Welcome to a new day, my fellow pilgrims. We spend one last day in Rome reflecting on the Jubilee years of days past and of 2025.
Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each of you is to return to your family property and to your own clan. The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields. –Leviticus 25:8-12 (NIV)
God’s provision for the Israelites was that every fiftieth year was a special year consecrated to Him where liberty, being set free from bondage and opposition was to be lived out. It was a holy, sacred time of living in freedom, being restored, and with a complete reset of the land and its people–a different way of life. The beginning of the year was sounded by the shofar. Continue reading “JUBILEE YEAR”