The Lord's Year

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About a couple of months ago, I found out about the Jewish calendar and how for over 5,000 years since Old Testament times the Jews have been keeping track of the years in terms of a seven year cycle that corresponds to each day of the week. The scripture to refer to for this is Leviticus 25. The current Jewish year, 5775, started on September 24th and corresponds to Saturday, the Jewish Shabbat or Sabbath. The Jews call this seventh year a Shmita year. So for Christians, the implications would seem to logically follow that if each seventh year corresponds to the seventh day then the year after would correspond to Sunday, the Lord’s Day.

But today I realized something more. Leviticus 25:1-7 talks about the Sabbatical Year. But if we read further it says that the 50th year is to be set aside as a holy year of jubilee. And the day of the week that 50th year corresponds to is Sunday. Keeping all the things mentioned in mind, one can see how in an indirect way the Old Testament actually sets aside Sunday as being a holy day. Next year is going to correspond to the Lord’s Year. But the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be the Jewish year 6000 which corresponds to the Roman calendar year of 2239-2240. So 225 years from now it will be the 120th Jewish Year of Jubilee.

Can anyone tell me if there’s been anything about this subject recorded in our Church tradition?
 
livingwordunity said:
But the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be the Jewish year 6000 which corresponds to the Roman calendar year of 2239-2240. So 225 years from now it will be the 120th Jewish Year of Jubilee.
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Sorry folks, I made a mistake in this particular calculation. So the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be in the Jewish year of 5800 which will be the 116th Jewish Year of Jubilee. And that will be in 25 years from now between the years 2039-2040.
 
livingwordunity said:
Sorry folks, I made a mistake in this particular calculation. So the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be in the Jewish year of 5800 which will be the 116th Jewish Year of Jubilee. And that will be in 25 years from now between the years 2039-2040.
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Actually, I realized today that this too was a miscalculation. The miscalculation happened because you can’t find out the Jewish Jubilee Year by just choosing a Rosh Hashanah that divides equally by 50. Instead, it has to be done the way it says in Leviticus to do it. It’s 49 years from the beginning and + 49 years + 49 years etc. And the day after each of those 49 years is the Jewish Jubilee Year. I’m not good at Math, but this time I got help by using Microsoft Excel along with my calculator. This time I started from the very beginning in Jewish year 1 (3761 BC) and, comparing the years to the days of the week, I kept adding another 49. And since every 49 years corresponded to a Saturday I knew that this time I was on the right track. Anyway, what I realized from it is that the first Jewish Jubilee Year of the 3rd millennium is closer than I thought. It’s actually going to be 2022-2023 AD which corresponds to the Jewish Rosh Hashanah of 5783.
 
Basically, there’s a Shmita (sabbatical year) on every seventh Jewish New Year. And every 49 years there’s what I will call a super Shmita. The day after the super Shmita is the Jewish jubilee year. So if a Jewish year is equally divisible by 49 it is the super Shmita. And then the year after that is the Jewish jubilee year. We know that 2022-2023 which corresponds to Jewish year 5783 is the jubilee year because the year before it, 5782, is a super Shmita. And we know it’s a super Shmita because 5782 is equally divisible by 49. It is the 118th.
 
About a couple of months ago, I found out about the Jewish calendar and how for over 5,000 years since Old Testament times the Jews have been keeping track of the years in terms of a seven year cycle that corresponds to each day of the week. The scripture to refer to for this is Leviticus 25.
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It’s a fascinating study. From time to time, I have to remind myself that whereas the Church exists in this world in the material sense, the true “spiritual” Church is outside of all time and space. Hence, Christ’s statement that His kingdom is “not of this world”. There are many aspects of the Bible that are counter-intuitive, and run contrary to human thinking.
 
One of the most fascinating things about it is how the Old Testament treats Sunday as being the most holy day.
But this is veiled because one has to first understand how the 7 year cycle corresponds to the 7 days of the week.
 
I couldn’t upload the whole Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that I worked on for this. So I condensed it and pieced together a collage of only the key parts of the timeline to show an illustration of how using multiples of 49 for determining each super Sabbath year and then, after that, counting the year after for the Jubilee year makes more sense in terms of the corresponding days of the week than if someone tries to determine it by using multiples of 50.
 
And, without condensing, here’s what this looks like in our time in the beginning of the 3rd millennium. I don’t know if using multiples of 50 is considered the standard way. If it is then I am challenging it. I welcome anyone who may disagree with me to show me how the method of using multiples of 49 before adding one more year to make it the jubilee year does not make sense.
 
I think the critical point to remember here is that there is currently no Temple in Jerusalem. As a result, I believe that many of regulations in the Torah cannot be applied today - And, if I recall correctly, this is why the Jubilee year is no longer celebrated. Once the Temple is rebuilt, then these regulations would presumably resume.
 
StGerardMajella said:
I think the critical point to remember here is that there is currently no Temple in Jerusalem. As a result, I believe that many of regulations in the Torah cannot be applied today - And, if I recall correctly, this is why the Jubilee year is no longer celebrated. Once the Temple is rebuilt, then these regulations would presumably resume.
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But that’s looking at it from the perspective of the Jews who did not recognize Christ as the Messiah. When we look at it from a Christian perspective and recognize Jesus as the fulfillment of the Jewish Temple, the destruction or rebuilding of the Jewish Temple is irrelevant. The main point is how the OT sets aside Sunday (in terms of years) as being holy, the day of the week which would later become recognized by Christians as the Lord’s day. If the Jews of today would think about why the OT would set aside Sunday as holy in the first place then perhaps they might see that it’s because the OT was giving an early clue about Jesus.
 
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