List of Jubilee Years

Countdown to Jubilee

God commanded ancient Israel, prior to celebrating a Jubilee, to observe every seventh year as a Sabbatical period. These unique and holy times, which likely started on Tishri 1, were also known as land Sabbaths (see Leviticus 25:6, 2Chronicles 36:21) or years of release (Deuteronomy 15:1 - 2, 31:10).

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(God speaking to Moses) "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall sow your field six years . . .

"'But in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of rest to the land, a Sabbath for the Lord . . .'" (Leviticus 25:2 - 4, HBFV throughout).

Seven sets of seven years, which included seven Sabbaticals, were then to be observed before a Jubilee year could be declared.

And you shall number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be forty-nine years to you (Leviticus 25:8).

The Jubilee was declared after this set of 49 years. It began on Tishri 10 (the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur) and ran to the next Day of Atonement.

Then you shall cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the Day of Atonement, the trumpet shall sound throughout all your land. And you shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you . . . (Leviticus 25:9 - 10, HBFV).

Jubilee Years Before Christ

Below is a list of Jubilee years that took place roughly 1,000 years before the birth of Christ.

Jubilee Years
B.C.

Jesus' Declaration

Jesus' ministry began on September 11 (911) in 26 A.D. on the Day of Atonement. This day was the start of a Jubilee period as evidenced by the fact that Christ, a few months later, quoted Isaiah 61:1 - 2 (Luke 4:18 - 19). This quote, which the Lord applied to himself, contains the phrase "to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." This phrase is a reference to the Jubilee.

And there was given Him (Jesus) the book of the prophet Isaiah; and when He had unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; for this reason, He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor;

"He has sent Me to heal those who are brokenhearted, to proclaim pardon to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth in deliverance those who have been crushed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." . . .

Today, this scripture is being fulfilled in your ears . . . (Luke 4:17 - 19, 21).

Jubilee Years Since Jesus' Birth

Below is a list of Jubilees from Jesus' time to the present. Please note that each of these are also considered the first year in the count of the next seven-year Sabbatical cycle (Appointed Times of Jesus the Messiah, chapter 2, page 32).

First Ten
Jubilee Years A.D.

Jubilee Years
500 A.D. to Today

Future Jubilee Years

Sunset October 12, 2035
to Sunset October 1, 2036
(Hebrew civil year (HCY) 5796)

Sunset October 8, 2084
to Sunset September 29, 2085
(HCY 5845)

Sunset October 9, 2133
to Sunset September 29, 2134
(HCY 5894)

Sunset October 6, 2182
to Sunset September 27, 2183
(HCY 5943)

Sunset October 7, 2231
to Sunset September 26, 2232
(HCY 5992)

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