Parsha Vayelech, and He went, D’varim 31:1-30,
YeshaYahu 55:6-56:8, Rom.7:7-12
Moshe is at his last day with the children of Israel. He has been faithful to YHWH during all this last eighty years, when Yehovah took him from among the Egyptians and made him to be the "saviour" of his people the children of Israel.
Moshe is a picture of Yehoshua Messiah, both are prophet and follow Yehowah. What is then the difference between following Moshe and following Messiah?
Our forefathers followed Moshes in their own strength outside the faith and failed. All those who try to please Elohim in this context will fall. There are many groups in the world pretending to follow G-d, Allah,….
Unfortunately they do it outside the way. Yehoshua is the only way to come to the Father Yehowah Elohim, by fallowing the Torah in the Ruach and not the letter.
The understanding of Moshes and Yehoshua is to understand that the WORD, the "dabar" in Hebrew or "logos" in Greek is Yehovah and SAVE!
Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted* word (logos), which is able to save your souls.
*Let us look at the word “engrafted” in Greek:G1721ἔμφυτοςemphutos(em'-foo-tos) adj.
1. implanted (figuratively)
FromG1722 ἔνen(en) n.
1. "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.
And
G5453 φύωphuo(foo'-o) v.
1. to germinate or grow (sprout, produce)
This is really amazing to me to see that the WORD that save us is to « germinate or grow » in us after having been “implanted”.
Sha’ul says: “Mashiach in us (the Word) the hope of glory” (Col.1:27). Mashiach in us is the Word who live in us the Ruach of Yehowah and change us from glory to glory. This is not our work but the work of the One who has called us into His Kingdom.
Sha’ul says: “Mashiach in us (the Word) the hope of glory” (Col.1:27). Mashiach in us is the Word who live in us the Ruach of Yehowah and change us from glory to glory. This is not our work but the work of the One who has called us into His Kingdom.
How can Ya'acov write that the WORD is able to save our souls, is there any discrepancy with what Yochanan says?
Joh 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with YHWH, and the Word was YHWH.
Joh 1:2The same was in the beginning with YHWH.
Joh 1:3All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.
Joh 1:4In him was life; and the life was the light of men.......................................
Joh 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Now let us compare with the Bishop version from 1568 C.E.
Joh 1:1In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.
Joh 1:2The same was in the begynnyng with God.
Joh 1:3All thynges were made by it (nothim): and without it, was made nothyng that was made.
Joh 1:4In it(the WORD) was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,
Joh 1:14And the same wordbecame fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it,as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.
Bishops like William Tendaleuse the pronoun "it" for "the Word", the "dabar"having taken the text from the Septuagint as foundation for their translation instead of the Latin Vulgate from Jerome as the majority of others translators did.
So was Ya'acov wrong when he says that the engrafted Word is able to save? The answer is obviously NO, as we read in Yochanan chapter 1, but also what Moshewrite:
Deu 30:16In that I command thee this day to love YHWH thy Elohim, to walk in his ways, andto keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest liveand multiply: and YHWH thy Elohim shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Yehovah speaks by the mouth of the prophet Yeshayahuheralding the coming of the "Word made flesh)" (Yeshua).
Isa 55:10For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isa 55:11So shall my word (the Torah)be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Yochanan confirms that it was the Word and that "The Word" isYeshua theProphet like Moshe:
Rev 19:10And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Yehoshua: worship YHWH: for the testimony of Yehoshua is the spirit of prophecy.
Rev 19:11And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
Rev 19:12His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Rev 19:13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of YHWH.
Moshe died as he was 120 years old. Today we see that there is no man dying at this age. Many die between 70 to 90 this is common, but not 120.
In the book of B’reshit chapter 6 Yehovahsays that His Ruach will not strive with men forever but his life will be 120 years:
Gen 6:3And יהוהsaid, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
The Hebrew word for year is the word strong’s# H8141שׁנהshânehshaw-neh',shaw-naw' written Shin, nun, He;
(The first form being in plural only, the second form being feminine); from H8138; a year(as a revolutionof time): - + whole age, X long, + old, year (X -ly).
The word means also a revolution of time. This is very interesting. This word is the same used for Moshe who was 120 years (shanah). Moshe could be the prototype of those following Yehovahin the mortal nature?
At the end of this Parasha I will give a short explanation concerning the 120 cycle of life on earth.
Deu 31:1And Mosheh went and spoke these words to all Yisra’ĕl,
Deu 31:2and he said to them, “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And יהוהhas said to me, ‘You do not pass over this Yardĕn.’
You do not pass over this Yarden! Again we will find some help in the Hebrew word for Yarden:
Stong’s# H3383 ירדּןyardên yar-dane' writte,: yod,resh,dalet, nun final.
FromH3381; a descender;Jarden, the principal river of Palestine: - Jordan.
H3381:yârad yaw-rad'
A primitive root; to descend(literally to godownwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bringdown(in all the above applications): - X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come (-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go (-ing) down (-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
In order to enter the promise land the children of Israel will have to “descend”. This is an interesting concept. It is taught in the Judaism that we must first descend before ascending to a higher level.
Remember the promise land behind the Yarden is the place where the Torah will take rule over the people, a place in a Land which shall remain Qadosh. We also must descend to a lower spiritual condition, acknowledging that only Messiah will bring us up to a higher level, by studying the Torah and so become Qadosh.
The Natural man, the flesh needs a frame to live. This frame is for the people of Elohim, His Torah. By following Messiah in his step, we acknowledge Yehowah righteous way.
Now is not Moshe who will lead the children of Israel, “YHWH” is passing over before you. The leader will be now Yehoshua written in Hebrew יהושׁוּע
Both are written yod, he, vav, shin,ayin. May be we should say for both Yehoshua?
If you read the book of “Joshua” (Yehoshua) you will see and understand why he was chosen to bring the children of Israel (carnal man) into the promise land. Remember it is Moshe who changed the name Osheaunto Yehoshua. Oshea meaning deliverer and adding the letter Yod and He from Yehovah:
Strong’s # H1954 הושׁעhôshêa‛ ho-shay'-ah written He,vav,shin,ayin
FromH3467;deliverer;Hoshea, the name of five Israelites: - Hosea, Hoshea, Oshea.
So making the name’s meaning to be: Yah save or deliver.
Yehoshua following Moshe walked in the same steps of the carnal man. The time was not yet for the Messiah to come. This is for us to understand how it is without or outside Messiah. We can’t do nothing. The flesh will bring us to destruction.
The land will be taken by force, by destroying the nation who lived in this place. This is for us a spiritual battle. We also have to fight against all this spiritual forces of darkness and put the flesh to obey Messiah.
Deu 31:3“יהוהyour Elohim Himself is passing over before you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them. Yehoshua (Joshua) himself is passing over before you, as יהוהhas spoken.
Deu 31:4“And יהוהshall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them.
Deu 31:5“And יהוהshall give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you.
Deu 31:6“be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is יהוהyour Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you.”
We should be aware that we are not alone. The Fight is won when we trust YHWH to deliver us and give us the victory. Many times we keep the things in our own hands, thinking we can help! We cannot and YHWH want us to let Him work in our life what He want:
Php 2:13for it is Elohim who is working in you1both to desire (will) and to work (do) for Hisgood pleasure.
How do believers today are empower to live a Qadosh life unto Yehovah will be explain at the end of the midrash(teaching)
Deu 31:7And Moshe called Yehoshua (Joshua) and said to him before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, “Be strong and courageous, for you are going with this people to the land which יהוהhas sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to let them inherit it.
Deu 31:8“And it is יהוהwho is going before you, He Himself is with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged.”
Compare what Sh’lomo write in proverbs:
Pro 3:5Trust in יהוהwith all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Again and again we will find that to walk the Torah is not in our own strength but by letting the Ruach HaQodesh lead us. Remember that we must be willing. To be willing is to refuse to chose our own way, and be patient in our daily life when things do not turn like we expect. Yehowah is at hand. He is always with us. Yehoshua will bring us to the promise Land, the eternal salvation if we trust Him.
Deu 31:9And Moshehwrote this Torah and gave it to the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה, and to all the elders of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 31:10And Moshehcommanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths,
The end of the seven years, the year of release; at the Festivals of booth.
Here there is a special instruction, connecting the number seven, the year of release which is the sh’mitta the seven time period of the Yovel every seven sh’mitta period.
Strong’s # H8059 שׁמטּהshemiṭṭâhshem-it-taw'written: shin;mem,tav,he.
FromH8058;remission(of debt) or suspension(of labor): - release.
H 8058 shâmaṭshaw-mat'
A primitive root; to flingdown; incipiently to jostle; figuratively to letalone,desist,remit:- discontinue, overthrow, release, let rest, shake, stumble, throw down.
This period of time is absolutely important to understand as it was commanded by Yehowahfor His children. Yehowahis an Elohaof justice.
Deu 15:1“At the end of every seven years you make a release (sh'mittah) of debts.
Deu 15:2“And this is the word of the release (sh'mittah): Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of יהוה.
Lev 25:8‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
The feast of the booth is the last feast which conclude the Feats of Yehowah, after that come shemini atzeret.
The feats of the booth is also called the Feats of ingathering. Which ingathering? Remember all Feast are pictures from the salvation which is in Messiah Yehoshua. The last feast of tabernacle will be when Messiah will come to gather the people of Yehowahfrom the four corners of the earth at His second advent.
Deu 31:11when all Yisra’ĕl comes to appear before יהוהyour Elohim in the place which He chooses, read this Torah before all Yisra’ĕl in their hearing.
Deu 31:12“Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear יהוהyour Elohim and guard to do all the Words of this Torah.
The fear of Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom Psalm 111:10
Deu 31:13“And their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear יהוהyour Elohim as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yardĕn to possess.”
Remember what Shaul write: Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Yehowah. Romans 10:17.
The children who were born after this time will learn to fear Yehowah by hearing the Word, they will so become doer of the word.
