JUBILEE AND KINGDOM LIBERTY

August 7, 2011
MF Blume


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!