Re: Luis Vega (12 Sept 2021)
The 70th Shemitah-Countdown to
Daniel’s 70th Week
Lu: You piqued my interest with
your Shemitah article. I looked into the matter
briefly on Sunday and would offer a variation on your
thesis. I know there are differing views on how to
count the Jubilee, etc. My line of reasoning begins
with Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy which must be associated
with the Jubilee in Daniel 9:26 speaking about Jesus’ role
in releasing or delivering the captives. This was
first intimated in Leviticus 25’s discussion of
Jublilee. Today there is still calendar
confusion, so we can just speculate like the prophets of 1
Peter 1:11 looking for Him to appear in Glory.
Jesus commenced His ministry in A.D. 26
with His preaching of Isaiah 61:1-2, stopping short of the
day of vengeance. (Luke 4:18-19)
Luke 4:18-19
18The Spirit of the Lord is
upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to
the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to
preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the
acceptable year of the Lord. [This deliverance
and liberty is associated with the Jubilee matters discussed
in Leviticus 25]
Isaiah 61:1-2
1The Spirit of the Lord
God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach
good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the
opening of the prison to them that are bound;
2 To proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our
God; to comfort all that mourn;
So, in A.D. 26 Jesus was announcing the
commencement of His Messianic preaching. This
was the First Advent of Christ. He
declares He has been appointed to preach deliverance to the
captives [of sin]…to set at liberty them that are bruised
[by sin]. This announcement that His ministry occurred
in Daniel’s 69th week. We can draw a
conclusion that the year of His death and resurrection
whereby He defeated sin and liberated all who would believe
in His redemptive work speaks to a spiritual Jubilee in A.D.
30. Since He was cut off after the 69th
week His death and resurrection would deliver all believers
from the condemnation of sin and set them at liberty.
He said: “If you abide in my word, you are truly my
disciples, 32 and you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32) The
year of His resurrection must have been the 50th
year or the Jubilee.
Leviticus 25:10
10 And
you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout the land to all its
inhabitants. The 50th year is not
the 1st year of the next cycle.
If this true, we
would have a reliable date to calculate the Shemitah cycles
from A.D. 30 to date. This is quick my
hypothesis. If A.D. 30 was the Jubilee, then A.D. 31
would be Year 1 of the next Shemitah cycle. Counting
forward from the year following the resurrection (Year A.D.
31) to the 39th Jubilee cycle I arrived at 1980.
Counting from 1980 forward, I added 49 years for the
next cycle arriving at 2029 or the 40th Jubilee
since the resurrection. At or following these 49
years, Year 50 should include the Second Advent of
Christ. In the last week of years, subtracting 7 years
from 2029, we should have Daniel’s 70th week,
under this hypothesis should commence in 2022.
Daniel’s 70th week will fulfill Isaiah 61:2b with
the days of vengeance.
The Second
Advent of Christ should be fulfilled by Isaiah 61:2c where
the Lord’s comforts to all who mourn. This will likely
occur at the Feast of Tabernacles when the Lord will
resurrect the Tribulation saints who lost their heads for
the testimony and faith of Yeshua/Jesus. (Revelation
20:4-5) This will be the third order of the First
Resurrection known as the resurrection of righteousness. (1
Corinthians 15:20-23) The three orders of the first
resurrection are: (1) Christ at First Fruits (during
Unleavened Bread), (2) Christ’s own at His appearing (the
resurrection/rapture), and (3) then comes the end (when
Tribulation saints raised). These three orders match the
three pilgrimage feats of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost and
Tabernacles. God’s plans are ordered.
If we subtract 7
years from 2029 we arrive at Year 2022 as a potential
resurrection/rapture year, likely a Pentecostal Springtime
event on a day and hour known exclusively to our
Lord. We must be close! Knowing God uses
numbers to speak deeper truths, the number 22 is often a
reference to God’s revelation. The Book of Revelation
is the 22nd book in NT. The Book of
Ecclesiastes has 12 chapters and 222 verses. The last
two verses state: “Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter: 13Fear God, and
keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14 For
God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret
thing, whether it be good, or whether it be
evil.” Will 2022 be the beginning of the
judgment?
Restating My A.D. 30 Position:
I know the
controversy that most believe the resurrection was either AD
32 or 33. However, a highly respected author on the
resurrection date provides highly credible historic evidence
for an A.D. 30 Resurrection. See "The Chronology
of the Old Testament" by Floyd Nolan Jones at pages
236-238. This evidence comes from (1) Tertullian who
says that Tiberius received word from Pilate about the
events associated with Christ's death, His resurrection, as
well as the miracles done by Him publicly and his disciples
in His name and that many people believed Jesus to be
God. Tertullian writes that Tiberius proposed to the
Roman senate that Jesus be included among their gods.
The senate rejected his proposal. The principal opposition
came from Sejanus according to Orosius' writings.
Sejanus was Tiberius' anti-Semitic prefect. Tacitus
fixes Sejanus's death at October 18, A.D. 31. Sejanus
could not have addressed the Roman senate after AD 32.
Additionally, writing in AD 417, Orosius adds that Augustus
died in AD 14 and that Christ died in the 17th year of
Tiberius' sole reign which was AD 30.