Salvation in Type and Anti-type

[Martinman]

SALVATION IN TYPE AND ANTI-TYPE
This 10 page study is condensed from a much larger study​

God's entire plan of salvation is very clearly and distinctly revealed in the Bible (the King James Version of the Bible (KJV), Young's Literal Translation and the Geneva Bible). This plan is revealed in both the events to take place, and in the exact and precise timing of all these events, WHICH RELATE TO THE FIRST AND SECOND ADVENTS OF JESUS CHRIST OUR MESSIAH.


God had chosen Moses as the leader of His ancient people to preserve for the human race this precise and intricate plan, through a fifty-year cycle of ceremonies, a series of rehearsals, in the old Hebrew sanctuary system, culminating in the complete liberation of all slaves, as illustrated by the year of Jubilee (Leviticus 23-25 KJV).



Within this fifty-year period were certain ceremonies to be performed on special days, in special prophetic weeks, in specific months during the year, together, with other ceremonies to be performed only in certain designated years. This entire round of ceremonies was prophetic, typical of mysteries in God's plan of salvation.




The significance and meaning of all these ceremonies and of the exact timing of each of these ceremonies could only be interpreted by the true Interpreter, who was none other than its Originator, Jesus, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who would come at the appointed times to fulfill to the finest detail every one of these prophetic rituals.






There were seven annual feasts (Leviticus 23:4-42 KJV) requiring attendance at the sanctuary. Four were scheduled from the first new moon after the spring equinox, which was the first day of the first month of the sacred year, beginning on the 14thday of this first month (Leviticus 23:5-16 KJV), and culminating 52 days later on the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV). The remaining three annual feasts were scheduled from the new moon of the seventh month, beginning on the 1st day of the month and ending on the 22ndday of that same month (Leviticus 23:24-43 KJV).




Scattered among these spring and fall feasts were twelve special days that were designated as “Sabbaths”. These were not the Sabbaths of the Lord, the weekly 7th day Sabbath of creation, found within the ten commandments. These were specified to be Sabbaths “besides the Sabbaths of the Lord....” (Leviticus 23:38,39 KJV). They fell on different days of the week each year in a perfect 7-day sequence as they were scheduled from the new moon, as were the feasts, themselves. Paul, the Apostle, referred to these “Sabbaths” in Colossians 2:16, 17 (KJV), as a “shadow of things to come”, meaning that they were prophetic in nature, and were destined to fall on the weekly 7th day Sabbath, the Sabbath of the Lord, in the year of their fulfillment. There were also prophetic weeks used to calculate the time of the “shadow” Sabbaths leading to the Day of Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) (Leviticus 23:15,16, Exodus 34). These “shadow” weeks were calculated entirely from the new moon.






In addition to the “shadow” Sabbath days, were certain years specified as “Sabbath” years, having a perpetual seven-year cycle. After numbering seven of these “Sabbath” years, equaling a total of 49 years, came the year culminating the entire prophetic cycle, the 50thyear, known as the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25 KJV), which was also the first year in the next seven-year cycle of years.






On the Day of Atonement of the Sabbath year certain classes of slaves received their freedom (Deuteronomy 15:1, 12 KJV), while all others slaves waited until the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year to be set at liberty (Leviticus 25:10 KJV).




In contrast with the 52 days of the spring feasts, which were observed unvaried every year, the Sabbath year was especially designated as the year of the fulfillment of the fall feasts, in that there were additional ceremonies being performed during the 22 days of the fall feasts only in that year. In this Sabbath year during the eight days of the Feast of Tabernacles the law of God was taught to the men, women, children and the stranger (Deuteronomy 31:10-13 KJV). The Day of Atonement is the only fall feast with extra special significance in both years, the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year, with its greatest significance being in the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:8-10 KJV) .




The entire 50-year prophetic cycle of the old sanctuary system can only be understood by the interpretation that the Messiah, Jesus, gave through His fulfillment and teaching of the ceremonies or types related to His first advent.




