The Year of Jubilee - The Season of God’s favor

I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. (Lev 25: 21)

🌻Under the Old Covenant every seventh year was a time to let the ground rest so that it could recover and come back stronger, producing a stronger, healthier, more abundant harvest. 

🌻But the fiftieth year—Jubilee—was an extra special year. It was a Holy year. The Slaves were set free, and lands previously bought from people were redeemed back. It was a year of restoration.

🌻The “year acceptable to the Lord” that Jesus spoke about that day in Nazareth was a reference to a Jubilee Year.

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 iliberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

 (Luke 4:18-19)

🌻In the last year, before the year of rest, God caused the ground to produce three times as much fruit so that His people could eat and be satisfied while the ground rested and while they rested in His goodness.

🌻The Year of Jubilee therefore was a year of REST in which there was no strife and struggle and the people ate of the increase of the 6th year.

🌻The Lord was always able to make the year before the Year of rest produce so much as is needed for 3 years. 

🌻This is an important principle that God is able to make all Grace abound and cause the sufficiency in all things!

🌻Jesus’ proclamation in the temple (Luke 4:18-19) was that a Year or Season of Jubilee had come. It’s the principle under which the sick are healed, poverty is broken off families, and lives lost in bondage are restored under God’s abundant Grace.

🌻As the Bible says those who have entered this Rest has ceased from their own works. We are called to enter the Rest of God and not to count on our abilities and connections but rather receive the word of God and have the faith for what it says. (Heb 4)

Happy Jubilee Season!

You are favored!