What was the year of Jubilee in the Old Testament days? In Old Testament days, the Lord made a provision that every fiftieth year would be a year of Jubilee in which people would get back possessions and land that had been lost, and slaves would be given their freedom. No one was in debt for at least a few hours. It was a great time, but the people, remember, had to wait fifty years for it.

Types and shadows in the Old Testament mean living reality for us today. The Israelites’ fiftieth year of Jubilee is a type and shadow of the acceptable year of the Lord, the Jubilee that Christ has brought in. The Spirit of the Lord was upon Jesus, anointing Him to preach the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:19).

We don’t have Jubilee every fifty years; we have it all the time. Jesus brought the year of Jubilee for the whole Church period which has lasted about two thousand years now. No longer in spiritual bondage, no longer slaves to the devil, we can be free through Jesus Christ. No man can serve two masters (Matthew 6:24). Man cannot serve both God and the devil. This wonderful Jubilee we have offers man freedom from the devil through all the power, the glory, the greatness, the joy, the goodness and the righteousness available to us in the blood of Jesus.

When He came to Earth, Jesus didn’t take on the nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren (Hebrews 2:16,17). Jesus, the very Son of God, became very man as well as very God. He was born just like the rest of us with one miraculous exception: He was born with divine, not human blood. He did not have an Earth father. The very Son of God with divine blood became related to the human race when He took on human form, our Redeemer Kinsman for soul, mind and body.

Three requirements had to be met for a person to be a redeemer kinsman: (1) He must be willing to act as a redeemer. (2) He must be a near kinsman of the one who lost the possession. (3) He must be able to pay the redemption price. As our Elder Brother through the seed of Abraham, Jesus could redeem mankind and the earth as well.

Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:7). Jesus was able to pay the required cost. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). Everything lost in the fall of man, Jesus came to buy back. No other person met the conditions for that buy-back. No one but Jesus could have redeemed us and bought back everything, even the land.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things…But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot (I Peter 1:18,19). In Old Testament days, possessions were redeemed with silver and gold, but since corruptible things could not be used to redeem the soul, man needed the perfect Redeemer to redeem his health, soul, everything. The Redeemer Kinsman, Jesus, was the only one who could redeem mankind; that redemption would take divine blood.

We hear John the Baptist saying, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29). You don’t have to sin; if you did, you would still be a slave of sin. For sin shall not have dominion over you (Romans 6:14). The divine blood of Jesus renders sin helpless; it has no power over you when you are purchased by your Redeemer Kinsman. Through Him you have victorious life and are made a partaker of His divine blood. You have no other kinsman on Earth with divine blood. Jesus is the Jubilee Christ who has paid the price to redeem all that was lost in the fall of man.

Millions of years ago, Lucifer, once an angel of God, sinned and was cast out of Heaven down to Earth. The earth up to that time had been magnificent, beautiful and full of life; now it suddenly became void, covered with water and cursed because of Lucifer. We don’t know how many ages the earth remained in that state before the creation story we read in Genesis took place. God restored the beauty of the earth; it was magnificent. He created a beautiful Garden for the first man and woman. God came down and visited with Adam and Eve in their home in Eden. But Adam, after having dominion over the earth, after being the king of the earth, failed God through disobedience; and Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden. At the fall of Adam and Eve, sin caused the earth again to be cursed. Since then the earth as well as man has awaited a Redeemer.

We find in Romans 8:19-22 that the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. The animals are suffering; some are vicious, their lives in danger. Groaning, groaning and pining for blessed deliverance to come, the whole creation is longing for the marvelous time of redemption. The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes (Isaiah 35:1,7). There will be no barrenness when the earth is redeemed.

Amos the prophet tells us of a great harvest: Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt (Amos 9:13). The soil will be so rich that before the harvest is reaped it will be time to plow again. We have much in store for us.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD (Isaiah 65:25). It will be marvelous when the animals have no fear. No wonder the animals are groaning for that hour of deliverance! All creation yearns for that time to be here.

Although the devil robbed us of it, the earth still belongs to the human race. The Lord told Israel that the land would be theirs forever; it was His to give to whomever He chose. God told Moses, The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me (Leviticus 25:23). Since the land wasn’t to be sold forever, God made the way for a Redeemer Kinsman to buy it back.

