WHAT IS THE SHEMITAH AND WHICH ARE THE CORRECT SHEMITAH YEARS?

The Shemitah year (also spelled as Shmita) is a Sabbatical year also referred to as the seventh year. It is not just any seventh year but an appointed seventh year by the Creator. Within this post, I will prove to you, within reason, the correct seventh Sabbath years or Shemitah years from the vantage point of the 6th Day War.

There are some prominent scriptures that describe the Shemitah or “Sabbath of Rest”. Here are a few for reference…

“And יהוה spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to יהוה. ‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit, but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to יהוה. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard. ‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. ‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you, and for your livestock and the beasts that are in your land. All its crops are for food.”

Leviticus 25:1-7

One of the commands that Israel were to follow once they entered into the promised land was this concept to observe the Shemitah on not only the weekly Sabbath but also the destined seventh “Sabbath year of rest” otherwise known as the Shemitah year. It was a new covenant, essentially a wedding vow to YHVH (The LORD). He was setting a standard for all of Israel to follow and obey with regards to sowing and harvesting the land.

The Shemitah Pattern Identifies with Days, Months, Years and Millennia

This concept of the Shemitah is one of the very characteristics of Elohim and a reflection of His divinity. In other words, the scriptures declare that after six days, the heavens and the earth were created. And, on the seventh day, He rested and set the seventh day apart as a divine holy day…

“Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their array. And in the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.”

Genesis 2:1-3

Again, we see this concept of the Shemitah as being set apart. Not only does it reflect the creation model of seven days, but also a literal week of seven days. We see this concept play out on the 1st day of the week, being Sunday; and ending Friday just after sunset, at the twinkling of an eye moment, when the Saturday Sabbath day of rest initiates.

The Shemitah Pattern Reflected within the Jewish Calendar

This concept is also reflected in the Jewish calendar with the first month of Nisan identified as being the beginning of the spiritual year – highlighting the feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First fruits and Shavuot. The spiritual concept and application is a representative of humbleness, sacrifice and humility. The sixth month of Elul represents Teshuvah or Repentance. Essentially a forty day countdown until Yom Kippur with the Great Day representing the propensity for judgment.

The month of Tishri is the 7th Shemitah month of rest. It is the set apart month that identifies the fall feasts beginning with Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) on Tishri 1, followed by Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) on the 10th day of the 7th month and finally Tabernacles (Sukkot) on the 15th of the month.

This concept of the beginning of Tishri identifies Yom Teruah at the twinkling of an eye moment is a highly important concept especially when applied to Bible prophecy being fulfilled. The fall feasts represent this concept of power, kingship and authority as it begins the civil new year. Notice how the 1st month of Nisan and the 7th month of Tishri seems to be at odds. One representing love, sacrifice and servitude and the Shemitah month as great power. Take notice of this concept with the following “7 Lunar Month Shemitah Cycle” image:

This concept of the 7 Lunar Month Shemitah Cycle identifies the patterns of the spring feasts and fall feasts perfectly and ultimately identifying the true Messiah. The Bible seems to identify two Messiahs: a suffering servant (Mashiach ben Yosef) who would die as a sacrificial lamb for the sins of the world and another as being a great ruler having great power and authority as King, known within Judaism as Mashiach ben David.

We Christians know that it is Yahshua (Jesus) who fulfilled the spring feast by every measure and meaning associated with those feasts, and who will in like manner ultimately fulfill the very definition and meaning of the fall feasts very soon.

Connecting the Shemitah Years, Weeks and “seven weeks” from Daniel 9:25

24“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart. 25“Know, then, and understand: from the going forth of the command to restore and build Yerushalayim until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It shall be built again, with streets and a trench, but in times of affliction. 26“And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off and have naught. And the people of a coming prince shall destroy the city and the set-apart place. And the end of it is with a flood. And wastes are decreed, and fighting until the end. 27“And he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week. And in the middle of the week he shall put an end to slaughtering and meal offering. And on the wing of abominations he shall lay waste, even until the complete end and that which is decreed is poured out on the one who lays waste.”

