Jubilee 2027 AD, Part 1

JUBILEE: 2027* AD

Part 1, When Will The LORD AND His Christ Return?

Chapter 4, Part 1 Preview: Will Jesus (actually Yeshua, off site) return during the next Jubilee year, fulfilling numerous symbolisms associated with the year of release? Yeshua presented a very unusual “mission statement” at the very beginning of his ministry. Immediately after the account of His baptism and the account of Satan tempting Him, is a reference to some of His first recorded words. These words have JUBILEE stamped all over them! This chapter provides several differing reasons to indicate that this is the case. Several critical countdowns apparently converge in 2027 AD.

This chapter provides several distinct reasons indicating that Yeshua provided clues to the date of His return. Five prophetic countdowns appear to converge in 2027 AD. Furthermore, contrary to the opinion of some, Yeshua will not abandon His Father out in the heavens and return alone; as exemplified by the scriptures found in the subtitle link. Further still, They are planning on staying here on earth! (Psalms 76:2-3, Psalms Chapters 46, 47, 48; Ezekiel 37:26-28)

[Note: The information in this chapter is presented as being factual. I believe that my conclusions are primarily correct. I do not intend to place a lot of disclaimers in the text specifying that others may consider certain statements to be speculative. It should go without saying that anyone reading information relating to the scriptures should consider anything to be speculative until personally certain that sufficient evidence has been presented as proof.]

We need to consider every word of Yeshua “mission statement”. Immediately after the account of His baptism and the account of Satan tempting Him, is a reference to some of His first recorded words. Commentators realize that Yeshua was refering to the JUBILEE but seemingly just spiritualize the words away! Luke gave us the circumstances leading up to Yeshua’s statement:

Luke 4:16-19 He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. 17 The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, 19 and TO PROCLAIM THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.

*Before going further, I’d like to mention that in 1998, when I first wrote this chapter, I believed that Yeshua would have to have been crucified before He could have completed all of the above requirements. While I had considered that the beginning of His ministry was pertinent, and even the possible fulfillment, it still seemed more reasonable that He would have had to become the sacrificial Lamb, before He could “set at liberty”, anyone. So this chapter used to be entitled Jubilee 2031 AD (40 X 50 years from His death in 31 AD). While preparing Chapter 32, The Mysterious Seventy “Weeks” of Daniel, in late 2005, I learned of a great deal of archeological and historical data, collected in recent years, that caused me to see that it was the end point of the seventy “weeks” that mark the Jubilee rather than the Messiah’s role as our sacrificial lamb.

There are six aspects of His commission that will be addressed later in the chapter. I will comment on each of them. A primary purpose of this chapter is to elaborate on the importance of Yeshua’s “mission statement”.

Interestingly, there are six other specific Messianic prophecies in the Seventy “Weeks” of Daniel 9:24! Had Yeshua finished quoting from Isaiah 61, we would see that up to that point in time, He had only fulfilled—to the point in mid sentence—where He stopped reading. It is easy to see that none of the rest of Isaiah’s prophecy has been fulfilled. Like Daniel 9:24, there is a prophetic “gap” in time.

Isaiah 61:1-9 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, [Yeshua stopped here.] and the day of vengeance of our God [Judgment Day]; to comfort all who mourn, 3 to console those who mourn in Zion [due to the end time holocaust], to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified. 4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. 5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. 6 But you shall be named the priests of the LORD, they shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the [Nations], and in their glory you shall boast. 7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be theirs. 8 For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, and will make with them an everlasting covenant [i.e. the New Covenant]. 9 Their descendants shall be known among the [Nations], and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed. [Today, Israel is considered scum by the nations]. NKJV

There is evidence that the year 34 BC was recognized, at the time, as both a sabbatical year as well as the seventieth year of the prophetically significant 70 year cycle (as described in an off site article under entitled The seventy-Year Cycle and further, if you simply count off years from 457 BC, which is another year thought to be a 70th year, (as in on the chart in Chapter 32 —counting ten years per line) you do indeed end up at 37 BC. However, of far more importance is the fact that if you count forward still once more by 70 years you end up at 34 AD. That would be exactly seven years after Yeshua began His ministry.

