YEARS OF SABBATH AND JUBILEE

March 18, 2007 pm
Mike Blume

  Scripture Text:

 
 Lev 25:1-7 KJV  And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,  (2)  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.  (3)  Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;  (4)  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.  (5)  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.  (6)  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,  (7)  And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.



  Message:



  • Last week we preached about double portion of manna in the wilderness when twice as much manna fell on the sixth day as on the former 5, because Israel was not allowed to work and gather manna on the 7th sabbath day.
  • And a double portion revelation must come to God's people.
  • The manna represents Jesus' flesh that was bread of life when it was broken in death.
  • We all know Jesus died, but we died with Him, and that is a double portion revelation.
  • TWO died on the cross, showing TWO are risen and seated on the throne of glory -- YOU AND JESUS.

This chapter speaks about Sabbath YEARS, beyond just the sabbath days.

Not only was there a day of rest m but a year of rest.
  • But it was a rest not for people to cease working, but for the land.

In the beginning in the Garden, God planted the Garden.
  • God sowed the fields.

Gen 2:8-10 KJV  And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.  (9)  And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  (10)  And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

The New testament mentions that there are three parts of gaining food.

1Co 3:6 KJV  I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

Plant, water and give increase.
  • God did all three in the Garden.
  • God planted, God sent river of Eden to water and God gave increase.
  • Adam did none of these things.

Gen 3:17-19 KJV  And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;  (18)  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;  (19)  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

But Adam would have to plant and water due to a curse.
  • Work is a result of the curse.

Lev 25:19-22 KJV  And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.  (20)  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:  (21)  Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.  (22)  And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

2Ki 19:29 KJV  And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.


People might get worried over no sowing nor pruning in the seventh year.
  • But God promised that He would BLESS THE SIXTH YEAR TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT it would produce crops for THREE FULL YEARS.
  • The 6th, 7th and 8th years would have food from the 6th year!

The SIXTH YEAR was so blessed that it was as though the cruse was lifted from the earth that was put on it in the Garden due to sin.
  • So this shows a restoration to the state of the world in the time of the GARDEN OF EDEN before man sinned.
  • Return to the original condition of things!

Like a double portion of manna on the sixth day to help them enter the sabbath day and rest, there was a DOUBLE portion from the 6th year.
  • We read "three years", because crops have to be planted and then months go by before harvest that same year.
  • So the months before the harvest of the 8th year had to be food from the 6th year as well as the 7th year had to be food from the 6th year.

It is actually a double portion, because harvest was in the fall and gave food for second half of the 6th year (giving us 1/2 of a year) -- and the full seventh year -- and the first half of the 8th year until harvest (Giving us another 1/2) making 2 full years.

We need to see this is stressing double portion as well.
  • This adds to our understanding of the double portion revelation.
  • When we really see that WE AROSE WITH JESUS and are seated WITH JESUS IN HEAVENLY PLACES, we not only enter a rest and cease from worries and labours... we return to the status of Adam before his fall into sin!
  • We are kings and priests!

Notice this issue is about WORRY.

Lev 25 (20)  And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:  (21)  Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.  (22)  And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

People ask what can they do in times of trouble, when people fuss with them and anything else that usually makes them worry.
  • WE TRUST GOD.
  • Until you can really trust God and stop worrying over the very things that make you worry all the time, you have never come to the double portion revelation.
  • You really do not believe you are seated with Christ on the throne over all powers.
  • You let powers in this world affect you too much.
  • They worry you.
  • You will not so much as WORRY about them, if you really believe you are seated with Christ over them all.

Worry tempts you when you face a situation that usually upset you.
  • But you must remind yourself of what the WORD SAYS...
  • You are seated with Christ and have power over these things.
  • So if you really believe you have power over them, then you walk on into them and face them in confidence that the power is on you to overcome it.
  • But we get defeated before we even face these situations, because instead of trusting what the word says about our power, we do not even get the chance to use that power since we refuse to confront them in fear.
  • Worrying is refusing to face the situation in calmness that you will not get upset nor defeated.

It's like facing someone who always caused you troubles.
  • Instead of worrying you will get upset again, due to the past, you confidently confront them since you believe you have power to defeat that chance to get upset.
  • And until you get over worrying that makes you not even try, you will never actually face the situation in confidence.
  • So WORRY DESTROYS CONFIDENCE.
  • And if you do not have confidence, you never learned anything from the Word that says you have POWER OVER EVERYTHING IN LIFE.

