The Lord's Year

[LivingWordUnity]

Hi everyone,

About a couple of months ago, I found out about the Jewish calendar and how for over 5,000 years since Old Testament times the Jews have been keeping track of the years in terms of a seven year cycle that corresponds to each day of the week. The scripture to refer to for this is Leviticus 25. The current Jewish year, 5775, started on September 24th and corresponds to Saturday, the Jewish Shabbat or Sabbath. The Jews call this seventh year a Shmita year. So for Christians, the implications would seem to logically follow that if each seventh year corresponds to the seventh day then the year after would correspond to Sunday, the Lord's Day.

But today I realized something more. Leviticus 25:1-7 talks about the Sabbatical Year. But if we read further it says that the 50th year is to be set aside as a holy year of jubilee. And the day of the week that 50th year corresponds to is Sunday. Keeping all the things mentioned in mind, one can see how in an indirect way the Old Testament actually sets aside Sunday as being a holy day. Next year is going to correspond to the Lord's Year. But the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be the Jewish year 5800 which corresponds to the Roman calendar year of 2039-2040. So 25 years from now it will be the 116th Jewish Year of Jubilee.

Can anyone tell me if there's been anything about this subject recorded in our Church tradition?

 

[LivingWordUnity]

But the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be the Jewish year 5800 which corresponds to the Roman calendar year of 2039-2040. So 25 years from now it will be the 116th Jewish Year of Jubilee.

I would be 70 years old, my wife would be 69, and our daughters would be 35 and 33 if we live to see that year.

 

[MikeK]

I don't know anything about Jewish Jubilee years, but Jubilee years (as in 50th anniversaries) of individual Catholic parishes parishes were commonly celebrated in parishes in the 1800s and 1900s in the US.

The Ford Golden Jubilee farm tractor was released in Ford's 50th year of operation (1953).

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I don't know anything about Jewish Jubilee years, but Jubilee years (as in 50th anniversaries) of individual Catholic parishes parishes were commonly celebrated in parishes in the 1800s and 1900s in the US.

The Ford Golden Jubilee farm tractor was released in Ford's 50th year of operation (1953).

Then it seems that this ancient practice of the Jews was influential with later cultures and traditions.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

But the next time there will be a Jewish Year of Jubilee will be the Jewish year 5800 which corresponds to the Roman calendar year of 2039-2040. So 25 years from now it will be the 116th Jewish Year of Jubilee.

Actually, I realized today that this was a miscalculation. The miscalculation happened because you can't find out the Jewish Jubilee Year by just choosing a Rosh Hashanah that divides equally by 50. Instead, it has to be done the way it says in Leviticus to do it. It's 49 years from the beginning and + 49 years + 49 years etc. And the day after each of those 49 years is the Jewish Jubilee Year. I'm not good at Math, but this time I got help by using Microsoft Excel along with my calculator. This time I started from the very beginning in Jewish year 1 (3761 BC) and, comparing the years to the days of the week, I kept adding another 49. And since every 49 years corresponded to a Saturday I knew that this time I was on the right track. Anyway, what I realized from it is that the first Jewish Jubilee Year of the 3rd millennium is closer than I thought. It's actually going to be 2022-2023 AD which corresponds to the Jewish Rosh Hashanah of 5783.

 

[AMDG]

Sounds like you are talking about the Shemitah AND the Jubilee. And yes, believe I HAD posted an article on Church History on the Jubilee years. (Last Jubilee year in the Church was 2000 and there was celebration--the Holy Door was opened for the year, plenary indulgences were abundant, pilgrimages to Rome for the occasion were offered, pilgrimages to shrines were done, each parish even hung a special banner showing five doves supposedly representing the world.)

Not sure of the thread title--about the Harbinger? About the signs? About the blood moons? About the Shemitah book itself?

It may have been this link:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08531c.htm

It's from the thread about what the author of the Harbinger said. Threads on the blood moon prophecy also contain information on the Biblical Shemitah.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Basically, there's a Shmita (sabbatical year) on every seventh Jewish New Year. And every 49 years there's what I will call a super Shmita. The day after the super Shmita is the Jewish jubilee year. So if a Jewish year is equally divisible by 49 it is the super Shmita. And then the year after that is the Jewish jubilee year. We know that 2022-2023 which corresponds to Jewish year 5783 is the jubilee year because the year before it, 5782, is a super Shmita. And we know it's a super Shmita because 5782 is equally divisible by 49. It is the 118th.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

One of the most fascinating things about it is how the Old Testament treats Sunday as being the most holy day.
But this is veiled because one has to first understand how the 7 year cycle corresponds to the 7 days of the week.

 

[AMDG]

I noticed that you go by the 49 years for the Jewish "Super Sabbath". Can't remember the article or book I read it in (don't know if it was in the Shemitah or in the Jewish articles I looked up explaining the Shemitah and the Jubilee years) but it seems that in the article there was a disagreement in the calculation of that Jewish "Super Sabbath" or Jubilee. Something about the 49 and then the year after was the Jubilee had some folks thinking that the calculation was actually 50.

I know that when the Church first began observing the Jubilees, it counted 50 years, but then figured that some folks would not be able to experience one at that rate so the Church lessened it to 25 years. Wonder if the next Jubilee in the Catholic Church will be in 2025 or 2050.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I noticed that you go by the 49 years for the Jewish "Super Sabbath". Can't remember the article or book I read it in (don't know if it was in the Shemitah or in the Jewish articles I looked up explaining the Shemitah and the Jubilee years) but it seems that in the article there was a disagreement in the calculation of that Jewish "Super Sabbath" or Jubilee. Something about the 49 and then the year after was the jubilee had some folks thinking that the calculation was actually 50.

Calculating by 50 throws off the correlation of the years with the days of the week. Doing it that way, instead of the super Shmita corresponding to a Saturday, it can correspond to various other days of the week. For example, the Jewish year 5800 (2039-2040 on the Roman calendar) divides equally by 50, but it corresponds to corresponds to a Wednesday and the year before it to a Tuesday instead of a Saturday. But by calculating the super Shmita using multiples of 49 you always end up with it on a Saturday. And the day after can still be considered the 50th year in relation to the previous 49. So I think that people are making an error when they assume that it can be found by dividing by 50. They are not considering the correlation that the year is supposed to have with the days of the week when they do this.

I know that when the Church first began observing the Jubilees, it counted 50 years, but then figured that some folks would not be able to experience one at that rate so the Church lessened it to 25 years. Wonder if the next Jubilee in the Catholic Church will be in 2025 or 2050.

I'm not sure about that one. Probably whatever the Church has taught about this She has not proclaimed as being infallible doctrine though.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I couldn't upload the whole Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that I worked on for this. So I condensed it and pieced together a collage of only the key parts of the timeline to show an illustration of how using multiples of 49 for determining each super Sabbath year and then the year after for the Jubilee year makes more sense in terms of the corresponding days of the week than if someone tries to determine it by using multiples of 50.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

"But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." - 2 Peter 3:8

Here's what it looks like in our time in the beginning of the 3rd millennium. Or perhaps one could call this millennium the third day.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

I got permission to bump this because of how interesting I think the topic is.

Here are images that help illustrate it:

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Each Jewish year starts in one of our years and ends in the next.

The table shows when each Jewish year begins.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Since this topic isn't directly related to politics I'm guessing that it won't attract interest.

But I wanted to give it a chance anyway.

 

[ripple the car]

I think some of the Church Fathers had something to say about this, a little.

Sabbath or Sunday? | Catholic Answers

There's a comparison of the First Day with a type of eighth day, too.