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kp wrote:That was precisely what I was thinking. The "official" sources list 2020, 2023, and 2026 as the next years in which Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets) falls on a natural Sabbath. But the Torah describes Yom Teruah as a Sabbaton---the -on suffix emphasizing the conceptual nature of what it's attached to. Trumpets isn't described as a Shabat, however. So as far as I can tell, having the rapture fall on a Sabbath is not required, but it sure would be poetic. kp KP- Having one of the weekly shabats fall on a seven year Shmitach would be icing on the cake- no chance that it'll happen in 2019? I'm looking at the issue of the Shmitach (Hebrew: שמיטה, "release"). It is the shabat he gives to the earth. The references are all about sowing and gathering. What does it point to? The Israelites have to leave the land alone an withdraw from it!!!! "The needy will come and eat (bread of life) just as you do, and whatever is left over will be eaten by the wild animals (beast)" (Ex 23:11) We get raptured, and then the needy eat the words of the Torah on the following Sukot (the haredim and other groups know to do this, and they will after they witness the rapture) (see Lev. below). After the remaining marked people eat, the wild animals take over. Debts are cancelled, slaves set free, and the land rests. The Torah is read to the gathered people. . . The more scripture I read on this, the more it feels like rapture. Jerimiah told that the land had to lay fallow for 70 years so that it would get the rest it had been denied. In 2019, Israel will be 70 or 71 depending on the date you start it's creation. Psalm 90 also uses this number as a biblical generation. Here are the references from scripture: Book of Exodus: "You may plant your land for six years and gather its crops. But during the seventh year, you must leave it alone and withdraw from it. The needy among you will then be able to eat just as you do, and whatever is left over can be eaten by wild animals. This also applies to your vineyard and your olive grove." (Exodus 23:10-11)
Book of Leviticus: "God spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, telling him to speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come to the land that I am giving you, the land must be given a rest period, a sabbath to God. For six years you may plant your fields, prune your vineyards, and harvest your crops, but the seventh year is a sabbath of sabbaths for the land. It is God's sabbath during which you may not plant your fields, nor prune your vineyards. Do not harvest crops that grow on their own and do not gather the grapes on your unpruned vines, since it is a year of rest for the land. [What grows while] the land is resting may be eaten by you, by your male and female slaves, and by the employees and resident hands who live with you. All the crops shall be eaten by the domestic and wild animals that are in your land." (Leviticus 25:1-7)"And if ye shall say: 'What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our increase'; then I will command My blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth produce for the three years. And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the produce, the old store; until the ninth year, until her produce come in, ye shall eat the old store." (Leviticus 25:20-22)
Book of Deuteronomy: "At the end of every seven years, you shall celebrate the remission year. The idea of the remission year is that every creditor shall remit any debt owed by his neighbor and brother when God's remission year comes around. You may collect from the alien, but if you have any claim against your brother for a debt, you must relinquish it..." (Deuteronomy 15:1-6)[3] and "Moses then gave them the following commandment: 'At the end of each seven years, at a fixed time on the festival of Sukot, after the year of release, when all Israel comes to present themselves before YHWH, in the place that He will choose, you must read this Torah before all Israel, so that they will be able to hear it. 'You must gather together the people, the men, women, children and proselytes from your settlements, and let them hear it. They will thus learn to be in awe of God your Lord, carefully keeping all the words of this Torah. Their children, who do not know, will listen and learn to be in awe of God your Lord, as long as you live in the land which you are crossing the Jordan to occupy'." (Deuteronomy 31:10-13)
Book of Jeremiah: Thus saith YHWH the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: "At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee"; but your fathers hearkened not unto Me, neither inclined their ear." (Jeremiah 34:13-14)
Book of Nehemiah: "and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the shabat day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the shabat, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt." (Nehemiah 10:32)
Books of Chronicles: "...And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia; to fulfil the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had been paid her sabbaths; for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. (2 Chronicles 36:20-21)
Book of Kings: "...[Isaiah speaking] And this is the sign for you: This year you eat what grows of itself, and the next year what springs from that, and in the third year, sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit. And the survivors of the House of Judah that have escaped shall regenerate its stock below and produce boughs above." {2 Kings 19:20-30}.
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