The Jubilee Year
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04/02/2008 14:57
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This
page is focused on the Jewish jubilee year.
Wikipedia: This law is ascribed to the
legislation on Mount Sinai
Leviticus 25:1-9. It was to come into force after the
Israelites should be in possession of Canaan, Israel. "When
you come into the land which I give you." The 50th year, i.e.,
that following the last year of seven Sabbatical cycles, is the jubilee;
during it the land regulations of the Sabbatical year are to be observed,
as is also the commandment "You shall return
every man unto his possession"
Leviticus 25:10, indicating the compulsory restoration of
hereditary properties (except houses of laymen located in walled cities)
to the original owners or their legal heirs, and the emancipation of all
Hebrew indentured servants whose term of six years is unexpired or who
refuse to leave their masters when such term of service has expired
Genesis 18:6. The regulations of the Sabbatical year include
also the annulment of all monetary obligations between Israelites, the
creditor being legally barred from making any attempt to collect his debt
(Deut. xv. 1 et seq.). The law for the jubilee year has not this
provision. It is to be recognized on the 10th day of the
seventh month, in the day of atonement (Yom Kippur)
Leviticus 25:9
The
actual anniversary is marked from the point when Israel crossed the River
Jordan into the Promised Land. As shown below, this was in April of
1422 BC, which means the 70th jubilee year from the crossing of the River
Jordan is April 6, 2009. My studies combining the
exact-day prophecies of
Daniel and John as well as the
14,000 days and
Rosh Hashanah 2005, place
the abomination of desolation on
February 16, 2009 and therefore the
harpazo sometime before the middle of March. [What
better time for the harpazo timing than around the 70th jubilee, when our freedom comes as we receive
our immortal bodies and meet the Lord in the clouds?]
-
Joshua's Seventieth Jubilee by
John P. Pratt (May
18, 2006)
- The date of that event is
precisely given in scripture using their calendar at that time: it was
the 10th day of the first month (later called Nisan), forty years after
the Exodus from Egypt (Joshua 4:19; 5:6). On that very day, the Lord
commanded them to circumcise all of their males who had been born in the
wilderness (Joshua 5:2). On the Hebrew calendar, that day 10 Nisan
(Consecration) is one of two days each year which is especially
appropriate for making a covenant with God, the other being the Day of
Atonement. Correlating that day to our calendar implies that Joshua
passed over Jordan on Mon 12 Apr 1422 BC.[1] An
extremely impressive anniversary of that date is approaching.
Mon 6 Apr 2009 will mark exactly
seventy jubilees on the (Perpetual) Hebrew Calendar since that date.[2]
The year of the jubilee has been lost to modern Hebrews, but the results
of my research indicate that the jubilee year occurred in that very year
of entering the Promised Land. The Lord told Moses to begin counting
sabbath years and the jubilee cycle when they entered the promised land
(Lev. 25), which suggests beginning the count immediately at that time.[3]
The jubilee is the fiftieth year after the cycle begins, but the cycle
only has seven sets of seven years, or 49 years. Thus, the 50th year of
the cycle is the same as the first year of the cycle.[4]
That and several other events indicate that they indeed entered the
promised land in a jubilee year.[5]
The year 2009 marks 70 sets of 49-year jubilee cycles since 1422 BC.[6]
- 1967-2009 = 6 Sabbatical years from
50th jubilee year in 1967. (7th)
Conclusion:
According to the proposed dates from my research, the year from about Sep
2008 through Sep 2009 will mark the seventieth jubilee year from the events of
the last year of Moses leading the children of Israel through the wilderness
and of Joshua crossing the Jordan River into the promised land of Canaan.
It would be a good time to commemorate the raising of the Brazen Serpent, the
giving of the Book of Deuteronomy, and even the Easter Sunday on which the
manna ceased to come from heaven. But of all of the days to celebrate, the
most outstanding will be the anniversary of Joshua's miraculous crossing of
the River Jordan. The quarter-day beginning at 6 p.m. on Sun 5 Apr 2009 is
a once-in-history repetition of the date of the birth of Isaac on four sacred
calendars.
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