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The Lord's Shemittah

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On the holy day calendar, there is a weekly sabbath in a cycle of seven days and there is also a sabbath in a cycle of seven years.

The primary feature pertains to agricultural activity, which, on a deeper level, is an allegory for activity in the Lord's harvest field. The Shemittah is a unit of counting for the Yobel, the Jubilee, linking the two together. We know all the elements of the Lord's calendar are prophetic so what is the lesson of the Shemittah?

Back in 1999, I was wrestling with what I had learned about the times by means of absolute dating principles. Even though I studied engineering in college, I'm really not particularly quick at math, so, calculating times confidently is challenging for me. I had gotten stuck on something that seems really simple to me now but at the time I just couldn't make sense of it. I knew Y'shua was born in the fall of 2 BC and that it marked the transition from the fourth to the fifth millennia from Adam. I also knew that the celestial marker for the beginning of the Lord's return in judgment was in the fall of 1991. I had been brought to the place of conviction that the Lord was counting by sevens of years and that a set of seven began on that marker in 1991. Now, I had never considered very deeply how this might be related to the Shemittah cycle. Counting seven years from the celestial sign placed the next transition of sevens in the fall of 1998. As many times as I counted, two thousand years from 2 BC always brought me to the fall of 1999. Now, if you count from 3 BC, which many consider to be the year of our Lord's birth, 2000 years brings you right to 1998, matching up the transition points, but yet, I knew 3 BC was not the right year to begin counting. It had to be 2 BC and I had full confidence in the interpretation I shared with you about the celestial date stamps of Y'shua's birth and baptism. What was bothering me was knowing that the turning of the end time cycles of seven was in 1998 and that the turning of the sixth to the seventh millennia was in 1999. I did not understanding the reason for the offset from one transition point to the other. Of course, the Lord led me to this dilemma because He wanted to teach me something. When I was brought to the place where I was able to articulate the question (that He gave me) I was ready for the answer. I was only able to ask the question when I had finally come to the place of full conviction about the correctness of the dates and their meaning, and the counts of years. I knew when the sevens turned and I knew when the millennia turned - and I knew that I knew! So, He gave me the question, then, within what was about a minute, He provided the answer!

It's really quite simple. The first key is knowing that the week of years that began in 1991 and ended in 1998 is one of the Lord's Shemittah, one of the sets of seven years in an unbroken cycle that began its count from Adam. The other key is realizing that the count of years by sevens and the count of years by thousands began at the same point in time. In seven thousand years of time, there will be exactly one thousand Shemittah. Although seven thousand is evenly divisible by seven, six thousand is not, neither five thousand nor any of the other millennial transitions that came before. Simple math. Each millennium spans one hundred forty two and six sevenths Shemittah cycles. When the first millennium drew to a close, there was one year left to go before that one hundred forty-third Shemittah was completed. At the close of the second millenium, there were two years remaining until the end of the Shemittah, at the transition of the third to the fourth millennia there were three, at the fourth to fifth: four, and the fifth to sixth; five. At the turning of the sixth to the seventh millennia there were six years remaining in the Shemittah cycle, which means it had begun the year before. The turning of the millennia was in 1999 and the turning of the Shemittah was one year earlier, in 1998! I had known before that the Lord was counting by sevens of years and that a new cycle began in 1991, and now I knew this was the very Shemittah cycle that began when years began to be counted!

With that understanding I was blessed to have the validation of what I had come to know and the further valuable knowledge of the accounting of the Lord's Shemittah! This accounting of the Shemittah is not popularly held in the world today. Perhaps the accounting I suggest is right and all others are wrong, or perhaps one of the others is right and I have been deceived, or, perhaps there is more than just one version, with more than one being true from particular point of reference. I cannot say, but, from what I have seen, I am convinced the Lord's Shemittah are accounted as I present here in this writing.

Infinity Code Insights into the Shemittah Numbering

One Infinity Code principle is that the meaning of a Hebrew word can sometimes be seen in the unit of a numbered sequence that corresponds to the gematria value of that word. The numbered sequence that is the Bible's chapters I addressed already, but there are other sequences of things Yahweh has ordered and numbered. Units of time are such, with obvious exhibits of His interest in their ordering and numbering found throughout the Bible. For the three Shemittah that are of particular interest, let's consider the meanings of all the Hebrew words used in the Bible with the corresponding Shemittah. It is easy enough to number the Shemittah when you know that the millennia turned in 1999. The Shemittah beginning in 1991, 1998 and 2005 are numbered 857, 858 and 859 consecutively. There are, of course, more Shemittah following these, but I'm just going to consider these three for now.

