under this model, begin with the birth of Israel himself. We have conclusive evidence that the Exodus had to have taken place sometime during the 18th Egyptian dynasty, between 1550 and 1400 BC. So, if we take the 430 years to indicate the actual lifespan of Jacob (later named Israel, whose children were vicariously present within his "loins"), then by starting the calculation of the 430 years at this date it brings us to the Exodus in the year of Jubilee!! 2119 + 430 = 2549, or 1437/36 BC Jacob was born 60 years after Isaac (Genesis 25:26). Having determined this we can now also find another important alignment. The elapsed time between the birth of Isaac and the Exodus is exactly 10 Jubilees in length, (60 + 430 = 490)—the same number of Jubilees as in the 70 week prophecy of Daniel 9.


60 + 430 = 490

490 ÷ 49 = 10 Jubilee Cycles

Some ancient texts even plainly state that the 430 years applies to the stay of Israel in both the land of Egypt and Canaan: "The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Septuagint add the words 'and in the land of Canaan' after 'Egypt.'" (The Hebrew/Greek Key Study Bible, World Bible Publishers, p. 95.) If this is true, then this would have to be 430 years in which the children of Israel live including the date of the birth of their father, Jacob, later named Israel.

 

[visionary]

Rest.. rest ... rest...

These cycles are 7 days [DAY REST]
7 years [YEAR REST]
49 years (7 X 7 years) [Land rest]
leading up to the 50th year (year of Jubilee)[which means it is a TWO YEAR REST period every Jubilee]
1000 years X 7 = millennium [REST ONE THOUSAND YEARS]

The 7th day is a Sabbath day in which the people are to REST.
The 7th year is a Sabbatical year in which the land is to REST.
The 7 x 7 year of years = 49th year is also a time of REST.
The 50th year following the 49th is the Jubilee and is to be proclaimed as a special year of release and the land is to REST also in that year. Finally, there is the 7th millennium where the whole earth RESTS.

That is the cycle of Sabbath rests. Just like keys in a lock, God's prophetic appointed times click into place and one day His door will open up, the universe will roll back like a scroll and He will come to give us eternal REST from sin.

 

[visionary]

The significance of the eighth day [which is the 1st of the next count]
On the last seven of seven week count, the eighth day is Pentecost which is in the Spring Feasts which Yeshua fulfilled.
On the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, it is called the eighth day, a closing assembly, which like the Spring Feasts Yeshua will fulfill.
On the last seven of seven year count, the eighth year is a Jubilee year.
On the start of eighth millenium, the millenium rest is over and we will have a new heaven and a new earth.

 

[visionary]

I meant to add that Jubilee is all about a new beginning. Sabbath is all about rest at the end. Eight is prohetic as new beginnings just as 7 is perfection and rest.

Think about it, with Pentecost it was a new beginning for the believers in a spiritual walk fulfilling what Moses said in that He wants us all to be prophets of God. Even the feast of Tabernacles' eighth day is a day of celebrating a new beginning. Starting with reading the Torah from the beginning again. Every Jubilee was about setting things free, setting things back to the way they were, and starting over. With the eighth millenium we will have a new heaven and a new earth without sin. What a grand beginning is that.

 

[visionary]

Some say that the Jubilee cycle did not start at the garden of Eden but later in 1416 BC when God brought the children of Israel into the land of Canaan. They use this verse to justify their position.

Lev 25:8 You shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you.

Seven years from 1416 is [1]1409 [2]1402 [3]1395 [4]1388 [5]1381 [6]1374 [7]1367 which means 1366 would have been the first Jubilee. 70 Jubilees later [70 x 7 = 3430] is 2065. Thus it means that 2015/16 is the 69th Jubilee.... Unless 1416 is the Jubilee [1]then this would be the 70th Jubilee 2015/2016.