Daniel 9:24-27 (emphasis on the weeks)

We can see from the above scripture, that there is an absolute connection to the Jewish People, to Jerusalem, and to the weeks contained within Daniel Chapter Nine. In addition, there is a ancient mathematical formula found in Daniel Chapter Twelve that highlights the final two weeks (14 years) of man’s rule, as you will discover. I will now reveal how the Shemitah Years connect to the prophetic weeks and to the Jubilee that connects the 6 Day War to the year 2022 and beyond.

By now, you should have a firm understanding on what a Shemitah year is. But, what about a week or more precisely a prophetic week? We see from Daniel 9:24-27, that this prophetic scripture identifies weeks. The weeks in these verses identify 7 years as a week or more exactly 7 sets of 360 days/ year or 2,520 days. Here is the math…

• One Prophetic Week = 7 years @ 360 days/ year = 2,520 days with the days being lunar days and not solar days. There is very good reason for using the lunar year of 360 days/year vs the solar year of 365 days/year as I will explain later on.

So, Understand that when it says, ” …until Messiah the Prince is seven weeks…” the scripture is identifying a jubilee that is made up of 7 weeks with 7 weeks being 49 years. In this case 2,520 days per week times 7….

• Seven weeks = 2,520 days x 7 weeks = 17,640 days = Jubilee (especially if the final day of the 49th year falls on Yom Kippur)

The concept of the jubilee is not widely taught and thus many prophecy people miss the prophetic significance of a jubilee or even how to identify it.

The 7 weeks as identified in Daniel 9:25 is a jubilee per the scriptural requirements. In order to qualify as a legitimate Jubilee per Leviticus 25: 8-10, the final day of the 17,640 days would need to fall on the 10th day of the 7th month according to scripture, that being Yom Kippur or the Day or Atonement. Here is the scripture…

“And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9‘You shall then sound a shophar-sound on the tenth day of the seventh new moon, on Yom haKippurim cause a shophar to sound through all your land. 10‘And you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release throughout all the land to all its inhabitants, it is a Yoḇel for you. And each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you return to his clan.

Leviticus 25:8-10 (emphasis added)

Please see the following image, “50 Year Jubilee Cycle”. This image is a reflection of Leviticus 25:8-10. The Sabbath of years is the predestined 7th year or Shemitah. The seven Sabbaths is the 49th year ( 7 x 7) and the tenth day of the 7th month is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement when the Shofar is to be blown once. This event is known as the “Great Trump” and sets into motion the 50th Year of Jubilee precisely.

Identifying the Correct Jubilee : June 7th, 1967 to Yom Kippur 2015

I have written a prior post in order to help identify where we are on the prophetic clock. Please see The Final Seven Years to the Decree of 446 BC to the 2015 Jubilee post for a detailed explanation. Essentially, I make a logic connection of the prophetic clock being stopped when the Messiah died on Passover of approximately 29 AD after 62 weeks were fulfilled. Within the post, I identify the 7 weeks from Daniel 9:25 as the Messiah’s Jubilee being a double prophetic fulfillment of Bible prophecy that began precisely on the very day when Israel and the Jewish People reclaimed Jerusalem under their control and dominion for the first time in over 2,500 years. This is why there is a separation of the 7 weeks from the 62 weeks. The 7 weeks, being a jubilee, is the Messiah’s Jubilee from 6/7/67 to Yom Kippur 2015. A Jubilee Precisely!

So what does this mean today and how can we make further connections into the future?

Thus far, we have discovered that there is a prophetic connection to 6/7/67 with “thy people and holy city”, being the Jewish people and Jerusalem. In addition, we have learned that there is a legitimate jubilee connection from 6/7/67 to Yom Kippur 2015.

On of my theories state that the Church Age ended precisely on 6/7/67, and at that moment humanity entered the Messianic Age on that very day. As you may recall, the prophetic clock stopped when the Messiah died. Coincidentally, it began on the first day of the “7 weeks” or the Messiah’s Jubilee of 7 weeks. The Church Age would account for zero in terms of the prophetic week. So the math would be….

