This is the number of times Jesus told His followers to forgive a person (Matthew 18:25). 3:7), (and the Talmud), reads, Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt and in the land of Canaan was four hundred and thirty years, Exodus 12:40. 1399 BC, the first Sabbath year. Leviticus 25:3-5 explains what to door, rather, what not to doon the sabbatical year: "For six years sow your . . I believe it continues without interruption every year, as does the . This is the fourth post in a series on the Investigative Judgment, for the previous entry please click HERE. These are the same kind of time frames to do with the jubilee cycles given by God to Moses on Mount Sinai (Lev. Our view is that there is the actual date (the MT), and then dates that are derived from the NT that yield different, yet very compatible dates, as far as biblical patterns are concerned. Blue squares represent the three years that God would supply from the harvest of the 6th (48th) year. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. So it was a 70 year Sabbath from the law of Moses. One day we will be taken out (exodus) from this world to be with Christ. In other words, from the time of Saul to the time of the Babylonian captivity, Israel had not obeyed this command of God. 9:25-27: 7 (order to rebuild) + 62 (Messiah cut off) + 1 (Great Tribulation) = 70. Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths , Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. He called the seventh year a Sabbath. 1399 BC. God kept watch over both of them, though men only over the second line of jubilees. As we shall see next, in a sense Jacob/Israel never did enter his rest from his toilsome life, nor did his descendents. 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. . God required the "promised" land to observe a Sabbath rest every seventh year as a test of faith for Israel. Browse, sort & search all Bible Study resources. These variables have led to three different chronologies among students of the bible. . 2010-2021 by ourCOG.org. The Seventh Year of Rest. Until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths - Between the time of Moses and the commencement of the captivity, there had been (about) 70 occasions on which the Law of the sabbatical year Leviticus 25:4-7 had been violated. The children of Israel were not faithful to God. 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. There were seventy years of captivity to repay for 490 years of failure to observe God's command. The seventy-sevens, which are a total of 490 years, can now be sub-divided into three categories: The Seven-Sevens or 49 years; The Sixty-Two Sevens or 434 Years; The Last Seven Years (The Tribulation) The Seven-Sevens or 49 years. His wife Samantha maintains this site as well as their missionary outreaches. Jeremiah 29 v 10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. But I wrought for my names sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out, (Ezek. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week, a day of rest for the Hebrew people under the Mosaic Law. 9:1-2). By converting these days, using the precise length of our solar year, the day the Messiah would appear is the 10 th of Nisan or March 30, 33 A.D. Eze 40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither. (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.). He is the author of all the teachings here, and all materials are available free of charge! [23] Although the Samaritans stopped counting for the Jubilee some hundreds of years ago, according to a recent report an effort is underway to determine the date when counting ceased in order to resume. We do this mainly under the assumption that the NT is inspired of God and therefore if it backs the LXX and/or ST then we should inquire why it does. Leviticus 25.4 NKJV. The 490 years of the prophecy would be necessary to accomplish six things with regard to Israel and Jerusalem. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity . Both Jeremiah's prophecy of 490 years and Daniel's prophecy of 490 years deal with time measured the same way (70 weeks of years = 490 total years). 2 Chron. So 490 days here must be converted to 490 years, thus erasing once and for all any doubts about the day . Then there is the problem of His crucifixion happening at the end of the 69th week, exactly as Daniel says. Scholars have not succeeded in tracing the origin of the seven-day week, nor can they account for the origin of the Sabbath. Seven "sevens" brought them to the Year of Jubilee (Lev. 25. Thus, the theme of exiled and recovery remains intact throughout. The 490 years of Daniel's 70 sevens were not a judgment. 1094 BC. Sabbath Afternoon. The exclusive dating of the Jubilee year would forward these dates by one year. 538 BC + 519 BC + 458 BC + 445 BC = 1960, divided by four = 490 BC. Thirteen years later was the decree to Nehemiah in 445 BC. Grace thru Faith is a 501(c)3 non-profit. 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. The Year-Day Principle. 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. It happens that 3, 7 and 10 all signify a period of completion or perfection. Likewise, the prophecy of the 70 weeks should be understood to be 490 years (Dan. Hence, over a 1000-year period, they failed to keep 70 x 2 Sabbath years, and 70 x 2 Sabbath days amounting to another 70 x 2 years, for a total of 70 x 4 years, or 280 years, which is 7 generations, (40 x 7 = 280). All this, therefore, ties in well with Ezekiels temple vision in 574/573 BC, Tishri/Nisan 10th. Jacob was 77 years old at the time and would live another 70 years after that and die at the age of 147 (7 x 7 x 3). For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in . Total missing Jubilees for the land over 1000 years = 10 x 2. For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. 