Israel has always desecrated its Sabbaths. Cyrus even returned the gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar had sacked from the Temple in 600 B.C. The Jews had disobeyed Gods law of obeying the Sabbath. Thus it is significant that Jesus said to the apostle Peter: Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? and put it also in writing. Instead of this Ezra 1:3 has, Iehi, Be; so also 3 Esdr. Back to the 1445/6 to 445 BC, and 1000 years (a type of the coming millennium). The following are some verses from Ezekiel that touch on this sad truth: So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. And what Gabriel puts into Daniel's lap is the Seventy Weeks prophecy, the . Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. (Jacob, however, got more than he bargained for. We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. I believe if Israel ever observed the Sabbath year, it would have been under the direction of the godly Samuel; but there is no proof that this ever happened. Apparently the goal of the writer was to align the temple vision of Ezekiel, which the bible says occurred in the 14th yearafter the fall of Jerusalem (in 587/586 BC), with the Jubilees, (Ezek. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in . The word . There is a problem with the above calculation, though. You can still show honor and respect to your mother without allowing her full . To make an end of sins. 3:7) is ambiguous enough to support either of the three chronologies (including the correct one that follows the MT), however from the NT text itself the reduction of 215 years appears to most likely be what Paul had in mind, that is, the view that the 430-years spanned back to Abraham himself. The King's edict also began the count on the fourth . These are the same kind of time frames to do with the jubilee cycles given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai (Lev. Part Two: How the lunar calendars work. 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. In other words, from the time of Saul to the time of the Babylonian captivity, Israel had not obeyed this command of God. It was 6.5 years after they entered the land, and then that chapter concludes, And the LAND had REST from war. To say that the land needed another seven years (14 in total) before it could enjoy its first real rest is to add to the text a notion foreign to it. Israel was besieged by Assyrian and fell between 725-722 BC. There's a future 490 years, yet future, then the kingdom of God is going to come. Note that the below quote is using the inclusive view as explained above. The time frame of 483 years is very important in bible prophecy, and is referred to by the prophet Daniel in chapter 9. Every seventh year was a sabbath rest year (Lev. They went into exile to Babylon and that paid that debt. To anoint the most Holy. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. The first 490 years of the 2,300-year prophecy were designated especially for the Jewish nation of antiquity and the coming of the Messiah. (See outline below.) The tabernacle of the exodus, to the temple of Solomon, to the temple of Zerubbabel and of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, to the birth and death of Christ which Jesus said was His temple: Destroy this temple and I will raise it up in three daysbut Jesus spoke (not of the nature temple, but) of His body. Hence, the royal jubilee cycles of 490 years fall upon the theme of building/destroying and rebuilding of the temple or Jerusalemall are a type of Jesus birth, death, and resurrection. (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.) The children of Israel were not faithful to God. Thus the 50th year was a special Sabbath rest of the land. 35All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it. I know of no exception. Thus, the theme of exiled and recovery remains intact throughout. So for a total of 490 years of Israel's approximately 800 year history (to 605BC when the 70 years exile began), the nation had failed to keep the "sabbath rest" for the land . Jeremiah.Concerning the seventy years. (The 490-year cycles also continue perfectly into the mirror!). 888 BC The first 69 weeks of years predicted the timing of Jesus' first coming and the final or 70th week describes the seven years leading up to Jesus' Second Coming. Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let the people back into the land. The Kings edict also began the count on the fourth period (known as Daniels 70 weeks) which is the one were in now (Daniel 9:24-27). real rest is to add to the text a notion foreign to it. 12Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, declares the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation For thus says the LORD, When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. The seventy years are reckoned from the 4th of Jehoiakim, when the prophecy was uttered (Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 25:12), to the first year of Cyrus, and the return under Zernbbabel, 536 B.C. 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. Messiah, the prince, would come exactly 483 years (69 weeks) after the command was given. For almost 6,000 years the earth has been corrupted by sin. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. Every week since creation has followed the same pattern of six days for work followed by one day for rest. Daniel had just finished praying about the 70 years captivity when he received the revelation of the 70 x 7, and in his prayer is referring to the prophet Jeremiah, who in turn was referring to the missing jubilees. Here in Ezra, we see that this 70 year period had elapsed, as Daniel had also anticipated (Dan. The numeric revealed in Ezek. ), 586 BC (last exile and fall of Jerusalem) plus 70 years to 516 BC (completion of rebuilding of the temple). 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. Thirteen years later was the decree to Nehemiah in 445 BC. Thus, the land rested one year from toil, Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I, So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. (to be exact, nisan 458 to nisan . To make reconciliation for iniquity. In Daniel 2, Daniel 7, and Daniel 8, after Greece, one power arises . Thus, for example, the prophecy of the 2,300 evenings and mornings should be understood as referring to 2,300 years (Dan. . His wife Samantha maintains this site as well as their missionary outreaches. This agrees with the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, which is 40 years after AD 30 when Christ died, and thus this 40 years parallels the 40 years wondering in the wilderness 490 x 3 (49 x 30) years earlier as discussed elsewhere. 