The Planetary Jubilee
(Leviticus 25:3-12)
INTRODUCTION
“For since the Law has a shadow of the good things to come, but not the very substance of the things, [men] can never with the same sacrifices from year to year which they offer continually make those who approach perfect” (Hebrews 10:1). The Mosaic Law has a prophetic value. Jesus Christ and Christianity are the expression of this prophetic reality: « For those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ » (Colossians 2:17). The fulfillment from the great tribulation, until the end of the millennial reign of Christ, are part of this prophetic dimension of the Law (Revelation 19 and 20). By reading Leviticus Chapter 25, we will see that the fulfillment of the law of the Jubilee corresponds, with regard to the Day of Jehovah, the great tribulation, with the beginning of the resurrection.
The Sabbath Law to Jehovah and the rest for the land
« Six years you should sow your field with seed, and six years you should prune your vineyard, and you must gather the land’s produce. But in the seventh year there should occur a sabbath of complete rest for the land, a sabbath to Jehovah. Your field you must not sow with seed, and your vineyard you must not prune. The growth from spilled kernels of your harvest you must not reap, and the grapes of your unpruned vine you must not gather. There should occur a year of complete rest for the land » (Leviticus 25:3-5). Thus, the Israelites could sow their land for six years, and the seventh year was a Sabbath to Jehovah, a rest for the land. This law was applied for seven cycles of 6 years of agricultural work and 1 year of rest, leaving the land uncultivated, 7 times, (6 years more 1 year) which corresponds to 49 years. At the end of these 7 sabbatical cycles, there was the famous Jubilee, in the beginning of the year fifty…
The Jubilee Law
« And you must count for yourself seven sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years must amount to forty-nine years for you. And you must cause the horn of loud tone to sound in the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the day of atonement you people should cause the horn to sound in all your land. And you must sanctify the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land to all its inhabitants. It will become a Jubilee for you, and you must return each one to his possession and you should return each one to his family. A Jubilee is what that fiftieth year will become for you. you must not sow seed nor reap the land’s growth from spilled kernels nor gather the grapes of its unpruned vines. For it is a Jubilee. It should become something holy to you. From the field you may eat what the land produces » (Leviticus 25:8-12). After seven earthly sabbaths, that is, forty-nine years (7 x (6+1)=49 years), in the fiftieth year was proclaimed a Jubilee (7 x (6+1) + 1= 50 years).
How does the Jubilee have a link with Jehovah’s Day, the Great Tribulation? On several biblical quotes we can understand that this Day will correspond to the planetary fulfillment of the Day of Atonement (Yom (Day) Kippur (Atonement)), which took place on Ethanim (Tishri), 10. However, the biblical text (written above) states that the law of the Jubilee, in this same Day, there was a proclamation of liberty throughout the country of all its inhabitants, in Ethanim (Tishri),10. In addition, in the prophecy of Jesus Christ, about the End of this system of things, he very clearly linked the End, the Great Tribulation, with the release of faithful humans, in a situation of waiting and observation of the fulfillment of the Sign of the End: « But as these things start to occur, stand up straight and lift up your heads, because your deliverance is getting near » (Luke 21:28).
This, deliverance is a release. But what kind of release? The release of the adamic sinful law which inexorably leads to a death sentence, by aging, illness and death. It is the prophecy of Daniel, in the last part, chapter 12, which associates both, the Great Tribulation (the Day of Jehovah), which will be a planetary destruction (by God) of the human system, leading, then to the beginning of the resurrection: « During that time Michael will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of your people. And there will occur a time of distress such as has not occurred since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, everyone who is found written down in the book. And many of those asleep in the dust of the earth will wake up, some to everlasting life and others to reproach and to everlasting contempt » (Daniel 12:1,2).
Without going into explanatory details, this resurrection of the prophecy of Daniel, seems to refer to the earthly resurrection which will have a selective judgment, also written in john 5:28.29. However, the law on the Jubilee stipulated that this proclamation had to be made by a powerful sound of a horn, on Ethanim (Tishri), 10. This powerful sound of horn or trumpet, is described by the apostle Paul, as being the beginning of a heavenly resurrection: « because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord » (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17).
This resurrection is not the same as that mentioned in Daniel 12:2, because it is before the great tribulation and it is a heavenly resurrection. It will be before the great tribulation, corresponding to the death and the instantaneous resurrection of the remnant of the 144,000, on earth, which will go to heaven, before the great tribulation, and which are the earthly remnant of 7,000 (actually): « And in that hour a great earthquake occurred, and a tenth of the city fell; and seven thousand persons were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became frightened and gave glory to the God of heaven » (Revelation 11:7-13).
The city represents the people of God. The fall of the tenth city, is the death and resurrection of the 144,000 kings and priests, as a fully constituted group in heaven, which at the same time will instantly bring about the death and resurrection of the remaining 7,000 of the heavenly group of 144,000. The « rest » of the city that will be afraid of this awesome event, and will give glory to God, are the great crowd that will come out of the great tribulation (Revelation 7:9-17). The Planetary Jubilee will be the release of the humankind imprisoned in the sinful law inherited from Adam (Romans 5:12 and 6:23). This release will be made by the healings of diseases and the rejuvenation, of the great crowd of those who will come out of the great tribulation, and after there will be the earthly resurrection of the dead of all humanity, during the millennial reign (Revelation 20 and 21:1-4).