490 symbolises grace. Fruit harvested from previous year just ended. 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. (First decree of Daniel 9 prophecy in 538 BC. But herein is the awesome glory of God especially revealed, for none could do this great numeric feat even if only on pen and paper, and not upon the hearts and minds of men and nations in real life experience. Back to the 1445/6 to 445 BC, and 1000 years (a type of the coming millennium). 4) Sadly, for 490 years Israel failed to keep the sabbath year. I believe if Israel ever observed the Sabbath year, it would have been under the direction of the godly Samuel; but there is no proof that this ever happened. The number 490 found in Daniel 9:24-27 is a key number, for in it are found all other bible prophecy numbers. (Or more broadly, of exile and recovery.) This has been presented as additional evidence that the cycle was 49 years, and further that the cycles were being measured until the last Jubilee in the days of Ezekiel, when the stipulations of the Jubilee year, long neglected except in the counting of the priests, could no longer be observed because the people were captive in a foreign land.[26]. The timespan required to accumulate 70 failings in observing Sabbath years amounts to 490 years. To seal up the vision and prophecy. 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. Yet even now, Hebrews implies, we feel the first waves of the coming rest. In the book of Jeremiah, God told the people that he would exile them from the land for 70 years, because this was the amount of time that the Sabbath rest had been disobeyed (490 years total). Moreover, the inferior Samaritan version (ST) reads, the sojourning of the children of Israel, and of their fathers, in the land of Canaan, and in the land of Egypt, and thus, unlike the LXX and MT, does include Abraham! Thus, for example, the prophecy of the 2,300 evenings and mornings should be understood as referring to 2,300 years (Dan. The 490 could not designate days (about 1 1/3 years) for that would not be enough time for the events prophesied in Daniel 9:24-27 in 10: . 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. . 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. Both 1260 and 1290 signify half a seven-year period. 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. At his death Jacob is mourned 70 days, (Gen. 50:3). The Sabbath rest was not only every seventh day; it was also every seventh year. 25:8-12). And as implied already, there is also a sense that the time spent in Egypt also be included. According to this chronological calculation, the beginning of this neglect of the observance of the sabbath-year would fall in the beginning of the judgeship of Samuel. Or another example, the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, to the fall of Samaria in 722 BC, as AD 722, are 1260 years. Here in Ezra, we see that this 70 year period had elapsed, as Daniel had also anticipated (Dan. They were a period of time set by God to complete the six objectives the angel Gabriel listed in Daniel 9:24 for the Jewish people and the city of Jerusalem: "Seventy weeks are determined For your people and for your holy city, To finish the transgression, To make an end of sins, To make reconciliation for iniquity, To bring in . 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? This reckoning would give 47 years from the Jubilee mentioned in the 18th year of Josiah (Megillah 14b) to the Jubilee that took place 14 years after Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians (Arakin 12a), whereas the correct difference was 49 years (623 BC to 574 BC). The Lord God of heaven.Jehovah, the God of heaven. And this is why in a sense the missing jubilees begin from when Jacob/Israel began to work for a wife after fleeing from his brother by trickery in 1929 BC. 1). One answer might be 70 years but in fact their disobedience covers seventy cycles of seven years or 490 years. (Note: Jewish tradition reduces the 215 years to 210 arbitrarily, and so is not considered a viable variable. The Sabbath year is every seven years and the Jubilee is the year after the seventh Sabbath year, which is the fiftieth year. 7:1-25, . 1257 BC. Remember that we were talking about the fact the Church Age, God going to the Gentiles with what Paul called "His Gospel," was something that had been hidden from the whole human race. (See Daniel 9.) Including photos each week from our outreaches and the weekly review. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. 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It is reduced by either 33 years or 215 years, depending on whether the text is understood as referring to when Abraham entered the land of Canaan or when Jacob and his children entered the land of Canaan (after his 20 years sojourn). and the Vulg. 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. This will become increasingly evident as we study the numeric revealed in the Bible about the missing Sabbaths. holy of holies without "the" usually referred to the holy articles of the Tabernacle . God promised the Jews that he would kick them out of the land, if they disobeyed him on this: (Jer. According to biblical tradition, it commemorates the original seventh day on which God rested after completing the creation. That the word . By causing it to remain uncultivated for seventy years, God gave to the land a time of rest and refreshment, which its inhabitants, so long as they possessed it, had not given it. Daniel 9 speaks of six things they must square away for the 490 years that are determined for them. 7 Year Land Sabbath: . Bertheau, holding this view, fixes upon 1000 b.c., i.e., the time of Solomon, or, as . 