A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT AND THE LAW OF THE FRUIT TREES
A WILDERNESS CLUE
The
7-year current Israeli Sabbatical cycle runs as follows:
Year
1 September 18, 2001 through September 6, 2002
Year 2 September 7, 2002 through September
26, 2003
Year 3 September 27, 2003 through September
15, 2004
Year 4 September 16, 2004 through October
3, 2005
Year 5 October 4, 2005 through September
22, 2006
Year
6 September 23, 2006
through September
12, 2007
Year
7 September 13, 2007
through September
29, 2008
Year
8 September 30, 2008
through September 19, 2009 – Yeshua returns as the dead in Christ rise and
those alive in wilderness and earth are given glorified bodies (I Thess.
4:16-17).
Year of Jubilee begins in Millennium
October
14, 2008
An understanding of the current
seven-year Sabbatical cycle is essential in grasping the urgency of the
times we are living and how short and fast it is fleeting.
BUT HOLD ON WHEN DID IT START?
“And
the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man,
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and
twenty years.” (Genesis 6:3)
A Sabbatical
cycle is 7 weeks of 7-years totaling 49 years plus 1 jubilee year
completing a 50-year Jubilee cycle. Therefore 120 Jubilee cycles
of 50 years equals the 6000 years of the days of man.
Consequently,
at creation it was established and proclaimed that there would be 6000
years of the days of man followed by a 1000-year reign of The
Messiah. Therefore, please pay close attention, as God wants His people
to know what time it is on His calendar, the countdown has commenced!
6000 YEARS FROM CREATION
Tishri
1, 1 to Tishri 1, 6001 CE = 6000 years that ended on 9-17-2001
Tishri
1, 4000 BC to Elul 29, 2001 or 9-17-01 = 6000
years
3999.33
years plus 2000.67 years = 6000 years
Note:
1 BC to 1 CE equals one year, as there is no year zero. Hence 3999.33 +
2000.67 = 6000 years
WHAT ABOUT THESE LAST SEVEN
Adam
and Eve were set-apart with God for one sabbatical week from: Tishri 1,
1 to Tishri 1, 8 so actually
we are completing the last 7 years of the 6000 years appointed to man
because the count did not start till year 8. Therefore by adding
8 + 6000 = 6008 years that completes this last sabbatical week that started
on September
18, 2001!
THE
LAW OF THE FRUIT TREES
There
is a law in Leviticus 19:23-25 pertaining to fruit trees.
It says:
23 When you enter the land
and plant all kinds of trees
for food, then you shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years
it shall be forbidden to you; it shall not be eaten.
24 But in
the FOURTH year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to
the LORD.
25 In the fifth year
you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you;
I am the LORD your God.
Simply stated, Israel
was not allowed to eat the fruit from their newly planted trees for three
years. During this time, the fruit was purifying itself. It is
in the FOURTH year that all the fruit was to be taken to the Tabernacle/Temple
and offered to the Lord.
I
believe
Yeshua returns on Sept.
30, 2008
and tabernacles with us 14 days later. We, being representative of the
house of Israel, will then in a spiritual sense become a type
of first fruits offering to Him along with the house of Judah!
However
in a physical sense we will be tilling the soil and preparing the fruit
trees for millennial abundance!
Then,
in the fifth year as “children of the King”, will be free to eat
and market our crop and by God’s grace and mercy be in the Millennium
with Yeshua our King!
So how does the law of the fruit trees relate to our “Greater Exodus”
into the wilderness?
Leviticus
23:17
says that the two loaves baked with leaven and waved before the Lord at
the Feast of Shavuot, a harvest feast, are "First fruits unto the Lord."
Leaven represents sin, and the two loaves represent two distinct
categories of redeemed sinners: the tribe of Judah
and the house of Israel.
The
harvest feast that precedes Shavuot in
the springtime, and falls on the day after Passover, is called
the Feast of First fruits. However this feast is free of leaven,
and a sheaf of barley called the "Sheaf of the First fruits" is waved
before the Lord picturing the sinless, resurrected Messiah.
