Jubilee Question...

[Sabertooth]

"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family." Leviticus 25:8-10 NKJV

Was the Year of Jubilee considered to be Year #1 in the next Jubilee cycle or
was the following year considered to be Year #1?

If the former was true, the Jubilee cycle would have been, in practice, 49 years.
It would only be a 50-year cycle if the latter was true.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family." Leviticus 25:8-10 NKJV

Was the Year of Jubilee considered to be Year #1 in the next Jubilee cycle or
was the following year considered to be Year #1?

If the former was true, the Jubilee cycle would have been, in practice, 49 years.
It would only be a 50-year cycle if the latter was true.

Hard to say really, they never actually did it.

Usually, we'd see a rule written down, then look in the historical discourse part of the bible to see how it was applied.

Though from the text you presented, it would be a year unto itself, year 50 - not year one. After the jubilee, then begin counting 7 weeks of years again.

 

[Christian Gedge]

"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family." Leviticus 25:8-10 NKJV

Was the Year of Jubilee considered to be Year #1 in the next Jubilee cycle or
was the following year considered to be Year #1?

If the former was true, the Jubilee cycle would have been, in practice, 49 years.
It would only be a 50-year cycle if the latter was true.

Christians tend to rely on rabbinic authority when it comes to the question of whether a Jubilee is fifty or forty-nine years; it is assumed they know best. Unfortunately, the rabbis are in disagreement about it. Some are of the opinion that an extra fiftieth year must be slotted in as your verse partly suggests.

Others argue that the fiftieth year must be part of the forty-nine; otherwise the Jubilee cycle would get out of phase with the Sabbath. Divide seven into fifty and see? Try seven into one hundred? It doesn’t work! The answer is as follows: Sabbaths began 1st Abib just like every year did, but the fiftieth year was announced with a fanfare of trumpets on the seventh month of the forty-ninth year. This started on 1st Tishri, straddling the last half of the forty-ninth and the first half of the first year of the next Sabbatic cycle.

And yes, there are a few examples in the Old Testament. Anyway, here’s a diagram from the book, ‘The Atonement Clock.’

 

[Pavel Mosko]

"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family." Leviticus 25:8-10 NKJV

Was the Year of Jubilee considered to be Year #1 in the next Jubilee cycle or
was the following year considered to be Year #1?

If the former was true, the Jubilee cycle would have been, in practice, 49 years.
It would only be a 50-year cycle if the latter was true.

Hearing Messianic folks talk about it, it sounded like a 50 year cycle. Its basically 7, 7s+1 then you start again.