The New Shemitah

Will The New Shemitah Cycle Be A Turning Point In Human History?:
by Michael Snyder

According to Orthodox Judaism, the current 7-year Shemitah cycle will end and a new 7-year Shemitah cycle will begin when Rosh Hashanah arrives on the evening of September 25th.  But that assumes that they have been calculating the Shemitah cycles correctly.

There are some that believe that this is not actually a Shemitah year at all.  There are others that believe that a Shemitah year should begin on the first day of the Biblical year and not on Rosh Hashanah.  And then there is the debate between those that believe a full Jubilee cycle is 49 years long and those that believe a full Jubilee cycle is 50 years long.

This is what Wikipedia has to say about how the Shemitah year is observed in the land of Israel today... The sabbath year (shmita; Hebrew: שמיטה, literally "release"), also called the sabbatical year or shǝvi'it (שביעית‎, literally "seventh"), or "Sabbath of The Land", is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism.

During shmita, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden by halakha (Jewish law).  All debts, except those of foreigners, were to be remitted.

Unfortunately, a lot of man-made rules have been created to allow people to keep the Shemitah without really keeping it...

According to Orthodox Judaism, the last day of every Shemitah year falls on Elul 29 - the day right before Rosh Hashanah on the Biblical calendar.  Interestingly, there have been some huge stock market crashes on Elul 29.

For example, on September 17th, 2001 (which corresponded with Elul 29 on the Biblical calendar), we witnessed the greatest one-day stock market crash in U.S. history up to that time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 684 points, and that was a record that stood for precisely seven years until the end of the next Shemitah year.

In September 2008, we witnessed another historic stock market crash.  On September 29th, 2008 (which corresponded with Elul 29 on the Biblical calendar), the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 777 points.  That was another all-time record, and many felt that it was extremely significant that the Dow declined 777 points just as one 7-year Shemitah cycle was ending and another 7-year Shemitah cycle was beginning. . . .

This pattern does seem to strengthen the case of those that believe that 2001, 2008 and 2015 were Shemitah years.  If those three years were Shemitah years, then 2022 would be a Shemitah year as well.  And that would make 2029 a Shemitah year too.

In fact, many believe that the last Shemitah year in this current Jubilee cycle will be in 2029.  And if Jesus died in 29 AD (as many believe), that would put the Shemitah year of 2029 precisely 2,000 years after Jesus died on the cross for our sins.

In addition, it appears that the end of the current Jubilee cycle will wrap up the 120 Jubilee cycles of 50 years each since the creation of humanity.  As I detailed in my book entitled 7-Year Apocalypse, all throughout history there has been a belief that God has a 7,000-year plan for humanity.  After 6,000 years of human rebellion is complete, Jesus will rule from Jerusalem for 1,000 years during the Sabbath Millennium.

. . . what is exceedingly clear is that we are living in the end times and that the return of Jesus is drawing near.  All of human history has been building up to a grand crescendo, and we get to be here for it.  What an exciting time to be alive!

Bible teacher Jonathan Cahn was instrumental through his best-selling book 'The Mystery of the Shemitah' in reigniting a passion in Christians to study this topic.  Jonathan has a new book releasing this week that is sure to cause a stir as it takes the reader on a journey to unveil an ancient mystery that explains what is taking place in our world RIGHT NOW, specifically in America.

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