• 62 WEEKS + THE CHURCH AGE (0) + DAY # 1 OF THE MESSIAH’S JUBILEE = JUNE 7TH, 1967

• THUS, JUNE 7TH, 1967 WOULD BE DAY #1 OF YEAR #1 OF THE 63RD WEEK

Do you see the prophetic connection with the weeks? Do you see the prophetic significance of the Messiah’s Jubilee as being 7 weeks or 49 years? Please see the graph below titled, “The Messianic Age Graph.” You will notice this concept visualized. You will notice the weeks with a large “7”. The 7 signifies the Shemitah year of 7 and there are a total of 7 weeks, so 7 x 7 =49 years. Notice that the 49th year begins a 2,550 day cycle. This cycle began precisely on Yom Teruah 2014 and is what I call the 7th Shemitah. the ending of the 7th Shemitah ended on Yom Kippur 2015 being the final day of the 49th year and the exact start of the 50th year of Jubilee. Thus, Yom Kippur 2015 was the start of the 50th year of Jubilee.

Yom Kippur 2015 was also the exact beginning of Day #1 of Year #1 of the 70th week. Just follow the logic by studying the Messianic Age graph below…

The Messiah’s Jubilee is so profound that even the Blood Moon Tetrads seem to announce this jubilee. See my recent post, The 1967 to 2015 Blood Moon Tetrads Annnounce the Messiah’s Jubilee.

I go into great detail within my book in making some amazing connections to Yom Teruah/ Yom Kippur 2021/2022 and 2029 with the use of an ancient mathematical formula that I call the Daniel Chapter 12 Mathematical Formula. This formula once plugged into the Jewish calendar outputs just five days out of 21 years- The Jewish Fall Feast of 2021 and 2029; Shavuot 2018, Shavuot 2021 and Shavuot 2026.

For more on this ancient mathematical formula and the connections, please read my post titled, The Daniel Chapter 12 Mathematical Formula Highlighting Only Five feast Days out of 21 Years Explained.

Once you read those other posts, then you should have a firm grasp on the in total 9 Shemitah years. In the case of the Jubilee pattern within Messiah’s Jubilee, this pattern is a reflection of a lunar year of 360 days/year, in which case the first 6 Shemitahs do not begin on Yom Teruah; however, the 7th, 8th and 9th Shemitahs do. When researching this topic, I went ahead and made an image titled, “Messiah’s Jubilee +7” in order to more accurately identify these Shemitahs..

As a summary, the Nine Shemitah Years are as follows with the final three being the highly prophetic Shemitahs because they begin on the prescribed Tishri 1 or Yom Teruah:

1. The Shemitah (1st) of the 63rd week… May 1973/74
2. The Shemitah (2nd) of the 64th week… March 1980/81
3. The Shemitah (3rd) of the 65th week… February 1987/88
4. The Shemitah (4th) of the 66th week… January 1994/95
5. The Shemitah (5th) of the 67th week… December 2000/01
6. The Shemitah (6th) of the 68th week… November 2007/08
7. The Shemitah (7th) of the 69th week… YOM KIPPUR 2014/15
8. The Shemitah (8th) of the 70TH week… YOM KIPPUR 2021/22
9. The Shemitah (9th) of the Final week… YOM KIPPUR 2028/29

As you can see, there is much to these Shemitahs and even deeper connections can be made. I would like to point out the 7th in the series of Shemitahs that began on Yom Teruah 2014 and finalized on Yom Kippur 2015. I recently wrote another post titled, Connecting Jonathan Cahn’s Shemitah Cows to the Messiah’s Jubilee. I was able to make an amazing connection of these Shemitah cows that ultimately confirms the Messiah’s Jubilee along with two additional weeks acting as two witnesses. Be sure to read that post when you get a chance.

For more information and a greater in-depth explanation to what is written here, then consider purchasing Messiah’s Jubilee Book (Click Here for more information) now in paperback and Kindle e-book version for only $4.19. The Kindle version contains high definition images and graphs along with links.

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