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. The missing Sabbath years take into consideration the missing 50th year of the Jubilee cycle. 12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. This will become increasingly evident as we study the numeric revealed in the Bible about the missing Sabbaths. This is the assumption of this website, and it effects dates from the Creation to Jacob. As we shall see next, in a sense Jacob/Israel never did enter his rest from his toilsome life, nor did his descendents. The Jewish Sabbath (from Hebrew shavat, "to rest") is observed throughout the year on the seventh day of the weekSaturday. This is the fourth post in a series on the Investigative Judgment, for the previous entry please click HERE. The following paragraph has been quoted verbatim from Wikipedia. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in . 14:34, Dan. We are not talking about the weekly Sabbath, for the Jews didn't have a problem with that; but they did have a problem with the Shemitah/Sabbath year and Jubilee. 9:1-2). The Lord.Iahweh. 25:2. To make an end of sins. 1400 to Aut. His wife Samantha maintains this site as well as their missionary outreaches. Moreover also I gave them my, 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 720 is divided in half as 360 x 2 yearsa day for each yearjust as the 280 is divided into 140 x 2.) Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks (of years) are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies. Tables at 1 Kings 12 (ii. 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 . 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. Seven days are in one week. The reason is that God will ultimately hold Israel to account for all its missing Sabbaths including those of the wilderness wandering. Last edited: Nov 17, 2009. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 1). 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. But that is another vast topic! 26:43). They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. the words of Darius Hystaspes on the famous Behistuu Inscription, which begins I am Darius, the great king, the king of kings, the king of Persia; while every paragraph opens with Saith Darius the king., All the kingdoms . Moreover, Israel, like Judah, fell in three stages. 1.) We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. Both 1260 and 1290 signify half a seven-year period. The children of Israel were not faithful to God. All is accounted for even with the different possibilities due to the ambiguity of the text of Lev. The week of seven years is called a sabbatical cycle. Download our eBooks to read on your computers, phone, tablet, or eReader. 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.. 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. until seven times? Back to the 1445/6 to 445 BC, and 1000 years (a type of the coming millennium). 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. (Jacob, however, got more than he bargained for. The span covers a 490-year period, and even 500 years, depending on how one looks at it, and then is repeated a second time. However, the phrase, and in the land of Canaan is left out of the (presumed original) Hebrew text. This connecting of Jeremiah's prophecy with the declaration in Leviticus 26:34 does not justify us in supposing that the celebration of the sabbath-year had been neglected seventy times, or that for a period of 490 years the sabbath-year had not been observed. (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.) 18:21-22). holy of holies without "the" usually referred to the holy articles of the Tabernacle . Over a space of 490 years, exactly 70 years were intended to lay fallow because one in every seven years was to be fallow, that is, a Sabbath year. Part One: How the 364-day calendar works. 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. 25. . 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) 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. Nineteen years (19 years) go past and Jeremiah tells the king people that Babylon is Gods tool and judgment and they are to repent. 538 BC + 519 BC + 458 BC + 445 BC = 1960, divided by four = 490 BC. 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). Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. 490 symbolises grace. For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. Why did the Israelite kings refuse to obey the law of Sabbath rest for the land which is enjoined upon them every seven years? THE EDICT OF CYRUS, AUTHORISING THE RETURN (2Chronicles 36:22-23). Both Jeremiah's prophecy of 490 years and Daniel's prophecy of 490 years deal with time measured the same way (70 weeks of years = 490 total years). The reduction by 33 years from the standard chronology occurs if we take the coming of Jacob/Israel and his children into Canaan as the terminus a quo. 25. 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. 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. In Christ, we "have [already] tasted . In the following we concentrate on the would-be Jubilee year of 1445 BC. 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. The 490 Year Land sabbath rest: 605-536 BC. 25:11-12; 29:10-14) This whole land will be a desolation and a horror, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. harvested that grew from previous year just ended. (Jesus tabernacled among us. John 1.). Scholars have not succeeded in tracing the origin of the seven-day week, nor can they account for the origin of the Sabbath. 3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, 4but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard 33You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste. 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. Jacob was renamed by God to be Israel. Sign up for our free daily newsletter. We do this mainly under the assumption that the NT is inspired of God and therefore if it backs the LXX and/or ST then we should inquire why it does. The Jews had disobeyed Gods law of obeying the Sabbath. All this is just the tip of the iceberg of the working of the jubilees and of the 490 of Daniel 9. There was still the matter of neglecting the 4th commandment and not obeying the Sabbath and keeping it holy. So in 606 BC Babylon invades the land and takes captives and installs a vassal king in Jerusalem. 5) So twice, Jeremiah told the people they would be exiled for 70 years to allow the land to enjoy its long overdue rest. 9:24-27). */