In the Old Testament, a person with a redeemer kinsman could find redemption for himself or his possession without waiting fifty years. When a person lost his land or when a family member was forced into slavery, the obligations of redemption were written on two scrolls. Seven seals were placed on one scroll, and the scroll was put into a private place. The other scroll was kept public in the Tabernacle. Later, only one scroll was required, written on both sides within and without, rolled into a tube and sealed with seven seals. On the outside one could read the qualifications, the obligations for redemption. Not everyone qualified to be a redeemer kinsman; few, in fact, did.

Jeremiah 32:6-15 paints a beautiful picture of a redeemer kinsman. Jeremiah’s cousin came to him because he had lost everything and he wanted Jeremiah to pay the price of redemption. Being a first cousin, Jeremiah was related closely enough to be a redeemer kinsman, and he was willing and able. The terms of the redemption were written on two scrolls and sealed with seven seals. Jeremiah redeemed the possession at a time when he was shut up in the court of the king’s prison and the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. It was an act of faith. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land (Jeremiah 32:15).

In the book of Ruth we find a glorious type of Jesus as Redeemer Kinsman. The book begins as Naomi, her husband and two sons journey into Moab to escape a famine. Their sons take wives there, but great sorrow comes as Naomi’s husband and two sons die. When she hears that the famine in her homeland has ended, Naomi decides to return. She doesn’t know how she will manage to get the inheritance due her because she is alone. But Ruth her daughter-in-law has been enlightened about the Lord God of Israel and she is determined to go with Naomi. When Naomi tries to dissuade her, Ruth tells her, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the LORD do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me (Ruth 1:16,17).

Ruth went to glean in the fields of wealthy Boaz. When Ruth told Naomi in whose fields she had gleaned that day, Naomi replied, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen (Ruth 2:20). Boaz saw Ruth, fell in love with her and told his workers to drop handfuls of grain on purpose for her. Then he decided he wanted to fulfill the role of redeemer kinsman and take Ruth as his wife. This was God working. But the nearest of kin had the first chance at redemption, and one was more closely related to Naomi than Boaz was. Boaz approached the man first in line to redeem the field of Naomi and told him that if he did so, he must also marry Ruth and raise up the name of the dead. If thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it (Ruth 4:4,6).

Man is not able to redeem souls; man cannot save people from their sins, can’t redeem this earth. In the contrast between the two kinsmen, we see the shadow, the type of man’s inability to redeem in contrast to the greatness of Christ’s redeeming power. One can redeem; the other cannot. Boaz is a type of our wonderful Redeemer Kinsman, the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ Son of the living God, and Ruth a type of the Gentile Bride.

So Boaz married Ruth; the property that Naomi and her husband had owned and lost by leaving it was redeemed. The redeemer kinsman made it possible. Because of our Redeemer Kinsman, Jesus, we will get back our rightful possessions stolen from us by the devil. We have Jesus the perfect Redeemer, the Jubilee Christ. Adore Him, worship Him, strive to be as much like Him as you possibly can.

We see a seven-sealed book in Revelation 5:1-7. The price and conditions for redeeming the earth are in that book. A man with great knowledge of the Old Testament Law, John was in the Spirit seeing things to come from the vantage point of Heaven.

In this vision, the Rapture had already taken place. The Church, the Bride of Christ, is in Heaven. Bodies of those who died before that Rapture have been reunited with their souls—just as the Lord promised—and are in Heaven, too. John is seeing all of this; he knows what it means if no one is found to break the seals of the little book for the redemption of the earth—the curse will not be lifted.

Who would want to reign on an earth that was cursed? The meek will inherit the earth, but they don’t want to inherit thorns and thistles. A qualified near kinsman who is fit, willing and able must be found to redeem the earth, and all the earth and Heaven were being searched for such a one. John describes the scene, desperate at first: And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon (Revelation 5:1-4). No one but Jesus had the ability to pay such a high price. Little wonder that John wept in this vision when no one was found to break the seven seals! He knew it meant that the earth would not get its redemption.

It looked as though a fit, willing and able redeemer kinsman for the earth’s Jubilee couldn’t be found even after all Earth and Heaven were searched. Then John heard the joyful news: And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth (Revelation 5:5,6). Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world (John 1:29).