Lawrence Nathan (Hoshanna Rabba) gives following commentary:
- 31:10-13,You shall read this Torah before all Israel. Verses like this tend to expose the theological confusion that occurs in the minds of many Messiahian Bible teachers. Messiahian commentator Matthew Henry on this verse writes about the need to read the word of Elohim and that doing so will “help us to keep his commandments.” Yet elsewhere he says in the same commentary about the same laws that the commandments or laws of YHVH “are done away with.” This is representative of split and incongruous, double-speak thinking on the part of many Messiahian leaders. Is it possible to have it both ways? If it can be both ways, then what is the meaning of such phrases as “forever, for a thousand generations, the same yesterday today and forever, till heaven and earth pass away, I change not, think not that I came to destroy the Torah-law” that Scripture uses with respect to the Torah-laws and covenants YHVH gave to Israel? Is YHVH’s Word inconsistent and contradictory or is the mind of man? Is YHVH’s immutable character flawed with regard to keeping his Word, promises and standards or is man’s? Do we have a high enough view of YHVH Elohim and fear him and tremble at his Word (Isa. 66:2), or have we tried to demote him by forming him into the image of changeable and inconsistent man (which Scripture defines as idolatry)? Have we bought into the lie of the serpent proffered at the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden when he told the man and the woman that YHVH really does not mean what he says and that humans can take the “have it your own way” and “pick and choose” approach when it comes to obeying the Word of YHVH (which forms the basis for the religious movement calledsecular humanism)? How many aspects of Messiahian theology are no more than a thinly veiled version of the religion of humanism in disguise? These are tough questions that we as Messianic Israelites need to ponder seriously. Remember the words of Yeshua in John 14:15, “If you love me, keep my [Torah] commandments” and the words of the Apostle in 1 John 2:2-3, “He that says, ‘I know him,’ and does not keep his [Torah] commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whosoever keeps his word in him truly is the love of Elohim perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.”
Deu 31:14And יהוהsaid to Mosheh, “See, the days have drawn near for you to die. Call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, so that I command him.” And Mosheh and Yehoshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.
Deu 31:15And יהוהappeared at the Tent in a column of a cloud, and the column of a cloud stood above the door of the Tent.
Deu 31:16And יהוהsaid to Mosheh, “See, you are about to sleep with your fathers. And this people shall rise and whore after the mighty ones of the strangers of the land into the midst of which they shall enter, and forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Deu 31:17“Then My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, ‘Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?’
Deu 31:18“And I shall certainly hide my face in that day, because of all the evil which they have done, for they shall turn to other mighty ones.
Deu 31:19“And now write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Put it in their mouths, so that this song is to me for a witness against the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 31:20“And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant.
Deu 31:21“And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them.”
We know that Yehowah speaks the End from the beginning.
Isa 46:9“Remember the former eventsof old, for I am Ěl, and there is no one else – Elohim, and there is no one like Me,
Isa 46:10declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not yetbeen done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’
Matthew Henry give this commentary:
Moses and Joshua attended the Divine Majesty at the door of the tabernacle. Moses is told again that he must shortly die; even those who are most ready and willing to die, need to be often reminded of its coming. The Master tells Moses, that, after his death, the covenant he had taken so much pains to make between Israel and their God, would certainly be broken. Israel would forsake Him; then God would forsake Israel. Justly does he cast those off who so unjustly cast him off. Moses is directed to deliver them a song, which should remain a standing testimony for God, as faithful to them in giving them warning, and against them, as persons false to themselves in not taking the warning. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of men's hearts, and meets them by reproofs and correction. Ministers who preach the word, know not the imaginations of men; but God, whose word it is, knows perfectly.
Deu 31:22And Mosheh wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Yisra’ĕl.
Deu 31:23And He commanded Yehoshua son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you are to bring the children of Yisra’ĕl into the land of which I swore to them, and I Myself am with you.”
Deu 31:24And it came to be, when Mosheh had completed writing the Words of this Torah in a book, until their completion,
Deu 31:25that Mosheh commanded the Lĕwites, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה, saying,
Deu 31:26“Take this Book of the Torah, and you shall place it beside the ark of the covenant of יהוהyour Elohim, and it shall be there as a witness against you,
The Torah is a witness!
How can we today hear from the mouth of Messiahians that the Torah is no more, that we are under “grace” not under the law?
Just read what Shaul said to the Yehudin from Rome:
Rom 7:12So that the Torah truly is set-apart(Qadosh, Holy), and the command set-apart (Qadosh, Holy), and righteous, and good.
Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! On the contrary, we establish the Torah.
We establish the Torah by believing Yehoshua as to be Messiah! To keep the commandment is to love Yehowah and Yehoshua.(Yoch. 14:15, 15:10 1stYoch. 5:3)
Deu 31:27for I myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against יהוה, then how much more after my death?
Moshe knew that the rebellion will have the upper hand after his departure. Today rebellion has become apostasy and the doctrines of demons prevail in the all world. Many “so call believers” do not even believe the resurrection as it is written in the scriptures, they prefer to escape in the fake world of their doomed pastors, who teach heresy, instead to bring them back to obey the Torah.
Money and well being has become the focus of many pastors in Messiahianity. The Roman Catholics Assembly who preach humility and dedication, live in luxury and extreme riches.
From the scriptures we can read concerning the deception in the last days:
Deception: The opposite of truth is “lie” or “falsehood,” but so is “deceit” and “deception.” Satan, the devil, is the father of all lies (Yn. 8:44). He is also the great deceiver (Rev. 12:9), deceiving the whole world. He started his work of deceiving in the garden of Ěḏen, and he has been doing it ever since, even coming as a messenger of light, even through his ministers who present themselves as ministers of righteousness (2 Cor. 11:13-15). In Mt. 24, speaking about the days prior to His return, יהושעwarns us no less than four times against the deception (or leading astray) during the last days (vv. 4, 5, 11, 24). Sha’ul reveals this to us as well in 2 Thess. 2, and explicitly warns us about “lawlessness” taking over in the Worship! This lawlessness is associated with “deceit”, “falsehood” and “delusion” (2 Thess. 2:9-11).
Deu 31:28“Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.
Deu 31:29“For I knowthat after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil shall come to you in the latter days*,because you do what is evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.”
Evil shall come to you in the latter days! Moshe is here speaking of the last days short before the coming of Messiah. These days are know has tribulations and many will be deceived because they have rejected the Torah.
*Later days: The Hebrew word bring an interesting insight of the meaning:H319אַחֲרִיתּ'achariyth(akh-ar-eeth') n-f.
1. the last or end
2.(hence)the future
The days that come at the end (last days). Humm, at the end of what? The word in Hebrew is written alep, chet, resh, yod and tav. The construction of the Word is like the Alep-beth, the first and the last letter of the alep-beth, in other word it began with rebellion and this will go on until the last moment. Evil was in the beginning and brought death with Adam, and this evil will only be abolished when HaSatan will be thrown in the pit.
Deu 31:30So Mosheh spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl the words of this song till their completion:
Rev 7:13And one of the elders responded, saying to me, “Who are these dressed in white robes, and where did they come from?”
Rev 7:14And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of the great distress, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
In order to enter the Kingdom many believers will have to “wash” their dirty garments of rebellion, going through the great tribulation. To be dressed in white is to be walking in the Torah:
I would like to look at the term used here: “great tribulation” and compare with another place:TribulationG2347θλίψιςthlipsis (thlip'-sis)n.
1. pressure
So it means that those whith the white robe came throught the “great pressure” in order to be clothed in white. Now let us see a passage where Yehoshua speak, and is often misinterpreted:
Matt.7 :14“Because the gate is narrowand the way is hard pressed1which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
The word “narrow” in Greek is:G2346θλίβωthlibo(thlee'-bo) v.
The word “narrow” in Greek is:G2346θλίβωthlibo(thlee'-bo) v.
1. to crowd
Where we get the Greek word TribulationG2347θλίψιςthlipsis (thlip'-sis)
If we follow in the Torah we will see that the tribulation started with Ya’acov’ sons :
Bereshit 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distresscome upon us.
Distress :H6869צָּרָהtsarah(tsaw-raw') n-f.
- tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble
From :H6862צַּר צָּרtsar(tsar) (or tsar {tsawr}) adj.
1. narrow
We see here the direct connection between Hebrew “tsarah” (distress/tribulation), and the Greek “Thlibo” (crowed) from “thlipsis” (tribulation).
If we search in the TaNaHK we will find connection which demonstrate the the Children of Ysrael our fore fathers have gone through tribulation many times.
If we search in the TaNaHK we will find connection which demonstrate the the Children of Ysrael our fore fathers have gone through tribulation many times.
Is.8:22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble(tsarah)and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
Is.33 :2 O YHWH, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble(tsarah).
Now let us see that it is really connecting to the same meaning as we have read in Rev.7:14 And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of the great distress (thlipsis/distress, trouble)........
Jerem.30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble(tsarah); but he shall be saved out of it.
Jerem.30:7Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble(tsarah); but he shall be saved out of it.
Everyone knows that the « time of Ya’acov trouble” is know that the tribulations.
Rev 19:8And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the set-apart ones.
Isa 51:7“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.
No doubt that Torah is directly joined to righteousness.
Haftorah
The prophet is encouraging the people to turn back to the Torah (seek YHWH), to let the wrong forsake his way, to seek Yehowah’s mercy. The word ofYehovahdoesn’t change, it has been spoken and will do what he says.
Isa 55:6Seek יהוהwhile He is to be found, call on Him while He is near.
Isa 55:7Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to יהוה, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much.
Isa 55:8“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares יהוה.
Isa 55:9“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Isa 55:10“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
Isa 55:11so is My Word that goes forth from My mouth – it does not return to Me empty, but shall do what I please, and shall certainly accomplish what I sent it for.
Isa 55:12“For with joy you go out, and with peace you are brought in – the mountains and the hills break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field clap the hands.
Isa 55:13“Instead of the thorn the cypress comes up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle comes up. And it shall be to יהוהfor a name, for an everlasting sign which is not cut off.”
Isa 56:1Thus said יהוה, “Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
Isa 56:2“Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and guarding his hand from doing any evil.
Isa 56:3“And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself toיהוהspeak, saying, ‘יהוהhas certainly separated me from His people,’ nor let the eunuch say, ‘Look I am a dry tree.’ ”
Isa 56:4For thus said יהוה, “To the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths, and have chosen what pleases Me, and hold fast to My covenant:
In the time of restoration, even the eunuch who according to the Torah has no entrance in the Tabernacle and the Temple, will be restored and have part in the covenant.
