2 Chron. Thus, the land rested one year from toil, Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I, So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. This connecting of Jeremiah's prophecy with the declaration in Leviticus 26:34 does not justify us in supposing that the celebration of the sabbath-year had been neglected seventy times, or that for a period of 490 years the sabbath-year had not been observed. Yet, there would be some justification for this given these words, in the beginning of the year , which indeed would normally refer to the Day of Atonement that occurs just after Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), but here it more likely refers to the anniversary of when Israel entered the Promised Land in Nisan 10, 1406 BC, in accordance with the religious New Year used throughout the rest of the book of Ezekiel. God required the "promised" land to observe a Sabbath rest every seventh year as a test of faith for Israel. . 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. Intriguingly, Jesus reiterated this 490-year prophecy in referring to how long the Jews should be forgiven. The best way to view our articles and Q&A. All rights reserved. (That is, every 490 there would be 10 accumulated missing {un-kept} jubilee years), plus the 70 regular missing Sabbath years. To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: all the days of the desolation she rested, THE EDICT OF CYRUS, AUTHORISING THE RETURN. To make reconciliation for iniquity. Seven days are in one week. What is it that makes the 490 years still on the clock for them since they served the 70 years for the land Sabbaths in exile already? (to be exact, nisan 458 to nisan . The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times. . (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest . 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. 1446/1445 BC plus 1000 years equals 445 BC. here also. Moreover, Israel, like Judah, fell in three stages. (The 720 is divided in half as 360 x 2 yearsa day for each yearjust as the 280 is divided into 140 x 2.) Although Christians typically refer to the period of God bringing everlasting righteousness as 70 weeks, they really mean 70 X 7 years. This was the reason for being removed from the land. holy of holies without "the" usually referred to the holy articles of the Tabernacle . The counting will again be according to a 49-year cycle. Leviticus 25:3-5 explains what to door, rather, what not to doon the sabbatical year: "For six years sow your . See the chart below: Studythe above chart until the events depicted on it are clear to you. But that does not mean that the time for which this rest was granted corresponded to the number of the sabbath-years which had not been observed. Daniel 9 speaks of six things they must square away for the 490 years that are determined for them. The children of Israel were not faithful to God. until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths; the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, which, according to the law of the land, was to rest from being tilled, Leviticus 25:4, which law had been neglected by the Jews, and now, whether they would or not, the land should have rest for want of persons to till it: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years; as threatened in Leviticus 26:34 on which text Jarchi observes, that at the destruction of the first temple the law concerning the sabbath, or rest of the land had been neglected four hundred and thirty years, in which space were sixty nine sabbatical years; and, according to Maimonides (d), it was at the end of a sabbatic year that the city and temple were destroyed, and so just seventy years had been neglected, and the land was tilled in them as in other years, and now it had rest that exact number of years; but of this we cannot be certain, though it is probable. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a . (Seven divided into 490 is 70.) It is not at all wonderful that Cyrus should have identified the God of Israel with his own deity, especially if he had heard of the prophecies Isaiah 44:28, &c. Such a politic syncretism was the settled practice of the Roman empire in a later age. The Jubilee system predates the Exodus, at least in type: In 1929 BC, Jacob agrees (covenants) with his uncle Laban to work seven years for a wife. (Jacob, however, got more than he bargained for. Like this post? Yet even now, Hebrews implies, we feel the first waves of the coming rest. . It is just not economical to let the land lie fallow for a period of one year when harvests can be gathered year in and year out. Thus it is significant that Jesus said to the apostle Peter: Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? The people are carried off to Babylon including Daniel and his friends. Enoch's Prophecy of 7 cycles of 490. These 13 years purposeful lacks 7 years to make the 20 years. Thus, the prophecy of Daniels seventy weeks