Imagine how John felt in his vision when Jesus came forth, how his heart leaped within! John recognized the Lamb of God, the Jubilee Christ at once. He knew the Lamb, he knew his Redeemer Kinsman. The Lamb is the one who gave John life, the one who walked the waters, set the captives free, raised the dead, died and rose again. John had walked and talked with Jesus. At the Last Supper, John was the one who had leaned on the breast of Jesus, and Jesus loved John. John dried his tears in a hurry; he knew the land would be redeemed.

Are there tears in Heaven? John had been caught up into Heaven, and he wept much. God will not wipe away His tears for lost humanity until the last soul that can be reached is converted. Then He will wipe away our tears and His own as well, never to weep anymore.

And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth (Revelation 5:7-10). John joined in rejoicing with the angels and the saints of God. Such a joyful song glorifying the Lamb of God! How wonderful, how great! And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever (Revelation 5:11-13).

Wouldn’t you like to join in that chorus making the heavens ring with praises to the Lamb? And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever (Revelation 5:14).

In his vision, John saw the seals being broken and the earth receiving deliverance as the curse was lifted by the Jubilee Christ. Reading further in Revelation, you find what happened when each seal was broken, how judgment fell upon the earth until finally after the Battle of Armageddon, the curse was lifted and the thousand-year Perfect Age came in. What a beautiful earth it will be when the curse is lifted in reality, not just in a vision; how fast it will happen! We’ll live and reign with the Lord right here on Earth. Close your eyes; open them again, and there it is, the miracle of the earth’s redemption by Jesus the miraculous Jubilee Christ, the miraculous Redeemer Kinsman, the miraculous Elder Brother in the family of God.

Study the Perfect Age and find that when the curse is lifted by our Redeemer Kinsman, the earth will be like the Lord intended in the beginning. The earth, remember, belongs to the human race. God never gave it to the devil. The devil is death; the Lord doomed him to death and outer darkness, the bottomless pit and the lake of fire. Those who serve the devil will be cast out with him. Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 25:30).

Would Jesus redeem the earth and neglect to lift the curse from people who were born with the sin nature? The Lord didn’t want that kind of civilization. Jesus died on Calvary so that people could be made new. God wants what He had in the beginning: Man and woman holy before Him, loving only Him. God will have nothing less than that in the Perfect Age. He never has and never will have anything to do with sin.

I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star (Revelation 22:16). Jesus is identifying Himself as our near kinsman related to the human race, the root and offspring of David. But He adds that He also is the Bright and Morning Star, the Son of God.

The Jubilee Christ came saying, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). Man needed the life that only a divine Redeemer Kinsman could bring. Man had become a slave to the devil; death awaited him. Jesus brought a second chance at life, a new beginning—the Jubilee Christ our Redeemer Kinsman. Every record of those who accept Him is wiped clean, all the slaves of sin set free when they take Him as their Jubilee Redeemer.

The Jubilee Christ showed men and women how to live in Jubilee freedom every day here on Earth. He had that Jubilee spirit of joy, peace, happiness, hope and love that abounded in the Garden of Eden. He had it all. The world looked upon Jesus and couldn’t understand Him. Never man spake like this man (John 7:46), they said.

The Sermon on the Mount covers everything you need. The Sermon on the Mount struck the hearts of many, and they recognized that Jesus was the Jubilee Christ, their Redeemer Kinsman come at last. Never has there been a sermon like the Sermon on the Mount: read it in Matthew chapters five through seven. Greatness is there, and you will find more greatness every time you study it.

The Sermon on the Mount teaches us how to live, how to treat enemies, how to walk on Jubilee territory defeating the devil daily. It tells us we must have the fruits of godliness and holiness and the purity of God dwelling within. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48).

The words of the new and living way were strange to the disciples because they hadn’t yet received or had understanding of the power from On High that the Jubilee Christ would give them.

The Redeemer Kinsman came walking the streets of Jerusalem, teaching and healing by the Sea of Galilee—even walking on the waters. The Jubilee Christ came to set the captives free, to bring life, liberty and freedom to all. He brought man back from death, giving him the chance to live forever with the Lord.

Man was created to live forever; he was never to have died. But when sin entered, death entered, too. The body will either die or be changed in the Rapture, but the soul will never die. The soul that accepts the Jubilee Christ will live with Him forever; the soul that doesn’t believe in Him will exist in the eternal torment of hell. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him (John 3:36).

