'Seventy weeks 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 the climacteric 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.

The year of jubilee was ushered in by the sound of a trumpet (Lev.

25:9).  In Leviticus 23:24, we find the first day of the seventh month

ushered in by the blowing of trumpets.  This is a holy convocation.  What is

of importance, is that the trumpet sounded on the tenth day of the seventh

month is 'the last trump' of Israel's typical year.  1 Corinthians 15:50 -57

is 'the last trump' in reality.  Revelation 10:7 and 11:15 is the last trump

of the seventh angel, and fulfils the type.  The 'trump of God' of 1

Thessalonians 4:16 is not called the 'last' and may be a fulfilment of the

earlier trump on the first day of the seventh month.

The jubilee trumpet not only means deliverance for Israel, but the

overthrow of Israel's enemies, for the very word 'jubilee' is translated

'rams' horns' in Joshua 6.  Joshua 6 tells of the fall of Jericho.  Seven

priests bear before the ark seven trumpets and compass the city six days.  On

the seventh day they compass the city seven times and blow with the trumpets.

At the sounding of a long blast of the trumpet all the people shout and

Jericho falls:

'And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with

the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath

given you the city' (Josh. 6:16).

This shout and the sounding of the jubilee trumpet on the overthrow of

the accursed city finds its echo in the Hallelujahs that go up at the

judgment and overthrow of Babylon (Rev. 19 and the 'shout' of 1 Thess. 4).

It is interesting to note that the 'shout' of Joshua 6:5 and 20 and the word

'jubilee' in Leviticus 25:9 are the same.  The note in The Companion Bible at

'trumpet' is misleading.  The word yobel does not occur until verse 10.

Summarizing what Scripture actually says, we find that the jubilee is a

wonderful type of redemption, emphasizing by the language used the liberty

and the re -entry into forfeited rights that are inseparable from the

conception of redemption everywhere presented in the Word.  We have been

redeemed (Eph. 1:7), we are looking forward to our jubilee (Eph. 1:14), to

the day of the redemption of the purchased possession.  Let no man rob us of

the blessed hope, ours by the blood of Christ.

It will be seen that the Festal Year described in Leviticus 23 is a

perfect forecast, and one that cannot be ignored when attempting to devise a

chart or graph of 'things to come'.  Moreover with this inspired insistence

on a 'year' of seven months, we are prepared to believe that the Millennium