Leviticus 25:8-34 - Homiletics

The jubilee, being a year of deliverance and joy, came to be a type of the Messianic dispensation, and of the final deliverance and state of happiness which is still to come. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord" ( Isaiah 61:1 , Isaiah 61:2 ). We have our Lord's authority for saying that these words bear spiritual reference to his ministry on earth ( Luke 4:21 ). They are partially fulfilled in his kingdom here, and will be fully accomplished at "the restitution of all things" ( Acts 3:21 ) in his kingdom hereafter, when his people shall "rest from their labours" and be delivered from the burden of their debts and emancipated for ever from slavery.