Could 2015 be the Year of the Shemitah, or Jubilee, or Second Coming?

No, I don't think so.  But that doesn't stop misinformed people from promoting the idea.

Just yesterday (5/18/15) I saw an article titled:

Is 2015 the year of Jubilee? Is it the 70th Jubilee? Will the planet be returned to its original Creator?

The writer claims as a "fact" - "Year of Jubilee happens in 50 year cycles, following the 7th year of Shmita."

This is incorrect, as jubilees are 49 year cycles.  The 50th year of the jubilee cycle was the first jubilee year and the first year of the second 49 year cycle, just like Sunday is the first day of the week, and the eighth day of the cycle of days of the week is also the first day of the next 7 day week.  So the second jubilee would have been the 99th year after they started counting, the third would have been the 148th year, then 197, 246, 295, etc.

Leviticus 25:1-10: “The Lord then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord…. Count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. You shall then sound a ram's horn… and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property.’”

To my astonishment, the article ends with:

"I would suggest that the 70th Jubilee is extra significant in that the real estate of the whole planet will be returned to its original owner, the Creator. 2015 could be the year!

So what happens before then? Jesus said there would be a time of great tribulation worse than any other time in history. Don’t think Satan is going to be nice about giving back the planet to the Creator. This will be WW III.

Jesus referred to Daniel’s prophecies about this time. Daniel said this time would be for 1260 days, or 3 1/2 years. The book of Revelation concurs with this, referring to 42 months as the time of the great struggle.

IF (big if)….2015 is the year of Jubilee (beginning in September of that year), then the beginning of the great tribulation would be 1260 prior to that, which is the Passover season in April 2012.

What event kicks off the great tribulation. Jesus said it would be the “abomination that causes desolation.” Jerusalem is once again captured by the Arabs. Jesus says that those who live in Judea should run for the hills, get out as fast as possible.

Could the events in Egypt be the beginnings of a huge Arab uprising regionally, that results in the abomination?

Time will tell."

Keep in mind, this article is from - yesterday.  The idea that the Great Tribulation would be so insignificant that it is almost over (allegedly having begun over three years ago) makes no sense to me.  All hell has not broken loose - these are not obviously the worst years in human history.  The Antichrist has not been revealed from a new Temple in Jerusalem.  My research suggests this is due to happen in June 2016, but it certainly did not already happen in April 2012.

I commented:

We can’t know the year of the jubilee until Jesus returns at its end – because no one has been tracking jubilees for centuries. Here is an excerpt from Antichrist 2016-2019:

“Scholars who want to keep track of jubilees believe the last reference to a jubilee year was made by the prophet Ezekiel, referring to approximately 574 B.C. If we count 17 jubilee cycles back from 574 BC, the first jubilee cycle would have started in 1406 B.C. If this was the year that the Israelites entered the Promised Land after the Exodus from Egypt, it also corresponds with Thiele’s (but not Ussher’s) date of 931/930 B.C. for the start of the divided kingdom into Israel and Judah – based on 1 Kings 6:1 “Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.” Since these two methods agree, they might lead us to correct dates for past jubilee years. But if the correct interpretation of Leviticus is that jubilees only matter when all twelve tribes live in Israel, then the jubilees have been irrelevant for thousands of years, and would only be relevant again after the Messiah “corrects everything” and ALL the tribes of Israel (not just the Jews of the former kingdom of Judah) are brought back to Israel.

Without the twelve tribes living in Israel, there is no biblical reason to keep track of jubilees. And without the Sanhedrin, who announced the jubilee by blowing the ram’s horn trumpet – no one exists to make the start of a jubilee cycle official. Just for the heck of it, however, these dates would imply a jubilee year (if it mattered, and if anyone had been counting) in 35 B.C., 15 A.D. (no year zero) and 64 A.D.

If the old count of jubilees did matter in regard to the Messiah, they certainly did not line up with Jesus Christ’s birth, crucifixion, or even the start of His ministry. The last jubilee would have been in 1975 – when nothing noteworthy happened in Israel – and the next jubilee would be in 2024. Misguided calculations have led to other dates, however, and there are many people who believe “2016 is EXACTLY the 120th Jubilee.” Such people are expecting the Second Coming in 2016, and if anyone with miraculous powers shows up in 2016 on global television broadcasts claiming to be the Messiah, many people will listen.”

Isaac Newton suggested looking for the Second Coming 49 years after the Temple Mount is restored under Jewish rule. That occurred the night of June 6-7, 1967. But I suspect it will be the Antichrist that gets our attention in June 2016. The Antichrist must show up first. 2 Thessalonians 2 “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”

http://www.amazon.com/Antichrist-2016-2019-Mystery-Babylon-Caliphate/dp/1501025392