JUBILEE AND KINGDOM LIBERTY
August 7, 2011
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Leviticus
25:8-10
KJV 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. (9) Then shalt thou
cause the
trumpet of the jubile 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. (10) And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and
proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it
shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his
possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Last service here we shared the revelation of the Year of Jubilee and
the Breath of Life.
· So much truth was revealed to my spirit that
I probably overloaded you with it that day.
· We are going to break it down for you now so
that it really gets into your spirits.
Leviticus 25 lists the law of the year of Jubilee.
The hallmark of JUBILEE was that it was a restoration of LANDS AND
PEOPLE to the proper ownership and families to which they originally
belonged.
· When God gave Israel the land of Canaan
under Joshua’s leadership, the land was divided amongst all the
families.
· Every fifty years marked the JUBILEE year.
· Any land that was sold due to poverty, and
people who became servants to others due to poverty, were restored.
· SO, EVERY 50 YEARS, LAND WAS IN THE HANDS OF
THE FAMILIES WHO FIRST RECEIVED IT WHEN JOSHUA DIVIDED CANAAN TO THOSE
FAMILIES.
Land went to original owners, and people went back to their families.
· Just as the way it was when they first
entered CANAAN.
· Just the way it was that God intended when
He opened the land up for them.
Year of JUBILEE was also called YEAR OF LIBERTY.
· Land was sort of in bondage in other hands
and not where it belonged in the hands of the family God gave it to.
· People were away from their families in a
type of bondage.
· Lands and people were set at liberty to go
back to the states they were when God first gave them the promised land.
So we see the idea of LIBERTY and RESTORATION.
· And the word JUBILE in Hebrew is YOBEL,
which is the actual SOUND the trumpet makes.
· IT IS CALLED THE BREATH OF LIFE BY THE JEWS.
THE GOSPEL is a SOUND and message signaling LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES.
Romans 10:16-18 KJV But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For
Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? (17) So
then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
(18) But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
The gospel is said to be a SOUND gone out into all the earth.
Psalms 89:15 KJV Blessed is the people that know the joyful
sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
These seem to show that the SHOFAR/TRUMPET BLAST represents the TRUTH
GIVEN TO PEOPLE OF THE GOSPEL.
The gospel is the great remedy for what happened in the Garden of Eden.
· Adam disobeyed God and made everyone sinners
before they were born.
· Sin caused God to throw Adam from the Garden
of Eden where Adam enjoyed the presence of God.
· Jesus came to take away our sins.
The soul that sins must die, as God told Adam in Genesis 2 that he
would die due to disobedience of God’s Word.
· Jesus took the death penalty that was on all
of us and took away our sins like a sacrifice.
We left our family.
Luke 3:38 KJV Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of
Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.
Ephesians 2:3 KJV Among whom also we all had our conversation in
times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even
as others.
2 Corinthians 6:16-18 KJV (16) And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be my people. (17) Wherefore come
out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not
the unclean thing; and I will receive you, (18) And will be
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the
Lord Almighty.
SO THE TRUE JUBILEE is salvation!
· The Garden is not a physical place today.
· I can say I am in the Garden in a spiritual
way.
· Since God’s presence was with Adam in
the Garden, since I am saved and have His presence I can say I am
spiritually in the GARDEN.
Just as lands went back to the original owners, and people went back to
the families at the fiftieth year of JUBILEE, WE GET BACK TO GOD AND
THE EARTH COMES BACK TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD just as God first gave it to
Adam to have dominion over it.
Look at what the New Testament says about LIBERTY…in order
to find how the YEAR OF JUBILEE applies to us spiritually.
Galatians 5:1-3 KJV Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith
Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage. (2) Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be
circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. (3) For I
testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to
do the whole law.
God does not want anyone living under OLD TESTAMENT LAW today.
· It was a form of bondage.
· Law was good and actually was spiritual
itself, but man is sinful and cannot keep a spiritual law.
· So Paul taught the Galatians to not keep
days, months and years – which were the feasts Israel had UNDER
BONDAGE OF LAW.
· These feasts and Jubilee years were in
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FORM compared to the ACTUAL FULFILLMENT OF THESE LAWS
in the SPIRIT.