70. The prophets said that the land would lay fallow for 70 years so that it could catch up on all its missing Sabbath-years. The passage 2 Chronicles 35:8 has no bearing on this question, because it neither states that the passover had been held according to the precepts of the law till towards the end of the time of the judges, nor that it was no longer celebrated in accordance with the precept from that time until Josiah; it only contains the thought that such a passover as that in Josiah's reign had not been held since the time of the judges: see on the passage. 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. The first 490 years of the 2,300-year prophecy were designated especially for the Jewish nation of antiquity and the coming of the Messiah. 2:27-45, John 14:29, Num. (See Hebrews chapter three for the same conclusion.) 9:1-2). To make reconciliation for iniquity. Note that scholars except the 70 years of Daniel 9 as based on Jeremiah as just a round number, the actual being 66 years. Part One: How the 364-day calendar works. All the days that it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.. Ezra 1:1-3; 3 Esdr. (Jubilee sounded on 10th day of the civil New Year. (I.e., 445 BC less 4900 = AD 4455, ten times AD 445, the mirror of 445 BC, etc. Thus, over the 1000-year period Israel failed to keep 280 years of Sabbaths, so that only 720 years was she allowed to remain n the land because of her unfaithfulness. Read for This Week's Study: Dan. I believe, too, that Israel will remain on earth as head of the nations for 1000 years-the 7th 1000 years from the creation, of which 1445 to 445 BC was a type. also Jeremiah 29:10 : Thus saith the Lord, After seventy years be accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you.). Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 3 * PART 3 * BOOK 10 DANIEL'S 490 YEARS Daniel 9 & Matthew 24. Event. And, Pentecost, 1445 BC: The day God intended Israel to enter the Promised Land.), 2.) There's a future 490 years, yet future, then the kingdom of God is going to come. This was originally written as a private letter. See the chart below: Studythe above chart until the events depicted on it are clear to you. Babylon comes back and burns the city and the temple to the ground on the 9th of Av 587 BC. 13You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. 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. However, for the sake of simplicity our study will utilize only normal solar years of 365.25 days.). In the following pattern, God clearly exacted the full amount of missing Sabbath years that the law required, even in all its ambiguity as discussed earlier in this document. Note that the below quote is using the inclusive view as explained above. Personal updates from Samantha. That fact is stated in a . And let him go up.Whither The sentence is abruptly broken off here, but continued in Ezra 1:3. 2:1-5; Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45-47). And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them. They were in Egypt a round 400 years, 10 generations of 40 years, or 4 generations of 100 years as it says in Genesis, You shall be in a strange land 400 yearsin the 4th generation I will come to you. Hence, 700 + 300 = 1000 equals 3 generations + 7 generations = 10 generations. 25:2, and the above verses. It ended when Persian King Artaxerxes Longimonus gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in 445 BC (Nehemiah 2:1-9). God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. The last (substantial) date in the bible, and the last of four decrees to restore and rebuild Jerusalem as per the prophecy of Daniel 9. Math of Dan. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest. a 'week' of years (7 years) a 'jubilee sabbath' (49 years) a '70-week jubilee' (490 years) The 'week of years' was akin to our 'decade', and 'jubilee' might be likened to our 'century', albeit shorter. It ended when Persian King Artaxerxes Longimonus gave Nehemiah permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in 445 BC ( Nehemiah 2:1-9 ). If you add 490 years to 586 BC, you get the year 1076 BC. unite the readings.). (This was Aut. 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. They had been in the Promised Land for roughly 800 years, and for 490 years, they disobeyed his Sabbath rest. The Bible does say, however, that the complete rejection of the fourth or Sabbath commandment was the major cause of allowing His people . Daniel studied the prophecy of Jeremiah and knew it was time. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. Every seventh year was a sabbath rest year (Lev. (Seven divided into 490 is 70.) So far, in our study of the 70-week prophecy (490 years), we've cov-ered 69 weeks (or 483 of those 490 years). Note that the total time between the entry into Egypt in 1846 BC and the return to Egypt and Babylon in 586 BC are 1260 years, or 1290 years if one takes the literal 430 years in Egypt rather than the said 400 round number of Genesis. The last part of the 2300 years has to do with God's people, both Jew and Gentile, along with the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, and, ultimately, the second coming of Christ. 2Chronicles 36:12 supra.) The thought is this: By the infliction of the punishment threatened against the transgressors of the law by the carrying of the people away captive into Babylon, the land will obtain the rest which the sinful people had deprived it of by their neglect of the sabbath observance commanded them. Thus, the land rested one year from toil and war.) . Hence the pattern of 70s continues. Of course, the length of the exile was set because of their disobedience to the Sabbath, but this wasnt the primary reason for the exile. 