Who is jubilee in the bible

There are modern Israeli farmers living in the nation state of Israel, but it's a different situation there than it was. So what are analogies or ways? But then but the nature of the Jubilee is that it's public and communal and it's about family and land and property and economics, which makes people nervous and creates debate because religion isn't supposed to address those things. Religion is supposed to be personal and between you and God. Tim: So what I found is that these different Jubilee movements tend to generate lots of conflicting points of view.

Jon: Have you ever thought about America's debt? Tim: I've been hearing about it. Jon: It's at 20 trillion right now. Just about to hit 20 trillion. Tim: Again, there was a movement happening about 10 years ago that was especially about developing countries that have relatively small national budgets. Tim: Their whole budget is not even as big as the debt that's owed to maybe China or Russia or the US or something.

I don't know anything about this stuff. When we get to Jesus and the vision of the Jesus movement, it was a Jubilee movement. He says, "It's the favorable year of the Lord, the year of release. Today, these things are fulfilled in your hearing. I haven't let the cat out of the bag yet but Tim: Jesus launched his movement as a kingdom of God Jubilee movement.

And then all of a sudden, all the Sabbath controversies come into new focus Forgiveness in Jesus' teachings is the same word as the word "release. This is not a tangential issue for being a follower of Jesus. The meaning of Sabbath and the Jubilee is actually pretty core.

Jon: By that, you don't mean having debt or not having debt or owning debt. You're talking about this theme developing to Jesus. The cosmic Jubilee. Jon: The Cosmic Jubilee. Tim: Jesus launches a cosmic Jubilee. Jon: I'm excited to dig into that. Tim: Me too. The reason he's doing that is because Isaiah, and Ezekiel, and Jeremiah all looked at these themes in the Torah, and made it made them cosmic.

Jon: You said this is a mountaintop moment. So I think by that you're meaning out of all of these rituals that are just saturated sevens, this one pops the most. It has the biggest bang. It's the loudest. I mean, it's intense. And so to think about new creation and the intensity of that and how cataclysmic and how much things will change, this gets out that in a way that Tim: In terms of its disruptive nature, it's restoratives restorative nature, it equalizes.

Just like every Sabbath, you and your animals, and if you're an Israelite, one slave, and your slaves, nobody belongs to each other on that day because everybody belongs to Yahweh. It's this but ramped up to a whole year of it. Tim: And it's all an image of what the restored Eden ideal is at the end of the culmination of the story. As a social vision, I think that's what Jesus was intending to launch, which was a group of people who would live as if every day was this.

Jon: But that's like inner personal forgiveness. That's not like, you owe me 10 bucks forgiveness. Tim: Sure it is.

I mean, I can forgive you because you said something mean about me. I can forgive you because you stole 10 bucks from me. I can forgive you because we started business together and things went south and we had to part ways. I mean, all forgiveness is a communal event because it's interpersonal. Jesus launches Jubilee Jon: We do. Or cancel. Yeah, forgive. Forgive a loan. It's the same word. It's just it registers in a different category in my brain.

Tim: I think. Again, this is all telescoping forwarding to why Jesus is going to have these disputes about the Sabbath. Because for Jesus, every day is the Sabbath. Because the Sabbath is an ideal. It's the kingdom of God. It's not just bound up with a day now. It's every day until the new creation comes, we live in the present as if the future has arrived. That's why he heals people on the Sabbath. We'll talk about it in future episodes.

Tim: I don't know the answer. Those are important conversations. I'm not qualified to have that conversation. I think because the cultural context for these is so different in many modern Western countries, I think certain people get nervous because someone to like plop them right in. You have to think things through a little more thoroughly. Jon: People get nervous you're going to destroy the economy.

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Listen Here. Listen On:. How to Listen. Show Notes Series Episodes Transcript. Share Download Transcript. Every 50 years, every Israelite was supposed to return to their original piece of allotted land.

The jubilee would have effectively prevented cycles of intergenerational poverty and create a social and economic parity that would make Israel unique among all nations. Jesus announced that he was enacting the Year of Jubilee when he launched his public ministry. In part 2 , Tim dives into Leviticus Tim makes several observations about the lamp from Leviticus In part 3 , Tim dives into Leviticus 25 and the practice of jubilee.

Thank you to all our supporters! Send it to us info jointhebibleproject. Powered and distributed by Simplecast. Hey, this is Episode 7 of our conversations about sevens. Jon: God creates in six days, seventh day He rests. He settles in His creation. Jon: In order to rest you have to stop. And so Sabbath means stop. Tim: Shabbat means to stop. Jon: To stop.

