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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 fulfillment. 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 last trump."
The year of jubilee was ushered in by the sound of a trumpet (Lev. 25: 9). In
Lev. 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 10th day of the seventh month is "the last trump" of Israel's typical year.
I Cor. 15: 50-57 is "the last trump" in reality. Rev. 10: 7 and 11: 15 is the last trump of
the seventh angel, and fulfils the type. The "trump of God" of I Thess. 4: 16 is not
called the "last" and may be a fulfillment 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 Josh. 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 I Thess. 4:). It is interesting to note that the "shout" of
Josh. 6: 5 & 20 and the word jubilee in Lev. 25: 9 are the same. The note in The
Companion Bible at "trumpet" is misleading. The word yobel does not occur until
verse 10.
Such is a brief survey of the teaching connected with the jubilee, and we believe few
would have the temerity to divorce what God has joined together, and will give little heed
to that system of teaching which has to say that those who are saved at the consummation
are not elect and not redeemed. Such types as "the present interval of bondage", "the
two seeds" and "the kinsman-redeemer" are by the same system set aside as being
"all concerned with the process and not the goal. They apply to intermediate conditions
and not ultimate result . . . . . few were set free by redemption, but all went free in the
jubilee". The Virgin birth and the doctrine of I Cor. 15: 21, 22 appear to us as being the