Hi Lauren...thanks for post.

 

My position on the 2nd coming (at least since 2007) has always been based on the word...specifically Dan 9:24-25. This passage in my opinion, and others, tells the timing of Christ's return; that He would return 7 weeks after the command to restore and build Jerusalem...he fulfilled the 62 weeks with His first coming. Now, when we apply that information starting at June 7, 1967...7 weeks (17460 days) later...we end up at Yom Kippur Sept. 23, 2015. June 7, 1967 is the only date we can use...there literally is no other date.

 

So, to me, the timing of the Jubilee has always been secondary because its difficult to pinpoint and there's controversy surrounding it vs. Daniel 9:24-25 (June 7, 1967-Sept 23, 2015) that is measurable and is blatantly obvious.

 

The problem, is Christ is to return on a Jubilee year...so if Sept. 23, 2015 is not the start of Jubilee, then any other date completely invalidates the count from June 7, 1967. Christs 2nd coming has to not only fulfill Jubilee, but also Daniel 9:24-25 which points to Sep 23, 2015.

 

Since there is a 1 year discrepancy between 9/23/15 and the suggested next Jubilee, I felt it would be worth while considering the Shmita years...since Jubilee's are based off of them. IE. 1 shmita is 7 years, the 7th shmita is the 49th year, and the next year is Jubilee. Its not like Israel had a Jubilee any 50th year, they were based off of the shmita years...with the year after the 7th shmita being Jubilee.

 

Here's the issue, the bible doesn't say whether the 50th year (Jubilee) is also the start of the next Shmita cycle, such that the Jubilee is itself contained within the 49 years. The argument amongst Rabbis is that if the Jubilee (50th year) is an extra year outside of the 49 year cycle, it would alter the nature of repeating 7's. I hope this isnt confusing. But the 7 year cycle (7th year being the sabbath rest year) continuously repeats...7+7+7+7+7+7+7+7+7+7+7+7...indefinately, if you ad just 1 extra year as the Jubilee, it alters the "every 7th year" sabbath rules. This is why Israel doesn't celebrate Jubilee, because they know the shmita years, but they don't know which shmita leads up to the Jubilee. And the assumption is that Jubilee is not only the 50th year, but is also the 1st year of the next 7 year cycle and contained within that 49 year cycle. This is the only method that can be used in which there is a 50th year, but it doesnt violate the "every 7th year" sabbath rules, b/c it is contained within it.

 

So I had commented on this a post back in June I think, suggesting that if the Jubilee is a mystery, but the Shmita is not, then maybe we can look at certain years after shmita years and see if anything drastic happened which might reveal the Jubilee. Think of the Jubilee as an "invisible" year which has an effect. Its happened several times in the last century, its just that no one saw it, but it had an effect on life. So when we look at the shmita of 1965-66, we see that Israel captures Jerusalem the next year 1966-67. So is that the smoking gun that the shmita from 1965-66 was the 7th shmita, 49th year, and the next year 1966-67 was Jubilee?? If we adopt the "unproven" and "unverifiable" idea in the paragraph above that the next Jubilee is contained within the 49 year cycle as not to violate the continuously repeating 7 year cycles, then 1966-67 being a Jubilee year, would also be the first year of the next 49 year cycle...which then takes us to the Shmita of 2014-15, and Jubilee starting on Sept. 23, 2015 and going through to 2016.

 

With this approach, everyone can have their cake and eat it to, as the forecasted return of Christ from the 7 weeks of Daniel would also coinside with the start of the next Jubilee on Sept. 23, 2015.

 

This is pretty deep stuff, but at the end of the day, Jubilee and the result of Daniel 9:24-25 have to be on the same date...this is why (I think) when we start venturing out into 2017, 2018, etc, we've unknowingly invalidated the 7 weeks of Daniel 9: 24-25. The "hypothesis" of Jubilee being within the 49 year cycle is the only application that works, b/c it doesnt violate the "every 7th year" law, and the numbers make sense. This idea is hotly debated by Rabbis and biblical scholars in religious schools across the world. I think its worth considering since it is the only option...anything else, and the numbers begin to blur and we begin cherry picking our own Jubilee years.

 

Lastly, this whole idea of Christ coming in 2015 or the Shmita year of 2014-15, jubilee 2015-16 wasn't my idea. All of this came from Mark Biltz: This is his graphic at the bottom:

 

http://elshaddaiministries.us/video/eclipsecharts.html

 

But I like Mark Biltz, I think he's an insightful man of God. Afterall, before his discovery, I, aswell as Im sure many of us, had absolutley no clue about these things. Now we do.

 

Lastly, there also has to be eclipses on the day Christ returns...that doesn't happen outside of 2015. In order for the puzzle to work, every peice has to fit precisely.

 

Stefen Lopez