1. Understanding the Land Sabbath (Shmittah) & Jubilee (Yovel) [A Primer]

2. Psa 24:1 The earth is YHWH‘s, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psa 105:7 He is YHWH our Elohim: his judgments are in all the earth.
Psa 67:4 O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou (YHWH) shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
Exo 19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my (YHWH) voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Who has always been and is STILL in control of ALL things? YHWH !!

3. 1. ). What are the Shmittah and Yovel. 2. )
1.) What are the Shmittah and Yovel? 2.) How to ‘count’ the Shmittah and Yovel 3.) When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel 4.) What are YHWH’s instructions concerning the Shmittah and Yovel? 5.) Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel even if we are not in the land of Israel? 6.) When will the next Shmittah and Yovel occur according to Biblical chronology? 7.) How should we keep the Shmittah today? 8.) Importance of keeping the Shmittah and Yovel

4. What are the Shmittah and Yovel?
The word ‘shmittah’ is a Hebrew word [Strong’s #H8059] which means to ‘release’ or to ‘loosen’. It is commonly called the Sabbatical year and is the seventh year in which the land observes a Sabbath rest.
Deu 15:1 At the end of every seven years you shalt make a release (shmittah).
Deuteronomy 15:1 scripture is in regards to the land Sabbath. Moses is reemphasizing what YHWH instructed the children of Israel from Mt. Sinai to observe the land Sabbath: (Leviticus. 25:1-7)

5. Shmittah During this year the land belonged to everyone.
During the Shmittah (Sabbath year) the children of Israel were to leave their land (produce fields, groves, vineyards) available to everyone – even the animals.
During this year the land belonged to everyone.
Whatever produce grew of its own accord was called “Kefker” which means: “without an owner” or “ownerless”
The Shmittah is also called “shevi’it”, because it is the seventh year of a seven year agricultural cycle.

6. Why does the land receive its rest?
* John 3:16 “For Elohim so loved ______ …”
Every Sabbath we are instructed to cease from work and have a 24 hour period of rest. During this time the land is still ‘working’ by growing the crops for mankind. It does not receive any ‘rest’. If you would take 52 days out of the year (52 Sabbaths) and multiply that by 7 years you would have 364 days [52 x 7 = 364] or 1 year that the land would receive a land Sabbath (Shmittah) to make up for all the days it did not receive while we ‘ceased from work’.
[52 days X 7 (Years) = 364 Days, 364 days = 1 Year]

7. ‘Yovel’
The word ‘Yovel’ is a Hebrew word [H3104] which means ‘the blast of a horn’. This sound of the horn would usher in the 50th year commonly called the Jubilee. The horn was sounded on Yom Kippur.
In the year of Jubilee, it was to be treated like a Sabbatical Year (Shmittah), with the additional requirement of returning property to its original owners or their heirs (instructions in Leviticus 25)
In counting the years leading to the Yovel, one must count 7 Shmittah’s (land Sabbaths) and then the following year would be the 50th year.

8. How to count the Shmittah and Yovel
As mentioned earlier, the land Sabbath (Shmittah) occurs in the 7th year of a 7 year cycle. Charted out, it would look like this in years: 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 (1)
Notice that the 7th year would be a Sabbath year land rest. In this table, I have put a (1) next to the 7 representing one completion of seven years.

9. How to count the Shmittah and Yovel
This is what the 50 year pattern should look like: 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 (1) 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 (2) 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 (3) 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 (4) 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 (5) 36 37 38 39 40 41
42 (6) 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 (7)
50/1
The 50th year on the chart above is called the Yovel (Jubilee) year. Notice that the 50th year also looks like 50/1; that is because the 50th year is also the 1st year of the next Shmittah and Yovel cycle.

11. Shavuot: a yearly pattern of how we are to count the Yovel
* Leviticus 23:10-11, 15-16
* Shabbat [H7676] not Shabbaton [H7677]
* Counting begins: ‘Morrow AFTER the Shabbat’
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Shabbat 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 (1) 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 (2) 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 (3) 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 (4) 29 30 31 32 33 34
35 (5) 36 37 38 39 40 41
42 (6) 43 44 45 46 47 48
49 (7)
50/1
Shavuot

12. Similarities of counting: Shavuot and Yovel
Yovel (Jubilee)
Leviticus 23:10-11,15-17
Begins on the 1st day of the week and ends on the 50th day, the 1st day of the week
(7) Sabbaths
50th Day - Shavuot
Leviticus 25:2-5, 8-12
Begins on the 1st year and ends on the 50th year, the 1st year of the next Yovel cycle
(7) Land Sabbaths
50th Year - Yovel