Alternative Realities

Might there have been an alternative course in the history of humanity? Might God have hoped to use an alternative plan? What if God was anticipating that the remnant of Israel might accept the Messiah? What if the 70th week of the Seventy Weeks prophecy was designed to hopefully follow on the heels of the 69th week. Were the Jews given a bona fide opportunity to accept the Messiah or was Yeshua simply playing out a role that was predestined to end in His death? Had Yeshua been able to live another 3 1/2 years, He would have been there for the next potentially significant Seventieth Year. Since Yeshua was killed in the middle of what might have become the Seventieth week, perhaps the alternative reality is that the Seventieth Week was delayed for 2000 years. In the next “go around”—the absolute end of the 70 “weeks”—only animal sacrifices will be offered in the middle of the “week”. Did God make a good faith offer to the descendants of those who returned to Jerusalem?

Imagine what might have happened if Judah had accepted their Messiah. Certainly there are prophecies that would have failed, (1 Corinthians 13:8) but God will cancel a punishing prophecy if we repent, as the book of Jonah illustrates. Perhaps even the prophecies about Yeshua suffering could have had some other type of fulfillment or just been cancelled.

Why would Yeshua’s death have been predestined, when even He did not know until the very end that He would have to be sacrificed (Mark 14:36)? Certainly the Apostles had not been prepared for an extended “postponement” of the Everlasting Kingdom. Even Paul was expecting the Kingdom to come in his lifetime:

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that WE who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 17 then WE who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. WEB

Alternative reality #1 At the very beginning of the 7000 year plan, Adam and Eve had an opportunity to bring about a lasting Paradise. Why should we believe that God had “predestined” that they fail? All that they had to do is decide who to believe: God saying “avoid the fruit” or the stranger saying “No, it’s yummy”! It might have been a 50/50 call!

Alternative reality #2 Exactly (?) 2000 years later, God gave a childless couple, Abraham and Sarah, an opportunity to have children and to grant all of their descendants a Paradise. The deal was conditional upon Abraham’s being willing to offer his “only son” as a sacrifice on a mountain in the “land of Moriah”.

Genesis 22:2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.

In this reality, an animal sacrifice was substituted for the only son at the last minute! The fulfillment of this reality began going full tilt when Abraham’s descendants had multiplied into twelve large tribes. However following the Exodus, the participants boycotted the blessings.

Alternative reality #3 2000 years later, (I believe this to be exactly the year 4000 since creation week) God sent His “only Son” to the descendants of the faithful people who had returned to the Promised Land. He gave them a good faith offer, “good news”, but it was refused. God actually gambled that “They will respect my son.”

Yeshua saw how the new deal was going and offered this thinly veiled commentary. Do we believe what Yeshua said about His Father’s intentions?

Matthew 21:33-42 Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country. 34 When the season for the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit. 35 The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way. 37 But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘THEY WILL RESPECT MY SON.’ 38 But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him. 40 When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?” 41 They told him, “He will destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.” 42 Yeshua said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. [Is it] marvelous in our eyes? WEB

Three strikes and they’re out! This time, due to the poor character of many of Abraham’s descendants, there was no sparing the only Son. His sacrifice bought humanity another 2000 years and the time for God to redeem a few kings and priests (Revelation 1:6, 5:10) to rule when the Everlasting Kingdom comes—by force.

Alternative reality #4 2000 years later, (I believe that the implementation of this is to include the year 6000 following creation week)

Back to the Future:

“Moriah”, (where Abraham went to sacrifice his son) is only mentioned twice in the Bible. Interesting, especially given the number of times that God’s temples (1st, 2nd, and soon to be the 3rd) are mentioned.

