(to be exact, nisan 458 to nisan . The pattern of failure explained in chapter 20 is as follows: (For more on this see, A Look at the Amazing 430 490 Pattern, and, Those Amazing Jubilees! as posted on forum. Assyria first began to conquer Israel in 738 BC, which was 70 x 2 to the exile of 597 BC (with Ezekiel), and is 70 x 4 years till when Ezra returned to beautify the temple after it was denuded in 597 BC. . Personal updates from Samantha. For just as there were 70 x 2 years between the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC and 445 BC, plus its 490 years, so there are now 700 x 2 years from 445 BC (from 1846 BC entry into Egypt for 400 years), plus its 4900 years (from 445 BC). 606/605 BC (first exile) plus 70 years captivity (Daniel 9) = 536 BC (return from Babylon and rebuilding of temple539 to 536 BC). There's a future 490 years, yet future, then the kingdom of God is going to come. 8:14). The 490 year period during which the Israelites failed to keep the Sabbath for the Land and incurred a 70 year penalty in Babylon was the third one. 1446/1445 BC plus 1000 years equals 445 BC. But the Law also spoke of a sabbatical year.Leviticus 25:1-7 provides instructions for the sabbatical year to be observed after the Israelites moved into the Promised Land. And this 1400-year pattern is indeed therea wheel within a wheel of 7000-year within 700 within 70 with 7-years cycles. In the following pattern, God clearly exacted the full amount of missing Sabbath years that the law required, even in all its ambiguity as discussed earlier in this document. Men like things black and white because it is easier to prove or disprove, but Gods goal is to communicate information about Himself and His ways, and by creating alternative (symbolic) dates God has increased the amount of information communicated by these numeric patterns many times fold. Seder Olam. 14I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.. (Comp. We are simply to rest in the fact that God has everything under control and on His calendar. Remember that we were talking about the fact the Church Age, God going to the Gentiles with what Paul called "His Gospel," was something that had been hidden from the whole human race. . . For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. The 1000 plus the 400 years in Egypt add up to 1400 years, or 10 times the 140the key number used in our calculations. When studying the jubilee system, it is imperative to study it both from when God desired Israel to enter the land and from when they actually did 39 years later. 1 Chronicles 36 v 20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried heaway to Babylon, where they were servants to him and hissons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah,until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill the Seventy years. The Jubilee cycle is 49 years in length, and each cycle contains 8 Sabbath years. (The NT sometimes supports the inferior readings of the LXX {Septuagint} and ST {Samaritan Text}). There were seventy years of captivity to repay for 490 years of failure to observe God's command. However, the official jubilee system that Israel was to keep began at the entry to Canaan 40 years later, in 1406 BC. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of the desolation, while you are in your enemies land; then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. The reason is that God will ultimately hold Israel to account for all its missing Sabbaths including those of the wilderness wandering. (I.e., 445 BC less 4900 = AD 4455, ten times AD 445, the mirror of 445 BC, etc. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. That these are in succession one after another without any gaps also is implied in the image itself, for each of the kingdoms is repre- . Adventists have capitalized on the fact that this messianic prophecy actually confirms the day-year principle because if "weeks" here meant 7 literal weekdays, 490 days from the time of Daniel would fall far short of the arrival of Jesus. Nineteen years (19 years) go past and Jeremiah tells the king people that Babylon is Gods tool and judgment and they are to repent. At his death Jacob is mourned 70 days, (Gen. 50:3). Is this symbolic as 1/7th of 490 years (Daniel 9:24-the 490 years between the decree of Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem and the Messiah coming to Jerusalem which was fulfilled literally)? And as implied already, there is also a sense that the time spent in Egypt also be included. So some MSS. They had been in the Promised Land for roughly 800 years, and for 490 years, they disobeyed his Sabbath rest. and the Vulg. One answer might be 70 years but in fact their disobedience covers seventy cycles of seven years or 490 years. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. until seven times? For instance, 490 days after Israel arrived at Mount Sinai was the Day of Atonement in 1445 BC, which is also called the day of Jubilee, (Lev. 538 BC + 519 BC + 458 BC + 445 BC = 1960, divided by four = 490 BC. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, a day of rest for the Hebrew people under the Mosaic Law. a 'week' of years (7 years) a 'jubilee sabbath' (49 years) a '70-week jubilee' (490 years) The 'week of years' was akin to our 'decade', and 'jubilee' might be likened to our 'century', albeit shorter. This 483 years is seventy-times-seven years less a seven-year period. Anyway, the 1406 BC thing is a just side note, but an important side note! These variables have led to three different chronologies among students of the bible. 