Isa 56:5to them I shall give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters – I give them an everlasting name that is not cut off.
Isa 56:6“Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to יהוה, to serve Him, and to love the Name of יהוה, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold fast to My covenant –
Isa 56:7them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”
Isa 56:8The Master יהוה, who gathers the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, declares, “I gather stillothersto him besides those who are gathered to him.”
Rom 7:7What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.”
Rom 7:8But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all sorts ofcovetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead.
Rom 7:9And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died.
Rom 7:10And the command which was to result in life, this I found to result in death.
Rom 7:11For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed me.
Rom 7:12So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good.
Messiah in you, the hope of Glory.
Teaching from the scriptures explanatory notes.
Messiah in You
The Messianic Scriptures contain two important messages:
(1) To come toיהושע(Yehoshua), to believe in Him and accept Him, and also acknowledge and accept the tremendous price He paid on Golgotha for your sins. For He is the only perfect offering for your sins, for the forgiveness of your sins.
(2) Secondly and subsequently, the message of the blessing, the privilege, of having Messiah in you, also called the Word in you(Ya'acov. 1:21), and in other places called the Set-apart Spirit or Spirit of Truth in you (Yn. 14:23). This fact appears in no less than 32 texts in the Messianic Scriptures! This all-important teaching has been sadly neglected in most denominations. Why is it so important? Simply because it is the only way to overcome the wicked one, that one who is the ruler of this present age (world). 1 Yn 4:4 greatly encourages us and says, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” יהושעsays in Yn. 15:5, “Because without Me you are able to do naught”! However, there is a condition Messiah laid down for Him (or the Spirit) to live in us: We have to guard (keep) His Words (Commands), which are the same as the Words (Commands) of His Father (7 texts in Yoḥanan prove this to us). He, or the Spirit, only lives in us if we guard His Words(Commands) – Yn. 14:23,1 Yn. 3:24.This fact is repeated for us in Acts 5:32: the Set-apart Spirit is given “to those who obey Him.” This second message of “Messiah in you,” which we find in the Messianic Scriptures, is nothing else but the life of obedience, to be set apart, as we sit at the feet of יהושעand learn from Him, feeding on the manna (the Word), in order to grow to maturity and bear the fruit of righteousness! This obedience to יהושעis not optional, no, it is imperative, for without this life of set-apartness (set apart from the sins of this world), NO ONE SHALL SEE HIM (Iḇrim. 12:14). If we truly love Him, we shall indeed obey Him (Shem. 20:6, Yn. 14:15, 1 Yn. 5:2-3, 2 Yn. v. 6). This obedience to יהושעis sadly neglected, yet a vital prerequisite (Yn. 3:36, Acts 3:22-23, 2 Cor. 10:5, Iḇrim. 5:9). Obeying יהושעresults in, and is the same as obedience to the Commands of יהוה, and is an essential condition for everlasting life – Mt. 19:17, Lk. 10:28, Yn. 12:50, Rev. 22:14. Those who hear the Words (Commands) ofיהושע, but do not do them, shall fall, greatly (Mt. 7:24-27, Lk. 6:46-49). We are listing these texts of “Messiah in us” (or the Spirit in us) for your convenience:
Yn. 6:56; Yn. 14:17; Yn. 15:4, 5, 7; Rom. 8:8, 9, 10, 11, 11; 1 Cor. 3:16; 1 Cor. 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; 2 Cor. 13:5; Gal. 2:20; Gal. 4:19; Eph. 3:17; Eph. 4:6; Philip. 2:13; Col. 1:27; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. 1:14; Iḇrim.(Hebrew) 13:21; Yaʽaqoḇ 4:5; 1 Yn. 3:9, 24, 24; 1 Yn. 4:4, 12, 13, 15, 16; and last but not least, Yn. 14:23.
This revealed secret (mystery) of “Messiah in us” is the only expectation (“hope”) for the believers, for them to truly overcome (Col. 1:27). It is the secret we all need, it is the key to a life of overcoming, to be truly set-apart.f
120 Years
The cycle of life, the years, the sh’mitta, the Yovel and the return of Messiah.
In this short study I will refer to an excellent article from a man whose name is Joseph Dumond (even if I don't agree with all his teaching) who wrote a long study concerning the Yovel year and how it works in the calculation of the return of Yehoshua.
first of all we have the scriptures which must be always the foundation of our research. Many theories are running among Messiahianity which are not based on the scriptures and therefore cannot hold with the truth. They will only bring deception.
Today Messiahians do not even know when our Master will come back. They claim the false rapture doctrine and will be deceived when the great tribulation will come upon them.
We have seen many times in our different studies that the number seven is a divine number for perfection on earth as everything was created in six days and the seven days is the perfect day of rest.
Lev 25:8‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
Deu 15:1“At the end of every seven years you make a release of debts.
Deu 15:2“And this is the word of the release: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of יהוה.
Deu 31:10And Mosheh commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths,
Exo 21:2“When you buy a Heḇrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught.
Exo 23:10“And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase,
Exo 23:11but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard.
Exo 23:12“Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.
Lev 25:1And יהוהspoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying,
Lev 25:2“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to יהוה.
Lev 25:3‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit,
Lev 25:4but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard.
Lev 25:5‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land.
Lev 25:6‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you,
Jer 34:13“Thus said יהוהthe Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I Myself made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage, saying,
Jer 34:14“At the end of seven years each one should set free his Heḇrew brother, who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear.
Jer 34:15‘And you recently turned and did what was right in My eyes, each man proclaiming release to his neighbour. And you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My Name.
We see that the number seven is connected with the Torah. The time factor seven shall be also understood in the counting. For example the sh’mitta is a period of seven years. The Yovel is a period coming after seven sh’mittah. Joseph Dumond based on the research from HaQadesh publishing, that the year after the seven Sh’mittah is the 50th, the year of Yovel but also the First year of the new coming cycle of SH’mittah, also part of the Yovel cycle.
Why it is so important to understand that? The reason is simple if we count based on a cycle of fifty years we will have a different result as, if we count with a cycle of forty nine years.
My Ruach shall not strive forever with man, his life shall be 120 years. B’reshit chapter 6. We have seen that the word for “years” can also means revolution of time. The Yovel cycle is a revolution of time coming every 40 years. The 50thone being the year of Yovel and also the First of the next cycle.
If we take 50 to count as many scholars have done we are already in the Millennium of Messiah! Fifty times 120 (the revolution time) is six thousand. The first millennium began with the counting of zero to one the first year part of the first Yovel cycle, part also of the first century, part of the first millennium.
If we take 50 to count as many scholars have done we are already in the Millennium of Messiah! Fifty times 120 (the revolution time) is six thousand. The first millennium began with the counting of zero to one the first year part of the first Yovel cycle, part also of the first century, part of the first millennium.
So we know from the scriptures that Messiah shall come back to establish the Kingdom of Elohim on the seven day. Why is he not returned if we have already passed the seven days?
Because the approach has been based on a wrong counting.
If we take the cycle with 49 years we will have a different perspective.
49 X 120 = 5880. So we should write the year 5880 and not the Year 2009 plus 4000 years before Messiah = 6009, but the year 5880.
The last Yovel was celebrated in Jerusalem in 1996. This mean we are now at the end of the second Sh’mittah cycle of the 120thYovel’s cycle. In the theory it should remain now 35 years before the last cycle is finished! This mean it should be the year 2044.
It seems very easy but, Yehoshua says in Mattitiyahu 24 that if the time were not shortened nobody would survive! He was speaking about the tribulations before his coming.(Matt.24:21-22).
How much it will be shortened, we do not know, but it will be for the elect’s sake.
Joseph Dumond goes in much detail concerning the plague coming before the coming back of Messiah. The time period of the opening of the seals from revelation is a seven years period, in which the opened seals will remain in action, while the new one will take place. Since 1996 things have begin to change on earth.
First Terrorism has taken place all around the world, since 2002 the price in the world are out of balance. We are now entering in 2009 the next Sh’mittah cycle and with it a new seal will open adding a new pressure on the world inhabitants.
Joseph Dumond says that people, even believers, followers of the Torah, have become lazy and do not make research, following what other write.
Who are the one following the Lunar calendar? Many today even messianic follow the calendar build after the computer calculation not the sighted moon calendar. They have chosen the easy way. Does Yehowah change?
Below the text from Joseph Dumond to go in depth. Take time to read it and you will discover more hen you may have found in the last years.
The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle
Introduction
This study presents the evidence from ancient biblical and secular sources for the dating of the Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.
There has been a long standing debate over exactly which Shabbat and Jubilee cycle system represents the one actually practiced by the ancient Israelites. To the novice this dispute may at first glance seem trivial. Nevertheless, there are two reasons that its solution is extremely valuable. First, this cycle is an essential tool for any reconstruction of the chronological framework of ancient Israelite history. The strong foundation it provides, in turn, acts as a guide for other contemporary dynasties and events. (See our forthcoming books titled Israelite Chronology and Old World Chronologies.)
Second, once the correct cycle is ascertained, it allows us to “clock in” and discover which years are presently Shabbat and Jubilees. This possibility holds great significance for students of biblical eschatology. The book of Hebrews, for example, notes that, “The Law,” of which the Shabbat and Jubilee years are a part, is “a shadow of the coming good things.” (Hebrews, 10:1) The Shabbat day, to demonstrate, was reckoned as a type of the great Shabbatism and rest into which the people of Yahweh will one day enter. (Hebrews, 3:7-4:13)
Likewise, the prophetic character of the Jubilee year is strongly attested to. The ancient book of Jubilees, for instance, notes that the Shabbat and Jubilee cycle would continue “until the sanctuary of the sovereign (Yehowah) is created in Jerusalem upon Mount Zion.” The text of 11Q Melchizedek, found in the caves at Qumran, explains the Jubilee statutes of Leviticus, 25, by stating:
1. [saying to Zion] `your eloahim reigns.’ . . . [
2. [ ] . . . and where it says, `in [this] year of Jubilee you shall return, each man to his possession.’
3. [and where it says, `Let] every holder of a debt [let drop] what he loans [to his neighbour. Let him not exact payment from his neighbour nor from his brother, for there is proclaimed a] remission
4. [of el.’ Its interpretation concerns the end of days as regards `those taken captive’ who [. . . etc.].