13. Answering Objections to a ‘49 yr’ cycle
Lev 25:2-4 “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto YHWH. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for YHWH: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.”
According to what I have shown in the counting and Shmittahs of the Yovel cycle; after a Yovel, there will only be five years to plant and harvest before the next Shmittah and people will use this to say that this way of determining the Yovel is wrong because one needs 6 years to plant and harvest before the next Shmittah. If that is the case, then how does anyone reconcile these verses:(Ex 20:8-10,12; Lev 23:3; Deu 5:12-14 [all concerning Sabbath]

14. Answering Objections to a 49 yr cycle
So how can anyone work 6 days if one of those days is a Feast day or appointed time such as ‘Day of Atonement’, ‘Feast of Tabernacles’, ‘Feast of Unleavened Bread’, or Shavuot? The fact of the matter is that normally there would be 6 days work within the week but there is an exception to the instruction and that is YHWH’s Feast days as described in Leviticus 23.
With this thinking in mind, doesn’t it make sense that the Yovel year also starts the next Yovel cycle? (The following chart is in ‘years’)

15. When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel
Judaism: Tishri – Rosh Hashanah: is this Biblical?
Exo 12:1-2 And YHWH spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exo 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.

16. When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel
Lev 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto YHWH.
Jos 5: And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

17. When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel
An event that happened in 134 BC, a Shmittah Year
1 Macc 16.14  Now Simon (Hyrcanus) was visiting the cities that were in the country, and taking care for the good ordering of them. And he went down to Jericho, he himself and Mattathias and Judas, his sons, in the one hundred and seventy-seventh year, in the eleventh month, the same is the month Sebate [Hebrew= Shevat (Jan/Feb)]

18. When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel
Josephus Antiquities   (233) Now when his mother said so, he (John) resolved to take the fortress immediately; but when he saw her beaten, and torn to pieces, his courage failed him, and he could not but sympathize with what his mother suffered, and was there by overcome; (234) and as the siege was drawn out into length by this means, that year on which the Jews use to rest, came on; for the Jews observe this rest every seventh year, as they do every seventh day; (235) so that Ptolemy being for this cause released from the war, he slew the brethren of Hyrcanus and his mother: and when he had so done, he fled to Zeno, who was called Cotylas, who was then the tyrant of the city Philadelphia.

19. When to begin the Shmittah and Yovel
When the year begins
In the First Month
The Month of Abib (Mar/Apr)
Given as instructions by YHWH through His Torah
Followed through by Joshua and the children of Israel when they crossed the Jordan into the promised land
Verified centuries later in the Book of Maccabees and the writings of Josephus

20. What are YHWH’s instructions concerning the Shmittah and Yovel?
YHWH instructs us what we are to do (and not do) in Leviticus chapter 25, Deuteronomy 15:-1-18, and Deuteronomy 31:10-13.
What are YHWH’s instructions concerning the Shmittah and Yovel?
1) Do not plant
2) Do not harvest
3) Whatever grows of its own can be eaten by you or anyone, including the wild animals
4) Stock up on food to last into the following year until the new crops come in
5) Forgive the debts of those who owe you money or who have sinned against you
6) Free those who have become your slaves/servants
7) Read the entire Torah during the Feast of Tabernacles in the hearing of the whole assembly

21. Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel if we are not in Israel?
Lev 25:1-2 “And YHWH spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto YHWH.”
Exo 12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come into the land which YHWH will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Because we are not "in the land" then according to this verse we don't have to keep the Passover in diaspora?

22. Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel if we are not in Israel?
Exo 23: And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
(Keeping the Shmittah and Shabbat - nothing stating "in the Land"). Remember where these instructions were given, outside the land- Mt. Sinai!

23. Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel if we are not in Israel?
Deu 18:9-11 When thou art come into the land which YHWH thy Elohim giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Even the Rabbis understood the Jubilee should be kept outside of Israel. In the Babylonian Talmud – Mas. Rosh HaShana 9b, it is written:
‘But it is written ‘Jubilee’?(16) — This is to show that it must be kept even outside of Palestine.’

24. Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel if we are not in Israel?
When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto YHWH.”(Lev 25:2)
One reason for this verse is that YHWH is giving us the ‘marker’ or ‘sign’ regarding HIS timeline!
Reading Lev 25 in context, explains what Israel is to do when they cross over into the promise land. They will soon obtain ‘possession’ of the land!
Lev 25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

25. Should we still keep the Shmittah and Yovel if we are not in Israel?
The children of Israel needed to understand what the instructions were concerning the possession of land (being land owners) as they NEVER knew what it was like to have freedom and their own land coming out of Egypt (slavery)
The children of Israel came into the land of Israel, in the year of Jubilee, the 1st year of the next Jubilee cycle- they entered the land in the 1st month of the year, the month of AVIV to take their POSSESSION. They were given AUTHORITY from our great Suzerain King, YHWH, to possess the land and to dispossess those who currently resided in the land of Israel.- ALL ACCORDING TO YHWH’s TIMELINE!