2 Chronicles 3:1 Then Solomon began to build the ‘house’ [temple] of [Yehovah’] at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yehovah] appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. WEB

The next reality will not be an alternative! God will forcefully implement peace on earth. All of the wicked who oppose Him will be exterminated. There is much commentary on this website about the Two Witnesses (you could search it out on my home page search device.) Suffice it to say that the Two Witnesses will spearhead a “temple movement”; it’s back to Mount Moriah! Israel has to go back to Mount Moriah and start from scratch! Ezekiel Chapters 40-48 thoroughly describes the activities of the third temple; prophesied to be rebuilt (on Mount Moriah). Ezekiel chapters 2-3 mentions the word “measure” 29 times in connection to the temple. This is the tie in of the Two Witnesses to their “measuring commission”:

Revelation 11:1-3 A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and MEASURE God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. 2 Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and dont measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months. 3 I will give power to My Two Witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.... WEB

I had never considered an alternative seventieth “week” until I was graphing out the first 483 years of The Seventy “weeks” Prophecy. Here is the “week that wasnt”; the “week” that might have been the seventieth “week”. While preterists attempt to force fit the martyrdom of Stephen into the apex of a 34 AD fulfillment of week 70—that was certainly not anything noteworthy enough to fulfill The Ultimate Prophecy!

Trumpets? 27 AD Yeshua’s Ministry began

Passover 31 AD- 3.5yrs after beginning of Yeshua’s Ministry

Trumpets? 34 AD Year 70 in the prophetic cycle

“When You See Armies....”

The last generation of the modern nations of Israel are for the most part oblivious to the red flags warning of impending doom for Western society. The few voices crying in the wilderness to flee from the coming holocaust will continue to bebe ridiculed. This coming time, known as the Time of Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah 30:7), will engulf all of the English speaking nations, and other nations descended from those twelve original tribes. When hordes of armies finally descend on Jerusalem—the final warning—few will associate this to Yeshua's instructions to flea:

Luke 21:20 But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is near.

Daniel 12 mentions three separate countdowns to the exact beginning of the time of trouble—the “Great Tribulation” on Israel:

Daniel 12:1-12 AT THAT TIME Michael shall stand up, the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time. AND AT THAT TIME [during the “time of the end”!] your people shall be delivered, every one who is found written in the book [of Life]. 2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. [This is a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.] 3 Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. 4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. 5 Then I, Daniel, looked; and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river: How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be? 7 Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever, that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the power of the HOLY PEOPLE [more about them later] has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished. 8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said: My lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said: Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he who waits, and comes to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.

Yeshua stated that the cessation of sacrificing, and the abomination of desolation, mentioned in Daniel 12:10, would mark the time for His people in Jerusalem to “flee”.

Matthew 24:15 Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Daniel 11:31 And forces shall be mustered by him [the “abominator”], and THEY shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then THEY [Antichrist’s men] shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation.

Daniel 9:27 Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in the middle of the week he [the “abominator”] shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the *consummation, which is determined, is poured out on the desolate.

This is a reference to the time when *Ephraim’s “prince” (Daniel 9:26-27) and the false prophet (the “abominator” of Daniel 11:31) will cut a seven year deal with Judah and then “they”, that is those who follow the Beast, will devastate Jerusalem in the “middle of the week”.

* The prince appears to be identified in a fascinating book entitled The Antichrist and a Cup of Tea, by Tim Cohen.

Daniel 9 is the renowned seventy weeks prophecy chapter. It is from these scriptures that the wise men determined the year of the first coming of the Messiah. Might it not also indicate His next arrival? The “abominator” will begin “week” number seventy with an agreement or “covenant”. He will then break his covenant “in the middle of the week”, but ultimately the abominator will be consumed! “Consummation” [Strong’s 03617] as used here literally means “consumed” or “complete destruction”. This consumption will take place at the conclusion of that seventieth prophetic week, as “is determined”. Ironically, he who stopped the consuming sacrifices will be consumed, as a sacrifice, himself!

Revelation 19:17-18 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven: ‘Come and gather together for the supper of the great God, 18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, both small and great.

Zephaniah and Jeremiah also described this event.

Zephaniah 1:7 ... for the LORD has prepared a sacrifice; He has invited His guests.

Jeremiah 46:10 ... for the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice in the North Country....

Daniel 12 reveals a 1260 day countdown, a 1290 day countdown and a 1335 day countdown. We have a God who “gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. He reveals deep and secret things....”(Daniel 2:21-22).