Introduction
This study presents the evidence from ancient biblical and secular sources for the dating of the Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.
There has been a long standing debate over exactly which Shabbat and Jubilee cycle system represents the one actually practiced by the ancient Israelites. To the novice this dispute may at first glance seem trivial. Nevertheless, there are two reasons that its solution is extremely valuable. First, this cycle is an essential tool for any reconstruction of the chronological framework of ancient Israelite history. The strong foundation it provides, in turn, acts as a guide for other contemporary dynasties and events. (See our forthcoming books titled Israelite Chronology and Old World Chronologies.)
Second, once the correct cycle is ascertained, it allows us to “clock in” and discover which years are presently Shabbat and Jubilees. This possibility holds great significance for students of biblical eschatology. The book of Hebrews, for example, notes that, “The Law,” of which the Shabbat and Jubilee years are a part, is “a shadow of the coming good things.” (Hebrews, 10:1) The Shabbat day, to demonstrate, was reckoned as a type of the great Shabbatism and rest into which the people of Yahweh will one day enter. (Hebrews, 3:7-4:13)
Likewise, the prophetic character of the Jubilee year is strongly attested to. The ancient book of Jubilees, for instance, notes that the Shabbat and Jubilee cycle would continue “until the sanctuary of the sovereign (Yehowah) is created in Jerusalem upon Mount Zion.” The text of 11Q Melchizedek, found in the caves at Qumran, explains the Jubilee statutes of Leviticus, 25, by stating:
1. [saying to Zion] `your eloahim reigns.’ . . . [
2. [ ] . . . and where it says, `in [this] year of Jubilee you shall return, each man to his possession.’
3. [and where it says, `Let] every holder of a debt [let drop] what he loans [to his neighbour. Let him not exact payment from his neighbour nor from his brother, for there is proclaimed a] remission
4. [of el.’ Its interpretation concerns the end of days as regards `those taken captive’ who [. . . etc.].
“Those taken captive” is a reference to the future captivity of the Israelites among the nations during the end of days. The prophets foretold that out of this captivity a remnant of Israel and Judah would return to the Promised Land and eternally dwell with Yehowah. This return was symbolized by the Israelites regaining their liberty during the Jubilee year. The coming of the messiah during the end of days, at which time he will save Israel and Judah from their captivity and return them to their homeland, was, by extension, understood as occurring in one of these future Jubilee years.
In either case, whether for an accurate Israelite chronology or for eschatological purposes, a precise knowledge of this ancient cycle is required. Therefore, we must take the utmost care in uncovering the true and original Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.
There are four possible Shemittah cycle systems we must consider. For simplification purposes, this study shall utilize the following labels for these four systems. Our “key” or “example” date will be the Shemittah year in each system which is either on or nearest to the year that Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple (the second Temple) were destroyed (the summer of 70 C.E.).System “A”:Abib (March/April) 1, 70 C.E. until Abib 1, 71 C.E. The month of Abib was also called Nisan. System “A” is advocated by this study.System “B”:Tishri (Sept./Oct.) 1, 68 C.E. until Tishri 1, 69 C.E. The Zuckermann-Schürer system.System “C”:Tishri 1, 69 C.E. until Tishri 1, 70 C.E. The Marcus-Wacholder theory.System “D”:Abib 1, 69 C.E. until Abib 1, 70 C.E. A possibility based upon the evidence of an Abib 1 beginning for the year coupled with the claim of Rabbi Jose and other Talmudic writers that the year before the fall of Jerusalem was a Shabbat year.
Today the most popular of these theories is system “B.” This system has been advocated since the time of the Mishnah (formed at the end of the second century C.E.). It only differs from system “D” in that system “D” would start the Shemittah year in the spring rather than in the fall. System “C” has also been advocated since the Gemara portion of written Talmudic times, but it has been the lesser sister to system “B.” It has again gained some popularity in recent years due to the work of Ralph Marcus and Zion Wacholder. System “A,” on the other hand, is the conclusion based upon the in-depth research into the ancient evidence provided in this study. In reality, system “A” has merely allowed the evidence to present its own case.
It is the contention of this study that the Jews who supported system “B,” beginning in the late second century C.E., lost touch with the accurate chronology and the true Shemittah year and Jubilee cycle. They, in turn, incorrectly calculated the Shemittah year for more ancient times so as to make it fall one year prior to the destruction of Jerusalem rather than during that event. System “D” is merely a modified form of “B.” System “D” takes notice of the fact that the earlier Israelites actually began their Shabbat year in the spring and not with the fall (the Jewish reckoning of fall as the official beginning of the Shemittah year taking place at a relatively late date). System “C” takes into account that the year Jerusalem fell (70 C.E.) was a Shabbat year but it errs in that it continues the late and, what we shall prove to be, false practice of reckoning the beginning of a Shabbat year from the fall.
All three systems (”B,” “C,” and “D”) are faced with important obstacles. Advocates of these various theories have often been forced to harshly criticize ancient records, like those from Josephus and the Maccabean books, because the historical data is inconsistent with present theory. Robert North, for example, takes Josephus to task by challenging his historical year as exhibiting “internal inconsistencies which invalidate their use for chronology.” North concludes, “It should be abundantly clear that the Shabbat (shemittah) year dates of Josephus are either palpably incommensurate, or else insolubly obscure.”
This study disagrees. It is not Josephus or any other pre-second century C.E. ancient report that is the source for the confusion. Indeed, we find them all remarkably accurate. Rather, it is the attempt to force these early records to conform with one of the three erroneous Shabbat cycle theories now prevalent which has created an illusion of historical error.System “A,”on the other hand, does not start from the premise of an existing theory which is built upon the interpretation of one or two dates or upon a late tradition, as the three other systems do. Instead, it allows the evidence to build its own structure. The results of this method reveal that the ancient sources are in perfect harmony and reflect an entirely different Shabbat cycle than heretofore presented.
In either case, whether for an accurate Israelite chronology or for eschatological purposes, a precise knowledge of this ancient cycle is required. Therefore, we must take the utmost care in uncovering the true and original Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.
There are four possible Shemittah cycle systems we must consider. For simplification purposes, this study shall utilize the following labels for these four systems. Our “key” or “example” date will be the Shemittah year in each system which is either on or nearest to the year that Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple (the second Temple) were destroyed (the summer of 70 C.E.).System “A”:Abib (March/April) 1, 70 C.E. until Abib 1, 71 C.E. The month of Abib was also called Nisan. System “A” is advocated by this study.System “B”:Tishri (Sept./Oct.) 1, 68 C.E. until Tishri 1, 69 C.E. The Zuckermann-Schürer system.System “C”:Tishri 1, 69 C.E. until Tishri 1, 70 C.E. The Marcus-Wacholder theory.System “D”:Abib 1, 69 C.E. until Abib 1, 70 C.E. A possibility based upon the evidence of an Abib 1 beginning for the year coupled with the claim of Rabbi Jose and other Talmudic writers that the year before the fall of Jerusalem was a Shabbat year.
Today the most popular of these theories is system “B.” This system has been advocated since the time of the Mishnah (formed at the end of the second century C.E.). It only differs from system “D” in that system “D” would start the Shemittah year in the spring rather than in the fall. System “C” has also been advocated since the Gemara portion of written Talmudic times, but it has been the lesser sister to system “B.” It has again gained some popularity in recent years due to the work of Ralph Marcus and Zion Wacholder. System “A,” on the other hand, is the conclusion based upon the in-depth research into the ancient evidence provided in this study. In reality, system “A” has merely allowed the evidence to present its own case.
It is the contention of this study that the Jews who supported system “B,” beginning in the late second century C.E., lost touch with the accurate chronology and the true Shemittah year and Jubilee cycle. They, in turn, incorrectly calculated the Shemittah year for more ancient times so as to make it fall one year prior to the destruction of Jerusalem rather than during that event. System “D” is merely a modified form of “B.” System “D” takes notice of the fact that the earlier Israelites actually began their Shabbat year in the spring and not with the fall (the Jewish reckoning of fall as the official beginning of the Shemittah year taking place at a relatively late date). System “C” takes into account that the year Jerusalem fell (70 C.E.) was a Shabbat year but it errs in that it continues the late and, what we shall prove to be, false practice of reckoning the beginning of a Shabbat year from the fall.
All three systems (”B,” “C,” and “D”) are faced with important obstacles. Advocates of these various theories have often been forced to harshly criticize ancient records, like those from Josephus and the Maccabean books, because the historical data is inconsistent with present theory. Robert North, for example, takes Josephus to task by challenging his historical year as exhibiting “internal inconsistencies which invalidate their use for chronology.” North concludes, “It should be abundantly clear that the Shabbat (shemittah) year dates of Josephus are either palpably incommensurate, or else insolubly obscure.”
This study disagrees. It is not Josephus or any other pre-second century C.E. ancient report that is the source for the confusion. Indeed, we find them all remarkably accurate. Rather, it is the attempt to force these early records to conform with one of the three erroneous Shabbat cycle theories now prevalent which has created an illusion of historical error.System “A,”on the other hand, does not start from the premise of an existing theory which is built upon the interpretation of one or two dates or upon a late tradition, as the three other systems do. Instead, it allows the evidence to build its own structure. The results of this method reveal that the ancient sources are in perfect harmony and reflect an entirely different Shabbat cycle than heretofore presented.
As is to be expected, the fact that system “A” is a new and radical departure from the three established theories demands that it must submit in every detail to very close scrutiny. Yet, there is no doubt in this researcher’s mind that system “A” not only survives meticulous scrutiny but its solution is compelling.
As part of our Preliminary Discussion we shall review some major flaws in the system “B” chronology. These observations will be followed by some initial comments with regard to the question about which month served as the beginning of the ancient Shabbat year during the post-exile period. These two chapters will set the stage for other numerous proofs presented throughout which shall conclusively show that the first day of the Hebrew month of Abib (later called Nisan) was the true New Year date for the Jews up and until the time of the Bar Kochba revolt (133-135 C.E.). The month of Abib, which began with the new moon whose cycle contained the first full moon after the spring equinox, therefore, finds its start sometime during the Gregorian (Roman or Julian) month-names of either March or April.
