There is a concept in the Bible called the Jubilee or the Jubilee cycle. It is complicated and not everyone agrees on what it means, when the current Jubilee ends, etc., but the concept of the Jubilee comes straight out of the Bible.

God was talking to the Jews in the wilderness when He said, “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.”

“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri 10 or Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish calendar; Sept. 23 on the 2017 Gregorian calendar), in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.”

“And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
“A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you” (Leviticus 25:8-11a).

Thus, a Jubilee year is the fiftieth year of a Jubilee cycle and the Jews are required to blow trumpets on that day because it falls on Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets.

When the Temple was built, some say the Jews blew the trumpet at the end of the day on Rosh Hashanah 100 times. The 100^th blast was extra loud, extra long and it was called the Great Blast or the Last Trump.

Now, recall that I said, not everyone agrees on when the current Jubilee cycle ends, but it is not hard to find people who think that it will end at 6 pm (sunset) on the day before Rosh Hashanah (the Feast of Trumpets).

As soon as the current Jubilee cycle ends (at 6 pm on Sept. 22 this year) the next Jubilee cycle will begin (on Rosh Hashanah Sept. 23, 2017).

Rosh Hashanah means “head of the year” or “beginning of the year.” It is New Year’s Day on the Jewish civil calendar.

It always begins on a new moon. And some people believe the Rapture will be on Rosh Hashanah.

They believe Jesus will “descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,” the dead will be raised and all Christians will be changed and Raptured (I Thess. 4:16-17).

They also believe these things will happen at the last blast of a trumpet (1 Cor. 15:51-52).

In addition to Sept. 23, 2017 being Rosh Hashanah, the blowing of trumpets, the day of the Great Blast or the Last Trump, etc. some people believe another reason why the next Jubilee cycle will begin on Sept. 23, 2017 is because the British defeated the Turks and captured Israel in 1917 and then Israel captured East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount 50 years later (the length of one Jubilee).

But there is more. When Jewish soldiers captured East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount in 1967, Rabbi Schlomo Goren, Israel’s Chief Army Chaplain, stood on the Temple Mount and blew the trumpet (shofar).

Many Jewish religious leaders view that as a very significant prophetic event in the life of Israel. They believe 1917 began a new Jubilee cycle, 50 years later 1967 began another Jubilee cycle and 50 years later 2017 will begin another Jubilee cycle.

I recently heard Dr. Kevin Clarkson interview evangelist Dan Goodman on “Prophecy in the News” (https://prophecyinthenews.com/videos/dan-goodwin-prophecy-unsealed/).

Evangelist Goodman is an expert on Jubilee cycles and the author of God’s Final Jubilee.

He wouldn’t say the next Jubilee will begin on Sept. 23, 2017, but I have heard him say that if he was forced to tell what he believes, he thinks we are in the final Jubilee because it is the 70^th Jubilee.

He also said there have been:

120 Jubilee cycles (120 X 50 = 6,000 years) since the creation of Adam,

70 Jubilee cycles (70 X 50 = 3,500 years) since the days of Moses, and

40  Jubilee cycles or 2,000 years since the days of Jesus.

The numbers 120, 70 and 40 are all significant numbers in the Bible which I won’t  go into because of time, but the fact that all three of these significant numbers coincide in the same year (2017) and it is the 70^th is not likely to be a coincidence.

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It is not in the Bible, but have you heard about Rabbi Judah ben Samuel’s “Prophecy of Ten Jubilees?”

I saw a reference to it in a video that someone sent to me and decided that I should check out. I discovered that it is either an incredibly accurate prophecy or a false prophecy that was written after the fact.

In the March 2008 edition of Israel Today magazine there was an article about it.

On Nov. 14, 2012, World Net Daily published an Exclusive Report about it.

Jack Van Impe, John Hagee, Perry Stone and “Prophecy in the News” have mentioned it in videos.

Understand that one Jubilee is 50 years.

Anyway, in 1215, Rabbi Judah ben Samuel was allegedly visited by the prophet Elijah who told him, “When the Ottomans (Turks) conquer Jerusalem they (the Turks) will rule over Jerusalem for eight jubilees (8 X 50 = 400 years).”

“Afterward (after the 400 years) Jerusalem will become no-man’s land for one jubilee (50 yrs.), and then in the ninth jubilee (at the end of the ninth jubilee) it (Jerusalem) will once again come back into the possession of the Jewish nation – which would signify the beginning of the Messianic end time.”

This is what history says:

• In 1217, the Rabbi Judah ben Samuel died.
• In 1517 (6 Jubilees or 6 X 50 = 300 years later), the Turks captured Jerusalem and the “Prophecy of Ten Jubilees” started.
• In 1917 (8 Jubilees or 8 X 50 = 400 years later), the British captured Jerusalem and the rule of the Turks ended. This was exactly what the alleged prophecy said.
• During the next 50 years, Jerusalem was no-man’s land under the control of the League of Nations, the United Nations and Jordan. This was exactly what the alleged prophecy said.
• In 1967 (1 Jubilee or 1 X 50 = 50 years later), Israel captured East Jerusalem. This was exactly what the alleged prophecy said.
• In 2017 (1 Jubilee or 1 X 50 = 50 years later), the Ten Jubilees will end (on Sept. 23, 2017), Israel will possess Jerusalem and the Messianic end times will begin.

I Googled “Messianic end times” and learned that it refers to the time when Elijah will appear and the age of peace will begin.

Next, I remembered that God said: “I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord” (Malachi 4:5).

Then, it occurred to me that Rabbi Judah ben Samuel allegedly said this prophecy came from Elijah.

And I don’t know what he will do, but there is the possibility that President Trump will move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem this year (in 2017).

One more thing: On Mar. 14, 2017, it was reported that Israel has budgeted $550,000 a year to research and strengthen the connection between Israel and the Temple Mount.

This means that the Israeli government has now officially recognized that the Temple Mount is a Jewish site (not a Palestinian site).

And it is interesting that this has happened in the 10^th Jubilee of Rabbi Juda ben Samuel’s “Prophecy of Ten Jubilees.”

Each person should decide whether to believe this prophecy is true or a fake. But if the world is close to the great and dreadful day of the Lord, a powerful miracle-working prophet could soon appear.

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Daymond & Rachel Duck
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