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with no hope, a terminal condition. If there’s healing in the type, there has to be healing in the
real thing. Otherwise, the type becomes a misrepresentation, a falsehood, or a lie.
The Year of Jubilee
Next we will look at Leviticus 25. This chapter talks about the Year of Jubilee. Is there any type
of Jesus in redemption in the Year of Jubilee?
Beginning in verse 8, He said, “And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven
times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine
years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh
month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And
ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee…” You will proclaim liberty in the year of Jubilee. What
is Jubilee? It is the year of liberty, of freedom, and you’ll see as we go, restoration. “And ye shall
hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye
shall return every man unto his family.” If you had lost something, you would get it back. It only
came around once every 50 years, but when it did, it was a party all year. It was what everybody
had been waiting for, for the previous 49 years, because if you had lost it, and there was no way
you could get it back, the Year of Jubilee got it back. “A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto
you.” In verse 13, he said it again. “In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his
possession.” What happens? Everybody gets their possessions back.
Let me paint a little picture for you because most Westerners and even many Christians haven’t
even read this. They don’t know about it, and if they read it, they wouldn’t see any significance
to it, but it is
very
significant. Just like Jesus is our Passover, Jesus is our Jubilee.
Let’s say you were an individual who fell on hard times, maybe because you hadn’t lived right,
or you disobeyed God, or you got away from God. Maybe you were doing well, and you had a
farm, or a ranch—property that had been in your family for generations. You had a wife and
children and livestock, and you were wealthy. But let’s say you messed up and drank, partied,
and sinned, and you worshiped false gods. You got into debt, and your creditors came and took
your stuff; they took your place. In those days, if you had no money to pay your debts, your wife
and kids could be sold as slaves and the money put on the debt. Let’s say that happened to you,
and they even sold you into slavery. Now you’ve lost the property that you had in your family
for generations, you don’t know where your wife is, you don’t know where your kids are, and
you don’t even belong to yourself. You’re somebody else’s property. You get up every day and
feed their pigs, and this happens for 23 years.
But the 24
th
year, you get up early one morning and you hear this trumpet. You keep hearing it
all morning. You know it’s the first of the year, but you don’t usually hear a trumpet like this, so
you ask, “What is that?”
Somebody comes running through shouting, “Jubilee! Jubilee! This is the beginning of Jubilee!”