26. How should we keep the Shmittah today?
We are instructed not to plant, harvest or reap anything from the land
We can eat that which the land produces on its own. Anything in the wild or what grows without any work from us is ok to pick and eat for the day.
If you have a fenced in garden then this is the year that you open your garden up to anyone (and that includes your neighbor and wild and domestic animals) to freely eat from anything that has sprung up.
Stock up on food supplies during the 6th year to carry you through the 7th year Shmittah.

27. How should we keep the Shmittah today?
If you have anyone that owes you anything, you need to release them of their debt to you- no matter how much they owe you. This also includes sin debt.
In accordance with Deuteronomy 31:10-13, read the Torah out loud for the brethren to hear during Sukkot that they “…may hear, and that they may learn, and fear YHWH your Elohim, and observe to do all the words of this Torah.”
Each person should make an attempt and try to keep the Shmittah year as best as they can. I believe YHWH looks into our hearts to see if we truly are committed in keeping his instructions. This is only a partial list and I would encourage you to read these passages carefully to understand His instructions clearly.

28. Why is it important that we keep the Shmittah?
Remember what happened to the ancient Israelites who did not keep the Shmittah? YHWH sent them into exile so that the land could make-up its Shmittah years that it did not receive from the Israelites.
2Ch 36: And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbath: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
This is exactly what YHWH said He would do if they/we would not obey: Lev 26:33-35
**BREAK TIME**

29. YHWH’s ‘Timeline for man’
Gen 6:3 And YHWH said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.H8141
Is it ‘years’ in this particular verse or something else ?
H8141
שׁנה שׁנה
shâneh shânâh
shaw-neh', shaw-naw'
(The first form being in plural only, the second form being feminine); from H8138; a year (as a revolution of time): - + whole age, X long, + old, year (X -ly).
120 Yovels X 50 year cycles = 6,000 Total Years
120 Yovels X 49 year cycles = 5,880 Total Years

30. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
120 Yovels X 50 year cycles = 6,000 Total Years
120 Yovels X 49 year cycles = 5,880 Total Years
* 2 Pet 3: ‘like’
In context, Peter is talking about the coming of Messiah at the end of days. People were expecting this to happen in their lifetime. Since it hasn’t happened yet, people are now mocking it.
Let’s look at the meaning of the word “like”. The Greek word “hos” means an approximation of time.

31. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
4. hos (ὡς, G5613) usually means “as.” Used with numerals it signifies “about,” e.g., Mark 5:13; 8:9; John 1:40; 6:19; 11:18; Acts 1:15; Rev. 8:1.
5. hosei (ὡσεί, G5616), “as if,” before numerals, denotes “about, nearly, something like,” with perhaps an indication of greater indefiniteness than No. 4, e.g., Matt. 14:21; Luke 3:23; 9:14, 28; Acts 2:41; with a measure of space, Luke 22:41, “about a stone’s cast.” See LIKE.
Vine, W. E., Unger, M. F., & White, W. (1996). Vol. 2: Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words (4). Nashville, TN: T. Nelson.

32. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
Let’s look at many other passages where this word was used with numerals: it was translated as “about.”
Mar 5:13 And forthwith Yeshua gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about[G5613] two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
Mar 8:9 And they that had eaten were about [G5613] four thousand: and he sent them away.

33. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
Let’s look at many other passages where this word was used with numerals: it was translated as “about.”
Mar 8:9 And they that had eaten were about [G5613] four thousand: and he sent them away.
Joh 6:19 So when they had rowed about [G5613] five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid.
Rev 8:1 When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about [G5613] half an hour.

34. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
2 Pet 3:10 But the day of YHVH will come like [G5613] a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
This passage is to illustrate to you that the word “like” (hos – G5613), is meant as a comparative phrase. It does not mean that Yeshua will literally come as a thief to steal, but it means that He will come unexpectedly. The phrase “as a thousand years” is equally not meant in a literal sense. It alludes to a time period, likened to (or about) a thousand years.

35. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
A similar passage comparing a thousand years with a day can be found in Psalm 90 ~
Psa 90:4-6 For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it passes by, Or as a watch in the night. You have swept them away like a flood, they fall asleep; In the morning they are like grass which sprouts anew. In the morning it flourishes and sprouts anew; Toward evening it fades and withers away.
In this passage “a thousand years” is compared to two things: 1.) Yesterday 2.) A night watch

36. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
In Psalm 90:4-6 “a thousand years” is compared to two things: 1.) Yesterday 2.) A night watch
Our English word translated “Yesterday” comes from the Hebrew word אתמוּל [H865] ‘ethmôl: ‘formerly, before, in the past, i.e., formally, yesterday and day before, i.e., pertaining to a point in time prior to another time’.
In Biblical terminology, ’yesterday’ can refer to either a period of time or to another time (long or short), or to the past.

