We are a people of the Jubilee! This tremendous celebration of which we read in Leviticus carries with it the following: release from all bondage; forgiveness of all debt; restoration of all property; and entrance into the fullness of the blessings of the Kingdom of God. Oh, Yes! We are God’s people, and as such, people of the Jubilee!

One of the neat things about following Jesus Christ is that the benefits of the Jubilee are with us at all times—we do not have to wait fifty years! Moses lays out the pattern for the Jubilee celebration in Leviticus 25.8-10: ‘Count off seven sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years.’

This was to be a major time of celebration for the people of Israel, but there is no record of their ever having celebrated the Jubilee Year! They should have had many of these wonderful celebrations, as Moses continues: ‘Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.’

WE HAVE JUBILEE NOW! That is our lot because of Jesus! We are free in him to rejoice in the wholeness of life through the Holy Spirit he released into our lives. Moses concludes: ‘Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan.’

Every year is Jubilee for us! What a glorious and gracious God we serve! He paid the price for us to enter fully into the benefits of our birth relationship with Father God—let’s not waste a moment of this precious time! ENTER INTO YOUR JUBILEE!