Hello, John and Doves,After a long slumber, the Laodicean Church asks the basic questions:"Who, what, where, how, when!?!?!?"“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Daniel 9:24 ESV
In the count-up to Messiah's 2nd coming, the "weeks" are sevens of shmita counts. A Jubilee year happens every 49 years, not every 50 years, because a Jubilee year must always follow a seventh shmita year, without fail or excuse. Thus, we do what the LORD says, "Do."You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.
Leviticus 25:8 NAS
Step two:9Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. 11The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields.So, then, when do the 70 Jubilees start? Clearly, 70 X 49 years = 3,430 years. This is much less than six of God's days [2 Peter 3:8].Let's take a closer look at Scripture.“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.
Leviticus 25:2 ESV
Now, the chain of Sabbath years remains unbroken since the Creation. Therefore, the Israelites must have entered the Promised Land on year one of a shmita cycle. [The Sabbath year is a Seventh year.] Therefore also, the Millennium must start on year one of a shmita cycle, since the Jubilee year is when lands return to their proper owner (subject to Leviticus 25).Yom Kippur [the feast day when the Jubilee year of 5776 will be announcedby Yeshua HaMashiach--Leviticus 25:9]in 2000 fell in the year 5761.Thus, Yom Kippur in the year 1000 fell in the year 4761.And so, Yom Kippur in 1 BC [since there is no year "zero"]fell in the year 3761.Yom Kippur, 2 BC fell in the Jewish year 3760.3760 = (537 X 7) + 1--the first year of the 538th shmita cycle since Creation.Yom Kippur 2 BC - 1414 years = Yom Kippur 1416 BC = 2346.The possible candidates for the Children of Israel to have entered the promised land are these, keeping in mind that the grape harvest is in September:(335 X 7) + 1 = 2346--year one of the 336th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1416 BC](336 X 7) + 1 = 2353--year one of the 337th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1409 BC](337 X 7) + 1 = 2360--year one of the 338th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1402 BC](338 X 7) + 1 = 2367--year one of the 339th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1395 BC](339 X 7) + 1 = 2374--year one of the 340th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1388 BC](340 X 7) + 1 = 2381--year one of the 341st shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1381 BC](341 X 7) + 1 = 2388--year one of the 342nd shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1374 BC]...If the year 6000 were to be the 70th Jubilee,we would need 5999 to be a multiple of 7,since the chain of Sabbath years remainsunbroken since the Creation.We observe that 5999 = 857 X 7.But wait!!!It is written,"If the Lord had not cut short those days, no one would survive. But for the sake of the elect, whom he has chosen, he has shortened them.
Mark 13:20 NIV
As you will recall from your Bible studies, the children of Israel flubbed the first attempt at winning their inheritance. That was in 2306, in the fall of 1456 BC, when they entered by representation [Numbers 13]. That is why the whole nation suffered--because they believed the fear rather than the faith. So, we find that the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel entered the land in earnest, forty years later, in 2346, in the spring of 1415 BC, near 1 Nisan (formerly "Aviv"), the start of the barley harvest. As can be seen above, 2346 was year one of the 336th shmita cycle since Creation. [Fall 1416 BC]We have (5776) minus (70 Jubilee counts) = year oneof when the Israelites entered the promised land.In other words, 5776 - (70 X 49) = 5776 - 3430 = 2346.September 13, 2015 (Erev Rosh Hashanah), at evening, sees the end of 5775. Since the next year is a Jubilee year, 5775 (the preceding shmita year) must be divisible by seven. Indeed, 5775 = 825 X 7, so we are OK for September 23, 2015--Yom Kippur 5776 to be correct for the 2nd coming of our LORD and Savior, Yeshua HaMashiach.That brings us to the verse that says:8For it is the day of the Lord’s revenge,the year when Edom will be paid back for all it did to Israel.
Interestingly enough, 34 + 8 = 42.The evening of September 30, 2008saw the first hours of 1 Tishrei 5769,year one in the 825th shmita cycle since the Creation.2008 - 42 = 1966, which on September 25, 1966(Yom Kippur 5727) started the previous (69th) Jubilee year of 5727.And of course, the 70th Jubilee year is spoken of in Daniel 9:24.This is true because the 69th Jubilee year (penultimate victory) was punctuated by the recapture of Jerusalem.Looks like the LORD of Sabbaoth (Hosts) is also the LORD of the Sabbath (Seventh). He has seen fit to keep His Bride on the Earth for these past five years of Daniel's Seventieth Week. Only two years to go!! Whoohoo!!!! Israel will be delivered by the LORD of Hosts, the God of the Armies of Israel (1 Samuel 17:45).Oh, and by the way, we and Eretz Israel are being perfected, so don't murmur!!!10In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer [Yeshua HaMashiach] of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters....14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17For this reason he had to be made like them, fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.Again, it is written,2Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.More reasons that suffering is good for the soul:~Blessings,Mike