We live in a great hour of victory, and yet many Christians are still in bondage—not in soul, but in mind. They don’t realize the freedom, the peace and joy that belong to them. They don’t understand that when they are saved they are no longer slaves to the devil and that they will stay saved as long as they do not commit willful sin. Some Christians think they have to be tormented in their minds. That is not true.

Jesus let people know He is the Jubilee Christ with power to heal the mind, with power to forgive sin, power to heal all manner of sicknesses and diseases. Demonstrating this power, Jesus said to a man on his bed who was sick with palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee. And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house. But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men (Matthew 9:2-8). How wonderful to know that we, too, can be free in mind, soul and body! We are rich because our Elder Brother is rich; we are joint heirs with Him.

Be happy every day knowing who you are in the Lord. The liberty and freedom in the Jubilee Christ means you do not have to be a slave to sin. If you are a son or daughter of God, act like it. Be glad you are in the family of God. He doesn’t want you to have a long face, to be depressed when you tell others you are in His family. You have it made; you will live forever with the Lord. It’s a wonderful feeling to know you are born again! Remind yourself of it daily.

Jesus our Redeemer Kinsman, our Jubilee, cleansed the lepers as easily as moving His hand. There met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed (Luke 17:12-14). This is the work of our Redeemer Kinsman, our Jubilee.

The blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. And their eyes were opened (Matthew 9:28-30). Immediately they received their sight. Immediately. In this hour of Jubilee the blind can have their sight, the deaf can hear, the crippled can walk.

John the fifth chapter tells of a man who had not walked in thirty-eight years. He was waiting at the pool for the angel to come down, stir up the waters so he might have a chance to get in and be healed. Whoever was the first to step in after the waters were stirred was made whole of whatever disease he had—but only one was healed each time. When the Jubilee Christ came, however, everyone could have a miracle, and the man who had been unable to be healed in the waters was healed by Jesus the Son of God.

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole (Matthew 14:35,36). Jesus, our Jubilee Christ, healed the multitudes. He was not only the Jubilee of the multitudes He healed when He walked the earth, but I say again, He is our Jubilee.

In the Old Testament days, people were happy for just a few types and shadows of Jesus. If they used the types of Him, they could receive. In bits and pieces they were blessed, but many times they wouldn’t accept their blessings. They could have had so much more—much more was offered them—but they didn’t really reach out for all that God had for them. Even if they had taken all from God that they could, they still would not have had the whole loaf. It took Jesus to bring the whole loaf. Much more is offered to us than was to them.

In Numbers we read that the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people because they had spoken against God and Moses. Many died from the bites of those serpents. But the Lord provided a way of escape through a type of Jesus dying for us on the cross. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived (Numbers 21:8,9). Since people were healed by the type, how much more can we expect healing from the real thing, our Jubilee Christ!

After the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, they came to a place where the waters were bitter. Moses cried to the Lord and the Lord showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet (Exodus 15:25). That tree is another type and a shadow of our Jesus dying on Calvary, taking all the bitterness out of our lives and putting in the sweet. I found that tree one day and the bitter waters of my life became sweet. I have been drinking of those sweet waters ever since. If you drink bitter waters, it’s your own fault. The sweet water of life is yours through your Jubilee Christ.

Jairus sought out Jesus because his daughter was very ill. While he was with Jesus one of his servants came saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master. But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole (Luke 8:49,50). Jubilee said, Only believe. Only believe and the miracle is done.

How amazing to be walking in this Jubilee hour and hearing the same cry as Jairus heard: Only believe! All things are possible if you only believe! Believe in your Jubilee, not in the Jubilee of the Old Testament but in Jesus the new and living way. What a wonderful Redeemer Kinsman He is! Believe in Him with all your heart, mind and soul, and the devil will never defeat you.

Think on whom you are related to. Some people brag about distant relatives who have achieved fame in the world, but the greatest relative of all is Jesus our Savior, our Elder Brother. He is not distantly related at all to the children of God; He is closer to us than any human being could ever be.

How many times have you introduced Jesus as your brother? Do you really believe you are related? If you have His blood in your soul, you are. If you don’t have His blood in your soul, you belong to the devil’s family. When you receive salvation, you become a member of the family of God. Without Calvary’s tree, there would be no life for you. Calvary’s tree brought you within reach of the tree of life that once grew in the Garden of Eden and then was moved up to Glory Land. You will eat of it and live forever, or you will drink from the River of Life.

