You start your timeline in 1445 BC. Why do you wait a year to do so and not start in 1446 BC? If you start in 1446 (when the commandments were given, including the Jubilee), 2020 is still a perfectly reasonable Rapture possibility. Here is a pretty detailed chronology of thr Exodus and the events therein: It is because after they arrived in mount Sinai in the third month of 1446 BC, they stayed in mount Sinai for one year. They did not depart for the journey until the second month in 1445 BC. Sure but why start when they left Mt. Sinai and not when the original Jubilee was proclaimed by the LORD? After all, 1446 was the original Jubilee. (Freedom from captivity and slavery) I love your work and attention to detail. Applying it and starting in 1446 BC leaves 2020 in play for the Rapture. If not, 2021 is 99.99% likely. Anyway, either way, we win! :yahoo: I didn't start from 1446 BC, it is because they stayed in mount Sinai for one year after they left Egypt on the Passover. It was in the second month the following year 1445 BC that they started the journey in wilderness. God punished them for 40 years because of their disbelief and little faith in God. Adding 40 years from 1445 BC, we come to 1405 BC. This is the year they entered the promised land. But God commanded them to keep the land sabbath for one year. God forbid them from cultivating the land for one year. It was in 1404 BC that the jubilee cycle finally begins. Below is my illustration. Leviticus 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you ( 1405 BC) , then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD ( leave the land alone for one year, no cultivation is allowed). 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field ( six years are 1404 BC to 1398 BC) , and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year ( 1397 BC) shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. 8 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. Seven sabbaths (49 years) come to 1355 BC. 1355 BC was the end of the first 49 years cycle. It is also the first jubilee with the trumpet sounded on Tishri 10 in that year. 1355 BC was also the first year of the next 49 years cycle. If you continue this sequence, you should come to 2027 as the 3430th year. On Tishri 10 2027, a trumpet shall sound and hallows the 70th jubilee has finally arrived. Arthur, with my illustration, you should understand 1404 BC is the first year of 70 jubilees cycles. It is because the cultivation of the land began in that year. God only numbers the 49 years cycle from the first year they cultivated their land, not from the year the freedom from captivity occurs. A correction. God only numbers the 49 years cycle from the first year they cultivated their land, not from the year they entered the promised land. Hope it is clear. I would think that the Jubilee cycle would start when the manna ceased to be given. Joshua 5:10-12 10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. 11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and [a]parched grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. This was right after they entered the Promised Land in 1406 BC. They were eating the produce of the land in 1406 BC. They were celebrating the Feasts that year. Therefore it is plausible that the Jubilee cycle started then. Food for thought, anyway. Leviticus 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, 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. 3 Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; 4 But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. "When you come into the land, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune the vineyard. But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land." God clearly stated that the counting of the sabbath begins with their cultivation on the land, not on the year the manna ceased. <p style="text-align: left;">The first sentence says, WHEN YOU COME INTO THE LAND...</p> The land was to keep it's sabbaths the very moment that the entrusted owner Israel entered the land. That year, according to most Bible scholars was 1406 BC. It doesn't matter who planted the crops. It was considered year one of the Jubilee. So, if 1406 BC is the first Jubilee then that would push the math back a year. They left Egypt in 1446 BC. They spent 41 years in wilderness ( 1 year in mount Sinai, 40 years in wilderness). 41 years from 1446 BC comes to 1405 BC. They entered the promised land in 1405 BC, not 1406 BC.
That indicates that when they entered the promised land, the Jubilee ordinance was now in effect.