By His fulfillment of the Jubilee, He divided the Jubilee prophecy of Isaiah 61 into two distinct fulfillments, “To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,” in His public ministry at His first advent, and, “the day of vengeance of our God” just before His second advent. In the synagogue on the Sabbath, the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year, 27 C.E., He proclaimed the Jubilee by reading the Jubilee prophecy of Isaiah 61:1, 2 KJV (Luke 4:16-21 KJV). He stopped in the middle of the sentence, omitting the phrase, “and the day of vengeance of our God.” He closed the book and then proclaimed, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Luke 4:21 KJV, thus the Messiah fulfilled the “shadow” Sabbath specifications of the Day of Atonement on the Jubilee year by its fulfillment on a 7thday Sabbath that year. (Also notice Bible cross-referencing for Luke 4:16-21 and Isaiah 61:1,2.)




Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, in the book, “JOSEPHUS COMPLETE WORKS,” p. 706, begins his list of the ancient Jubilee years with the year, “1787-1786 B.C.E.” and ends the list with his last recorded Jubilee year of “27-28 C.E.”




The ancient Hebrew calendar (Hillel I) begins the new year with the new moon after the spring equinox, and ends the following spring.Later, Hillel II calendar began with the nearest new moon.




In the ancient Hebrew writings is recorded an amazing prophecy made by Elijah, the prophet, regarding the advent of the Messiah in connection with the Jubilee year.


“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Elijah told Judah, the brother of Sala Hasida, 'The world will endure not less than 85 Jubilees, and on the last Jubilee the Son of David will come.” (Sanh.97b) [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581-582 (Jewish Synagogue Library)[/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]([/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]No one knows how long the earth endured from the creation of the world until man fell into sin,[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]but it would not have been much over the time of two Jubilees (a period of 98 years), as Adam's third son was born when Adam was one hundred and thirty years old[/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif](Genesis 5:3) and Abel had just been killed by Cain. [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]From the entrance of sin until the Jubilee year of 27 C.E. when Jesus started His public ministry, could have been about 4067 years or 83 Jubilee cycles, which consequently would have been 85 Jubilees after creation, fitting exactly this recorded prophecy of Elijah)[/FONT]

 

[Martinman]

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“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The sages ... reckoned the historical order and the end of time by Sabbatical Years and Jubilees.[/FONT]” [FONT=Times New Roman, serif]from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581 (Jewish Synagogue Library)[/FONT]



“[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered the land to the time they left it” (Ar. 12b). [/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman, serif]from the book, Sabbatical Year and Jubilee, p. 581 (Jewish Synagogue Library) [/FONT]



Christ's fulfillment of the Jubilee on the 7th-day Sabbath, the Day of Atonement of that Jubile year, in the autumn of 27 C.E., gives us the interpretation of the final fulfillment of the Jubilee, “the day of vengeance of our God,” Isaiah 61:1, 2 KJV, which will, also, occur on the Day of Atonement, on a 7th-day Sabbath of a future Jubilee year.



Three and one-half years after the Messiah's fulfillment of the Jubilee at His first advent, He fulfilled the spring feasts in the middle of the 70thweek of years, according to Daniel's prophecy (Daniel 9:24, 25, 27 KJV), when He offered up His life as the Lamb of God at the exact time that the Passover Lamb was to be killed on Passover.

“From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.” Matthew 16:21, Matthew 17:22,23, Matthew 20:17-19, Mark 9:31,32, Mark 10:32-34, Luke 9:21,22, Luke 13:32, Luke 18:33, Luke 24:7,8. All texts from the King James Version of the Bible.​

“But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done..... And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.” Luke 24:21, 27 KJV​

“And he said unto them, These [are] the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and [in] the prophets, and [in] the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: “ Luke 24:44-46 KJV​

In the year, 31 C.E. when the Messiah was crucified, all eight of the “shadow” Sabbaths of the spring feasts (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV) occurred on Holy 7thday Sabbaths, the first one of these eight was the day after the crucifixion when the Messiah rested in Joseph's tomb, with the last one of these eight being the day before the fulfillment of the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16 KJV and Acts 2:1,4)



“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,...And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Acts 2:1,4 KJV.



By the Messiah's fulfillment of the “shadow Sabbath” falling on the Holy 7thday Sabbath, the day after His crucifixion, He interpreted the prophetic “shadow” Sabbaths that were dispersed throughout the spring and fall feast days, showing clearly that these “shadow” Sabbaths are prophetic of Holy 7thday Sabbaths in the designated year of the fulfillment of the spring and fall feast days.



“...that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,)” John 19:31 KJV.



“High Day” was the term used whenever “shadow” Sabbaths fell on Holy 7th day Sabbaths.



