This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year - and 490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years. Therefore, the 12 tribes would have begun working their land in the Autumn of 1399 BC. Copyright 2023. Although not cited by these authors, two historical arguments also argue for a 49-year cycle. In Daniel 2, Daniel 7, and Daniel 8, after Greece, one power arises . */
. The numbers are exact to the day, not merely approximate as I first said for the sake of argument. Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. 9:1-2). How many Sabbatical years in 490 years? He called the seventh year a Sabbath. So it was a 70 year Sabbath from the law of Moses. . . Total missing Sabbaths for the land over 1000 years = 70 x 2. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. Jacob and his brother Esau had to forgive one another and later Joseph (Jacobs son) had to likewise forgive his brothers also. The LXX, and ST, as apparently supported by the NT (Gal. 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. (See outline below.) The Bible does say, however, that the complete rejection of the fourth or Sabbath commandment was the major cause of allowing His people . See Ezekiel 4. At his death Jacob is mourned 70 days, (Gen. 50:3). These are the same kind of time frames to do with the jubilee cycles given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai (Lev. Evidence Unseen 2023. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. . (Lev. The Kings edict also began the count on the fourth period (known as Daniels 70 weeks) which is the one were in now (Daniel 9:24-27). The Jubilee cycle is 49 years in length, and each cycle contains 8 Sabbath years. His wife Samantha maintains this site as well as their missionary outreaches. Hence, the prophecy of 30 jubilees actually ended at Christ and at the fall of Jerusalemboth. . 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). (I.e., 445 BC less 4900 = AD 4455, ten times AD 445, the mirror of 445 BC, etc. 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. . There's a future 490 years, yet future, then the kingdom of God is going to come. 4) Sadly, for 490 years Israel failed to keep the sabbath year. . God's Sabbath Years are Important. (Recall the 483 years from Jacob to the exodus.) All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it (Lev. Then there is the problem of His crucifixion happening at the end of the 69th week, exactly as Daniel says. God required the missing Sabbaths over this 1000 years. By causing it to remain uncultivated for seventy years, God gave to the land a time of rest and refreshment, which its inhabitants, so long as they possessed it, had not given it. 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. The word . [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. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. The ultimate Sabbath rest is coming, when God's people will enjoy work without toil, hearts without sin, and an earth without thorns. 490 Year Prophecy. Also, this was an act of trust and obedience to God. 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 theme is consistent. According to biblical tradition, it commemorates the original seventh day on which God rested after completing the creation. As per the prophecy of Daniel 9, 70 x 7 years are decreed. The numeric revealed in Ezek. My understanding has been that the 70 years Israel spent in exile in Babylon had to do with the Sabbath years that the Lord had commanded them to observe when they came into the Promised Land. 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 reason this does this is that all dates in the bible are reflecting to one another as in a mirror. And this 1400-year pattern is indeed therea wheel within a wheel of 7000-year within 700 within 70 with 7-years cycles. There was still the matter of neglecting the 4th commandment and not obeying the Sabbath and keeping it holy. Note that the total time between the entry into Egypt in 1846 BC and the return to Egypt and Babylon in 586 BC are 1260 years, or 1290 years if one takes the literal 430 years in Egypt rather than the said 400 round number of Genesis. The 70th jubilee year will begin in autumn of AD 2024 and/or 2025. Event. ), 586 BC (last exile and fall of Jerusalem) plus 70 years to 516 BC (completion of rebuilding of the temple). For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. The Year-Day Principle. For example, 445 BC plus 490 x 2 years = AD 536, which is the mirror of 536 BC. (Note: Jewish tradition reduces the 215 years to 210 arbitrarily, and so is not considered a viable variable. The Lord.Iahweh. Alternative intercalation of the 364-days. Interestingly enough, the amount of years that the people of Judah were in captivity under Babylonian rule was 70 years. For the land did not rest during those 40 years of rebellion between 1446 and 1406 BC because the Canaanites still ruled the land. Moreover, Israel, like Judah, fell in three stages. The people are carried off to Babylon including Daniel and his friends. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a . The children of Israel were not faithful to God. 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! Technically doing that much work on the sabbath was forbidden by Jewish law. Men like things black and white because it is easier to prove or disprove, but Gods goal is to communicate information about Himself and His ways, and by creating alternative (symbolic) dates God has increased the amount of information communicated by these numeric patterns many times fold, Textual Variations in Bible Chronology Reveal Design, Men and Women of Action Celebrate 40 Years, Good News Jail & Prison Ministry Celebrates 50 Years, GA22 AGENDA: WOMEN in MINISTRY on the AGENDA AGAIN, Masons Without the Aprons is the Satanic Lions Club, A Call to Redeem Our Bodies: Weeping in Sexual Brokenness and Walking in Sexual Holiness, RAPTURE in 20 CENTURIES OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION, GA22 AGENDA: International General Council, Perry Stone: 100 House members to support a bill to outlaw churches and ministers to say gay lifestyle is sin, What If You Could Value Something without Agreeing? If you add 490 years to 586 BC, you get the year 1076 BC. I am quoting it verbatim because Wikipedia articles are notorious for being rewritten and so this quote might otherwise be lost. 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. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 1399 BC, the first Sabbath year. All Rights Reserved. As fully grown adults with/without fully grown organs . . The exclusive dating of the Jubilee year would forward these dates by one year. Part One: How the 364-day calendar works. 