Jubilee as a Division of a Millenium _ John Pratt

Indeed, the pattern is more than simply suggestive of the history of Adam's family. It actually puts it all onto the calendar like a schedule. Jubilees of 49 are grouped by sevens into a 343-year Great Jubilee (see Figure 2). Each set of seven 49-year jubilees is named in the same order of Planting, Watering, etc. Then three Great Jubilees are combined to for a millennial jubilee of 1,029 years. Why three? Note that the three annual festivals divide the year into three main parts. There are seven millennial jubilees which in turn are also named Planting, Watering, etc. (see Figures 3 and 4). They begin on Sun 23 Sep 4117 BC and continue for 7,203 years until autumn of AD 3086. Thus, the Garden of Eden was during Planting, the Flood during Watering, Moses during Nourishing, the first dispersion during Transplanting, Jesus came in the Meridian of Time Jubilee and told his disciples the grain fields were ripe ready to harvest (during Grain Harvest) (John 4:35), Christians during the Protestant reformation and restoration became workers in the vineyard during the Vineyard Harvest, and we are now several years into the Burning, which will be followed by the Millennium of the Olive Oil Harvest. The week-long festivals in the annual pattern become special jubilees in this larger version, each being included within a millennium. The scriptural "meridian of time" (Moses 6:62) in this pattern is the Mid-Year Jubilee beginning with the birth of John the Baptist and ending with the death of the Virgin Mary.[4] God promised that He would give us a pattern in all things (D&C 52:14) and indeed even told us that all of our days, months, and years combined are like a single year with God but not with man (D&C 88:44) (see Figure 3).