God Reveals Mysteries in the Sanctuary Schedule In Type and Anti-Type

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GOD REVEALS MYSTERIES IN THE SANCTUARY SCHEDULE IN TYPE & ANTI-TYPE

The schedule of God's plan of salvation is very clearly and distinctly revealed in the Bible (the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), Young's Literal Translation and the Geneva Bible). This plan is revealed in both the events to take place, and in the exact and precise timing of all these events, WHICH RELATE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND ADVENTS OF JESUS CHRIST OUR MESSIAH.

God had chosen Moses as the leader of His ancient people to preserve for the human race this precise and intricate plan, through a fifty-year cycle of ceremonies, a series of rehearsals, in the old Hebrew sanctuary system, culminating in the complete liberation of all slaves, as illustrated by the year of Jubilee (Leviticus 23-25 KJV).

Within this fifty-year period were certain ceremonies to be performed on special days, in special prophetic weeks, in specific months during the year, together, with other ceremonies to be performed only in certain designated years. This entire round of ceremonies was prophetic, typical of mysteries in God's plan of salvation.

The significance and meaning of all these ceremonies and of the exact timing of each of these ceremonies could only be interpreted by the true Interpreter, who was none other than its Originator, Jesus, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who would come at the appointed times to fulfill to the finest detail every one of these prophetic rituals.

There were seven annual feasts (Leviticus 23:4-42 KJV) requiring attendance at the sanctuary. Four were scheduled from the first new moon after the spring equinox, which was the first day of the first month of the sacred year, beginning on the 14th day of this first month (Leviticus 23:5-16 KJV), and culminating 52 days later on the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV). The remaining three annual feasts were scheduled from the new moon of the seventh month, beginning on the 1st day of the month and ending on the 22nd day of that same month (Leviticus 23:24-43 KJV).

Scattered among these spring and fall feasts were twelve special days that were designated as “Sabbaths”. These were not the Sabbaths of the Lord, the weekly 7th day Sabbath of creation, found within the ten commandments. These were specified to be Sabbaths “besides the Sabbaths of the Lord....” (Leviticus 23:38,39 KJV). They fell on different days of the week each year in a perfect 7-day sequence as they were scheduled from the new moon, as were the feasts, themselves. Paul, the Apostle, referred to these “Sabbaths” in Colossians 2:16, 17 (KJV), as a “shadow of things to come”, meaning that they were prophetic in nature, and were destined to fall on the weekly 7th day Sabbath, the Sabbath of the Lord, in the year of their fulfillment.

There were also prophetic weeks used to calculate the time of the “shadow” Sabbaths leading to the Day of Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) (Leviticus 23:15,16, Exodus 34). These “shadow” weeks were calculated entirely from the new moon.

In addition to the “shadow” Sabbath days, were certain years specified as “Sabbath” years, having a perpetual seven-year cycle. After numbering seven of these “Sabbath” years, equaling a total of 49 years, came the year culminating the entire prophetic cycle, the 50th year, known as the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25 KJV), which was also the first year in the next seven-year cycle of years.

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On the Day of Atonement of the Sabbath year certain classes of slaves received their freedom (Deuteronomy 15:1, 12 KJV), while all others slaves waited until the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year to be set at liberty (Leviticus 25:10 KJV).

In contrast with the 52 days of the spring feasts, which were observed unvaried every year, the Sabbath year was especially designated as the year of the fulfillment of the fall feasts, in that there were additional ceremonies being performed during the 22 days of the fall feasts only in that year. In this Sabbath year during the eight days of the Feast of Tabernacles the law of God was taught to the men, women, children and the stranger (Deuteronomy 31:10-13 KJV). The Day of Atonement is the only fall feast with extra special significance in both years, the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year, with its greatest significance being in the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:8-10 KJV) .

The entire 50-year prophetic cycle of the old sanctuary system can only be understood by the interpretation that the Messiah, Jesus, gave through His fulfillment and teaching of the ceremonies or types related to His first advent.

By His fulfillment of the Jubilee, He divided the Jubilee prophecy of Isaiah 61 into two distinct fulfillments, [b]“To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,” in His public ministry at His first advent, and, “the day of vengeance of our God” just before His second advent. In the synagogue on the Sabbath, the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year, 27 C.E., He proclaimed the Jubilee by reading the Jubilee prophecy of Isaiah 61:1, 2 KJV (Luke 4:16-21 KJV). He stopped in the middle of the sentence, omitting the phrase, “and the day of vengeance of our God.” He closed the book and then proclaimed, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4:21 KJV, thus the Messiah fulfilled the “shadow” Sabbath specifications of the Day of Atonement on the Jubilee year by its fulfillment on a 7th day Sabbath that year. (Also notice Bible cross-referencing for Luke 4:16-21 and Isaiah 61:1,2.)

Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, in the book, “JOSEPHUS COMPLETE WORKS,” p. 706, begins his list of the ancient Jubilee years with the year, “1787-1786 B.C.E.” and ends the list with his last recorded Jubilee year of “27-28 C.E.”

The ancient Hebrew calendar (Hillel I) begins the new year with the new moon after the spring equinox, and ends the following spring. Later, Hillel II calendar began with the nearest new moon.

In the ancient Hebrew writings is recorded an amazing prophecy made by Elijah, the prophet, regarding the advent of the Messiah in connection with the Jubilee year.

“Elijah told Judah, the brother of Sala Hasida, 'The world will endure not less than 85 Jubilees, and on the last Jubilee the Son of David will come.” (Sanh.97b) from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581-582 (Jewish Synagogue Library)

(No one knows how long the earth endured from the creation of the world until man fell into sin, but it would not have been much over the time of two Jubilees (a period of 98 years), as Adam's third son was born when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old (Genesis 5:3) and Abel had just been killed by Cain. From the entrance of sin until the Jubilee year of 27 C.E. when Jesus started His public ministry, could have been about 4067 years or 83 Jubilee cycles, which consequently would have been 85 Jubilees after creation, fitting exactly this recorded prophecy of Elijah)

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In these same ancient Hebrew writings is stated,

“The sages ... reckoned the historical order and the end of time by Sabbatical Years and Jubilees.” from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581 (Jewish Synagogue Library)

“Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered the land to the time they left it” (Ar. 12b). from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581 (Jewish Synagogue Library)

Christ's fulfillment of the Jubilee on the 7th-day Sabbath, the Day of Atonement of that Jubile year, in the autumn of 27 C.E., gives us the interpretation of the final fulfillment of the Jubilee, “the day of vengeance of our God,” Isaiah 61:1, 2 KJV, which will, also, occur on the Day of Atonement, on a 7th-day Sabbath of a future Jubilee year.

Three and one-half years after the Messiah's fulfillment of the Jubilee at His first advent, He fulfilled the spring feasts in the middle of the 70th week of years, according to Daniel's prophecy (Daniel 9:24, 25, 27 KJV), when He offered up His life as the Lamb of God at the exact time that the Passover Lamb was to be killed on Passover.

“From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.” Matthew 16:21, Matthew 17:22,23, Matthew 20:17-19, Mark 9:31,32, Mark 10:32-34, Luke 9:21,22, Luke 13:32, Luke 18:33, Luke 24:7,8. All texts from the King James Version of the Bible.

“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done..... And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:21, 27 KJV

“And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: “ Luke 24:44-46 KJV

In the year, 31 C.E. when the Messiah was crucified, all eight of the “shadow” Sabbaths of the spring feasts (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV) occurred on Holy 7th day Sabbaths, the first one of these eight was the day after the crucifixion when the Messiah rested in Joseph's tomb, with the last one of these eight being the day before the fulfillment of the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV and Acts 2:1,4)

[Gibs]

JB,

What we can know from the book "Jubilees" is Adam and Eve were here the first year being a Jubilee year and he lived a full 930 years and a few months into the next year, his 931'st. So we find that is exactly 19 Jubilee cycles.

Here is a site for you to check out the true Jubilee calendar and see for yourself the many new beginnings are Jubilees, that can't happen if the calendar isn't started with the right date and if you go back in time and start the date an extra Jubilee sooner, well you would already have the earth over 6,000 yrs. with man and it isn't to be.

http://www.itsaboutthattime.net/Calendar_Synopsis.htm

Notice how Jubilees and new beginnings jibe.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,...And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:1,4 KJV.

By the Messiah's fulfillment of the “shadow Sabbath” falling on the Holy 7th day Sabbath, the day after His crucifixion, He interpreted the prophetic “shadow” Sabbaths that were dispersed throughout the spring and fall feast days, showing clearly that these “shadow” Sabbaths are prophetic of Holy 7th day Sabbaths in the designated year of the fulfillment of the spring and fall feast days.

“...that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,)” John 19:31 KJV.

“High Day” was the term used whenever “shadow” Sabbaths fell on Holy 7th day Sabbaths.

He rose from the dead on the “third day”, the day that the Wave Sheaf offering was to be presented before the Lord, which always took place on the 16th day of the first month.

“And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” Leviticus 23:11 KJV.

Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, states that the Wave Sheaf offering was always waved on the 16th day of the first month.