37. ‘One Day is like a thousand years’
We can conclude the same for this passage in Psalms as for the passage in 2 Peter. These time periods do not have to be a literal thousand years…
120 Yovels X 50 year cycles = 6,000 Total Years
If we apply what we learned in the first session on how to count the Jubilee cycle, our calculation would be as follows:
120 Yovels X 49 year cycles = 5,880 Total Years
We can conclude in saying that one day is about or like (prophetically) 980 years… (and yes- Adam did die in the first ‘prophetic’ day: at 930 years)

38. 120th Jubilee began in 1996. Jubilee cycle ends 2044.
When will the next Shmittah and Yovel occur according to Biblical chronology?
Year
1st Shmittah Cycle
2nd Shmittah Cycle
3rd Shmittah Cycle
4th Shmittah Cycle
5th Shmittah Cycle
6th Shmittah Cycle
7th Shmittah Cycle 1
1996
2003
2010
2017
2024
2031
2038 2
1997
2004
2011
2018
2025
2032
2039 3
1998
2005
2012
2019
2026
2033
2040 4
1999
2006
2013
2020
2027
2034
2041 5
2000
2007
2014
2021
2028
2035
2042 6
2001
2008
2015
2022
2029
2036
2043 7
2002
2009
2016
2023
2030
2037
2044

39. Ancient Biblical Chronology
Lev 25:2 says that when the Israelites come into the ‘promised land’ then they are to keep a land Sabbath to YHWH. This would have to be a Jubilee in accordance with Lev 25:13 – “In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.”
We know that YHWH made a covenant with Abraham that his ‘seed’ would be afflicted for 400 years.
We also know that Israel left 430 years to the very day that this covenant was made back in Genesis 15 (Ex 12:40-41).

40. 2255 YEARS FROM ADAM TO THE END OF JACOB’S LIFE

41. Genesis Recap Genesis 12 Abraham at 75 left Haran
Genesis Left Egypt – Split with Lot
Genesis Rescued Lot from Captivity
Genesis Covenant made by YHWH
Genesis Hagar conceives and gives birth
Genesis Abraham (99) & Ishmael (13) when they were circumcised
Subtract: 99 – 13 (Abraham/Ishmael), then subtract a year for the pregnancy of Hagar= Abraham was 85
Based on these events we know that YHWH made a covenant with Abraham (GEN 15) sometime between Abraham being 75 – 85 years old

42. Abraham born 1948 years after Adam
Gen 15 covenant with Abraham made when Abraham was 80 years old, in the year 2028 after Adam
Exo 12:41 The children of Israel left Egypt exactly 430 years later, to the very day- in the year 2458 after Adam
Lev 25:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Remember: 2458 years when Israel left Egypt and they have to enter into Canaan on a Shmittah or Yovel year…

43. 1948 To Abrams birth
years to the Covenant
+430 years to the Exodus
_____
2458 Total years from Adam
2048 To Isaacs birth
years to the mistreatment
+400 years to the Exodus
_____
2458 Total years from Adam

44. 430 Year Timeline Year 2458 Left Egypt Year 2028 from Adam 2016 2016
Isaac 60 Years old
Moshe 80 years old when Israel leaves Egypt
Sep 14
Jacob at 130 years of age enters into Egypt
Isaac Born
Oct 28
Sep 18
Aug 10
Nov 4
Jacob Born
Moshe Born
Dec 1
Sep 28
Aug 2
Aug 19
Nov 11
Dec 15
Today
Oct 22
2016
+20 yrs
+60 yrs
+130 yrs
+71 yrs
+69 yrs
+ 80 yrs
2016
Gen 15 Covenant Made with Abraham
at 80 years of age
Israel leaves Egypt 430 years later Exodus 12:41
Oct 9
Abraham 100 Years old
Abraham 160 Years old
Sep 7
Joseph 39 Years old
Joseph Dies at 110 Years of age
Nov 1
Isaac mistreated at 10 years of age
400 Years mistreatment beginning with Isaac (Gen 15:13)
Year 2058 from Adam

45. Genesis 15:13 :Enslaved in Egypt 400 years?
Gen 15:13 And He said to Aḇram, “Know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Gen 15:14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

46. But were the Israelites in Egypt for 430 Years???
Exo 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.(NASB –From the Masoretic Text- 9th century CE)
But were the Israelites in Egypt for 430 Years???
Exo 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, while they sojourned in the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, [was] four hundred and thirty years. (Older Greek Septuagint Text)
Exo 12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel and their fathers while they had dwelt in the the land of Canaan and in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. (Older Samaritan Pentateuch Text)

47. Gal 3:16 But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed
Gal 3:16 But the promises were spoken to Aḇraham, and to his Seed. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Messiah.
Gal 3:17 Now this I say, Torah, that came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously confirmed by Elohim in Messiah, so as to do away with the promise.
Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance is by Torah, it is no longer by promise, but Elohim gave it to Abraham through a promise.