25). Israel never did enter its rest, and so the land never rested either. Prior to Babylonian captivity, scholars suggest that for 490 years, the people did not let the land rest-70 sabbath years missed for the land. Thirteen years later was the decree to Nehemiah in 445 BC. It is also called a sabbatical. The prophets said that the land would lay fallow for 70 years so that it could catch up on all its missing Sabbath-years. (It starts at the exodus and not the entry into Canaan 40 years later because the 1000 years traces a history of their failure to keep Gods commandments, a failure that began right from the exodus. Eze 40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither. Read Daniel 9:26. (First decree of Daniel 9 prophecy in 538 BC. However, most scholars do in fact believe that the fall of Jerusalem was in 586 BC rather than 587 BC (as is necessary for this date), so that the temple vision of Ezekiel would be in 573 BC rather than 574 unless using a autumn to autumn dating method solely for this second-last date given in the book of Ezekiel, contrary to the rest of the dates in this book. However, while acknowledging that the Hebrew text is always the preferred text, nevertheless, we have taken the position that alternative dates should be looked at as well if they have the backing of the NT (New Testament). The children of Israel were not faithful to God. Like this post? (This is the beginning of a 7-x-2 years-of-years pattern in parallel with the 70 x 2-year pattern, which begins at the 7 x 2 years of Josephs plenty and of famine at the said entry into Egypt in 1876/1846 BC) (See www.360calendar.com for details on the 30-day difference between 1260 and 1290 days/years.). 32) show that 3 tribes were given rest several months before Spring of 1406 BC seven years ahead of their brethren! It is because, whereas Judah likely kept the weekly Sabbaths of the Lord (but not faithfully the yearly Sabbaths for the land), Israel to the north, which was more apostate, never kept the weeks Sabbaths or festival days either. (Jesus compared Himself to this temple, and with His death, 49 years after it began to be built in 20 BC, John 2:19-20.) See Ezekiel 4. 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Grace thru Faith is a 501(c)3 non-profit. So it was a 70 year Sabbath from the law of Moses. To summarise: 70 year exile for Israel and kingdoms round about of Jeremiah25 and 2Chronicles36:: 609Tishri (last missed Sabbath in North) - 539Tishri (Cyrus takes Babylon) Technically doing that much work on the sabbath was forbidden by Jewish law. Scholars have not succeeded in tracing the origin of the seven-day week, nor can they account for the origin of the Sabbath. Counting the days as years, we look for a 490-year period, during the last seven years of which the Messiah would be cut off. But herein is the awesome glory of God especially revealed, for none could do this great numeric feat even if only on pen and paper, and not upon the hearts and minds of men and nations in real life experience. Total missing Sabbaths and Jubilees over 1000 years = 80 x 2 = 160. (Dan. God required the "promised" land to observe a Sabbath rest every seventh year as a test of faith for Israel. Cyrus even returned the gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar had sacked from the Temple in 600 B.C. Nevertheless, without the Sabbath truth and the Seventh-day Advent movement I would not have had the foundation I presently have for reaching thus far in my understanding. [24] A second historical argument has been presented to the effect that the two instances of a Jubilee mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (tractates Arakin 12a and Megillah 14b) appear to be proper historical remembrances, because the known calculation methods of rabbinic scholarship were incapable of correctly calculating the dates of the Jubilees mentioned. Therefore, although Israel kept track of its Sabbaths and jubilees from the time of the conquest in 1406 BC (as commanded), yet God kept track of them according to the plan that He originally intended, because when it came time to judge Israel for its ongoing rebellion He also included the 40 years of rebellion in the wilderness. (519 BC was the second of four decrees that pertain to the prophecy of Daniel 9. Leviticus 25:8 "And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine (49) years . So then, there are the actual dates and then there are symbolic dates that compliment the actual dates by reinforcing the numeric pattern of the actual dates. The timespan required to accumulate 70 failings in observing Sabbath years amounts to 490 years. (707=490) Christ was actually alluding to the 490 years that the Jews had spent in captivity and slavery. To seal up the vision and prophecy. The connection between the prophecy of Jeremiah and the provision of the law is to be understood theologically, and does not purport to be calculated chronologically. As we shall see, this 20 years represents the missing jubilees over a 1000-year period. And what Gabriel puts into Daniel's lap is the Seventy Weeks prophecy, the . 2 Chronicles 36: 20-21 see also Jeremiah 25: 12 & Daniel 9:2 The land has a Sabbath rest as the people are taken into slavery. The children of Israel were not faithful to God. Copyright 2023. And all this goes not just a little way in proving that the jubilee cycles indeed began in 1406 BC, which at any rate is in agreement with most modern evangelical scholarship. That fact is stated in a . Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. God's Sabbath Years are Important. (Recall the 483 years from Jacob to the exodus.) Thus, 490 days (seventy weeks) after the Mount Sinai covenant was given is when the Jubilee cycles were intended to begin, (in 1445 BC). Israel (and Samaria) to the north (as distinct to Judah and Jerusalem of the south) went into exile 70 x 2 years before the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC! on Judges).). Both 1260 and 1290 signify half a seven-year period. The king of Judah does not keep the agreement with Babylon and they rebel. 