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Shemitah Cycle: Year of Liberty
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| Mark, what does the Bible tell us about the importance of the seventh year? | |
| Well, that seventh year is what is known as the Shemitah cycle. | |
| But I believe the seventh year is a time of testing to get you ready for the next seven years. | |
| In the book of Jeremiah, they had not kept the Shemitah cycle for 490 years. | |
| The land was supposed to rest every seven years. | |
| For 70 times, the land never got to rest. | |
| That's why they were in Babylon for 70 years. | |
| So the land could rest that it didn't get the 490 years past. | |
| Well, guess what? | |
| They could have avoided this. | |
| At the Shemitah year, right before the temple was destroyed, they had finally let everyone free. | |
| They released everyone from their burdens, their slavery, their indebtedness. | |
| But then what happened? | |
| This is what is mind-blowing. | |
| Nebuchadnezzar is besieging Jerusalem. | |
| Well, Egypt comes to help Israel. | |
| So Babylon leaves, and Israel gave all the credit to Babylon leaving to Egypt and not to God. | |
| And they turned around and put everyone back into captivity in that Shemitah year. | |
| So God says, okay, I will proclaim liberty. | |
| Now, this is significant. | |
| He's saying, I will proclaim liberty. | |
| But this time it's liberty to the sword and to death. | |
| And all that took place the first year of the next Shemitah cycle is when the temple was destroyed. | |
| It's all about proclaiming liberty. | |
| Now, let me bring this up. | |
| We know that it is always in the Shemitah cycle when liberty is proclaimed. | |
| But I want to talk for a minute about the year of Jubilee. | |
| This is so important. | |
| The Lord in Isaiah, he's quoting Isaiah where he's proclaiming liberty to the captives when he began his ministry. | |
| Now, I believe that more than likely was a Shemitah cycle, not necessarily the year of Jubilee, but it says in Leviticus 25, you can only proclaim the year of Jubilee on Yom Kippur. | |
| Very significant. | |
| If you would go to the next slide, and you're back to that slide, and I'm going to blow you away. | |
| I want you to notice that, like I said, those lunar, solar, lunar eclipses was a one-week warning before the next seven-year cycle begins. | |
| In, look at this, 2022, 2023. | |
| That's next year. | |
| Do you know the same four blood moons appeared in 1966, 1967 before the next Shemitah cycle began, which was 1973? | |
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Year of Jubilee Mystery
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| Now, again, listen to this. | |
| You can only proclaim the year of Jubilee on Yom Kippur. | |
| Well, what do we know about 73? | |
| That was the Yom Kippur War. | |
| I believe that was the year of Jubilee. | |
| And if you go 50 years, it takes you exactly to 2022, 2023, because the year of Jubilee isn't a separate year. | |
| The year of Jubilee is just the first year of the next seven-year cycle. | |
| All they have is seven-year cycles. | |
| They don't have extra years thrown in. | |