As said Ellen Gould . 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). The Bible contains four such periods in Israels history. For example, the average date of all the 4 decrees of Daniel 9 works out to 490 BC! There was still the matter of neglecting the 4th commandment and not obeying the Sabbath and keeping it holy. For example, 445 BC plus 490 x 2 years = AD 536, which is the mirror of 536 BC. The last (substantial) date in the bible, and the last of four decrees to restore and rebuild Jerusalem as per the prophecy of Daniel 9. All this, therefore, ties in well with Ezekiels temple vision in 574/573 BC, Tishri/Nisan 10th. 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. God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.. So, for 490 years. (Dan. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. This is the number of times Jesus told His followers to forgive a person (Matthew 18:25). 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. He told the children of Israel to plant and to harvest their land for six years and then let the land rest the seventh year. The common accepted understanding interprets the 70 weeks as not literally 490 days, but 490 years. 1399 BC. From these theological reflections we cannot calculate how often in the course of the centuries, from the time of Joshua onwards till the exile, the sabbath-year had not been observed; and still less the time after which the observation of the sabbath-year was continuously neglected. The 490 years of Daniel's 70 sevens were not a judgment. Last edited: Nov 17, 2009. They did not keep the land Sabbaths so God arranged for the land to rest, while they were in Babylon. 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. (Some Hebrew MSS. I believe it continues without interruption every year, as does the . 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. According to biblical tradition, it commemorates the original seventh day on which God rested after completing the creation. The following is still in rough form! 32). 538 BC + 519 BC + 458 BC + 445 BC = 1960, divided by four = 490 BC. There's a future 490 years, yet future, then the kingdom of God is going to come. (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. Therefore, these three tribes would surely have obeyed the law of Sabbath rest for the land during the same year that the land on the west side was finally conquered and had rest from war. The Year-Day Principle. When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. Each one of those 70 years made up for a seventh year that had been skipped. In other words, from the time of Saul to the time of the Babylonian captivity, Israel had not obeyed this command of God. Find & sort all our resources. . 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. Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let . As to the relation between the Chronicles and Ezra, see Introduction. The 70th jubilee year will begin in autumn of AD 2024 and/or 2025. Copyright 2023. 13). Messiah, the prince, would come exactly 483 years (69 weeks) after the command was given. 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. The 21 jubilees between 966 BC and AD 64 (that is, 3 x 7 x 7 x 7-years) effectively spans the history of Solomons temple, which was destroyed in AD 70. Seventy "sevens," then, is a span of 490 years. Grace thru Faith is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Hence, over a 1000-year period, they failed to keep 70 x 2 Sabbath years, and 70 x 2 Sabbath days amounting to another 70 x 2 years, for a total of 70 x 4 years, or 280 years, which is 7 generations, (40 x 7 = 280). Thus, God kept perfect record of all Israels and Judahs missing Sabbaths, and required them at their hand for their land. . Thirteen years later was the decree to Nehemiah in 445 BC. 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. That is, a day in prophecy usually equals one year in actual historical time. 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. We've also looked at two dis-tinct historical events that can be accurately dated. 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). God named the seventh day the Sabbath. The underlying factor of this prophecy is that Israel was given 490 years to deal with the sin of the nation and prepare for the coming of King Messiah. Therefore, 70 X 7 = 490 years. 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: . Also, this was an act of trust and obedience to God. 12. Leviticus 25.4 NKJV. 26:43). Destruction of Shiloh. Thus, for example, the prophecy of the 2,300 evenings and mornings should be understood as referring to 2,300 years (Dan. Thus the 50th year was a special Sabbath rest of the land. 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. 1257 BC. 12Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. Jack Kelley published over 9,000 Bible Study resources here from 1999, until the Lord called him home in the fall of 2015. Daniel 9 speaks of six things they must square away for the 490 years that are determined for them. Following the Babylonian captivity, Daniel is told that there will be another period of 490 before another reckoning (Daniel 9:24). (Or more broadly, of exile and recovery.) The entire 490 year period determined upon the people of Israel had six objectives. 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. (See endnote 1for more on why the 40-year desert wandering is to be included in the time that the land should have had its rest.). God promised the Jews that he would kick them out of the land, if they disobeyed him on this: (Jer. 