Donna Danna (27
Jan 2012)
"WHEN IS ISRAEL'S NEXT
JUBILEE YEAR?"
Leviticus 25:4 says, "But in the seventh
year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the
Lord; thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune they
vineyard."
Leviticus 25:8-13 says, "And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of
years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the
seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the
tenth [day] of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall
ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall
hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout [all]
the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee
unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and
ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubilee shall that
fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that
which groweth of itself in it, nor gather [the grapes] in it of
thy vine undressed. For it [is] the jubilee; it shall be holy
unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In
the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his
possession."
Since most of Israel is secular and is not letting the land rest
every seventh year which is considered the Sabbath year of rest,
I don't see how the 50th year could be considered a Jubilee
year. Also the land is supposed to be allowed to rest in
both the 49th and 50th year as indicated in verse 25:11 which
also is not being done by the entire nation of Israel.
In Leviticus 26:14-46, the Lord tells the Israelites what their
punishment will be for not keeping his commandments. In
26:18, the Lord said, "And if ye will not yet for all this
hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for
your sins." In verses 21, 24, and 28, the Lord tells them
how he will punish them seven times for their sins which is the
reason why they were removed from the land (verse 33) so that
the land in Israel could enjoy its sabbaths and its rest (verses
34 & 35).
I don't really see there being a sabbath year when the entire
land of Israel rests nor a jubilee year where the entire land of
Israel rests until the Lord Jesus Christ returns. Isaiah
66:22-23 says, :For as the new heavens and the new earth, which
I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall
your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass,
[that] from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the
LORD." Also in speaking about the new temple to be built
in Jerusalem, Ezekiel 44:24 says, "And in controversy they shall
stand in judgment; [and] they shall judge it according to my
judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all
mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths." Ezekiel
46:1, " Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court
that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new
moon it shall be opened." Ezekiel 46:3, "Likewise the people of
the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD
in the sabbaths and in the new moons." So the people of
the land will be keeping the sabbaths (sabbath day and the
sabbath years in which the land is allowed to rest every 7th
year) when the Lord is in the new temple in Jerusalem, and the
50th year will be considered a jubilee year at that time.