In this episode we start a new series from the book of Leviticus about the Year of Jubilee. Every 50 years (after seven sabbatical years mentioned in Leviticus 25:1-7) Israel was to celebrate the Year of Jubilee starting on the Day of Atonement. That 50th year, much like the Day of Atonement, was like a reset button for the Israelite economy. For example, those who had sold their property - or themselves - to pay off their debts were released to go back to their families, with their land also being released back into their possession. This reset button every 50 years did many things, but one important thing was the disruption of generational poverty through the permanent loss of land, which was the means of production in an agrarian society. God didn't want his people devolving into state of perpetual indebtedness and servitude where wealth was concentrated in a few families, with other families having to serve those wealthier familes in perpetual dependence. God wanted his people to have access to the means of production throughout their generatons so they could have economic freedom. And in order for that to happen, there would need to be a releasing - forgiving - of debts and a restoring of property back to its original family owners.
What's interesting is that Jesus frames the inauguration of his ministry in Luke as being a Year of Jubilee. But instead of only addressing economic matters, he also addresses social and spiritual matters, too. Jesus' Year of Jubilee went deeper and further than economics and went to the very core of our human condition, demonstrating God's justice not only wants to restore us back to our original purposes, but also transform us to reach that purpose, too. God's justice, over all, is primarily transformative. And by virtue of Jesus proclaiming freedom to the captives, he was simultaneously assuming a prerogative that only a King could assume.
Key Passages:
Leviticus 25:8-16
Luke 4:16-19

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