Furthermore, we know that:

Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.

Considering the devastation that will “trouble” Israel, we might surely want to know HOW MUCH LEAD TIME will God give “the wise” of Daniel 12:10? One thing we know is that they will be “blessed”, having waited 1335 days following the cessation of the sacrifices (v.11-12).

This chapter reveals a fourth countdown found in Daniel, one of seven years duration, which concludes the week that included the three countdowns mentioned above. More importantly, there is an overlooked timetable, a final 2000 year countdown that is racing to completion.

The entire 23rd chapter of Leviticus goes into great detail explaining when God’s people should keep the Sabbath and the seven Holy Days on God’s own calendar. Most of God’s doctrines do not have an entire chapter devoted to explaining them in this manner. Verse 2 serves as an introduction.

Leviticus 23:2 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.

Leviticus 25 is another such chapter, and it also pertains to God’s calendar. Shortly afterward, when Moses was on Mt. Sinai, God also explained the importance of observing Sabbatical years and Jubilee years. Imagine the impact that a Sabbatical year would have on a strictly agricultural society.

Leviticus 25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather its fruit; but the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord.

The Old and New Marriage Covenants

The following verse indicates that Yeshua “keeps His [marriage] covenant” “with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments....” in spite of the fact that most of Israel, at that time, had broken the covenant. That time is not unlike our own time, as far as being faithful goes. An eternal marriage covenant was the essence of the covenant that God made to Abraham. Whether the covenant is Abraham’s covenant, which remains unfulfilled (Hebrews 11:13), or the covenant given from Mt. Sinai, which was suspended, or the New Covenant with Israel, which is yet to come (Jeremiah 31:31-34), the issue always concerns a promise, of His people, to love, honor and obey our God.

Daniel 9:4 And I prayed to the LORD my God, and made confession, and said, ‘O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who LOVE Him, and with those who keep [obey] His commandments....

Isaiah 61:8-10 For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, and will make with them an ‘everlasting’ [of unending future] covenant. 9 Their descendants shall be known among the ‘gentiles’ [Nations], and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, My soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Speaking of the future:

Romans 11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins.

All of these “covenants” are really facets of the “everlasting covenant” that we were promised by Ezekiel and other prophets:

Ezekiel 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore. WEB

Paul, thinking that the New Covenant was about to be implemented said:

Hebrews 13:20-21 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Yeshua from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the ‘everlasting’ covenant 21 make you complete in every good work to do His will....

(See The New Covenant, Soon to be Implemented!)

The future awareness of God’s covenant, and willingness to agree to its terms, will be due to the message that Israel will hear from the Two Witnesses! Their message is about the fulfillment of the Jubilee and the marriage of Israel! Israel has amnesia! She doesnt know who she is or that she had been married!

Ezekiel 16:8 When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore an oath to you and entered into a COVENANT with you, and you became Mine,’ says the Lord GOD.

This is really what the covenant, or marriage agreement, is all about: it is about our being faithful to our God and His remaining our faithful Provider.

Who is Your Covenant With?

All of the Hebrew Scriptures can be summarized under the banner of God wanting to marry a Holy People! Here is the “marriage vow”.

Deuteronomy 26:17-19 Today you have proclaimed the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in His ways and keep His statutes, His commandments, and His judgments, and that you will obey His voice. [I do!] 18 Also today the LORD has proclaimed you to be His special people, [I do!] just as He promised you, that you should keep all His commandments, 19 and that He will set you high above all nations which He has made, in praise, in name, and in honor, and that you may be a HOLY PEOPLE to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken.

Leviathan Deposed!

Can the Greek Scriptures come to an entirely different conclusion than the Prophets? Israel’s Savior, her betrothed, will come to her [the Holy One] riding on a white horse, and He will slay Leviathan, the fire breathing dragon, with a sword! [Leviathan is Satan]

Revelation 19:7-11 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the FINE LINEN is the righteous acts of the ‘saints’ [Literally: Holy Ones] ... 11 ‘Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent even ‘leviathan’ [Literally Leviathan, sea monster or dragon] that crooked ‘serpent’ ; and he shall slay the dragon [Literally: dragon, serpent, sea monster] that is in the sea. KJV

Job 41:1 ... 34 Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook.... 4 Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever? 19 Out of his mouth go burning lights; sparks of fire shoot out. 20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes. 21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.... 33 On earth there is nothing like him, which is made without fear. 34 He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride.

