70 Jubilees, Multiple Fulfillments of Jeremiah 25 and Daniel 9 and Judgment / Rapture in 2024–2025

Daniel Larimer
9 min readApr 1, 2024

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I read and comment on this post in a youtube video that you can watch here.

This post reviews the scriptural evidence for the prophecies of Jeremiah and Daniel and the Rapture falling on the 70th Jubilee based upon new insights into Jeremiah 25, the very verse Daniel was reading when he started praying and ultimately received the vision for his “70 weeks” prophecy.

I contend, and will demonstrate, that while most people consider Jeremiah’s 70 years prophecy until the fall of Babylon to be complete, I believe there is far more to this prophecy and that he actually meant 70 Jubilees or both “years” and “jubilees” at the same time in different ways.

YHVH gives precise prophecies that don’t require interpreting subjective signs like “wars and rumors” or “earthquake frequency”. Daniel expected the fall of Babylon because he read the Prophet Jeremiah, likewise I believe we can know exactly what year to expect the judgment and rapture assuming we can accurately date the crossing of the Jordan river into the land. I believe this is fall of 2024, so not much time to prepare yourself!

“Daniel, understood from the books the number of years which, according to the word of YHVH to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the desolations [which had been] pronounced on Jerusalem would end; and it was seventy (70) years.” Daniel 9:2

I was reading Jeremiah and ran across the same text that Daniel read, except I noticed something huge that adds strength to my interpretation of Daniel’s 70 “7s” as Jubilee. Here is what Jeremiah actually said:

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years (70 periods/cycles/jubilees) are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon(the Great), and that nation, saith YHVH, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. — Jeremiah 25:12–13

Three things stood out that implied to me that Daniel’s interpretation was just one of two or more valid and simultaneous interpretations of this passage. In fact, Daniel 9:24 might be nothing more than a clarification from the angel of Daniel’s reading of Jeremiah.

  1. 70 years or cycles or jubilees will pass before YHVH passes judgment
  2. The judgment includes everything in the book of Jeremiah (therefore Babylon the Great)
  3. The judgment is against all of the nations.

It was the scope of the judgment at the end of 70 “years” that clued me into the fact that “years” could have multiple meanings. From blueletterbible.org,

That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 1:9

The bible is full of examples where history repeats multiple times and at various scales. Sometimes a story involving two literal days will repeat involving two days as two thousand years. Sometimes the feast of weeks which is measured in 49 literal days is symbolic of the 49 years until the Jubilee in the 50th year.

At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision. — Daniel 9:23

Seventy weeks (“multiple sevens”, N “groups of 7”) are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city (land), to finish the transgression (rebellion), and to make an end of sins (sacrifice for sins), and to make reconciliation for iniquity (Yeshua), and to bring in everlasting righteousness(rapture), and to seal up(complete) the vision and prophecy (end of millennial reign), and to anoint the most Holy. — Daniel 9:24

Notice the difference in the Hebrew characters used for seventy vs seven vs “sevens”. Daniel 9 uses the masculine form of the word twice with the only difference being the vowel points, the vowel points being added much later. So Daniel could be saying 70 * 70 years or he could be saying 70 * 7 * (7 years), aka 70 Jubilees, or he could be saying both at the same time!

Let’s look at some other translations that drive this home:

“Seven times seventy years is the length…” — Good News Translation
“Seventy sets of seven time periods (“of 7 or10”)… “ — GOD’s WORD Translation
““Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed…” — NIV (note the single quotes to highlight odd language)

During this 70 x (N groups of Seven) a lot must happen:

  1. Finish transgression (End the rebellion, not done yet)
  2. Atonement for sin (Yeshua, complete)
  3. Bring in everlasting righteousness ( Rapture, soon )
  4. Complete/Finish/Seal Up the Vision of Prophets (Judgment day and/or Millennial reign)
  5. Anoint the Most Holy (King of Kings)

Now let’s revisit Jeremiah

And it shall come to pass, when seventy years (70 periods/cycles) are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith YHVH, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. — Jeremiah 25:12–13

This means that Jeremiah’s 70 years and Daniel’s 70 x (N x 7) are covering the same period of time because Jeremiah clearly describes the rapture and bringing in everlasting righteousness and the point for completing the vision of prophets lines up with “all that is written in this book”.

As you can see, 490 years, the traditional view, is not enough time for everything described by Daniel and 70 literal years certainly wasn’t enough to cover everything in Jeremiah’s book.

