Jubilee year AD 28-29 is the end of the age of Torah (Law) per scripture. The next 81st Jubilee period of 50 yrs is called a Transition Jubilee period
Josh Peck and Dr. Ken Johnson highlight that the Book of Jubilees does speak of 4 ages:
The 'Age of Chaos,
The Age of Torah or Law,
The Age of Forgiveness or Grace, and
The 1,000-year reign on earth,
with each age separated by what they refer to as a 50-year transitional Jubilee period that follows the end of the previous age. This means that periods between the 40th and 41st Jubilee, the period between the 80th and 81st Jubilee, and the coming period between the 120th and 121st Jubilee are designated periods of transition from one age to the next age.
If AD 28 -29 was the 80th Jubilee, we might want to find scriptural evidence of it being the end of the Age of Law or Torah and we find that in Luke 16:16, which I will address in a second. First Let's look at what transpired after the 80th Jubilee year began, and the events of the next 50-year Transitional Jubilee period
We begin on the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year, in AD 28 when they congregated at the Synagogue. Jesus was invited to do the Torah reading and handed the scroll from the Book of Isaiah. Jesus found the most pertinent aspect of Isaiah's writings for the auspicious occasion of the beginning of a Jubilee year. In his readings of Isaiah 61:1, he not only declared it the beginning of a Jubilee year but chose to do it through the prophetic writings of Isaiah 61:1-3, leaving off the final aspect of God's Wrath, and declaring he was the fulfillment of what he had just read. He was declaring it the start of the Jubilee year, by his reading choice, along with his open declaration of who he was.
Luke 4:16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.
17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
18 “The Spirit of the Lord
is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to
the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to
the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
20 Then He closed the book, and gave
it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
21 And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Jesus knew that the beginning of this Jubilee year was about much more than another Jubilee year; it was the beginning of a Jubilee transition period. It was a period ending the Age of Law, and he states this in Luke 16:16
Luke 16:16 “
The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time, the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it.
17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away
than for one tittle of the law to fail.
When Jesus said the law and the prophets were until John, he is stating that the
age of the law were until John, because he is speaking in the past tense. He goes on to say, but not one tittle of the law is finished. These are contradictory aspects about the law within the same statement, until we recognize that Jesus is not saying the law has passed away (in comparative reference to the earth), but the age of the law is complete. Note the Hebrew word used for fail is 'Pipto', meaning to perish (end). God's law has not ended; only the age of the law has ended. Jesus provided a scriptural marker that the Age of Law was ending with this 80th Jubilee year, right on schedule with 2,000-year ages. We know it was AD 28, as it was the year Jesus began his ministry per Luke 3:3
Luke 3:3
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, …..23 Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age,....................... Tiberius, the second Roman emperor, reigned from AD 14 to 37…...................
From Britannica:
Tiberius (born November 16, 42 bce—died March 16, 37 ce,
Capreae [Capri], near Naples) was the second
Roman emperor (14–37 ce),
| Year AD | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Year AD |
| Reign Yr | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Reign Yr |
Over the next 50 years of Jubilee transition (AD 28 - AD 78), we find:
The establishment of the foundations of Christianity, via the establishment of his discipleship, to carry forward the good news,
The fulfillment of the prophecies of the Messiah, mankind's salvation by grace via his crucifixion (introducing a new Age of Grace),
The replacement of prophets with God's more direct and perfect communicating tool, the Holy Spirit,
The elimination in AD 70 of the Jewish temple and animal sacrifice with it, and finally
The dispersion of the Jewish people for not recognizing the time of his coming.
In the next 50-year Jubilee transition period beginning in the fall of 2028, until 2078, we should expect:
The gathering of his faithful church,
The fulfilment of God's time of Wrath,
The fulfillment of Daniel's 70th week prophecy, including Jesus's 2nd coming,
The wedding feast,
The redistribution of lands to the 12 tribes of Israel, and
The establishment of the millennial temple, found at the end of the Book of Ezekiel.
This is all I have time to post today, but I will delve into backtracking into the years before 732 BC and how they provide support for this AD 28 - 29 year, being the 80th Jubilee, and subsequently the 120th Jubilee year of 2028 - 29