Jubilee: The Marriage Supper of the Lamb?

Might Sabbatical years, in the Kingdom, be celebrated in the same manner that a marriage was to be celebrated in ancient Israel? Is there to be a relationship between the Jubilee and marriage?

Deuteronomy 24:5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home ONE YEAR, and bring happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

Compare to:

Isaiah 62:4-5 You shall no longer be termed Forsaken [Literally: “abandoned”], nor shall your land any more be termed Desolate but you shall be called Hephzibah, [Literally: “my delight is in her”] and your land Beulah [Literally: “marry”]; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married. 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

Imagine what it might be like to have “one year” long second, third ...“honeymoons” every seventh year! During a One Thousand Year long Sabbatical, when Land Sabbaths have become the norm for all of the nations of the New Earth to come, might God’s desire for Sabbatical “land” rests, for the rural majority, not also include every segment of society, even those who do not live off of the land?

But isnt the land being married just figurative speech? We know that it is actually the “Church” (off site) that will be married then, right?

Luke 20:35 But those who are counted worthy to attain that age, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage....

Not only does this say that “the Church” (Greek: Assembly) will not marry, in the Kingdom, but SPECIFICALLY, it is at the very resurrection associated with the “wedding supper”, that they do not marry! You have probably always heard that this marriage supper was for Yeshua and His “Church”. Could John (Yeshua) actually have been referring to a marriage that was alluded to at a much earlier time? Might the marriage actually be the jubilant time when His chosen people are blessed; the time that I believe typifies what the Jubilee actually commemorates—the restoration of Israel? I believe that it is. A great many scriptures that the churches say pertains to them actually pertain to the twelve tribes of Israel. A salient introduction to this topic is The Actual Message of Matthew 24.

Revelation 19:7-9 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 9 Then he said to me: Write: ‘Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’ And he said to me: These are the true sayings of God.

Jeremiah 3:14 Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; “for I am MARRIED to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Israel broke its former or “Old” marriage Covenant with God, but God promised to make a new marriage covenant!

Isaiah 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land....

This is a new marriage covenant, with better promises! Given a second chance, God will “still choose” to marry “Israel”. This marriage is the fulfillment of the Jubilee!

Jeremiah 31:31-36 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new [marriage] covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a HUSBAND to them, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My People. 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more. 35 Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar (The LORD of hosts is His name): 36 If those ordinances depart from before Me, says the LORD, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.

The Land Will Be Married!

Notice that the pleasant land is the “heritage” or “possession”, or as I believe, the marriage present that God, Israel’s provider, will present to his chosen “bride” following the Second Exodus.

Back to Jeremiah 3:

Jeremiah 3:18-22 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given as an ‘inheritance’ [or heritage or possession] to your fathers. 19 But I said: ‘How can I put you among the children and give you a pleasant land, a beautiful heritage of the hosts of nations?’ And I said: ‘You shall call Me, “My Father,” and not turn away from Me.’ 20 Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have you dealt treacherously with Me, O house of Israel, says the LORD. 21 A voice was heard on the desolate heights, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel. For they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God. 22 “Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.... Indeed we do come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

Make no assumptions! Here is another big clue as to who is being married:

Isaiah 61:7-11 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be theirs. 8 For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, and will make with them an everlasting covenant. 9 Their descendants shall be known among the gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity whom the LORD has blessed. 10 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. 11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

I cant help myself. Here is another scripture that equates the Second Exodus to the joy of a marriage:

Jeremiah 33:10-11 Thus says the LORD: ‘Again there shall be heard in this place—of which you say: It is desolate, without man and without beast—in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast, 11 ‘the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who will say: Praise the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for His mercy endures forever—and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first,’ says the LORD.