With this preliminary discussion accomplished, we shall begin a detailed look at the evidence for the Shabbat and Jubilee years. This study has divided this examination into five Sections, each representing the evidence for a specific historical period:
In Section I of our text the records for a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year which occurred during the pre-exile period (before 587 B.C.E.) shall be thoroughly discussed. It shall be demonstrated that a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year were observed in the fifteenth and sixteenth year of the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah (701/700 and 700/699 B.C.E., spring reckoning). The complexities of this evidence demand a full investigation of the conflict between the Assyrian king Sennacherib and the Judahite king Hezekiah, as well as the important involvement of the Kushite king Tirhakah. The results of this study will in turn lay the groundwork for what will prove to be the true and correct Shabbat and Jubilee cycle, which for our study has been dubbed system “A.” This conclusion will be amply supported by the remainder of our work.
In Section II we shall examine the records of the Jewish post-exile period (538-40 B.C.E.). These documents will reveal the observance of a Shabbat year in the eighth year of the Persian king Arta-xerxes I; in the 150th Seleucid year; in the 178th Seleucid year; and, finally, in the year following the fifth consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Section III will delve into the evidence for two Shabbat years observed during the reign of King Herod of Judaea (40-4 B.C.E.). In these chapters we shall provide an in-depth examination of which year and season Herod conquered Jerusalem. This conquest is very important for our study since a Shabbat year occurred around that time. Systems “B,” “C,” and “D” all make their interpretations of this Shabbat year the heart of their arguments. The evidence from Herod’s thirteenth through seventeenth years adds further definition as to which of the four possible Shabbat cycle systems can plausibly work.
Section IV will deal with the evidence for the Shabbat years in the post-Herod period, extending up until the end of the First Revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. This investigation will include the proof that there could not have been a Shabbat year in 40/41 C.E.-which will verify that system “B” (Zuckermann’s view) and system “D” are inaccurate. We shall also show proof of a Shabbat year in the second year of Emperor Nero (56/57 C.E., Abib reckoning) and shall demonstrate that a Shabbat year could not have occurred in the winter of 68/69 C.E. (which again disproves systems “B” and “D”). These records will reveal that the year Jerusalem fell to the Romans (i.e. 70/71 C.E., spring reckoning) was a Shemittah (Shabbat) year.
Section V shall analyze the evidence for the Shemittah (Shabbat) year of 133/134 C.E., during the Bar Kochba revolt, and the references to an upcoming Shabbat year in 140/141 C.E. The Shabbat year of 133/134 C.E. was the last official Shabbat year observed by the Judaean state. With the traumatic defeat of the Jews by the Romans in the summer of 135 C.E., the practice of observing the Shabbat years by the Judaean state was thereafter suppressed. It was abolished altogether as a requirement for Judaism by its leaders during the third century C.E.
As part of our Preliminary Discussion we shall review some major flaws in the system “B” chronology. These observations will be followed by some initial comments with regard to the question about which month served as the beginning of the ancient Shabbat year during the post-exile period. These two chapters will set the stage for other numerous proofs presented throughout which shall conclusively show that the first day of the Hebrew month of Abib (later called Nisan) was the true New Year date for the Jews up and until the time of the Bar Kochba revolt (133-135 C.E.). The month of Abib, which began with the new moon whose cycle contained the first full moon after the spring equinox, therefore, finds its start sometime during the Gregorian (Roman or Julian) month-names of either March or April.
With this preliminary discussion accomplished, we shall begin a detailed look at the evidence for the Shabbat and Jubilee years. This study has divided this examination into five Sections, each representing the evidence for a specific historical period:
In Section I of our text the records for a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year which occurred during the pre-exile period (before 587 B.C.E.) shall be thoroughly discussed. It shall be demonstrated that a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year were observed in the fifteenth and sixteenth year of the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah (701/700 and 700/699 B.C.E., spring reckoning). The complexities of this evidence demand a full investigation of the conflict between the Assyrian king Sennacherib and the Judahite king Hezekiah, as well as the important involvement of the Kushite king Tirhakah. The results of this study will in turn lay the groundwork for what will prove to be the true and correct Shabbat and Jubilee cycle, which for our study has been dubbed system “A.” This conclusion will be amply supported by the remainder of our work.
In Section II we shall examine the records of the Jewish post-exile period (538-40 B.C.E.). These documents will reveal the observance of a Shabbat year in the eighth year of the Persian king Arta-xerxes I; in the 150th Seleucid year; in the 178th Seleucid year; and, finally, in the year following the fifth consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar.
Section III will delve into the evidence for two Shabbat years observed during the reign of King Herod of Judaea (40-4 B.C.E.). In these chapters we shall provide an in-depth examination of which year and season Herod conquered Jerusalem. This conquest is very important for our study since a Shabbat year occurred around that time. Systems “B,” “C,” and “D” all make their interpretations of this Shabbat year the heart of their arguments. The evidence from Herod’s thirteenth through seventeenth years adds further definition as to which of the four possible Shabbat cycle systems can plausibly work.
Section IV will deal with the evidence for the Shabbat years in the post-Herod period, extending up until the end of the First Revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. This investigation will include the proof that there could not have been a Shabbat year in 40/41 C.E.-which will verify that system “B” (Zuckermann’s view) and system “D” are inaccurate. We shall also show proof of a Shabbat year in the second year of Emperor Nero (56/57 C.E., Abib reckoning) and shall demonstrate that a Shabbat year could not have occurred in the winter of 68/69 C.E. (which again disproves systems “B” and “D”). These records will reveal that the year Jerusalem fell to the Romans (i.e. 70/71 C.E., spring reckoning) was a Shemittah (Shabbat) year.
Section V shall analyze the evidence for the Shemittah (Shabbat) year of 133/134 C.E., during the Bar Kochba revolt, and the references to an upcoming Shabbat year in 140/141 C.E. The Shabbat year of 133/134 C.E. was the last official Shabbat year observed by the Judaean state. With the traumatic defeat of the Jews by the Romans in the summer of 135 C.E., the practice of observing the Shabbat years by the Judaean state was thereafter suppressed. It was abolished altogether as a requirement for Judaism by its leaders during the third century C.E.
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But this paper is not just to show you when the Jubilee and Land rest years are. As it says in Colossians 2: 16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, orregarding a festival or a new moon or Shabbath, 17 which are a shadow of things to come,but the substance is of Messiah.
The Sabbath Day, each of the Holy Days, the Land Rest years and the Jubilee year are all shadow pictures of good things to come. But unless we are obedient and keep this time Holy we will miss the events that occur during these days and years, just as the Jews missed the Messiah and the events that happened during Passover, at that time.
The Sabbath Day, each of the Holy Days, the Land Rest years and the Jubilee year are all shadow pictures of good things to come. But unless we are obedient and keep this time Holy we will miss the events that occur during these days and years, just as the Jews missed the Messiah and the events that happened during Passover, at that time.
The years we know to be Land Rest years and Jubilee Years are as follows. From Qadesh La Yahweh Press.
: A land rest year occurred in 701 BC and a Jubilee in 700 BC as written in the Bible in 2 Kings 19:29, Isaiah 37, and 2 Chronicles 32
: A Sabbath year occurred in 456 BC Nehemiah 8:18
: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2
: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1
: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:
: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 456 BC Nehemiah 8:18
: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2
: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1
: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:
: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE
Qadesh La Yahweh Press goes to great detail to prove these dates are correct and shows how the other theories go astray. A most enjoyable read.
Qadesh La Yahweh Press also proves that the 50th year was the year after the 49th and also it was the first year in the follow count. Or in other words 49, 50, then year two would be next. I myself always believed it was 49, 50 then 1, 2 etc. But when these facts are laid out as they are, I am forced to concede my wrong thinking. my wrong theory.
This counting method is also shown to us every year at Pentecost. We count seven Shabbat and on the day after the seventh Shabbat is the fiftieth day. This day is also the first day of the week or the day one as we count to seven again.
Many of the Jubilee authors know of these dates in history. But in order for their own interpretation of the Jubilee cycle to work they must prove that the author in the bible or in history was wrong on certain occasions when recording events. And they go to elaborate explanations to prove they are right. On the other hand Qadesh La Yahweh Press shows how the original author in History used the correct calendar for the area they were talking about, and they cross reference that historian with other historians known at the same time using different calendars to pin point the accuracy of the dating of the events in question.
What does it all mean and why should I be concerned?
The first time I have been able to find any mention of the jubilee is in Genesis 6: 1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
3 And YHWH said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
I have found nowhere in history that the average age of man was 120 years. Before the flood they were up to 962 years. After the flood the bible records many patriarchs well into the hundreds. Today our average life span is about 80. So what was it that Yahweh was saying here when He said “his days shall be one hundred and twenty years”.
3 And YHWH said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”
I have found nowhere in history that the average age of man was 120 years. Before the flood they were up to 962 years. After the flood the bible records many patriarchs well into the hundreds. Today our average life span is about 80. So what was it that Yahweh was saying here when He said “his days shall be one hundred and twenty years”.
The word for years is Strong’s Word # 08141 spelled hnX and pronounced Shaneh (Shaw-neh). It has four meanings which are: a)as division of time ; b) as measure of time ; c) as indication of age ; d) a lifetime (of years of life).
This passage then could be read one hundred and twenty periods of time. That would be 120 Jubilee cycles. Right away many conclude this to be 120 X 50 and arrive at 6000 years. This is wrong as has been explained above. It is 120 X 49 which gives us 5880 years. On the Jewish Calendar they state this year as 5766.
This is very misleading to the average person. The Jewish calendar fails to mention that they have removed 76 years from the calendar.This was done in Mathew 1:8 where the names of Ahaziah, who reigned 1 year, and Athaliah who reigned 6, and Jehhoash who reigned 40 and Amaziah who reigned 29, are all missing from the chronology. 76 years in total. On The Jewish New year which is on September 23 in 2006 the year will be 5767. If we add the 76 years to this date we get 5843. But because the Year according to Yahweh was to start in the Spring in the month of Nisan we can go back 6 months and get 5842 as this year until the 1st of Nisan in 2007 which will then be 5843.
