33 parasha b'chukkotai

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Parasha B chukkotai

"'You shall count off seven Shabbatot of years, seven times seven years;and there shall be to you the days of seven Shabbatot of years, evenforty-nine years.

Then you shall sound the loud shofar on the tenth day of the seventh

month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the shofar throughoutall your land.Leviticus 25:8-9

Yovel or JubileeIn our Bible, the first occurrence of the word "Jubilee" is the Hebrewterm teruah. Actually, teruah is a series of short trumpet blasts on theshofar. Out of the twenty-two times "Jubilee" appears in the Scripture,twenty-one times it is translated from the Hebrew word yovel. Yovelliterally means "the shofar of a ram". The ram's horn, the shofar, is a

symbol of repentance and redemption.

RashiAccording to Rashi from the sounding of the shofar . Josh 6:4-14

RambanRamban however objects: What sense is there in saying of a yearthat it shall be a blowing to you and you shall return? Further, hepoints out that the shofar need not necessarily be a rams horn, but

can be made of the horn of a wild goat. Following Ibn Ezra, He seesthe word yovel as meaning sending forth or bringing the libertythat characterize the year.

TraditionTradition states that when Abraham slew the ram caught in thethicket, he preserved the two ram's horns. One of these horns wassounded at the giving of the law at Sinai. This event marked thebeginning of Israel's return to the land that God had promised to themthe land where His presence would dwell. In essence, this representsrepentance, for the true meaning of repentance is not "turning", but"returning". The second ram's horn is to be sounded on the day offinal redemption, when all departed saints are resurrected. So theterm yovel or Jubilee alludes to returning, repentance, andredemption. The shofars used in announcing Jubilee were silver. This isanother allusion to redemption for in the Scripture, silver always


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represents "redemption".Gold and silver-plated shofarot (ram's horns)

Messianic Significance:1. First horn -Inscribing of the Torah in the heart.

2. Second horn Yom Teruah , Trumpet sounds , final redemption.

ReasonThere were several practical reasons to allow the land to rest everyseventh year. First, there were often swarms of locusts sweeping theMiddle East devouring everything in their sight (see Joel 1:1-5). Theseinsects have an incubation period of seven years. By allowing the landto rest during the sabbatical year, and assuming this seventh yearcoincided with the arrival of the locusts, it is possible that Israel'sfarms lay empty when the locusts showed up to eat. Therefore, they

would travel to other nations and devour their increase.Secondly, farming year after year takes the nutrients from the soil. Byallowing the land to lay fallow and allowing the fruit from the trees tofall to the ground and rot, it restored much needed nutrients to thetopsoil. The Sabbatical year allowed the land to rest and to replenishitself. What the Sabbatical year was to the land, the Year of Jubileewas to the people.

Messianic Significance:

1. First destruction of the devourer.2.Second restoration of strength.

The Jubilee marks the Lords possession of the land and people ofIsrael.Each Israelite returns to his ancestral inheritance and to his family inthe year of Jubilee, to demonstrate that they and the Land belong tothe Lord alone, no one else may take final possession of them. In thesame way all Israel belongs to the Lord alone.

Messianic Significance:The Lords possession of mankind and the earth.

BenefitsEveryone was at complete rest during the Year of Jubilee. There were


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to be no struggles, either financially, materially or spiritually. It was atime of joy, freedom, celebration and release. In fact, God sent suchan increase of produce from the fields during the forty-ninth year thatthe entire nation could eat from that increase during the fiftieth year!Once the Year of Jubilee had been declared, there were several

important releases that immediately occurred after the silver trumpetsounded.

ALL HEBREW SLAVES WERE PERMITTED TO RETURN TO THEIRFAMILIES

THE HEBREWS WERE NOT TO OPPRESS ONE ANOTHER.

PROPERTY WHICH HAD BEEN SOLD COULD BE REDEEMED BY ITSORIGINAL OWNER.

IT WAS NOT PERMISSIBLE TO CHARGE INTEREST TO A POOR MAN ORSTRANGER.

PEOPLE WERE TO DWELL IN A LAND OF SAFETY

This was God's intention, for in Leviticus 25:16, He instructed themthat the land must not be sold permanently because "the land is Mineand you are but My tenants".

Messianic Significance:Yeshua has achieved all this for believers.

50 (Pentecost ,50 days and Jubilee ,50 years)Fifty is the number connected with the Holy Spirit and Jubilee.

The Spirit was poured out at the first Pentecost after the resurrectionof Yeshua.Israel had what is called the year of Jubilee every 50 years.

This year of JUBILEE, in which every man returned unto his ownpossession, is a picture of the reign of Jesus and His saints, when allIsrael shall return to its possessions and the ransomed of the Lordshall return and come to Zion with songs of everlasting joy. I'd saythat meant JUBILEE. "And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, andcome to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they


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shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."That's Isaiah 35:10.