Sufficient has already been given to make a connection between the land being married, as well as its occupants. Could the land being married possibly be a reference to anything other than the Jubilee, I think not.

There is a direct connection between the Jubilee years and God’s plan that is illustrated by understanding the symbolism of Israel’s Holy Days. The KEY is in Yeshua’s fulfillment of the prophecy, which specified that He would “Proclaim the acceptable YEAR of the Lord”! This marvelous proclamation needs to be explained. Yeshua confirmed which year is the Jubilee, as a part of His earthly ministry!

Every fiftieth year God intended an additional “Sabbatical” type of year. Again, all commercial agricultural practices were to stop:

Leviticus 25:11-12 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.

During this time, two “land sabbaths” were to occur back to back, the 49th and the 50th years. There is a detailed explanation for how “lands Sabbaths” were likely implemented (and will be again) in a separate article on the subject following this chapter. It is entitled Why the Land Sabbath? Faith was not even required when not sowing commercial crops for two consecutive years, because of the miraculously heavy yields promised in the sixth year. There would not have even been a market for crops during those years because everyone was learning the value of growing their own food, at least during those special years when everyone knew not to eat from a new harvest.

Incidentally, some people have tried to farm this way during this present age, but the double to triple harvests simply did not materialize. I myself have sought to make this work, believing that I was resting my land on the proper years, but apparently God is not blessing us for now, in this regard. These appear to be national rather than individual blessings. I think if gardeners or farmers were getting four to six full sized ears of corn on a stalk and could credit it to sabbatical years; reporters would be pounding on their doors.

Leviticus 25:21-22 Then I will command My blessing on you in the sixth year, and it will bring forth produce enough for three years. 22 ‘And you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat old produce until the ninth year; until its produce comes in, you shall eat of the old harvest.

This is apparently the way that God will handle primarily the grain and legume harvests and other less perishable foods. Seed crops remain viable (alive and eatable) for several years.

Furthermore: “In this year of Jubilee, each of you SHALL RETURN TO HIS POSSESSION.” (Leviticus 25:13) It goes on to explain that if for some unfortunate reason, you or your family “sold” the family homestead out of necessity—the next generation would get it back. This is a form of land rental to some more fortunate or ambitious individual. An individual should never deprive his descendants of their fair share of the earth—indefinitely. The worst case scenario is that one would have to collect rent on his homestead and move into a small house in a village. (v.31) Imagine, a world without mortgages, no more slaving away to pay rent and no more homeless people. The last fifteen chapters of Ezekiel describe the conclusion of this age and the establishment of the “New Earth” to come. Here is an example of Jubilee law as it pertains to the future:

Ezekiel 46:16-18 Thus says the Lord God: If the prince gives a gift of some of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. But if he gives a gift of some of his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the YEAR OF LIBERTY, after which it shall return to the prince. But his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall become theirs. Moreover the prince shall not take any of the people’s inheritance by evicting them from their property; he shall provide an inheritance for his sons from his own property, so NONE OF MY PEOPLE MAY BE SCATTERED FROM HIS PROPERTY.

Think about it: year 6000, the year of God’s wrath, is a “Jubilee” year! Yeshua “shall return to His possession” (Leviticus 25:10,13,28,41) during that very year. Actually, because He died, making us His heirs, we will return to our possessions along with Him! It’s part of our “gift”! No more diaspora. After 6000 years the long anticipated 7th millennium will begin, “tHE Millennium”.

What is so special about 6000 year? The ancients all understood and anticipated year 6000—Jews, Christians and even pagans. The following three subheadings are quotes from an excellent off site article on the topic entitled: God’s Grand Design:

The Universal Rest Day

Besides this, many sources inform us of a special veneration for the seventh day of the week.

