Bible Question: What was the year of Jubilee all about? |
Bible Answer: Hi humility, In Leviticus 25:2,God tells the children of Israel"..When you come into the land which I give you,then the land shall keep a sabbath unto the Lord". Verse 8-12, "And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.....And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you...For it is the Jubilee, it shall be holy to you, you shall eat its produce from the field". The land sabbath is a rest from tillage according to the command of God. When observed it would be to His honor and glory, and show that God is the owner of the land, and that the Israelites held it under Him by this tenure. Furthermore, the land sabbath allows Israel to consider the poor, and to give all Israel the oppertunity of listening to the reading of the law (Deut 31:10-13). Apart from the seventh year land sabbath, there was also instituted a fiftieth year of rest for the land. This was declared the year of "jubilee," and in which liberty was proclaimed in all the land of Israel (see Lev 25:8-17). Seven sabbaths of years were counted from one jubilee (jobel) to another, and the seventh is called the fifieth. The year of jubilee starts on the first day of the seventh month (Tishri or September). Though the trumpet was not blown, and the rights of the year did not begin till the tenth, it was proclaimed with the sound of trumpet in all parts of of the country (Lev 25:9). The trumpet was sounded in the close of the Day of Atonement, which was aptly done because on this day the children of Israel humbled and afflicted their souls for sin. When their peace was made with God, then liberty was proclaimed, therefore, at the sound of the trumpets national redemption began. All prisoners and captives were exonerated, slaves were declared free, and debtors were excused, and every inheritance (for whatever cause) throughout Israel was restored to its original owner. On the fiftieth year the land was neither sowed nor reaped, but allowed to enjoy with its inhabitants a Sabbath of rest. Its natural produce during this year was the common property of all. The fiftieth year sabbath then was designed to preserve the rights of freeborn Israelites; their property; prevent perpetual servitude and alienation of their estates; and to keep an economic equilibrium between rich and poor. But the real significance of this fiftieth year land sabbath predicts the true liberty and joy one receives at the coming of Jesus-a freedom from slavery of sin and satan. Yet the year of Jubilee anticipates a greater epochal event-full release, jubilation and the receiving of rewards in the Sabbatical Kingdom of the Lord,"knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the Lord Christ (Colossians 3:24). God bless you. Ptr |
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