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Jubilee

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Jubilee
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  • The English term Jubilee derives from the Hebrew term yobel (via Latin:Jubilaeus), which in turn derives from yobhel, meaning ram; the Jubilee year was announced by a blast on an instrument made from a ram's horn, during that year's Yom Kippur
  • And you shall number seven sabbaths or weeks of years for you, seven times seven years, so the total time of the seven weeks of years shall be forty-nine years.
  • Then you shall sound abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month almost October; on the Day of Atonement blow the trumpet in all your land (Lev.25: 8-9).
  • And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his ancestral possession which through poverty he was compelled to sell, and each of you shall return to his family from whom he was separated in bond service (v.10).
  • That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; in it you shall not sow, or reap and store what grows of itself, or gather the grapes of the uncultivated vines.
  • For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat the sufficient increase of it out of the field.
  • In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his ancestral property (vv. 11-13).
  • Luke 4:18-19
  • "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to announce the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away in release those who are oppressed,
  • To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, the year of jubilee."
  • It Signaled:
  • A Release From Debts
  • A Release of Slaves
  • Letting the Land Lie Fallow and Uncultivated
  • Our Condition Was Like that of the Jewish People:
  • We Lost Our Birthright
  • Sold Ourselves into Captivity
  • Became Slaves
  • Sold Under Sin:
  • For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Rom.3:23)
  • That you were at that time apart from Christ,
  • alienated from the commonwealth of Israel,
  • and strangers to the covenants of the promise,
  • having no hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12)
  • However at that time, not knowing God, you were slaves to the gods which by nature are not gods (Gal.4:8);
  • For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving as slaves various lusts and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another (Tit.3:3).
  • Christ's Redemption from the Law:
  • Being justified freely by His grace through
  • the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
  • Whom God set forth as a propitiation place
  • through faith in His blood (Rom.3:24-25a)
  • For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God (Eph.2:8)
  • To Release Us From the Slavery of Sin:
  • Knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin as slaves (Rom. 6:6)
  • And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free (Jn.8:32).
  • Christ's Redemption Brought Us Back to Himself as Our Allotted Portion:
  • Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light (Col. 1:12)
  • To open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me (Acts 26:18).
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