He rose from the dead on the “third day”, the day that the Wave Sheaf offering was to be presented before the Lord, which always took place on the 16th day of the first month.



“And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” Leviticus 23:11 KJV.



Josephus, the first century Jewish historian, states that the Wave Sheaf offering was always waved on the 16th day of the first month.


Josephus, a renowned Pharisee; [Antiquities III, Chapter X, Paragraph 5]

"In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us called Nisan, and is the beginning of our year, on the fourteenth day of the lunar month, when the sun is in Aries, (for in this month it was that we were delivered from bondage under the Egyptians,) the law ordained that we should every year slay that sacrifice which I before told you we slew when we came out of Egypt, and which was called the Passover; and so we do celebrate this passover in companies, leaving nothing of what we sacrifice till the day following. The feast of unleavened bread succeeds that of the passover, and falls on the fifteenth day of the month, and continues seven days, wherein they feed on unleavened bread; on every one of which days two bulls are killed, and one ram, and seven lambs. Now these lambs are entirely burnt, besides the kid of the goats which is added to all the rest, for sins; for it is intended as a feast for the priest on every one of those days. But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day they do not touch them. And while they suppose it proper to honor God, from whom they obtain this plentiful provision, in the first place, they offer the first-fruits ,of their barley and that in the manner following: They take a handful of the ears, and dry them, then beat them small, and purge the barley from the bran; they then bring one tenth deal to the altar, to God; and, casting one handful of it upon the fire, they leave the rest for the use of the priest. And after this it is that they may publicly or privately reap their harvest. They also at this participation of the first-fruits of the earth, sacrifice a lamb, as a burnt-offering to God. "



The ancient Hebrew calendar, the Hillel I calendar, was used from the time of Moses and was in use during the time of the crucifixion and used until approximately the middle of the 4thcentury when the Hillel II calendar was adopted, which is still in use today, illustrated by the perpetual Hebrew calendar, “Hebcal”. Both calendars have always designated the waving of the Wave Sheaf on the 16thday of the first month.

 

[Martinman]

To summarize, then, using the Messiah's interpretation of the prophetic types or feasts of the old sanctuary system, through His fulfillment at His first advent, the following principles are evident.



He fulfilled the spring feasts within the 52-day period from the Passover to the Day of Pentecost exactly, as was illustrated by the type (Leviticus 23:5-16).



He died at the time of the slaying of the Passover lamb at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon on the 14th day of the first Hebrew month. This was the day of the Passover, the day before the “shadow” Sabbath. Passover fell on a Friday that year. Again, exactly as the type prophesied that it must.



This “shadow” Sabbath was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 15thday of the first Hebrew month, and overlaid the Holy 7thday Sabbath that year, being called a “High Sabbath”.



The Wave Sheaf ceremony which was “on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it,” (Leviticus 23:11 KJV) was observed on the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 16thday of the first Hebrew month. This 16th day fell on a Sunday that year, 31 C.E. The Messiah's resurrection fulfilled this ceremony on the exact day of the week as the type had prophesied.



From this second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, seven “shadow” Sabbaths, or seven complete weeks (or 49 days) were to be counted to reach to the day before the Day of Pentecost (Leviticus 23:15, 16). The Day of Pentecost fell on the day after the seventh “shadow” Sabbath, also, a Sunday that year. Thus, all eight of the “shadow” Sabbaths in the spring feasts that year occurred on 7thday Sabbaths.



Whenever the new moon falls on a 7thday Sabbath, all of the “shadow” Sabbaths governed from that new moon, also fall on 7thday Sabbaths, whether in the first month of the year or the seventh month of the year. All twelve of these “shadow” Sabbaths are thus destined to fall on seventh-day Sabbaths in their fulfillment.



In order for a complete fulfillment of the types or ceremonies relating to the second advent, all the specifications given in Moses' writings must be met, according to the manner in which the types relating to Christ's first advent were fulfilled by the Messiah.



This would entail a fulfillment of the fall feasts within the 22 literal days, as illustrated by the type, and as interpreted by the Messiah's fulfillment of the types relating to the first advent. All four “shadow” Sabbaths in the fall feasts must occur on Holy 7thday Sabbaths in the year of their greatest significance.



All the fall feasts within the literal 22 days have extra special significance in the Sabbath year (Deuteronomy 31:10-13). But only the Day of Atonement of the fall feasts had extra special significance in both, the Sabbath year and in the year of Jubilee, with the greatest significance being in the year of Jubilee, the year when the Day of Atonement occurs on a 7th day Sabbath.



