Your Year Jubilee
Author: Pat AH Aman
1/1/2015/rev.9/18/2024
2024 – The Year Of Prayer
2025 – The Year Of Jubilee
In the biblical cycle, 50 is the yovel (jubilee) year, in which debts are released, slaves go free, the shofar of liberation is sounded, and each person returns to his or her family’s holdings.
The Year of Jubilee was a holy year and was a time of celebration, deliverance, and restoration. It was a time for:
- Resting from labor
- Releasing slaves
- Redeeming what was lost
- Helping neighbors and family
- The land to keep a sabbath to the Lord
- Each person returning to their ancestral possession
- Not sowing or reaping and storing what grew of itself
According to Luke 4:18-19, Jesus declared that HE was the Year of Jubilee, and that the acceptable year of the Lord had arrived.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. (Luke 4:18-19, emphasis added)
As in all things, Christ comes to not only fulfill the Old Testament but also to go beyond. He is fulfilling the Old Testament Year of Jubilee but with a promise of greater freedom: freedom from death and sin.
- Jesus’ ministry
Jesus’ ministry was centered on the Year of Jubilee, and he announced that he was enacting it when he began his public ministry. - Jesus’ death
Jesus’ death is believed to have taken place during the Year of Jubilee, which some interpret as a “year of the Lord’s favor”. - Jesus’ message
Jesus’ message was about salvation and forgiveness of sins, which some interpret as a spiritual concept that came to fruition through his death and resurrection.
The Christian Jubilee Year, then, is a time to enter into this freedom. It is a time for reconciliation with God and neighbor. As we receive the graces of this year, also called a “Holy Year,” God calls us to a holiness of life, to engage in acts of mercy and conversion. While we cannot take a break from our “sowing” or “harvesting” for a year, we can find ways to dedicate this year in a special way to the Lord. Perhaps one way to begin celebrating the Jubilee Year is to turn to the Lord in his Word, strengthening our relationship with him by reading the Bible.
“For all of us, may the Jubilee be an opportunity to be renewed in hope. God’s word helps us find reasons for that hope. Taking it as our guide, let us return to the message that the Apostle Paul wished to communicate to the Christians….
This Year of Jubilee follows the Year of Prayer in 2024
According to the Bible, the next 50th year of Jubilee would be considered to occur every 50 years, and based on current understanding, the next Jubilee year would be 2025.
The Jubilee year is found in the Book of Leviticus, where it states that every 50 years should be a year of release, where slaves are freed, debts are forgiven, and land is returned to its original owners.
‘And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field. ‘In this Year of Jubilee, each of you shall return to his possession. And if you sell anything to your neighbor or buy from your neighbor’s hand, you shall not oppress one another. According to the number of years after the Jubilee you shall buy from your neighbor, and according to the number of years of crops he shall sell to you. According to the multitude of years you shall increase its price, and according to the fewer number of years you shall diminish its price; for he sells to you according to the number of the years of the crops. Therefore you shall not oppress one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the LORD your God. (Leviticus 25:8-17 NKJV)
I leave you with one important question, “are you spending your time in prayer, preparing for your year if Jubilee?”
Blessings,
Pastor Pat…
Devotion Written By: Pastor Pat Aman Book © 1996/2024 “Coffee With Pat Daily Devotionals” “Coffee With A Little Spice Of Life” and Westbow Press a division of © Thomas Nelson and Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910976.
Notes:
Spirit Filled Bible
Strongs Concordance
Matthew Henry’s Study’s
Dakes Bible Study
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