THE PARABLE OF THE VINEYARD KEEPER’S FIG TREE
We
are now in the FOURTH year of a Sabbatical cycle, the significance is that
by my understanding, we will be in the wilderness the last three plus
years and according to the Levitical law , the first fruits of
the fruit trees were to be taken to the Temple in the FOURTH year
and offered before the Lord, paralleling the waving of the two leavened
loafs on Shavuot (Lev. 23:17).
If
the first fruits of the fruit trees represent ALL of remnant Israel,
Messianic Judah and the house of Israel
as the “grafted in Messianic Gentiles, that means we could very well appear
before the Lord on the Feast of Tabernacles at the end of the seventh
year of this current Sabbatical cycle.
If the “144,000 and all “Messianic Israel
is sealed before 10-3-05?
Then as this FOURTH year in her Sabbatical cycle draws to a close our
“wilderness experience” is near as well!
Luke
13:6-9
tells us:
6 And He began telling this
parable: A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard:
and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.
7 And he said to the vineyard-keeper,
Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig
tree without finding any. Cut it down! Why does it even use up the
ground?
8 And he answered and said
to him, Let it alone, sir, for this year too, until I dig around it and
put in fertilizer;
9 and if it bears fruit
next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.
APPLYING THIS TO THE SUMMER OF 2005
Matthew
24:32 "Now
learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already
become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.
The
past three years the Palestinians, along with the manifold terrorist
groups affiliated with them, have relentlessly attacked Israel and
have caused them great suffering and heartache. Yet there has been no
national repentance, and Israel's
leadership continues to look to man rather than their God for deliverance.
The fig tree represents Israel and apostate Christianity is crying
for Israel
to be cut down as numerous church denominations are trying to
strangle Israel
with threats of divestiture if the Israelis do not cave in to every
single Palestinian demand.
Numerous
countries, including Russia
and the United
States,
are entertaining schemes to help arm the Palestinian police. (it
is assumed that the arms will not be used against Israel
!!)
Three
years the vineyard-keeper, God Almighty, has looked for fruit on
Israel's
fig tree, but has found none. He currently sees Israel preparing to give
away its Covenant Land in Gaza and the West
Bank,
with more land also to be given away in Jerusalem
in the near future.
GRACE EXTENDED AS
DAYS ARE SHORTENED
In
the parable, the long suffering vineyard-keeper refuses the Devil's
request (Satan is an accuser) to cut down the fruitless fig tree. Luke
13:8 indicates the Lord's patience will extend one more year,
which will be YEAR FOUR. Israel
is currently in the FOURTH year of a Sabbatical cycle which extends from
September
16, 2004
through October
3, 2005.
There are less than two months left in this fourth year.
THE WILDERNESS YEARS
Hosea
2:14-15.
"I
will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness…And I will
give her vineyards from thence"
Ezekiel
36:8-10 But
ye, O mountains of Israel,
ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people
of Israel;
for they are at hand to come.
(9) For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and
ye shall be tilled and sown: (10) And I will multiply men upon
you, all the house of Israel,
even all of it:
and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be
builded:
1st
Year in wilderness includes any time between now and
Oct. 3, 2005
2ND Year in wilderness - October 4, 2005 through September 22,
2006
3rd
Year in wilderness - September 23, 2006 through September 12, 2007
4th
Year in wilderness - September 13, 2007 through September 29, 2008
5th
Year in wilderness - September 30 through October 9, 2008 Yeshua returns
as the dead in Christ rise and those alive in wilderness and on earth are
given glorified bodies (I Thess. 4:16-17).
Year
of Jubilee begins in Millennium Oct.
14, 2008
We
are also told in Luke 13:8 that the Lord is going to dig around the fig
tree and fertilize it. If spiritual Israel
is going to be taken to the “wilderness” possibly before the disengagement
period goes into effect on August
15, 2005,
we could be fertilizing the land 7-weeks before year number
FOUR expires on 10-3-05.
Before this FOURTH year of this Sabbatical cycle ends, we, by God’s mercy,
as “remnant believers” having the “testimony of Yeshua and by keeping
His commandments” could very well be taken to the wilderness
and by being part of the fig tree, as Israel’s redeemed we will be “given
a new heart and a new spirit will be put into us” Ezekiel 36:26.
Baruch Haba Ba Shem Adonai Hallelujah, blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord!
Giving
Him the glory A Ezekiel 33:6 watching one