Kevin N (28 Dec 2014)
"2015-2016 (not 2017) is the next Jubilee Year"
There are many fine posts on correctly calculating
the Jubilee year, so I won't go into all the detail. There are two
basic things to remember when calculating the
Jubilee:
1. The 50th year (the Jubilee) is also the first year of a new Jubilee
cycle and is the only way that the Shemitah years (every 7th year of
rest and release) can stay in sync with the Jubilee cycle.
2. The Jubilee years overlap our years, beginning and ending in the fall.
Because 1917 was the year that the Balfour declaration and the
liberation of Jerusalem from Moslem rule and 1967 was the year Jerusalem
was returned to Jewish rule, many make the following miscalculation to
find the next Jubilee year: 1917+50=1967+50=2017.
The proper way to calculate the next jubilee year is as follows:
Fall1917-fall1918+49 years=fall1966-fall1967+49years=fall2015-fall2016
This is also the only method in which the Balfour Declaration (November
2, 1917), the liberation of Jerusalem (December 11,1917), and the
capture of the Old city of Jerusalem (June 6,1967) can fall within
the actual Jubilee year. Incorrectly adding 50 years to
November/December 1917 puts the Jubilee beginning in the fall of 1967,
which means that the recapture of Jerusalem in June 1967 occurs before
the Jubilee begins. If you go back 50 years from June 1967, instead of
49, then both the Balfour Declaration and the liberation of Jerusalem
occur after the Jubilee ends in fall 2017.
Also, Jonathan Cahn has laid out the Shemitah years to the exact day and
those cycles are 2000-2001,2007-2008, and 2014-2015. Then comes the
Jubilee of 2015-2016, in perfect succession. The puzzle pieces fit
too perfectly to be a coincidence!
Kevin N.