Mark 3:29; Acts 5:31; 13:38; 26:18; Eph. 1:7; Col.

Luke 4:18 (confirming Isa. 61 LXX).

Luke 4:18 (confirming Isa. 61 LXX).

Matt. 26:28; Mark 1:4; Luke 1:77; 3:3; 24:47;

Acts 2:38; 10:43; Heb. 9:22; 10:18.

The institution of the jubilee follows immediately upon the law

concerning the sabbatic year recorded in Leviticus 25 and is indeed an

extension of the principle of the sabbath:

'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' (Lev. 25:8 -10).

There is a designed stress upon the number seven.  The trumpet of the

jubilee sounds at the end of the forty -ninth (7 x 7) year, in the seventh

month.  The tenth day of the seventh month is the day of atonement.  The

jubilee is most closely associated with that day.  It comes into effect in

the fiftieth year, but it has its roots in the tenth day of the seventh month

of the forty -ninth year.  The jubilee is the year of the Lord's redeemed.

The selfsame redemption that formed a basis for the forgiveness (aphesis) of

sin, purchased the possession into which the redeemed shall yet enter (Eph.

1:7 and 14), but there were not two sacrifices offered for this twofold

redemption.  What we must remember when dealing with Israel is that they were

a redeemed people.  The jubilee and the day of atonement belong to Israel as

a redeemed people and not otherwise.  Seeing, moreover, that their

redemption, their sacrificial system, their land were typical of the future

reality, we must trace this progression of sabbaths up to its climax.  We

have the seventh day, the seventh month, the seventh year, the seven times

seven years, and lastly as a fulfilment of all, the seventy times seven of

Daniel 9:

'Seventy weeks (sevens) are determined upon thy people and upon thy

holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and

to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting

righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint

the most holy' (Dan. 9:24).

In this climactic period, the day of atonement, the jubilee, the

redemption of the purchased possession, all meet together in blessed

fulfilment.  The fact that at the Second Coming the Lord Jesus shall appear

'apart from sin' and 'without a sin offering', gives no warrant

to believe that any blessing then introduced can be experienced and enjoyed

apart from the shedding of His blood both as the great Redeemer and atoning

Sacrifice; rather it implies that the work being finished will never be