What was it that these kings did to anger Yehowah so? We can read in Duet. 29:20 where Yehowah threatened to blot out the names of those who served other mighty ones. And in Exodus 20:5 it says that the sins of the people will be visited to the 3rd and 4th generations of those who hate Him. What wicked King could this be? 2 Chron 24:7 For the sons of Athalyahu, that wrong woman, had broken into the house of Yehowah; and had also all the dedicated vessels of the house of Yehowah bestowed upon Baalim.
Because of this blasphemy, the city of Libnah revolted against Yeh’oram (2 Kings 8:22). Libnah was one of the cities of the Aaronic Preists (Joshua 21:13). Obviously they objected violently to Yeh’oram’s desecration of the Solomon’s temple. For Yah’oram’s blasphemy, Yahweh judged not only his wife Athaliah, but his son Ahaziah, and grandson Jehash, and great grandson Amazaih.
2 Kings 8: 24 So Yeh’oramrested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.
25 In the twelfth year of Yeh’oramthe son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Yeh’oram, king of Judah, began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel. 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of YHWH, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2 Kings 11: 1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed. 3 So he was hidden with her in the house of YHWH for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
20 So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king’s house. 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.
2 Kings 12: 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash* became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.
25 In the twelfth year of Yeh’oramthe son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Yeh’oram, king of Judah, began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel. 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of YHWH, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
2 Kings 11: 1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed. 3 So he was hidden with her in the house of YHWH for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.
20 So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king’s house. 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king.
2 Kings 12: 1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash* became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 14:1 In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem…….. 19 And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. 20 Then they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.
This Azariah was also called Uzziah in 2 Kings 15:13 and is the Ozias of Mathew 1:8
This Azariah was also called Uzziah in 2 Kings 15:13 and is the Ozias of Mathew 1:8
Having now shown where the 76 year went missing, the question arises, ‘Are we in the year 5766 or is it really 5842 leaving us 38 years to the conclusion of the 120th Jubilee cycles? The answer is I do not know for sure. Not 100% for sure.
But as I watch the signs I see a pattern which is leading me to conclude this is the last Jubilee Cycle. Time will prove me right or wrong. But one of the proofs I have has already been stated. It was 2 kings 19:29.
The Jubilee is mentioned in the Bible
When I first read this at Qadesh La Yahweh Press I was stunned at how plainly it was stated and at how many scholars had overlooked it and or discarded it. In 2 Kings 19:29 it reads ‘This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
Did you get it.? Did you see what Yehowah said to Hezekiah? Read it again. It is so simply put, and so obvious. Read it again.
“This shall be a sign to you” Why did Hezekiah need a sign? Isaiah 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says YHWH Elohim of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which YHWH has spoken concerning him:
2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’ ” 2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to YHWH, saying, 3 “Remember now, O YHWH, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of YHWH came to him, saying, 5 “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH. 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.”
2 Kings 20:1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’ ” 2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to YHWH, saying, 3 “Remember now, O YHWH, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of YHWH came to him, saying, 5 “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH. 6 And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.”
It was at this same time that Sennacherib king of Assyria was attacking Jerusalem. Hezekiah was sick and on his death bed. He was about to die when the attack started. And the sign that Jerusalem was going to be saved was that Hezekiah would live to eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. On top of that or included in that, Yehowah said he would live another 15 years.
Edwin R. Thiele renown chronologist and author of The Mysterious Numbers of The Hebrew Kings states that Hezekiah died in 686 BC. 15 years earlier was 701 BC. Qadesh La Yahweh Press proves from many historical points of reference that the year Sennacherib king of Assyria, came to attack Jerusalem was in 701BC.
So what year is 701 BC?This was when Yahweh said Hezekiah would eat this year such as grows of itself. This means they did not plant a crop. Was this a land rest year, or did they not plant because of the advancing army of Sennacherib? If it was because of the advancing army why did they not plant after the army was defeated by the plague?
No, this was a land rest year. But not just any land rest year, because Yehowah said that Hezekiah would eat in the second year what springs from the same. That is, in the second year you could not plant yet again and had to eat whatever grew of its own accord.
In the Jubilee cycle there is only one time that this occurs. It is when the 49th year or the 7th land rest year is followed by the 50th year which is the Jubilee Year. And Yahweh is showing us that in the year 701 BC it was a 49th year and a land rest year. He is also showing us that the year 700 BC is the 50th year and is also the Year of Jubilee. It is also the first year in the next cycle of 49 years. How much more plainer can it be shown to us?
If this is a correct interpretation, then those land rest years that are mentioned in Josephus and Maccabees will fit the cycles without exception.
If this is a correct interpretation, then those land rest years that are mentioned in Josephus and Maccabees will fit the cycles without exception.
: A Sabbath year occurred in 456 BC Nehemiah 8:18
: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2
: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1
: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:
: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq
: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2
: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1
: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:
: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE
: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE
456 BC turns out to be the 49th year and a land rest year. 162 BC also turns out to be the 49th year. 134 BC would be the 4th Sabbath year of that cycle. 43 BC would be the 3rd land rest year in that cycle, and 36 BC the fourth land rest year and 22 BC the sixth land rest of this cycle.
42 CE is the 1st land rest year of this cycle. 56 CE is the third land rest year. 70 CE is the fifth land rest year and 133 CE is the 49th year in this cycle while 140 CE is the first land rest year of the next cycle.
When doing your calculations remembers there is no year ‘0’ when going from 1BC to 1 CE. 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1CE, 2CE, 3CE, is counted as six years not seven.
If we count by sevens from 456 BC back to Hezekiah’s time we will arrive at 701 BC. A land Rest year. Knowing this, we now know from Yehowah Himself that 700 BC was a Jubilee year.
Which Jubilee was it?
We read in 1 Kings 6:. 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth* year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Yehowah.1 Kings 11: 42 And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
Thiele in his book states that the start of Rehoboam’s reign was 930 BC.
Thiele in his book states that the start of Rehoboam’s reign was 930 BC.
Time for a little math 701 BC to 930 BC is 229 Years. 480 years after the exodus, to the fourth year of Solomon to Hezekiah 480 plus 36 (36 is the number of years from the beginning to build the temple to the end of Solomon’s reign in 930 BC) plus 229. The Exodus took place 430 years after they had entered the land which was when Abraham first entered Egypt. This was about when Abraham was 70. And by adding up all those years mentioned in the bible you will arrive at the birth of Abraham 1948 years after the Creation of Adam.
So 1948 plus 70 plus 430 plus 480 plus 36 plus 229 plus 701 BC =3894 BC By this simple addition we arrive at the creation of Adam in 3894 BC. Then as a cross reference we subtract 49 from this date repeatedly, until we arrive at 709 BC. Obviously this should have worked out to be 701 BC. Another simple addition. 3894 BC plus 2006 = 5900. We have too many years. 58 Years to many. Remember I said 49 X 120 = 5880 but that this year (2006) was 5842.
If we count forward in time from 701 BC by 49 year periods we arrive at 1995 as the 49th year and 1996 as the Year of Jubilee. If we also say this is the 119th Jubilee, we can multiply 119 X 49 and get a total of 5831 years up to 1995. 5831-1995 = 3836 + 1 for year ‘0’ = 3837 BC.
When I come forward using Biblical chronology I can almost make all things fit in a logical chronology. But once again I end up out by 12 years using the existing information. If I move the whole list in the other direction I am out by 37 years. Many chronologist have a great deal of trouble from Jacob to Hezekiah due to the lack of verifiable information available.
I show you this to share the problem I have of making it known as to which Jubilee we are in. I am not 100% sure.
But if we divide 120 Jubilee Cycles by the 6 days of the week, or the six days of man, we end up with each day having 20 Jubilee periods. Or 20 X 49 = 980 Years for one day. The Messiah was to be killed, cut off, executed in the midst of the week. That was a Wednesday. This was the fourth day. Indeed the Messiah was killed on a Wednesday and the year was also the 3864th year from creation. In other words the year our Messiah was killed was 28 or 31 CE or 3864 after creation. 980 X 4 days =3920 years. 980 X 3 days = 2940. So we can see that He did indeed die on the prophetic 4th day. The temple too was destroyed in 70 CE which is 3906. 14 years before the prophetic day was to end and the prophetic 5th day was to start.
Adam too died at the age of 930. 50 years before the first prophetic day would end. In the day you eat of it you shall die.
One other note while I am on this subject. Note Isaiah 61: 1 “The Spirit of the Master God is upon Me, Because the Master has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Master, And the day of vengeance of our God;
Our Messiah was born 3BC as shown in the article Conjunction or Sighted Which?But we all have always assumed He lived until he was 33 ½ years old when He was crucified. Michael Rood( even if I don't always agree with him) in his 70 week Prophecy series clearly shows that the Messiah preached and did all His work starting in 27 CE before the Passover. One year later he was stoned to death on a tree on the Mount of Olives. From the time He was baptized in the Jordan until His death and up to the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given was a total of 70 weeks. This then makes His year of death 28 CE. This year of 28 CE is also a year in which the New Sighted Moon can be seen at such a time as to allow Passover to occur on a Wednesday. This year of 28 CE is also a Land rest year.
Our Messiah was born 3BC as shown in the article Conjunction or Sighted Which?But we all have always assumed He lived until he was 33 ½ years old when He was crucified. Michael Rood( even if I don't always agree with him) in his 70 week Prophecy series clearly shows that the Messiah preached and did all His work starting in 27 CE before the Passover. One year later he was stoned to death on a tree on the Mount of Olives. From the time He was baptized in the Jordan until His death and up to the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given was a total of 70 weeks. This then makes His year of death 28 CE. This year of 28 CE is also a year in which the New Sighted Moon can be seen at such a time as to allow Passover to occur on a Wednesday. This year of 28 CE is also a Land rest year.
I have shown all this to demonstrate that we are close and also to show how I am unable to show with 100% accuracy that this is the last Jubilee. I strongly suspect it is as I will show you. But to say dogmatically that it is, I cannot.
Where are We Now in Prophecy?
If 1996 (some say 1967 was) was the last Jubilee year and if it also was the 119th Jubilee cycle as I am claiming, then what happens next? To find that answer we have to return to the Bible.
We first need to understand how Yehovahthinks concerning these Land Rest Years and Jubilee years.