48. 430 Year Timeline 210 Years in Canaan 220 Years in Egypt 2016 20165
210 Years in Canaan
220 Years in Egypt
Isaac 60 Years old
Moshe 80 years old when Israel leaves Egypt
Sep 14
Jacob at 130 years of age enters into Egypt
Isaac Born
Oct 28
Sep 18
Aug 10
Nov 4
Jacob Born
Moshe Born
Dec 1
Sep 28
Aug 2
Aug 19
Nov 11
Dec 15
Today
Oct 22
2016
+20 yrs
+60 yrs
+130 yrs
+71 yrs
+69 yrs
+ 80 yrs
2016
Gen 15 Covenant Made with Abraham
at 80 years of age
Israel leaves Egypt 430 years later Exodus 12:41
Oct 9
Abraham 100 Years old
Abraham 160 Years old
Sep 7
Joseph 39 Years old
Joseph Dies at 110 Years of age
Nov 1
Enslavement begins sometime after Joseph’s death (max enslavement of 149 years)
400 Years mistreatment beginning with Isaac (Gen 15:13)
Isaac mistreated at 10 years of age

49. After the children of Israel leave Egypt, they wander in the wilderness for 40 years- but how long were they gone from Egypt before they enter into the land of Canaan?
Num 10:11 “And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year,
that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.”
2458 From the creation of Adam to the children leaving Egypt
Yrs from the arrival at Mt. Sinai until the curse in the wilderness of Paran (Spies bad report)
+ 40 Yrs of wandering in the desert until they entered Canaan
2500 Yrs from Adam, 51st Jubilee they came into the land

50. 50th and 51st Jubilee Cycles
ISRAEL (IN THE YEAR 2499 FROM ADAM WAS READY TO CROSS THE JORDAN
50th Jubilee
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
Cycle
1st Year
2451
2458
2465
2472
2479
2486
2493
2nd Year
2452
2459
2466
2473
2480
2487
2494
3rd Year
2453
2460
2467
2474
2481
2488
2495
4th Year
2454
2461
2468
2475
2482
2489
2496
5th Year
2455
2462
2469
2476
2483
2490
2497
6th Year
2456
2463
2470
2477
2484
2491
2498
Sabbath
2457
2464
2471
2478
2485
2492
2499
ISRAEL (IN THE YEAR 2500 FROM ADAM ENTERED INTO CANAAN) [Year 1]
51st Jubilee
1st
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
6th
7th
Cycle
1st Year
2500
2507
2514
2521
2528
2535
2542
2nd Year
2501
2508
2515
2522
2529
2536
2543
3rd Year
2502
2509
2516
2523
2530
2537
2544
4th Year
2503
2510
2517
2524
2531
2538
2545
5th Year
2504
2511
2518
2525
2532
2539
2546
6th Year
2505
2512
2519
2526
2533
2540
2547
Sabbath
2506
2513
2520
2527
2534
2541
2548

51. Why not enter in year 2499 (7th Shmittah) instead of 2500 (Yovel)?
Lev 25:12 ‘It is a Jubilee, it is set-apart to you. Eat from the field its crops.
Lev 25:13 ‘In the Year of this Jubilee let each one of you return to his POSSESSION.
The children of Israel came into the land of Israel, in the year of Jubilee, the 1st year of the Jubilee cycle- they entered the land in the 1st month of the year, the month of AVIV. They were given authority from our great Suzerain King, YHWH, to dispossess those who currently resided in the land of Israel.

53. The following chart shows the years from the creation of Adam to the end date of 5881, which is the 120th Yovel completing YHWH’s timeline for mankind. Notice that the Yovel ‘years’ are numbered 1 to 120 and next to each Yovel is the corresponding year from the creation of Adam.

54. A Key Verse [Marker]
2Ki 19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
This ‘sign’ recorded in 2 Kings 19:29 is none other than a 7th year Shmittah (land Sabbath) followed by a Yovel (Jubilee)!
The Sennacherib prism (or Taylor prism) found in 1830 amongst the ruins of Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh (present day Iraq), gives account of the victory battles of the Assyrian King. Many scholars date Sennacherib’s campaign against the kingdom of Judah at 701 BC.

