For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. 25). Masoretic and Septuagint. It is just not economical to let the land lie fallow for a period of one year when harvests can be gathered year in and year out. 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. Total missing Sabbaths for the land over 1000 years = 70 x 2. There is a problem with the above calculation, though. Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. The next interesting point is that the previous Sabbath year was BC 458. [Jeremiah 25:11-14; 29:10] c. 25:8-12). Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let . Here in Ezra, we see that this 70 year period had elapsed, as Daniel had also anticipated (Dan. The following is still in rough form! Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. The timespan required to accumulate 70 failings in observing Sabbath years amounts to 490 years. This was the reason for being removed from the land. Moreover, all dates are intersecting literal days with years of equal value. 490 symbolises grace. Thus, God kept perfect record of all Israels and Judahs missing Sabbaths, and required them at their hand for their land. (519 BC was the second of four decrees that pertain to the prophecy of Daniel 9. unite the readings.). 25. Blue squares represent the three years that God would supply from the harvest of the 6th (48th) year. He worked six days and rested the seventh. 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. The seventy-sevens, which are a total of 490 years, can now be sub-divided into three categories: The Seven-Sevens or 49 years; The Sixty-Two Sevens or 434 Years; The Last Seven Years (The Tribulation) The Seven-Sevens or 49 years. Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. The rest that the land needed, the land then received. . and put it also in writing.Into all . The Bible contains four such periods in Israels history. (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. So some MSS. The pattern of failure explained in chapter 20 of Ezekiel clearly includes the wandering in the desert of Sinai, and this wandering is paralleled to the wandering of Israel in the wilderness of the nations (that is, the exile in Babylon). This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year - and 490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years. 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. 25:2. 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. 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. - And so work all biblical dates in like fashion. (The 490-year cycles also continue perfectly into the mirror!). Israel has always desecrated its Sabbaths. . Will AD 2025 to 2032 [also, 2000 years after the ministry of Christ and 70 jubilees from the 7-year conquest of Canaan] be the 7-year tribulation period of Daniel 9? 4 also include this 40 years.). 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. The Jubilee system predates the Exodus, at least in type: In 1929 BC, Jacob agrees (covenants) with his uncle Laban to work seven years for a wife. The 490 could not designate days (about 1 1/3 years) for that would not be enough time for the events prophesied in Daniel 9:24-27 in 10: . The last seven years of the 490 years is also highlighted by the prophecy as 483 years plus seven. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. Our view is that there is the actual date (the MT), and then dates that are derived from the NT that yield different, yet very compatible dates, as far as biblical patterns are concerned. being right on time for the appropriate full moon of Saturday, April the 4th, which happened to be a "Great" sabbath (Passover), very fitting for the day after Christ's . See Ezekiel 4. 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. Alternative intercalation of the 364-days. 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. (Comp. 3:7), (and the Talmud), reads, Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt and in the land of Canaan was four hundred and thirty years, Exodus 12:40. The ultimate Sabbath rest is coming, when God's people will enjoy work without toil, hearts without sin, and an earth without thorns. The best way to view our articles and Q&A. This was originally written as a private letter. 32). 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. This post does not cover the 70 Weeks Prophecy in Daniel 9 but rather the linking of the two chapters that is asserted by SDA as part of the Investigative Judgment motif. The following paragraph has been quoted verbatim from Wikipedia. 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. The Jubilee cycle is 49 years in length, and each cycle contains 8 Sabbath years. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. Find & sort all our resources. The Key of 23 Serpent into a rod. read more. (See outline below.) But this is itself unlikely; and still more unlikely is it, that in the time of the judges the sabbath-year had been regularly observed until Samuel; and that during the reigns of the kings David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah, this celebration remained wholly in abeyance. 4) Sadly, for 490 years Israel failed to keep the sabbath year. and put it also in writing. . For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in . For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. (It is evident that NT writers relied heavily upon the LXX when citing OT passages.) (That is, every 490 there would be 10 accumulated missing {un-kept} jubilee years), plus the 70 regular missing Sabbath years. For example, the average date of all the 4 decrees of Daniel 9 works out to 490 BC! Read all of Daniel 9 again. 