Hi Q,
My daughter read a "First Fourth of July" short story from an old book. At the end of the story it referenced Leviticus 25:10 which is "10 You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year 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, and each of you shall return to his family."
I didn't quite understand how that connected to Independence Day so I went to read the entire chapter and, lo and behold, 7/10 pops up from the Lord himself(!)
Speaking to Moses He says:
"8 ‘You are also to 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. 9 You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. 10 You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year 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, and each of you shall return to his family."
He continues in 25:17..
17 So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.
18 ‘You shall thus observe My statutes and keep My judgments, so as to carry them out, that you may live securely on the land. 19 Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it. 20 But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?” 21 then I will so order My blessing for you in the sixth year that it will bring forth the crop for three years. 22 When you are sowing the eighth year, you can still eat old things from the crop, eating the old until the ninth year when its crop comes in."
So if the 'year of Jubilee' was to be a time of celebration and rejoicing for the Israelites.. (The ram’s horn was blown on the tenth day of the seventh month to start the fiftieth year of universal redemption.)
They were released from indebtedness (Leviticus 25:23-38) and all types of bondage (vv. 39-55). All prisoners and captives were set free, all slaves were released, all debts were forgiven, and all property was returned to its original owners. In addition, those bound by labor contracts were released from them.
So Q, am I onto something here? This is a pretty accurate illustration of what we'd like this republic to be.
You said 2018 would be glorious/celebratory. Combined with several 7/10 posts. Are you sounding the horn?
IF SO….
The clock started in 1968?
Some things that happened in '68:
Election year..
MLK assassination…
Robert Kennedy ran that year on a very similar platform as Trump but was assassinated in June before the vote. In the aftermath, Nixon cautioned the American public against jumping to conclusions saying that "our country is sick" (NO, THESE PEOPLE ARE SICK)
(His brother, JFK was assassinated in '63)
LB Johnson DIDN'T pursue a second term…
Nixon ended up winning the election.
(He also ran against JFK in 1960 and lost.)
The Democrats were the party in power at the time.
Protests against the war in Vietnam were aimed at them.
Thousands of anti-war protesters gathered in the city of Chicago during the political convention. The city's mayor, Richard Daley, had ordered the police to deal severely with all protesters.
Many of the people were beaten. Much later, the federal government ordered an investigation. The report said that the riots in Chicago were a result of the actions of the police themselves…
Am I missing anything else, Q?