69 weeks of years were fulfilled and the 70th week of years is coming up after the Church Age, what we nick name the 7 Year Tribulation Period. "But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord.". The Hebrew Bible (MT) sets the time for when Jacob fled from his brother in Canaan to go sojourn in Haran (for 20 years) at 483 years before the Exodus from Egypt, 1929 BC to 1446 BC. until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, Leviticus 25:4, which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest for want of persons to till it: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years; as threatened in Leviticus 26:34 on which text Jarchi observes, that at the destruction of the first temple the law concerning the sabbath, or rest of the land had been neglected four hundred and thirty years, in which space were sixty nine sabbatical years; and, according to Maimonides (d), it was at the end of a sabbatic year that the city and temple were destroyed, and so just seventy years had been neglected, and the land was tilled in them as in other years, and now it had rest that exact number of years; but of this we cannot be certain, though it is probable. Apparently, for 490 years they had failed to keep the sabbath of the land; the Lord was saying, in effect, "You owe me 70!" In summary re this 490 "year for a day" application as patterned upon the literal 4,900 day fulfillment of Daniel's "seventy week" prophecy: . The last (substantial) date in the bible, and the last of four decrees to restore and rebuild Jerusalem as per the prophecy of Daniel 9. Therefore, 70 X 7 = 490 years. By adding this phase the total count of years back to when they entered Egypt and the land of Canaan is reduced. I wont go into all the details here, but the four periods are, 1) Abraham to the Exodus, 2) the Exodus to the First Temple, 3) the First Temple to the edict of Artaxerxes and 4) the edict of Artaxerxes to the 2nd Coming. Jacob was 77 years old at the time and would live another 70 years after that and die at the age of 147 (7 x 7 x 3). Destruction of Shiloh. Total missing Jubilees for the land over 1000 years = 10 x 2. . While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest. That these are in succession one after another without any gaps is also implied in the image itself, for each of the kingdoms is represented in parts of a larger body moving from the head down to the toes. (Jubilee sounded on 10th day of the civil New Year. Jer 37:1 And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah. You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. According to him, the year of the Destruction, counting from the year of the creation of the world, would be 3829 (69 CE) and not 3830, but the shemittah years would still match up. Grace thru Faith is a 501(c)3 non-profit. The Bible does say, however, that the complete rejection of the fourth or Sabbath commandment was the major cause of allowing His people . This reckoning would give 47 years from the Jubilee mentioned in the 18th year of Josiah (Megillah 14b) to the Jubilee that took place 14 years after Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians (Arakin 12a), whereas the correct difference was 49 years (623 BC to 574 BC). Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let the people back into the land. In Dispensationalism the Antichrist breaks his covenant with Israel after 3 years, but according to 9:27, the covenant is confirmed for the full seven years.. They were a period of time set by God to complete the six objectives the angel Gabriel listed in Daniel 9:24 for the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem: "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in . God Intended Israel to Enter Promised Land, Pentecost, 1445 BC, However, God intended that the seventh-year Sabbath cycles begin 39 years earlier, that is, the year after the exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC. THE EDICT OF CYRUS, AUTHORISING THE RETURN (2Chronicles 36:22-23). We must let the text speak for itself and not add to it.). (The 40 years wondering in the wilderness is a part of that breakdown.). We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. That he made a proclamation.And he made a voice pass (2Chronicles 30:5). I am quoting it verbatim because Wikipedia articles are notorious for being rewritten and so this quote might otherwise be lost. The underlying factor of this prophecy is that Israel was given 490 years to deal with the sin of the nation and prepare for the coming of King Messiah. The 7 Years Of Daniel And The 42 Months Of Revelation. (Daniel 9:24) When Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy concluded, the following points of scripture became fact. (This was Aut. 14:34, Dan. 7 Year Land Sabbath: . Whether there is a symbolic relationship between his use of a multiple of seven for the Sabbath rest of the promised land and the 490 years before the . The word . 99 views, 5 likes, 2 loves, 15 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Freeport Bible Church: Please pray with and for us today at noon. - And so work all biblical dates in like fashion. To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: all the days of the desolation she rested, THE EDICT OF CYRUS, AUTHORISING THE RETURN. Here in Ezra, we see that this 70 year period had elapsed, as Daniel had also anticipated (Dan. God named the seventh day the Sabbath. 11For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. It ended when Persian King Artaxerxes Longimonus gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in 445 BC ( Nehemiah 2:1-9 ). Read all of Daniel 9 again. It happens that 3, 7 and 10 all signify a period of completion or perfection. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. His teachings made the Bible clear and easy to understand, and impacted millions of lives. The Jews were trusting Gods provision by not farming for an entire year. This Sabbath year cycle is the basis for all the many possible years of fulfillment of the 70th week on, since Jesus must return in a Sabbath year, the final year of the 70th Week. . 1399 BC. You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. The meaning is that during the long years of the exile, the land would enjoy that rest of which it had been defrauded by the neglect of the law concerning the sabbatical years (Leviticus 25:1-7). Sun, Moon, Star of David & "Sq-root of two.". Yet, there would be some justification for this given these words, in the beginning of the year , which indeed would normally refer to the Day of Atonement that occurs just after Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), but here it more likely refers to the anniversary of when Israel entered the Promised Land in Nisan 10, 1406 BC, in accordance with the religious New Year used throughout the rest of the book of Ezekiel. ), Note that the above two figures are 20 years apart. Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. This is the number of times Jesus told His followers to forgive a person (Matthew 18:25). A good Bibliography in Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology? For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. The prophecy divides up these 490 years in a handful of ways. The point of the entire lengthy chapter of Ezekiel 20 is that, spiritually speaking, Israel never left the wilderness from the time it left Egypt! He called the seventh year a Sabbath. This is the assumption of this website, and it effects dates from the Creation to Jacob. I really dont know! Here is the basic pattern. Math of Dan. And, Pentecost, 1445 BC: The day God intended Israel to enter the Promised Land.), 2.) Hence, the breakdown of all the missing jubilees over the millennium of Old Testament history from the exodus to Nehemiah (the end of the Old Testament Bible) is broken-down so as to touch upon every significant event at the beginning, middle, and ending of this period, all along the theme of Jerusalem and the temple. I am quoting it for two reason: First, because I discovered the importance of the jubilee years of 623 BC to 574 BC in connection with the 1406 BC Canaan entry before I came across this article; secondly, that the author adds additional information about the Talmud that I was unaware of. 1400 to Aut. 2:5. The Lordwith him! (Iahiveh imm) is a frequent formula in the chronicle, and is probably correct here. the words of Darius: Saith Darius the king :By the grace of Ormazd I am king; Ormazd has granted me the empire.. (It also happens that 483 years becomes 490 years when each year is calculated to be an even 360-days long, unadjusted by leap months. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. The following is still in rough form! Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths - Between the time of Moses and the commencement of the captivity, there had been (about) 70 occasions on which the Law of the sabbatical year Leviticus 25:4-7 had been violated. Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia.Comp. Even the controversial 50 + 50 + 50-year, etc., jubilee methodology seem to be exacted, as well as the normative 49 + 49 + 49 years, etc. as discussed earlier in this document. and put it also in writing.Into all . prophecy of Daniel 8:14 and the 70-week prophecy (490-years) of . God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. My understanding has been that the 70 years Israel spent in exile in Babylon had to do with the Sabbath years that the Lord had commanded them to observe when they came into the Promised Land. The same 20 years of rebuilding the temple parallels the 20 years of Solomons building of the temple and palace in 966-946 BC, exactly to the very month 430 years each. Leviticus 26 provides the sanctions that God would impose upon His nation for the years that Israel did not obey the specifications of a sabbatical year. But that does not mean that the time for which this rest was granted corresponded to the number of the sabbath-years which had not been observed. According to biblical tradition, it commemorates the original seventh day on which God rested after completing the creation. The way I understand it thus far is for 490 years the Jews did not give their land a Sabbath year of rest so that was 70 years they owed God for the land Sabbaths. The Seventh Year of Rest. One day we will be taken out (exodus) from this world to be with Christ. (This was Aut. Although not cited by these authors, two historical arguments also argue for a 49-year cycle. 49 years (7 X 7): The time it takes to rebuild Jerusalem since the time the Babylonians had destroyed it ( Daniel 9: . By converting these days, using the precise length of our solar year, the day the Messiah would appear is the 10 th of Nisan or March 30, 33 A.D. The exclusive dating of the Jubilee year would forward these dates by one year. Hence, the prophecy of 30 jubilees actually ended at Christ and at the fall of Jerusalemboth. Therefore, the 12 tribes would have begun working their land in the Autumn of 1399 BC. He is the author of all the teachings here, and all materials are available free of charge! The bible gives us but one definite time for the end of the conquest in Joshua 14, and to add to this is to stray from the facts. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. (Jesus tabernacled among us. John 1.). A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. Cycle contains 8 Sabbath years of Daniel 9 prophecy in 538 BC 490. 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