. Or another example, the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, to the fall of Samaria in 722 BC, as AD 722, are 1260 years. I. For the land did not rest during those 40 years of rebellion between 1446 and 1406 BC because the Canaanites still ruled the land. (I.e., 445 BC less 4900 = AD 4455, ten times AD 445, the mirror of 445 BC, etc. 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). Babylon comes back and burns the city and the temple to the ground on the 9th of Av 587 BC. Sabbath Afternoon. [25] Rabbinic (Talmudic) scholarship always assumed non-accession reckoning for kings, whereby the first partial year of a king was double-counted both for him and as the last year of the deceased king. Leviticus 25.4 NKJV. given me.Comp. Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. (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. The thought is this: By the infliction of the punishment threatened against the transgressors of the law by the carrying of the people away captive into Babylon, the land will obtain the rest which the sinful people had deprived it of by their neglect of the sabbath observance commanded them. The Sabbath rest was not only every seventh day; it was also every seventh year. Posted on October 26, 2015 by ACTheologian. 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). 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. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest. Thus, for example, the prophecy of the 2,300 evenings and mornings should be understood as referring to 2,300 years (Dan. . Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths.Enjoyed is rthh, which Gesenius renders persolvit, made good, discharged, as a debt. So it was a 70 year Sabbath from the law of Moses. Israel had apparently failed to observe the lands one-year-in-seven sabbath for 490 years, so the term of the Babylonian captivity was set at 70 years to make up the deficit. 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). For almost 6,000 years the earth has been corrupted by sin. Daniel 9 speaks of six things they must square away for the 490 years that are determined for them. 490 years from destruction of Shiloh to the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity. 1094 BC. 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. (Also note the fall of Israel to Assyria in 721 BC, on the 14th jubilee.). There is a problem with the above calculation, though. As to the relation between the Chronicles and Ezra, see Introduction. 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). (First decree of Daniel 9 prophecy in 538 BC. The seven-year cycle is stated separately. 7 Year Land Sabbath: . For example, 445 BC plus 490 x 2 years = AD 536, which is the mirror of 536 BC. The Lord God of heaven.Jehovah, the God of heaven. 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. Masoretic and Septuagint. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. However, since the 490 years were an extension of God's covenant with Israel, the 490 years came to an end when God's covenant with Israel ended, namely on the day that Stephen died. Dozens of examples can be given of this design, but here we will look at just one, that of when Jacob entered the land of Canaan as it relates to the 490 of Daniel 9 and the jubilee cycles. All rights reserved. (Seven divided into 490 is 70.) Our pattern will be well within this allowance. See the chart below: Studythe above chart until the events depicted on it are clear to you. Note: Interestingly, these verses (Josh 14:15; also 1:13-15, 3:13, 21:44, 22:4, 23:1, Num. As said Ellen Gould . God kept watch over both of them, though men only over the second line of jubilees. By adding this phase the total count of years back to when they entered Egypt and the land of Canaan is reduced. This 490-year period is divided into three components,49 years . (Part 2).. 1-2). (This was Aut. He called the seventh year a Sabbath. We have yet to put all this together, but first the third decree to rebuild Jerusalem given by Artaxeres in 458 BC, allowing Ezra to return and beautify the newly rebuilt temple with gold and strengthen Jerusalem. A Walk In Jesus Shoes (Resurrection Sunday) #ourCOG ourcog, A Walk In Jesus Shoes (Resurrection Sunday), Authorities Search Apartment in Probe Into Deadly Boston Marathon Blasts #ourCOG ourcog, Authorities Search Apartment in Probe Into Deadly Boston Marathon Blasts, A good Bibliography in Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology? and would force a Jew to carry their pack for a mile, even on the sabbath. The remaining jubilees till Christ is all accounted for. 2010-2021 by ourCOG.org. The best way to view our articles and Q&A. 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. Every week since creation has followed the same pattern of six days for work followed by one day for rest. They did not keep the land Sabbaths so God arranged for the land to rest, while they were in Babylon. But Daniel, in his misconception offers a prayer, it's one of the greatest prayers in the Bible, verses 3-19, Gabriel arrives from heaven to give Daniel the truth, verses 20-23. 36:21 says, The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah. This is a reference to Jeremiah 25:11. For 70 land Sabbath years the land was not allowed its Sabbath rest. - And so work all biblical dates in like fashion. As per the prophecy of Daniel 9, 70 x 7 years are decreed. 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 . 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? It is purely economics. Seventy "sevens," then, is a span of 490 years. Personal updates from Samantha. Jer 37:1 Then the word of the Lord came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me:. And let him go up.Whither The sentence is abruptly broken off here, but continued in Ezra 1:3. The ultimate Sabbath rest is coming, when God's people will enjoy work without toil, hearts without sin, and an earth without thorns. They went into exile to Babylon and that paid that debt. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. 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. Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. 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. Ezra 1:1-3; 3 Esdr. /* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block.
