Jesus, Our Jubilee

Jesus, Our Jubilee

Luke 4:19 When Jesus made the announcement in Luke, chapter 4, everyone that knew about the covenant knew He had announced what Isaiah had declared in chapter 61:1-2.

Jesus didn’t declare the whole scripture in Isaiah 61:2.  He stopped short of declaring the day of the vengeance of the Lord.  The time for that had not yet come, only the time of restoration and deliverance.

The accepted day of the Lord was stated in Leviticus 25:1-55 and was the year of Jubilee.  Whatever debt you owed whatever land you lost, whatever family had been sold into slavery to pay off your debt, whatever burden was placed on you because of who you were, it would be cancelled out if you had a relative who could pay the debt and redeem it for you.

The Book of Galations 3:13-14 declares that we have a relative who had paid the whole price of redemption for us.  The difference is that our Jesus (according to the Law of the Kinsman Redeemer) had the ability to redeem back to us everything that had been lost, clear back to the Garden of Eden.

The redemption was to include everything that the first Adam lost, and restore it back to those who would dare to believe what the Blood had purchased.

Our redemption was to include our restoration back to the Father in such a way as to be received back into His house as family.  The sin price was paid, the healing (both physical and spiritual) had been restored, Isaiah 52, 53 and 54 (amp).  Our righteousness is now of the Lord.  Isaiah 53:11 (amp) we were restored back to a place where we have the protection of the Father because of the restoration.

Isaiah 54:17 (amp), we who were sold into bondage by our older brother, Adam, we are now set free, all debt was cancelled, all has been restored and we were justified by our Kinsman Redeemer, our Brother, our Lamb and our Lord, Jesus Christ!  Our Kinsman Redeemer!

Only Jesus had the ability to restore everything back that had been lost in the rebellion by Adam and to give everything back that the Father had intended for His family when He saw that everything was very good (Genesis 2:31 amp).

            When our Lord redeemed us, He didn’t just pay the sin debt, He paid all the debt that was owed and restored us back to where we were before the fall.  One of the things that was restored that we don’t think about sometimes is in Genesis 1:26-28, the authority of the child of God that was ours in the beginning.  Matthew 28:18-20 (amp) all power and authority was returned to Jesus and we were given the power of attorney “by Jesus, Himself” to the use of His name.  Luke 10:17-20 (amp) the restoration of the God given authority in Genesis 2 was also restored in our redeemer, Jesus.

            An ordinary man could (by his wealth) redeem back what had been lost according to the law of the Kinsman Redeemer, but only Jesus could restore it all.

            We need to understand what has happened on our behalf, and not let all that has been restored be taken form us again by the same deceiver that stole it from Adam.  Psalms 107:1-3 (amp), you may say, “Oh that was for the Hebrew people”.  NO!  That was for God’s people; US!

            We were called back to Him.  The Apostle Paul made a statement in Philippians 3:9-10 to the extent that he may know Jesus and the power of His resurrection, but to also share in His suffering.  If you are to share in His sufferings that doesn’t mean what He bore on the cross.  He did that for us so we should not have to bear it.  That was the price of redemption paid for us to go free.  The suffering that He endured was rejection by people, by His own brethren, misunderstood by those He spoke to, the constant attack of the enemy to try to wear Him down, and betrayal by those He loved.  You and I will suffer some of the same things as we press on to a deeper walk with Him.

            I fight the good fight of faith and press toward the mark of the “High Calling of God” in my life.  I try to understand what was purchased back for me by my “Kinsman Redeemer”, so as not to let anything he suffered and died for be for nothing in my life.

            Psalms 107:2 (amp), Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.