Josephus, a renowned Pharisee; [Antiquities III, Chapter X, Paragraph 5]

"In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us called Nisan, and is the beginning of our year, on the fourteenth day of the lunar month, when the sun is in Aries, (for in this month it was that we were delivered from bondage under the Egyptians,) the law ordained that we should every year slay that sacrifice which I before told you we slew when we came out of Egypt, and which was called the Passover; and so we do celebrate this passover in companies, leaving nothing of what we sacrifice till the day following. The feast of unleavened bread succeeds that of the passover, and falls on the fifteenth day of the month, and continues seven days, wherein they feed on unleavened bread; on every one of which days two bulls are killed, and one ram, and seven lambs. Now these lambs are entirely burnt, besides the kid of the goats which is added to all the rest, for sins; for it is intended as a feast for the priest on every one of those days. But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day they do not touch them. And while they suppose it proper to honor God, from whom they obtain this plentiful provision, in the first place, they offer the first-fruits ,of their barley and that in the manner following: They take a handful of the ears, and dry them, then beat them small, and purge the barley from the bran; they then bring one tenth deal to the altar, to God; and, casting one handful of it upon the fire, they leave the rest for the use of the priest. And after this it is that they may publicly or privately reap their harvest. They also at this participation of the first-fruits of the earth, sacrifice a lamb, as a burnt-offering to God. "

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Brother Gibs,

Thanks for the post. I'll be specific in my comments about the site, after I have a chance to study it in depth. Thanks for your patience.

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The ancient Hebrew calendar, the Hillel I calendar, was used from the time of Moses and was in use during the time of the crucifixion and used until approximately the middle of the 4th century when the Hillel II calendar was adopted, which is still in use today, illustrated by the perpetual Hebrew calendar, “Hebcal”. Both calendars have always designated the waving of the Wave Sheaf on the 16th day of the first month.

To summarize, then, using the Messiah's interpretation of the prophetic types or feasts of the old sanctuary system, through His fulfillment at His first advent, the following principles are evident.

He fulfilled the spring feasts within the 52-day period from the Passover to the Day of Pentecost exactly, as was illustrated by the type (Leviticus 23:5-16).

He died at the time of the slaying of the Passover lamb at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon on the 14th day of the first Hebrew month. This was the day of the Passover, the day before the “shadow” Sabbath. Passover fell on a Friday that year. Again, exactly as the type prophesied that it must.

This “shadow” Sabbath was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15th day of the first Hebrew month, and overlaid the Holy 7th day Sabbath that year, being called a “High Sabbath”.

The Wave Sheaf ceremony which was “on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it,” (Leviticus 23:11 KJV) was observed on the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 16th day of the first Hebrew month. This 16th day fell on a Sunday that year, 31 C.E. The Messiah's resurrection fulfilled this ceremony on the exact day of the week as the type had prophesied.

From this second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, seven “shadow” Sabbaths, or seven complete weeks (or 49 days) were to be counted to reach to the day before the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16). The Day of Pentecost fell on the day after the seventh “shadow” Sabbath, also, a Sunday that year. Thus, all eight of the “shadow” Sabbaths in the spring feasts that year occurred on 7th day Sabbaths.

Whenever the new moon falls on a 7th day Sabbath, all of the “shadow” Sabbaths governed from that new moon, also fall on 7th day Sabbaths, whether in the first month of the year or the seventh month of the year. All twelve of these “shadow” Sabbaths are thus destined to fall on seventh-day Sabbaths in their fulfillment. THIS FACT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO COMPREHEND.

In order for a complete fulfillment of the types or ceremonies relating to the second advent, all the specifications given in Moses' writings must be met, according to the manner in which the types relating to Christ's first advent were fulfilled by the Messiah.

This would entail a fulfillment of the fall feasts within the 22 literal days, as illustrated by the type, and as interpreted by the Messiah's fulfillment of the types relating to the first advent. All four “shadow” Sabbaths in the fall feasts must occur on Holy 7th day Sabbaths in the year of their greatest significance.

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All the fall feasts within the literal 22 days have extra special significance in the Sabbath year (Deuteronomy 31:10-13). But only the Day of Atonement of the fall feasts had extra special significance in both, the Sabbath year and in the year of Jubilee, with the greatest significance being in the year of Jubilee, the year when the Day of Atonement occurs on a 7th day Sabbath.

As in the typical ceremonies, a certain class of Hebrew slaves received their freedom on the Day of Atonement of the Sabbath year (Deuteronomy 15:1, 12), and all other slaves were set free on the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:10), so in the Sabbath year on the Day of Atonement (a Monday that year) the sins of a certain class of individuals would be blotted out, while all others would wait until the next year on the Day of Atonement of the year of Jubilee for their complete freedom, when the Day of Atonement will occur on a seventh-day Sabbath.

Therefore, in the seventh Sabbath year, the 49th year, when the new moon of the seventh month falls on a 7th day Sabbath, all four of the “shadow” Sabbaths of the fall feasts fall on 7th day Sabbaths in the year of their greatest significance, which would be in the seventh Sabbath year and in the year of Jubilee. Therefore, this would point to the fulfillment of these fall feast days in the Sabbath year, actually, the 7th Sabbath year, which precedes the Jubilee, and in the Jubilee year, itself.

