I shared some of this earlier but I have some additional thoughts:

Early one morning at the end of this past April I had a five second dream: A voice simply said to me: “In yet five months I will purify the sons of Levi.” That’s all I heard. There was no visual image, only those words. It was about 4:00AM so I got up and decided I should spend some time studying it. I looked up Malachi 3:3 and read the quoted phrase “purify the sons of Levi” in the surrounding context. Then I did a time calculation and found that five biblical months from the day I had the dream, April 30, is the Day of Atonement this year, September 23/24. That captured my attention.

Eight weeks later, the Supreme Court issued it's decision annulling the biblical definition of marriage.

In the Jewish sacred calendar the Day of Atonement known as Yom Kippur stands for the fixing of one's eternal destiny, the day of judgment for people and nations. This day is being fulfilled. America and the rest of humanity is facing a final reckoning of truth. We are at the crossroads of grace and judgment.

In the last several months a number of bible students and scholars have identified 2015-2016 as a biblical Jubilee year. The Jubilee is directly linked to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The Jubilee began anciently with a trumpet blast on the Day of Atonement. In scripture, the Jubilee is the year of liberty when slaves are freed and lost inheritances restored. It occurs at the end of a 50 year cycle after the seventh Sabbatical or Shemitah which just passed us recently, September 2014 to September 2015.

The link between the Day of Atonement and the Jubilee is explained in a vision of Ezekiel. The prophet Ezekiel was shown a new temple where the Day of Atonement is replaced by a dual atonement service that spans a week rather than one day, a super Atonement. And with the super Atonement comes a renewal of all inheritances, a super Jubilee.

Ezekiel's temple vision is a type of the climax of the most comprehensive promise and greatest mystery in scripture: Christ in you, His church, the hope of glory. This mystery is the final sealing and establishment of the New Covenant. The prophet Isaiah identifies this super Jubilee as the “acceptable year of the Lord”; the year of full and complete liberty from sin under the power of the Holy Spirit.

But Isaish also calls it the “day of vengeance of our God”. Isaiah 61:1-2. Likewise, the temple vision of Ezekiel warns of the consequences of being unprepared for God's next big move – the outpouring of the latter rain that ripens the gospel harvest.

In scripture the prophets Daniel and John both warn that at the very time God pours out the blessings of the Spirit there will also be a false latter rain. And it will be a masterpiece of satanic deception. It will be so subtle that it will entrap the great majority of this world's citizens. “All the world wondered after the Beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Rev. 13:3-4.

So is this year, 2015-2016, the year of the super Jubilee and the year of the latter rain? Maybe. No one knows for sure. But one thing we do know: All of the signs of the times point us to the nearness of it. It's time to put our house in order and turn with all our hearts to the Lord so that we're ready. Preparedness for that event is key. Through Christ, the Lord offers us complete liberty from our slavery to sin. Let's accept the offer to meet our loving Father, Savior and Lord in peace.

The post above is from the introduction to my updated ebook, America Under Judgment which I'm giving away free for the next two days on Amazon.

I didn't follow how 2015 could be the super Jubilee of Ezekiel? Ezekiel's vision was for a time that is not ours.

Mark - you believe that 457BC was a Sabbathical year. Thus 34AD and 1798AD are Sabbatical years. I'm basing this on your book on the prophetic calendar. How can 2015 possibly be a Jubilee or even a Sabbatical year? The math does not work.

It's possible to find web sites that say that 9/2014 - 9/2015 was a sabbatical year. I have no idea if they are accurate.

With regard to the jubilee, if you look in the "Words of the Adventist Pioneers" database, there was a Millerite theory about a "jubilee of jubilees" stretching 2450 years from 607 B.C. to 1843 A.D. (this period is actually 2449 years). 457 B.C. is mentioned in this connection. 2520 also shows up in this model, and I'm not an advocate of the theory.

I don't know if 457 was a jubilee year, but if so, then we are 2471 years removed, and 2471 is not a multiple of 49 or 50.

I myself have never been able to figure out whether the jubilee period is 49 or 50 years.

It might be useful to say something about the Jewish calendar in 1844 and 2015.

In the late summer of 1844, when the "seventh month movement" kicked in, the Millerites needed to determine the beginning of the seventh month. One choice was September 14, as found on the standard Jewish calendar. The other choice was the new moon a month later.

The Millerites made the latter choice, and Damsteegt's book in the "Words of the Adventist Pioneers" database gives the details. This choice is the basis for the October 22 1844 date for the Day of Atonement.

The years 1844 and 2015 have identical dates on the standard Jewish calendar for the beginning of the seventh month, like this:

9/14/1844 Rosh Hashana 5605

9/14/2015 Rosh Hashana 5776

The reason why the dates are identical is because 2015 is 171 years removed from 1844, and 171 is a multiple of 19, and the Jewish calendar is known to run in a 19-year cycle.

The 19-year cycle is based on the fact that a period of 19 solar years is almost identical to 235 lunar months. The 235 lunar months is based on allocating 12 lunar months for each of the 19 years, for a total of 228 lunar months, and then intercalating an additional 7 lunar months, to make 235 lunar months. The intercalation is required to keep the Jewish holidays from drifting with the seasons, for example Passover in the fall or Tabernacles in the spring.

I don't know if specific dates in any year after 1844 will ever be important prophetically. GC 399.4 makes the argument that the fall types must have antitypical fulfillments at some point, and this was the reasoning for the specific date in 1844.

Whether this applies to the antitypical Trumpets and Tabernacles I can't say.

However, it seems to me that we should keep in mind the calendar choice that the Millerites made in 1844, and ask why they did things this way.

Well, someone needs to help me with math. Because I can't get things to add up. And not just with an off-by-one error. And as glenm asks, is it 50 or 49? That is, do you start counting the 50th as the next cycle or with the 51st?

Or is 2015 being a Jubilee more along the lines of the blood moon "tetrad". Marketing. Even though this spring's wasn't a total eclipse, even though few, if anyone, could even see the maximum of the partial eclipse, and even though it in no way appeared to be "blood", "red", or anything other than a faded hint of a shadow, most everyone blindly believes it was a blood moon and therefore there were 4 of them.

If you have a starting date X B.C. and an ending date Y A.D., then the number of years between them is "Y-(-X)-1", which is equivalent to "Y+X-1". The -1 is required because there is no zero year.

So from 457 B.C. to 34 A.D. is 490 years ("seventy weeks"), and from 457 B.C. to 1798 A.D. is 2254 years.

490 and 2254 are both multiples of 49, and thus must be multiples of 7 as well.

This calculation says nothing about whether any of these years was a sabbatical or jubilee year.

IF 34AD was a sabbatical year, then 2015 would be a sabbatical year. 69AD would be a sabbatical year. IF the Jubilee was 702BC and 457BC, then 2015 can not be a Jubilee.


If 701BC and 456BC was a Jubilee, then where were the other Jubilees?
2015 can not be a Jubilee. Can it be a Sabbatical years? 1994+21 = 2015. Yes based on Mark's reckoning, but not a Jubilee.