There are only two Hebrew words to consider. One is the word "taznuth" translated as "fornication, harlotry." (tet vav nun tzaddi) It has the value of 857 and therefore corresponds to the Shemittah that began in 1991. The other word is "tachton," with a value of 858. The possible translations of this word are "lower, lowest, nether, nethermost." A relevant meaning, to be sure! This word occurs 13 times in 13 verses.

It doesn't take much imagination to see how the meaning of these words to the times, the two weeks of preparation leading up to the fulfillment week. The Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17 comes quickly to mind. (See also Revelation 14:8)

Here is an excerpt from the message to the church at Thyatira.

It is not merely the pagans or Israel upon whom judgment comes, but the church. The smug and sleeping church is going to be stunned when they receive according to their deeds.

The next Shemittah is "tachton" the "nethermost," which may speak of sin reaching the limit set before the appointed judgment comes.

There is no Hebrew word used in the Bible that has the gematria of 859. Why? Perhaps nothing more needs to be said about the matter; the signs will be self-evident.

Comparing the Bible Chapters for the Shemittah Numbers

If you were to have your choice of any three consecutive chapters of the Bible to match up with three Shemittah of Shiloh's coming based upon the content of those chapters, which ones would you pick? Many of you wouldn't give it much thought before choosing the seventh, eighth and nineth chapters of the book of Daniel. Would you believe these are the very ones! No kidding!

As you may recall, the judgment of and the obedience of the peoples were noted in the study of the celestial sign of 1991 as the two main themes attending Shiloh's coming.

This coming of Shiloh, Y'shua haMashiach, is after the manner of His prior coming. Few initially took note when He was born. From the time that "coming" began until the appointed season of anointed ministry arrived, for most people, little evidence of His having come was to be found. However, He had come and the necessary preparations were being made for all that would be accomplished. His coming in this present phase is similar. As the appointed season arrives, the people become obedient to Him. The themes of judgment of and obedience of the peoples is a primary subject of Daniel 7, the 857th chapter corresponding to 1991-1998.

The passage above is sandwiched between a revelation about four beasts. The most prominent is the fourth, a ten horned beast I believe arose to great power during this First Week. (becoming the 42nd President of the United States - a number relating to the Beast) This "First Week" seventh chapter of Daniel outlines things that were seen in shadows during that week.

Here are some more passages from Daniel 7 that show the scene in heaven as the judgment takes place.

In the 858th chapter of the Bible there is a revelation that speaks to me of the 858th Shemittah.

Does that seem appropriate? WOW! A major war that began in this week is one of the important subjects of this chapter. I wrote about its interpretation in the study: America: Rushing Across the Threshold of Daniel Eight. The chapter could hardly be more relevant to the corresponding Shemittah!

By all indications, the third chapter in the series is no less relevant for its corresponding Shemittah!

It has been shown by numerous scholars how this passage found some fulfillment during the season of our Lord's first advent. However, since the list given in verse 24 has not yet been completely fulfilled, it remains that there is coming an appointed season for completing what has been decreed. I am convinced that the only solution for the items in verse 24's list is resurrection. Until the future phases of resurrection have come to pass, a people of this earthly flesh remain, and, so long as that is their condition, transgression, sin and unrighteousness remain. Is resurrection is appointed for the 859th Shemittah? Watch and pray!

According to the above passage, the span of time called seventy weeks is subdivided into three sets, presented in sequence as seven weeks, sixty-two weeks and one week. The well established pattern of resurrection in the third unit of a series is exhibited (See Resurrection on the Third Day) in Daniel 9, where the third of the seventy week subdivisions (7,62,1) is the unit linked to the resurrection theme. It also exhibits The Pattern of the Third Count. Is this 859th Shemittah, the week of years spanning 2005-2012 that is the third from the celestial sign of 1991, the "seventieth week"? I can't say. Watch and pray!

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