55. 701 BC – 49th year, the 7th Sabbatical 700 BC – 50th year, a Jubilee
699 BC – The year following the Jubilee 43 44 45 46 47 48
[701 BC] 49 (7)
[700 BC] 50 / 1
[699 BC] 2 3 4 5 6
7 (1) 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 (2)
2Ki 19:29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year [701 BC, Shmittah] such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year [700 BC, Yovel] that which springeth of the same; and in the third year [699 BC, year after Yovel]sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

56. Respected Chronologist Edwin R
Respected Chronologist Edwin R. Thiele wrote the book: The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings

57. The battle of Qarqar in 853 BC in which Ahab dies – 1 Kings 22
In the book he states that there are only two dates in all of Hebrew chronology that can be confirmed by outside sources.
The battle of Qarqar in 853 BC in which Ahab dies – 1 Kings 22
701 BC when Sennacherib attacks Judah in the 14th year of Hezekiah Kings 19:29

58. Other historical sources
4 Assyrian Chronologies called Eponym from 911 BC -701 BC
7 Assyrian Chronologies called Limmu from 872 BC – 660 BC
Ptolemy’s Cannon is a Chronology of Babylonian kings from
747 BC CE
Ptolemy also had over 80 Astronomical recordings.

59. 701 BC is an absolute chronological bench mark date in history.
It is recorded in Assyrian History and Biblical history.
Widely known and respected Chronologists do not dispute this date.

60. Based on 1 Kings 19:29 scripture and Assryian records verified through Archeology we see that -700 BC was a Yovel year. Adding 49 year cycles from that point brings us to the last Yovel, which started in the year 1996!
*Remember, when figuring this out on your own, keep in mind that there is no zero between the dates of -1 BCE to 1 CE.

61. Known Historical Recorded Shmittah Years:
701 BC
Sennacharib King of Assyria attacks Judah (49th yr- Shmittah) 2 Kings 19:29
700 BC
Yovel year 2 Kings 19:29
456 BC
Nehemiah read the Torah (Deu 31:10-13) Nehemiah 8:18
162 BC
1 Maccabees 16:14 & Josephus Antiquities
134 BC
1 Maccabees & Josephus Antiquities
43 BC
Julius Caesar & Josephus Antiquities
36 BC
Josephus Antiquities
22 BC
Josephus Antiquities
42 CE
Josephus Antiquities 18
56 CE
Recorded debt in year 2 reign of Nero Caesar
70 CE
Sabbath Year
133 CE
Rental contracts beginning of Bar Kochba revolt
140 CE
Rental contracts near end of Bar Kochba revolt
439 CE
*Added. Zoar Tombstone inscription (5th yr of Shmittah)
515 CE
*Added. Zoar Tombstone inscription (4th yr of Shmittah)
Known Historical Recorded Shmittah Years:

62. The ZOAR Tombstones
“May the soul of Hasadiah the Priest son of Dematin rest, who died on Thursday, the 5th of Av, in the fourth year of the Sabbatical Cycle (Shmittah), which is the year four hundred and forty-five after the destruction of the Temple. Peace on Israel, Peace.” =515 CE
Photo: The Israel Museum

63. 88th Jubilee Cycle

64. “This is the tombstone of Esther the daughter of Adayo, who died in the month of Shebat of the 3rd year of the Sabbatical cycle, the year three hundred 46 years after the destruction of the Temple. Peace. Peace upon her.” *
= 416 CE
* SOURCE: Joseph Naveh “Another Jewish Aramaic Tombstone from Zoar” Hebrew Unon College Annual Vol. 56(1985) pp (page 112) Published by Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion.

65. 86th Jubilee Cycle

66. “This is the tombstone of Hannah, daughter of Ha[niel] the priest, who died on the Sabbath, the first festival day of Passover, on the fifteenth day of the month of Nisan, in the fifth year of the Sabbatical cycle, which is the year three hundred and sixty-nine years after the destruction of the Temple. Peace. May her soul rest. Peace.” = 439 CE
Photo: The Israel Museum

67. 87th Jubilee Cycle

68. “This is the grave of Mousis (Moshe) son of Marsa who died in year three of the Sabbatical cycle, in the month of Kislev, on the twenty seventh day of it, which is the year 290 after the destruction of the Temple.” *
= 360 CE
* Source: A Bilingual Tombstone From Zo’ar (Arabia) Hecht Museum, Haifa, Inv. No H-3029, Naveh’s list no.18 –

69. 85th Jubilee Cycle

70. “This is the tombstone of Hannah, daughter of Levi, who died on Thursday on the nineteenth day of the month of Sivan, in the third year of the Sabbatical (cycle), year … four hundred and two years since the destruction of the Temple. Peace upon Israel. Peace”
= 472 CE

71. 87th Jubilee Cycle

72. “This is the Tombstone of…. Son of Megalos (
“This is the Tombstone of….Son of Megalos (?), who died on the Sabbath, the twenty fifth day on the the month Tevet, in the first year of the Sabbatical cycle, the year three hundred eighty six years after the destruction of the temple. Peace Peace upon Israel!” *
= 456 CE
Source: Joseph Naveh “Another Jewish Aramaic Tombstone from Zoar” Hebrew Unon College Annual Vol 56(1985) pp (page 108) Published by Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion.