Let the Jubilee Christ make music within your soul. Never forget that you are related to Him; you have a Redeemer Kinsman, fit, willing and able to redeem. When He redeems the earth it will be a paradise where the redeemed can live a thousand years with Him. In that thousand years there will be no sickness, no pain, no doubt, no fear. It will be the Perfect Age for the family of God. It won’t, however, be perfect for everyone, for the Bible declares that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain (Zechariah 14:17). Perfect joy, perfect happiness, perfect life is for God’s people only. God doesn’t think anyone else deserves His blessings.

Jesus loves all in the family of God, and He is happy to be your Jubilee, sad when Christians fail to recognize the greatness of Him for their lives.

Do you have Jubilee talk or slave talk? It’s time for the Jubilee children of God to take this Gospel to the world. The nations need to see a Jubilee people, a Jubilee Gospel in operation like the people saw when this Jubilee Christ came to Earth. Instantly the cripples were made whole, their bondages turned into freedom. They walked away from the slave life of affliction into the Jubilee life of deliverance and freedom.

It was a Jubilee hour when Jesus went into the wilderness to fast. He met the devil head-on and defeated him with the Word of God. Because the devil knew mankind would have their Jubilee if they accepted Christ, he wanted to destroy Christ before He could fulfill His mission. The devil couldn’t do it. Jesus won the biggest Jubilee ever for us. He showed us how to have power over the devil so that we would never again go into bondage, never again be in debt to the devil.

You owe the devil nothing; he’s the one who kept you in prison, in the dungeon of sin. You were a captive who couldn’t get free without the Lord. Trying to do better, you found you only did worse. But when you met the Jubilee Christ, He set you free. You owe Him your all.

Jesus said the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him to preach deliverance to the captives (Luke 4:18). Those who believed Him came into freedom. Although Jesus broke the locks on every cell door when he was here and told the people to come out, only a few took advantage of that freedom. The devil has bluffed many today, deceived them into thinking they are locked in the darkness of sin, in destructive habits they can’t be free from—but the locks were broken two thousand years ago. People have only to take Christ into their hearts and walk out of sin-nature’s prison. Jubilee Christ has broken every lock and every bondage. Why listen to the devil who claims you can never be free? Will you believe the devil, or will you believe God? He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6).

When Jesus was told that Lazarus was sick, He said, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead (John 11:11-14). Was Jesus really the Jubilee Christ or not? If He does not have Jubilee over death He is not really the Redeemer Kinsman for the human race come to conquer death, hell and the grave. Jesus stood before Lazarus’ tomb and called him up from death just as you would wake a person from sleep.

Jesus referred not only to Lazarus’ death as sleep, but also to the death of Jairus’ daughter. Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth (Luke 8:52). The unbelievers laughed and poked fun. Jesus put them out and woke her up—from death He woke her.

We don’t have to worry about death. At the Rapture the glorified bodies of the dead in Christ will come forth from the graves, reunited with their souls, and meet Him in the air. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thessalonians 4:15-17).

Study the Jubilee Christ. He is amazing, and He is your Christ. Ye are the salt of the earth, He told people. Ye are the light of the world (Matthew 5:13,14). You who are accepting your Jubilee are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Jesus delivered a man from thousands of devils. What is thy name? Jesus asked. And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many (Mark 5:9). Legion was a wild man, breaking any chain or fetter that bound him, crying and cutting himself with stones. He was a terrible sight, but Jubilee didn’t back away; Jubilee walked over to where he was, set him free and gave him a Jubilee life. The people who had known Legion found him clothed, and in his right mind (verse 15).

What a wonder was our Jubilee Christ when He paid for our redemption! After all the people He had met, healed and delivered, now our Redeemer Kinsman was going to Calvary to die and pay the redemption price. Lo I come to do thy will, O God (Hebrews 10:9), He said. Animal sacrifices never pleased God, but God would be pleased with this sacrifice on Calvary. Divine blood was about to be spilled. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5). With His stripes, His blood stripes we are healed.

Hanging on the cross, Jesus didn’t look like the Jubilee Christ. But when He cried, It is finished! He had accomplished the role of a near kinsman. People, even His own disciples, failed to realize how fit, willing and able He was. Take a lesson from them and learn everything you can about the Jubliee Christ. Understand the price He paid; know the one who was so willing to give all for us.

