“You are also to count off seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven
times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven Sabbaths of years,
namely, forty-nine years. You shall then
sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of
Atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. (Lev. 25:8-9) Please read the entire chapter to get a clear
picture of the Jubilee as designed by God.
Hey Gang: Since I began my
love affair with the Apple of God’s eye”, I have tried to learn as much as is
rapidly, possible with my limited brain, about God’s chosen land and
people. I have diligently read all the
material I can get my hands on about the Feast Days of the Lord; more recently
about the Mystery of Shemitah through the writing and words of Rabbi Jonathan
Cahn. I made a promise to myself to seek God’s guidance and understanding of
the true meaning of Jubilee.
And, praise God, I was led to
a book by Evangelist Dan Goodwin that has been on my stack of “to read books”
for more than a year titled God’s Final Jubilee. Seems I finally found a
writer that explains things in a way my previously mentioned limited brain
understands. I love to read the red
renditions of the Bible because Jesus was a wonderful teacher- for those of us
who need word pictures drawn clearly to open the windows of understanding in
our hearts and minds.
As you know, I recently
completed four Gramps Morning Messages on Shemitah, but since doing so I have since felt that
there is one more step that has to be added to complete the subject, that being the Jubilee. In reality, Jubilee is not a separate issue
in this writer’s mind, but a continuation, and even a conclusion, to
understanding the Shemitah Mystery. But,
being very subject to taking side trips, in my speaking and preparation for
speaking and writing, I tend to take many rabbit trails and, this study has
been no exception.
Now, before I forget and go
down one of those rabbit trails, let me give you the setting for what I hope to
cover in this and following morning messages.
As you know, from the previous Shemitah-focused messages, we are
currently in a Shemitah Year that will end on September 13 of this year which
is also Elul 29 on the Jewish/Biblical Calendar. So, fact number one that you need to tuck
away in your hard drives, is the Shemitah Year ends on Elul 29 and the Year of
Jubilee begins on the next day which is Tishrei 1 and is also Rosh Hashanah,
which begins their New Year of 5776, with the blowing of the Trumphets.
Time for a quick rabbit
trip: In the Scripture for today I
mentioned it would be good to study the entire 25th chapter of
Leviticus which sets the table of understanding for God is trying to get into
our heads. Example: In the first seven verses of the chapter
Moses explains the Sabbath of the land.
One can readily see that the focus seems to be on the seventh day or the
Sabbath.
In Genesis One, God created
everything – (I wonder what He did in His spare time?) Those seven days
represent seven thousand years of history.
The world will go for six thousand years and then rest for a thousand
years, which we know as the Millennium in which God will dwell with man. This has been His plan from the very
beginning and, I believe with all my heart, we are rapidly approaching that day
when He will say “enough” and implement the final chapter of His eternal plan
for creation.
Sooooo, I am rapidly running
out of space. Let me close this segment of Jubilee by introducing you to
tomorrow’s segment, which I will title ‘An Introduction to the Seven Feasts of
the Lord’. When I read Dan’s
descriptions of the Feasts, it was like what happened when I recently went
through cataract surgery. Not only could
a see better but everything was brighter.
The flowers were beautiful, the sky was more blue, Wow, what a
difference. When I read these
descriptions of the Feasts the blinders were removed and I gained a wider and
deeper understanding of their meanings His word are so very clear I will not
tamper with them but will do much quoting from his book.
Blessings.
Gramps
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