This jubilee which will be fulfilled, will be the return of the dead to life and to their family with cries of joy. In addition, Leviticus 25 specifies that there will be a « return » in his property, which means that the resurrected one will henceforth have a property or an earthly lot which will belong to him for ever: « But as for you, go on to the end. You will rest, but you will stand up for your lot at the end of the days » (Daniel 12:13). This « lot » is double, with the everlasting life and an earthly property that the Owner of the Earth will have granted to him: « Because the land is mine » – Says Jehovah (Leviticus 25:23). In the following study, we will see if, on the basis of the Bible, the future Planetary Jubilee, is according to the calculation which would begin on the date of the creation of the first man, that is to say, the autumn 4026 BCE.
The Snare of the Year 4026 BCE
This date is based on the Gregorian Solar Calendar, which is manly used in the western part of the world. This biblical chronological calculation is very useful on a cultural way, because it allows to know historical times of biblical events: the creation of the first man (autumn 4026 BCE), the deluge of Noah (2370 BCE), The entry of Abraham and his family in the Promised Land (1943 BCE), the exit of the people of Israel from Egypt (1513 BCE)… However, the logical question is (Regarding the date of 4026 BCE): Is it logical to start the calculation of the cycles of Jubilees years on this date, to eventually know (maybe) the year of the Great Tribulation? The best example is the Jubilee Year, marking the 6000th year of the existence of first man, from the Autumn 1974 to Autumn 1975 (CE). This date was calculated from the date of 4026 BCE. Obviously, some Christians, logically, thought that this year could lead to the year of the great tribulation. Moreover, fifty years earlier, in 1925 (CE), Christians thought that there would be a resurrection of the princes of the kingdom (Psalms 45:16). These two examples of past chronological calculations show, in fact that the year 4026 BCE, by religious tradition, rules the cycle of the Jubilee, that could lead to the year of the great tribulation.
It is necessary to see if this date (4026 BCE), whether exact or not, must be taken into account for the calculation of a cycle of years that would lead to a Jubilee Year, which would be the Year of the Great Tribulation. It should be noted, that for all of these Christians who were interested in the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth, in a chronological way, the Day of Jehovah or the Great Tribulation, should correspond to the Divine Proclamation of a Planetary Jubilee Year.
By knowing the year in which this Jubilee Law was promulgated, one can easily know if Jehovah God, had decreed this cycle of the Jubilee, beginning from the year 4026 BCE (by calculation). At the beginning of this article, it can be read that the Israelites left Egypt in the spring (month of Nisan) of 1513 BCE. By reading the book of Exodus, particularly from chapter 20, the book of Leviticus and Numbers, God promulgated the Mosaic Law given to Israel. Among these hundreds of laws, there was the Law the Jubilee (Leviticus 25:3-5). When, the Israelites began the calculation of the 49 years and the year the Jubilee (50 years)? In 1513 BCE? Maybe. More probably from the year 1512 BCE, because it was written: « Now in the second year, in the second month, on the 20th day of the month, the cloud lifted from over the tabernacle of the Testimony. So the Israelites began to pull away from the wilderness of Sinai in the order established for their departure, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran » (Numbers 10:11-13).
The « second year », beginning from the first year, 1513 BCE, is 1512 BCE. The second month is the month of Ziv or Iyyar, the Ziv, 20 (in connection with the prophecy of Daniel, of the 2,300 evenings and mornings (Daniel 8:13.14)). This date of the month of Ziv of the year 1512 BCE, seemed important, from the point of view of God, because in the narrative of the beginning of the construction of the Temple of Solomon, it is linked with the year and the month of complete and functional construction of the tabernacle and The priesthood. It is written both this month and the year by chronological calculation (mentioning the 480 years which separated these two events): « In the 480th year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year after Solomon became king over Israel, in the month of Ziv (that is, the second month), he began to build the house of Jehovah » (1 kings 6:1; see also 2 Chronicles 3:2 (the exact date of Ziv, 2)).
So, the year 1513 BCE, could be the first year the spiritual Jubilee on the level of the nation of Israel, by its release from Egypt. The year 1512 BCE was the beginning of the calculation of the number of years leading to the next jubilee (fifty years later). By examining the information from numbers 10:11-13, we note that the Jubilee Year of 1513 BCE and the beginning of the calculation leading to the next jubilee (1512 BCE), were not based on the year 4026 BCE. Subtracting 4026-1513 = 2513 years, 2513 is not a multiple of 50. The other very important information is that the year 1513 BCE was the year 1 (according to the divine decree), while the year 1512 BCE, is mentioned as the year 2. So, in the future, regarding the year of the Great Tribulation, it is God who will decide the Year of the Planetary Jubilee, also by decree and, it seems, not by chronological calculation based on the supposed date of the creation of the first man (Genesis 2:7).
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