Jim Bakker Show - What is the Importance of the 7th Year - Mark Biltz
Aired: 2021-05-31
Duration: 03:38


=== Shemitah Cycle: Year of Liberty (03:11) ===

[00:00:00]  Mark, what does the Bible tell us about the importance of the seventh year?
[00:00:05]  Well, that seventh year is what is known as the Shemitah cycle.
[00:00:10]  But I believe the seventh year is a time of testing to get you ready for the next seven years.
[00:00:17]  In the book of Jeremiah, they had not kept the Shemitah cycle for 490 years.
[00:00:24]  The land was supposed to rest every seven years.
[00:00:29]  For 70 times, the land never got to rest.
[00:00:32]  That's why they were in Babylon for 70 years.
[00:00:36]  So the land could rest that it didn't get the 490 years past.
[00:00:41]  Well, guess what?
[00:00:43]  They could have avoided this.
[00:00:45]  At the Shemitah year, right before the temple was destroyed, they had finally let everyone free.
[00:00:52]  They released everyone from their burdens, their slavery, their indebtedness.
[00:00:58]  But then what happened?
[00:00:59]  This is what is mind-blowing.
[00:01:01]  Nebuchadnezzar is besieging Jerusalem.
[00:01:05]  Well, Egypt comes to help Israel.
[00:01:09]  So Babylon leaves, and Israel gave all the credit to Babylon leaving to Egypt and not to God.
[00:01:17]  And they turned around and put everyone back into captivity in that Shemitah year.
[00:01:22]  So God says, okay, I will proclaim liberty.
[00:01:26]  Now, this is significant.
[00:01:28]  He's saying, I will proclaim liberty.
[00:01:30]  But this time it's liberty to the sword and to death.
[00:01:34]  And all that took place the first year of the next Shemitah cycle is when the temple was destroyed.
[00:01:41]  It's all about proclaiming liberty.
[00:01:44]  Now, let me bring this up.
[00:01:46]  We know that it is always in the Shemitah cycle when liberty is proclaimed.
[00:01:53]  But I want to talk for a minute about the year of Jubilee.
[00:01:57]  This is so important.
[00:02:00]  The Lord in Isaiah, he's quoting Isaiah where he's proclaiming liberty to the captives when he began his ministry.
[00:02:09]  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.
[00:02:26]  Very significant.
[00:02:27]  If you would go to the next slide, and you're back to that slide, and I'm going to blow you away.
[00:02:34]  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.
[00:02:48]  In, look at this, 2022, 2023.
[00:02:52]  That's next year.
[00:02:53]  Do you know the same four blood moons appeared in 1966, 1967 before the next Shemitah cycle began, which was 1973?

=== Year of Jubilee Mystery (00:42) ===

[00:03:05]  Now, again, listen to this.
[00:03:07]  You can only proclaim the year of Jubilee on Yom Kippur.
[00:03:12]  Well, what do we know about 73?
[00:03:14]  That was the Yom Kippur War.
[00:03:16]  I believe that was the year of Jubilee.
[00:03:19]  And if you go 50 years, it takes you exactly to 2022, 2023, because the year of Jubilee isn't a separate year.
[00:03:29]  The year of Jubilee is just the first year of the next seven-year cycle.
[00:03:34]  All they have is seven-year cycles.
[00:03:36]  They don't have extra years thrown in.