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Originally Posted by Ohio
Nell I just heard that this is a year of Jubilee, and it is the 70th Jubilee.
Have you heard this?
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Yes. Sort of. According to what I've read, this could be a Jubilee year. but there isn't really a hard and fast way to tell. If it is a Jubilee year, on the secular calendar the Jubilee year doesn't begin until Sept. 14, 2015 and ends sometime in Sept/October 2016. On the 70th Jubilee, I did some checking and found this:
In September 2015 we start a new Jubilee year. The new Jubilee starts with a partical solar eclipse. It is of special note that this is 40th Jubilee Year since Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem. It is also the 70th Jubilee year since the first one was proclaimed by God. The number 40 is the Biblical time period of redemption. The number 70 has the Biblical meaning of perfect completion. So this coming Jubilee Year will very likely have very speical meaning for mankind. Perfect completion of redemption. Be prepared! Be right with God.
The evidence I've read is posted below but to recap.
1917-1918 Balfor Declaration returning Israel to the Jews.
1967-1968 Fifty years later Jerusalem is returned to control of the Jews.
2015-2016 Isn't 50 years on the secular calendar but it does represent 3 cycles of 49 years on the Hebrew calendar.
The years are calculated based on 7 years X 7 = 49 years. The next year is the 50th year, but it's also year 1 of the next 49 years. That's even in the Bible! Lev. 25:8-10 below.
So here's the problem. You have to get year 1 of the 49 years right in order to get the Jubilee year right.
In the last 2 49-year cycles, in the 50th year Israel was restored to the Jews and for the first time in 2000 years the Jews were able to return to their land. The second 50th year, Jerusalem, the Old City, was returned to the Jewish people and once again, they were able to return to their land---the holy city of Jerusalem. It's all about the land given to them by God. Since we're coming up on the 3rd 49-year cycle, world events become significant once again. What's going on in Israel related to their land? I think we should pay attention to Israel.
So it's not a simple answer. Since the 6-day war, 49 years have passed on the Hebrew calendar and that would bring us, on the secular calendar, to Sept. 14, 2015. The belief that this is the Jubilee year is based on events and calculations on the calendars.
I'm paying attention. I can't look at the news (mostly Fox News :-) ) and continue to think current events are "business as usual". I personally believe that Sept. 14, 2015 will begin the Jubilee year, but I could be wrong.
Leviticus 25:8-10New International Version (NIV)
The Year of Jubilee
8 “‘Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.