Why was Jesus so willing to die for us? Were we worth it? Not really. Why does He love us so? We don’t really know.

Jesus is all that your heart could ever long for, He is the one who called, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men (Mark 1:17). The disciples didn’t know the sacrifices that following Jesus would take.

When the Lord called you from bondage to freedom and told you to drop your nets and follow Him, did you answer? Did you let Him make you a soul winner, a fisher of men? How gladly the disciples dropped their nets, never thinking about the darkness down the road, the sorrows, the despair, the long nights that would seem to never end and the deep valleys that would look impossible to climb out of. They weren’t prepared for the battles ahead; and when the testing time came, they failed their Jubilee Kinsman, this marvelous one who was paying such a great price.

The Jubilee Christ proved Himself to be all He claimed, and He gave power to the twelve. Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick (Luke 9:1,2). To others He gave power to set the captives free. After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:1,17-19).

Through Jesus’ name miracles were done. But then the disciples saw Him pay such a great price at Calvary, such an unreasonable price to them that they lost sight of who He was. No one could pay such a price. They had thought He was the Redeemer, but now they didn’t really know anymore. The Jubilee Christ had tried to tell them what would come: Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spake of the temple of his body (John 2:19,21). He let them know He had to die. Isaiah the prophet had foretold His death before He was born, this death the Redeemer Kinsman would have to pay. Yet before the Resurrection and Pentecost, the disciples didn’t take on the knowledge of God.

It’s essential that we take all the knowledge of God in this last hour so that we won’t fail, so that we won’t doubt anything about our Jubilee Redeemer Kinsman. If you don’t believe the whole Gospel, you won’t preach, teach and live it all. You must believe all that Jesus claimed to be, all that the Bible says He would be. He is all of that and more. No words can adequately describe Him.

The devil twists minds into channels of doubt, fear, frustration and despair. The disciples gave up when the going got rough and the price seemed too great. None of the disciples were present as the angel came down and rolled away the stone from the tomb. They didn’t think Jesus would come forth from the grave. They doubted His word, doubted His promises. Oh, that they had believed Him! If they had been at the tomb when He came out, what a Jubilee time it would have been for them! I’m sure they always regretted that they weren’t there to see Him walk out.

For you who are born again, the nearest thing to the joy of seeing Jesus walk out of the tomb is when He walked right into your heart. He conquered death, hell and the grave for you, and you knew in that moment you found Him for your soul that you were no longer a slave to sin, that you were free indeed. You knew that you would live forever with Him, that eternal life, happiness, joy, peace were yours.

The disciples saw Jesus make the miracles, yet they let adverse circumstances wipe out for the moment the knowledge of their Jubilee Christ. We can’t afford to do the same. We must profit by their mistakes. That same Jubilee Christ said, I will come again, and receive you unto myself (John 14:3). His promises mustn’t fade from our hearts and minds.

At first Paul believed Jesus to be an imposter. He didn’t accept Jesus or the Resurrection. He wanted to kill every Christian he could; many he had put to death. But on the road to Damascus on business for the devil, Paul met his Jubilee Christ. The Lord knocked him down in the dust and said, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me (Acts 9:4)? What have I ever done to you? Have I ever wronged you in any way? Why will you fight me? Paul was dumbfounded. He finally managed to stammer, Who art thou, Lord? And a voice like he had never heard before said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks (verse 5). Paul hadn’t until then experienced that kind of love, that assurance, that security in anyone. I am the Jubilee Jesus. I am your near kinsman. I have come to set you free. I have come to deliver you. Paul later said, For I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day (II Timothy 1:12). Paul stayed in the desert three years and learned about Jesus. He studied Jesus, Jesus, His joy, His life, His greatness, His strength. He didn’t study people. He knew all that he wanted to know about people. He wanted to know about Jesus.

When you, like Paul, finally commit all unto the Lord, then you have nothing to worry about. You know with full assurance that He will keep everything you have committed to Him.

This Jubilee Christ is saying, I will supply all your needs. Cast your nets on the right side of the boat. But oh, discouraged one, you must be rid of that heavy spirit. The disciples were discouraged. They—experienced fishermen—had been fishing all night long and had caught nothing. Then someone on the shore—they didn’t know who—called out to them in a voice they should have recognized: Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No. And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes (John 21:5,6).

