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The Next Sabbatical Year Begins this Fall
Posted by: PowerOfChoice | Sat, Jan 12, 2008 4:15 am | Tag(s): Testimonies | Permalink |
Seventh-day Adventists as a group are probably more interested in true Sabbath keeping than any other group on Earth, or isn’t that true?
Having grown up in a SDA home I’ve always valued our Sabbaths. Sometimes I’ve been wondering about the Sabbath years and why we are not keeping a Sabbath year. My answer has always been “I have no idea which year that would be.”
I’ve heard that there are conflicting ideas even among the Jews and others interested in this issue and that some believe it should be kept from fall to fall while others believe it should be kept from spring to spring and that no one is real certain even then which year it truly is.
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Well, those excuses are now fallen by the way side. At least for me. While studying New Testament chronology quite intensively over the last several years I’ve been blessed with learning many things re biblical time reckoning that I never knew before. God has been showing me one item after another from day to day directly in the Scriptures that I had never noticed before even though I’ve been reading my bible more or less regularly all my life. To my surprise I’ve found not only that Jesus and his disciples were always very careful to observe God’s calendar and the three Feasts appointed as eternal blessings for the People of God, but also that Josephus is using all of the intricacies of biblical time reckoning also. Thus I have grown to trust Josephus as a very exact and conscientious historian who very carefully recorded every time reference in his historical works meticulously and in accord with the truth, or at least I’ve found his records perfectly reliable within the time period I’ve been focusing upon, which is from 49 BCE [BC] through 77 CE [AD.]
This past week I was focusing upon the events surrounding the 46 years referenced in Luke 2:20, when suddenly I realized that Josephus was quite carefully identifying for me a Sabbatical year which began Tishri 22, 44 BCE and ended Tishri 21, 43 BC just 11 days after Herod the Great concurred Jerusalem.
Naturally I quickly calculated what the corresponding Sabbatical years in our time would be. The next Sabbatical year begins Tishri 22, 2008, i.e. this fall. Exactly when that day will fall as reckoned in a Roman Catholic calendar like the Gregorian calendar is still undetermined as it depends upon when the barley ripens this spring and when the new moon crescent is first seen in he seventh biblical month. However it will be either September 22 or 23 or else October 22 as best I can tell.
Well, I am thinking there just might be one or two among all of those true Sabbath loving people out there who might be interested in this little Scriptural treasure re Sabbatical years in our days. I for one have no doubts but that there are showers of blessings in accepting and keeping for our land its Sabbath rest just as we continue reaping the many blessings of true Seventh Day Sabbath keeping.
What lays ahead of us now is the Preparation Year in which God has promised for his People a triple harvest… Cf. Leviticus 25:21!
But, if we will not sow, what will we reap?
Is this a hint perhaps?: The last Sabbatical year should probably be reckoned as having begun on the day we all remember as “September 11, 2001…”
May God, our Creator, bless each of His Sabbath keeping Sons and Daughters abundantly!
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