7:1-25, . 20:10-14. God kept watch over both of them, though men only over the second line of jubilees. We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. and would force a Jew to carry their pack for a mile, even on the sabbath. 99 views, 5 likes, 2 loves, 15 comments, 1 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Freeport Bible Church: Please pray with and for us today at noon. This is the assumption of this website, and it effects dates from the Creation to Jacob. and the Vulg. There were seventy years of captivity to repay for 490 years of failure to observe God's command. it obviosly means "seven year periods.70 weeks are determinded upon thy people means 490 years. So some MSS. The missing Sabbath years take into consideration the missing 50th year of the Jubilee cycle. 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:. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest. Back to the 1445/6 to 445 BC, and 1000 years (a type of the coming millennium). He worked six days and rested the seventh. Nothing is stated in the Old Testament as to whether what is known the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel (known as the Kingdom of Israel), which went into Assyrian captivity in 723 B.C., kept the Sabbath or not. 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. The context agrees. Judgment was promised if they disobeyed Gods Sabbath rest: (Lev. But that does not mean that the time for which this rest was granted corresponded to the number of the sabbath-years which had not been observed. Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia.Comp. You can still show honor and respect to your mother without allowing her full . For 490 years they did not take the 7th year off. The 70-year captivity was not to be the Jews' only judgment, however. 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. Thus, God kept perfect record of all Israels and Judahs missing Sabbaths, and required them at their hand for their land. But this flies in the face of the plain reading of Lev. For more on this see Textual Variations in Bible Chronology Reveal Design. Amazingly, 1290 is found in Daniel 12, and 1260 in Revelation 11 and Revelation 12. Sevens, or multiples of seven, are common in the life of Jacob. Read for This Week's Study: Dan. . 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. (d) Hilchot Shemitah Veyobel, c. 10. sect. Thus, over the 1000-year period Israel failed to keep 280 years of Sabbaths, so that only 720 years was she allowed to remain n the land because of her unfaithfulness. In the book of Jeremiah, God told the people that he would exile them from the land for 70 years, because this was the amount of time that the Sabbath rest had been disobeyed (490 years total). 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. But herein is the awesome glory of God especially revealed, for none could do this great numeric feat even if only on pen and paper, and not upon the hearts and minds of men and nations in real life experience. And, Pentecost, 1445 BC: The day God intended Israel to enter the Promised Land.), 2.) Or another example, the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, to the fall of Samaria in 722 BC, as AD 722, are 1260 years. Masoretic and Septuagint. . 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. The bible gives us but one definite time for the end of the conquest in Joshua 14, and to add to this is to stray from the facts. But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out, (Ezek. "But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to the Lord.". It is reduced by either 33 years or 215 years, depending on whether the text is understood as referring to when Abraham entered the land of Canaan or when Jacob and his children entered the land of Canaan (after his 20 years sojourn). - And so work all biblical dates in like fashion. 4 also include this 40 years.). 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. (Also see article: Pentecost, 1445 BC: The day Godintended Israel to enter the Promised Land.) But Israel rebelled and instead wandered in the wilderness 39 years, 40 years if we included the additional year spent at Mount Sinai. 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 means that Israel to the north not only failed to keep the seven-year Sabbaths for the land, but also the seven-day Sabbaths as well. Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven, (Matt. In summary re this 490 "year for a day" application as patterned upon the literal 4,900 day fulfillment of Daniel's "seventy week" prophecy: . 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. Babylon comes back and burns the city and the temple to the ground on the 9th of Av 587 BC. He is the author of all the teachings here, and all materials are available free of charge! 25:1-7). . A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. 606/605 BC (first exile) plus 70 years captivity (Daniel 9) = 536 BC (return from Babylon and rebuilding of temple539 to 536 BC). 2 Chron. Also of interest is that the 9th Jubilee was in 966 BC, when Solomon began building the temple, and the 30th Jubilee was in AD 64, when Herod finished rebuilding (refurbishing) Solomons temple. Fruit harvested from previous year just ended. (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.) Math of Dan. Seven days are in one week. Personal updates from Samantha. The entire 490 year period determined upon the people of Israel had six objectives. In short, they would suffer financially and materially. 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. However, most scholars do in fact believe that the fall of Jerusalem was in 586 BC rather than 587 BC (as is necessary for this date), so that the temple vision of Ezekiel would be in 573 BC rather than 574 unless using a autumn to autumn dating method solely for this second-last date given in the book of Ezekiel, contrary to the rest of the dates in this book. Seven sabbaticals brought Gods people to the Jubilee to bring restoration to His people and to their land. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity . We are simply to rest in the fact that God has everything under control and on His calendar. Each one of those 70 years made up for a seventh year that had been skipped. 25:2, and the above verses. By adding this phase the total count of years back to when they entered Egypt and the land of Canaan is reduced. removing the second commandment and changing the Sabbath to Sunday. (Hence, the full parameter of the 1000 years spans 700 + 300 years = 1000. 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). 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 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