When, in the seventh Sabbath year, the Feast of Trumpets falls on a 7th day Sabbath, the first day and the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, also, fall on 7th day Sabbaths, and the very next year, the year of Jubilee, the Day of Atonement, also, falls on a 7th day Sabbath. See “Hebcal” the perpetual Hebrew calendar.

The Apostle Peter referred to the fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in the fall feasts just before the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah, when He said,

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and He shall send Jesus Christ....” Acts 3:19 KJV.

This text refers to the blotting out of sins which was typically performed on the Day of Atonement in the old sanctuary system, the old covenant. The blotting out of sins was considered to be the “cleansing of the sanctuary”.

The prophet Daniel is given a time period of 2300 days, after which time the sanctuary would be cleansed (Daniel 8:14). In many cases the time prophecies of the Bible that have a prophetic time fulfillment, also have a literal time fulfillment. Prophetic time means that one day is taken to mean one year. (See Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6) In both literal and prophetic time this period of 2300 days would involve many years, it could not be referring to the yearly ritual service performed each Day of Atonement in the old Hebrew sanctuary, but to the specific time of the actual fulfillment of the prophetic types in the new covenant, (the heavenly sanctuary system).

This 2300-day prophecy is connected to both the first advent types, as well as, the second advent types. The angel explains to Daniel that the “going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem,” (Daniel 9:25) is the beginning of this prophetic time period. From the beginning point in 457 B.C.E. when Artaxerses, the Babylonian king's decree “to restore and build Jerusalem” went forth, a time period of 69 weeks would elapse until the Messiah (Daniel 9:25) would begin His public

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ministry at His first advent, and 3 and ½ years later in the middle of the 70th week of years (Daniel 9:26, 27) Messiah would fulfill the spring feasts in 31 C.E. in 52 literal days by His death and resurrection and by the Holy Ghost falling on the disciples on the Day of Pentecost.

All of the time periods in this fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy are calculated in prophetic time, each day meaning one year. Thus, the 2300 days (2300 years) ended on the Day of Atonement, Tuesday, October 22, 1844 (Hillel I), in the middle of the typical week of years.

This was the beginning of the judgment of the dead spoken of by John, the Revelator, in Revelation 6:11 “And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,...”

They were told to rest until the final time of trouble at the end of time.

“...until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.” Revelation 6:11.

This 2300-year period was not the final fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy, although ending on the Day of Atonement, most of the specifications for the fulfillment of the fall feasts (Leviticus 23:24-39, Deuteronomy 31:10-13) were not met in that prophetic fulfillment in the year, 1844.

The following specifications as given by Moses for the fulfillment of the fall feasts that were not met in the 1844 prophetic fulfillment are:

--no fulfillment of all 3 of the fall feasts in the 22 literal days as shown in the type,

--the year 1844 was in the middle of the week of years, it was not a Sabbath year, or a 7th Sabbath year or a year of Jubilee, as required in the typical service. Also the historical Jubilee had already occurred in the year 1840.

--the Day of Atonement, October 22, 1844, did not occur on a Monday as it must in the 7th Sabbatical year, nor did it occur on a 7th-day Sabbath as prophesied for the Jubilee year. Nor did the Feast of Trumpets or the first day and the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles fall on 7th day Sabbaths as they must when these feasts are fulfilled in the 7th Sabbath year. There was only a prophetic fulfillment of one of the fall feast days, and no type of fulfillment for the other fall feast days.

--the sins of the living individuals were not blotted out, which would result in the inability to recall previous sins, which must be the case in the fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in the anti-typical Jubilee year, when the saints will be set free from the slavery of this world and from all remembrance of their sins and delivered from all temptation.

The angel instructing Daniel stated that the “going forth” of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem would mark the beginning of the 2300-day prophetic period, the fact that there were three separate commandments or decrees providing for the restoration and the rebuilding of Jerusalem that “went forth”, each decree issued by a different ruling monarch of the Medo-Persian realm, is very significant. Each of the successive commandments providing for the restoration and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, was given in more detail, with the third and final decree in 457 B.C.E. being the most complete.

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These three decrees are recorded in the Bible. (See Ezra 1:1-3, 5:13; Ezra 6:1-12; Ezra 7:11-27)

These three commandments to restore and build Jerusalem are prophetic of three fulfillments of the 2300-day prophecy, the first fulfillment being in prophetic time (a day equaling a year) and the two remaining fulfillments being in literal days, each beginning with the “going forth” of a commandment to restore and build Jerusalem. The third and final 2300-day period will be the most complete in fulfilling the types relating to Christ's second advent.