Galatians 3:23-4:7 KJV But before faith came, we were kept under
the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be
revealed. (24) Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to
bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
(25) But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a
schoolmaster. (26) For ye are all the children of God by
faith in Christ Jesus. (27) For as many of you as have been
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (28) There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither
male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. (29)
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according
to the promise. (4:1) Now I say, That the heir, as long as
he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of
all; (2) But is under tutors and governors until the time
appointed of the father. (3) Even so we, when we were
children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
(4) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his
Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (5) To redeem
them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of
sons. (6) And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the
Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
(7) Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a
son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Galatians 3:21-4:7 MSG If such is the case, is the law, then, an
anti-promise, a negation of God's will for us? Not at all. Its purpose
was to make obvious to everyone that we are, in ourselves, out of right
relationship with God, and therefore to show us the futility of
devising some religious system for getting by our own efforts what we
can only get by waiting in faith for God to complete his promise. For
if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would
certainly have gotten it by this time. (23) Until the time
when we were mature enough to respond freely in faith to the living
God, we were carefully surrounded and protected by the Mosaic
law. (24) The law was like those Greek tutors, with which
you are familiar, who escort children to school and protect them from
danger or distraction, making sure the children will really get to the
place they set out for. (25) But now you have arrived at
your destination: (26) By faith in Christ you are in direct
relationship with God. (27) Your baptism in Christ was not
just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in
an adult faith wardrobe--Christ's life, the fulfillment of God's
original promise. (28) In Christ's family there can be no
division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among
us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with
Jesus Christ. (29) Also, since you are Christ's family,
then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the
covenant promises. (4:1) Let me show you the implications
of this. As long as the heir is a minor, he has no advantage over the
slave. Though legally he owns the entire inheritance, (2)
he is subject to tutors and administrators until whatever date the
father has set for emancipation. (3) That is the way it is
with us: When we were minors, we were just like slaves ordered around
by simple instructions (the tutors and administrators of this world),
with no say in the conduct of our own lives. (4) But when
the time arrived that was set by God the Father, God sent his Son, born
among us of a woman, born under the conditions of the law so that he
might redeem those of us who have been kidnapped by the law.
(5) Thus we have been set free to experience our rightful
heritage. (6) You can tell for sure that you are now fully
adopted as his own children because God sent the Spirit of his Son into
our lives crying out, "Papa! Father!" (7) Doesn't that
privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are
not a slave, but a child? And if you are a child, you're also an heir,
with complete access to the inheritance.
Galatians 4:8-11 MSG Earlier, before you knew God personally, you
were enslaved to so-called gods that had nothing of the divine about
them. (9) But now that you know the real God--or rather
since God knows you--how can you possibly subject yourselves again to
those paper tigers? (10) For that is exactly what you do
when you are intimidated into scrupulously observing all the
traditions, taboos, and superstitions associated with special days and
seasons and years. (11) I am afraid that all my hard work
among you has gone up in a puff of smoke!
These gentiles were going from one form of slavery to pagan gods to
another slavery TO LAW and its days and months and yearly feasts by
JUDAIZING the Gospel.
Feasts and holy years were FORESHADOWS that only being us into bondage
unless we abandon the SYMBOLIC physical activity and fulfill the
SPIRITUAL ACTUALITIES.
· In other words, just as they sacrificed a
lamb under Law, the REAL FULFILLMENT OF THE SACRIFICE IS JESUS CHRIST.
· We’d be in bondage if we sacrificed
natural lambs today.
· Jesus is a SPIRITUAL sacrifice.
· The SPIRITUAL is the PATTERN that the
NATURAL LAMB’S SACRIFICE foreshadowed and pointed towards.
· The FEASTS were NATURAL forms of the PATTERN
of the SPIRITUAL REALITIES that God merely SYMBOLIZED IN THE FEASTS and
HOLY DAYS,MONTHS and YEARS.
· The Old Testament SYMBOLS involved physical
food and physical activities.
· THE NEW TESTAMENT REALITIES do not involve
PHYSICAL ANYTHING!
· They involve SPIRITUAL REALITIES.
1 Corinthians 5:6-9 KJV (6) Your glorying is not good. Know
ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? (7)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye
are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for
us: (8) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old
leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the
unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (9) I wrote unto
you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
Paul spoke of the PASSOVER being REALIZED in Christ.
· Israel took a LAMB for Passover and
UNLEAVENED BREAD.
· Paul says JESUS IS THE LAMB and what is
UNLEAVENED in OUR Spiritual Passover is OUR LIVES.
· LEAVEN is yeast that could not be in the
bread of Passover.
· Paul says the LEAVEN we are concerned with
is not physical yeast, but MALICE and WICKEDNESS.
· UNLEAVENED BREAD is SINCERITY AND TRUTH.
· He is not telling us to repeat the exact
activity of Israel in Passover, but to do the actuality and reality
that the unleavened bread represented.
· OUR PASSOVER is not with physical bread and
lambs, but with CHRIST and SINCERITY AND TRUTH.
· Notice how these are not NATURAL OBJECTS
LIKE YEAST, but SPIRITUAL ISSUES that deal with our hearts.