Then we have the book of 2 Chronicles which references these 70 years and links them to Sabbaths.

To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed(completed) her sabbaths(H7676) : for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath(H7673), to fulfill 70 years.— 2 Chronicles 36:21

I did some digging into second chronicles via BlueLetterBible.org because this verse didn’t make a ton of sense. For starters, Jeremiah didn’t directly say anything about sabbaths. Second, by most accounts from the time the first temple was plundered until Cyrus overthrew Babylon was only “66 years”. Many people have found creative ways to account for 70 years of captivity, but it is hardly black and white. After all, the “land” wasn’t uninhabited and the majority of the captives were taken 10 years after the leaders were taken. It is quite clear that the “land” didn’t observe 70 years without being tilled. Many people assume 1 year in Babylon for each Sabbath year missed, but Israel missed far more than 70 sabbaths.

This is what I found when I looked at the Hebrew.

… until the land had completed her sabbaths (H7676) For the whole day (period of time) (desolate) (at the end, on the last day (H7673)) the completion of 70 years (divisions of time, Jubilee). 2 Chron 36:21

First note that while the traditional English translation has the word “sabbath” twice, the Hebrew only mentions it once. There are two different Strong’s numbers.

Note the phrase “she kept sabbath” (H7673) could also refer to “the last day, the end, the destruction” and that this translation is used far more often for that Strongs number. The translation “to keep or observe the sabbath” is only used in this one verse, but given the broader context of Jeremiah describing 70 Jubilees which are after “7 sabbaths” and are a kind of “super sabbath year” we can make better sense of 2 chronicles.

For those who observe the multitude of “supernatural” numerical “coincidences” in the King James version of the bible, It popped out at me that the word Sabbath (H7676) is translated as “sabbath” 107 or 10 x 7 = 70 times and then there just happens to be one place where it is translated as “another/next”. So 70 “sabbaths/jubilee” to be followed by the “year of YHVH”. What are the odds? The translators could have translated the Hebrew word “other” or “next” as sabbath, but for some reason chose not to and the result is numerical precision!

Precedent for Years being counted as Jubilees.

And JEHOVAH said: “My Spirit will not dwell in man(mankind) for eternity because he is flesh and his (mankind’s) days shall be a hundred and twenty (120) years. (Jubilee)”” — Gen 6:3

Genesis describes 120 years, but Psalms describes the life of man as 70 to 80. Because no one has lived to 120 years since the days of Moses many people interpret Gen 6:3 as prophecy of 120 Jubilees (~6000 years) until millennial reign.

The days of our life are seventy (70) years — Or even, if because of strength, eighty (80) years; Yet their pride [in additional years] is only labor and sorrow, For it is soon gone and we fly away. Psalms 90:10

70 Jubilees until Judgement, 2024–2025

In my prior post/video I went through the destruction of Babylon (the Great) in Jeremiah 50/51 and showed how it occurred on a Jubilee.

The major theme of Jubilee is forgiveness/pardon of debts (sins) and returning to your own possession, property, land. This is defined in Leviticus and then described in the midst of the fall of Babylon in Jeremiah.

Leviticus 25:13 — “In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to their own property.”

Jeremiah 51:9 — “… let us leave her and each go to our own land”.

Jeremiah 50:16 — “… let everyone return to their own people, let everyone flee (escape) to their own land.”

So if Jeremiah’s 70 years are really 70 Jubilees until all his prophecies are fulfilled, then time is running out!

70 x 70 Years, 4900 years for Daniel’s people

The other interpretation of Daniel’s 70x70’s is 4900 years. I believe that this could easily represent the time from Abraham (the start of Daniel’s people) until the end of the millennial reign. Abraham’s covenant was (~1899 BC) plus 3000 takes you to 4900 years.

Conclusion

We have a strong case to correlate Daniel and Jeremiah’s prophecies as referring to 70 Jubilees and for the destruction of Babylon (the great) to occur in the final Jubilee. Assuming all of the evidence for a 1407–1406 crossing of the Jordan marks the start of the Jubilee cycle, then there is not much time left on the clock and we should expect a lot to happen in the next 18 months.

Ezekiel 33:1–6

The word of YHVH came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword (curse/judgment/nukes) against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood.’

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Daniel Larimer

Cofounder of Block.one, Steemit.com, BitShares.org, and author of More Equal Animals — the subtle art of true democracy.