The second fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy began unexpectedly with the “going forth” of a commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, on Friday, June 27, 1980, 2300 literal days before the Day of Atonement, October 13, 1986, in the first perfect alignment of the “shadow” Sabbaths falling on 7th day Sabbaths in the fall feasts in the 49th and 50th years, since the time of Jesus, the Messiah. This alignment was the first of a series of several such alignments that occur only now in our day at the end of the 6000 years of human history, after which there are none occurring, even if one searches a thousand years farther in the future. (See “Hebcal”, the perpetual Hebrew calendar)

This commandment that “went forth” on June 27, 1980, via Reuters international news agency to the entire world, titled, “Basic Law: Jerusalem Capitol of Israel,” put forward by a member of the Israeli Knesset, Guela Cohen, provided for the restoring of Jerusalem as the capitol of the nation and allocated special funds for its rebuilding.. Many may remember that since 1948 when the nation of Israel was formed, Tel Aviv had been the capitol.

An integral part of the 2300-day prophecy, is the first 70-week period.

“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,...” Daniel 9:24.

In the 2300 prophetic days, the 2300 years, the 70-week time period equaling 490 actual years reached to 34 C.E. when Stephen, the first Christian martyr, met his death by stoning and the gospel message was carried to the Gentiles, thus ending the Jewish dispensation and beginning the “times of the Gentiles.”

In the second fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy the first 70-week period was 490 literal days, ending on October 29, 1981. On that very day the Ark of the Covenant which had been secreted in a cave on Mt. Nebo since the days of Jeremiah, the prophet, was found by four amateur archeologists from Winfield, Kansas. Their leader, Tom Crotser, was shown by a dream the exact location and how to reach it. When they found it, they did not touch or disturb it. This event marked the “end of the times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24), when the professed Christian Church corporations were weighed in the balance of the sanctuary and were “found wanting”. (Daniel 5:27 “...weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” )

Just as the 2300 years ended on a Day of Atonement, Tuesday, October 22, 1844, so the 2300 days from Friday, June 27, 1980, reached to the Day of Atonement, Monday, October 13, 1986, a 49th year just before the year of Jubilee. This 49th year, the year of their greatest significance, the Feast of Trumpets and the first and eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, all fell on 7th day Sabbaths, In this perfect alignment the Day of Atonement occurred on a 7th day Sabbath, October 3, 1987, the Jubilee year, in which the Day of Atonement met the Sabbath specifications, in the year of its greatest significance.

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JB,

What we can know from the book "Jubilees" is Adam and Eve were here the first year being a Jubilee year and he lived a full 930 years and a few months into the next year, his 931'st. So we find that is exactly 19 Jubilee cycles.

Here is a site for you to check out the true Jubilee calendar and see for yourself the many new beginnings are Jubilees, that can't happen if the calendar isn't started with the right date and if you go back in time and start the date an extra Jubilee sooner, well you would already have the earth over 6,000 yrs. with man and it isn't to be.

http://www.itsaboutthattime.net/Calendar_Synopsis.htm

Notice how Jubilees and new beginnings jibe.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Brother Gibs,

In the link you posted to the site for the Jubilee calendar years I observed the following;

The Sabbatical years on that site are correctly calculated from the writings of Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, but the site totally ignores the Jubilee years listed by the same historian, Josephus.

These Sabbatical years are correct and correlate with the Jubilee prophecy of Isaiah 61 and Jesus' declaration of the Jubilee in Luke 4. Josephus, the first century Jewish historian accurately lists 27-28 C.E. as being this Jubilee year. This agrees with the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy evidence.

(Daniel's prophecy of 69 weeks to the Messiah, the prince.)

The site states that in 27 C.E. our Lord began His public ministry which is accurate, as is the year of His crucifixion in 31 C.E. But the day of the week of the crucifixion of Jesus is in error, as the site gives Wednesday, the 25th of April, as the Passover, which totally disagrees with the Bible and with the Spirit of Prophecy, and also disagrees with the principles used in determining the moon phases in scheduling the Hebrew festivals. The crucifixion of Jesus actually occurred on Friday, the 14th day of the first month, the 27th of April in 31 C.E. which agrees with the moon phases as interpreted by the Hebrew Calendar, “Hebcal” (the Hillel II calendar).

Brother Gibs, you can verify what I have stated by checking the new moon for the first month in the year 31 CE, and comparing it with the new moon of the seventh month for the year 2028, then, check the perpetual Hebrew calendar, “Hebcal”, for the year, 2028, it will show that the new moon of the seventh month to be identical in size to the new moon of the first month in the year, 31 C.E., when the crucifixion occurred on Friday, the 14th day of this first month.

