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The 2014-2015
Blood Moon Tetrad
What is it?
Does it mean anything???
PART 4 of 6
More Important Pieces of the Puzzle
The Significance of “8”
The Shemittah Year
The Yobel (Jubilee)
So, what about the
upcoming “eighth” set of
blood moon tetrads?
Do we know what will
happen during this cycle?
The simple answer....
NO!
However, there is a lot of
speculation out there.
Some of it is just plain weird, but some
of it is solidly based on scripture and
past history. It is worth looking at...
However, hang on
just a little longer....
Before we look at
some of the things
that “might/could” happen
during this blood moon cycle,
there are a few other big points
we need to think about...
More important
pieces to the puzzle...
th”
“8
1) Significance of the
2) The Shemittah Year
3) Yobel (Jubilee)
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The upcoming blood
moon tetrad is expected
to begin on April 15±,
th
2014. It will be the 8
such tetrad to fall on
God’s appointed times
since the Messiah.
So.....?
What is special about 8?
• In scripture, the meaning of the number 8
is “New Beginnings”…
• The eighth day was new after God rested.
There are 7 days in a week and the 8th day
is a new beginning.
• When the earth was covered with the
flood, Noah “the eighth person” (2 Peter 2:5)
stepped out to a new earth and a new
order of things. “Eight souls” (1 Peter 3:20)
passed through judgment to the new regenerated world.
What is special about the 8th?
• The first-born was to be given/dedicated
to Yahweh on the “eighth day” (Exodus 22: 29, 30).
• Circumcision was to be performed on the
“eighth day” (Genesis 17:12), because it
was the foreshadowing of the true
circumcision of the heart, that which was
to be “made without hands,” even “the
putting off of the body of the sins of the
flesh by the circumcision of Christ.”
(Colossians 2:11). This is connected with
the new creation.
• Immediately after the yearly 7-feast cycle,
after the 7-day period of the final feast
(Trumpets) God added another
day....SHEMINI ATZERET literally means
“celebration of the 8th day.” It signals a
new beginning. This 8th day celebration is
also called “the last great day.”
• The Resurrection of Yeshua is ultimately
signified when He rose from the dead on
“the first day of the week,” (Mark 16:9),
which is the “eighth” day. This was a new
day, a new beginning, for the entire world.
When the Day of the LORD
(Yahweh) comes, the old order will
be over. The reign of man will be
done and the reign of God will
begin. This is the ultimate new
beginning.
It is interesting that the next
th
tetrad is the 8 . Is this perhaps
signaling a “new beginning?”
What is the Shemittah (or Shmita)?
The Shemittah is the Sabbatical
(Sabbath) year for the land,
(shmita Hebrew: ‫שמיטה‬‎,
literally "release"). Agricultural
crops were planted and harvested
for six years, then the land was
given a rest for the 7th year.
BABYLONIAN EXILE
Israel did not observe this law for
490 years. This sin actually
determined the number of years
they would spend exiled in Babylon,
out of the land of Israel. God said
He would give the land a rest, and
counted all the Shemittah years
(490÷7 = 70 years) and exiled Israel
for exactly that amount of time.
This Sabbath for the land, however,
was more extensive than this. The
literal meaning of Shemittah is
“release.” The entire concept of this
Sabbath for the land was about
“release.” Release from debt, from
work, from sin. It was also called a
“remission” year.
RELEASE
RELEASE
When God’s remission year came
around (the 7th year), all creditors
were to remit any debt owed to them
(by fellow Israelites, not by “aliens”).
All debts were to be relinquished. Also,
any indentured servants or slaves were
to be freed on this 7th year.
The counting of years for the land
begins in the fall, on the “old”
calendar, the first day of the month of
Tishri. That day is also the fall feast
(appointed time) of Trumpets. The
Hebrew word for this day is Yom
Teruah, which is literally, the “day of
blowing.”
On Tishri 1 this year (September 15 ±,
2014) a new Shemittah Year begins.
This fall, a Sabbath year is proclaimed,
a year for cancelling debt, a year of
rest for the land, a year of freedom
from bondage.
