www.ServantofMessiah.org Daniels 70 weeks and 2 possible outcomes When God created the earth He defined the weekly clock. He worked six days and rested the seventh. God named the seventh day the Sabbath. Every week since creation has followed the same pattern of six days for work followed by one day for rest. God applied the same pattern to a week of seven years. He told the children of Israel to plant and to harvest their land for six years and then let the land rest the seventh year. He called the seventh year a Sabbath. It is also called a sabbatical. The week of seven years is called a sabbatical cycle.
For the land shall be abandoned by them, and shall l make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them. They, meanwhile, shall be making amends for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and their soul abhorred My statutes (Lev. 26:43). The Hebrew Bible according to the Jewish canon ends with the book of Chronicles. The Judeans were exiled was to allow the land to enjoy its Sabbath rest - "until seventy years have gone by, it will keep Sabbath throughout the days of its desolation." (2 Chr 36:21).
The verse implies that during the reign of the Israelite A third time scale for the weekly pattern is 7,000 years. kings from David onwards (1,050 BC to 587 BC) the For almost 6,000 years the earth has been corrupted by land of Israel had never enjoyed its sabbatical year as sin. Then the earth will have a Sabbath rest for 1,000 commanded by Moses in the book of Leviticus . years in the millennial reign.
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Seven sabbaticals brought God’s people to the Jubilee to bring restoration to His people and to their land. God’s Sabbath Years are Important The children of Israel were not faithful to God. For 490+ years they refused to allow their land to rest during the Sabbaticals. For 70 land Sabbath years the land was not allowed its Sabbath rest. Because of their disobedience, God allowed the children of Israel to be taken captive to Babylon for 70 years. While they were in Babylon the land back in Canaan enjoyed its 70 Sabbath years of rest.
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For about 490 years from David's reign to the exile, the land was farmed continually until it was long overdue for a Sabbath rest, in fact up to 70 years. Why did the Israelite kings refuse to obey the law of Sabbath rest for the land which is enjoined upon them every seven years? It is purely economics. It is just not economical to let the land lie fallow for a period of one year when harvests can be gathered year in and year out. In short, they would suffer financially and materially. They did not keep the land Sabbaths so God arranged for the land to rest, while they were in Babylon.
Leviticus 26 provides the sanctions that God would impose upon His nation for the years that Israel did not obey the specifications of a sabbatical year. So in 606 BC Babylon invades the land and takes captives and installs a vassal king in Jerusalem. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of the Nineteen years (19 years) go past and Jeremiah tells desolation, while you are in your enemies’ land; the king people that Babylon is Gods tool and judgment then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. All and they are to repent. the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your Sabbaths, while you were Jer 37:1 And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in living on it (Lev. 26:34-35). place of Coniah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah. P.O. Box 39082 Lakewood WA 98496
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