is borrowing from the language of the jubilee system as explained in Lev. The 70-year captivity was not to be the Jews' only judgment, however. . This was originally written as a private letter. The Jubilee year can start as early as Tishri 10, AD 2024, depending on whether the 50th jubilee year is counted inclusively or exclusively.). There was still the matter of neglecting the 4th commandment and not obeying the Sabbath and keeping it holy. the words of Darius: Saith Darius the king :By the grace of Ormazd I am king; Ormazd has granted me the empire.. But that is another vast topic! Jacob and his brother Esau had to forgive one another and later Joseph (Jacobs son) had to likewise forgive his brothers also. 2:1-5; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45-47). But this flies in the face of the plain reading of Lev. It happens that 3, 7 and 10 all signify a period of completion or perfection. Total missing Sabbaths for the land over 1000 years = 70 x 2. . 606/605 BC (first exile) plus 70 years captivity (Daniel 9) = 536 BC (return from Babylon and rebuilding of temple539 to 536 BC). This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year - and 490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years. And let him go up.Whither The sentence is abruptly broken off here, but continued in Ezra 1:3. Event. All Rights Reserved. Apparently, for 490 years they had failed to keep the sabbath of the land; the Lord was saying, in effect, "You owe me 70!" They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity . The children of Israel were not faithful to God. The Hebrew Bible (MT) sets the time for when Jacob fled from his brother in Canaan to go sojourn in Haran (for 20 years) at 483 years before the Exodus from Egypt, 1929 BC to 1446 BC. The reoccurring theme within the life Jacob is one of forgiveness. it obviosly means "seven year periods.70 weeks are determinded upon thy people means 490 years. But to explain all of that would require several books worth of information. 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 . 490 Year Prophecy. The numbers are exact to the day, not merely approximate as I first said for the sake of argument. The message is plain: The nation under the Mount Sinai covenant failed to keep and will never keep the covenant to the satisfaction of God, thus the New Covenant in Christs blood is needed. (22) Now in the first year of Cyrus.This verse is the same as Ezra 1:1, save that it has by the mouth instead of from the mouth. The latter is probably correct. By adding this phase the total count of years back to when they entered Egypt and the land of Canaan is reduced. The Judeans were exiled was to allow the land to enjoy its Sabbath rest until seventy years have gone by, it will keep Sabbath throughout the days of its desolation. (2 Chr 36:21). Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths , Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Posted on October 26, 2015 by ACTheologian. Enoch calendar is also Pi to 22nd decimal. For instance, 490 days after Israel arrived at Mount Sinai was the Day of Atonement in 1445 BC, which is also called the day of Jubilee, (Lev. For 70 land Sabbath years the land was not allowed its Sabbath rest. Stirred up the spirit.1Chronicles 5:26;2Chronicles 21:16. Personal updates from Samantha. Hence the pattern of 70s continues. Although not cited by these authors, two historical arguments also argue for a 49-year cycle. Hence, the prophecy of 30 jubilees actually ended at Christ and at the fall of Jerusalemboth. It is ironic that Israel took 490 years to rob the land of 70 Sabbath Year rests and God, in answering Daniel's prayer, revealed a different 490 year prophecy that is represented through 70 weeks. In addition to the weekly seventh day of rest, the term "Sabbath" and its related form Shabbaton occur elsewhere in the Pentateuch, referring to some of the festival days and to the seventh "Sabbatical" Year, on which the land was to lie fallow (Leviticus 16:31; 23:24, 32, 39; 25:2-6; 26:34, 35, 43). So it was a 70 year Sabbath from the law of Moses. 25:2-4; 26:33-35) Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the LORD. 8:14). We have no right whatever to press the words of the sacred writer, in the sense of assuming that he means to say that when Jerusalem was taken by the Chaldeans exactly seventy sabbatical years had been neglectedthat is, that the law in this respect had not been observed for 490 years (707), or ever since the institution of monarchy in Israel (490 + 588 = 1,078). */