This has to do with the method used to determine the days on which the feast days occur in the various years, sometimes using the conjunction of the new moon as the first day of the month, and sometimes using the first visible sliver of the new moon, the object being, if possible, to have the new moon occurring on the 7th day Sabbath, or to have the Day of Atonement on a 7th day Sabbath. This same principle was used in both the Hillel I and the Hillel II calendars. The Hillel I calendar was in use until the middle of the fourth century, when the Hillel II calendar was adopted.

The year 70 C.E. the site gives as the year of the destruction of Jerusalem is also correct, according to the Spirit of Prophecy.

[Johnnboy]

Brother Gibs,

One other point that I'd like to make is that the evidence that the site gives for the designation of the Jubilee years is purely speculation, lacking real evidence.

[Gibs]

I tottally disagree JB. The writings of Moses, Little Genesis are better proof than Josephus and the Jubilee calendar cannot and willnot be moved. It has run since all eternity past and will all eternity future. It is one of God's great time clocks.

1994 was our last Jubilee year and eath as it is now will not enjoy another, as it is soon to be all over.

BC 457 was a Jubilee year, a new beginning also. I could give many more but that is suffiecient.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

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I tottally disagree JB. The writings of Moses, Little Genesis are better proof than Josephus and the Jubilee calendar cannot and willnot be moved. It has run since all eternity past and will all eternity future. It is one of God's great time clocks.

1994 was our last Jubilee year and eath as it is now will not enjoy another, as it is soon to be all over.

BC 457 was a Jubilee year, a new beginning also. I could give many more but that is suffiecient.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Seems like even yet more confirmation arrives, and you still deny the math?

This is precisely why you continue to refuse accepting that the 70 weeks terminated in 34 A.D., rather 33 A.D. We have been over this before, and you seem to forget that the 70 weeks are counted based on Sabbatical cycles.

Am I right Johnnboy?

[Gibs]

lys,

I'm going to give you this one more time, please follow through.

Starting with the year BC 457 through yr. BC 1 You have 457 yrs. Same as if you counted BC 1 through BC 457 you get 457 yrs.

Lys the way you been doing it you are only getting 456 and it is 457, that is why you are the one off a year.

Starting with AD 1 then through AD 33 you have 33 yrs. Now 33 yrs plus 457 yrs = 490 yrs, your 10 Jubilees and the end of the Jews allotted time.

You see 457 was a Jubilee yr. and so is AD 34 a Jubilee yr. and another new beginning.

Then counting by Jubilees on up and AD 1437 was a new beginning, the Exodus, then we can go on up in Jubilees to 702 a Jubilee yr in the Bible which verifies we have the Jubilee Calendar on track. Bible verses are Isaiah 37:30 and 2 Kings 19:29 and AD 702 falls midterm of king Hezekiah.

Then the next in Jubilees that has special significance is AD 34 a new beginning as all Jubilee yrs are and this one was a new begining for the Gentiles. The time of the Jews had ended AD 33 and the time of the Gentiles began AD 34

My last post on this as It is just simple math and I don't know how to make it plainer.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[Lysimachus]

lys,

I'm going to give you this one more time, please follow through.

Starting with the year BC 457 through yr. BC 1 You have 457 yrs. Same as if you counted BC 1 through BC 457 you get 457 yrs.

Lys the way you been doing it you are only getting 456 and it is 457, that is why you are the one off a year.

Starting with AD 1 then through AD 33 you have 33 yrs. Now 33 yrs plus 457 yrs = 490 yrs, your 10 Jubilees and the end of the Jews allotted time.

You see 457 was a Jubilee yr. and so is AD 34 a Jubilee yr. and another new beginning.

Then counting by Jubilees on up and AD 1437 was a new beginning, the Exodus, then we can go on up in Jubilees to 702 a Jubilee yr in the Bible which verifies we have the Jubilee Calendar on track. Bible verses are Isaiah 37:30 and 2 Kings 19:29 and AD 702 falls midterm of king Hezekiah.

Then the next in Jubilees that has special significance is AD 34 a new beginning as all Jubilee yrs are and this one was a new begining for the Gentiles. The time of the Jews had ended AD 33 and the time of the Gentiles began AD 34

My last post on this as It is just simple math and I don't know how to make it plainer.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

My friend Gibs.

With deepest sincerity, I ask that you do not ask me to repeat myself again after this last time either.

If you were right in your calculations, you can be sure the sound scholars and mathematicians would have caught it by now.

Please understand 456/457 BC Tishri to Tishri was a sabbatical year, not a jubilee year. If you need confirmation of this, I refer you here (summary), and especially here. You will be hard-pressed to refute this.

Additionally, since the decree went into effect in the fall of 457 BC, we start the 70-week prophecy there. That first year then is 457/456 BC Tishri to Tishri. Yet more, since the decree went into effect in the fall of 457 BC, we start the 70-week prophecy there. That first year then is 457/456 BC Tishri to Tishri. We should use a fall-to-fall calendar because that's how the sabbatical years work. They go from fall to fall.