· EVEN PEOPLE are regarded as leaven or
unleaven.
· People who are influenced with malice and
wickedness ought to be avoided, as Paul said to not keep company with
fornicators.
But not just sinners…
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 KJV (9) I wrote unto you in an epistle
not to company with fornicators: (10) Yet not altogether
with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the
world. (11) But now I have written unto you not to keep
company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or
covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. (12) For what
have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them
that are within? (13) But them that are without God
judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
So OUR PASSOVER involves UNLEAVENED BREAD OF SINCERITY AND TRUTH and
BRETHREN IN THE CHURCH WHO ARE not covetous or fornicators, or
railers.
The way WE KEEP THE FEAST is not with actual bread and lamb meat as
Israel kept it, but SPIRITUAL LIFESTYLES AND FELLOWSHIPPING SPIRITUAL
PEOPLE and feasting on Jesus, the ACTUAL Lamb.
· We feast on Jesus by living by HIS TRUTH.
MESSAGE VERSION:
1 Corinthians 5:6-13 MSG (6) Your flip and callous
arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing,
but it's anything but that. Yeast, too, is a "small thing," but it
works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast.
(7) So get rid of this "yeast." Our true identity is flat and
plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah,
our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal,
and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. (8) So
let's live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with
the yeast of evil, but as flat bread--simple, genuine,
unpretentious. (9) I wrote you in my earlier letter that
you shouldn't make yourselves at home among the sexually
promiscuous. (10) I didn't mean that you should have
nothing at all to do with outsiders of that sort. Or with crooks,
whether blue- or white-collar. Or with spiritual phonies, for that
matter. You'd have to leave the world entirely to do that!
(11) But I am saying that you shouldn't act as if everything is
just fine when one of your Christian companions is promiscuous or
crooked, is flip with God or rude to friends, gets drunk or becomes
greedy and predatory. You can't just go along with this, treating it as
acceptable behavior. (12) I'm not responsible for what the
outsiders do, but don't we have some responsibility for those within
our community of believers? (13) God decides on the
outsiders, but we need to decide when our brothers and sisters are out
of line and, if necessary, clean house.
(Chart OF YEARS OF JUBILEE)
Leviticus 25:4 MSG But the seventh year the land will take a
Sabbath of complete and total rest, a Sabbath to GOD; you will not sow
your fields or prune your vineyards.
Leviticus 25:11-12 MSG The fiftieth year is your Jubilee year:
Don't sow; don't reap what volunteers itself in the fields; don't
harvest the untended vines (12) because it's the Jubilee
and a holy year for you. You're permitted to eat from whatever
volunteers itself in the fields.
Same restriction as on the 49th year.
So the 50th was a Sabbath as well as the 49th.
DOUBLE PORTION!
DOUBLE PORTION started in the East where the FIRSTBORN received twice
as much inheritance as the other children.
· It was called PRIMOGENITURE.
· It was a PRIVILEGE others did not get.
· Elisha asked for a double portion of
Elijah’s anointing, because he was the firstborn, so to speak, of
the SONS OF THE PROPHETS.
· He was most active with Elijah, his teacher
and mentor.
So a double portion of REST TO THE LAND indicates that the JUBILEE time
was special for more reasons than restoring land to owners and people
to families.
· It is a TIME THAT IS MORE SPECIAL THAN OTHER
TIMES.
· Job obtained TWICE AS MANY CATTLE AFTER HIS
ORDEAL WAS OVER COMPARED TO HIS BEGINNINGS.
Job 1:3 KJV His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and
three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred
she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the
greatest of all the men of the east.
Job 42:12 KJV So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than
his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand
camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
WE ENTER THE SPECIAL CATEGORY WHEN WE EXPERIENCE TRUE JUBILEE.
7 is God’s number of COMPLETION of PERFECTION/MATURITY.
· 7 x 7 is MULTIPLICATION OF PERFECTION.
· When anything is multiplied, it is the same
thing over and over again.
· So this speaks of MATURITY in a grand
emphasis.
· MATURITY MATURITY MATURITY.
· Focusing on the thought in a COMPLETE WAY.
· MATURE MATURITY.
· COMPLETE COMPLETION.
· PERFECT PERFECTION.
From Adam to Abraham was 2000 years – 40 Jubilees
· Adam to Exodus was 2,500 – 50 jubilees
· Adam to Solomon’s temple – 60
Jubilees
· Adam to Escape from Babylon – 70
JUBILEES
· Adam to book of Acts – 80 JUBILEES
· ADAM TO year 2000 – 120 jubilees!