Let us stop concentrating upon what people do that is wrong.
  • You will throw all the responsibility off yourself that says you need to get to the place where they do not defeat you and overpower you, and put it on them.
  • This will cause to to always neglect to get victory over everything yourself, and to concentrate upon what others should be doing.
  • And when you do not deal with yourself so that you have victory over everything that ever could happen, you do nothing about being defeated all the time.
  • People who are ONLY concerned with HOW WRONG others are, will always get upset by other people, because they are never looking at it from the proper perspective.
  • The proper perspective is that WE CANNOT CHANGE OTHER PEOPLE.
  • They have to get hold of themselves and God.
  • We have stop asking why people are so wrong, and start asking WHY DO WE LET THEM BOTHER US!
  • Then you can have victory whether they are wrong or not!
  • Otherwise, you blame your weaknesses on everyone else, when the bible says they are not going to be judged for your weaknesses.
  • You are to be judged for your weaknesses.
So get victory IN YOUR LIFE, so that they can never upset you.

Losing everything that Adam had before sin is where we are born in this world.
  • God restored it all through the cross.
  • But God needs our faith to help us enjoy all of what the cross bought for us.

People need to realize that they have everything paid for in victory for them by the cross.
  • But unless they change their fearful and doubtful way of thinking, they will never enjoy them.
  • We do not automatically enjoy God's blessings.
  • We have enemies to fight in this land.
  • LIES and LYING SPIRITS.
  • And THEN you will enjoy those blessings.

REDEMPTION is something many are unfamiliar with.

Leviticus 25:23-28 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me. (24) And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land. (25) If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold. (26) And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it; (27) Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession. (28) But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubile: and in the jubile it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

God meant for Israel to have the land of Canaan -- and anyone who owned any land in it were meant to always have it.
  • There is a lesson here of victory for us.

When we are spiritually poor in a negative way, then we had victory but lost it.
  • Something defeated us and we lost dominion.
  • God made a way for us to always have what He gave us in salvation, like the land was always for Israel that He gave to them.

REDEMPTION.
  • You could REDEEM back your land by paying a ransom for it.
  • It returns to the former owner when it is redeemed.
  • But if you could not pay for it, and no kinfolk could do it,

Watch...

There is not only a DAY of sabbath and a YEAR of sabbath, but a SABBATH OF SABBATHS.

Leviticus 25:8-10 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.

Seven sabbaths is a SABBATH OF SABBATHS.

Lev 25:(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.

Leviticus 25:35-44 And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee. (36) Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. (37) Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase. (38) I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God. (39) And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: (40) But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: (41) And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. (42) For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. (43) Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. (44) Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Lev. 25 teaches us also that a special year of Jubilee occurred every 50 years. Twice in one century.
  • JUBILEE is actually an anglicized word, or a word transliterated from another language into English as a similar sounding word, from the Hebrew YOBEL. 
  • YOBEL was how the Hebrews described the BLASTING SOUND of the trumpet.
  • During this fiftieth year, everything returned to it's original state.
  • Lands and even Israelite people that were sold by Israelites in times of need, returned to the original owners.

Note that God said the land shall not be sold for ever.
  • God gave them the land of Canaan.
  • And He would never let them lose it.
  • He actually said it was His land and they were more or less like boarders staying with him.

Lev 25:23 KJV  The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

So they could not sell it since it was really not their own anyway, but they were only tenants.
  • God made sure they would not lose the land and property by the security of the JUBILEE and REDEMPTION.
  • Back at that time, when you were struck with poverty for some reason, and had to sell your land, the buyer had to understand that you would be able to receive it again by paying for it, if you came up with the money later on -- redeeming it.
  • Otherwise, you had to wait until the YEAR OF JUBILEE to have it return to you, free of charge, once again.


The same occurred with people who were sold.
  • But the Lord would not allow a buyer of a person to think the person was their slave.
  • God brought them out of Egypt, and out of bondage, and His people were not to be treated as slaves.
  • They would not be ruled over with rigour, as the Egyptians ruled over them with rigour.
  • They would be regarded as hired servants.
  • And they would return home in the year of jubilee.

So sold servants and sold land, lost due to poverty, were all restored in the year of jubilee.

And Jesus picked up on this and spoke of it in a spiritual sense at the very start of His ministry.

