- Is there not an appointed time
to man upon earth?
are not his days also like the days of an hireling? Job 7.1
We have written an earlier article called The Coming Jubilee, which outlined some interesting prophetic features of the biblical idea, "the year of jubilee'".
In that article we stated :
The Jubilee is a celebration to take
place on the 50th year after Israel came into the Land.
The Jubilee Year for the Nation of
Israel is 1997. The state of Israel came into being in 1948, 1998 will
be the 50th anniversary but 1997 is the 50th year,
the Year of Jubilee!.
The 1996/97 jubilee year is when Israel is celebrating Jerusalem 3000, commemorating the 3000th year since David took the city. [David recaptured the city as Joshua had taken it earlier.] Consider David as a type of Messiah and Jerusalem as a type of the Church and this speaks of Christ coming to His Church. It is a foreshadowing of revival.
Jubilee is a type of revival! The Jubilee represents the End times, a time of revival.
The 1996/97 jubilee year is also the 2000th anniversary of the Birth of Jesus, given the most probable date of 5 B. C.; on the feast of tabernacles or there about.
The 1996/97 jubilee year must also mark the beginning of the new millenium. It is the start of the 7th thousand year period in God's creation. It is the 7th day of his week, spoken prophetically as the 7th day and also as the 3rd day. The 3rd day since Jesus birth.
2 Aspects in the prophetic
The Jubilee has two other overlooked
prophetic aspects relating to the end times. The Holy Spirit led me to
them by raising my curiosity about a particular phrase that occurs in Isaiah
in a couple places. That phrase is 'the years of an hireling'. [also days
of an hireling or time of an hireling or hired servant]
Isaiah 16:14 But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubilee:
And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. Leviticus 25:39-41
Now the prophetic element here, in the bold text, is thus. A hired servant shall serve until the year of jubilee, and then he shall depart. In other words the hireling will depart during the year of jubilee.
But all this is meaningless until you consider the New Testament context or usage of the term hireling!
The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. John 10:12-13
We see the false shepherds [hirelings] spoken of in these passages:
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them. Ezekiel 34:9-10
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. Jeremiah 12:10
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jeremiah 3:12-15
The Field Shall Return ...
Now while researching the phrase 'years
of an hireling' I came to this verse in Job.
But prophetically this is saying is that the time of man's rule upon earth will come to an end!
The Millennium
The time of man on the earth is the
6000 years of man's time to rule. Then the land returns to its original
owner, God. Since this takes place, or begins to take place in the year
of jubilee, the jubilee is the beginning of the Kingdom of God on
the earth. And therefore, the jubilee is the beginning of the millennial
reign of the Lord Jesus Christ. And since these events will happen before
Jesus' Second Coming, the Second Coming takes place during the millenium,
not before it. As it says in Exodus, where the third day speaks of the
millenium:
[See The Third Day in Prophecy by Bill Somers]
Solomon vs. Adonaijah [1 Kings 1]
Kind Solomon was anointed and proclaimed king while his half brother, Adonijah was ruling. Here Solomon is a type of Christ and Adonijah a type of antichrist. Both begin to reign about the same time, yet Solomon prevails and Adonijah is destroyed.
Joash vs. Athaliah [2 Kings 11:1-16]
In this story from 2nd Kings, Joash is a type of Christ and Athaliah a type of Satan.
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son. 2 Kings 11:1-4
And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, God save the king. 2 Kings 11:12
A similar case is seen in the new testament in Revelation 11
But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. Revelation 11:1-2
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. Isaiah 60:1-2
Again this takes place, or begins to take place in the year of jubilee. It is the beginning of the thousand year reign of Christ. Those who overcome satan as he did will join Him, ruling and reigning in heavenly places.