The next interesting point is that the previous Sabbath year was BC 458. Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let . 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. That the word . For example, the average date of all the 4 decrees of Daniel 9 works out to 490 BC! We've also looked at two dis-tinct historical events that can be accurately dated. 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. 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. (22) Now in the first year of Cyrus.This verse is the same as Ezra 1:1, save that it has by the mouth instead of from the mouth. The latter is probably correct. Read for This Week's Study: Dan. . The entire 490 year period determined upon the people of Israel had six objectives. Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia.Comp. This is the number of times Jesus told His followers to forgive a person (Matthew 18:25). 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. God commanded this because the land needs to recuperate, gaining back its minerals. Anyway, the 1406 BC thing is a just side note, but an important side note! Including photos each week from our outreaches and the weekly review. Messiah, the prince, would come exactly 483 years (69 weeks) after the command was given. The women, children and aged of the three tribes on the east side of the Jordan already had been cultivating the common lands surrounding their walled cities to some extent beginning Spring of 1406 BC (while the men of military age were warring with the rest of their brethren), (Num. Intriguingly, Jesus reiterated this 490-year prophecy in referring to how long the Jews should be forgiven. removing the second commandment and changing the Sabbath to Sunday. When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. 70. 32). On final Sunday, Obama asks for more time, as Romney warns about further decline #ourCOG ourcog, On final Sunday, Obama asks for more time, as Romney warns about further decline, my approach to preaching: the Word. it obviosly means "seven year periods.70 weeks are determinded upon thy people means 490 years. God named the seventh day the Sabbath. Browse, sort & search all Bible Study resources. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. Read all of Daniel 9 again. (l) Who threatened the vengeance of God and 70 years captivity, which he called the sabbaths or rest of the land, Jer 25:11. The 70-year captivity was not to be the Jews' only judgment, however. 1446/1445 BC (Exodus/Tabernacle) (The first jubilee was intended to be in the fall of 1445 BC, but was delayed till 1406 BC). Blue squares represent the three years that God would supply from the harvest of the 6th (48th) year. Total missing Jubilees for the land over 1000 years = 10 x 2. After this, the tribes gradually began to cultivate their lands more and more as their individual territories expanded, and this took many generations because the land was never fully subdued, (Judges 1). 40). Thus, God kept perfect record of all Israels and Judahs missing Sabbaths, and required them at their hand for their land. So some MSS. . In short, they would suffer financially and materially. 25:8-12). I believe the Shemitah year judgment mentioned in Daniel 9:24 began then. Jeremiah ca 625 bc - captivity 586 - +70 years = 516 bc; so Jeremiah prophesied some 100 years before the fulfillment of his prophesy 3) The sabbath year allowed the soil to replenish, but even moreit renewed their dependence on the Lord. For about 490 years from Davids reign to the exile, the land was farmed continually until it was long overdue for a Sabbath rest, in fact up to 70 years. 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. 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. (It is evident that NT writers relied heavily upon the LXX when citing OT passages.) The king of Judah does not keep the agreement with Babylon and they rebel. 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. 2Ch 36:20-21 He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. To bring in everlasting righteousness. Stirred up the spirit.1Chronicles 5:26;2Chronicles 21:16. And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them. . That fact is stated in a . As we shall see, this 20 years represents the missing jubilees over a 1000-year period. 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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: . 2:1-5; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45-47). 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ), 586 BC (last exile and fall of Jerusalem) plus 70 years to 516 BC (completion of rebuilding of the temple). (This was Aut. real rest is to add to the text a notion foreign to it. 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. It happens that 3, 7 and 10 all signify a period of completion or perfection. I know of no exception. The result is that the Messiah would appear 173,880 days from March 5, 444 B.C. The verse implies that during the reign of the Israelite kings from David onwards (1,050 BC to 587 BC) the land of Israel had never enjoyed its sabbatical year as commanded by Moses in the book of Leviticus . 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! Moreover, all dates are intersecting literal days with years of equal value. The first thing to notice is the basic 70,s patterntwo of which are spoken of directly in the bible (Daniel 9, and Zech. The Bible contains four such periods in Israels history. Israel has always desecrated its Sabbaths. 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. (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest . The prophecy of Daniel 9, therefore, simply reveals further numeric details concerning Jeremiahs prophecy about these missing Sabbaths. 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).