. So in 606 BC Babylon invades the land and takes captives and installs a vassal king in Jerusalem. The seventy years are reckoned from the 4th of Jehoiakim, when the prophecy was uttered (Jeremiah 25:1; Jeremiah 25:12), to the first year of Cyrus, and the return under Zernbbabel, 536 B.C. As we shall see, this 20 years represents the missing jubilees over a 1000-year period. But why another 70 x 7 plus 20 years back to the fall of Israel? When the Jewish council (Sanhedrin) rejected God's message from Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60) and stoned him, this ended the 490 years God gave Israel to end their sin and rebellion against Him. I. The 7 Years Of Daniel And The 42 Months Of Revelation. Nevertheless, without the Sabbath truth and the Seventh-day Advent movement I would not have had the foundation I presently have for reaching thus far in my understanding. Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. 2Chronicles 36:12 supra.) My understanding has been that the 70 years Israel spent in exile in Babylon had to do with the Sabbath years that the Lord had commanded them to observe when they came into the Promised Land. God named the seventh day the Sabbath. Hence, the above patters repeat themselves except on a 10 times basis, even as 490 is ten times that of 49. and the Vulg. The word . 26:43). 1400 to Aut. . 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. 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). Here in Ezra, we see that this 70 year period had elapsed, as Daniel had also anticipated (Dan. However, while acknowledging that the Hebrew text is always the preferred text, nevertheless, we have taken the position that alternative dates should be looked at as well if they have the backing of the NT (New Testament). 1399 BC, the first Sabbath year. . Hence, midway is the middle of the 490 x 2 years, and of the jubilee cycles under study. (Jubilee sounded on 10th day of the civil New Year. Note that the below quote is using the inclusive view as explained above. All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your Sabbaths, while you were living on it (Lev. (It also happens that 483 years becomes 490 years when each year is calculated to be an even 360-days long, unadjusted by leap months. Scripture tells us that the total length of time that the Israelites lived in the land - without observing the Sabbath year - was less than 490 years. I am quoting it for two reason: First, because I discovered the importance of the jubilee years of 623 BC to 574 BC in connection with the 1406 BC Canaan entry before I came across this article; secondly, that the author adds additional information about the Talmud that I was unaware of. 8 And the Chaldeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire. Israel (and Samaria) to the north (as distinct to Judah and Jerusalem of the south) went into exile 70 x 2 years before the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BC! The first 69 weeks of years predicted the timing of Jesus' first coming and the final or 70th week describes the seven years leading up to Jesus' Second Coming. Last edited: Nov 17, 2009. the powers of the age to come" ( Hebrews 6:5 ), rest included. The Jews were trusting Gods provision by not farming for an entire year. This Sabbath year cycle is the basis for all the many possible years of fulfillment of the 70th week on, since Jesus must return in a Sabbath year, the final year of the 70th Week. As to the relation between the Chronicles and Ezra, see Introduction. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. 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. and put it also in writing.Into all . The Seventh Year of Rest. God Intended Israel to Enter Promised Land, Pentecost, 1445 BC, However, God intended that the seventh-year Sabbath cycles begin 39 years earlier, that is, the year after the exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC. Whether there is a symbolic relationship between his use of a multiple of seven for the Sabbath rest of the promised land and the 490 years before the . 14:34, Dan. One answer might be 70 years but in fact their disobedience covers seventy cycles of seven years or 490 years. Find & sort all our resources. That he made a proclamation.And he made a voice pass (2Chronicles 30:5). Sabbath Afternoon. The next interesting point is that the previous Sabbath year was BC 458. Then the earth will have a Sabbath rest for 1,000 years in the millennial reign. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. The 70 years of captivity was at least, in part, God's punishment for their violation of the sabbath law. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. It is purely economics. 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. Interestingly enough, the amount of years that the people of Judah were in captivity under Babylonian rule was 70 years. 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. 3. 888 BC being right on time for the appropriate full moon of Saturday, April the 4th, which happened to be a "Great" sabbath (Passover), very fitting for the day after Christ's . Our pattern will be well within this allowance. Technically doing that much work on the sabbath was forbidden by Jewish law. 12Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, declares the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation For thus says the LORD, When seventy years have been completed for Babylon, I will visit you and fulfill My good word to you, to bring you back to this place. 