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The missing Sabbath years take into consideration the missing 50th year of the Jubilee cycle. 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. (This was Aut. Each year of captivity represented one seven-year cycle. 12. [23] Although the Samaritans stopped counting for the Jubilee some hundreds of years ago, according to a recent report an effort is underway to determine the date when counting ceased in order to resume. There were seventy years of captivity to repay for 490 years of failure to observe God's command. 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. This was truly a supernatural event. For the land did not rest during those 40 years of rebellion between 1446 and 1406 BC because the Canaanites still ruled the land. 13). The first is that the Samaritans celebrated a 49-year cycle. God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. These 13 years purposeful lacks 7 years to make the 20 years. For more on this see Textual Variations in Bible Chronology Reveal Design. Thus, God kept perfect record of all Israels and Judahs missing Sabbaths, and required them at their hand for their land. This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year - and 490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years. But to explain all of that would require several books worth of information. 25:2. 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. Including photos each week from our outreaches and the weekly review. Sign up for our free daily newsletter. 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. 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. The king of Judah does not keep the agreement with Babylon and they rebel. (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.). 14. God will reckon the missing Sabbath-years from when they rebelled shortly after the exodus and not merely from when they finally entered entered the promised land. 25. For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. 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. Of course, the length of the exile was set because of their disobedience to the Sabbath, but this wasnt the primary reason for the exile. The LXX, and ST, as apparently supported by the NT (Gal. 8:14). When the Jewish council (Sanhedrin) rejected God's message from Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60) and stoned him, this ended the 490 years God gave Israel to end their sin and rebellion against Him. 1400 to Aut. Note that scholars except the 70 years of Daniel 9 as based on Jeremiah as just a round number, the actual being 66 years. God's Sabbath Years are Important. 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. And this 1400-year pattern is indeed therea wheel within a wheel of 7000-year within 700 within 70 with 7-years cycles. The following is still in rough form! 36:21) To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. The last part of the 2300 years has to do with God's people, both Jew and Gentile, along with the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, and, ultimately, the second coming of Christ. 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. You may wish to know that the year 2025 AD will therefore be 70 Jubilees from 1406 BC, which means that 490 Sabbaths of years would have passed. And as implied already, there is also a sense that the time spent in Egypt also be included. Hence, over a 1000-year period, they failed to keep 70 x 2 Sabbath years, and 70 x 2 Sabbath days amounting to another 70 x 2 years, for a total of 70 x 4 years, or 280 years, which is 7 generations, (40 x 7 = 280). The context agrees. The following words, as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath (literally, all the days of the desolation she rested) are taken from Leviticus 26:34-35. Now, because the wilderness wandering in Sinai is being compared to the exile in Babylon a thousand years later, and because the exile is when the land enjoyed its missing Sabbaths, it follows that the 40 years in the literal wilderness of Sinai also is to be included in the span of time required of Israel to pay back its missing Sabbaths. Leviticus 25.4 NKJV. Why did the Israelite kings refuse to obey the law of Sabbath rest for the land which is enjoined upon them every seven years? (Every 7th year the land was to be left fallow, but Israel did not obey God in this so that they went into exile so that the land could catch up on these missing years.) One answer might be 70 years but in fact their disobedience covers seventy cycles of seven years or 490 years. If you add 490 years to 586 BC, you get the year 1076 BC. . God promised the Jews that he would kick them out of the land, if they disobeyed him on this: (Jer. 2:5. The Lordwith him! (Iahiveh imm) is a frequent formula in the chronicle, and is probably correct here. The number 490 found in Daniel 9:24-27 is a key number, for in it are found all other bible prophecy numbers. Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them. . 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. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Masoretic and Septuagint. 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. And, Pentecost, 1445 BC: The day God intended Israel to enter the Promised Land.), 2.) They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. Ezra 1:1-3; 3 Esdr. Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven, (Matt. Sevens, or multiples of seven, are common in the life of Jacob. Grace thru Faith is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Likewise, the prophecy of the 70 weeks should be understood to be 490 years (Dan. Its breakdown is as follows: 70 x 7 = 490 days/years, which is further broken down as: The 490 years (or days) of the prophecy in Daniel 9 is broken down as units of seven-times-seven days or years (49) x ten (= 490), and is also made up of seven and seventy-year units. 490 Year Prophecy. 9:25-27: 7 (order to rebuild) + 62 (Messiah cut off) + 1 (Great Tribulation) = 70. Hence the pattern of 70s continues. This is the Jubilee year that Jesus was referring to at the very start of His ministry: 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into . 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. 25:2-4; 26:33-35) Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD. (The 720 is divided in half as 360 x 2 yearsa day for each yearjust as the 280 is divided into 140 x 2.) Total missing Sabbaths and Jubilees over 1000 years = 80 x 2 = 160. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest. 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