The 2014-2015 Blood Moon Tetrad What is it? Does it mean anything??? PART 4 of 6 More Important Pieces of the Puzzle The Significance of 8 The Shemittah Year The Yobel (Jubilee)
So, what about the upcoming eighth set of blood moon tetrads? Do we know what will happen during this cycle?
The simple answer... NO! However, there is a lot of speculation out there. Some of it is just plain weird, but some of it is solidly based on scripture and past history. It is worth looking at...
However, hang on just a little longer... Before we look at some of the things that might/could happen during this blood moon cycle, there are a few other big points we need to think about...
More important pieces to the puzzle... 1) Significance of the 8 th 2) The Shemittah Year 3) Yobel (Jubilee)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The upcoming blood moon tetrad is expected to begin on April 15±, 2014. It will be the 8 th such tetrad to fall on God s appointed times since the Messiah. So...?
What is special about 8? In scripture, the meaning of the number 8 is New Beginnings The eighth day was new after God rested. There are 7 days in a week and the 8th day is a new beginning. When the earth was covered with the flood, Noah the eighth person (2 Peter 2:5) stepped out to a new earth and a new order of things. Eight souls (1 Peter 3:20) passed through judgment to the new regenerated world.
What is special about the 8 th? The first-born was to be given/dedicated to Yahweh on the eighth day (Exodus 22: 29, 30). Circumcision was to be performed on the eighth day (Genesis 17:12), because it was the foreshadowing of the true circumcision of the heart, that which was to be made without hands, even the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ. (Colossians 2:11). This is connected with the new creation.
Immediately after the yearly 7-feast cycle, after the 7-day period of the final feast (Trumpets) God added another day...shemini ATZERET literally means celebration of the 8 th day. It signals a new beginning. This 8 th day celebration is also called the last great day. The Resurrection of Yeshua is ultimately signified when He rose from the dead on the first day of the week, (Mark 16:9), which is the eighth day. This was a new day, a new beginning, for the entire world.
When the Day of the LORD (Yahweh) comes, the old order will be over. The reign of man will be done and the reign of God will begin. This is the ultimate new beginning. It is interesting that the next tetrad is the 8 th. Is this perhaps signaling a new beginning?
What is the Shemittah (or Shmita)? The Shemittah is the Sabbatical (Sabbath) year for the land, (shmita Hebrew: הטימש, literally "release"). Agricultural crops were planted and harvested for six years, then the land was given a rest for the 7 th year.
BABYLONIAN EXILE Israel did not observe this law for 490 years. This sin actually determined the number of years they would spend exiled in Babylon, out of the land of Israel. God said He would give the land a rest, and counted all the Shemittah years (490 7 = 70 years) and exiled Israel for exactly that amount of time.
This Sabbath for the land, however, was more extensive than this. The literal meaning of Shemittah is release. The entire concept of this Sabbath for the land was about release. Release from debt, from work, from sin. It was also called a RELEASE remission year.
RELEASE When God s remission year came around (the 7 th year), all creditors were to remit any debt owed to them (by fellow Israelites, not by aliens ). All debts were to be relinquished. Also, any indentured servants or slaves were to be freed on this 7 th year.
The counting of years for the land begins in the fall, on the old calendar, the first day of the month of Tishri. That day is also the fall feast (appointed time) of Trumpets. The Hebrew word for this day is Yom Teruah, which is literally, the day of blowing. On Tishri 1 this year (September 15 ±, 2014) a new Shemittah Year begins.
This fall, a Sabbath year is proclaimed, a year for cancelling debt, a year of rest for the land, a year of freedom from bondage. The alignment of a Shemittah year during this 8 th blood moon tetrad... Concidence? Remember this, it will have bearing on the speculation of possible events of this tetrad.
But wait... There s more!
What is the Yobel (or Yovel)? Yovel (or yobel) (Hebrew (יובל is the year following the end of seven cycles of Shemittah (shmita), or the 50 th year after the 49 year cycle. This is what we call the Jubilee Year, or Year of Jubilee. Basically, this Jubilee year was about the land of Israel returning back to its original apportionment to the tribes (original ownership) as God ordained it. There is still a great deal of debate about whether the Jubilee Year is the 49 th or the 50 th year. The 50 th year was also to be treated as a Sabbath for the land.
Leviticus 25:8-13 You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, that is, forty-nine years. Then, on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the shofar all through your land; and you are to consecrate the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone is to return to his family. That fiftieth year will be a yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended vines; because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you; whatever the fields produce will be food for all of you. In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return to the land he owns.
The 49-Year Shemittah Cyle and the 50-year Yobel Cycle One 7-year cycle, 7 th year is the Shemittah year of release multiply this cycle by 7 = 49 years after 7 th Shemittah year, proclaim the Year of Yobel (Jubilee) on the 50 th year (on the Day of Atonement)
Interesting from Wikipedia... The Septuagint rendered the Hebrew yovel as "a trumpet-blast of liberty" (afeseos semasia), and the Vulgate by Latin iobeleus.... the English term Jubilee derives from the Hebrew term yobel (via Latin Jubilaeus), which in turn derives from yobhel, meaning ram; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on a shofar, [ram's horn], during that year's Yom Kippur.
The year of Jubilee... According to many scholars, the year beginning on 1 Tishri in 2014 begins the Shemittah year, which they say is the 7 th in a cycle, or the 49 th year. Thus, the end of that year would herald the Year of Jubilee for the following year. According to scripture, the year of Jubilee was to be announced with a trumpet blast on the Day of Atonement, which would be September 23 ±, 2015.
Again, coincidence...? Is the alignment of this blood moon tetrad with the 7 th Shemittah year and the coming of a Yobel (Jubilee year) coincidence? Again, as the rabbis say, Coincidence is not a kosher word!
Trumpets 2014-2015 Appointed Times Nov 28 2013 Hanukkah Comet ISON vaporized by sun April 15 2014 Passover LUNAR Eclipse Oct 8 2014 Tabernacles LUNAR Eclipse March 20 2015 New Year Nisan 1 TOTAL SOLAR Eclipse April 4 2015 Passover LUNAR Eclipse Shemittah year Sept 13 2015 Trumpets PARTIAL SOLAR Eclipse Sept 28 2015 Tabernacles LUNAR Eclipse Yobel (Jubilee) Proclaimed? (Yom Kippur)
Caution...! There is huge controversy and wide ranging opinions as to the actual Hebrew calendar dates. We must remind that extreme caution is needed when relying upon human wisdom for date-setting. Only God truly knows the date, and whether or not any particular year is considered a Shemittah, or a Jubilee year.
Caution...! Those who advance their particular calendars are absolutely certain they are correct, yet wide disparity exists. While most would proclaim this coming year to be a Shemittah year, only God knows for sure. Perhaps this is what Yeshua meant when He said, But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. (Matthew 24:36) He was speaking of His return in glory.