'Shemitah' Starts At Sundown: Are You Ready?

Rabbi: Next 12 months could bring major ‘shaking’ of America

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LEO HOHMANN

The ancient principle of the “Shemitah” goes back 3,000 years to the time of Moses, but a rabbi from New Jersey is warning Americans to pull out their Bibles and take note.

The year of the Shemitah, also called the Sabbath year, begins at sundown Wednesday with the start of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and continues through Sept. 13, 2015. It could hold severe consequences for the future of the United States of America, warns Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.

Cahn has authored a new book that zeroes in like a laser beam on the little-known biblical passage of Leviticus 25:1-10. It contains what seems like a benign rule of Sabbath rest for farmers, yet Cahn believes there is a lesson for today’s America – the principle of the Shemitah is alive and well. Ignore it at your own peril.

His book, “The Mystery of the Shemitah,” explains how the Sabbath is not just a day of the week. For ancient Israel there was also a Sabbath year, which fell once every seven years on the Hebrew calendar.

Every seventh year the land was to lay fallow and rest. At the end of that year, precisely Elul 29 on the Hebrew calendar, all financial debts and accounts were released. The slate was wiped clean, paving the way for a fresh start. Many ultra-Orthodox in Israel still honor this biblical rule today.

But what relevance does an obscure Levitical law have for a modern-day superpower like America? Plenty, says Cahn, and you don’t have to be a farmer to feel its effects.

“Israel is the nation that was under the command but then the Shemitah becomes a prophetic sign, which can apply to anyone, anywhere,” Cahn told CBN News in a recent interview. “The Shemitah is beginning this month, very shortly.”

While the rules for farming may no longer apply, Cahn believes the broader principle of the seven-year cycle still holds the secret of how God deals with nations in terms of blessings and judgment. Is it possible that financial crashes, the rise and fall of nations, even empires, can occur within the patterns of seven-year cycles?

Cahn thinks so, and he lays out his case in the book, explaining that the judgments of nations begin with clear warnings, which tend to come in a series of “shakings” or increasingly catastrophic events. They often strike at the core of a nation’s financial wealth or provision.

In ancient Israel that was the family farm. In America, it’s Wall Street. Hence, the dramatic stock market crashes, one more severe than the next in 2001 and 2008, both Shemitah years. Now comes the next Shemitah, starting Sept. 24, 2014, and continuing 12 months to September 2015.

But the series of judgments aren’t restricted to Wall Street.

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