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2024-2025: an Important Jubilee Year?

By Zachaeus Shaw

At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus went to visit his hometown of Nazareth, staying to celebrate the Sabbath by worshiping at the synagogue there. Being invited to preach by the leaders of the Synagogue, Jesus picked up the scroll and read these words from Isaiah 61:1-2.

“The spirit of the Lord God is upon me

    because the Lord has anointed me;

he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,

    to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives

    and release to the prisoners,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

As Luke described the scene,

“And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.’” —Luke 4:20-21 

Jesus directly applied Isaiah’s prophecy to Himself. Through His atoning sacrifice, His resurrection, and His promise of ultimate restoration, Jesus embodies the liberating power foreseen by the prophet. 

The line that comes next in Isaiah 61:2 is “and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn”. Jesus stopped on purpose before announcing the day of God’s vengeance, because he had come to proclaim the year of God’s favor, a reference to the Jubilee… and no doubt because he knew that the time of comforting all who mourned was not yet due.  

What the people in that Nazareth Synagogue didn’t understand at the time was that Jesus would fulfill the second part of that passage at a future Jubilee, separated by thousands of years.

In Old Testament Law, the Jubilee Year is known to be the year of redemption.  Observed every 50th year, it represents a time of restoration, debt forgiveness, and community renewal as outlined in Leviticus 25:8-10. 

The passage in Isaiah from which Jesus read points to this divinely appointed period set apart for God’s gracious intervention. 

Bible scholar Rodger Young indicates that the year 2024-2025 is the 70th jubilee year since Israel entered the Promised Land in 1406 BC. Adding 1406 and 2024 yields 3430, then dividing 3430 by 49 (seven Sabbath year cycles prior to the Year of Jubilee) will yield 70. This reveals that between Yom Kippur of 2024 and Yom Teruah (or the Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah) of 2025 could be the 70th jubilee since Israel entered the Promised Land.

The feast of Tabernacles occurs the following week. The Day of Atonement (Tishri 10) is October 2, 2025, which marks the end of the Jubilee Year (2024-2025), the 70th Jubilee since Israel crossed the Jordan under Joshua. 

Let's cross-reference Daniel 12:11,12 which says,

11 And from the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. 12 How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days.

The time cycles given in these verses are a mystery to most people. 1,290 and 1,335 are mysterious numbers, not only because John says nothing about them in the book of Revelation, but also because the angel told Daniel so little. 

The 1,335 days appears to be prophetically significant when viewed as an annual lunar cycle, such as the kind used to calculate the Hebrew calendar. From the time when the Dominion Mandate was transferred to Nebuchadnezzar in 607 B.C. until the Dome of the Rock was built from 688-691 A.D. is 1295 years, or 1335 lunar years.  The Dome of the Rock is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem. 

At that point a second 1,335 year cycle began, from around 690 AD, the year the Dome of the Rock was completed up to 2025. There are 1335 days from 690 AD up to 2025. The Dome of the Rock is a type of the abomination that causes desolation.

Now recently, a South African pastor’s viral vision has stirred up anticipation — and debate — across the Christian world.  Pastor Joshua Mhlakela recently shared in a YouTube interview with CettwinzTV that he received a divine vision where Jesus told him He would return to Earth on September 23–24, 2025, coinciding with the Jewish Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah.

Mhlakela declared, “I saw Jesus sitting on his throne, and I could hear Him very loud and clear saying, ‘I am coming soon.’ He said to me on the 23rd and 24th of September 2025, ‘I will come back to the Earth.'”

I’m not predicting anything here.  But I am throwing out some data points.  Let me add one more.

Some people say that we cannot have any idea when Jesus is returning, because Jesus said:

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” (Matt. 24:36)

Yet some Christian and Jewish scholars have suggested that rather than prohibiting us from speculating on the time of Christ’s return, He was actually dropping a com which linked those words with Yom Teruah (or the Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah). This feast begins in the fall with the new moon (the first day of the seventh month, Tishri 1). Since in ancient times the appearance of the new moon could not be calculated in advance with precision (it had to be confirmed by eyewitnesses and approved by the Sanhedrin), the beginning of the feast was sometimes described as uncertain. For this reason, some teachers have drawn a parallel between this and Jesus’ words: “no one knows the day or the hour.”

Was Jesus actually giving us a huge hint, the equivalent of Aunt Margaret saying, “I’m coming to visit on a major holiday this year.  I won’t tell you which one, but...Gobble gobble, I sure do love turkey and stuffing”?

Something to think about.