Jesus and the Jubilee Year
By MBPSTB
Sabbath, 7th DotW
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Below is an excerpt from another work which points to a Jubilee time frame that Jesus walked on the earth.
Some say that the ministry of Jesus was three and a half years, some have said 70 weeks. The 70 week theory has the most merit in that it would contain a span of time for Jubilee in most of those 70 weeks. But we also know that Jesus began His ministry by announcing the words of the prophet Isaiah with regard to the Jubilee year (the acceptable year). Does this nullify a 70 week ministry? Not enough evidence to either support or discredit and certainly not a game changer or deal breaker. The only thing to focus on is that a Jubilee year was in the mix and that is certain.
The final act of Crucifixion, the overcoming of the enemy, would be the single most defining point of a Jubilee year in that with this atonement, if we choose to receive it as such, we are indeed set free and since the evidence points to Jesus keeping flawlessy the Torah, He would also have been crucified within the time frame of a Jubilee year.
#3 Eating ears of corn on the Sabbath
After learning more about the biblical feasts, we can determine that the year in which EHYEHshua began His ministry was a Jubilee year:
Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Isa 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
Isa 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Fast forward to just after EHYEHshua returns from the wilderness:
Luk 4:13 And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.
Luk 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
Luk 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.
Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luk 4:17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,
Luk 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Luk 4:19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Luk 4:20 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
Mat 12:1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Mat 12:2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Lev 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Clearly, the Pharisees were either ignorant of the Torah or they did not know it to be a Jubilee year. Since the working theory about the true calendar also has a role to play here, it would make sense that the Pharisees might not calculate the years accurately either since keeping a lunar calendar would throw that off also.
So, in the end what might all this mean? If nothing else, it is keeping an open mind to consider other possibilities that is required to seek truth.
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