You sound like you are using inclusive reckoning for BC dates which is a little confusing. It would be better to say, "From Tishri 457 to Tishri 456 is year 1," etc.

Now if Tishri 457 to Tishri 456 is year 1, then Tishri 1 BC to Tishri 1 AD is year 456, not year 457. One must then add 34 years to that to get 490, not 33.

Therefore, we see that although the Lord's prophet Ellen White may not have known her math, the Lord inspired her to write these dates.

Why? Because God had already done the math LONG before Ellen White, and she was only writing what the Lord impressed her--despite her exactly knowing the ins-and-outs of how we arrive at those dates.

It is my hope that you will be willing to face this unswerving fact.

You continue to assert that 458 B.C. was a sabbatical year. It was not a sabbatical year. It was 457/456 tishri to tishri. Read the links I have provided. As long as you hold on to this fallacy, you will forever come to wrong conclusions in your calculations.

Your whole premise is wrong -- using the Jubilee calendar for the 70 weeks, and it simply is not so.

When Were the Sabbatical Years? - Re-examines Ben Zion Wacholder's evidence for his sabbatical dates, and concludes that the standard position was correct after all. Using Josephus, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, ancient inscriptions and documents, the Talmud, and Maimonides, when the sabbatical years were can be determined. And this all has a bearing on Daniel 9's 70 weeks.

I implore you to read that article.

Now, if by 458 BC you mean 458/457 BC Tishri to Tishri, then you would be correct. But I think you are saying 459/458?

Or are you saying 458/457 Nisan to Nisan? From your past posts, I have already explained that you are not being clear enough.

On page one of this thread, you say, "AD 34 of course then is a Jubilee yr." 33/34 Tishri to Tishri was a sabbatical year. Roughly nine months of that Jewish year fell in 34 AD. 34/35 AD would be the first year of a sabbatical cycle, but if this is what you are trying to say, it sure is a strange way of doing it. You said, "AD 34," which implies that you are referring to a Jewish year that mostly falls in 34 AD, and if that is what you are doing, then you are incorrect in your identification of 34 AD as being the first year of a sabbatical cycle.

[Johnnboy]

Yes, Brother Marcos,

You're exactly right. The 70 weeks was based on Sabbatical cycles and ended on the new moon after the spring equinox in 34 C.E.

457 B.C. Was a first year in a “week of years”, but this cycle of years was the second

Sabbatical cycle from the Jubilee, and therefore, 457 B.C. was year 8 in the count to 49 years.

Josephus recognizes this in his records of years. Jesus' declaration of the Jubilee is in perfect harmony with these records, as is Elijah's prophecy that the Messiah would

appear on the 85th Jubilee. All three agree.

Check the cross-referencing for the declaration that the Messiah made in Luke 4 when He said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled...” His declaration is such positive proof of the Jubilee. The cross-referencing connects with Isaiah 61:1, 2, and from there back to Leviticus 25:8-10.

From the new moon in the spring of 33 C.E. to the new moon of the spring of 34 C.E. was a Sabbatical year, so in the spring of 34 C.E., the new moon after the spring equinox was the end of the 70 weeks allotted to the Jews. So the new moon after the spring equinox in 34 C.E. to the new moon in 35 C.E. was year 8 in the 49-year count.

[Johnnboy]

Brother Gibs,

Do you follow what I'm saying?

The 70 weeks was a period of years with the equivalent number of years of a period of 10 Jubilees, however, it did not begin on a Jubilee year nor end on a Jubilee year. 457 C.E. has no inspired evidence showing it to be a Jubilee year, neither does 34 C.E.

We cannot make these years into Jubilee years just because of “new beginnings”, when the evidence shows it to be otherwise.

[Gibs]

JB,

Please check out your Jubilee yrs and see if you have one to fall in the time of King Hezekiah when it is pointed out in scripture of a Jubilee yr., Isa 37:30. Mine does BC 702 mid term of his rule. It it don't your calendar is off.

Isa 37:30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

Two yrs. in a row show this to be a Jubilee, that second yr.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[Johnnboy]

Brother Gibs,

My old King James' Version of the Bible gives the year 710-709 B.C.E. as the year of the prophet, Isaiah's message, in Isaiah 37:30. The sacred year calendar in this Bible shows the year beginning on the first new moon after the spring equinox and reaching to the new moon after the spring equinox of the following spring.

The Hebrew records were destroyed at the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E., so I believe that the writings of Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, would be more accurate since he had access to these records.

More importantly, his dates perfectly harmonize with Jesus' proclamation of the Jubilee on the Day of Atonement in the autumn of 27 C.E., and harmonize with the Spirit of Prophecy dates of the crucifixion in 31 C.E. in the midst of the 70th week of years, from Daniel's prophecy. Elijah's prophecy of the earth enduring 85 Jubilees, and the Son of David coming on the last Jubilee, also correlates with this Jubilee date.