Here is the word "ransomed," so that meant "redeemed," and it isconnected with Israel's return of JUBILEE. Then when 20, the number

for redemption, is multiplied by 50, the number of years connectedwith the year of JUBILEE, the product is 1000, the number of years ofthe Millennium reign as in Revelation 20:4-6.

The blowing of the trumpet was connected with the year of JUBILEEand the returning of the people to their possessions. "And it shallcome to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channelof the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one byone, 0 ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, thatthe great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were

ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land ofEgypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem."

That's Isaiah 27:12, 13. "Then shall they know that I am the Lord theirGod, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen:but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none ofthem any more there. Neither will I hide my face any more from them:for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the LordGod." That's Ezekiel 39:28,29.

From this it is seen that there is to be an outpouring of the Spirit onIsrael bringing great joy. This is why the number 50 is connected bothwith the Holy Spirit and the years of Jubilee. In the year of Jubilee theywere to proclaim liberty throughout all the land. In II Corinthians 3:17we read, "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

The word of God tells us that creation shall be delivered from theBondage into the glorious liberty of the children of God. See Romans8:21. Israel shall also have rest from her bondage in the glorious yearof Jubilee, or the 1000-year reign. See Isaiah 14:1-3.

YeshuaWhen Jesus takes the seven sealed book out of the hand of God inRevelation 5, it is a Jubilee will. The "Lamb of God" is getting ready toredeem the earth back to God.

When Jesus returned to Nazareth after His forty days of fasting, He


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after declaring the acceptable year of the Lord. Jesus did not preach amessage of vengeance to His audience in Nazareth, because He didnot appear the first time as a Messiah of wrath and judgment. He iscalled the "Lamb of God".

In Isaiah 53, the Bible says, "... he is as a lamb to the slaughter and assheep before her shearers is dumb yet he openeth not his mouth". Itis interesting to note that the word "sheep" in this verse is the HebrewwordyovelJubilee. Christ came the first time as the Lamb to declareredemption to mankind. He did not come to "condemn the world, butcame that the world through Him might be saved". He was full of

mercy and grace. He came to:

PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR (LUKE 4:18)HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED (LUKE 4:18)PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES (LUKE 4:18)DECLARE RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND (LUKE 4:18)PREACH THE JUBILEE OF THE LORD (LUKE 4:19)

ISRAELWhen one traces the genealogies found in Genesis, revealing the timefrom Adam to Abraham, we discover there were 1,948 years fromAdam to the birth of Abraham. From the birth of the second manAdam (Jesus) to the restoration of the seed of Abraham (Israel), wasexactly 1,948 years (1948).

The year 1948 was marked by the restoration of Israel as a nationamong the nations.

CHURCHIt was during the same time period in 1948 that a major revival cameto the United States of America. There were many men of variousdenominations who spearheaded a great awakening from coast tocoast. Men such as Billy Graham and Oral Roberts became householdnames, although they were from opposite ends of the denominationalspectrum.


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Beginning in 1948, a revival known as the "restoration revival" beganto sweep the nations as men set up large tents seating 15 to 20thousand people. In many of the tents there were astonishing miraclesof healing that were reported, many of which were confirmed in theearly stages of the revival. This revival lasted for about seven years

and began to slowly fade out. The point is, it coincided with therestoration of modern Israel.

It was during June of 1967 that the Six Day War broke out. In thisdecisive war, the enemies of Israel were defeated, and Jerusalem wasreunited as the capital of Israel.Spiritually, the late 1960's was the turning point in the church as itrelates to God tearing down denominational barriers. Those issues,that had once divided the people of God, were slowly being removed.During this time, people from various denominations began to join

together and unite around the gospel message of Jesus Christ in whathas been called the Charismatic movement.

1998For whatever reasons, Mikhail Gorbachev was instrumental in bringingabout a great restoration for the Jews. Once again, we see in thenatural, the captives returning back to their homeland. Since about1990, there has been a steady stream of Jews making aliyah "return"

to the land of Israel.

For example, in Jewish thought, the sounding of the silver trumpet ofJubilee was called "the joyful sound" and was also termed "theacceptable year of the Lord". If we understand these concepts, we canlearn how to respond when Jubilee is proclaimed and how to flow inthe Jubilee blessing.

The announcement made in Nazareth at the beginning of Jesus'ministry was a proclamation that a Jubilee was beginning. For forty-two months, the greatest revival the world ever witnessed occurredinside of Israel as Jesus the "Jubilee Man" ministered freedom,deliverance and healing to suffering and hurting people.I believe we are now entering the climax of a final revival!

Parallelism of Israel and the Church


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Israel The Church1897 Theodor Herzl ,Zionist movement Pentecostal Movement1948 Birth of Israel Healing revival1967 Six days war Charismaticmovement , Jesus movement

1973 Yom KippurWar Modern Day MessianicMovement1998 Israels Jubilee from 1948 Signs and wonders ,creative miracles etc.

Conclusion:Yeshua our Messiah is our Yovel , who has achieved Yovel for us,

giving back everything to mankind what was lost in the garden.

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