As we approach the time when Jesus will set up His Millennial Kingdom on earth from a renewed Jerusalem. It is helpful to look at why and how God initially set up His nation Israel. God initially set up nations at the Tower of Babel when He confused the languages. Nations are God’s idea and they were made for His purposes. Even before the Israelites entered the Propmise Land, Moses told the people prophetically all that would happen to them including their being cast out of the land and being dispersed all over the world but God would gather them back to the land and eventually their promised Messiah will rule the nations from new Jerusalem.

Israel is God’s vehicle to bring salvation to all the world. God created Israel to be His “Kingdom” on earth. Nine times, He described the Land of Israel as His “Land”—“the place He has chosen as the dwelling place for His Name.” The covenant with Abraham is described as “everlasting” or “forever”. Israel’s rebirth in 1948 after almost 1900 years was a miracle, a miracle which Jesus prophesied in the Olivet Discourse (parable of the fig tree) as the first major sign prior to His return.

Can we build a reasonable Biblical case for the Jubilee cycles as the prophetic backbone of the Bible? Has God built the entire history of this Cosmos from its beginning to its fiery end based on Jubilee cycles? A straight forward summation of early biblical patriarchal lineages, reveals there were 41 generations which also represent 41 Jubilee cycles between Adam and Abraham and 41 from Abraham to Yeshua. How many Jubilee cycles have there been since Yeshua? Further insight is added when we consider that the book of Revelation associates the New Jerusalem with the number 144 and that the 144th Jubilee begins in the 8th year of the 8th Millennium.

The prophesied restoration of the land to Israel which began in 1948 is undeniable evidence of Biblical truth and that we are living in the last days. God revealed to all of the Old Testament prophets the future history of His nation. Even before Israel had set foot on the land God told Moses that He would drive the Jews out from the land He was about to give them because they will reject Him and His Messiah, but by God’s grace, all were shown the end of the story with a regathered people in a restored land with a descendant of King David ruling and reigning from Jerusalem.

God created Israel to be His nation to show a fallen world, separated from God, His ways, His laws and the consequences of obeying and disobeying those laws. We need to know that the laws concerning the Sabbath, Shemitah and Jubilee are extremely important to God. A major reason for Israel’s 70 year captivity in Babylon was that Israel failed to keep 10 Shemitahs. What about now is God still controlling Israel’s history with regard to the Shemitah and Jubilee? I hope this presentation will convince you that God is controlling history in accordance with His timing, particularly with regard to the Jubilee.  As well, I hope to reveal the people and events that God used and is using to achieve His purposes, for His nation Israel, exactly as prophesied.

In the Bible, God set festivals, events, and times according to the lunar calendar of 354 days. God’s timetable meant that these events didn’t line up to MAN’S way, but HIS. Man wants a fixed and predictable timetable. But God says, “Trust Me and My timing”. We will look at Israel’s Feast Days (Moedim –Appointed Times) from a “last days perspective. When God set up Israel as His nation, in Leviticus 23, He established the laws of “acceptable approach” to God which was sacrifice, there is no forgiveness for sin without the shedding of blood. In Numbers, God has Moses institute seven annual feasts. The Lord instituted His Holy Feasts as holy assemblies to remind His chosen people of how to live their lives in a manner acceptable to Him. Moreover it is also prophetic of God’s plan for His world. Israel’s Holy Days are prophetic, they represent a calendar of His Story of His Cosmos. It demonstrates God’s total control of history. Hopefully, it will strengthen your confidence and hope in our Lord for the future and enable you to endure the coming prophesied tribulation. 

As Jesus told some of the disciples on the road to Emmaus “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:27. God’s story from beginning to end is all about Jesus. This presentation seeks to show that right from the beginning God prophesied about Jesus and His battle with Satan and that He will be victorious and rule and reign the nations from Jerusalem in the land He set aside for His nation. The Millennium Kingdom is a transition period prior to the White Throne judgement and God creating a new heaven and new earth where only the righteous dwell. 

We know that Sarah’s seed was supernaturally produced by God which resulted in Abraham and Sarah producing Isaac. Moreover, we know that God challenged Abraham to sacrifice Isaac which prefigured God sacrificing His own son Jesus. Jesus was of course in Abraham’s lineage. The millennial reign of Jesus fulfills the covenant Jesus made with Abraham and all the prophecies of the O.T. prophets.

“I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:3 

The prophecy of 70 Weeks (Shabuim) is the central Biblical proof text to show that a Hebrew man named Yeshua (Jesus) was the expected Messiah who confirmed and fulfilled the O.T. promises of a coming Redeemer. We know the message the angel brought to Daniel was so important that Satan feared it and tried to prevent its delivery.

The majority of Jewish commentators interacting with Daniel 9 before 70 AD, thousands of years before the rise of modern prophecy teaching and Dispensationalism, understood that the 70-weeks prophecy is about the Messiah and the end of this current evil age. 

I hope to show that many of the stated purposes of the 70 Weeks can only be fulfilled upon Jesus’ Second Coming. There are those who claim that all the purposes must be fulfilled within the 70 Weeks and not include a “gap” period. A careful examination of Gabriel’s words to Daniel shows that God’s goals will be accomplished by means of 70 Weeks, not strictly during them: three times Daniel was told by Gabriel to seal up the prophecy until the time of the end.

The context of Daniel’s prayer was he realised Israel was coming to the end of the prophesied 70 years of captivity. Considering Jeremiah’s earlier prediction that the captivity would last 70 literal years (Dan. 9:2; Jer. 25:11-12, 29:10), it is logically consistent to also understand Daniel’s 70 weeks as a period of calendar years as well. “70 weeks” would, therefore, be 490 years, i.e. ten jubilee cycles or one “great jubilee.”

Revelation is the one book in the Bible that tells us up front “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keeps those things which are written in it for the time is near.” Rev. 1:3. Also, Revelation OPENS WITH: The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His bond-servants the things that must soon occur. And CLOSES WITH: And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. It is no coincidence the same phrase bookends Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. One of the purposes of Revelation is to explain the Book of Daniel and of course, we see Daniel quoted in the Book of Revelation. NB: 1. The pre-incarnate vision of Jesus in the Daniel and Revelation match. 2. His coming on the clouds in Revelation 1 and Daniel 7:13-14 match. 3. Most important – Revelation explains what will occur during the 70th week of Daniel, the seven years before Jesus returns to earth to rule and reign from Jerusalem.