Jewish Tradition

“The writings of the Jewish prophets in the centuries just prior to the time of Yeshua the Messiah are full of the concept of a grand design for mankind. Talmudic traditions filtering down from the time of Enoch through the prophet Elijah were rich in references to a 7000-year plan of God. The Jewish Encyclopedia summarizes:

The Millennium

The first Christians, too, were well aware of this plan stretching over seven millennia. In fact, it is referred to by almost every Christian author of the first two or three centuries. The author of Bible Myths clearly summarizes the early church teaching:

Herbert Armstrong believed that Yeshua’s return could be no later than 1996. He began a two thousand year count down beginning in 4 BC, the birth year of Yeshua. He accepted the chronology of James Ussher (1580-1655)—that God had used the birth of Yeshua as a great millennial benchmark in time—rather than His death. Yet he also taught that God would have to “cut short” his own agenda instead of cutting short Satan’s agenda of destroying Israel. God’s plan will not be altered; He has an “appointed time” with us at precisely the end of mankind’s 6000 years. There is a benchmark! However theologans have “moved it”. They calculated the fifth millennium beginning with not only the wrong year but also the wrong event.

Incidentally, more serious tamperings with the reckoning of time are soon to come:

Daniel 7:24-25 As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three kings. 25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time. WEB

If the birth of Yeshua was the monumental benchmark in time, then why did God not bother to mention it?

The Greatest Benchmark in Time

Actually, there is a tremendous benchmark in time recorded in the Bible! The benchmark is the fulfillment of the seventy “weeks” prophecy in 27 AD. Daniel’s seventy “weeks” prophecy, history will record, also brought to a close the fourth millennium. Nearly two millennial “days” have passed since the fifth millennium began.

The Next Benchmark

God will also fulfill a prophetic “work” toward the end of the sixth millennial “day”, in preparation for the long awaited seventh millennium, the millennial Sabbath. The Two Witnesses, who will prepare the way for the Kingdom of God, highlight the transition from mankind’s world dominance to God’s dominion. Specifically, they will be informing those who will listen why these earth shaking events are occurring. There may be significance to the fact that three days and three nights was the only sign given that Yeshua was the Messiah. It could indicate that there remained, at that time, very close to three more millennial “days” in God’s master plan. Then “on the THIRD DAY He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight!” (Hosea 6:2) That “third day” begins the final “day”—the Sabbatical 1000 year period. The “bad” news is that God’s return, as I understand it, can not occur before the Jubilee year of 2027 AD, as will be shown.

Revelation 11:1-7 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying: Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. 2 But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the [other Nations]. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. 3 And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. 6 These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire. 7 When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them.

The Two Witnesses actually typify both the Father and His Son ruling in the Kingdom, from Jerusalem, with power and authority! Notice that the Two Witnesses will “finish their testimony” just before the beast is allowed to make war against them. When the Beast kills them, then God will declare war on those who celebrate their death.

Revelation 11:10 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

They will have had 1260 days to explain to the modern descendants of Israel the reason for the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. The Dragon, knowing that after 1260 days, the Witnesses will no longer be invincible, will immediately have them murdered. After all, he has read the scriptures and is quite willing to fulfill that prophecy. After this “victory”, the beast, still in a delusional rage, will have trampled Jerusalem for 1260 days. This was the second 1260 day period: 42 months of 30 days is 1260 days. 3.5 + 3.5 = 7, this fulfills the final “week” of the seventy “weeks” prophecy. It also ends the “second woe” of the Great Tribulation (Revelation 11:14).

Haggai Chapters 1 & 2 describes how Joshua and Zerubbabel constructed the former temple. In a similar manner, their latter day counterparts, the Two Witnesses, will build the latter temple—on schedule! This will be something to watch for, shortly before in the next Jubilee.

Zechariah 4:3-10 Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left. 4 So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying: What are these, my lord? 5 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me: Do you not know what these are? And I said: No, my lord. 6 So he answered and said to me: This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts. 7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone* with shouts of: Grace, grace to it! 8 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 9 The hands of Zerubbabel Have laid the foundation of this TEMPLE; His hands shall also finish it. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you. 10 For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

* Note: The cornerstone must be the same stone as the “capstone”:

Psalms 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.” [Also Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11, 1 Peter 2:7]

In PART 2 of this chapter, there is a breakdown of the seven aspects of Yeshua’s Mission Statement that He said pertained to “the acceptable year of the Lord” which are synonymous with the “Jubilee”!

Now for Part 2