As in the typical ceremonies, a certain class of Hebrew slaves received their freedom on the Day of Atonement of the Sabbath year (Deuteronomy 15:1, 12), and all other slaves were set free on the Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year (Leviticus 25:10), so in the Sabbath year on the Day of Atonement (a Monday that year) the sins of a certain class of individuals would be blotted out, while all others would wait until the next year on the Day of Atonement of the year of Jubilee for their complete freedom, when the Day of Atonement will occur on a seventh-day Sabbath.



Therefore, in the seventh Sabbath year, the 49th year, when the new moon of the seventh month falls on a 7thday Sabbath, all four of the “shadow” Sabbaths of the fall feasts fall on 7thday Sabbaths in the year of their greatest significance, which would be in the seventh Sabbath year and in the year of Jubilee. Therefore, this would point to the fulfillment of these fall feast days in the Sabbath year, actually, the 7th Sabbath year, which precedes the Jubilee, and in the Jubilee year, itself.



When, in the seventh Sabbath year, the Feast of Trumpets falls on a 7thday Sabbath, the first day and the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, also, fall on 7thday Sabbaths, and the very next year, the year of Jubilee, the Day of Atonement, also, falls on a 7thday Sabbath. See “Hebcal” the perpetual Hebrew calendar.



The Apostle Peter referred to the fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in the fall feasts just before the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah, when He said,



“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and He shall send Jesus Christ....” Acts 3:19 KJV.



This text refers to the blotting out of sins which was typically performed on the Day of Atonement in the old sanctuary system, the old covenant. The blotting out of sins was considered to be the “cleansing of the sanctuary”. The prophet Daniel is given a time period of 2300 days, after which time the sanctuary would be cleansed (Daniel 8:14). In many cases the time prophecies of the Bible have a literal time fulfillment, in addition to a prophetic time fulfillment. Prophetic time means that one day is taken to mean one year. (See Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6) In both literal and prophetic time this period of 2300 days would involve many years, it could not be referring to the yearly ritual service performed each Day of Atonement in the old Hebrew sanctuary, but to the specific time of the actual fulfillment of the prophetic types in the new covenant, (the heavenly sanctuary system).




This 2300-day prophecy is connected to both the first advent types, as well as, the second advent types. The angel explains to Daniel that the “going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem,” (Daniel 9:25) is the beginning of this prophetic time period. From the beginning point in 457 B.C.E. when Artaxerses, the Babylonian king's decree “to restore and build Jerusalem” went forth, a time period of 69 weeks would elapse until the Messiah (Daniel 9:25) would begin His public ministry at His first advent, and 3 and ½ years laterin the middle of the 70thweek (Daniel 9:26, 27) Messiah would fulfill the spring feasts in 31 C.E. in 52 literal days by His death and resurrection and by the Holy Ghost falling on the disciples on the Day of Pentecost.

 

[Martinman]

All of the time periods in this fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy are calculated in prophetic time, each day meaning one year. Thus, the 2300 days (2300 years) ended on the Day of Atonement, Tuesday, October 22, 1844 (Hillel I), in the middle of the typical week of years.



This was the beginning of the judgment of the dead spoken of by John, the Revelator,in Revelation 6:11 “And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season,...”




They were told to rest until the final time of trouble at the end of time.



“...until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they [were], should be fulfilled.” Revelation 6:11.



This 2300-year period was not the final fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy, although ending on the Day of Atonement, most of the specifications for the fulfillment of the fall feasts (Leviticus 23:24-39, Deuteronomy 31:10-13) were not met in that prophetic fulfillment in the year, 1844.



The following specifications as given by Moses for the fulfillment of the fall feasts that were not met in the 1844 prophetic fulfillment are:



--no fulfillment of all 3 of the fall feasts in the 22 literal days as shown in the type,



--the year 1844 was in the middle of the week of years, it was not a Sabbath year, or a 7thSabbath year or a year of Jubilee, as required in the typical service. Also the historical Jubilee had already occurred in the year 1840.



--the Day of Atonement, October 22, 1844, did not occur on a Monday as it must in the 7thSabbatical year, nor did it occur on a 7th-day Sabbath as prophesied for the Jubilee year. Nor did the Feast of Trumpets or the first day and the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles fall on 7thday Sabbaths as they must when these feasts are fulfilled in the 7thSabbath year. There was only a prophetic fulfillment of one of the fall feast days, and no type of fulfillment for the other fall feast days.