The alignment of a Shemittah year
during this 8th blood moon tetrad....
Concidence?
Remember this, it will have bearing on the
speculation of possible events of this tetrad.
But wait....
There’s
more!
What is the Yobel (or Yovel)?
Yovel (or yobel) (Hebrew ‫ )יובל‬is the year
following the end of seven cycles of Shemittah
(shmita), or the 50th year after the 49 year
cycle. This is what we call the Jubilee Year, or
Year of Jubilee. Basically, this Jubilee year was
about the land of Israel returning back to its
original apportionment to the tribes (original
ownership) as God ordained it. There is still a
great deal of debate about whether the
Jubilee Year is the 49th or the 50th year. The
50th year was also to be treated as a Sabbath
for the land.
Leviticus 25:8-13
“‘You are to count seven Shabbats of years, seven times
seven years, that is, forty-nine years. Then, on the
tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom-Kippur, you
are to sound a blast on the shofar; you are to sound the
shofar all through your land; and you are to consecrate
the fiftieth year, proclaiming freedom throughout the
land to all its inhabitants. It will be a yovel for you; you
will return everyone to the land he owns, and everyone
is to return to his family. That fiftieth year will be a
yovel for you; in that year you are not to sow, harvest
what grows by itself or gather the grapes of untended
vines; because it is a yovel. It will be holy for you;
whatever the fields produce will be food for all of
you. In this year of yovel, every one of you is to return
to the land he owns.
The 49-Year Shemittah Cyle
and the 50-year Yobel Cycle
• One 7-year cycle, 7th year is the
“Shemittah” year of release
• multiply this cycle by 7 = 49 years
• after 7th Shemittah year, proclaim
the Year of Yobel (Jubilee) on the
50th year (on the Day of
Atonement)
Interesting from Wikipedia...
The Septuagint rendered the Hebrew
yovel as "a trumpet-blast of liberty"
(afeseos semasia), and the Vulgate by
Latin iobeleus. ... the English term
Jubilee derives from the Hebrew term
yobel (via Latin Jubilaeus), which in turn
derives from yobhel, meaning ram; the
Jubilee year was announced by a blast
on a shofar, [ram's horn], during that
year's Yom Kippur.
The year of Jubilee...
According to many scholars, the year
beginning on 1 Tishri in 2014 begins the
Shemittah year, which they say is the 7th
in a cycle, or the 49th year. Thus, the end
of that year would herald the Year of
Jubilee for the following year. According
to scripture, the year of Jubilee was to be
announced with a trumpet blast on the
Day of Atonement, which would be
September 23 ±, 2015.
Again, coincidence...?
Is the alignment of this blood
moon tetrad with the 7th
Shemittah year and the coming
of a Yobel (Jubilee year)
coincidence?
Again, as the rabbis say,
“Coincidence is not
a kosher word!”
2014-2015 Appointed Times
Trumpets
Oct 8
April 15
Nov 28
2014
2014
2013
Hanukkah Passover Tabernacles
LUNAR
LUNAR
Comet
Eclipse
Eclipse
ISON
vaporized
by sun
March 20
2015
New Year
Nisan 1
TOTAL
SOLAR
Eclipse
April 4
2015
Passover
LUNAR
Eclipse
Sept 13
Sept 28
2015
2015
Trumpets Tabernacles
PARTIAL
LUNAR
SOLAR
Eclipse
Eclipse
Yobel
Shemittah year
(Jubilee)
Proclaimed?
(Yom Kippur)
Caution....!
There is huge controversy and wide
ranging opinions as to the actual
Hebrew calendar dates. We must
remind that extreme caution is
needed when relying upon human
wisdom for date-setting. Only God
truly knows the date, and whether or
not any particular year is considered a
Shemittah, or a Jubilee year.
Caution....!
Those who advance their particular
calendars are absolutely certain they are
correct, yet wide disparity exists. While
most would proclaim this coming year to
be a Shemittah year, only God knows for
sure. Perhaps this is what Yeshua meant
when He said, “But of that day and hour
no one knows, not even the angels of
heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36)
He was speaking of His return in glory.