Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan.
Leviticus 25:10
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This chapter begins by describing the sabbatical year which occurred every seven years. The fields were not to be ploughed or planted. In the seventh year, the land was to have a year of rest.
Jubilee was about freedom from captivity. Every fifty years, the Israelites were to remember how they had once been oppressed as slaves in Egypt and how the Lord had liberated them. The laws for the Jubilee looked forward to the day the Israelites would live as free citizens in the land that the Lord gave them. It was to remind them that man does not live by bread alone.
The Sabbath and Jubilee years called the people to trust God to provide. Jubilee prevented massive accumulation of wealth, especially at the expense of poorer people. The Jubilee year began with the sounding of the trumpet. And the Bible says, one day the trumpet of the Lord will sound for us. The dead in Christ will rise first and those alive will be caught up in the clouds to meet Him, to be with Him forever more. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17). Is this hope yours? Then you will set little value on possessions and more value for God and His Word.
On what is your heart set?
Lord, help me set my mind on you more than on my worldly possessions, I pray.
Extended Reading — Leviticus 24-25
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