We read in Daniel 9: 1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolation’s of Jerusalem.This year was 521 BC
This revelation that Daniel has from Jeremiah is found in Jeremiah 25:8 “Therefore thus says the YHWH Zebaoth: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says YHWH, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 ‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says YHWH; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.
Babylon was conquered in 537 BC. 70 years earlier was 607 BC But Jerusalem or Judah was attacked by Nebuchadnezzar, starting in 606 when Daniel was captured and the final destruction of Jerusalem taking place 586 BC on the 7th day of the fifth month.
Jeremiah again states this 70 Years in Jeremiah 29:8 For thus says the YHWH Zebaoth, the Elohim of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says YHWH. 10 For thus says YHWH: After seventy years are completed at Babylon,I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says YHWH, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says YHWH, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says YHWH, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.
So Daniel knows the 70 year period is coming to a close. He does not know exactly when that time ends, but he knows it is close. So the beginning of this new prophecy of 70 weeks or 70 shabuwa, (periods of 7 or seventy sevens) is to start when the decree is given out.
Most believe this to be 70 times 7 years. Their reasoning is based on 2 Chronicles 36: 20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
70 Years! That is 70 broken land rest years. To get 70 land rest years, you have to have 427 years.The assumption that you need 490 years of broken Sabbaths is wrong. One Jubilee cycle times ten. This is an assumption by unlearned men. Each Sabbatical cycle has 8 land rest in them, not 7. One on each of the 7th , 14th , 21st , 28th , 35th , 42nd and 49th years, but the 50th year is also a land rest year. When you add up these years, counting until you get to 70 broken land rest years you arrive at 427 years . In the 490 years there are 80 land rest years.
When we take the time when Jerusalem fell in 586 BC, and we add 427 year to it, we arrive at 1013 BC. This would have been the time during King David’s Rule. Chronologist say that Solomon died in 930 BC after reigning 40 years. 930 plus 40 = 970 and King David ruled 40 years bringing us to 1010 BC. Very close to our date for broken land rest years.
So, does Yehovahconsider these Land Rest Years and Jubilee Years lightly? No, I think not. Nor should we. They are very important to Him. So much so that He removed Judah from the land for 70 years to give the land its rest which it had not had while Judah was on the land.
We have previously read from Leviticus 23, and 25. In Leviticus 26 we are told in the first 13 verses what Yehovahwill do for us if we just obey Him.1 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am YHWH your Elohim. 2 You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am Yehowah. 3 ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, 4 then I will give you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. 7 You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. 9 ‘For I will look on you favourably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. 10 You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new. 11 I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. 13 I am Yehowahyour Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.
Notice the condition. ‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them It is not enough that we know the law. We must live by the law. We must be doers of the law.
Romans 2:13 for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified.
If we will not obey Yehowah, if we will not walk in these Statutes, if we will not keep these Commandments, and if we will not perform them, then the rest of Leviticus 26 tells us what Yehowahwill do. Yehowahtells us what Hewill do to us if we obey and then He tells us what Hewill do if we will not obey. It is right there in Leviticus and is not something I am making up. You do not have to be a prophet to read His words. This is not rocket science. The simplest of men can understand. Will they though? Will you?
Leviticus 26: 14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16 I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you.
When we read the above text, it has little meaning to us today in the twenty-first century. Until you understand that Yehovah is talking about His commandments as contained in Leviticus 23 and 25; not just the Sabbath and the Holy Days, but also the Land Rest Years. You also need to understand that Yehovah is talking to Israel and to Judah. Combining all the information that has been spoken about up until now, we are talking about the Land Rest Years and have determined that the last Jubilee year was in 1996, with 1995 being the 49th year and the seventh land rest year.
If 1996 is the Jubilee year, it is also the 1st year of the next seven years in Yehowah’s Jubilee cycle. We read in Leviticus 26:16 Yahweh’s first punishment. I will appoint terror over you; wasting disease; fever which consume the eyes
To me the remaining of the verse seems to cover the over-all punishment. So I will focus just on these three. Again, who is this addressed too? It is addressed to Israel and to Judah. Israel is the United States, England, Australia and Canada, as well as Norway Sweden, France, Denmark, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa; and other countries of North Western Europe. Judah is represented by the State of Israel and the Jewish people.So this curse is applicable to these countries and these peoples.
The word ‘Terror’ used inLeviticus 26:16 is Behalah in Hebrew and is used 4 times in scriptures. Twice to denote trouble, and two for terror. The word ‘Terror’ from the Concise Oxford Dictionary states Terror as Extreme Fear. A Terror is one who favours or uses terror- inspiring methods of governing or of coercing government or community. Terrorize is to fill with terror.
From http://philologos.org/bpr/files/j006.htm At the Western Wall today ( Mar 22, 2001)and in yeshivas and synagogues and religious schools throughout Israel the sound of shofar blasts, the singing of Hebrew Psalms and cries and tears and wails of repentance were heard in response to a declaration by the Gedolei Yisrael (Great Ones of Israel) formally recognizing the beginning of the “time of Jacob’s trouble.”
Thursday, March 22, 2001 (the 27th of Adar, 5761), was earlier designated the time to celebrateRosh ChodeshNisan, (the first day of Nisan), since the first day of Nisan actually falls on Sunday. Ordinarily Rosh ChodeshNisan is designated a Yom Kippur Katan(a small Yom Kippur).
So over the past 24 hours the Jewish community here in Israel and throughout the world has united in prayer. What is unusual about this year’s Yom Kippur Katan is that in light of the 6-month-old Palestinian uprising which has claimed the lives of 57 Israelis, including more than 20 through the direct involvement and participation of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority,the rabbishave addedthe designation as “a time of Jacob’s trouble.”
Further it is signed by ALL 27 of the leading Orthodox and Chassidic sages, both the “maranan verabonon” (masters and teachers) and the “gedolei ha-Torah vehaChassidus (Torah sages among the Chassidut).”The declaration begins and is formally designated:“IT IS A TROUBLED TIME FOR YA’ACOV BUT HE WILL BE SAVED.”
Thursday, March 22, 2001 (the 27th of Adar, 5761), was earlier designated the time to celebrateRosh ChodeshNisan, (the first day of Nisan), since the first day of Nisan actually falls on Sunday. Ordinarily Rosh ChodeshNisan is designated a Yom Kippur Katan(a small Yom Kippur).
So over the past 24 hours the Jewish community here in Israel and throughout the world has united in prayer. What is unusual about this year’s Yom Kippur Katan is that in light of the 6-month-old Palestinian uprising which has claimed the lives of 57 Israelis, including more than 20 through the direct involvement and participation of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority,the rabbishave addedthe designation as “a time of Jacob’s trouble.”
Further it is signed by ALL 27 of the leading Orthodox and Chassidic sages, both the “maranan verabonon” (masters and teachers) and the “gedolei ha-Torah vehaChassidus (Torah sages among the Chassidut).”The declaration begins and is formally designated:“IT IS A TROUBLED TIME FOR YA’ACOV BUT HE WILL BE SAVED.”
Jacob is often used to denote Israel. The title of Israel was passed down to the son of Jacob, Joseph, and to his son Manasseh and Ephraim. Manasseh’schildren became known as Machir [haMahir]by the Assyrians. Later they were called Amyrgian Scyths [Amyrgio Scuthae], as well as, [Margiana, Marycaei, Maruca]during the Assyrian Captivity. As time marched on they became known as Gimirri Umurgah at around 522-486 BC by the Babylonians and after they were freed by the Babylonians and Medes. Still, later as these people migrated to north western Europe they were called Umerga - Amyrgio - Umerugi [Saxon Germany], Mercian Saxons [England], Maruka - Skati Maruka Abis Maurungani around 700 CE. Still, later on some were known as Ap-Meryk - Son of Machir- until in 1470 we have in ancient records Richard Ameryk and other records still with the title America - Land of Machir 1451-1512.
Taken from Yair Davidiy’s book The Tribes.
So this should now be very clear as to whom these blessings and curses from Leviticus apply. To the richest nation ever blessed on the face of the earth, just as Yehowah said He would to Abraham, now comes the curse that will destroy her for not following and obeying Him. These things are to be applied to the United States of America. Manasseh!
Here another thoughts concerning the Yovel Yearbased on different approach, only time will tells us who is right:
* Mark Blitz is a believer in Yeshua, Torah keeper.
It started for me with an April 30, 2008 World Net Daily story on Blood Moons http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=63076 which linked to an interview on a show called Prophecy in the News. As I listened to the interview with Mark Blitz* http://prophecyinthenews.com/ on the Internet I took up their offer to buy a DVD. It was recorded of Mark teaching at his Assembly three days after his discovery about eclipses on the Jewish holidays in 2015. At three days he had not yet seen how amazing and compelling these eclipses would later prove to be. Sets of lunar eclipses falling on Jewish holidays spanning 600 years from 1493 to past 2100 happened only three times. They are: in 1948 (The year of the birth of Israel as a nation again), in 1967 (When Jerusalem was captured), and they will be in 2015. (SEE THE CHARTS BELOW:)
Heavenly signs: Sabbatical Year 2014-2015
(September 25, 2014 - September 13, 2015)
Four Lunar Eclipses: NASA table of Lunar eclipses (2011-2020) | Jewish Holidays (1998-2017)
The blood-red moon signifies trouble for Israel:
Passover: April 15, 2014| Total eclipse visible in Australia, Pacific, Americas
Tabernacles:October 9, 2014| October 8, 2014 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, AmericasPassover: April 4, 2015| Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas
Tabernacles: September 28, 2015 | Total eclipse visible in East Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia (This is the only one visible from Jerusalem at moon-set)
Four total blood-red moons back-to-back are rare, the only time it happens on four Biblical holidays is in 2014/2015. The only times last century these occurred together was in 1967/1968 when Jerusalem was recaptured. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.
Tabernacles:October 9, 2014| October 8, 2014 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, AmericasPassover: April 4, 2015| Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas
Tabernacles: September 28, 2015 | Total eclipse visible in East Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia (This is the only one visible from Jerusalem at moon-set)
Four total blood-red moons back-to-back are rare, the only time it happens on four Biblical holidays is in 2014/2015. The only times last century these occurred together was in 1967/1968 when Jerusalem was recaptured. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.
