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Again, we can prove it by the typical jubilee. Lev. 25:8-13:
"And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty through all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubilee 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. For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you, ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubilee, ye shall return every man unto his possession."
Now, if we can show any rule whereby we can find the antitype, we can tell when the people of God will come into the inheritance of the purchased possession, and the redemption of their bodies, and the trump of jubilee will proclaim liberty, a glorious one, through all the land. In order to do this we must take notice of the order of the Sabbaths.
"Seven Sabbaths shall be complete."
There is seven kinds of Sabbaths, which all have seven for a given number.
The Jews kept but six Sabbaths: if they had kept the seventh they would have been made perfect without us; but they broke the seventh.
"Therefore there remains a keeping of the Sabbath to the people of God."
The Jewish Sabbaths were:?
1. The 7th day. Ex. 31:15.
2. The 50th day. Lev. 23:15,16.
3. The 7th week. Deut. 16:9.
4. The 7th month. Lev. 23:24,25.
5. The 7th year. Lev. 25:3,4.
6. The 7 times of 7 years and 50th year Jubilee.
7. The 7 times 7 Jubilees and the 50th Jubilee will bring us to a complete or perfect Sabbath, the great Jubilee of Jubilees.
Thus 7, times 7, 50 years is 49 times 50 = 2450 years.
It is very evident no year of release or Jubilee was ever kept after the reign of Josiah, the last king of Jerusalem that obeyed the commandments of the Lord, or kept his statutes. This king’s reign ended B.C. 607. See 2 Ki. 23; 2 Chron. 35, 36 and Jer. 22.
After which the Jews never kept, neither could they keep, a year of release, or Jubilee; for neither their kings, their nobles, their people, or their lands could have been redeemed after this. Jer. 44:20-23. Here ended the Jewish Jubilees, when they had not kept more than 21 Jubilees, lacking 28 of coming to the great Jubilee.
And now the land was to lay desolate, while the people of God were in their enemies’ land. Lev. 26:34.
How long is a Jubilee of Jubilees? Ans. 49 times 50 years = 2450 years.
When did these years begin? Ans. When the Jews ceased the keeping of the Sabbaths and Jubilees, at the close of Josiah’s reign, B.C. 607.
Take 607 from 2450, it leaves A.D. 1843; when the Jubilee of Jubilees will come.
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