73. 87th Jubilee Cycle

74. 749 Galilee Earthquake
Struck Israel and eastern Transjordan (749 C.E.)
Earthquake destroyed Tiberias, Beit She’an, Hippos (Susita) and Pella
Named רעש שביעית [Ra’ash Shvi’it] meaning the ‘Seventh Quake’
It is believed the earthquake struck in a Sabbatical year, in which case, the translation of the term would be ‘earthquake of the seventh year’
Source:

75. 93rd Jubilee Cycle

76. So when was the Temple destroyed- 68, 69, or 70?
Jewish Virtual Library: “During the summer of 70, the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem… shortly thereafter, they destroyed the Second Temple.”
Judaism online: “…Jerusalem has been conquered, the Temple has been destroyed, but it was not over yet…Indeed, the Zealots manage to survive there (Masada) for three years…Josephus reports on the capture of Masada in 73 CE…Back in 73 CE when Masada fell, the Romans finally ended the revolt.”

77. Wikipedia: “The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD was the decisive event of the First Jewish-Roman war. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus (son of Vespasian), with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been ocupied by its Jewish defenders in 66 AD.
First-hand witness: Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 – 117 CE) [Historian- Roman antiquity]. In his work ‘Histories’, he writes about how the Judean Revolt lasted 5 years. He also states: “…the first of January of the year that Vespasian assumed the consular office was 70 CE, chosen by his father- Titus completed the subjugation of Judea and (how) later that same year, 70 CE – Jerusalem fell.” [Source: yahweh.org]

78. In his history of the 1st Revolt, Josephus mentions an invasion of the Judaean Idumaea by Simon ben Gioras in the winter of 68/69 CE. The fields of Idumaea, we are told, were cultivated. This detail is important because the Idumaeans in this region and that period were Jewish by religion and would not have cultivated their fields in the few months prior to a Sabbath year. Therefore, the evidence from Josephus strongly indicates that the Sabbath year could not have taken place until the next year (70 to 71 CE, Nisan (Aviv) reckoning). [Qadesh La Yahweh Press]
So where does the notion that the Temple was destroyed in 68 or 69 come from? The book ‘Seder Olam’ by Rabbi Yose (ben Halafta), a student under Rabbi Akiva

79. Rabbi Yose Ben Halafta & Rabbi Akiva
After the Temple had been destroyed (70 CE), the Jewish leaders started the ‘era of the rabbinic teachings’ – the time known as the Mishnaic period ( CE).
Rabbi Akiva ( CE) was the leading contributor to the Mishnah and Midrash Halakha. He was referred to as ‘Head of all the Sages’ in the Talmud.
Akiva claimed Simon Bar Kokba as the Messiah: “Bar Kokba, son of the Star” taken out of Num 24:17 [there shall come a star out of Jacob]. His proclaimation can be found in the Palestine Talmud –Ta’anit 4.5.

80. Rabbi Yose (Jose) Ben Halafta & Rabbi Akiva
Rabbi Akiva changed several dates in history in order for the prophesy of Daniel chapter 9 to line up with Simon Bar Kokba.
Rabbi Yose was a well known student (and quoted the 5th most in the Mishnah) under Rabbi Akiva. Yose changed the date of the first destruction of the temple and of the second so that Simon Bar Kokba matched up with the Daniel 9 prophecy to prove he was the Messiah and not Yeshua. Yose records the Temple being destroyed in 68/69, rather than the actual year of 70.

81. Seder Olam (Order of the World)– by Rabbi Yose
A book of rabbinic literature dealing with religious chronology written approx CE.
The timeline was changed by one year earlier in order to claim Bar Kokba to be the Messiah.
Book was used by those who would write the Mishnah and the Talmud.
This book of changed dates is what is used by many well known biblical chronologists which throws off the chronology by 1 to 2 years.

82. Soncino Babylonian Talmud
In Bekoroth Arakin- it states that the 2nd Temple was destroyed during a Sabbatical year.
In Abodah Zarah (written by Hunna) also states the 2nd Temple was destroyed during a Sabbatical year.

83. Why does any of this matter?
Some very well known chronologists (Benedict Zuckermann, Emil Shurer, Zion Walcholder) use 69 or 68 as the date of the destruction of the Temple to make their theories fit… however, if one believes the Sabbatical year was 68, then you have to leave out evidence of the Maccabean record for the year 134 BC- if one believes the Sabbatical year was 69, then you have to leave out evidence of the Maccabean record of 162 BC. Both 68 CE and 69 CE theories are incorrect. 70 CE is the only year that fits all the parameters…

84. Why does any of this matter?
When you count from 701 BCE by sevens you will reach 70 CE, which is the year of destruction of the Temple in the Shmittah year- verified through our chronological chart and historical sources.
When you count from the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE by sevens you will reach 2016 which is this year and a Shmittah year. Again, verified through our chronological chart, the Zoar Tombstones, and other historical records.