Passover: April 25, 1967| Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, AmericasTabernacles: October 19, 1967 | October 18, 1967 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, AmericasPassover: April 13, 1968| Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa
Tabernacles: October 7, 1968 | October 8, 1968 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas
Four total lunar eclipses also happened before these listed above just after Israel became a nation in 1949/1950 as well. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.
Tabernacles: October 7, 1968 | October 8, 1968 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas
Four total lunar eclipses also happened before these listed above just after Israel became a nation in 1949/1950 as well. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.
Passover: April 14, 1949 | April 13, 1949 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa
Tabernacles: October 8, 1949 | October 7, 1949 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia
Passover: April 2, 1950 | Total eclipse visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
Tabernacles: September 26, 1950 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia
The next previous time this happened again was in 1493/1494 just after the Jews were kicked out of Spain on the 9th of Av, 1492.
Tabernacles: October 8, 1949 | October 7, 1949 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia
Passover: April 2, 1950 | Total eclipse visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
Tabernacles: September 26, 1950 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia
The next previous time this happened again was in 1493/1494 just after the Jews were kicked out of Spain on the 9th of Av, 1492.
Solar Eclipses: NASA table of Solar eclipses (2011-2020) | Jewish Holidays (1998-2017)
The solar eclipse signals judgment for the nations:
Tamuz 29/Av 1: August 2, 2008 | August 1, 2008 Total eclipse visible in North America, Europe, Asia
Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 21-22, 2009 | July 22, 2009 Total eclipse visible in East Asia, Pacific Ocean, Hawaii
Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 11-12, 2010 | July 11, 2010 Total eclipse visible in Southern South AmericaAdar 29/Nisan 1 (Beginning of the religious calendar): March 20-21, 2015Total eclipse visible in Iceland, Europe, North Africa, North Asia
Rosh Hashanah: September 14, 2015 | September 13, 2015 Partial eclipse visible in South Africa, South Indian, Antarctica
Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 21-22, 2009 | July 22, 2009 Total eclipse visible in East Asia, Pacific Ocean, Hawaii
Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 11-12, 2010 | July 11, 2010 Total eclipse visible in Southern South AmericaAdar 29/Nisan 1 (Beginning of the religious calendar): March 20-21, 2015Total eclipse visible in Iceland, Europe, North Africa, North Asia
Rosh Hashanah: September 14, 2015 | September 13, 2015 Partial eclipse visible in South Africa, South Indian, Antarctica
When Mark Blitz first went looking for eclipses on NASA’s website, which lists them, it seems he ONLY went to see if there were any in 2015. The reason blew my mind. It was something as amazing as the eclipses. You can hear the audio of this DVD on his Assembly’s web site from 3-1-08, http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/audio/torah5768/20080301t22.html
I’ve been doing some hunting around to see if any other Messianic believers have taken note of the 4 upcoming eclipses that Mark Blitz has outlined for us. A gentleman, Greg Killian, who knows a lot about astronomy and the Bible with a vast web site with all kinds of very detailed Biblical studies has recently posted something very interesting on the eclipses and the possible Jubilee year, 2015. The article I am quoting from can be found here.
Regarding the Jubilee (Yovel) year, Greg Killian says:
“One of the most interesting Yovel calculations comes from those who combine the opinion of the Rabbanan and Hakham Yehoshua. This novel idea[9] suggests that we count fifty years for the Yovel up until the destruction of the Temple. After the destruction of the Temple we revert to counting forty-nine years with the first year of the next cycle being the Yovel year. By combining Rabannan’s count and R. Yehuda’s count:
We find that the last Yovel (Jubilee) year was 5727 (1967),the year of the 6-Day War.
This was the 48th Yovel year starting from the time of Ezra in 3416.The Yovel year which is 49 years later is 5776 (2015)“This novel calculation shows the following Jubilees and their significance:
This was the 48th Yovel year starting from the time of Ezra in 3416.The Yovel year which is 49 years later is 5776 (2015)“This novel calculation shows the following Jubilees and their significance:
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Yovel Year 46 - 5678 (1917)
Shortly after the beginning of the 46th Yovel, the Balfour Declaration was ratified. Dated November 2, 1917 (17th Marcheshvan 5678), the Balfour Declaration is one of the biggest steps towards gaining international recognition for the Return to Eretz Israel.”
Yovel Year 47 - 5727(1967)
“The next Yovel year, according to this calculation, was in 5727. In Iyar 5727 (June of 1967),Yerushalayim, Yehuda, Shomron, the Golan, and Gaza came under Jewish control for the first time in centuries, and the move back to these areas, of eretz Israel, began.”
Yovel Year 48 - 5776 ( 2015)
“This coming Yovel, and its events, are yet to be seen. Never the less, we can learn what kinds of events to expect. Perhaps the year following would be a fitting time for the Sanhedrin to assume or rather to resume its role in counting of Shmita and Yovel and to assume its role of leadership of Am Israel.
This next Yovel would start the 49th Yovel period. Rather fitting that the Sanhedrin would count the last Yovel before the 50th Yovel, a Yovel of Yovels. Remember that only the Sanhedrin can count and sanctify the Yovel year.”
From Mark’s notes:http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/video/eclipsenotes.html
June 7th 1967Jerusalem was restored to Israel and began to be built up in troublous times! 49 prophetic years x 360 days = 17,640 days. So, let’s count from June 7th 1967 forward, to the day, 17,640 days and see where it takes us! It puts you on Sep 23rd 2015, which is YOM KIPPUR!!!
Why 2015?
Is it because of Isaac Newton?
Newton wrote over a million words of commentary on the books of Daniel and Revelation. They were released in reprint only in the past few years. He thought God had given us a way to see His “End Time” timetable. Newton thought the Second Coming of Yeshua would be the start of a Jubilee year. The keeping of when these fifty year cycles called Jubilee years is to take place has been lost in time. They start after a count of 49 years on a Jewish Holiday, the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. That 50th year called a Jubilee Year would be a time of returning land to the original owners and freeing of slaves.
Leviticus 25:8-10
8 The Year of Jubilee
And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
NKJV
Here is where it gets exciting, Mark Blitz wanted to see if there were any eclipses in 2015 because he had heard about some other person’s calculations. Here is a link I found when I Google searched June 7, 1967 and Daniel 9:25 it seems to follow along with what Marl Blitz was saying. I know nothing else about this site but I will put some quotes from it below. First Daniel 9:24,25,& 26 then “Newton’s Riddle”:
Dan 9:24-26
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
KJV
“Newton’s Riddle” - Jim Bramlett - Feb 27, 2008
Newton was a devout believer in Messiah and Bible scholar, fluent in ancient languages, and who translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek. He was unusually drawn to the prophet Daniel, which he began studying at age 12 and continued until he died at age 85. In fact, The Columbia History of the World, a secular history book, remarks, “At the end of his days he spent more time studying and writing about the prophecies in the Book of Daniel than he did in charting the heavens.” Apparently, God Himself put in Newton’s heart this burning desire to study Daniel, then gave him the key to the timing of Messiah’s return.
Could this be the final profound secret the Master revealed to this godly genius near the end of his life — a secret “accidentally” discovered in the Library of Congress and republished just in the last few years — a secret so simple that most have missed it?
If Newton was correct in his interpretation of Daniel, the prophet to whom God gave specific timing, then the return of the Master Yeshua Messiah will be very, very soon, indeed!
Newton’s understanding of one key passage in Daniel chapter 9 is fundamentally different from that of most common interpretations. In about 550 B.C., God gave the prophet Daniel a view of history to the end. From Daniel 9:25, scholars usually add the “seven weeks (of years, or 49 years) and 62 weeks (434 years)” to get 483 years and calculate the time of Messiah’s First Coming. However, Newton says there is no linguistic basis for adding those two numbers (49 and 434), and to do so is “doing violence to the language of Daniel.” Newton says the two numbers separately speak of both the First and Second Coming,both being counted from the “going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem.”Some commentators agree.
Newton says the “62 weeks,” or 434-year part was fulfilled at the First Coming, and the “seven weeks,” or 49-year part will apply to the Second Coming. And three centuries ago he saw in the Scriptures and wrote about the rebirth of Israel at a time when such a thought was preposterous. Amazingly by faith and understanding of the Scriptures, he foresaw a “friendly kingdom” someday again issuing the “commandment to restore and build Jerusalem.” Now, centuries later, that “friendly kingdom” may have been the United Nations, which decreed Israel’s rebirth in November, 1947, causing Israel to be reborn in May, 1948.
The Master revealed to Newton, that Yeshua would return 49 years from the date that Israel once again has control of Jerusalem (This occurred on June 7, 1967 when the Temple Mount was recaptured). Newton was also shown that the Second Coming of Yeshua would be at the start of a Jubilee year on the Day of Atonement!
...if you use exactly 49 Jewish (360-day, prophetic) years from the day Israel captured the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, you get 49 X 360 = 17640 days, which amazingly takes one exactly to September 23, 2015, The Day of Atonement 2015 and is the start of a new Jubilee year!
In the Old Testament, the prophet Joel states, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the MASTER come.” (Joel 2:31)
In the New Testament, Yeshua is quoted as saying, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light ... And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Matthew 24:29-30)
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Now back to this email. Remember Newton thought the second coming would start a Jubilee year, which starts on a Day of Atonement. Adding a 49 biblical 360-day years to one of the most significant dates in Bible prophecy and coming up to a Day of Atonement are 17,640 to 1 odds (360 days x 49 years)! Yet there it is 49 Jewish (360-day, prophetic) years from the day Israel captured the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, you get 49 X 360 = 17640 days, which amazingly takes one exactly to September 23, 2015, the Day of Atonement 2015!
Now you know why Mark Blitz looked to see if there were any eclipses in 2015 and as he said it blew his mind. By going to the NASA’s website, you can look into the eclipses on your own.
The reason to subtract seven years from 2015 is to account for the time named the Tribulation, the events in the book of Revelation. Most of us think the Rapture, the taking away of Believers happens just before the Tribulation starts. Another Newton site:http://www.csg.net/eschatology/Newton.htm
May Yehovah bless you and keep you as you follow the path of life, follwoing our master Yehoshua HaMoschiach.
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