Conceptually, the idea of Jubilee makes a lot of sense from God's perspective, but is much harder for man to truly embrace. Christian celebrations of Jubilee have often strayed from the real intent to focus on a tiny part of the original... more of a political statement than any true attempt meet God's law. Just as the old covenant has been fulfilled in Christ, likewise, when Jesus preached in Nazareth he read from scripture:
Jesus concluded by saying that this scripture was fulfilled in their hearing and then he sat down. This, I believe, is the Jubilee that Jesus would have us celebrate now... every year."The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor. He hath sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord."
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