--the sins of the living individuals were not blotted out, which would result in the inability to recall previous sins, which must be the case in the fulfillment of the Day of Atonement in the anti-typical Jubilee year, when the saints will be set free from the slavery of this world and from all remembrance of their sins and delivered from all temptation.



The angel instructing Daniel stated that the “going forth” of the commandment to restore and build Jerusalem would mark the beginning of the 2300-day prophetic period, the fact that there were three separate commandments or decrees providing for the restoration and the rebuilding of Jerusalem that “went forth”, each decree issued by a different ruling monarch of the Medo-Persian realm, is very significant. Each of the successive commandments providing for the restoration and the rebuilding of Jerusalem, was given in more detail, with the third and final decree in 457 B.C.E. being the most complete.



These three decrees are recorded in the Bible. (See Ezra 1:1-3, 5:13; Ezra 6:1-12; Ezra 7:11-27)



These three commandments to restore and build Jerusalem are prophetic of three fulfillments of the 2300-day prophecy, the first fulfillment being in prophetic time (a day equaling a year) and the two remaining fulfillments being in literal days, each beginning with the “going forth” of a commandment to restore and build Jerusalem. The third and final 2300-day period will be the most complete in fulfilling the types relating to Christ's second advent.




The second fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy began unexpectedly with the “going forth” of a commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, on Friday, June 27, 1980, 2300 literal days before the Day of Atonement, October 13, 1986, in the first perfect alignment of the “shadow” Sabbaths falling on 7thday Sabbaths in the fall feasts in the 49thand 50thyears, since the time of Jesus, the Messiah. This alignment was the first of a series of several such alignments that occur only now in our day at the end of the 6000 years of human history, after which there are none occurring, even if one searches a thousand years farther in the future. (See “Hebcal”, the perpetual Hebrew calendar)




This commandment that “went forth” on June 27, 1980, via Reuters international news agency to the entire world, titled, “Basic Law: Jerusalem Capitol of Israel,” put forward by a member of the Israeli Knesset, Guela Cohen, provided for the restoring of Jerusalem as the capitol of the nation and allocated special funds for its rebuilding.. Many may remember that since 1948 when the nation of Israel was formed, Tel Aviv had been the capitol.




An integral part of the 2300-day prophecy, is the first 70-week period.



“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness,...” Daniel 9:24.




In the 2300 prophetic days, the 2300 years, the 70-week time period equaling 490 actual years reached to 34 C.E. when Stephen, the first Christian martyr, met his death by stoning and the gospel message was carried to the Gentiles, thus ending the Jewish dispensation and beginning the “times of the Gentiles.”




In the second fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy the first 70-week period was 490 literal days, ending on October 29, 1981. On that very day the Ark of the Covenant which had been secreted in a cave on Mt. Nebo since the days of Jeremiah, the prophet, was found by four amateur archeologists from Winfield, Kansas. Their leader, Tom Crotser, was shown by a dream the previous night the exact location and how to reach it. When they found it, they did not touch or disturb it. This event marked the “end of the times of the Gentiles” (Luke 21:24), when the professed Christian Church corporations were weighed in the balance of the sanctuary and were “found wanting”. (Daniel 5:27 “...weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” )




Just as the 2300 years ended on a Day of Atonement, Tuesday, October 22, 1844, so the 2300 days from Friday, June 27, 1980, reached to the Day of Atonement, Monday, October 13, 1986, a 49th year just before the year of Jubilee. This 49th year, the year of their greatest significance, the Feast of Trumpets and the first and eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, all fell on 7th day Sabbaths, In this perfect alignment the Day of Atonement occurred on a 7thday Sabbath, October 3, 1987, the Jubilee year, in which the Day of Atonement met the Sabbath specifications, in the year of its greatest significance.

 

[Martinman]

Another dramatic event took place when Pope John Paul II ended his year of Jubilee on Easter Sunday, April 22, 1984, when he closed a special door of St. Peter's Basilica, declaring the close of his Jubilee year, exactly 1260 literal days before the Sabbath Day of Atonement in God's typical Jubilee year 1987.