Jon: It's really helpful. Good overview. Jon: In Hebrew, they're called appointed time. Tim: Appointed times. The moadim. Jon: The moadim. How do you know when the appointed times are? You look up at the sky. Jon: The theme of the seventh day. Tim: Yeah, sure. Jon: Probably. Tim: I think it is. Jon: So virgin would be the first pressing? Jon: Or would that be extra virgin? I love olive oil. Jon: Put on some avocado toast.

Tim: And then like gluten bomb, you just want to go to sleep afterwards. But that's okay. Tim: I thought it'd be about what pressing gives you what kind. Jon: It's about quality. Jon: Let's see what he has to say. Jon: First oil. Is that the clear oil? Jon: Right. Jon: The menorah. Jon: Yeah, there's no sunlight there. Jon: Oh, right. You mentioned that. Jon: Yeah. Jon: The two thirds.

Jon: Just like the showbread. Tim: Outside the veil, Aaron will keep it in order from evening to morning. That's Genesis 1. Jon: And there was evening and there was morning. Jon: A symbol of the glory cloud. Jon: All right. They now Jon: It's a Sabbath activity. Tim: Continually, perpetually, this is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

Jon: Every Sabbath, new bread; every day, new oil. Jon: What a multi-sensory place. Like fresh bread and incense. Tim: Too bad hardly anyone could go in there. Jon: Just the priests. Jon: But just the priests,. Jon: Who's going to ascend? Jon: I don't if I understand what that means. Jon: Let it go.

Jon: But it says don't reap, but then you can eat it. How do you do without reaping it? Tim: That's a good point. I think reaping would be the goal is to gather as much versus Jon: Just getting what you need for the day. Jon: You're going to be in there taking some, you go there, take some. Jon: That'd be an adventure. Jon: But it's an extra special Sabbath year. Jon: This is right in the center of it all. Jon: Oh, yeah.

Because it's kind of like a new year of sorts. Jon: Like you're going to fly away. The Year of Jubilee foreshadows the finished and sufficient work of the Lord Jesus. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus, He relieves sinners from their spiritual debts and slavery to sin. Today sinners can be freed from both to have both union and communion with God the Father and enjoy fellowship with the people of God.

While Jubilee's year involved a release from a debt, we need to be careful here that we do not read our Western understanding of the release of debt into this particular situation. Art Lindsley of the Gospel Coalition explains that if "Israelite family members have a debt, they can ask the person farming their land for a lump sum payment priced according to the number of years before the Jubilee.

The price would then be determined by the projected number of crops to be yielded" before the Jubilee. Lindsley gives the following example, if you had a debt of two hundred and fifty thousand, and there are five years before the Jubilee, and each crop is worth fifty thousand, the buyer would give you the two hundred and fifty thousand for the rights to farm the land.

At Jubilee's time, you would receive your land back because the debt had been paid off. The debt is paid off by the crops the land produces.

At Jubilee's time, the Israelites could rejoice the debt had been paid off, and the land returned to full use. Even so, you would not thank the leaser for forgiving your debt. The fiftieth year was a time in which liberty would be proclaimed to all the inhabitants of Israel. The Law was intended to benefit all the masters and the servants. The Israelites owed their life to the sovereign will of God. The book of Leviticus, in the code of holiness, is the source which tells us of the significance of the jubilee year, a year of liberation "par excellence," which is at the end of seven weeks of years, the fiftieth year.

Then you shall send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall send abroad the loud trumpet throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his family» Leviticus 25, In the same Leviticus there are texts and very precious parallel models for understanding the jubilee year's intention and design.

Meanwhile it is important to be aware that in the Near East, in the ancient cultures, the cycle of the moon was chosen as the criterion for marking time: the week seven days takes on, even before the Judaic legislation, a strikingly religious character. The Lord marks the times of work and of rest.

Already the first chapter of the first book, Genesis, interprets the creative activity of God with the structure of seven days, even with lucid consciousness of the transcendenceof God who "speaks", and his speech is creative, it is "benediction".

The feasts of the Hebrew calendar are also marked by seven days; such is the duration both of the feast of the unleavened bread and of the feast of the tabernacles. In particular, Pentecost fiftieth day , or the feast of the weeks, is celebrated seven weeks after the Saturday of Passover.

The sources of these laws are found in chapter 23 of the book of Leviticus, and even earlier in chapter 34 in Exodus and chapter 16 of the fifth book of the Bible, Deuteronomy. One ascertains with joy and with appreciation how faith in God also carries Israel's culture, living in it a primacy in time, in work, in relationships.

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