Pastor Luis Del Cid. New York, January 18 of 2012 year of freedom
Introduction:
As we saw in the previous topic, in the old Israel, when they proclaimed
year of freedom was also called jubilee year, let’s see:
Eze
46:17 If, however, he makes a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants,
the servant may keep it until the year of freedom; then it will revert
to the prince. His inheritance belongs to his sons only; it is theirs
H1865 derór an unused root (meaning: to
move quickly). Freedom, hence,
spontaneity, flow, and that clear: Jubilee,
freedom.
The word Deror,
as we see it translated as well as freedom, when God determined a year of
freedom, He determined a jubilee year.
This year, is a new cycle, where God has
loosed an anointing that by his grace, makes us free.
This is a year where the things that will
happen are that debts will be forgiven. Why?
Lev
25:1 The year of rest of the land and the year of jubilee
While
Moses was on Mount Sinai, the LORD said to him,
Lev
25: 8-"'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.
Lev
25: 9- 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.
Lev
25: 10- Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty (derór) 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.
The Jubilee was the period which included 7
times 7 plus one.
Deu
15:1 At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts
Deu
15:2 this is how it is to be done: Every creditor shall cancel the loan he
has made to his fellow Israelite. He shall not require payment from his
fellow Israelite or brother, because the Lord’s time for canceling debts has
been proclaimed
Deu
15:4- However, there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your
God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you,
Deu
15:5- if only you fully obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all
these commands I am giving you today.
There are many ways of slavery that to oppress
God’s people, but one of the stronger are the debts. Year of Jubilee, year of
release, the year where they are left free the slaves, and according to
Proverbs 22:7 the borrower is slave to the lender.
Prov
22:7 the rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
Although, God in the midst of a need let us
sometimes render, the optimal plan of God is that if we buy something, we do
pay at once. The first thing that most of us thought when we listened “year of
forgiveness of debt” is the ones we want and need to be forgiven, and that is
fine, but it should not be primarily because the verse 5 says: “IF YOU HEAR THE
FAITHFUL VOICE OF THE LORD TO SAVE AND MEET ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS”.
That means that the first thing is that we
forgive, not just material things but spiritual things, so the Lord Jesus said:
Mat
6:9 “This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed
be your name,
Mat
6:12 Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Year of Jubilee, the year of forgiveness, what
else happens in the Jubilee?
The Jubilee is explained throughout the
chapter 25 of Leviticus
Lev
25:10 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.
This means, this is a year where we must go
out to evangelize, to proclaim liberty in Jesus Christ.
This is a year where we will recover things
that we were about to lose.
Year where families will be reconciled.
Members who were slaves to worldly things and thus separated from their
families, they will return to their families this year.
Lev
25:11- the fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap
what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines.
Lev
25:12- For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken
directly from the fields
This is a year where we should stop worrying
about generating more incomes, more material things, and instead strive to rest
in the Lord and seek His presence, because that’s the only way we can sanctify.
One who says so, this year of Jubilee, look
what God will give you for a lifetime.
Lev
25:18- 'Follow my decrees and be careful to obey my laws, and you will live
safely in the land.
Lev
25:19- Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live
there in safety.
God Asks this time like something special so
we can look for Him, and as a reward we will dwell securely in the land and
will always have support not only necessary but abundant. But beware, because
He asks us to keep holy (Lev 25:12) and trust that if we seek this, the rest
will come.
Exo
35:2 for six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy
day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to
death.
The substance of what God commands us in this
verse is that we should not fall in an effort to work more that prudent, but we
know that “here is the number 6” and henceforth seek only to God.
Phi
4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
When we search in the Hebrew, the etymology of
which can be translated eagerness, we find the following:
Job
11:14-if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell
in your tent,
Job
11:15- then you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and
without fear.
This word Iniquity comes from the Hebrew AVEN
H205 and is translated as vanity, toil.
The toil is caring beyond prudent
responsibility for something; it’s willing to get more that they can properly.
Notice how the hand is the eagerness with
vanity. Generally earthly desire something more than moderate effort becomes
and is to have iniquity, and therefore there is no holiness. Let’s see what
happens in the year of jubilee:
Lev
25:20- you may ask, "What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not plant
or harvest our crops?”
Lev
25:21- I will send you such a blessing in the sixth year that the land will
yield enough for three years.
Lev
25:22- While you plant during the eighth year, you will eat from the old
crop and will continue to eat from it until the harvest of the ninth year
comes in.
Remember that the period of 6 days or in this
case 6 years, is a figure of “ we have to work but without trying to strive
beyond what is prudent, meaning that we do not prevent us from seeking God” and
then the promise is “what you reap with your might God will triple.”
The year of Jubilee is a year where our faiths
is tested, where as we said to sanctify, we stop worrying and look for more
from the Lord but notice that it is time
to eat the stale.
Year of Jubilee, the year we must seek sustain
us of old things. Old things are promises, Rhemas, blessings that God gave us
but still not fulfilled or experiences we lived before and now the year of
Jubilee will bloom for our blessing.
The beloved says (the church) in the song of
Salomon:
Song
of Solomon 7: 13 the mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is
every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my lover.
To eat stale things, we need to have intimacy
with the beloved.
In ancient times they believed that the
mandrakes were fruits that used to help women to be fertile. What this means is
that the church that wants to participate in every blessing in the year of
jubilee, must prepare and seek intimacy with her lover, for in the privacy
sprout things stale.
Among the things stale, there is evidence that
we live and at this time will be remembered because it will encourage our soul.
Song
of Solomon 2:5 strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am
faint with love.
The raisins were once grapes. From grave wine
is removed. Wine means joy, so eating a raisin is to remember that joy, that
experience we had in God and now will become the support that we will make us
to move on.
Rev
2:5 Remember the days of your first love? How different you were…!
Rev
2:5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things
you did at first…
The year of Jubilee is time to revisit those
children of God be thanked, ready to find anything to be with God. This, as we
saw earlier, will take us that God will always sustain us wherever we will, we
need to be sure about that.