“Pope John Paul II closed the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. That gesture ended the extra-ordinary Holy Year of Redemption.--Kevin Castillo—AP Network News—Rome”. April 22, 1984



Quoting from the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II, given on Good Friday, April 20, 1984, he stated:




“As the Jubilee Year of Redemption draws to a close, my thoughts go out to that special land which is located in that place where Europe, Asia and Africa meet...” L'Osservatore Roman, April 30, 1984, Weekly Edition.




The Pope's Jubilee was heralded by other Churches, as well. The Seventh-day Adventist Church paper, The Advent Review of January 5th, 1984, published an article entitled, “Year of the Lord's favor—Let the trumpet sound: bells ring out for this new year—a year of jubilee. 1984”




Strangely enough, October 3, 1987, God's historical Jubilee, received no attention whatsoever by the Christian community.


The future fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy would be the third and most complete fulfillment involving the blotting out of the sins of the faithful who are alive on the earth, the beginning of the final cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, as the Apostle Peter stated, to precede the second advent of the Saviour.



“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And he shall send Jesus Christ,...” Acts 3:19



“Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.” Daniel 12:10



“...they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life,...” Revelation 3:4,5.



This future and last fulfillment of the 2300-day prophecy will begin with the “going forth” of another “commandment to restore and build Jerusalem.” This will be exactly and precisely 2300 days before the Day of Atonement in the 7thSabbath year just before the year of Jubilee, when all four of the “shadow” Sabbaths in the fall feasts will occur on 7thday Sabbaths in the year of their greatest significance. And the great Jubilee is ushered in on the Sabbath Day of Atonement of the Jubilee year.



The first 70 weeks of this future 2300 days will be marked with a major event, very likely involving the Ark of the Covenant, as was brought to our attention by its discovery during the last fulfillment of the 2300 days. This Ark containing the ten commandment law of God is destined to be the great issue in the fulfillment of the prophecies connected with the judgment of the living at the end of time. This is evidenced by the words of the Bible prophet, Jeremiah, after he and his companions hid the ark in a cave on Mt. Nebo, on the peak of Pisgah, as is indicated by his statement and recorded in the book of 2 Maccabees. This book is included in the original 1611 Edition of the King James' Version of the Bible.



“4 It was also contained in the same writing (of Jeremiah),how the prophet (Jeremiah), being warned by God, commanded that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him, till he come forth to the mountain where Moses went up and saw the inheritance of God.
5 And when Jeremiah came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle and the ark and the altar of incense and so stopped the door.
6 Then some of them that followed him came up to mark the place: but they could not find it.
7 And when Jeremiah perceived it, he blamed them, saying: The place shall be unknown till God gather together the congregation of the people and receive them to mercy.
8 And then the Lord will shew these things : and the majesty of the Lord shall appear and there shall be a cloud, as it was also shewed to Moses, and he shewed it when Solomon prayed that the place might be sanctified to the great God.” 2 Maccabees 2:4-8



The Day of Atonement that ends this last and final 2300-day period will be the day that Christ, our Heavenly High Priest begins the work of “blotting out”the sins of the living from the books of record in the heavenly sanctuary for those who have been faithful and the “blotting out” of the names from the book of life of those who have been found to be unfaithful.




Five days later, after this special Day of Atonement, on the first day of the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles, (a 7th day Sabbath), God's people will be surviving in wilderness surroundings until the end of time, as evidenced by the seven days of this feast. Seven indicates completeness and extending to the end of time. These seven days are immediately followed by the eighth day of the feast, which is also a 7thday Sabbath in this seventh Sabbath year.




The year following the seventh Sabbath year is the Jubilee year when the Day of Atonement falls on a 7thday Sabbath, and the Jubilee trumpet is blown on this Day of Atonement announcing the “day of vengeance of our God;” Isaiah 61:2. Christ stands up and declares, “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” Revelation 22:11.


This day also ends the 1260-day period or 42 months which began at the enforcement of the mark of the beast, the “abomination of desolation.” “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet”, is the warning sign given by the Messiah (Matthew 24:15). The apostle John writes of this same period (Revelation 13:5 “... power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months. .”).


This Sabbath Day of Atonement in this Jubilee year marks the end of the 6000 years of sin on this earth and the beginning of the 7th millennium, the Sabbath millennium of rest for the earth. After Christ's declaration in Revelation 22:11, He prepares to return to this earth which takes some number of days.

 

[Martinman]

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