Monday, April 27, 2020

Jubilee - 50 years

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you. Leviticus 25:10

I wish all the readers grace and peace from our God the Father, and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is my 50th article in the blog. I thank God in this special moment for His grace, that He enabled me to write this much as Paul says, "Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand." Galatians 6:11. I have dealt with various topics, end time articles, hidden meanings in Bible, about Biblical numbers and their meanings, about sin and temptation and a long series of New Creation which is the expectation of God for every believer. God graciously enabled me to complete that series. I praise the Lord for that.

As this is my 50th article, I would like to write about number 50. Bible holds a special meaning for 50. The word Jubilee derives out from Bible where God ask the Israelites to count every 7 times 7 years leading to 49th year and then 50th year is called Jubilee. Still we are naming the 50 year anniversaries as Golden Jubilee. Secondly, I am writing this on 27th of April which is the 118th day of this year and my last article was about 117. The specialty of 118 is that Psalm 118 which speak about an important prophecy of cornerstone. Not only that, it lies between the smallest and largest chapters of the Bible with 117 is the smallest having 2 verses and 119 becoming the largest with 176 verses.

The Jews were asked to observe the jubilee year on the 50th year and make it an year of deliverance where every slave is set free. The land is set free and returned to its original owner. The original owner of the earth is God Almighty as per Psalms 24:1, The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. He was the one who designed, created and filled it with life. So, after certain time, on a Jubilee, the whole earth will be of God and His children again. What a revelation, this is the expectation through out the Bible. The other way to view the jubilee is that, Christ is our Jubilee meaning He is the deliverer of us. He delivers us from temptation and evil. He redeems us from sickness and troubles. He Himself became our Judge and our defender. He Himself became a curse for us and hung on a tree in order to redeem us from the curse of the law and to bring us the blessings of Abraham. To Him be glory for ever.

Let us see some of the interesting facts about the numbers of jubilee.

1. God counts the jubilees from creation. Genesis 6:3 says "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also  is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.". Here God gives time of 120 years until the time floods come. Here, the hidden meaning is the time for the entire mankind in earth is 120 jubilees, which is 120 x 50 = 6000 years. At the end of 6000 years from Adam, Jesus Christ, the later Adam will start the millennium. This is the fore plan and the foreknowledge of God.

2. The above point is confirmed by the time when the great floods started. It started on the 600th year of Noah. Genesis 7:6,11. The base number 6 is about mankind and at the year of 600 of age of Noah, the floods started that means at the end of 6000 years the human government will be demolished.

3. Jonah warned people of Nineveh that there are 40 days to repent, otherwise Nineveh will be overthrown Jonah 3:4. People of Nineveh repented so the city was not toppled. Jesus gave the pharisees the sign of Jonah to Nineveh. They didn't understand that. Making a day converts to an year prophecy of Ezekiel 4:6, after 40 years of the crucifixion of Jesus, Jerusalem was overthrown. The siege of Jerusalem started in 67 AD and it went on to 7 years until 73 AD for the complete destruction of fall of Masada. Same way, now 40 days will map to 40 jubilees and that is 2000 years until the time of the return of Christ after His death and resurrection which is going to be in our times.

4. The last jubilee that Jews observed was in 2017-18. From that year on wards, there are more tribulations all over the world and this is confirming that the time of the return of Christ is at hand. We can feel that. The next jubilee cycle is going to be in 2067-68 in Jewish calendar. But, there are certain years missing in that calendar. Only God knows the exact number of missing years and in my opinion the resurrection of the saints and transfiguration will happen within next two decades, that is within 2040. This is the longest time range. But, there are many possibilities that this could occur within 2030 as we see the worldwide calamities.

Dear brethren, the day is fast approaching and we have to exhort one another and so much more as we the day draws near. Hebrews 10:25. I will meet you back with more information in my next article. I thank and praise God as He enabled me to write 50 blog posts. The articles that I wrote are very useful for me. If you find time, go through the new creation series. I bless you with Shalom Peace.

All glory, honor and praise, I give to Father through our Lord and Jesus Christ. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, love of the God and fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us, now and forever. Amen.

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