Mike,

I have heard that 1986 was the 120th Jubilee from Adam. 2035 will be the 121st. And also that we will see the outpouring of the Spirit during the time of the 120th.
Did you know this? Or do you disagree?

J____

Hi J____,
Thank you for your questions.

The answers are, yes, I have heard of this belief of the jubilee, and yes, I disagree. The answer is that the Jubilee of scripture typifies the salvation of all men, and it has nothing at all to do with any particular physical date. Christ’s words are the spirit of God, and they have been being poured out on all who are given to receive them ever since the foundation of the church on the day of Pentecost as recorded in Act 2.

Act 2:1  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Act 2:2  And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Act 2:3  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Act 2:4  And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

These words are as much the words of Christ as any other part of scripture, and this is what Christ has to say about all of His Words.

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Since we are specifically told that Christ is our Passover and our Sabbath, it follows that He is also our days of unleavened bread, our Pentecost, our trumpets, our atonement, our tabernacles and our last great day, which is another symbol of jubilee. Christ is the fulfillment of all of the Old Testament holy days and all the types and shadows of the law of Moses.

Heb 10:1  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

Christ is “the very image… of all good things to come”.

Heb 1:3  Who [ Christ] being the brightness of his [ Father’s] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

That is our ‘jubilee.’ Yes, there are two resurrections, and those who are blessed to be in the first resurrection will rule the kingdoms of this world for a symbolic one thousand years, after which all flesh will be destroyed and all men who have ever lived will be resurrected from among the dead to be purified in a symbolic lake of fire, which will consummate in the salvation of all men and God being all in all.
But all of this must be experienced within first.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
1Pe 4:13  But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
1Pe 4:14  If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy [ are ye]; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
1Pe 4:15  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or [ as] a thief, or [ as] an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.
1Pe 4:16  Yet if [ any man suffer] as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Christ was right when He said this:

Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Mat 24:34  Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Mat 24:35  Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

So I will agree with Christ, and I will believe that it is all “near, even at the door, and will be fulfilled in this generation,” not in some distant year to come, or for that matter in a distant week or month to come.
Here is Christ’s advice to you and to me concerning the things of the future:

Mat 6:34  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [ is] the evil thereof.

The whole world ignores these words of our Lord in favor of some dispensational approach to the word of God, all of which includes some form of a ‘place of safety’ or a ‘rapture’, both being two sides of the same dispensational coin which denies that Christ’s words in Mat 24 and the book of Revelation really were “near, even at the door.” They all deny that the words written in the book of Revelation were to be kept by John and the people of His day, or that those words really were to “shortly come to pass.”

Rev 1:1  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [ it] by his angel unto his servant John:
Rev 1:3  Blessed [ is] he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
Rev 22:7  Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

I hope that all of these scriptures which tell us all not to worry about “the things of the morrow” and to “keep the things which are written” in Mat 24 and the entire book of Revelation in “this generation” will help, and that all the things of Mat 24 and the book of Revelation are “near, even at the door,” and have always been that way since the death and resurrection of Christ; I hope they all help you to avoid be ensnared by all the guesses that we are specifically advised to avoid concerning the events of the future.

Jas 4:14  Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike