SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
5/19/2015 9:22 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: The
Year of Jubilee Will be Celebrated during the Millennial Age
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: “Ezekiel 46:16-18
Message of the
verses: “16 ’Thus says the Lord GOD,
"If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it
shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. 17 “But if he
gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until
the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall
be only his sons’; it shall belong to them. 18 “The prince shall not take from
the people’s inheritance, thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give
his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be
scattered, anyone from his possession."’"”
After yesterday’s very long post
this one will be a very short post as we look at only three verses in chapter
46 of Ezekiel which shows that during the Millennial Age the Year of Jubilee
will be celebrated. Now I want to take
some time to go back and find some things that I wrote on the Year of Jubilee
from the 25th chapter of Leviticus so that we will all understand
exactly what this means. I wrote the
following on November 10, 2008 “The word jubilee means “to sound the trumpets,
and the Hebrew word is yobel, which means “a rams horn.” The year of Jubilee happened every fifty
years, as the Jews counted off seven Sabbath years which was forty-nine years
and the next year was the beginning of the year of Jubilee. This would mean that they would have to trust
the Lord for almost three years for their food as they would not have planted
for the Sabbath year and for the year of Jubilee and then they would have to
wait for the crops to come in the year after the year of Jubilee. All of this would take a lot of faith. However there is evidence from the Scriptures
that not one of these years of Jubilee were ever celebrated.” This is a very
brief description of the Year of Jubilee, but hopefully enough to show what it
is.
As I began to look at what Dr.
Wiersbe wrote in his commentary on what we are looking at today I found that
there was a mistake in giving out the verses for what we are looking at today
as he had in his commentary Ezekiel 48:16-18 and this confused me so I looked
at the verses in 46:16-18 and it made more sense to me. Now we know that the Millennial Age or
Kingdom is 1000 years as that is what Millennial means and so there will be
twenty such celebrations during that time.
“Dr. Wiersbe writes Ezekiel makes the special point that during the
Kingdom Age, the prince would not oppress the people or confiscate their land
as the rulers did during the last days of the Kingdom of Judah.” As we read and study the prophets of the OT
we have to understand that when they wrote things that pertained to the future
they also had meaning for the time when they wrote them, and as we learn many
things that will happen in the Kingdom Age in chapters 40-48 they will still
have some thing that pertain to the time when Ezekiel wrote this prophecy. Dr. Wiersbe goes on to write “The people of
Israel failed to obey the laws relating to the Sabbatic Year and the Year of
Jubilee, so God had to send them into exile so that His land could enjoy the
rest it needed (2 Chron. 36:14-21; Lev. 26:14ff; Jer. 25:9-12; 27:6-8;
29:10).” I want to take the time to look
at the passage from 2 Chronicles 36:14-21 so we can better understand one of
the reasons God sent His people into exile.
“14 Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were
very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled
the house of the LORD which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. 15 The LORD, the
God of their fathers, sent word to them again and again by His messengers,
because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place; 16 but they
continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His
prophets, until the wrath
of the LORD arose against His people, until there was no remedy. 17 Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans
who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and
had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all
into his hand. 18 All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and
the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king and of
his officers, he brought them all to Babylon. 19 Then they burned the house of
God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified
buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles. 20 Those who had
escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon; and they were servants to
him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, 21 to fulfill the word of the LORD
by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days
of its desolation it kept Sabbath until seventy years were complete.” Now where do we find where the Lord said He
would do what He did in the Scriptures? The passage from Lev. 26:14 and following is
one of the places that contain the answer to this question. I also believe that Deuteronomy chapter 28
may contain some answers too.
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