86. These known dates in bold only line up with a 49 year Yovel cycle, not 50 year cycle…

87. Judah says we are in but can this be the correct date?
5776
Judah says we are in but can this be the correct date?
The answer lies in Matthew 1:8
Mat 1:7 Solomon begot Rehoboam, Rehoboam begot Abijah, and Abijah begot Asa.
Mat 1:8 Asa begot Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat begot Joram, and Joram begot Uzziah.
Mat 1:9 Uzziah begot Jotham, Jotham begot Ahaz, and Ahaz begot Hezekiah.
Missing Kings: Mat 1:8 Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joram (Jehoram), Ahaziah, Athaliah, Jehash (Joash), Amaziah, Uzziah

88. Ahaziah reigned 1 year
Athaliah reigned 6 years
Jehhoash reigned 40 years
Amaziah reigned 29 years
76 years in total.
Are all missing from the chronology.
= 5852 !

89. Why does Judah not recognize those Kings?
Deu 29:18 “Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from YHWH our Elohim, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood”…
Deu 29:20 YHWH will not spare him, but then the anger of YHWH and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and YHWH shall blot out his name from under heaven.

90. Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them (idols or other gods), nor serve them: for I YHWH thy Elohim am a jealous EL, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

91. ---2 Chronicles 21---
[Joram (Jehoram), Ahaziah, Athaliah, Jehash (Joash), Amaziah, Uzziah]
King Joram (Jehoram) killed all his brothers with the sword. 2 Chr 21:4
He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes of YHWH. 2 Chr 21:6
Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto Chr 21:11

92. 5776 years + 76 years of the missing kings = Year 5852
Aviv this year is the start of the new year of 5852 from Adam OR year 2016 of the Gregorian Calendar.
There is a ½ year difference because Judah starts the year at Rosh Hashana (Tishri 1) and not Aviv 1.

93. Why is it important to keep the Shmittah and Yovel?
*The Israelites were exiled for not only disobeying YHWH’s Torah, but for not observing the Shmittah year or the Yovel. The land was not given its rest. Servants were not set free. Debts were not canceled.
Neh 10: “…And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave (let alone) the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.”

94. *If you love the Elohim of Israel and desire to obey His instructions and keep His Torah, then this commandment for the Shmittah and Yovel is like the Sabbath and Holy Days…. “HOLY TO YHWH”
Exo 23:11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it (the land) rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

95. RECAP The Shmittah is a land sabbath that occurs every 7 years
The Yovel is a Jubilee that occurs in the 50th year which is also the first year of the next Jubilee cycle(49yr/cycle)
The counting of the omer leading up to Shavuot is the yearly pattern for counting the Jubilee.
We need to keep the Shmittah regardless if we live ‘In the land’ (Israel) or not.
According to Biblical choronology, we are in the 7th year (Shmittah Year) of the 3rd Shmittah cycle
The Shmittah should be observed from the beginning of Aviv 2016 to the last day of the Hebrew year. The Next Shmittah Begins Aviv 1, 2023.

96. 1996 – 120th Jubilee 2044 – End of Cycle
RECAP
WE ARE IN THE LAST JUBILEE CYCLE !!!!
Year
1st Shmittah Cycle
2nd Shmittah Cycle
3rd Shmittah Cycle
4th Shmittah Cycle
5th Shmittah Cycle
6th Shmittah Cycle
7th Shmittah Cycle 1
1996
2003
2010
2017
2024
2031
2038 2
1997
2004
2011
2018
2025
2032
2039 3
1998
2005
2012
2019
2026
2033
2040 4
1999
2006
2013
2020
2027
2034
2041 5
2000
2007
2014
2021
2028
2035
2042 6
2001
2008
2015
2022
2029
2036
2043 7
2002
2009
2016
2023
2030
2037
2044
1996 – 120th Jubilee – End of Cycle

97. Why is it important to keep the Shmittah and Yovel?
Lev 25:3-14 “…Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest unto the land, a Sabbath for YHWH:…”
*By doing what YHWH says which includes observing the Shmittah and Yovel, here is what HE will do for YOU:
Lev 25: Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

98. Rom 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of YHWH.
The EARTH is waiting for YOU/US to get ready
Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom
Let’s start understanding how to count/number our days and follow Yahweh’s reckoning of time
Our desire should be to love and obey our Heavenly Father, we need to keep His commandments. Keeping the Shmittah and Yovel is another commandment we need to keep, regardless if we live in Israel or not. Let’s all try our best to follow after YHWH and keep his commandments, that includes keeping the land Sabbath and Jubilee.

99. Further Study
The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle, Qadesh La Yahweh Press (
The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, Edwin R. Thiele
The Prophecies of Abraham, Joseph Dumond
Remembering the Sabbatical Years of 2016, Joseph Dumond
When is the next Sabbatical Year? (