Luke 4:14-21 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. (15) And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. (16) And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. (17) And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, (18) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, (19) To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (20) And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. (21) And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD is the year of Jubilee.
  • That was the statement Jesus made in reference to JUBILEE.
  • It was THEN God's acceptable time for the YEAR OF THE LORD to come.
  • And this statement of Jesus is actually saying the entire CHURCH AGE is like one long YEAR OF JUBILEE that began when he came and started ministering here.
  • The GOSPEL would be preached to the POOR.
  • It was the POOR who were sold as servants and who sold their lands in the days of Law.
  • But there are those spiritually poor who are sold under sin.
  • Adam sold us all out.
  • The ULTIMATE RETURN TO ORIGINAL OWNERSHIP is getting us back to the status Adam had before he fell in the Garden of Eden.
  • His fall made us all sinners.
  • As a result, people are brokenhearted.
  • Captives.
  • Blind.
  • Bruised.

When Jesus was revealed in Luke, he began by reading about how HIS COMING fulfilled the YEAR OF JUBILEE.

People would return to the state that God placed us in way back in Adam's time when God placed him in the Garden of Eden with blessings and dominion and everlasting life!

But we were sold.

So the entire New testament is simply the PROCLAMATION that everything mankind lost when he was sold under sin in the days of Adam is restored once again!

The law of the people and lands in regards to the jubilee said that people and land could be restored!

But we are like the man who owed ten thousand talents to a master, who could not pay him., in Matthew 18.
  • And he forgave us, as though a year of jubilee occurred.
  • We could not pay the price required for our sins.
  • It was too much.
  • We owed a debt we could not pay.
  • We needed someone to wash our sins away.
  • Everytime someone preaches the Gospel, THE SILVER TRUMPET OF JUBILEE SOUNDS!
  • COME BACK TO EDEN!
  • In other words, get eternal life through faith that Adam could get through the fruit of the tree of life.
  • Silver was always associated with REDEMPTION.
  • Recall that it was thirty pieces of SILVER that Judas was paid for Jesus to be taken and crucified.
  • And His crucifixion paid the price to redeem us.

What is interesting is that FIFTIETH in Greek is PENTECOST.

Act 2:1 KJV  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

There is the DAY OF PENTECOST, which was fifty days after the sabbath following the feast of firstfruits, the day Jesus was resurrected.

Lev 23:15-17 KJV  And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:  (16)  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.  (17)  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.

That is the DAY OF PENTECOST.
  • But the year of JUBILEE is the fiftieth YEAR.
  • So there is also a YEAR OF PENTECOST!
  • And we already showed you where Jesus referred to the entire GOSPEL AGE as the YEAR OF THE LORD.
  • So the entire Gospel age is the PENTECOSTAL AGE.
  • That is not to be confused with designating one denomination over another.

True Pentecostal experience is return to all that Adam lost.
  • Pentecost was never meant to be a denomination.
  • It is an experience.
  • Its the experience that occurred in Acts 2.
  • God wants every person of every denomination to have the pentecostal experience.
He wants YOU to have it.

Acts 2:39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


There was a weekly SEVENTH DAY SABBATH.
  • That occurred every seven days.
  • The seventh day of the week was Sabbath.
  • But the day of Pentecost was a 50th Day Sabbath.
  • So it's a SPECIAL sabbath.

So the 50th year is a PENTECOSTAL YEAR!

How many sabbaths came between each Year of Jubilee?

Leviticus 25:8 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.

Between each JUBILEE YEAR was SEVEN SABBATH YEARS.
  • And that would bring you to the FIFTIETH YEAR of Jubilee.
  • The last sabbath year before the 50th was the 49th year - the seventh sabbath year since the last jubilee.
  • If ever seven years the land rested...
  • That means that the 49th and 50th years are TWO SABBATH YEARS IN A ROW!

SABBATH YEAR:
Lev 25:4 KJV  But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Lev 25:5 KJV  That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

JUBILEE YEAR:
Lev 25:11 KJV  A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

So for the 49th year and the 50th year -- two years in a row -- they had a double portion of BLESSINGS OF CROPS!
  • ANOTHER case of DOUBLE PORTION!

A double portion of the double portion!
  • Sabbath of sabbaths.
  • TWO YEARS IN A ROW OF NO SOWING OR REAPING.

The firstborn Son received a double portion of land compared to all the other sons of a man's family.
  • Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's anointing and power, and Elijah told him that it would be so if he would see Elijah ascend.
  • Elisha saw it and the mantle fell.
  • God made provision through redemption and jubilee to ensure it returns.