The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

A*--meq seventh year aas to be a rest year, but mery, ~ e t year h was to be a Jubilee yea During the Jubi-- lea car every Jewish alms was to be set free, and every*.of land returned to the original owner, or heirw. Every 5fQ-&st year the whoIe nation WMb start out free and equal, a ty-pe ot ths ?teatitationof all thinge", mentioned by St. Peter.--& 3: 21.The reasan why the Jews were sent tts-Babylon and;. rLPleir land made hlate 'for 70 years ma '%xanse it{. did not rest h your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon iV'(Leviticus 26 : 35) ; in other words, because they didFonowing that, we ahanld expect that the year 1926would be, chronologicalXy, the beginning of the anti*the beginning of the great Jubiles for dl tho nor14 -during which every 8011 of Adam, who will, may becomea free man, and return to hia fathei~ eatate, to the inheritanceof the earth, and to pariection of mind andbody. Instead of being a period of one year the mtftypewill be a @od of 1,000 years, during which GhrM .the Lord shall be King over ail the earth, (Zeehsri.h'14: 9) If this is indicated in the Pyramid, we ahodderped to find it in co~~~lection with Hia remrection,not properly observe the law in regard to the Jubilee.God had outlined a definite number of he types urtilthe anti- should come, and that number rru seventy.(2 Chronicles 36.21, Jeremiah 25: 11, 12; 29: 10;Daniel 9 : 2) Each Jubilee rpcle was 6fty Tears. Secentytinies fifty equals 3;300; 3,500 years from the timethe Jeas entered Canaan would reach to the anbtype.The children ok Israel crossed the Jordan in the rpringof 15:s B. C.,?and wen to begin to count from thatdate. Subtracting 1,575 years from 3,500 would Ienre1,925 for A. D. The year 1923, therefore, would hnva.been the fiftieth or Jubilee year of the screntieth cycle,and the last tpicd year.ascenmon and return to establish His kingdom; Itwould dso be after His special work with the Church,typified by the sudden closing of the Grand Gallery atthe south end.The north end of the Grand Galley representu thedeath of Christ and the end of the Law Covenant. (Colossians2.14,15). This occurred in the year 32.25A. D. The "well" represents the resurrection of Cbristwhich occurred three days after His crucifixion, airo inthe year 32.25 A. D. The ktitution blessings amclosely mnrected with the resu~l~ction of Christ; andtherefore the date 32.26 A. D., an indicated by the locvtion of th "well", h a logical point for a time mcammment.