Leviticus 25
JUBILATIONS!

I love the little pictures we get through the Bible that show us glimpses of the kingdom of God. The laws describing the year of Jubilee are a great example of this. The year of Jubilee was a once in a lifetime event in the Jewish calendar. It only came about once in every 50 years. In the same way the kingdom of God is a once in a lifetime event for us. We spend all our lives preparing for it, then either at the time Jesus returns or at the resurrection, we will enter into the Jubilee that God has planned for us.

The year of Jubilee begins at the sound of the trumpet. “Then sound the trumpet everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.” (Leviticus 25 v 9). It is also the sound of the trumpet that ushers in the resurrection and the kingdom of God. (1 Thessalonians 4 v 16).

The Jubilee year was also a time of freedom. “Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.” (Leviticus 25 v 10). It is when God’s jubilee in the kingdom of God begins that we will be granted complete freedom from sin, freedom from the burdens of mortal life as death is swallowed up in victory.

Let us build up a picture in our minds that places us in God’s kingdom, rejoicing in the Jubilee that we will share with him.

May hope fill our hearts this weekend.

With love in our Lord,
Robert

Green Pastures and Still Waters. A continuation of Sharon’s thoughts on Psalm 23. Read them at www.thinkythings.com/sharon/

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