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. The tabernacle of the exodus, to the temple of Solomon, to the temple of Zerubbabel and of the rebuilding of Jerusalem, to the birth and death of Christ which Jesus said was His temple: Destroy this temple and I will raise it up in three daysbut Jesus spoke (not of the nature temple, but) of His body. Hence, the royal jubilee cycles of 490 years fall upon the theme of building/destroying and rebuilding of the temple or Jerusalemall are a type of Jesus birth, death, and resurrection. Every seventh year was a sabbath rest year (Lev. To anoint the most Holy. (See Hebrews chapter three for the same conclusion.) For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. 30 Jubilees later was AD 26, the day of Atonement, when Jesus was about 30 years old the very day He began His half-seven-year ministry. To fulfil 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 fulfil threescore and ten years.-2 Chronicles 36:20, 21. Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. . Based on the above, we can now understand why the year of the destruction of the Temple is variously given as 3828 (68 CE), 3829 (69 CE) and 3830 (70 CE). Copyright 2023. 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 . And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them. His teachings made the Bible clear and easy to understand, and impacted millions of lives. (Comp. 4 also include this 40 years.). 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. also Jeremiah 29:10 : Thus saith the Lord, After seventy years be accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you.). Find & sort all our resources. (That is, every 490 there would be 10 accumulated missing {un-kept} jubilee years), plus the 70 regular missing Sabbath years. 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. 69 weeks of years were fulfilled and the 70th week of years is coming up after the Church Age, what we nick name the 7 Year Tribulation Period. 26:34-35). and put it also in writing. 20:10-14. here also. But even apart from that, the words, that the land, to make full the seventy years prophesied by Jeremiah, kept the whole time of the desolation holy, or enjoyed a sabbath rest such as Moses had proclaimed in Leviticus 26:34, do not necessarily involve that the land had been deprived of its sabbath rest seventy times in succession, or during a period of 490 years, by the sin of the people. Moreover, the inferior Samaritan version (ST) reads, the sojourning of the children of Israel, and of their fathers, in the land of Canaan, and in the land of Egypt, and thus, unlike the LXX and MT, does include Abraham! You can also download them to your computer, phone, or tablet. The language does not imply weeks of days, it actually implies weeks of years [70 x 7 (years)= 490 years] and the "day for a year" bible rule is therefore very . Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let the people back into the land. (Hence, the full parameter of the 1000 years spans 700 + 300 years = 1000. 888 BC He worked six days and rested the seventh. The theme is consistent. The longer '70-week jubilee' is alluded to in both Testaments and is also mentioned in fragments of manuscripts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls . . Hence, the above patters repeat themselves except on a 10 times basis, even as 490 is ten times that of 49. 3) The sabbath year allowed the soil to replenish, but even moreit renewed their dependence on the Lord. All is accounted for even with the different possibilities due to the ambiguity of the text of Lev. Our view is that there is the actual date (the MT), and then dates that are derived from the NT that yield different, yet very compatible dates, as far as biblical patterns are concerned. 2:1-5; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45-47). 5) So twice, Jeremiah told the people they would be exiled for 70 years to allow the land to enjoy its long overdue rest. The seventh Sabbath rest (7x7=49 years) of the land was a Jubilee year. And all this goes not just a little way in proving that the jubilee cycles indeed began in 1406 BC, which at any rate is in agreement with most modern evangelical scholarship. . This was originally written as a private letter. A. Israel had apparently failed to observe the land's 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. Judgment was promised if they disobeyed Gods Sabbath rest: (Lev. The following are some verses from Ezekiel that touch on this sad truth: So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. 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. Subject of. 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. So in Jeremiah 29:10 the prophet prophesied that they would go into the land of their enemy for 70 years. To make reconciliation for iniquity. 9:24-27). 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. 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. 40). That the word . Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. But this is itself unlikely; and still more unlikely is it, that in the time of the judges the sabbath-year had been regularly observed until Samuel; and that during the reigns of the kings David, Solomon, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah, this celebration remained wholly in abeyance. The 70-year captivity was not to be the Jews' only judgment, however. 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). Not to be the Jews that He would kick them out of the text of Lev upon the of... 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