It’s strange how we fail to recognize the voice of the Lord when we are discouraged, the voice of our Jubilee Christ, our brother Kinsman. Because we are discouraged, it is easy to fail to take directions from that voice. Everything is strange to us, even ourselves.

Although the disciples had fished all night and caught nothing, they cast their nets on the right side just to please Him. They did it because they were nice; they had good hearts. A stranger is saying, Try it one more time, on the right side now. To their astonishment their nets were filled with fishes, an unheard of catch. Later they must have wondered why they hadn’t recognized that voice they had heard so many times before. Discouragement had dulled their hearing. Discouragement had changed that voice in their ears.

Discouragement can change your feelings about the love of God. In discouragement, you operate by feelings. When you walk in faith, however, you have no discouragement, for no discouragement is in the faith of God. Discouragement affects your spiritual hearing, your spiritual vision and you can’t see clearly down the road the way you could before you were discouraged. Things don’t look as they did because the day is so dark and cloudy. When you walked by faith, the sun shone beautifully and your path was plain. Now you are discouraged, and the promises of God are lying unused around you. God had lit up those promises for you, but discouragement put out that light.

When you find yourself in the pool of discouragement, the first thing you must think about is the Jubilee Jesus. This Jubilee has been going on for about two thousand years. Every day Jubilee has been available to man from that time. How many people have made the most of that Jubilee? All too few.

Think of all the Jubilee days that you have passed up as a slave in bondage to the devil. Are you letting every day be a living reality of Jubilee in your life? Are you facing every day with the spirit of Jubilee? You have that liberty, that freedom in the Lord. All the promises of God are yours shining with the light of Heaven. The strength of God is in every promise.

How are you traveling? Is your heart rejoicing and leaping within? Are you enjoying the new and living way, delighting in the fact that Jesus is soon coming, that the Lord’s call is on your life to get the Gospel to the whole world? You are a part of the great move of God, the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit that Joel saw over twenty-five hundred years ago. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:16,17). The Jubilee Christ made that outpouring possible, our Redeemer Kinsman.

Consider again what the fiftieth year of Jubilee meant to the Old Testament people. They looked forward to it; they told their children about it. Remember how you looked forward to Christmas when you were a child, wishing you could have Christmas every day. It seemed forever until the next Christmas came. For the Old Testament Israelites it must have seemed that the year of Jubilee would never come; and when it finally did, they had just one year to enjoy it, and then another fifty years without it. But in that fiftieth year, everything was freedom, liberty, joy and deliverance. The Old Testament’s year of Jubilee, I say again, is a type and shadow of our Jubilee that began almost two thousand years ago and continues today, Jubilee for every human who reaches out and receives salvation and all its benefits.

The Lord tells us to ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened (Matthew 7:7,8). If you confess your sins, the Jubilee Christ will set you free, and if the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed (John 8:36). Two thousand years ago Jesus gave the promise of freedom, and the promise is still good today. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6). He is the door, the only way into Heaven. The Jubilee Jesus, the Jubilee Son of God, your Jubilee Lamb, your near Kinsman is fit, willing and able to redeem your soul. Look upon Him and know He is your perfect Redeemer Kinsman. He didn’t have to say He was afraid to give all because He would mar His own inheritance. He knew who He was, the Jubilee for the human race and for planet Earth. Blessed be the name of the Lord!

That Jubilee Christ has reached out for people all these years, offering them a Jubilee every day, a Jubilee mind of peace, a Jubilee of perfect deliverance with the light of salvation on the inside. The Holy Spirit will live and dwell in the lives of all those who will accept Him, teaching them more and more about the Jubilee Redeemer Kinsman, Jesus.

Yea, saith the Spirit of the Lord: I am your Redeemer Kinsman. I am your love. I am your hope. I am your peace. I am your deliverance. Why should you let the devil rob you? Some have been robbed so much, and some of you are still being robbed daily in this great hour of my abundance. I spread a table in the wilderness, and my people didn’t know how great the table was; and yet as your Jubilee Christ of deliverance, I keep a table spread for you. I cry to you every day: Come and dine! Some of you—I cannot get your attention. You’re so into self, or you’re looking to the world and seeking other tables. But I am calling to you, calling you to all of my greatness, calling you into all of my goodness and mercy. I’m seeking to serve you that you will serve others.