The following quote is from the book,

“Josephus Complete Works”, “as translated by William Whiston, A.M. Includes: LIFE OF FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE JEWS, THE WARS OF THE JEWS, DISCOURSE CONCERNING HADES, SEVEN DISSERTATIONS, TABLES OF JEWISH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, LIST OF ANCIENT TESTIMONIES AND RECORDS CITED BY JOSEPHUS, TEXTS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT PARALLEL TO JOSEPHUS' HISTORIES”

DISSERTATION V, page 706--

“years and years of Jubilee of which I have found any distinct accounts, either in the Bible or in Josephus, till the utter destruction of the Jewish worship and polity under Titus Vespasian.

“55. Now therefore, to return to my main design, which is the determination of the years of jubilee. If from the 19/20 of Hezekiah, the fundamental year of jubilee determined by the prophet Isaiah, as I have already noted; which answers to the latter part of the 709 and to the former part of 708 year before the Christian era, … as may be seen,... in my tables of the kings of Judah and Israel in the Chronology of the Old Testament ; being parts of the 4004th and 4005th years of the Julian period, and without dispute the 50th year after the 49 years of the sabbatic period, according to the law of Moses, Lev. xxv. 8--11, and by consequence a year of jubilee: if, I say, we proceed from this fundamental year, both upward, by addition, and downward, by subtraction of 49 years; from the days of Moses to the days of Tiberius Ceasar, when John the Baptist put an end to the legal and began the evangelical dispensation, we shall find just 31 intervals of 49 years apiece, = 1519 years. But if we both begin and end with a year of jubilee, as we are obliged to do here, our entire period will include in all 32 jubilees, and 1520 years : I mean this before Jerusalem was destroyed, when all the remains of sabbatic years and years of jubilee, with the entire civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the Jewish nation, was dissolved. Accordingly, upon these principles the 32 jubilees, without dispute, fall on the several years following ; 31 of them falling into the years before the Christian era began, and the last after that era was begun.

THIRTY-ONE JUBILEES BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA, WITH ONE AFTERWARD

1787-1786

1738-1737

1689-1688

1640-1639

1591-1590

1542-1541

1493-1492

1444-1443

1395-1394

1346-1345

1297-1296

1248-1247

1199-1198

1150-1149

1101-1100

1052-1051

1003-1002

954-953

905-904

856-855

807-806

758-757

709-708

660-659

611-610

562-561

513-512

464-463

415-414

366-365

317-316

268-267

219-218

170-169

121-120

72-71

23-22

27-28 C.E.

“And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself, and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year, sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.” Isaiah 37:30.

Brother Gibs, as you mentioned, the text in Isaiah 37:30 speaks of “this year”, which was the Sabbatical year and the “second year” being the Jubilee year. “This year”, then, would have been the 7th Sabbatical year or 49th year and the “second year” would have been the Jubilee year (50th).

So, as my Bible has 710 B.C.E. as the year in question, this was the Sabbatical year, and the next year, 709-708 was the Jubilee, and this same year is in the list of Jubilee years above, from Josephus.

[Gibs]

JB,

You run with Josephus, I'll stay with the book Jubilees and is known also as "The little Genesis.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[Lysimachus]

JB,

You run with Josephus, I'll stay with the book Jubilees and is known also as "The little Genesis.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

The book of Jubilees is fallible. If the math don't work, it don't work. Josephus may not be fallible, but his calculation works.

[Johnnboy]

JB,

You run with Josephus, I'll stay with the book Jubilees and is known also as "The little Genesis.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

Brother Gibs,

I wouldn't use Josephus records if they didn't match the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy evidence. That is the only reason it has any weight with me at all.

Check the cross-referencing in the Bible for Isaiah 61:1, 2, then check it for Luke 4:16-21. They all reference Leviticus 25:8-10. All the Bible evidence harmonizes with 27 C.E. being the first year in a first week of years--the Jubilee year.

Jesus' own words and actions interpret the entire 50-year round in the sanctuary system.

"The true Interpreter must come. The One whom all these types prefigured must explain their significance." DA 33

[Johnnboy]

The book of Jubilees is fallible. If the math don't work, it don't work. Josephus may be fallible, but his calculation works.

Brother Marcos,

Yes, fallible sources must harmonize with inspired evidence or they are disqualified as being authentic evidence.

[Gibs]

JB and Lys,

The trouble is proven when the calculation of the Jubilee years none of them ever hit the many new beginnings. That is the proof of the pudding in this case.

Another calculation you might post is the age of earth starting the first year of Adam to now. How old is it through 2012. That will tell us a story.

I'm listening.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.