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Was Christ supposed to return in 2017?

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Leading up to the year 2017, the date-setters were at it once again. Although Jesus told us that no ane knows when He will return (Matthew 24:36–44), some people insisted on making predictions concerning the timing of the rapture and/or the 2nd coming. Ane theory was that Jesus would return in 2017, based on the thought that 2017 was a Jubilee Year and His return would fulfill a medieval rabbi'due south prophecy.

To understand the now-defunct theory, we must know what a Jubilee was. Leviticus 25:9 says a year of jubilee was to be observed later seven cycles of vii years (49 years total). This fiftieth yr was a time of celebration and rejoicing for the Israelites. A ram's horn was blown on the 10th day of the seventh month to first a year of universal redemption. The Year of Jubilee involved a release from indebtedness (Leviticus 25:23–38) and from all types of bondage (verses 39–55). Every convict was prepare free, slaves were released, debts were forgiven, and lands and properties were returned to the families of the original owners. In addition, all labor was to cease for that year, and those jump by labor contracts were released from their obligations. The Year of Jubilee was similar to a breather year (or shemittah) in that fields and vineyards were left fallow (verses 4–7). During the Jubilee both the land and the people had rest.

The idea that Jesus volition return during a Year of Jubilee comes from some calculations made by Rabbi Judah ben Samuel in AD 1217. According to the rabbi, at that place would be a certain number of Jubilees from ben Samuel'south fourth dimension until the messianic kingdom would brainstorm. The year 2017 was said to be the end of that predicted period; thus, some people looked for Jesus' return during Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles) in 2017 (October iv–11). They believed that at that fourth dimension the Messiah would return to give His people residual and crusade great jubilation among His redeemed.

There were some problems with this theory, too the fact that it did not come to pass. Ane problem was based on the Mosaic Law. Leviticus 25:10 says, "Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom throughout the land to all its inhabitants." The "land" here is Israel, and "all its inhabitants" are those living within Israel's borders. The Jewish interpretation of this command has ever said that the Jubilee is but observed when the twelve tribes of Israel are in their land and home in their allotted territories. Later the northern tribes were deported by Assyria in 722 BC, the observance of the Jubilee law ceased, and it has never been resumed.

Likewise, there was no way to be certain that 2017 was an actual Year of Jubilee. And, even if it were, information technology would not signal the render of Christ. Co-ordinate to some Jewish sources, no commemoration of Jubilee is in order when at that place is no Sanhedrin—and there has not been a Sanhedrin since the destruction of the second temple in AD 70. In ancient times, the Jubilee Twelvemonth began with the Sanhedrin's boom of the shofar (ram'due south horn).

Some other trouble with the theory that Jesus would return in 2017 to gear up upwardly His kingdom was that the Bible says the kingdom will exist preceded by a vii-yr tribulation in which God's judgments are poured out on the earth. Paul tells us not to be deceived; before the coming of the Lord there must kickoff be a groovy apostasy, then the Restrainer must exist taken out of the mode, and and then the homo of sin (the Antichrist) will be revealed (2 Thessalonians 2:3–8). Unless we all somehow missed the tribulation, the Antichrist's reign of terror, and the return of Christ, then 2017 was not the correct date.

The rapture of the church could occur in a few days—or in a few years or in a few centuries. The fact is we don't know. The important thing is to be ready when Jesus comes. Make sure yous are in Christ, and "keep lookout man, because you do not know the day or the hour" (Matthew 25:13).

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