Know the hour in which you live. Know the happiness of this hour. Know that this is your Jubilee, and it’s yours every day that you have on earth—Jubilee, Jubilee made up of my love, made up of my blood, made up of my grace mercy.

I seek to dine with you. I seek to walk with you. I long to lead you into paths of righteousness beside the still waters. I seek and long to supply all of your needs. Again and again I whisper: I will supply. But in your fear, in your despair, you don’t recognize my voice.

Listen, listen and hear my voice in this great hour, and let me lead you. I won’t only lead you in the paths of righteousness, I will lead you to lost humanity; and I will give you power of my greatness to bring them into the fold. Trust in me with all your heart. Have I not proven myself to you? Do you not know me in the power of my resurrection? Do you not know me in who I really am and that I’m yours, and that I am your Redeemer Kinsman? No powers can bind you. No powers can put you into bondage. I am your liberty. I am your faith. I am your deliverance, saith the Lord.

The Lord is here, your Redeemer Kinsman. Some of you love Him with an unending love just like He loves you. You believe in Him with all your heart, and you have moved in close to Him. Your Jubilee hour of taking Jesus to the world is here. You are about to cross over into the spiritual Canaan, saith the Lord, to gather the greatness of Heaven to serve to a lost world, to entice them to come to freedom, to come to light, to God’s love and deliverance while saving grace is still offered.

God help us to know our Jubilee. It’s not a year out of every fifty; it’s Jubilee every day, every week, every month, every year until our Jubilee Christ fulfills His promise: I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also (John 14:3).

The two thousand years of Jubilee is about to close for many people. Soon they won’t have a Redeemer Kinsman to save them. Soon they will be slaves forever in darkness shut away from God. How tragic!

If you need the Lord, pray the sinners’ prayer with me now: O, God, I am so sorry that I have sinned against you. I am so bound! I will never be free unless you set me free. Help me this day to put my faith, my trust in you. I believe that the blood of Jesus washes away all of my sins, all of my sins! Come into my heart Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, He has come. The Jubilee Redeemer Kinsman has become your Redeemer Kinsman and you are free. No longer a slave to sin walking in darkness, you are free to walk in the light, holding the nail-riven hand, that great hand of power and Jubilee.

Our redemption, our Redeemer Kinsman is our everything. As time ceases and the endless ages roll, we will enjoy the benefits of our Redeemer Kinsman and rejoice in Him.

You who are sick and afflicted, get ready for your miracle. Let Him be your Jubilee, delivering you from that crippling disease, from blinded eyes or from whatever it may be that afflicts you. That little child who is deaf and mute, that little one born deformed can be set free by the Jubilee Christ, be made a whole person at last, a little intelligent being. God creates and He can re-create. Healing is God’s will; it’s His love to perform miracles.

Lord, I bring the sick and afflicted to you. Lay a healing hand on the sick and afflicted. Lord, I’ve pointed the people to you this day, telling them that the Jubilee Christ has power over all sicknesses, over all afflictions, over diseases, over all deformities. There is nothing too hard for you, Lord. From your supernatural gift of miracles and gifts of healing it comes: In the name of your Son Jesus, heal! Heal! in the holy name of Jesus. In His mighty name it comes!

The healing power is flowing. Feel it as I felt it that night when the Lord brought life to my entire body and stayed the cruel hand of death. Not a disease lingered. I was made whole, and you can be, too. What a Jubilee He was to me that night when He came and set my body free, a body that had been in such bondage, such torment! I had been robbed of sleep, but now my Jubilee had come for my body, and sleep was mine all the night through, night after night. No more nights of suffering and tortured despair. Jubilee Jesus, my Redeemer had paid the price, delivered me and set me free.

Watch yourself or your child get well. If you will believe, that power will linger for days getting you well. Rejoice in Him, expecting miracles in abundance and nothing less. Jubilee means happiness, pure joy, freedom, liberty, everything good and nothing bad.

Anyone can be delivered today through the Jubilee Jesus. No case is too hard for Him. He is our Jubilee: that means He is our hope, health, trust, life. He is the supplier of all our needs, the conqueror of all our bondages. He is our happiness, our joy, our strength, our peace, our everything. He is our Jubilee Christ, our Redeemer Kinsman.