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. The 490 Year Land sabbath rest: 605-536 BC. Therefore, 70 X 7 = 490 years. Dan 9:27 And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate. 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. For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. 1400 to Aut. The Hebrew Bible according to the Jewish canon ends with the book of Chronicles. Read all of Daniel 9 again. . Find & sort all our resources. We are not talking about the weekly Sabbath, for the Jews didn't have a problem with that; but they did have a problem with the Shemitah/Sabbath year and Jubilee. The 70-year captivity was not to be the Jews' only judgment, however. The prophecy divides up these 490 years in a handful of ways. 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 . It is because, whereas Judah likely kept the weekly Sabbaths of the Lord (but not faithfully the yearly Sabbaths for the land), Israel to the north, which was more apostate, never kept the weeks Sabbaths or festival days either. Counting the days as years, we look for a 490-year period, during the last seven years of which the Messiah would be cut off. Note: Interestingly, these verses (Josh 14:15; also 1:13-15, 3:13, 21:44, 22:4, 23:1, Num. And what Gabriel puts into Daniel's lap is the Seventy Weeks prophecy, the . The language does not imply weeks of days, it actually implies weeks of years [70 x 7 (years)= 490 years] and the "day for a year" bible rule is therefore very . until seven times? Subject of. The Jews had disobeyed Gods law of obeying the Sabbath. But Daniel, in his misconception offers a prayer, it's one of the greatest prayers in the Bible, verses 3-19, Gabriel arrives from heaven to give Daniel the truth, verses 20-23. Nothing is stated in the Old Testament as to whether what is known the Northern Ten Tribes of Israel (known as the Kingdom of Israel), which went into Assyrian captivity in 723 B.C., kept the Sabbath or not. 490 years from destruction of Shiloh to the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity. The god of heaven was a title of Ormazd or Ahuramazda, the Supreme Being according to Persian belief, which was Zoroastrianism. The first was the ideal of Gods first intentions, the second (from 1406 BC) of Gods extended grace. According to him, the year of the Destruction, counting from the year of the creation of the world, would be 3829 (69 CE) and not 3830, but the shemittah years would still match up. (Lev. 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. harvested that grew from previous year just ended. it obviosly means "seven year periods.70 weeks are determinded upon thy people means 490 years. (2 Chron. A good Bibliography in Pentecostal/Charismatic Theology? Is this symbolic as 1/7th of 490 years (Daniel 9:24-the 490 years between the decree of Artaxerxes to rebuild Jerusalem and the Messiah coming to Jerusalem which was fulfilled literally)? 70 years. From these theological reflections we cannot calculate how often in the course of the centuries, from the time of Joshua onwards till the exile, the sabbath-year had not been observed; and still less the time after which the observation of the sabbath-year was continuously neglected. Find & sort all our resources. We grow food to support a community, build and repair homes, and support the poor, widows, and the fatherless. For almost 6,000 years the earth has been corrupted by sin. 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 . Stirred up the spirit.1Chronicles 5:26;2Chronicles 21:16. Seder Olam. Hence, the above patters repeat themselves except on a 10 times basis, even as 490 is ten times that of 49. 3, S. 141), to which the eighty years of the reigns of David and Solomon, and the time of Saul and Samuel, must be added to make up the 490 years (see the comment. . His teachings made the Bible clear and easy to understand, and impacted millions of lives. . It is purely economics. The ultimate Sabbath rest is coming, when God's people will enjoy work without toil, hearts without sin, and an earth without thorns. This is because only one year out of seven is a Sabbath year - and 490 total years / 7 = 70 Sabbath years. Because of their disobedience, God allowed the children of Israel to be taken captive to Babylon for 70 years. The Jews were trusting Gods provision by not farming for an entire year. #ourCOG ourcog. The verse implies that during the reign of the Israelite kings from David onwards (1,050 BC to 587 BC) the land of Israel had never enjoyed its sabbatical year as commanded by Moses in the book of Leviticus . The reoccurring theme within the life Jacob is one of forgiveness. How many Sabbatical years in 490 years? All is accounted for even with the different possibilities due to the ambiguity of the text of Lev. Judgment was promised if they disobeyed Gods Sabbath rest: (Lev. As to the relation between the Chronicles and Ezra, see Introduction. 4 also include this 40 years.). 12Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. However, the phrase, and in the land of Canaan is left out of the (presumed original) Hebrew text. Sign up for our free daily newsletter. Including photos each week from our outreaches and the weekly review. Read Daniel 9:26. 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. and ate that year what grows of the land without cultivation, autumn 1400 to autumn 1399 BC, Josh. Listen to our Bible studies now from your browser. Moreover, Israel, like Judah, fell in three stages. Copyright 2023. (Dan. 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