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. You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. (605 BC exile/plunder of temple) + 20 years (586 BC exile/destruction of Jerusalem and temple) + 70 (Zerubabbels temple) + 70 (Nehemiah, 445 BC); or, (605 BC) + 70 (leave Babylon and begin to rebuild temple) + 70 (Ezras return to beautify temple) + 20 years (Nehemiah). 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. Sabbath Afternoon. For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. Dan 9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years. (The 720 is divided in half as 360 x 2 yearsa day for each yearjust as the 280 is divided into 140 x 2.) We've also looked at two dis-tinct historical events that can be accurately dated. 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. These are the same kind of time frames to do with the jubilee cycles given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai (Lev. 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. It is ironic that Israel took 490 years to rob the land of 70 Sabbath Year rests and God, in answering Daniel's prayer, revealed a different 490 year prophecy that is represented through 70 weeks. The week of seven years is called a sabbatical cycle. God required the "promised" land to observe a Sabbath rest every seventh year as a test of faith for Israel. The 1000 plus the 400 years in Egypt add up to 1400 years, or 10 times the 140the key number used in our calculations. This is the fourth post in a series on the Investigative Judgment, for the previous entry please click HERE. In other words, still future when He spoke, therefore the 490 years/70 weeks were not concluded at His birth. 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. This will become increasingly evident as we study the numeric revealed in the Bible about the missing Sabbaths. You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. Following the Babylonian captivity, Daniel is told that there will be another period of 490 before another reckoning (Daniel 9:24). 8:14). (For now we use approximate figures. The upcoming Jewish year, 5781, from Sept. 7, 2021-Sept. 26, 2022 will be a seventh . 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. 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 . 3, S. 141), to which the eighty years of the reigns of David and Solomon, and the time of Saul and Samuel, must be added to make up the 490 years (see the comment. (Jesus tabernacled among us. John 1.). 49 years (7 X 7): The time it takes to rebuild Jerusalem since the time the Babylonians had destroyed it ( Daniel 9: . The Year-Day Principle. This was truly a supernatural event. Babylon comes back and burns the city and the temple to the ground on the 9th of Av 587 BC. But that is another vast topic! . (See Revelation 12 with Daniel 9 and 12.). And let him go up.Whither The sentence is abruptly broken off here, but continued in Ezra 1:3. 1399 BC. Jacob and his brother Esau had to forgive one another and later Joseph (Jacobs son) had to likewise forgive his brothers also. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times. They went into exile to Babylon and that paid that debt. ), The above 516 BC (or 515 BC by some scholars), plus anther 70 years equals 446 or 445 BC, (the decree of Artaxeres to Nehemiah to rebuild walls, which was 1000 years after the exodus/tabernacle. (Note: Jewish tradition reduces the 215 years to 210 arbitrarily, and so is not considered a viable variable. 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. given me.Comp. */
. Intriguingly, Jesus reiterated this 490-year prophecy in referring to how long the Jews should be forgiven. Leviticus 25:3-5 explains what to door, rather, what not to doon the sabbatical year: "For six years sow your . Anyway, the 1406 BC thing is a just side note, but an important side note! 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. Is this correct? It is also called a sabbatical. For more on this see Textual Variations in Bible Chronology Reveal Design. 70 years. All Rights Reserved. 2:5. The Lordwith him! (Iahiveh imm) is a frequent formula in the chronicle, and is probably correct here. (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. 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. And so the land enjoyed its missing Sabbath rests as calculated from the very day that God intended it to rest. It is purely economics. Each one was actually longer than 490 years, but some scholars believe that for various reasons God didnt count some of the the time in each of the periods. And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them. Because of their disobedience, God allowed the children of Israel to be taken captive to Babylon for 70 years. 490 Year Prophecy. But if we take this wiry snake by the tail we find that the several competing chronologies actual compliment one another, and is proof of design, rather than not. The context of the prophecy in Daniel 9 itself makes this connection certain, for the prophecy came to Daniel upon completion of the 70 missing Sabbath years as earlier prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah. To fulfil 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 fulfil threescore and ten years.-2 Chronicles 36:20, 21. (Jubilee sounded on 10th day of the civil New Year. . Therefore, these three tribes would surely have obeyed the law of Sabbath rest for the land during the same year that the land on the west side was finally conquered and had rest from war. These 13 years purposeful lacks 7 years to make the 20 years. The Judeans were exiled was to allow the land to enjoy its Sabbath rest until seventy years have gone by, it will keep Sabbath throughout the days of its desolation. (2 Chr 36:21). Or tablet heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in and.... 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