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. (The NT sometimes supports the inferior readings of the LXX {Septuagint} and ST {Samaritan Text}). The meaning is that during the long years of the exile, the land would enjoy that rest of which it had been defrauded by the neglect of the law concerning the sabbatical years (Leviticus 25:1-7). Jeremiah.Concerning the seventy years. Subject of. Evidence Unseen 2023. 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. All rights reserved. Fruit harvested from previous year just ended. (Note: The seventy years' exile began in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, i.e., in the year 606 b.c., or 369 years after the division of the kingdom; see the Chronol. ), The above 516 BC (or 515 BC by some scholars), plus anther 70 years equals 446 or 445 BC, (the decree of Artaxeres to Nehemiah to rebuild walls, which was 1000 years after the exodus/tabernacle. Therefore, it is significant that from the time that Jacob covenanted to work for a wife (in 1929 BC) unto the climax of the exodus from Egypt in 1446 BC are exactly 483 years. (Seven divided into 490 [times 7] = 490. The rest that the land needed, the land then received. 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. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. . 1399 BC. At his death Jacob is mourned 70 days, (Gen. 50:3). These variables have led to three different chronologies among students of the bible. 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. 3:7) is ambiguous enough to support either of the three chronologies (including the correct one that follows the MT), however from the NT text itself the reduction of 215 years appears to most likely be what Paul had in mind, that is, the view that the 430-years spanned back to Abraham himself. 12. 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. (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.). 3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, 4but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard 33You, however, I will scatter among the nations and will draw out a sword after you, as your land becomes desolate and your cities become waste. Therefore, 70 X 7 = 490 years. A quick intro and overview of our ministry and this website, plus some best-of articles and Q&A. 4) Sadly, for 490 years Israel failed to keep the sabbath year. In the following we concentrate on the would-be Jubilee year of 1445 BC. Ezra records that God moved King Cyrus to let . 36:21) To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete. This 490-year period is divided into three components,49 years . To make an end of sins. This means the 490 years (= 10 x 49 = 10 entire jubilees) started off with a Jubilee year: 456 BC (beginning autumn 457) and also ended with a Jubilee year: 35 AD. . That the word . real rest is to add to the text a notion foreign to it. This is the fourth post in a series on the Investigative Judgment, for the previous entry please click HERE. The same 20 years of rebuilding the temple parallels the 20 years of Solomons building of the temple and palace in 966-946 BC, exactly to the very month 430 years each. The Bible does say, however, that the complete rejection of the fourth or Sabbath commandment was the major cause of allowing His people . The Jews committed idolatry, child sacrifice, and ritual prostitution. and ate that year what grows of the land without cultivation, autumn 1400 to autumn 1399 BC, Josh. 7:1-25, . (519 BC was the second of four decrees that pertain to the prophecy of Daniel 9. So, for 490 years. See Ezekiel 4. 3) The sabbath year allowed the soil to replenish, but even moreit renewed their dependence on the Lord. His teachings made the Bible clear and easy to understand, and impacted millions of lives. To anoint the most Holy. until seven times? However, since the 490 years were an extension of God's covenant with Israel, the 490 years came to an end when God's covenant with Israel ended, namely on the day that Stephen died. Math of Dan. The 490 years of Daniel's 70 sevens were not a judgment. 49 years (7 X 7): The time it takes to rebuild Jerusalem since the time the Babylonians had destroyed it ( Daniel 9: . Seventy "sevens," then, is a span of 490 years. Tables at 1 Kings 12 (ii. The Lord.Iahweh. (Every 7th year the land was to be left fallow, but Israel did not obey God in this so that they went into exile so that the land could catch up on these missing years.) 490 symbolises grace. Bertheau, holding this view, fixes upon 1000 b.c., i.e., the time of Solomon, or, as . We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. (That is, every 490 there would be 10 accumulated missing {un-kept} jubilee years), plus the 70 regular missing Sabbath years. 70. 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