Important Dates in the Lives of Jesus and Mary 

to be). The Jubilee years are 49 years apart from one another, but the Jubilee year is the 50th year. So, if we 

count 50 sets of 49 years (50 x 49 = 2450), the last year of those 2450 years would be the 50th Jubilee year. If 

we start the count of this Jubilee of Jubilees from the Jubilee year at the Birth of the Messiah (15/14 

B.C.

), 

adding 2450 years brings us to the year 

A.D.

 2436 as the start of the 50th Jubilee year. That Jubilee year begins 

in fall of 

A.D.

 2436 and ends in fall of 

A.D.

 2437. (This counting of 50 Jubilee periods does not include the 

Jubilee at the time of Christ's Birth, for that year is the end of the previous Jubilee period.) 

    If the length of time from Christ's arrival at His Birth to Christ's arrival at the end of the tribulation is 50 

Jubilees, a Jubilee of Jubilees, then Christ's Second Coming will occur sometime during the Jubilee year of 

2436/2437, most likely during the year 2437. Does this accord with other prophecies about the future found in 

Sacred Scripture? 

    According to Saint Paul, the lawless one (Antichrist) will be destroyed by the arrival of Christ at His Second 

Coming.  And then the lawless one will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his 

mouth and destroy him by his appearing and his coming.  (2 Thess 8). Thus the arrival of Christ occurs about 

the time of the end of the Antichrist's reign. 

    According to Daniel,  Seventy weeks of years are decreed .from the going forth of the word to restore and 

build Jerusalem .  (Dan 9:24 25). A week of years is seven years; seventy weeks of years is 70 x 7 = 490 

years. The going forth of the word to rebuild Jerusalem refers to the founding of the State of Israel, which 

began in 1948. Counting 490 years, with 1948 as the first year, brings us to exactly 

A.D.

 2437 as the last of the 

490 years. Furthermore, Daniel reveals that the last week of years, the last 7 years, are the time of the reign of 

Antichrist (Dan 9:27). And what happens at the end of the 490 years?  to put an end to sin, and to atone for 

iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness .  (Dan 9:24). Thus at the end of the 490 years, and at the end 

of Antichrist's reign (the last 7 of the 490 years), Christ returns, punishes the wicked, and then establishes a 

reign of peace and holiness on earth. 

    This date for the Return of Christ, the last year of Daniel's 490 years, is exactly the year of the end of 50 

Jubilees (

A.D.

 2437) since the Birth of Christ. The Second Coming of Jesus Christ will occur in the year 

A.D.

2437. For more on the timing of these future events, see my book, The Bible and the Future of the World.

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The Messianic Kingdom 

    The Sabbath, the Sabbatical year, and the Jubilee year also anticipate the establishment of the Messiah's 

kingdom on earth. In that future time, which we Christians also look forward to, there will be rest for the 

faithful and rest for the land. Sowing and reaping will not be needed, because God will provide for His people. 

The command of Holy Scripture to the ancient Israelites not to sow or reap the land during a Sabbath (on 

which one could do no work), nor in the Sabbatical or Jubilee years, foreshadows that future time when 

sowing and reaping will never be needed. Since sowing and reaping were not needed for a whole year even 

during a time of sinfulness, these will not be necessary at all during a time of great holiness, when Christ's 

kingdom is established over all the earth (cf. Rev 20:4 6).

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 During the time of the Messianic kingdom on 

earth, God will provide for His people, just as He provided for them on the Sabbath and in the Sabbatical and 

Jubilee years. 

The First Jubilee after the Birth of the Messiah 

    The Dormition, Resurrection, and Assumption of the Virgin Mary occurred in 

A.D.

 34 (see chapter 10). The 

year 

A.D.

 34/35 was a Sabbatical year in Wacholder's chronology. The year 

A.D.

 35/36 was a Jubilee year, 

the first Jubilee year after the Jubilee year of Christ's Birth. Thus the period of time from the Incarnation and 

Birth of Christ to the death, Resurrection, and Assumption of the Virgin Mary begins and ends with a 

combination of a Sabbatical year followed by a Jubilee year. The first Jubilee period after Christ's Birth 

encompassed many important spiritual events. Important events in Christ's life, in His Ministry, and in the 

early Church occurred within that first Jubilee period. And the end of the Virgin's life on earth also fell within 

that first Jubilee. 

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